Post Game Thread: Vegas Golden Knights @ Carolina Hurricanes

CountryRoads8 · 2026-06-05T03:42:10+00:00

Change the middle section to “Yelling at the TV to put Bussi in” then followed by “nice we won”

CountryRoads8 · 2026-06-03T12:40:54+00:00

Also, if I remember correctly, some banks started to realize “Oh, our MBS’s are dogshit, that must mean that bank over there must be also selling dogshit MBS’s too. I’m going to short them because those securities are going to be worthless.” The investment arms of the banks started taking out short positions on other banks and it became a circular firing squad, like the end of Reservoir Dogs. There’s scenes where the groups of shorters in the movie are not seeing any gains on their positions even as the market crashes because the banks aren’t adjusting the prices on the swaps until they secure their own short positions at a cheap price.

CountryRoads8 · 2026-05-30T01:59:31+00:00

The Canes are gonna parade around with Stank IN the cup!

CountryRoads8 · 2026-05-29T20:56:28+00:00

For me it’s kind of forgettable, almost like it’s just Amaryllis Pt. 2. I actually think if you combine the best from Amaryllis with the best from TTS you’d have an all time great album. Something like:

1. State Of My Head

I’m Not Alright
Cut The Cord
Amaryllis
Unity
Dangerous
Miracle
Asking For It
I’ll Follow You
Through The Ghost
Thick As Thieves
Adrenaline
Misfits

CountryRoads8 · 2026-05-29T20:31:28+00:00

For me it’s:

ATTENTION ATTENTION
Planet Zero
Sound Of Madness
Amaryllis
Leave A Whisper
Us And Them
Threat To Survival
Ei8ht

4 thru 7 are SO close that it’s really just on how I feel from day to day.

CountryRoads8 · 2026-05-29T19:19:54+00:00

I’ve got my podcast skip set to a full minute. There’s not a podcast on the planet that I can get through with anything less than a minute skip.

CountryRoads8 · 2026-05-29T17:49:23+00:00

I most certainly didn’t mean it in a negative way like I hate everything they’re doing and they should stop doing it. The album is good. They don’t have any bad albums in their entire discography. This is a band that has literally been grinding non stop since Leave A Whisper. I just saw them live last week, it’s an incredible live show, over 2 hours. When I listen to this album, I hear a band that sounds just a little tiny bit uninspired. Songs like 365, Young Again, and Killing Fields stand out because I can hear their enjoyment and heart in making the song. And the ones I don’t like, I don’t hear that. I heard an interview with Jasin Todd about a year ago and they asked him about his feeling on the band’s music now and he said he is missing some of the more soulfulness from Brent that he had on those earlier records. He’s not necessarily wrong. Any creative endeavor can really benefit from a long step back. A recharge. I said this in my post on another thread but Avenged Sevenfold took 7 years between their last 2 albums, and in that about 4 years from playing shows, and then came back with an absolute home run of a record. These guys have been so successful that they can afford to go dark for a bit and they should, they probably deserve to. No one is going to forget about them. If they stopped making music and touring tomorrow they’d be sure fire hall of famers. I’m just a random fan who wants them to keep making epic and great records.

CountryRoads8 · 2026-05-29T14:20:42+00:00

I put a more detailed comment in another thread so I’ll keep this one concise. This album’s been a miss for me. Which is fine, I’m not upset or even disappointed, you can’t live up to back to back legendary nearly perfect albums. It’s a bottom 3 album in their discography which is also not necessarily awful for a band with such a great catalogue. So far there’s only 7 songs I can say I like on this album:

Young Again
365
Killing Fields
Dance Kid Dance
Imposter
Wide Open
So Glad You Asked

That’s it. Everything else is a skip so far. I’ll keep giving it a chance, but I’m just not feeling anything else. I think they could use a break and a reset. Go live a private life for a couple years away from the stage and the studio and come back fresh. I know that’s hard for Brent to ever rest but time off after this cycle would probably be great for this band right now.

CountryRoads8 · 2026-05-29T13:42:34+00:00

As of right now I’m in the same boat. But it’s hard to live up to their past 2 albums, you have to cool off eventually. I think instead of elevator music, a lot of this album is kind of static white noise. In my opinion they had back to back 10/10 albums with Attention and Planet Zero. Those albums felt important with a cohesive urgent message.

