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4 hours ago, waltere said:

They're the Pacific 2 seed.

The NHL strictly speaking doesn't seed outside divisions any more, but depending on how you choose to define they'd work out as either a #4 or a #5.

Thanks! I went to the bracket and saw a number. My bad

38 minutes ago, BBTV said:

What seed are the Oilers in the west?  I looked up a few brackets and can't tell since they don't do 1-8.  Are they 5 since it looks like 4 teams had more points?

2 seed

https://www.espn.com/nhl/playoff-bracket

William Contreras is the only MLB All Star ever whose name contains the letters A L L S T A R

Checks schedule

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Monday night is clear.

8 minutes ago, HOOVER said:

I'll give you 'till Week 8.  It's going to grow on you!

I'll take the over on that one.

All those stats that Michael Jordan racked up in his DPOY season -- Take 'em with a grain of salt. Well, not all of them, but certainly the ones from his home games.  As someone who works the stats table for a D-1 team, it's interesting how this gets checked today. Some of these things couldn't happen, because turnovers/steals have to balance.

https://sports.yahoo.com/a-closer-look-at-michael-jordans-1988-dpoy-award-raises-questions-about-its-validity-has-lebron-james-been-chasing-a-ghost-140452567.html

4 minutes ago, SFGiants58 said:

Ableist language isn’t really necessary, ever. This is not 4chan or KiwiFarms.

The edit makes me think he's got no idea what is wrong.

19 minutes ago, adsarebad said:

And just like clockwork the [MOD EDIT] come out of the woodwork and yell:

*If this means we can sign (insert player name) to a long term contract,  i am all for it*

Really?

1 hour ago, ZapRowsdower8 said:

The downside of having a great player that people want to see, the Pirates are getting an ad. On a ferry in the Virgin Islands so I can’t post a pic. It’s Sheetze.

There's a [censored] joke to be made there

Odd watching a game without the strike zone on TV (Giants and Cards at Rickwood Field in Birmingham).

24 minutes ago, wildwing64 said:

Interesting jersey choice for Wild Wing here.

 

The 30th was only meant for one year - but this might be a hint at them keeping it a bit longer. Or maybe not, but we'll see.

 

I read that as he has just packed away sweaters he'll no longer wear. You can't have him go without a sweater 'in character', so he has the proclaimed one-year sweater on until he REALLY gets dressed.

1 minute ago, leopard88 said:

 

The Brewers numbers from their prior set?  Those were Times New Roman and very different (though, upon further review, the 2s are pretty similar).

 

 

They Ravens numbers are much closer to the  Diamondbacks original numbers (which nearly match the Ravens 1996-only numbers) and the numbers on the Mariners navy alts.

 

 

 

 

 

Ha - bad memory on my part!

2 minutes ago, tBBP said:

To the number font, though, I'm gonna go the other way on this—thus maintaining my long-held stance—and say that aside from possibly removing the large dropshadow, I see absolutely nothing wrong with the Ravens' number font, and am STILL waiting for someone somewhere to descriptively explain exactly what about that font makes it "dated". (And no, "they're not classic block" will not suffice here. Neither will "just because they're round".) And if its a font update some want, I say be careful what you wish for. See Broncos, Denver; Texans, Houston; and Falcons, Atlanta for examples of how that wish could go horribly wrong.

But it's the same as the Brewers old font is all I got.

I'm not disagreeing with you, by the way.

I'm bothered by two of the three alt logos include the original K, but one of them doesn't.

16 minutes ago, HOOVER said:

Respectfully disagree.  Baltimore's uniforms have aged.  It's a dated look, primarily due to the font and helmet stripe.

 

They don't need wholesale changes.  They could change 3 things and be fine:  the aforementioned helmet stripe & number font,  plus the helmet finish.  

 

It never helps that they wear the worst combinations most of the time; getting rid of the black jersey and pants would go a long way towards a final fix.

I'm not a fan of wacky helmet stripes, but these make sense for the Ravens in that they mimic the feathers and coloring of the bird itself.

I agree with a lot of the rest of that.

