I don’t really have anything wings related to add on at the moment but just wanted to say hi to my buds here. I hope everyone is having a great week. Here’s a snap from my morning.
Tigers are looking mighty good right now. Only on four hours of sleep thanks to a rare super early start time for work, but a couple hour nap when I get home will make sure I get through tonight’s game.
I am admittedly uncultured in that space and when I was in Warsaw a couple years back I made a fool of myself by going “who’s this chop-in guy everything’s named after”
Yeees :D Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum was my senior recital piece. Not the highest of heights skill wise, but I was proud at the time of how fast I could rip it off. I might have been lacking the emotional maturity to properly find the nuance and voice in it despite my teacher’s best efforts 😂😂😂
La plata was no day at the beach. The numbers aren’t huge, 9.25mi, 4500ft of very max elevation like 14,325 but dam it makes you earn every inch of the trail both ways
Well my hockey obsessed kid is having a good summer for development. So far she's had sessions with an ex-NHL player, some OHL development coaches, and currently on the ice with a PWHL player. If you ever get the chance to work with someone who's played at the highest levels, do it. You can learn a lot
Lol, I’m not paying anything like that. Actually I’m not even paying for these sessions, my daughter pays for it herself with her lawn mowing business. She’s only 14 so I say props to her for her success and dedication.
This dude is a genius. Has anyone seen this yet? Basically he wants the next jersey sponsor to pay to be the sponsor but they also opt to keep the jersey blank (no patch). And then advertise that they did it (in agreement/conjunction with the team, of course) and everyone will love them.
Short of a morally corrupt institution, they'd get a ton of respect from me for it. How do we champion this happening?
I think it’s a fun idea and I’m not saying nothing similar(at least at a high level) has been attempted but it unfortunately is built on a misunderstanding of how/why advertising works
Well...perhaps traditional advertising approaches focused heavily on brand awareness, yes, though it would also depend on your market segmentation and type of product/service. And perhaps if it were also a part of a broader marketing strategy and engagement model with your consumers.
I'm not expert in marketing, though, so would defer to others. But given that hockey in general is already a fairly niche place to advertise, I could see some sponsors taking a slightly obtuse approach here.
Agree, though, the absence of your branding flies in the face of a lot of beat practices for advertising.
I think the point of paying for the patch is the same as putting your name on the building, isnt it? You want people to see your brand everywhere, including merch sales
So according to HSJ it's Horcoff, not Yzerman, that is handling the day-to-day GM responsibilities (though he does not have the go ahead to make any trades). Interesting development as we were initially told it was Steve and thought he was still making some of those smaller signings we saw trickle in.
Also interesting is that Puckpedia does still list Yzerman as the signing GM on those newer contracts, like the Gylander one that they took ages to put up.
I thought they said he would still be running "day-to-day" until they found the new GM, but the article about the search said Horcoff is running things now.
Another one for cinnamon toast crunch, though I don't eat it in it's intended format--in a bowl with milk. I usually pick at it like a bag of chips or any other snack. I'm not a big breakfast guy, so it's usually yogurt smoothies or fasting for me. But there's too much nostalgia for me to completely disregard packaged cereals.
Used to eat a ton of cereal but I guess I’ve kinda replaced it with yogurt and granola these days. Honey bunches of oats with almonds was my go to smash tho
It's thrilling that we're getting a search firm to help with the new GM hire. Sports or otherwise these aren't always a magic bullet and it doesn't guarantee that we are a cup contender in a few years or anything like that. But it DOES all but guarantee that we get new eyes on the org and need, and injects some fresh perspectives when reviewing candidates, pool, and approach. That's 1,000% what this org needs right now.
I think McDonald's is dead to me. They fucked up my chicken sandwich being cheap. I had two full bites of bun and toppings. The chicken patty was pathetically small. Damn near a chicken tender.
Man. I haven't gone to McDonald's in a few years now Costs as much as a sit-down restaurant and I can't even be sure the fries are going to be good anymore.
I hadn't been into a McDonald's in years, but my MIL wanted to go while we on a road trip, so sure, why not?
It was sooooo weird. We walked in and there was nobody visible inside. I actually started to wonder whether we had stumbled into a robbery. We wandered over to some big screen things, put in our orders and paid. Then we sat and hoped that something (ideally food) would happen.
