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  1. TheLeviathan
    If a better roster will be available on April 15th....why the hell are we waiting two weeks exactly? I keep getting stuck on that argument. That makes zero sense to me. August 15th...ok, I get that. April? WTF?
  2. TheLeviathan
    Actually, that's precisely what I said and you took issue with it. And I'm not convinced Chargois ever had a spot to lose. This roster feels intentionally older and more floor-oriented than ceiling. That's the exact opposite of the approach I'd like to see a 103 loss team take.
  3. TheLeviathan
    Sort of blows your theory out of the water though....doesn't it? Sometimes, a guy can't just "take it". Apparently.
  4. TheLeviathan
    So some of you need to explain to me how if the explanation for Chargois is that he "didn't take it" (meaning his roster spot)..... Just what in the hell else did Park need to do to "take it"?
  5. TheLeviathan
    They ran a lot of previews during Legions finale (to it's quite outstanding season. Aubrey Plaza for every award known to mankind) - the OJ/Meth line cracked me up.
  6. TheLeviathan
    I don't think we'll fall to 5th or 6th, we might, but many of the Western playoff teams are sucking right now. The Sharks might actually be playing worse.
  7. TheLeviathan
    Ironically, Tonkin may be the best bet after Kintzler. And yeah, I was trying to be nice and not trigger any PTSD with a Jepsen mention....
  8. TheLeviathan
    I'm far less concerned that Tonkin is on the roster as I am that Kintzler is our closer.
  9. TheLeviathan
    I think, by my count, at least three times I have directly refuted my knowledge of that. And others have made sure to point that out as well. It appears you may have been arguing a strawman the entire time. Kinsler does have biases. So do we all. Racial among them. There is a strong chance that they influenced his comments. (Which were racist) That's the only contention anyone appears to be making. What's good is that Kinsler is a thoughtful enough human that he walked those comments back about a mile. It shows recognition and change, which is really all one can do.
  10. TheLeviathan
    Breaking down particular biases for individuals is not only fruitless, it's impossible as well. One can't even recognize their own with much clarity, much less accurately assess someone else. So if that's what you're holding out for, it is a stalemate, because you've tasked the discussion with the impossible as a requirement. It seems you want us to be the mind police. I feel like you're taking this personally and being defensive against the idea that you have biases yourself. Is that the issue here?
  11. TheLeviathan
    I'm just saying the NHL has a number of floundering teams in non-hockey markets. I dislike the entire idea of expansion in that league.
  12. TheLeviathan
    Ugh.
  13. TheLeviathan
    I feel like this requires we ponder some suggestions. Maybe switch "Awfully Versatile" around and call him "Versatile-ly Awful"?
  14. TheLeviathan
    Well played.
  15. TheLeviathan
    Logan and Legion are really, really good. And Guardians of the Galaxy is soon to arrive, if nothing else that movie will be fun as hell.
  16. TheLeviathan
    Most of the 6,000 people at a Hawks v Coyotes game are Hawks fans. But they don't bring "large" attendances. Larger than usual perhaps, but not enough for a stable market. And there is a big difference between selling out a baseball stadium or football stadium versus hockey. You should look up attendance for the Coyotes. It ain't pretty.
  17. TheLeviathan
    "Particular" - no. Everybody holds some negative biases. Many of which we share to varying degrees. But I don't want to go down "particular" with you, that seems to be a major stumbling block in the conversation. But negative biases? We all have them. You included. Me included.
  18. TheLeviathan
    "Everyone has their own biases" isn't it. Everyone has biases. Many of them are shared and common.
  19. TheLeviathan
    Yup, my opinion was formed in some really tough situations. We're talking juvenile detention center, Hamilton St. Chicago Illinois tough. It blew this farm kid from Minnesota's mind. I had many, many talks with young black men in those times. I've been told "I can't understand" so many times and they were right. And I realized that. We can still find ways to connect, share common experiences, and overcome those differences. But part of that was learning to understand myself and the situations they lived in every day. I think they took some things away from me and my experiences as well. I still, to this day, have connections with dozens of those kids. They've done as much or more for me as I ever did for them. So, yeah, I don't need to roleplay it. I've been in the thick of it.
  20. TheLeviathan
    It's a good point, we'll see. Hockey is a little bit of a niche sport outside of a few markets. And our 51st state to the north of course.
  21. TheLeviathan
    I assign him biases because he's human. It comes with the condition. I am not assigning him to be a racist, what I am asserting is that his statement was racist because of how it was framed. And within the larger context of how baseball players talk about Latin celebrations. Look, I think you can and should decry practices in other cultures. It's been necessary for us to get as far as we have as a species and is very much necessary today. But approaching a subject like that threatens to step over into racism if you're not careful about the how and the why. Kinsler's comments weren't very careful.
  22. TheLeviathan
    Well, herein seems to lie the problem. Repeatedly, by everyone I can recall in this thread, there has been a distinction you refuse to acknowledge: no one is presuming what Kinsler truly believes. We are making an assessment of his statement. And we're doing so in the larger context in which prejudices, biases, and all sorts of things impact us all to try and explain why he might have said what he did. The only thing I'm "literally saying" is that what Kinsler said has significant racial overtones far too common in baseball these days.
  23. TheLeviathan
    I'm not sure I care which one of them it is. Just so long as we keep home ice.
  24. TheLeviathan
    His behavior is pretty alarming to me as well. It indicates some real shady stuff is happening behind the scenes.
  25. TheLeviathan
    Phoenix, the 6th largest metro area in the country, once said much the same thing. Now, they screwed up where they put their rink, but still. Non-hockey markets typically struggle and Vegas isn't a natural hockey market. I would guess a good first 5 years, then things get dicey.
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