Recent content by mdh2003

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    OT: NY Rangers 2024-2025 Thread

    Yes, if the pick is top 13, NYR have the option to keep it or not. The only thing I’m not sure about is the timing. Like, do NYR need to decide at the end of the season, or after the lottery, or can they literally wait until the pick comes up during the draft?
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    OT: NY Rangers 2024-2025 Thread

    This was absolutely true back in the day - I knew the guy that saw, and had to hit, the MSG budget for 30+ years. It was hard coded in - Knicks and Rangers need 2 rounds, or we don’t make our numbers. I without a doubt believe that the suits made hockey decisions based on that. That barn...
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    Player Move In Day!

    Written on the wall in the late 80s Hill Center basement john’s 2nd stall: Flush twice, Tillet is far away…
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    OT: Dry January

    I started doing it during the 2007-2008 football season. RU had their bowl after Jan 1st that year. I called it Bowl-to-Bowl. Rutgers Bowl to the Super Bowl. I’ve done it every year since. At first, it wasn’t even a healthy thing. During FB season, I would hit it pretty hard. For me, it...
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    It sucks being a Rutgers fan

    Hey, it could be worse. Could be basketball. Imagine half of the football starters being top 3 kids and we don’t even make the postseason. Yeesh.
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    OT: NY Rangers 2024-2025 Thread

    Ronnie, I know you are a proud and loyal Devils fan. So, I really appreciate your solid “neutral” analysis here. Not everyone can do it without the usual nonsense and boring, backhanded troll ********. It shows really great character and great hockey smarts on your part. And IMO, you are...
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    OT: QB Bryce Underwood flips to Mich for 10.5M

    Bags gets it…
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    OT: QB Bryce Underwood flips to Mich for 10.5M

    Truth. But it’s (somehow?!) worse. “The Club” schools ARE the NCAA. Quite the shell game these schools pulled off - creating a boogeyman that they can simultaneously blame for all the sports/worlds ills AND provide cover for their dirty work. Very reminiscent of this quote: “The greatest...
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    OT: QB Bryce Underwood flips to Mich for 10.5M

    Yes, adding the extra zeros and the “legality” of this is new. And yes, it’s a bit shocking. And yes, the hypocrisy of the old SMU situation compared to now is eye-rolling (although I would say totally expected). But, TBH, as shocking and unsettling as it is, that stuff is noise. All noise...
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    2 targeting not called

    Exactly. That DB drops his head like that against a big back like Brown coming full speed and he’s gonna break his friggen neck. Kick him out and he probably never does it again. You don’t think EL or GS wouldn’t have traded an ejection and a lesson for a wheelchair? The focus should be on...
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    That was an incredible road experience!

    LOL - looks like P Diddy was in the hizzouse!
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    Can someone explain?

    Bottom line, the existing rule is very poorly written. I could be wrong, but I believe that the rule also states that the defense must “react promptly” with its changes. A lot of calls on the field are rightly judgment calls. This shouldn’t be one of them.
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    OT: EURO 2024 Thread

    Second game in row with last minute Hrvatski heartbreak. A long ways away from when we were in country for our yearly family reunion/vaca and saw their miracle trip to the WC finals a few years ago. My younger son has 2 or 3 Modrić kits. His favorite player. He has a lot in common with him -...