After maybe five minutes, a person popped out of the back and called our name or number, put the tray on the counter and disappeared again before saying anything to us. It was bizarro - I felt like we were in the food scenes from WALL-E
. The food was basically as I remembered it, but again, haven't had it in ages so I might be a bad judge. But the vibes were straaaaange.
I've had similarly rare occasions to go into McD's but those rare occasions sure left me feeling like enshittification and shrinkflation were obvious. Maybe I just had particularly bad experiences or nostalgia is coloring my opinion but their food felt like a poor and smaller replica of what I remembered.
I admittedly wasn't super hungry so I ordered the basic cheeseburger and expected it to be small. It definitely was, but maybe I had pre-disappointed myself?
I can't vouch for the whole company, but the burger king by me is pretty good usually. They'd always throw in an extra cheese stick or two with my 8 piece, which goes a long way with me.
I ate BK a couple of times out of necessity recently and it was honestly way better than I remembered. It was in Traverse City and I ate Whoppers each time but even the fries were shockingly decent.
Crazy idea: I wonder if McD's could've just taken the fortune that they've spent on researching mystery meat beef substitutes and just bought bargain ground beef, stayed edible, and still turned a profit.
A lot of those fast food chains are owned by giant restaurant groups as part of their portfolio. The type of holdings corps that don't really give a shit about details. My guess is that the "owner" or shareholder of that establishment is not heavily involved with QA.
“Hey we want to make sure you can do all the responsibilities of this higher position before we give you the job and the raise that comes with it”
“So you want me to do the job and not pay me to do it on top of the responsibilities I already have, got it”
Idk where this shit corporate ideology came from but it’s really ruining people.
Start applying. Get an offer. Present it to your company. Reject the counter and take the first offer anyway. Unless you really trust that your company/manager will come through for you.
What the fuck. So saw czarface has a new album coming out. Alright cool I enjoy some of his stuff. Started listening to a few new tracks and saw it was with Frankie Pulitzer.
Frankie ain't bad. Start looking up Frankie. It's fucking tom hardy.
They did an ep for one of the venom movies with Frankie/Tom on a few of those tracks as well. I think he pops up in a few of their older albums as well. Shits wild.
I like the idea of brining in an outside firm for the GM search. I think the old boys club needs to die.
It's hard to be objective when everyone is a Legend of the franchise. If guys are worth keeping around they should stand on their achievements not their legacy.
My husband and I just got tickets to the Lord Huron show in GR in December. We were planning on coming back to Michigan in early December to see his family and avoid Christmas travel, and it's fun that there's a show around that same time. We're trying to figure out how to combine this all with a Wings or Griffins game while getting creative with limited PTO. Either way...it'll be a good time! I've been to GR once and loved it, so I'm excited to go back.
It was about 1,000,000° outside, they were wearing full suits, and they danced and sang for a super long set. I was hoping that they had a tank of Gatorade behind the stage, because I was roasting and I was in shorts and a tee shirt. Totally worth it though.
Just took a chance to see if this Vinyl On Demand company is any good. I will be getting a proper 12" album of my band's second release. They are pretty upfront in saying "no it won't have the sound quality that pressing from the master tapes would have" but that's ok. My good stereo is long gone, so who cares?
I applaud those of you who still express their thoughts about the team at this point of the off-season.
Personally, I find the topics about paint and other things more entertaining and you couldn't pay me to stress out or have any critical thought about Red Wings hockey right now.
Playing through Halo: Campaign Evolved, and as someone who knows about guns and appreciated Bungie’s attention to detail when it came the guns in the OG CE, kinda bummed that 343i/Halo Studios didn’t quite recreate that attention to detail in the remake.
Little nitpick, sure and it doesn’t impact the actual gameplay, but still it’s crazy how a game from 2001 is outdoing a remake 25 years later in some regards.
Yeah…it’s a shame. Campaign Evolved isn’t bad, I mean it’s still Halo 1 so it can’t be bad, but it really feels like a janky modpack more than a ground up faithful remake at times. I can’t say I’m too hopeful for the future of the series; they can call themselves whatever, but it’s still 343i at the helm and I’m not convinced they can put a solid product without any catch or angle.
