Currently watching the Pens/Rangers, although I don’t know how much more I can take of it. The Pens are not looking very good, and the officiating has been just awful. There was just a horrifyingly bad call against the Rangers when Tanger basically through a Ranger into the Flower (the puck was in the net, btw), and was penalized and the goal was disallowed. It was every bit as bad as (although a different sport) as the Snow Job at Foxboro in 2001.
At any rate, I hate that. The refs have one damned job, and I can do it better 400 miles away with an HD feed wearing coke bottle glasses.
Two of the fraternity boys who are hockey fans are down (no HD at the house), and I thought this was cute:
Rosie just loves him so much. There could be ten people here, and she beelines to him and even ignores Shawn.
ruemara
Well, he is way cuter than you both.
pat
Since this is an open thread, can anyone tell me how to get my name off every stupid mailing list in the country?
We were gone for two months and came back to 35 pounds of mail (taken in for us by our neighbor).. Unwanted catalogs, pleas for money from DOZENS of organizations to whom I would never give a dime….
HELP.
dedc79
Was curious to hear your thoughts on that penalty/no goal call. I’m a rangers fan and so I was wondering if maybe I was blinded by my allegiance or if the call was actually as bad as it seemed. At least they got the next goal.
As seems to be the case in all our pro sports, the refs insert themselves into the game way more than they should.
mai naem
He looks like Eddie Murphy so maybe he’s got the Dr. Doolittle thing going for him or something.
Villago Delenda Est
Obviously, he’s a much more attractive male than either of you.
ulee
Penguins need Putin. Then they’d be sure to win.
Morzer
I am starting to believe that Cole is turning before our fascinated eyes into whatever the pet animal equivalent of a cuckquean might be.
TaMara (BHF)
That’s adorable.
ulee
Cole, it’s so good of you to give Rosie a forever home. She appreciates it.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
Rosie’s got a beau! Very cute.
MoeLarryAndJesus
Are Pittsburgh fans taught to whine in the womb?
eric
at first i thought the ref was pointing for a penalty shot, then realized he called it on the ranger….how do you miss that one…how do the OTHER officials miss that one to correct the call….
Morzer
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
That canine strumpet is betraying her rightful lord and master!
As a cat person, it confirms my deepest suspicions about the true nature of “man’s best friend”.
some guy
since this is an open thread, just wanted to say how happy I am to see our proud, brave al Qaeda allies begin to turn on each other. First the recapture of Homs, now al Nusra fighting with the other Saudi-funded al Qaeda faction:
but not to worry, al Qaeda did find the time to arrest one of the so-called “secular” jihadists from the Fee Syrian Army:
With our continued support al Qaeda will surely defeat the secular forces of darkness in Syria!
( http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/04/us-syria-crisis-infighting-idUSBREA4301P20140504 …url provided so Omnes Omnibus’ paralegal won’t have to fire up the Gazoogle)
notorious JRT
Cole, it’s so good of you to give Rosie a forever home.
My thoughts exactly. I am glad Rosie found her place in a good pack!
Pogonip
Is that the same kid Rosie was in love with last year? Or is she adding to her harem of young fellers? That particular young feller looks like he’s enjoying being Rosie’d.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@eric: One thing I’ve noticed is that hockey refs are very reluctant to ever correct a call by their partner. (They will correct linesmen on icing calls occasionally, but never each other.) They almost never huddle after a call to discuss it. There have been a number of times when I’ve seen a bad call made and when I examine it from the angle of the ref who called it, I can see why he thought there was or wasn’t a penalty, but the ref with a better angle on it never reverses the call.
It’s the exact opposite of the way that baseball umps respond to a similar situation. I wonder how those two cultures arose and whether there’s any way to change the one in hockey.
Morzer
@Pogonip:
Life is just all wine and Rosies.
Pogonip
Valar doghulis! All men must snuggle up with John’s dogs!
smintheus
@dedc79: I missed the start of the game, what happened exactly? A good goal disallowed because a Ranger was shoved by a Pen into Fleury, after the goal had been scored?