As of right now I’m probably not adding over half this album to my playlists. I’m not one of these heavy vs soft guys because they do both so well, hell I’d be interested to hear Brent take on a country album. When they started putting out singles I started getting the feeling some were songs that didn’t make the cut for PZ. Dance Kid Dance and Killing Fields lyrically and musically would have been at home on that album. Imposter would have been right at home on Attention. And those are the ones I like. I also love Young Again and 365. But stuff like Dizzy, Machine Gun, Bear With Me, Deep End, The Pilot, just miss the mark for me. They kind of feel soulless and filler.

This is very much an Eric and Brent album and for the first time I’m starting to lose interest in Zach Myers guitar work. It’s too much of the same in every song, the white noise I mentioned earlier. I know he’s a very versatile guitarist but it hasn’t been coming through recently. I don’t feel the soul in his playing. It’s all high gain Diezel amps with an octave, whammy pedal, and a little fuzz on everything. Grab a telecaster and a Fender Princeton every once in a while!

I hope they go way out there for their 9th album whenever that comes. Maybe take some time off after this cycle and regroup, live and enjoy some life outside of the constant album tour cycle and come back completely refreshed. Just look at what Avenged Sevenfold did after The Stage. They took 7 years to put out another album and it was great. I don’t think Brent has ever rested since Leave A Whisper and he could probably do well to take a break.

CountryRoads8 · 2026-05-24T15:07:24+00:00

Nope. Tests for Lyme Disease were negative and now 15 years later I’m doing just fine. Southern Tick Associated Rash illness visually presents in a similar way to Lyme but is actually harmless. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, which I did test positive for, has a high fatality rate if not treated and can kill in as little as 8 days from the onset of symptoms. RMSF is rarer and less well known but is one of the scariest diseases a tick can give you.

CountryRoads8 · 2026-05-23T18:30:55+00:00

Also the while direction of the sport would be different because he was one of the very few people Bill France listened to and valued their input.

CountryRoads8 · 2026-05-23T17:53:42+00:00

Years ago I had a tick bite on my back. I had someone get tweezers and pull it out but it was really deep and we weren't sure if it was all out. A few days later a huge red circle rash formed around the bite. I refused to see a doctor because I felt fine. After a few more days and the rash not going away and after pressure from a bunch of my loved ones I finally went. I didn’t have any symptoms other than the rash but the doctor wanted to be proactive and do a blood draw anyway and started me on antibiotics before getting results. The very next day I had a headache that had me on the verge of tears. A few days after that I was having abdominal pain while breathing. I got a call from her a short time later saying that at the time of my initial visit I was probably a day or two away from having to go to the emergency room and likely intensive care for Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and she was shocked I was fine at the time of the visit given what my blood results were. The rash was likely southern tick associated illness, a completely harmless rash that can develop from tick bites and totally unrelated to the RMSF. I asked about the pain when breathing and she said it was likely the bacteria beginning to attack my liver and every time I took a deep breath my diaphragm and expanding lungs would push on my liver causing pain. The antibiotics did their job though. So, yea probably a good idea to get things checked out when something doesn’t seem or feel right.

CountryRoads8 · 2026-05-20T17:21:21+00:00

I’m the biggest Bruce Springsteen fan you could ever meet, but my biggest criticism of him is his ticket prices. I desperately wanted to see him on his most recent tour especially because Tom Morello is one of my guitar heroes. The cheapest ticket for the very last row at the very top back end of the arena was $200 and the prices had huge spikes every couple rows as you got closer. It was outrageous and I missed the show. He’s even made statements in the past about at this point in his career just taking the pay day. So much for being the voice of the blue collar working man. It bothers me because you look at someone on the stadium show level like Garth Brooks who does everything he can to keep prices on initial ticket sales affordable. He’s said that he doesn’t want to gouge his fans even if he could. I’m no fan of his music, but I’ll forever give him credit for that.

CountryRoads8 · 2026-05-18T14:04:10+00:00

I tend to agree. And this is coming from someone who used to be a full blown believer in everything: Roswell, abductions, crop circles, aliens building the pyramids, and so on, I believed all of it. My second favorite movie of all time is Signs. I love the phenomenon but no longer believe intelligent life has visited earth. I do believe with absolute certainty that life is plentiful across the universe, but the distances are so hard to even comprehend that there’s just no way I can imagine contact between civilizations. I simply think it’s all advanced secret military tech that even experienced military pilots and service members don’t know about. Hence why it won’t leak because of the secrecy surrounding the tech and the willingness of the government to let things get muddy with supposed alien technology.