32 minutes ago, Brave-Bird 08 said:

I have to say, I think we are bearing witness to a CCSLC first: 

 

First dozen or so reactions to this helmet was universal acclaim, as well  the genuine reaction from my normie friends was also that they were floored with how great it looked. 

 

I log back in today expecting more of the same, and instead see a series of successive comments poo-pooing it. 

 

It's as if between yesterday and today I got sucked through a wormhole

That's sort of the MO around here, though. People who like a new look are more inclined to say so right away. Then those who don't feel compelled to point out the (perceived) flaws. I'm certain there are also some 'devil's advocates' (that's not the term I want, but it's not coming to me) who need to take up whatever is the opposite stance.

10 minutes ago, BBTV said:

Thinking more about this, I think we learned during pandemic that staff and media don’t necessarily need to be there live, though I get that it adds to the “big game feel”. 
 

I wonder if the network could have people based in Edm and someone based in Fla, and then the pbp could also rotate, or just be done via monitor like during covid. 
 

As far as writers, I’m not sure if the panthers even have beat writers (they probably do?) but I don’t think a lot even travel much anymore, at least to opposite coast trips. I think even the Flyers cut their budget for that. 

Nah - ESPN did remote announcers during the early rounds of these playoffs. The announcers weren't aware of a change in goalie one game between the 2nd and 3rd periods because they couldn't see it.

13 minutes ago, 8BW14 said:

I guess I’ll be the guy to say he doesn’t like it. Sure it’s a sharp helmet and yeah it makes for a very nice mono-purple look. It’s not the Ravens though. Purple and black is their thing. Alternates like this in the NFL only serve to dilute what are generally very strong brands. It has the same vibe as the Lions black and blue alt; sure it looks really cool, but why do we need it?

Co-signed.

9 minutes ago, Wildcomet said:

A bit of both I suppose... Initially the name was inspired by the alcohol meaning of the word which fits Milwaukee real well (may be better known for the beer industry but it has its share of distilleries and cocktail bars), but through the development process evolved into the more supernatural theme. Finding the font where the switch in my head from alcohol theme to ghost theme happened. I came across it in a search for speakeasy style fonts and something about its capital S inspired the switch.

 

Milwaukee does have its stories of haunted hotels, bars, etc., so there is a small connection to the area. That said, if you ask locals what Milwaukee is known for, I doubt hauntings would end up high on the list so there's some 'rule of cool' in there also I guess.

Then again, so many visiting teams say at the Pfister Hotel, which is well known as being haunted, so you've got that connection as well.

1 hour ago, BBTV said:

1. So apparently there's a typo on the ring - where it lists their playoff games, it shows the Dolphins as the 7 seed when they were really the 6: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kansas-city-chiefs-super-bowl-ring-bling-typo-rcna157204

 

@YelichGraphics beat you to that by a few days

1 minute ago, DCarp1231 said:

I like em. Top 3.

Or in this case, top 03.

11 hours ago, GDAWG said:

 

They probably won't be the last  American football team to do that either.  

And they weren't the first pro football team to do it. It's not even the second time it happened (since one team has done it twice).

34 minutes ago, Wildcomet said:

 

That's fair, and thanks for the feedback. This was a slightly different version of the M logo I had worked on. I went with the other one because it felt less busy to me and better for smaller applications.

 

I'll ask the group here, would this one be better to use than the one I used in my concept? I could switch that easily enough if there's a consensus on this being the better one.

 

I did know the stripes are more a college football thing, but honestly without the white ends it just feels like some weird blocks of negative space, so I was willing to deal with a bit of inaccuracy over that.

I get it. You sorta did what I was asking g for with this and ... I don't know if I like it. This version looks more like a stencil M, but all is see is the V in the middle.

I got nothing

Great Googly Moogly

6 hours ago, heavybass said:

Falcons lose a 2025 fifth round pick for tampering and the team is docked 250k whilst the GM is docked 500k.... honestly a light punishment for Kirk Cousins.

A sacking would of been more effective.

You've got 1 too many zeroes in the GM fine from what I saw. 50k