The girls are almost done with another year of school, with just a month remaining before summer vacation. As always, this is going too fast.
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Nice. Data security has suspended my userid. You're jumping the gun, guys
And I've been told that they accidentally marked us at "terminated" and I now have an unpaid day off. Not a nice way to treat future employees.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t-HisvlzBc
Wild Playoff Watch: Two More Days 'til Gameday Edition
With losses in the last two nights, Dallas, San Jose, and Colorado cannot catch the Wild. Minnesota has clinced at least the 9th best record in the conference.
The more important task of clinching at least 8th needs only one of these magic numbers run down to zero:
Winnipeg (Magic# = 7)
Calgary (Magic# = 7) - Calgary and Winnipeg play each other once more, so one of those numbers will go down
Los Angeles (Magic# = 6) - LA and Calgary play each other once more as well.
St. Louis lost again last night, tightening the gap between 2nd and 4th in the Central. All three teams have 6 games remaining.
STL - 99 pts (2 against CHI, 1 against MIN remain)
CHI - 98 pts (2 against STL, 1 against MIN remain)
MIN - 95 pts (1 against STL, 1 against CHI remain)
If Minnesota wins out and CHI/STL split their two games in regulation, the Wild take 2nd place.
The Wild's playoff odds over at the volatile sportsclubstats are now at 99.8%, with the most-likely slot being the top wild card. With Nashville coming back to earth, the Blues' goaltending issues and the Hawks minus Kane, none of those teams look as imposing as Chicago the past two seasons. None of them are going to be easy outs either.
The Kings are down to a 50/50 shot! Man, they sure are waiting to make their charge.
Assuming the Ducks take the #1 seed, the Pacific portion of the playoffs could be 75% Canadian (Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg). Which would be fun.
I don't think anyone wants the Kings to sneak in as the 8 seed.
Agreed on both. With those assumptions, is anyone taking the Ducks over the Jets in seven games? I cannot wait to see a playoff game at the Peg. On TV, of course.
With all their D-men back healthy, as well as Wheeler ramping it up, I don't think anyone's too excited about playing the Jets.
Interesting question. Who's the team in the West someone would want to draw in the first round (i.e. who is this year's Colorado?)
Is it Nashville?
Not really a clear cut answer to that, but probably Nashville...maybe StL?
St. Louis is 4-4-2 in their past 10 (though they've managed points in 6 of those games).
Neither of these teams are amazing on the road, but the Preds have been really good at home* and Winnipeg has a reputation for being a tough place to play.
*2 of their 8 L's at home are against the Wild in the past month
Pekka Rinne.
That's what scares me about Nashville.
I heard that.
At this point in the season, I can find something that scares me on every Western team still in contention.
I agree with that. If we go by score adjusted fenwick over the last 20 games, you've got LA, STL, WPG, ANA and the Wild in the top ten. NSH is at 13, and CHI is at 18, all above 50%. Only VAN and CGY are in the bottom third of the league. http://fenwick-stats.com/?s=2014-09-01&e=2015-04-30&f=0&ld=-1&l=20
I don't think there is a 2014 Colorado team in the West, assuming everyone knows Calgary is playing over its head. Anaheim is better than I thought they were. Nashville and Chicago have dropped the most if you compare the last 20 to the full season.
The girl received a letter on saturday from the mega collegiate wealth extraction testing and scholarship non-profit organization indicating that she is the recipient of a monetary scholarship. w00t! It more than covers the fees we've paid for her AP course exams, entrance exams and application fees!!!111one111!!!
Congratulations--to both of you!
It's like winning a Scratcher after having played the lottery weekly for 7 years.
I don't know what his pitch count was, but I was really hoping the Twins would let Milone go into the seventh inning today. I've said this before, but it does not seem reasonable to expect pitchers to be ready to go deep into games at the start of April if they never did it in March.
I wonder if the Twins care about their pitchers going deep into games in April. There's always a lot of off days in April, so your bullpen gets more rest. So maybe they use April as well to build them up.
I don't know, but they sure complained about it a lot last year. Maybe with a new manager, that will change.
The few broadcasts Ive tuned into this spring, the announcers have said repeatedly that Niel Allen watch the starters to pitch at least 100 pitches on their first start.
So, somewhere into the 5th inning, I guess
He was at 94 pitches when he came out. He's going to pitch in a minor league game on Sunday to stay on track for his start in the fifth game of the season. I did read that Nolasco was only going to throw about 45 pitches in his final spring start. That makes no sense to me.
At 94 pitches, it makes sense that he came out after six. Objection withdrawn.
So, based on new information, you changed your opinion? Quit flip-flopping!
This passage particularly strikes me as something we might see there, from maybe me, Leif, nibs or Ian:
Aaron raised an eyebrow, since this is fiction, with eyebrow-raising being a thing, and querily (a word I just made up) gave DoD the stink-eye.
O' Fluffy, Captain of multi-use plastic cleaning products
Your arrival is the harbinger of faster dryer cycles
A special plouffe sponge like no other, all Winter
You hang idle on the crowded man-space peg-board, waiting
With your annual Spring ride being pulled after some twine, chasing
Lint out like a rat terrier chasing rats
Through the dusty, dryer vent hose you go
FTW!!!111001110011one!! Hey Fluffy!
When I navigate to the wgom on my iPad it likes to put me in the middle of the page, not on a particular post or anything, just sort of some weird spot. Anyone know why that is?
Actually, just when I use the bookmark the browser automatically generated.
I'm listening to the Houston-Atlanta exhibition game and Samuel Deduno is pitching. So far, his Magical Zoomball is working well. I know he wasn't a great pitcher and never will be, but I miss him.
