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9 hours ago, LMU said:

Bingo.  It's almost a required design spec that every LDS stake has a basketball court in it, even if the room is carpeted.

Getting way off topic here but it's of interest to me that part of the downfall of the church has been the centralization from ward-based, stake-based communities to a bunch of MBAs in a skyscraper in Salt Lake City dictating everything for everyone. Part of that is that everyone has to follow a standardized design for meetinghouses which, yes, has the goofy-ass basketball court that's also a wedding hall, but is also a bland McArchitecture that strips any sort of local input away and maximizes efficiency while minimizing construction costs. 

I don't think they carpet the floors anymore but they do carpet the walls. I assume some descendant of Joseph Smith is in the carpet wholesaling business or something.

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2 hours ago, infrared41 said:

 

I much prefer the old Browns to the new version. We lost our team and the fans somehow lost 20 football IQ points in the process.

I forgot who pointed it out on Twitter but it was that for all the talk of the Ravens' organizational excellence under their 15th-year coach or whatever, the team on the field is a bunch of certified dum-dums when it matters most. IQ leaks all over the place here, I guess.

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7 hours ago, monkeypower said:

Canada only has about 200,000 Mormons and the Mormon hotbeds in America aren't exactly hockey hotbeds so just by the numbers, it makes there wouldn't be many professional Mormon players.

Yeah, but they're all in southern Alberta, which is a hotbed. The WHL produces all sorts of Albertans named Jaxxsyn, Huntzmin, and Crambon, but for some odd reason they aren't Mormons. 

6 hours ago, LaGrandeOrange said:

I am unfamiliar with most about LDS, but is there a reason why the mormon population would not want to watch the team just because they didn't grow up with playing the game?

It's a small market that already has one very well-entrenched team playing a sport that's well-entrenched in the church. Resources are finite and I just don't know how you make Salt Lake City a two-sport town with the two sports running concurrently, especially when one is basketball.

Frankly, I blame the white pants.

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9 minutes ago, oldschoolvikings said:

I haven’t watched them much this year but the Ravens seem absolutely packed with jackasses

The stadium should be playing the original version of a Black Eyed Peas song

1 minute ago, Red Comet said:

Here’s my hot take: Don’t look to the Belichick Patriots for the best comparison to the current Chiefs. Look to the Bill Walsh 49ers. Coach with a rich tree, best quarterback of the era and now there’s even a budding great wide receiver with the last name Rice.
 

Agreed. We went over this weeks ago but Brady was a passenger for the whole first act of his career who got by on O-line, defense, run game, special teams, and boy-next-door-good-looks narrative.

9 minutes ago, FiddySicks said:

It’s weird because this just feels like the same soulless corporate machine as we got last decade but in different uniforms. It’s the Gen Z version of continued misery. 

I don't think so. Reid isn't on the same level as Belichick in terms of building a system that was damn near foolproof and plug-and-play. The Chiefs are doing it with talent more than process. Their offensive line is a bunch of lunkheads who almost screw it all up; Brady's line was nearly impervious. Chiefs defense is fine; Patriots defense was unstoppable until Belichick seemingly got bored doing defense. We're not getting 20 years out of the Chiefs.

I will give you that both teams get deus-ex-machinaed out of trouble by the refs but luck is the residue of design and you see the same thing with the Packers and Steelers as much if not more; besides, we live in a world where success comes by working the refs so they may as well reflect the zeitgeist.

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Poked around the Columbus-GR game and I thought it was pretty well done. I feel like they could stand to tighten up the time between points but short of just tossing them a new ball out of nowhere I don't know how you'd do so. Sometimes the delay kind of exists in this valley between basketball starting up right away and tennis having ample time to break down the last point.

I think the biggest challenge they have in telecasting is that net sports are very kinetic and dynamic but the camera work is necessarily kind of static. It's a wider shot than we're used to with basketball or hockey. It almost seems like they came to this realization in real time, as the first set was pretty much parked on a wide shot but there was more zooming and panning as the match went on.

The Ravens fanbase necessarily has a larger quotient of white people who quote The Wire, so they're easily more contemptible than Minnesota's brand of affable snobbery.

