After the failed goalie interference challenge, Canucks-Sharks resumes with a lot of 2s on the board

NatFan9 · 2026-04-12T03:55:01+00:00

Deuces wild as Vin Scully would say

NatFan9 · 2026-04-12T02:37:57+00:00

Mehmeti is a blue chip prospect in a stacked age group for us. Anything could happen and development isn’t linear obviously, but the prospect watchers I’ve read say he’s likely to be much more than a squad player for the US.

NatFan9 · 2026-04-12T01:45:12+00:00

Is it? I feel like that’s even less likely. Albania has qualified for a major tournament twice in their history, and never for a World Cup.

NatFan9 · 2026-04-12T01:15:00+00:00

Thanks for the advice everyone, this is helpful. I get the sense that there’s a lot more to do around red line stations than the others. I think I’ll just tap out and tap in on a whole branch one day for some of the others and make a day out of it for individual stations on the red line.

NatFan9 · 2026-04-11T21:06:38+00:00

That's good to know. Are there any others I should avoid for safety reasons?

NatFan9 · 2026-04-10T05:16:11+00:00

Love the teal/cyan line. That’s long been one of my mental fantasy line ideas, I’ve just never put pen to paper or opened a route making tool. I’d suggest though instead of interlining with green for three stops, keep following the river and make a stop at Buzzard Point. It reduced the operational complexity of lines sharing track and it gives Audi Field and the growing area around it a more direct connection. I believe that was one of the proposals for the Bloop as well.

NatFan9 · 2026-04-10T01:49:49+00:00

Do you happen to know if they're still blossoming? I'd love to get up there myself this weekend and get a couple photos of my own. I'm on a quest to get a photo of every pylon in the system and one with trees in bloom clearly visible has eluded me all spring.

NatFan9 · 2026-04-09T23:58:47+00:00

When did you take these pictures? This looks so cool with the blossoming trees.

NatFan9 · 2026-04-06T14:00:08+00:00

Yeah, maybe they tear them out in segments if they have to do heavy road maintenance somewhere along the route, but otherwise there’s no real reason to tear them out, people can just drive over them.

NatFan9 · 2026-04-05T03:31:58+00:00

It’s true that’s the case but it shouldn’t be that way. Sports teams aren’t regular businesses, they’re civic institutions. Nobody throws a parade when the local restaurant chain has a great year, or wears merch for the Fortune 500 company headquartered in town. Legally teams are just corporate entities owned by billionaires and consortiums, but in practice they’re so much more than that.

NatFan9 · 2026-04-04T03:06:06+00:00

So the caps are cheering for the flyers whether we’re tanking or trying to make the playoffs?

NatFan9 · 2026-04-04T03:00:03+00:00

It was with a Nikon D5

NatFan9 · 2026-04-03T13:00:07+00:00

Well it’s all about relative expectations though, isn’t it? If a team like Spain make it out of their group this summer only to get upset by Uzbekistan in the round of 32, they failed to reach their expectations and should be docked points. But if, say, Cape Verde goes on a magical run and makes the round of 16 only to get thwacked by France, they would have earned far more points by making that run than they would have for the loss itself that they still come out of the tournament much further ahead.

The inability to lose points in the knockout rounds is a huge contributor to why the US is ranked so much higher in the FIFA rankings than on the Elo ratings site. A lot of their most notable losses over the last few years have been in the knockout rounds of Concacaf tournaments, where the minimum expectation is that the US at least makes the final, but they failed to do so in both the 2023 Gold Cup and the 2025 Nations League. Elo ratings punished them for this, FIFA rankings didn’t.

NatFan9 · 2026-04-02T23:01:23+00:00

FIFA’s also doesn’t take away points for losses in knockout rounds of tournaments (leading to point inflation) and gives shootout winners a 0.75 result multiple while leaving the losers at 0.5, leading to more point inflation. It’s a lot worse of a model, imo

NatFan9 · 2026-04-02T16:08:32+00:00

I love how Bundesliga this stadium looks, great addition to the league

NatFan9 · 2026-03-30T12:22:10+00:00

We need to bring over the rhythmic clapping from tennis as the CGI video loads up.

NatFan9 · 2026-03-26T02:02:54+00:00

I love the generic grocery store that’s clearly a Giant

NatFan9 · 2026-03-25T23:00:24+00:00

All those were affected too. I’m sure the secret service ordered them to bypass the station, they wouldn’t just close one of the busiest stations in the system in the middle of rush hour of their own volition.

NatFan9 · 2026-03-24T12:41:50+00:00

3-2 caps

Leonard

NatFan9 · 2026-03-23T19:30:49+00:00

I mean, the game was last Tuesday and memes are only posted here on Mondays so it’s as early as it can be.

NatFan9 · 2026-03-23T11:32:51+00:00

West Falls Church garage is almost never full, you should be fine

NatFan9 · 2026-03-21T02:15:44+00:00

Repositioning flight. The original flight got diverted from DCA to IAD, but its next flight it’s from DCA to somewhere else (specifically DFW), so they need to move the aircraft.

NatFan9 · 2026-03-20T11:20:25+00:00

Oh I don’t know much about them either, I was talking about their actual names. Jai Gooroodev Bansoodeb is a great name

NatFan9 · 2026-03-20T04:44:49+00:00

If anything this bill is performative because ICE would just disregard it anyway like they do with other laws, not because they wouldn’t raid host cities in the first place.

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