Nice. Data security has suspended my userid. You're jumping the gun, guys
And I've been told that they accidentally marked us at "terminated" and I now have an unpaid day off. Not a nice way to treat future employees.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t-HisvlzBc
Wild Playoff Watch: Two More Days 'til Gameday Edition
With losses in the last two nights, Dallas, San Jose, and Colorado cannot catch the Wild. Minnesota has clinced at least the 9th best record in the conference.
The more important task of clinching at least 8th needs only one of these magic numbers run down to zero:
Winnipeg (Magic# = 7)
Calgary (Magic# = 7) - Calgary and Winnipeg play each other once more, so one of those numbers will go down
Los Angeles (Magic# = 6) - LA and Calgary play each other once more as well.
St. Louis lost again last night, tightening the gap between 2nd and 4th in the Central. All three teams have 6 games remaining.
STL - 99 pts (2 against CHI, 1 against MIN remain)
CHI - 98 pts (2 against STL, 1 against MIN remain)
MIN - 95 pts (1 against STL, 1 against CHI remain)
If Minnesota wins out and CHI/STL split their two games in regulation, the Wild take 2nd place.
The Wild's playoff odds over at the volatile sportsclubstats are now at 99.8%, with the most-likely slot being the top wild card. With Nashville coming back to earth, the Blues' goaltending issues and the Hawks minus Kane, none of those teams look as imposing as Chicago the past two seasons. None of them are going to be easy outs either.
The Kings are down to a 50/50 shot! Man, they sure are waiting to make their charge.
Assuming the Ducks take the #1 seed, the Pacific portion of the playoffs could be 75% Canadian (Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg). Which would be fun.
I don't think anyone wants the Kings to sneak in as the 8 seed.
Agreed on both. With those assumptions, is anyone taking the Ducks over the Jets in seven games? I cannot wait to see a playoff game at the Peg. On TV, of course.
With all their D-men back healthy, as well as Wheeler ramping it up, I don't think anyone's too excited about playing the Jets.
Interesting question. Who's the team in the West someone would want to draw in the first round (i.e. who is this year's Colorado?)
Is it Nashville?
Not really a clear cut answer to that, but probably Nashville...maybe StL?
St. Louis is 4-4-2 in their past 10 (though they've managed points in 6 of those games).
Neither of these teams are amazing on the road, but the Preds have been really good at home* and Winnipeg has a reputation for being a tough place to play.
*2 of their 8 L's at home are against the Wild in the past month
Pekka Rinne.
That's what scares me about Nashville.
I heard that.
At this point in the season, I can find something that scares me on every Western team still in contention.
I agree with that. If we go by score adjusted fenwick over the last 20 games, you've got LA, STL, WPG, ANA and the Wild in the top ten. NSH is at 13, and CHI is at 18, all above 50%. Only VAN and CGY are in the bottom third of the league. http://fenwick-stats.com/?s=2014-09-01&e=2015-04-30&f=0&ld=-1&l=20
I don't think there is a 2014 Colorado team in the West, assuming everyone knows Calgary is playing over its head. Anaheim is better than I thought they were. Nashville and Chicago have dropped the most if you compare the last 20 to the full season.
The girl received a letter on saturday from the mega collegiate
wealth extractiontesting and scholarship non-profit organization indicating that she is the recipient of a monetary scholarship. w00t! It more than covers the fees we've paid for her AP course exams, entrance exams and application fees!!!111one111!!!Congratulations--to both of you!
It's like winning a Scratcher after having played the lottery weekly for 7 years.
I just ran across a youtube channel feature cool things filmed at high speed. This one is a CD shattering, captured at up to 170,000 fps, which is absolutely mind blowingly awesome.
Well, that was a fun waste of 8 minutes.
Physics is never a waste.
So cool!
I don't know what his pitch count was, but I was really hoping the Twins would let Milone go into the seventh inning today. I've said this before, but it does not seem reasonable to expect pitchers to be ready to go deep into games at the start of April if they never did it in March.
I wonder if the Twins care about their pitchers going deep into games in April. There's always a lot of off days in April, so your bullpen gets more rest. So maybe they use April as well to build them up.
I don't know, but they sure complained about it a lot last year. Maybe with a new manager, that will change.
The few broadcasts Ive tuned into this spring, the announcers have said repeatedly that Niel Allen watch the starters to pitch at least 100 pitches on their first start.
So, somewhere into the 5th inning, I guess
He was at 94 pitches when he came out. He's going to pitch in a minor league game on Sunday to stay on track for his start in the fifth game of the season. I did read that Nolasco was only going to throw about 45 pitches in his final spring start. That makes no sense to me.
At 94 pitches, it makes sense that he came out after six. Objection withdrawn.
So, based on new information, you changed your opinion? Quit flip-flopping!
Reminds me of something I'd read over at the CdL.
This passage particularly strikes me as something we might see there, from maybe me, Leif, nibs or Ian:
O' Fluffy, Captain of multi-use plastic cleaning products
Your arrival is the harbinger of faster dryer cycles
A special plouffe sponge like no other, all Winter
You hang idle on the crowded man-space peg-board, waiting
With your annual Spring ride being pulled after some twine, chasing
Lint out like a rat terrier chasing rats
Through the dusty, dryer vent hose you go
FTW!!!111001110011one!! Hey Fluffy!
When I navigate to the wgom on my iPad it likes to put me in the middle of the page, not on a particular post or anything, just sort of some weird spot. Anyone know why that is?
Actually, just when I use the bookmark the browser automatically generated.
I'm listening to the Houston-Atlanta exhibition game and Samuel Deduno is pitching. So far, his Magical Zoomball is working well. I know he wasn't a great pitcher and never will be, but I miss him.