The_Admiral

It's not the Maritimes that are the problem, it's Newfoundland (which pedants will tell you is Atlantic Canada but not Maritime Canada). St. John's is about as far from Halifax as Halifax is from New York City, and Hfx is already for all intents and purposes as far east as a continental sports league can go, what with being an hour ahead of Eastern Time. It doesn't work without travel subsidies, and even then it requires unusual scheduling to make it work. If anything, the Q is worse for St. John's than any minor league; the Fog Devils made it like two years whereas the St. John's Maple Leafs, albeit in an AHL much more concentrated on New England and the Maritimes, lasted a decade and change. They'll probably get another whack at the Q when one of the far northern teams gives up the ghost but that probably won't last long either. EDIT: To put the old IceCaps in perspective, St. John's is as close to Dublin as it is to Winnipeg.

I noticed the color change and thought it looked nice. I didn't realize it had anything to do with Hulu. Does this mean I can watch the sad-kitchen-work program now?

He wasn't going to take that sitting down.

Normally I would think the situation was Daryl Boston going up to Kenny Williams's office to talk behind everyone's back but they don't work there anymore, so what gives?

All this is true, however, the Oakland A's have now existed as a discrete brand for as long as the San Diego Padres and Kansas City Royals, nearly half the club's existence, where they've won the World Series four times and inspired a movie. If it were the Padres or Royals trying and failing to move to America's worst city and the government tried to pass a leave-your-stuff law like the Twins have, or if it were the Giants finally moving to Florida for some reason, it wouldn't be wholly unjustified, and so it is here, the organization's vagabond nature notwithstanding.

I still don't think the move is going to happen. Too many fragile moving parts.

Baseball is all of those things. It's a constant through the years and it's a wacky carnival with eccentric players. It shaped the English language more than any sport. There's enough bandwidth to honor all the things baseball has been without taking anything away.

I remember Lance Briggs doing that once. Crashed his Lamborghini on the Edens, got out, and walked away. I think he also reported it as stolen, which may have been a tactical error.

Not really.

The Mavericks have one of the worst brands in the league. The logos/uniforms they came with in 2001 weren't great, but they've since been tinkered with into oblivion. I guess they were, broadly speaking, the NBA's preeminent blue team for a while, but the Warriors are now, so there's not even that. You know what the Mavs' brand has really been all these years? Mark Cuban being vaguely annoying. The visuals are secondary.

1983 was the first division championship under Jerry Reinsdorf, and it involved Tony La Russa, so it's no surprise that they keep going back to those and tend to skip over the 1940s-1970s.

Oh, whatever, fashion-forward black guys love acting kind of gay to show how not gay they are. Everyone thought Kanye West was a 'mo for years and years but the depth of his psychotic break over losing Kim Kardashian pretty well cleared that up.

Yeah, thou shalt not stand in the way of my oxycodone habit.

I'm so sorry that you violated federal law. It was so wrong of me that you did that.

lol he's on the ass end of half of these.

I don't get it, what's happening in this picture?

Speaking of him, LeBron didn't really do those things, either. Jordan changed basketball forever. Curry changed basketball forever. LeBron was just really good.

No, of course not, because everything about the Rangers is arriviste and second-rate.

That sounds terrible, no thanks.

Do you think Blumpkin will try to make a play for the Football Team now that the Capitals stayed put? I know Snyder had been exploring a move to Virginia for quite a while.

Oh, man. The airport carpet jersey debate. That one will live on in the anals of board history. [sic]

"We're disrespecting our past while also dishonoring our future." Actually, that's what the half-gradient-helmet Jags set did.

Browns-branded limousine sandals?