Jake

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 12, 2013 -> 09:56 PM) Yaawn

Free hockey!

WOOOOO WE'RE NOT DONE BOYS

This is an excellent hockey game.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jun 12, 2013 -> 09:09 PM) Rask double vowels, you shall be the death of me. Tuuuuuka Rask

We outplayed them by way too much to only get one goal.

Brutal PP for the whole team and especially Duncan Keith.

Bad goal. Defense screwed the pooch and Crawford didn't make a doable save.

tbh, we really haven't even tested Raask yet We had a nice barrage of shots early, but everything was right at him, looking for rebounds, etc. Saad had the best chance but he held the puck too long.

We just got dominated at the end of the period. Not good.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 12, 2013 -> 02:27 PM) Big Buff is a great example of what Bickell will be in a couple of years. A big regret to the team that gives him way too much money based on a small sample at the right time. Yep, totally agree. The way teams like the Blackhawks can sustain excellence is by replacing guys like Bickell cheaply instead of getting in salary hell over their SC nostalgia

Some great value on very projectable guys in this draft. Even if they all flame out, at least we went with a much higher reward strategy than we've ever really applied in the past. We want to draft stars, not just serviceable players.

Yeah, shopping for headphones is tough. I know Beats are overrated and there is some big markup based on name. Nonetheless, these are by far the best in-package headphones I've ever received. They kill the Apple ones I often suffered through when I didn't feel like spending money on headphones. These are good enough that I'm actually choosing to wear them around the house to enjoy my Google Play Music All Access.

I'm feeling for the Royals fans. It really looked like the rebuilding process was nearly over and it looked like it had pretty much worked, but a lot of those promising players have just not turned out. There is still season left to turn things around and I think their real arrival time was meant to be next season, but they are on the verge of failed rebuild, which is just a nightmare scenario as a fan.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jun 12, 2013 -> 03:03 PM) My AT&T phone has an app that I think does exactly what you want. It's an AT&T app. I'll experiment with it later and let you know. Anyway, these headphones that came with my HTC One sound great. Maybe I'm crazy. Apparently there is some speculation that they are unbranded Beats or at the least borrowed from Beats manufacturing expertise, as HTC is the largest stakeholder in Beats. Some folks are fairly adamant that this or that headphone sounds better, but I'm incredibly pleased with how these sound for free.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jun 12, 2013 -> 11:01 AM) No. My phone is paired with my car's system. I can't do texting through it. I really flat out just want to have a button that turns off all texting while i drive. Like a driving function. Basically force myself to not know its coming. Ideally it would text me. Usually when I'm on my phone while driving its a conference call for work that I zone in and out of anyway but I hate seeing texts and having to debate whether i should look. That is what scares me and I want to just have a function that is a car function that just shuts that s*** down. My AT&T phone has an app that I think does exactly what you want. It's an AT&T app. I'll experiment with it later and let you know. Anyway, these headphones that came with my HTC One sound great. Maybe I'm crazy.

A game in which you could say that Adam Dunn had a good game with a straight face can't be the worst game ever.

I live about 100 yards from a river and our 80 year old house has never had flooding issues. A little luck with elevation, etc. and the house was built by the town's top contractor when it was built. Concrete basement, good gutters, etc. Hope our luck continues.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Jun 12, 2013 -> 01:03 PM) Why does this player need to be related to someone in the front office or coaching staff? Because it is inherent in their drafting that they are not a real prospect and a favor is being done to them. The Chase Blackwoods of the world (he was also jerked around like this) deserve a real shot when you have a Nick Parent to jerk around instead.

You would think meathead fans would overvalue Kane, not undervalue him. Bickell might have found something in these playoffs, but I'm not about to sell my first-born son to keep him in the fold. He's going to get paid way more than he's worth.

Yeah, at least Tim might be at a game with more attendance.

The best part of a potential Heat Finals loss, beyond my own personal satisfaction, is it should definitively put to rest the GOAT talk. We'll have to wait for the next phenom.

On paper, this looks like a very good draft. Got some top-end talent and more of it than our budget was designed to allow for. Good stuff.

I don't care if Nick Parent gets drafted in the 38th round. It costs us no money and we have to fill out those rookie rosters anyway. One of the positives of having Oney around way back when was they could move him up and down when there were injuries and/or sit him on the bench at whatever level needed an extra body without caring, since he wasn't a real prospect. So imagine that, but the kid isn't a dickhead.

I don't normally keep up with new releases of big bands, etc. but I had a good feeling about this Daft Punk album. I don't know how it is being received by most, but I absolutely adore it. Can't quit listening.