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@MoeLarryAndJesus: In this case, John’s actually complaining that the Penguins got away with something.
Botsplainer
I’ve been watching “Turn”. Awesome.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
The Rangers power play still looks completely lost.
Also waiting for the 10pm announcement of the NCAA Div ! softball tournament bracket. The Gophers are 41-9 after winning the Big10 tournament yesterday and I’m hoping they get to host a regional.
dedc79
@smintheus: Yeah, Kreider broke to the goal on a power play (about a minute left), was shoved into the goalie, the puck slid through into the net and they sent Kreider off. So instead of a goal, or a continued powerplay, the rangers ended up shorthanded for a minute.
dedc79
I’m wondering if someone told the ref that he screwed up. He’s given the rangers a few power plays in a row since.
ulee
The snowjob at Foxboro still blows me away. It’s classic and wonderful but really how could they have allowed that?
Suzanne
It’ s because he’s hot. Rosie has good taste.
A Humble Lurker
Does the cute Rosie-magnet have a name? By the way, that’s adorable.
smintheus
@dedc79: The Canadiens have been the beneficiaries of several astonishingly bad calls and non-calls, but this sounds like it’s easily in the same league with those stinkers.
ulee
easy, girls.
some guy
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN):
Too tru on overturned calls. Probably because speed of play is different, and as you say, it’s most likely a tribal/cultural attribute specific to the game.
Bex
@pat: Try Catalog Choice dot org.
cmorenc
@John Cole:
Have you ever tried refereeing a fast-paced, physical team sport at a competitive level? Most spectators who make claims like yours would massively suck at it, and very quickly, if they were actually given a whistle and told to get down on the field and try their hand at refereeing at a competitive level of hockey, soccer, whatever. It’s MUCH harder than it looks sitting in your armchair, completely aside from the key issue of whether most spectators have the physical conditioning (and in case of hockey, skating skills) to keep up with (but out of the way of) play and maintain the right distance and sight angles to make calls IN REAL TIME. Also, it’s not just a matter of getting calls right – it’s managing players and keeping the game under control, which merely having the whistle and the ref uniform is *not* enough to successfully do. A competitive-level hockey game would erupt into an uncontrolled riot within a handful of minutes if you tried to do it.
Like Richard Mayhew, I also referee competitive-level soccer (and have for 17+ years), and we hear bellyaching from spectators like you all the time who think they know better than we do from their arm-chairs. We do sometimes get calls wrong, but – deal with it. The ref’s always right, even when he’s wrong.
SenyorDave
I think it should now be obligatory to say this on every thread for at least the next few days:
George Will is a piece of shit. If these were white girls does anyone think for a second that he would have had the same reaction?
http://www.salon.com/2014/05/11/george_will_jeers_at_bringbackourgirls_calls_it_an_exercise_in_self_esteem/
On second thought, I should apologize to all the pieces of shit in the world, I just insulted them by associating them with George Will.
John (MCCARTHY) Cole
@cmorenc: I was a lacrosse ref. Google “the fastest game on two feet.” Get back to me.
Schlemizel
Until a few years ago there was only one ref on the ice and they only got input from linesmen on very unusual occasions. There have been 4 umpires for a hundred years. That might be the source of the difference.
But I don’t recall umps huddling in my youth. Maybe that is new & it only took a hundred years.
hildebrand
@John (MCCARTHY) Cole: Badminton?
Roger Moore
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN):
There must be, because the tendency to do that in baseball is recent. Until recently, they didn’t tend to huddle unless the ump who made the initial call was uncertain and wanted help. A lot has improved since the ridiculous mass resignation in 1999, which got rid of a lot of the worst umps. That, combined with the move to put all umpires directly under the control ythe Commissioner rather than the league presidents (who are now purely ceremonial) led to a big improvement in quality, especially in things like conferring before a critical decision.
muddy
I’m beside myself with excitement because my son is coming home for the first time in 2 years, his work is far away. I was trying to watch GoT but I had to keep rewinding because I kept missing everything due to my brain being occupied elsewhere. I finally just paused it, it was hopeless. How will I get to sleep tonight? I promised him I’d do my best not to make a scene at the airport, but every time I think about it I start to cry.
