Stumpy

I'm not a baseball fan. But, if an MLB team moves to the Carolinas, it needs to be in Durham and named the Bulls. Instantly recognizable with both historical and pop culture reverence. They would instantly be #1 in merch sales.

No worries dude! Good find Hopefully the deal gets done soon!

3 years/$5.4m ($1.8m per) "If the deal gets finalized at the terms that Friedman reported, it’s definitely a below-market price tag as veteran head coaches have been able to command twice that much or more in recent years. While Brind’Amour – who has led Carolina to a 120-64-20 record – doesn’t have quite the track record that coaches like Mike Babcock, Alain Vigneault Claude Julien, Barry Trotz, Todd McLellan, and Peter Laviolette all had at the time of their hires (where they received at least $4MM), it stands to reason that he could have commanded considerably more had he hit the open market" To me, this tracks with earlier reports about the hold up being Rod wanting the assistants and trainers taken care of first. With his name and track record, RBA could easily pull $5m/yr if his agent is worth their salt. But, he knows the value of the organization behind him. And he is willing to take a pay cut if it means others get a raise.

Despite all our offensive firepower, we are still a D first team. Probably always will be under RBA. With that, we also rely heavily on our special teams. I don't think its a coincidence that or PP fell off at the end of the season as well. I hope that is a focus in practice this next week.

Does holy water prevent aging now?

And ESPN will get 4 months of stories, a reality web series and probably a 30 for 30 to milk out of it. Definitely an ESPY! So glad sports media has fractured and diversified to the point they are almost irrelevant.

All those guys were at their peak athletic potential, not washed up 30 somethings. And do we really need to compare the athleticism required for basketball vs baseball? And Whitehead might've been signed for mentorship, but at least he had played the position before. Not only that, the defense looked like they had bought in to the culture a whole lot more once the crony lost his job.

And him signing this contract, 7 years out of football, learning an entirely new position at 34 years old, only proves the point. Football Jesus. If someone applied for a job with you, and since graduating college, his resume looks like this... - Fired 4x in 4yrs in chosen career. - Career change #1, gifted executive level job with no experience, earned no achievements or awards, contract not renewed. - Career change #2, gifted executive internship with almost no experience, never even left the mail room. ... are you hiring him to try another field he has no experience in over people who have been training in this field for a decade?

FTFY I think only the most cynical actually hate The Golden Calf of Bristol himself. For all the other "haters," it's the narrative, not the man. He comes across a little pretentious about his faith. But, I've never heard a negative sorry about the man. And, you can be sure if he had skeletons in his closet, someone would've dug them up by now. He seems, by all accounts, to be a genuinely good person. That said, when there were years long storylines debating if he was a better QB than Cam, you can't blame people for being annoyed by the fact that it was a question at all.

Baseball Is For Fatties, and Always Has Been

Yay, our 1st round draft pick is choosing the number a rapist used to wear before he changed it for a clean slate after the whole rape thing!

IMO the Vezina has to come down to Fluery, Vas and Ned. Special mention for Grubhub.

Lmao... Adam Gold just said on postgame that Juuse Saros will win the Vezina this year. The only major stat that he is near the top of the league in is save%. He is tied for 5th. Out of those five, he is last in GAA and has the second worst point% in his starts.

Rod just said that they haven't had a "real practice in a month." It was obvious tonight. I'd be willing to bet their will be a frozen layer of sweat an inch deep on the ice after practice tomorrow.

It's definitely not ideal. And, leaves an ugly taste behind on an otherwise amazing season. Whether Rod planned to try to stay as healthy as possible or not, you can bet he's not happy with the effort these past 2 games. If you are in the game, play like it.

Annd.... Mrazek gives up another as I typed that.

Just shows how little negativity there has been on this board all season. It's been really cool having a little cove of the internet without all the typical pettiness. I've thought about making a thread on the main board to celebrate the Canes' historic season, but stopped myself each time. I didn't want to ruin our paradise.

I'm not testy at all man. That's why I offered a friendly bet. I get why you want to see more fire out of the guys, I do too. I'm just not worried about it, yet. Now, Mraz is starting to worry me a bit. He might not have the best defense in front of him right now, but we all know how streaky he can be.

It's not even just the taxi squad guys. We've had to play without star players all season long. They still couldn't beat us.

Momentum is a real thing in sports. It can make a difference if teams are on the same level, talent and coaching wise. Not the case here. I'm not gonna worry about Nashville until they win a game that matters. They did not beat us once this season until we had nothing left to play for.

Care to wager your profile pic?

... allowed two goals already.

My kinfolk finally getting in an NHL game!

Who do you think heads the agency? Madden was a special attache from the department's creation, before being appointed full time Nickname Czar by Obama after he retired from the broadcast booth.

Wrong. It's Focaccia now. I was actually appointed Under Secretary of Nicknames. I report directly to the head of the United States Nickname Bureau. The USNB was established as a division of the USPS as a part of The Patriot Act. Per USNB guidelines... "While no US Persons shall be allowed to amend one's own nickname, amendments are allowed under certain circumstances." "2.B.iii. In circumstances where nicknames are based off of weight, they may be amended for accuracy no more than twice in a 10 year period. 2.B.iii.a Reverse nicknames based off of weight are exempt from amendment clause 2.B.iii and can never be changed." Deonte "Focaccia" Brown has now been registered with the USNB.