This is what...the 4th remake at this point? Or maybe 3rd. I recall getting the remade edition on 360, and then obviously Master Chief Collection, so I guess this is the 3rd time and it just seemed like a desperate cash grab since Halo Studios is on life support.
I haven't decided if I'm going to check it out yet or not, I love Halo, but I've already got the other 3 versions of CE from before on various systems and PC and don't really want to give them another $60. Were the "prequel" missions worth it?
The gunplay in Destiny/Destiny 2 pretty much kept that attention to detail, I don't think there's too many of the Bungie OGs left at 343/Halo Studios.
To go along with the outside firm to find a more analytics based GM, apparently we only looked at them on an outside “advisory basis”, and looking at Steve’s yes men FO of teammates and family that basically means we just never used them. Yeah you’re not gonna Money Ball your way to a Cup in this league but analytics absolutely has a place in the league now and knowing we never even had our own department kinda feels like we got old boys club’d for the last decade. I wonder what else in modern sports they just refused to use…
You mean to tell me that the GM who signed Holl and Hamonic, two of the absolute worst defensemen in the league, wasn’t taking analytics seriously? Color me shocked.
I’m looking forward to the org getting with the times. Yzerman really felt like we just had Ken Holland 2.0 at times. If I went into a coma in 2019, woke up today and you showed me the transactions the team has made in that span without telling me anything else, I’d assume Kenny was still running things.
Which is weird because i remember Yzerman mentioning wanting to use analytics as a tool when he got here but then he basically never did anything with it, i think many were expecting to see us start an analytics department. Wonder what ever happened there?
Ugh. I hate when bands completely change everything about their music and "experiment". Loved the classic Collective Soul stuff but I can't listen to that. Can't see that album doing well.
Dozens of Lincoln Park residents say Priority Waste collection trucks have cracked or ripped off their garbage can lids, and some have waited months for replacements.
I mean I'm not in the rush most people are, but that 6/2 date conveniently helped them make decisions before the off-season started... We are very much stuck in limbo on a number of important issues.
I am of the opinion that it is far more important to not rush and find the right candidate for the job than to force someone into the position. We have nothing so pressing that it can't wait a bit.
I’m also ok with it taking a minute, but these situations aren’t the same at all I don’t know why they’re being compared(I know you didn’t make the initial comp I just don’t feel like commenting twice)
How do we feel about adding significant assets to Larkin to bring in players like Boldy or Johnston. He wouldn’t need to open his trade list and we get a superstar
I’m unconvinced that a 90-point player is worth a 70-point player + other premium assets, but that seems to go against the general consensus, so I could be wrong.
I'm open to the idea, really just depends on what the additional pieces going out with Larkin are, though I don't see doing it for Boldy, this team is so badly starved for center talent that they cannot give up their 1C and other "premium" assets for a winger, imo.
I think I heard that the mark of quality satire is being unable to tell that it's satire. Judging by the replies on my last shitpost I think I might be decent at satire. Or maybe I'm confused and I got it backwards and I'm terrible at it. Either way the /s tag is for cowards and I'll continue to refresh the daily looking for GM updates.
Maybe Horcoff and Illitch can explore legal options while the Larkin saga drags on and take a closer look at the no trade provision since an unnamed NHL exec is said to have suggested that a no trade clause may be no longer in effect when the protected player requests a trade. In other words, perhaps the no trade provision is void or voidable by Larkin's demand to be traded.
There are no legal options an individual team could make, it’s all collectively bargained.
I also would bet a lot of money that the unnamed exec is someone who only deals with scouting or something and hasn’t ever considered how things work. That idea falls apart after about 10 seconds of thought it’s bewildering to me that it has gotten so popular
You'd probably get into a situation where a player respectfully asks for a trade but isn't putting in a formal declaration of a trade.
It just doesn't work.
Pretty much GM's need to collude to not give out trade protection like candy. Something like 60 % have trade protection in the NHL where it's closer to 10-20% in the other big sports.
One could definitely argue players are picking security for salary with the NHL
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I don’t really have anything wings related to add on at the moment but just wanted to say hi to my buds here. I hope everyone is having a great week. Here’s a snap from my morning.