The 3 year old dog is very excited, and keeps going to the door when I say his name. The puppy doesn’t get it yet. “It’s your biggest brother!” I told her. He can throw a ball so far…
I planted a lot of potatoes today. We say it’s a genetic weakness.
muddy
@ulee: Why? I doubt it hurts his feelings.
different-church-lady
Oh, so you’re one of those…
ulee
@muddy: No, his feelings isn’t hurt.
cmorenc
@John (MCCARTHY) Cole:
Good for you – why did you give it up?
BTW: IMHO ice hockey is the fastest sport on two feet (a skilled skater can skate and maneuver much faster (straight-ahead speed) and quicker (agility at accelerating and changing direction) than anyone on two feet. So, OK technically, a skater is no longer on his feet in the sense of a runner in cleats – humans are not born with metal blades instead of feet.
scuffletuffle
Rosie has very good taste….he’s a cutie!
different-church-lady
@ulee: Because the officials made the correct call of a really stupid rule — one which has recently been done away with.
Mike in NC
@Botsplainer: “Turn” is very good and has outstanding production values for a show about the American Revolution. One of the few glitches are references to the Royal Army, which didn’t exist (cf: Royal Navy, Royal Marines).
El Caganer
@SenyorDave: I dunno. If they were all Muslim girls, would anybody give a shit?
ulee
@different-church-lady: I love that we live in a world that we can’t seem to do away with this crazy shit.
p.a.
@different-church-lady:yes. Correct call, bad rule. Raider fans whine, but they made the SB the next year and look what happened.
NotMax
@pat
The Post Office will hold back your mail for a specified period.
Funny thing is (at least here) they don’t ask for I.D. for that service.
Strictly theoretically, nothing would stop me from going in and requesting someone else’s mail be held.
John Weiss
@hildebrand: Badminton? Racquetball, I think, is quite a bit faster.
scav
@El Caganer: Ask Malala about that one.
pat
@NotMax:
Yes, they will hold back the mail but my problem is that I get EVERY SINGLE DAY three or four or more unwanted solicitations. There must be a way to stop this. Kind of like the Do Not Call list. I know I’m being overly optimistic….
I wouldn’t mind so much if I could just pitch the lot of it into the garbage, but I feel I have to open the envelopes, recycle the white paper, and trash the address labels etc.
different-church-lady
@John Weiss: Are we talking about the speed of the object, or the humans?
Bill E Pilgrim
@different-church-lady: Laden or unladen?
CaseyL
I love the expression on Rosie’s face: “Can we keep him?” Does he have that effect on human women, too? (As many have noted, he’s cute. That grin!)
I caught a freebie of the “Penny Dreadful” premier episode. It’s quite good. Not good enough for me to add SHO to my cable menu, but if you have SHO I recommend it. The show is intelligently done Victorian-era horror, and stars Eve Greenwood and Timothy Dalton, two actors I really enjoy. (I’ve had a crush on Dalton since I was 14 and saw him in a remake of “Wuthering Heights.”)
Kropadope
@CaseyL: Don’t Showtime shows usually wind up on Netflix?
JoyfulA
@pat: I can just throw all unwanted solicitations, catalogs, even unwanted telephone books in the recyclables can. Are you sure you can’t?
Gin & Tonic
@John Weiss: Watch this and get back to me.
ulee
Glad to see that Bill Maher understands that Donald Sterling was screwed by his girlfriend. A private conversation should remain just that unless a party says he is going to kill someone. So you all just go on and clutch your pearls.
MomSense
@muddy:
I got a few tears of joy thinking about your reunion with your son! Enjoy!!
