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Yeah that's weird and joyless and negative. The argument that he hopes to be an Olympian could have been made without any of the shots at the WBC.

Yup. As silly as that process was, it's the right thing now.

(Also, some of the stuff that was sold off was remembered fondly but it was built in a rush in the 1940s, and was pretty lousy housing by modern standards)

The Ottawa-Nashville thing was also highly seasonal; Ottawa lost its best players after winning the Cup, and they're otherwise in off-season mode. But yes on the Concacaf league

We shouldn't be basing higher ed decisions solely on numbers like these because higher ed isn't a business, but we *definitely* shouldn't let people use 'run higher ed like a business' as a pitch and then bury the numbers that show they're killing profitable programs.

Yeah, there's nothing in these guys training that would help them stand up and decide not to be used. They have no experience of controlling the guest list to their dressing room. If sponsors or their owner's friends want access to them, they *always* get it.

It'd be cool if that got to the point that they were able to do that.

I wish they had and wish they would.

But I figure if any of them bow out of SOTU, it'll because their agents or PR handlers told them to, not because they understand the politics of it and are making their choice.

There's nothing in these guys training that would help them stand up and decide not to be used. They have no experience of controlling the guest list to their dressing room. If sponsors or their owner's friends want access to them, they *always* get it. 1/2

Yes, letting housing go was foolish, and really it should be investigated if there was crony corruption there. It might just have been shortsighted, of course.

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with Nazgul worked in somehow

well, sorta

Fairly sure that Kirsty Coventry is not going to say anything in this speech. She's popping it because she's scared she can't stick the landing.

Also I miss Adrienne Arsenault. Petrillo and Bucsis indulge themselves in lowbrow insults too often. The 50km skiers didn't sign up "just so they could get their medals here" and there was more to winning that event than "wanting it"

Damnit CBC your split screen ads during the Olympic Opening and Closing ceremonies (followed by full screen ads) is disruptive, disrespectful, and annoying af.

yup

Yeah Opening seemed very deliberately legible and easy to understand. This seems, um,. . . . not like that

And, surprise, guess which tier Italy is in!

CBC Olympics posted this and this needs a review by the Olympics committee - 8 Czechia players were on the ice during their 3rd goal!!! WTF 🤬

CAN VS CZE

You might note, though, that less than a third (about 28%) of NHL players are US citizens, so it's probably about 12% of NHLers that are registered as Republicans.

I somewhat get missing an extra player on a rush... but missing eight players on the ice in an Olympic quarterfinal is a feat I couldn't have even imagined.

Thank goodness this wasn't a deciding goal.

Yeah somebody comes off the bench during the rush. Those refs shouldn't ref again in this tournament

AI's hallmark is is beige vagueness, stuff with any style is noticeably different (If your prof is reading rather than running though a detector program). I've always liked quirkiness and personality anyhow, but they're the opposite of LLM slop

Harry Watson would like a word.

Yeah, I know what it's made of and I like it alright. I'm just tired of the melodrama of Southerners saying "you don't know what grits are?" (probably with like 5 more exclamation points).

There's a lot of foods that are comfort foods for some people and that's cool, but they aren't mine.

pretending that grits is something very very special and not just porridge also comes to mind.

I'm guessing Marlins wanted Joey because he's cheaper, and Jays skipped the upside of the development gamble for an established MLB player. I would have preferred finding out Loperfido's ceiling, but I guess that was the deal.

update: the CAS did not, in fact, bail her out.

This is unfortunate. A bad start for Kirsty Coventry, who will have to wear this for a long time, along with her tearful "I wasn't speaking as the IOC president" statement.

It's a left-hitting OF for a left-hitting OF, so now they have a left OF.

yeah I don't like this, feels like Gabe Moreno all over again that they just don't value good prospects. Felt like Loperfido had a higher ceiling