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    I can't even tell a difference between before and now. If it's different it's not enough for me to notice. It's snot bold for me like it is in those screen shots. Looks normal to me.
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    now that I've had time to view it on desktop more, I agree that it's really white. It lights up my whole room when viewd on my 27" monitor. Maybe the sides (around the actual posts) could be a shade darker? Maybe match the blue? Just something a little less bright. I haven't noticed any issues with fonts. Can someone post a screen shot of the complaint? I'm just curious to see if I'm viewing it differently somehow. Everything looks fine to me.
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    If it fixes the quoting issues and searching then I'm all for it.
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    I went to a game at Tokyo dome last fall. It was my first dome sports experience and I had a blast.part of it was just that baseball is "different" in Japan. While I enjoyed my first dome experience, I think I would hate watching games there on the reg, in person or on TV. It was a really fun atmosphere, but can't compete with the true baseball park experience. I HIGHLY recommend visiting Tokyo dome. It's old but really cool.
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    And it was cheaper for Phillies fans to buy tickets (since they weren't even sold out and even second hand wasn't bad) and fly to Tampa to see games then to attend in Philadelphia. I'm not knocking Tampa for not having the same kind of fanbase as more established teams in bigger markets, but not even selling out playoff games (I mean they did sell out, but because visiting fans and scumbags looking for ROI bought the tickets, not Rays STHs) is a bad sign.
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    It's way out of the box, and there's obvious (probably insurmountable) hurdles to overcome, but a north NJ team could be successful, even despite the presence of the NYY and Mets. It might take a generation, but parents can take their kids to MLB games without having to go into the city, and those kids could grow up to be NJ fans despite their parents being Yankees or Mets fans. Who knows - a "NJ" branded team could even steal some south NJ fans from the Phillies, though that's less likely. All things being equal (which they never are), that might be the best market for a new team.
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    It would have been hard to avoid expanding to TB. Weren't they all but promised a team after all the Giants thing fizzled out after they had already built a park? Or White Sox - I forget which team used them and discarded them first. The Rays attendance problems can be traced back to whenever that park was designed. The location, design, limited technology of the era (no practical retractability option), all contributed to the mess they're in now, and are to some degree an influence on the fans' apathy. In a perfect world, there's no team there. They'd hit the undo button. The best they can do now is try and figure some way out of that lease, then pack them up and move them to some other market. There's obviously not many (if any) major-league caliber markets left, and I haven't yet seen any evidence that MTL is one.
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    No more wrestling. It's debatable whether this is his right team (I didn't realize his HOF plaque has him in Phillies cap and his official photo is in (the WRONG) Philllies uniform) but it's not debatable that these are the wrong uniform:
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    If youre comparing Las Vegas to Pittsburgh you never been to either.
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    The following years jerseys were soooo much better (the ones with white numbers in the same style - pre giant shoulder Elvis version). Single color white tv numbers looked like a cheap afterthought.
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    There's nothing Pittsburgh specific about that template though. That's sorta like saying that half the 80s teams copied each other because they all used the rounded yoke template and horizontal stripes.
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    It could be that CCM or whoever the manufacturer was just came up with that template and used it for prototypes for several teams and only the Penguins selected it.
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    I've spent a few weeks in both China and South Korea. I absolutely do not see hockey gaining a foothold in China. I know that there's still some russian influence there and I did see ads for hockey matches, but from talking with Chinese people and making my own observaions, even in the areas that tend to be more western, it's just never going to be a thing. Interestingly, they seem to have a fondness for European soccer. Korea is a different story. At least Seoul (I never made it to Busan, which was the only other city I had planned to see) is extremely western. Possibly due to the US military influence, or possibly just due to "it's cool" (like in parts of Japan.) I could definitely see hockey becoming at least a niche sport there (if it's not already.) It'll never be as big there as it is in North America, but it could become similar (yet still smaller) to soccer in the US - a relatively small but passionate fanbase, at least a portion of which follows the sport not because of the actual sport itself, but more what it represents.
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    Allen Iverson Bobby Taylor John Kruk - wrong uniform, wrong haircut, wrong facial hair, and wrong number ultra combo. Tried unsuccessfully to find Calvin Williams in the 1996 Eagles jersey after he made a brief return to the team. You probably wouldn't know who he is unless you're an Eagles fan from back then, but he and Arkansas Fred Barnett were really popular.
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    Sure it's not the only criteria, but it's a big part of it. Your Ichiro comparison is silly. Ichiro became a star with the Mariners and will forever be associated with them. I don't think anyone in their right mind would consider him a signicant part of Yankees history. To a lot of people, their first thought of Chapman won't be in a Reds uniform. His biggest moments happened in other uniforms, and his best years will occur in another one too. An interesting case here would be Roy Halladay. He clearly established himself and became a perennial star in Toronto, but lobbied to get out of there and had the biggest moments of his career in front of national audiences in prime time playing for a major-market team. When the average person closes their eyes and thinks Roy Halladay, they either see him finishing a perfect game, finishing a playoff no-hitter, pitching in the playoffs back-to-back years, and winning a Cy Young and playing in All Star games while wearing red pinstripes. I think that most reasonable people would still consider Toronto his "right" uniform, but his "poster" moments occurred in other uniroms, and more people have seen him in red as opposed to black.
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    Seems like this may have been "magically" resolved. Thanks for fixing it.
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    He lost to the Eagles in the playoffs wearing that set. I think atlanta is still the right uniform for him, but since his redemption (as well as a few of his best games) came with the Eagles, could that maybe be his right one?
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    That coincidentally started during an upgrade? It's been just about a week now, and at least two others reported the same thing (though I'm not sure if it cleared up for them.) The fact that this is the only site this occurs with, even among other IPB-powered sites seems to indicate to me that if it is a user problem, there's still something unique to the way this board works. Will send PM. - In the meantime, I'm open to suggestions on how to self-resolve.
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    Are you experiencing this? It seems like I'm not alone but I'm curious what's different with anyone that i's not happening to. Also, why even have a thread for board upgrade issues if the issue needs to be sent via PM?
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    So LMU is my father? That changes the dynamic somewhat.
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    He just posted in this thread.
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    Legit question that I probably know the answer to- Is it cool to make a separate account for each device? Like "BBTV-iPhone", "BBTV-Tablet", "BBTV-PC1", etc?
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    Yeah I'm still being logged out all the time on every device. Weird that no other invision board I frequent has this issue. EDIT: page load times are back to normal at least. EDIT2: posting still takes quite a while to save.
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