CaseyL
@Kropadope: Do they? I’m not a member. Every so often I’ll see what Netflix has and so far haven’t found the offerings interesting enough to join up. If I were to give up cable,, maybe, but today is not that day. (I love On Demand.)
Kropadope
@CaseyL: Well, it’s where I watch Weeds and Dead Like Me.
Botsplainer
Dunno if they’ve still got Foyle’s War, but that’s what hooked me a couple of years ago.
ulee
@ulee: And watch your ass. Next time they might be coming for you.
MattR
@John Weiss: Badminton is actually the fastest racquet sport in the world interms of speed of the “ball” with shots that have topped 200 MPH.
CTVoter
You know that Rosie is just screwing with you, right? As all righteous JRT’s do. Notice how Rosie is so very interested in who’s taking the picture. While snuggling with another human. Just to screw with you.
SiubhanDuinne
I’m trying to figure out what anything in this thread has to do with the “GoT” in the title.
SiubhanDuinne
@CTVoter:
Let’s be honest here. Rosie is a slut. And she likes it.
sublime33
I am no Penguin or Crosby fan, but I think he is definitely injured right now. At times he seems to have trouble putting weight on his right ankle.
SiubhanDuinne
@muddy:
Muddy, that is incredibly cool and exciting!
jl
Cole given his frat kids GoT names yet?
Constance
@pat:
I use Catalog Choice about once every two years. What worked the best was to phone each company or non-profit and ask to be removed from their lists. Time-consuming but I get very few catalogs or requests for money anymore. I’ve also read about people sending back the envelopes they include for your donation which costs them money.
cckids
A shout-out for help to some of the pet lovers here, this organization, was just hit by a tornado in Omaha, and they are looking for help with fostering the little wiener doggies. I’m sure donations would also be welcome. Like so many small rescue fosters, they do good work on small wages.
angelfoot
@pat: One or more of these options might help:
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0262-stopping-unsolicited-mail-phone-calls-and-email
I haven’t tried DMAchoice but I did opt out of prescreened credit card and insurance offers and that has worked perfectly.
Omnes Omnibus
The Blackhawks won, and that is all that really matters.
Also, Jared Abbrederis is the happiest man in Wisconsin this weekend.
SenyorDave
@ulee: I guess Sterling is being denied his First Amendment rights, and his also Constitutional right to own an NBA team. Can someone please remind which amendment that is?
Omnes Omnibus
@some guy: Common courtesy and internet protocol weren’t enough?
NotMax
If, like me, you find the look o the latest Firefox a distraction, here’s an add-on which lets you restore the less busy classic look (and has lots of customization included in its options).
Mnemosyne
We rented bikes and rode the rail trail 24 miles from Ventura to Ojai. Now my ass hurts. A lot. At least it was mostly downhill on the way back.
Villago Delenda Est
@SenyorDave: That’s the 14.5th amendment, which states “The peculiar institution may continue on if you at least throw a few million a year at your young bucks.”
lol
I DEMAND TRIAL BY COMBAT
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
Thank you! I’ll check it out.
A while ago I was scrutinizing Firefox on the other laptop to remind myself what Firefox looked like before I did the upgrade on this computer. Amazing how a few seemingly small changes can make such a big (irritating) difference.
PurpleGirl
@Steeplejack:
@NotMax:
I did the FireFox upgrade and don’t see much of a difference yet. Can you point to a specific example of a change you don’t like? I’m confuzzled (confused and puzzled).
NotMax
@PurpleGirl
In my case, as FF was customized to my liking beforehand, did not like the tabs being up top, and the look of the tabs themselves after the update. Also missed having the status bar across the bottom, as there are several items which I toggle on/off or otherwise use frequently which am used to residing there.
I prefer a plain old minimalist look.
max
@NotMax: If, like me, you find the look o the latest Firefox a distraction, here’s an add-on which lets you restore the less busy classic look (and has lots of customization included in its options).
