SeanDMan

London Looking For An Efed.

I just don't understand why he got fooled by the curveball, did he not hear them banging on the garbage can?

I will say that Suarez led Liverpool side is a good shout, they always seemed to be nibbling at the heels of greatness but could never quite bite down and seize it.

There's a really good series on Youtube with a similar premise, Untitled. It focuses on individuals but in the process, discusses certain dynasties that never quite reached the peak of their sport. For me, there are two particular runs by the Vancouver Canucks that I remember being achingly close to titles: two years during the West Coast Express era, and then the actual trip to the finals in 2011. 2002-2003, Vancouver rolls into the playoffs with swagger, led by 104 points from Markus Naslund, 144 PIMs from Todd Bertuzzi, and Brendan Morrison was on their line too. In the first round they face some adversity, going down 1-3 to St. Louis, but then they rally back and win three straight to take the first round series in 7. With momentum on their side, the Canucks go up 3-1 to Minnesota, and then collapse inwardly, dropping that series by losing three straight after winning three straight the previous round. But the core of the team is still going strong, although Naslund plays hurts and only gets 84 points, BMo and Toddbert The Uzi both add 60, and some kids called the Sedins (obscure Swedish dudes) have a flash in the pan season and each add 50 points from the second line. As the team looks forward to the playoffs, disaster strikes as Todd Bertuzzi loses his fucking mind and tries to decapitate Steve Moore. So Bertuzzi gets a years suspension, and in the pivotal game seven, late in the game, Ed Jovanovski is in front of the net, trying to be Todd Bertuzzi. So Jovanovski gets called for the penalty, but four on four, the Canucks score, to tie the game and send it into overtime. The problem being, Jovo is still in the box, and in the overtime frame, Calgary scores on the powerplay, and advance to the next round. The West Coast Express slowed down hard after that, and was never the same. As for 2011, that's a more familiar tale, so I'll not rehash it.

If his prison sentence is anything like his career, he'll bust out in short order.

NHL IS FUCKING BACK BABY. Maybe. In July.

Promotion Wars was around before EWD which was around before EWR which was around before TEW which was around before this version of EWB was a thing. A lot of people who have been on EWB since before EWB was EWB came from The Promotion Wars Forums, which were sort of like a rival in the same way that Bellator and UFC were rivals. Also what K said.

Sadly, this seems to be how people write television these days. It's all about these big spectacles, rather than the build. The plot serves to get us from moment to moment as opposed to be to properly build and tell a story.

This looks bonkers.

It's interesting to learn how different Patrick Stewart sees Jean-Luc Picard from how the TNG writers saw him. It's so strange to have him go from essentially a morality professor to being Ash from Evil Dead in the films/new show. That narrative disconnect has been in place since First Contact but it's more obvious now, after the writers were talking about how we were gonna an emotional character story and really all we got was more splosions and fist fighties and strong, independent womenz who don't need no acting skills. Oh well, at least it should get credit for the hiring spree they went on in Ireland. BrexTHAT.

Well according to Alexa Bliss, the WWE's testing is to take their temperature and ask if they've been behaving badly. I wouldn't be surprised if the NFL testing is the same but the doctor puts his fingers in his ears while they discuss their past fourteen days. NHL doesn't seem that reckless but Radko Gudas has a point about COVID against the Olympics.

Making a rule that says "you must have a minority as either your GM, head coach, OC or DC" is going to result in some guys whose ceiling was a positional coach (not because of their skill but because of their ownership) getting a chance to run a system. And from there they have a chance to get noticed and maybe get a head coaching gig (probably with another team). You're never going to see a league where the percentage of minority staff is the same as the percentage of minority players, but the closer you get, the better. And if owners can't have ONE minority among their four/five head positions, they can suck it and pay the racism tax.

I feel like there should be a financial penalty. For every year you go without a minority in your coaching/managment staff, you have to pay X million dollars to revenue sharing.

Buttery mails!

Gualing.

Meacorona.

as opposed to rex Ryan who gets a monthly allowance of feet.

The world has ground to a halt and the future of economies and societies looks uncertain, but the only thing that does seem certain is the Leafs not getting close to another cup anytime soon. Leafs have been social distancing themselves from success for almost 60 years.

News day? Joe Thornton shaving his beard took the better part of a fortnight.