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  1. monkeypower
    Augusta GreenJackets new logo. I think the plaid hat is a nice touch, but I will miss the actual Masters green jacket from the old logo.
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    The glasses are part of the PFT Commentor anonymous shtick. He always wears them.
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    So on this morning’s PMT they sort of explained what happened with the ESPN show. PFT said ESPN came to Barstool eight months ago wanting a PMT show and the name was “Pardon My Take” based until a couple weeks ago. PFT didn’t like the name change but Big Cat understood why Barstool changed it. The two were angry with ESPN for mismanaging it and the people from ESPN who got the show cancelled but they were also angry at Barstool for putting them in the scenario. The two threw Barstool/Portnoy under the bus a bit but Big Cat is more of a “company man” than PFT. It remains to be seen how this effects the PMT and Barstool relationship because PFT (and Big Cat in a roundabout way) said PMT shouldn’t be lumped into the other things Barstool has done. They also said the first episode almost didn’t air because of why it was eventually cancelled. The show was also supposed to be 20 episodes.
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    I just don't really know what ESPN expected with Barstool in the title. To add to Sodboy's point, the actual vehicle (Vanny Woodhead) the PMT vehicle was filmed in is PMT's. I'm sure they wrote if off as a Barstool business expense or something but the show was all Pardon My Take. IIRC, outside of PMT (Big Cat, PFT and their producer Hank), there was little to no Barstool in the actual production of the show. It was all Embassy Row and ESPN.
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    Their first (and only) episode with Scott Van Pelt as the guest. ------- I will admit, I am a Pardon My Take fan and I listen to all the podcasts. It's a fun, smart show and has clout in the sports/sports media world but they're only going to get so far in the "mainstream media" with the Barstool name attached, even though it's not really the "Barstool brand" people think of when they hear Barstool. A lot of people at ESPN like PMT and I don't think the cancellation will have an effect on the podcast but I feel for the PMT guys. The way the statement reads it seems it was less about PMT and the first episode, it's more about Barstool (read: Portnoy, Dave). Calling the show Barstool Van Talk didn't help ESPN either, it should have just been something related to Pardon My Take but I don't know if that would have flown with Barstool.
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    This is/was Calgary's proposal to the Flames.
  7. monkeypower
    And here's Nenshi's response,
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    Plenty of people. Probably not, especially not the CalgaryNEXT proposal. Cost being only one of the multiple reasons that proposal wasn't good. The last three new CFL stadiums to be built cost $278 million (Regina), $145.7 million (Hamilton) and $210 million (Winnipeg). But it will be interesting to see if and when the Flames go back to the city to see if they still include the Stamps in a proposal because the hockey arena will include three out of the four CSEC teams.
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    No the Saddledome isn't falling apart but it is showing its age and lacks a lot of the ameneties of all these newer arenas, same with McMahon (so much concrete), so admiral is right in saying Calgary is due for a new arena/complex. But what the Flames want from the city isn't going to work. The admiral's also right about the concerts. Calgary gets skipped over for Edmonton all the time because of the Saddledome and its limitations. And if acts do come, it's often stripped down a bit and the acoustic aren't the greatest. (Keep in mind, I've never been to a concert at the Dome. This is just the common knowledge in Calgary). I will say I never found the Saddledome's bowls wonky though.
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    I don't think Saskatoon could work either. I don't think it's big enough and the two professional teams already in the province get supported by the whole province. Everybody in Canada knows about Rider Nation for the CFL's Roughriders and the two year old NLL Rush have become a smash hit, but both leagues play a weekly (football) schedule with the Roughriders playing nine home games a season out of Regina and the Rush playing their nine out of Saskatoon. Both teams draw from out of their respective cities with season ticket holders across the province. Since the homes games are only once a week at most, people are willing to make the drive to "home" games. I don't know if Saskatoon itself would be able to fill 41 home games a year, much less games played on different days of the week. The current arena would also need renovations to make it up to NHL standards. Saskatoon has been approaching the idea of discussions on a new arena, but I don't know if NHL is on their minds.
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    The Swift Current Indians of the WMBL (summer collegiate league in Alberta and Saskatchewan) are now the Swift Current 57's. The name comes from the 57 years they were known as the Indians. The change was made to drop Indians in order to "promote the team in a more current and sensitive manner."
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    Huh I didn't know that was a thing. That's kind of a cool touch then. I did see the ladder part but was thrown off by the wheels on the top of the thing but it appears to be for rolling it like a wheelbarrow.
  13. monkeypower
    The top right logo holding the three bats, what is he holding in his other arm?
  14. monkeypower
    Is that not how you read in England, directly downwards? Like how Japan reads from right to left.
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    In my stories, I usually clean up the quotes and I actively make an effort to not change what the person was trying to say. Mostly it's just taking out the filler words and fixing some grammar. (e.g. has to have and writing the word they meant to say if they flub it) The biggest change I'll ever make is when a person has a long quote with lots of "ands". I'll replace an "and" with a period and a new sentence if it's a changing thought and still makes sense.
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    I don't know about you but I met a beautiful single girl and started making $600,000 every month, so I'm in favour of them.
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    I can't seem to find the option to change my signature.
  18. monkeypower
    Update: Lost in 2OT. Now BASS' Flin Flon Bombers are going to the finals.
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    I guess I'm technically part of the sports media and now we're (do I get to say we're since I do colour?) about to go into double overtime facing elimination right now. Man it's intense.
  20. monkeypower
    The fallout from Flint as the coaches were fired again.
  21. monkeypower
    No, the midget teams were beating the womens team. And it's a paying professional league. The first of its kind in the sport. That's why people are talking about it,
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    Come on now, it's not Bantam AAA. The Canadian National team, or at least the national program, has played Midget AAA and CIS teams in exhibition games, though to your point I do believe they did lose quite a few to both levels. People aren't talking about their local Bantam AAA teams because those are 14-15 kids playing after school. The NWHL is the only paying professional womens hockey league, so yeah people are talking about it.
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    Like what is this? What kind of league is this?
  24. monkeypower
    You can quote specific parts of someone's post by highlighting text in it and clicking the "quote this" bubble that pops up. I think it's kind of neat.
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    But on the other hand, it's harder to see what the original person was referencing.
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