Installed. We’ll see if I need it.
@PurpleGirl: I did the FireFox upgrade and don’t see much of a difference yet. Can you point to a specific example of a change you don’t like? I’m confuzzled (confused and puzzled).
If you never really tweaked the UI from stock, you might only notice minimal changes. I (and NotMe, I presume) have tweaked the UI back to something like I was used to for many years, even as the UI has migrated away from what I like.
max
[‘At least I got it to stop crashing.’]
PurpleGirl
@NotMax:
@max:
Thanks guys. I haven’t customized FF very much beyond some add-ons (Flash and Adblock). Maybe I’ll take some time and investigate customizing it.
NotMax
@PurpleGirl – @max
Just to give a taste of the severe minimalism I prefer, here’s a screenshot.
windpond
@pat: Check out Catalogue Choice. You can find them online, list the junk mail you receive and they will put a stop to it.
Steeplejack
@PurpleGirl:
I was en fuego about this last night but am already losing the fire of my outrage. That it was an unexpected shock was the main thing.
I keep a relatively clean look on Firefox. At the top I have the tabs bar, in which I usually have numerous tabs open. Below that I have the navigation toolbar—the one that includes the current URL, refresh, home, search, back (and sometimes forward) buttons, etc. The rest of the screen is the current page I’m on. The tabs bar had nice icons at the right end to open a new tab, list current tabs, minimize, restore and zap the current window and a Firefox icon at the left end to call up the Firefox menus. The individual tab headers were very readable with a light blue-gray color, and the currently open tab header had a color much lighter than that. Very readable.
When I upgraded last night Firefox (a) threw away a bunch of tabs I had open, which hadn’t happened on previous upgrades, (b) slapped the menu bar (which I usually don’t have displayed) at the top of the screen, above the tabs bar, and (c) changed the color of the tab headers to the same dark blue of the menu bar (or a very slightly different color, according to Comrade Mary). It all runs together now and is distracting because it’s the same color that Windows uses (on my machine) to frame all windows. And it’s hard to differentiate among the tab headers. They look like text on a continuous blue background now.
I was able to remove the menu bar easily. But the new tabs bar is less readable, the icons at the right end are crammed into a smaller space, and the Firefox icon at the left end has disappeared, replaced by a Google/Android-style three-bar icon (“Open menu”) at the right end of the navigation toolbar. What’s the point of that?
As I said last night:
All this falls into the “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” category for me, and it would have been nice to see what was going to happen before the upgrade got launched, especially since after you do the upgrade Firefox takes you to a page to show you all the cool new features that you are now stuck with. I was expecting the usual minor security/bug-fix update and got a bunch of stupid, pointless UI changes. Yes, they can all be fixed, but why should I have to?
The final salt in the wound is that they have now made it so that if you have the menu bar hidden it will appear if you press the Alt key. The Alt key toggles it back and forth—hidden, displayed, hidden, etc. It turns out that I quite often (and mostly unconsciously) use Alt-[mouse wheel roll] to do micro-scrolling, and now every time I do that the menu bar appears after I release the Alt key. Good times.
Steeplejack
@max:
This. Over the long haul I have made changes to “maintain” the clean look I like, and this upgrade basically shat all over them.
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
Right on! Mine is even more minimalist: no menu bar and no whatever-your-“Back 2/And So It Goes” thing is.
some guy
you say Marco, I say Rube I O
you say Marco, I say Rube E O
you say Marco, I say Rube I O
you say Marco, I say Rube E O
O, how I pine for the merely plain and stupid days of “Jeb!”
NotMax
@Steeplejack
Take a peek at the screenshot I made with the new FF (#88, above) after tweaking it with the add-on mentioned further upthread. Tweaking took all of maybe 6 minutes.
Only thing missing is that the pre-made color scheme I preferred to default gray is currently not compatible with the newest FF, but hoping the designer of that one will update to be compatible fairly soon, or a similar one will show up at Mozilla’s add-ons.