Relative to the other leagues, Latter-day Saints are underrepresented in the NHL. Derek Ryan is the only active one, and the only other one I remember before that was Brent Peterson, the old Barry Trotz assistant. I think Mormons have early-morning religion classes that preempt the 4 a.m. ice time of legend, but more than that, hockey's youth culture of binge-drinking and sucking your friends' dicks to show that you're not gay doesn't jibe with Mormons' upright cultural mores. 

I know the demographics of Utah are shifting, so maybe there could be a situation where the Jazz are the team for Mormons and the, let's say Coyotes are the team for gentiles, but then you're splitting up a market that's already small and marginal to begin with.

On 1/24/2024 at 11:13 AM, ORLMagic86 said:

Say hello to the Greenville Yard Gnomes of the Coastal Plain League.

Did "Lawn Jockeys" not make it out of committee?

1 hour ago, Marlins93 said:

 

It's giving me serious "Washington Baseball Team" vibes.

I'm not a professional, I'm just in favor of logos.

On 1/25/2024 at 10:44 PM, BBTV said:

I’d love to know what a $10,000 call girl looks like. 

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I hated that Steelheads rebrand. "Mississauga Majors" had a nice ring to it, and it kept continuity with the St. Michael's team--they just happened to grow up and move out to the suburbs, as one does. (City Catholic team moving to the burbs reminded me of DePaul basketball moving to Rosemont for 30some years. Toronto is just Alternate Chicago.) But Maple Leafs uniforms with a fish with its mouth hanging open? That's no good. There was no reason to scrap a heritage brand, absent licensing issues, I suppose.

Chatham is probably the biggest hole on the map now that North Bay is accounted for again and Belleville is in the minors. Lansing has Michigan State and Battle Creek seems a bit too far west.

I've been saying it wouldn't. But maybe I'm wrong and now the churches out there all have hockey rinks in them.

17 hours ago, Germanshepherd said:

They’ll probably just use their respective 3 point lines and balls. 

Is that a competition, or is it two people who happen to be shooting around at the same time? 

On 1/26/2024 at 7:34 AM, -Akronite- said:

Have never understood the clamoring for copper, personally. The contrast between a bright blue and a darker purple would be plenty to work with. 

Someone here explained to me that the '96 Jazz palette was a subtle '90sization of the Mardi Gras colors: purple carried over, green became the teal-ish green they used for the evergreen trees, and yellow became copper. This doesn't account for the sky blue, but it's an interesting breakdown.

43 minutes ago, monkeypower said:

I just don't think there's much of a market for junior hockey in the GTA (probably for the same reasons the Argos have lower attendance) and from a Westerner's perspective, I don't know if there's much of a city pride atmosphere for any of the suburbs as opposed to viewing themselves as Toronto adjacent. I, unrelated, came across a relatively recent video from Kitchener's PxP person who talked about the Mississauga market and you can get some of the sentiment the OHL community has towards  Mississauga.

The OHL's strength has always been away from Toronto, but the GTA grew so much in the '90s that it was fool's gold to the OHL the way Phoenix and Raleigh were to the NHL. Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, Kitchener, and Guelph all together with Hamilton and eventually the Marlies in the AHL just put too much strain on Toronto and points west for sub-NHL hockey.

1 hour ago, BBTV said:

It's absurd that they even spell out "Washington" on the uniform.  I don't know anyone that says "Washington" except when referring to the actual government.  It's just DC.  Godsdamned DC.

 

The interconnecting DC cap with a DC-chest-logo jersey would be perfect.

 

Nationals is a dumb-ass name anyway.  I know what the literal word means, but it's a stupid name for a sports team.  Nobody says "oh, that Joey - now that's a fine national if I've ever seen one."

It's a nice traditional name if you think of it as organically coming from an official "Washington National League Ball Club." It didn't, of course, but it's a good story, and certainly better than Wizards or Commanders, and better for NLers than it was for ALers.

I think DC on the caps, Washington on the roads (2005-2007 script), as intended, would have been fine.