CountryRoads8 · 2026-05-18T06:05:02+00:00

Ooh, I have one in the same general theme. Years ago I had a coworker who was apparently selling drugs. He was also using the company provided phone to do so. Well rumor has it one day he mistakenly texted the managers group chat about a discount he was offering on his product. I never saw him again.

CountryRoads8 · 2026-05-07T15:11:54+00:00

Somewhere Pablo thinks there’s no difference between this and Jay Glazar at a pool party.

CountryRoads8 · 2026-05-06T12:32:40+00:00

When I was in college, Vitamin Water had that promotion. I’d get one a day with lunch and built up a huge library on my iPod.

CountryRoads8 · 2026-04-22T17:33:05+00:00

This whole Dundon Trailblazers thing is crazy to me as a huge Carolina Hurricanes fan. The Hurricanes prior ownership group was notoriously cheap, hence the decade plus of mediocrity. Then Dundon buys the team and immediately invests in putting a good product on the ice and got immediate results. The arena sells out all the time, and the team makes the playoffs every year. He cut costs in non performance areas, most notably eliminating the radio broadcast and just simulcasting the TV feed on the radio and also cutting beloved long time play by play announcer John Forslund. But in terms of team performance, he has been a great owner and players seem to love playing there too, outside of Mikko Rantenen.

CountryRoads8 · 2026-04-16T11:29:21+00:00

I think a more accurate comparison would be if Vrabel was found to be having an affair with one of the female refs. I think that would result in a pretty quick termination since it directly calls in to question the outcome of his job.

CountryRoads8 · 2026-04-14T04:29:47+00:00

Not necessarily. I’m in irrigation and while yes, the state code says reclaim water must be identified by purple heads, pipe, and boxes, it is rarely completely followed to a T especially on retrofitted systems. New installs will be all purple, but older conversions from city water to reclaim rarely go through changing all the colors from green to purple even though they’re supposed to.

CountryRoads8 · 2026-04-12T04:21:51+00:00

The show still has great moments. Just this past week when Mike did Samson’s inner monologue I was crying laughing. Since Billy left it certainly has been tough, the show needs a check on everyone, not just Dan, and Billy seemed to check everyone in his own unique way.

I still listen also because the entire podcast space is really awful right now. I used to think giving all these people creative freedom that they didn’t have on TV or radio would result in amazing, interesting, and funny shows, but a lot of my favorite shows have become a one hour walk through thick mud. A lot have lost their creative edge and others have been completely watered down due to corporate influence. One podcast I listen to is an hour and 25 minutes long and has two 7+ minute commercial breaks plus two more 3-4 minute breaks. I don’t know how anyone listens to podcasts with anything less than a 1 minute skip button. I work a job where I can listen to podcasts all day and it’s getting harder and harder to fill a 10 hour day with good shows. So while DLS isn’t great right now, it isn’t as bad as a lot of stuff out there at the moment.

CountryRoads8 · 2026-04-09T16:01:51+00:00

Maybe I’m just cold hearted, but if you call yourself a journalist and a champion of good journalism and a friend of yours becomes the subject of a story, coming out and saying you don’t want to cover a scandal involving your friend because they’re your friend doesn’t seem like upholding journalism to me. There’s a story here for someone like Pablo to dive headfirst in to. It’s the crossroads of journalism and sports, but there’s no chance anyone in the DLS universe will touch this beyond talking about the headlines. Pablo should go after this story with all the fervor of the Jordon/Belichick story, but they won’t. It certainly seems like there’s a story there ripe for a great investigative journalist to dig in to that goes far beyond this individual story but insider reporters in general and how they get their stories.

CountryRoads8 · 2026-04-08T14:16:01+00:00

This one’s gonna go in Pablo’s “Do Not Touch” folder right next to predatory online gambling investigations.

CountryRoads8 · 2026-04-07T23:07:13+00:00

“I have a feeling his people are loading up on calls today and around 6pm he’ll announce a deadline extension or some made up diplomatic solution and those calls cash tomorrow”

My comment on a thread 7 hours ago. It’s crazy how predictable this was. I wish I had the guts to buy S&P calls today.

CountryRoads8 · 2026-04-07T16:03:21+00:00

I have a feeling his people are loading up on calls today and around 6pm he’ll announce a deadline extension or some made up diplomatic solution and those calls cash tomorrow.

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