NotMax
@max
Back2 is a one-click to go back two screens, rather than clicking Back twice.
And So It Goes was my blog – kept on the bar for nostalgia’s sake.
(I do favor using text rather than icons in the bars, but newest FF seems to no longer offer a choice of which specific bars to set that way.)
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
I have fixed most things. I need to do something about the tab headers color. Even on your screenshot at 88 the tab headers are kind of lost, because they’re the same color as what’s around them. I noticed today that when a tab is refreshing it’s now hard to see the “I’m refreshing” icon—it’s dark green/black against the dark blue (at least on this ancient machine).
And this Alt key toggling the menu bar is becoming more and more annoying. Crikey.
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
“Fixed most things” or gotten used to them. Grumble, grumble.
NotMax
@Steeplejack
The tab and tab text colors are extremely customizable in the add-on linked further above.
I happen to have text in open tabs set at black, and in unread tabs in italics and purple, but could also set the color of the tabs themselves differently, if desired.
The other favorite tabs add-on installed is Tab Mix Plus, if for nothing else its including an ‘Undo Last Closed Tab’ option..
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
Yeah, I was just looking at that add-on, and I think it will be very useful. I hate the rounded tab headers. Yet another mini-project for tomorrow.
More and more yesterday I was just pissed at whatever nitwit (or committee, more likely) at Mozilla thought all these new “features” were great ideas—and so great that they could just be peremptorily installed with no warning. Grr.
NotMax
@Steeplejack
Have never tried it myself, but there does seem to be an add-on to disable specific shortcuts such as the alt one you mentioned.
JenJen
Sorry about your Pens, Cole. I’m sick with worry for my Canadiens tomorrow.
Madamme Reno better bring the good mojo.
Also, Go Blackhawks!
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
I’ll check that out too.
I need to pack it in for the night and let this stuff go. The other UI outrage that has been eating at me is that this weekend I noticed that MHz, the Eurotrash micro-network on which I watch various European crime shows—Maigret, Montalbano, (Swedish) Wallander, Unit One, etc.—has started “stretching” the European format horizontally to fit the American screen. But they haven’t done anything about the vertical, so everybody looks thick, and it’s maddening! I fired off a stern message at their “Contact Us” page to either “zoom” (expand horizontally and vertically) or (better) go back to the status quo ante, have a bit of a black border around the European picture and let the goddamn viewers adjust their individual TVs as they wish.
max
@NotMax: (I do favor using text rather than icons in the bars, but newest FF seems to no longer offer a choice of which specific bars to set that way.)
I much prefer text to buttons, but they’ve worked real hard to get rid of it, and I got text to work with the addon you linked, but it’s non-functional. I can work with a Chromish nav-bar, but it’s got to be actually Chrome-like.
@Steeplejack: All this falls into the “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” category for me, and it would have been nice to see what was going to happen before the upgrade got launched, especially since after you do the upgrade Firefox takes you to a page to show you all the cool new features that you are now stuck with. I was expecting the usual minor security/bug-fix update and got a bunch of stupid, pointless UI changes. Yes, they can all be fixed, but why should I have to?
The working theory since FF 20 is that if they’ve got a gfx feature more or less working, they should throw it out there and let the bugs bite so they can find them. They don’t have enough beta testing going on to chase them down otherwise. This is all in pursuit of keeping the version numbers somewhat current with Chrome, and also because they’re trying to force users to migrate. They want the old users to shut up and get over it. (The theory there is that the majority of users, like PurpleGirl, just use the UI as is, so give what they should have.)
Problem with that is, is that in Silicon Valley (just like Silicone Valley!), all the important people care about is the eye-candy up front. This results in chasing the dragon of UI perfection which tends to result in constant bugtastic but otherwise unimportant and unnecessary changes. Open source is very bad about this, because they want to keep up with Apple & MS and Apple & MS just do cosmetic changes for no real reason (much like the car industry) but open source isn’t as good at hunting down UI bugs.
