Thank god they got rid of Dusty for a rookie manager who was totally qualified to handle a veteran team with lots of egos!

Space is more conceptually terrifying, because it could end us in innumerable, unimaginable ways without warning.

Just another data point in favor of my idiosyncratic hobby horse: pro sports with salary caps should have a mandatory gross-up mechanism in their CBAs that guarantees the player the same take-home pay irrespective of local tax code. 

Assuming proper federal jurisdiction, the defendant in a state action has the right to remove it to federal court. So, if the victims sued in Nevada state court and there’s valid federal jurisdiction, MGM could say “we want this to be in federal court” and the victims couldn’t do anything about it.

Last I checked none of the owners were trying to tell any of their employees how they could spend their time off the clock.

On the flip side, giving the ref discretion of when to call time allows the pressing team to play out their final possession, rather than having it end prematurely due to a buzzer. That’s not necessarily better or worse than the precision of a game clock, but it does have its own interesting value. 

Was just skimming through to see if someone had beaten me to this point. Alas, not everyone is so blinded by disdain for the toddler-in-chief as to lose the ability to critique a bad argument. 

It’s the Hall of Fame, and not the Hall of Infamy. 

FS1 and NatGeo may broadcast to audiences outside of Russia, but they still presumably needed certain permissions from Russian authorities to film the segment (and will continue to need to interact with Russian authorities for the balance of the World Cup).

At the outdoor viewing party outside the arena, they turned off some of the screens and all of the speakers after the conclusion of the game; because of where I was standing, I had to watch the presentation of the Cup on a different screen more than a block away, through a massive crowd of revelers, without sound.

I’m still waiting to find out everyone has to go back to Vegas to replay the final 30 seconds.

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Which is funny, because he’s proven the answer to the biggest roster hole in Washington since Fedorov left for Russia.

Prior to last night I would have agreed with you, but Kuznetsov shit-kicking the life out of Vegas put him in the pole position.

It’s not exactly ironic—because it makes sense—but it’d have been a surprise to Caps fans of the past that the Ovechkin/Backstrom–era Capitals finally found ultimate success only after splitting up Ovie and Backstrom.

PDO is a loose proxy for luck, but Barry is wrong to suggest that any deviation from 100 is “lucky.” Teams with above-average shooting or goaltending talent will naturally be at 101 or 102, while below-average teams will obviously be concordantly lower.

Since all those percentages will add up to exactly 100 leaguewide (one team’s goal is another team’s goal against), a team with a PDO over 100 is lucky/bound to eventually regress to 100