So we get shit like this. The FF HTML render engine is still the best, and the standards compliance is tops. Unfortunately, the UI shifts have once again uncovered a bunch of d2d gfx display bugs and now it’s crashing all the time. I expect 29.0.2 any day now.
max
[‘Not much point to having an dev, alpha, beta, and release channels, is there? What with the release channel reverting to beta class every four or five releases.’]
Steeplejack (tablet)
@max:
Thanks. This makes sense.
To clarify, when I said “fix” I didn’t mean bugs, I meant changes I didn’t like.
NotMax
@max
Have the sinking feeling (and could be way off base on this) that Firefox and other major browser providers are moving to developing one size fits all browsers for both standard computers and tablets/mobile devices, which will end up not working as well on any of them as dedicated browsers for each do or should.
Gorgon Zola
@sublime33: It’s hard to tell with Crosby because he has the reputation for exaggerating injuries and Academy Award level flopping.
Paul in KY
@Mnemosyne: Great workout! Now you can eat.
Paul in KY
@some guy: What the fuck is causing it, if not us?
horatius
What did you expect from that bitch? That little whore!!
pat
Thanks for the suggestions about jreducing unk mail. Will definitely be trying them out.
And as for recycling, the place where I lived years ago would not accept un-opened junk mail because of the inserts of address labels and other non-paper crap. I’ll give it a try with our current recycler.
moderateindy
Crosby underperforms in the playoffs because of all the extra attention he gets. And by attention I mean all the extra holding, hooking, grabbing, slashing, and holding his stick when he is away from the puck. Most of which would garner a penalty during the regular season, but is just seen as tough defense in the playoffs. It happens to Toews all the time as well. The difference is Toews handles it better, and plays through it most of the time. Crosby lets it affect him too much, and gets frustrated, and it bleeds through to all areas of his game. Plus, he spends too much time visibly whining to the refs about it, which just makes him look bad, and feeds negatively into people’s perception of his overall play.
i.e. Lacrosse being the fastest sport on two feet. Hockey is played on skates. It is those skates that provide the speed. Lax could technically be played barefoot, hockey not so much.
As a former lax ref, I will admit that it is a much easier sport to officiate than hockey, because it is so wide open. The amount of time spent along the boards, with all the physical play makes hockey harder to ref. Although, calling slashing in Lacrosse is often one of the toughest calls in sports. Right up there with the block/charge in Bball, and holding in Football. And of course as far as soccer goes…………I’m sorry I just dozed off from even thinking about soccer.
villageidiocy
@some guy: Saw an article a few days ago about flooding seawater in parts of Miami on clear days . . . Got me thinking about the refusal of higher level politicians to deal with the issue of climate change in their own backyards. So what do you think is the industry which funnels vast amount of money into the political coffers of Florida? Development. Real Estate. What would happen to the value of real estate in the lower third of Florida, not to mention the coasts, if the politicians began to discuss the need to plan for climate refugees, both Floridian and their nearest island neighbors? How could a state whose leaders publicly recognize a disaster in the making compete with other states (or countries, even) for investment dollars?
Also imagine the cost of infrastructure fixes to maintain Miami as a viable city. Imagine where that money is going to come from, once it is acknowledged. By that time it will be an official disaster, and the state itself will go hat-in-hand to the feds.
Yeah. They know, for crisssakes. They know. They are middle aged guys trying to game a system to save their own political and personal behinds, hoping they can get out before it all goes pear shaped. Trying to work it up to the point they can drop it in someone else’s lap.
Thymezone
At the sight of any top post that contains the word “Pens” I immediately scroll away. Also for any that contain the words “Game of Thrones” or its acronym. I have never, and will never, read any post, comment, or article anywhere that references these topics.
I assume that most people do the same, but of course, if they write anything to that effect, I wouldn’t read it, so how would I know?
Accordingly, my life is good and all is well with the universe. Now I will get back to my hourly scans for news of Beyonce.