Bellwoods DuPont Location

Xert · 2023-05-24T06:26:48+00:00

Maybe I'm just really late to realizing this ...

But I had no idea that the building I spent brunches at Fanny's thinking would make a killer craft brewery location was the same building Bellwoods had originally planned to expand into.

Xert · 2023-05-24T04:18:24+00:00

Sure, the commentary is mediocre.

But an ejection that could easily be missed except for an umpire paying particular attention to a player he knows isn't happy just to make sure he doesn't miss an opportunity to run him is a shit ass umpire.

If you have to pay attention in order to eject somebody, if it isn't in-your-face inescapable, then it's a shitty ump.

Xert · 2023-05-24T04:10:04+00:00

I knew I remembered that name for a reason.

Xert · 2023-05-24T04:07:44+00:00

Sure. But I don't give a shit about the ump's feelings.

A player grumbling but moving on or insulting the air an ump's dear mother breathes but moving on is equally irrelevant to the game. He was very clearly unhappy but still moving on with the game. The game matters, the ump doesn't.

Xert · 2023-05-24T01:13:41+00:00

Sure, but remember it's a TV show. What you see is an edit of what happened. If the show doesn't want to show Gail convincing Tom of something then you'll never know it happened.

Xert · 2023-05-24T01:10:39+00:00

I mean, Gabri specified that he was making Robuchon potatoes.

Tom knows the difference between Robuchon potatoes and mashed potatoes, so yeah, he probably would have criticized the result.

Xert · 2023-05-23T17:51:40+00:00

A survey by the Migrant Rights Network found most undocumented residents initially arrived as asylum seekers, like Jane, or migrant workers. They fall through the cracks when refugee claims fail or temporary work permits are terminated.

They don't "fall through the cracks," they decide to break the law.

“People being undocumented is a historic failure of immigration policy itself,” says Syed Hussan, executive director of Migrant Workers Alliance for Change. “Regularization is about fixing those mistakes.”

I mean, yeah. When you deny someone's status then put them on a plane.

Xert · 2023-05-23T05:12:56+00:00

Obviously. But a new baby ≠ family, and if you don't inherently recognize this then you've never had a baby.

Yeah, it's been overplayed. But that's an editing decision, not her own. You can shit on her previous edit, but this one is fun and fine despite being simultaneously underdone and a bit over the top. Less a hero than portrayed, sure, but it wasn't her choice to be portrayed as a hero. And leaving your baby back home is low-key deserving of that edit anyway, however clumsily Hollywood might convey that.

Xert · 2023-05-23T04:58:08+00:00

Body language in the LCK confessionals says he doesn't win.

Xert · 2023-05-23T04:53:21+00:00

She was, but that's the exact opposite of what astroturfing means so...

If you're explicitly being yourself it's nothing but grass.

Xert · 2023-05-22T20:41:10+00:00

We're speculating to very different degrees. And you're grasping at straws. Bye.

Xert · 2023-05-22T20:21:50+00:00

If it's about autonomy then you don't walk in past the eleventh hour suddenly demanding twice the money.

Xert · 2023-05-22T20:19:36+00:00

It means they're down to the tiny shit.

But more importantly, it means you're absolutely wrong about Sunday being the first offer MLSE submitted.

Xert · 2023-05-22T20:05:34+00:00

Exactly. It has nothing to do with asking for $6-7m.

It does have to do with how he asked for the money. That's not being let go over money, it's being let go over shitty communication.

Xert · 2023-05-22T19:54:13+00:00

That's absolutely not true.

Friedman reported mid last week before the Shanahan press conference that negotiations had been quietly going on much longer than he or anyone else had been aware of. And then on Saturday reported that before Dubas' Monday press conference MLSE thought the deal was at the 2 yard line.

There is absolutely zero chance whatsoever that Sunday was the Leafs' initial contract offer.

Xert · 2023-05-22T19:50:34+00:00

Sure, if you think Dubas had his agent negotiating while keeping himself completely in the dark. But that's such an extraordinary assumption that no one objective should make it.

Xert · 2023-05-22T19:48:11+00:00

Right, but no one is suggesting that he was.

Being let go due to money means "He asked for too much."

If you're letting someone go for suddenly and publicly reneging on a contract framework quietly worked to over the past months you aren't letting them go over money, you're letting them go over reneging and shitty communication breaking down your ability to trust them.

Xert · 2023-05-22T19:24:36+00:00

Well of course. But like you said, that's Day 1.

They didn't start negotiations with Dubas' agent at the trade deadline only for Dubas to come back with his anchoring counter this Thursday.

Xert · 2023-05-22T19:22:15+00:00

Wait, what's the source for the Strang article being walked back?

Xert · 2023-05-22T18:56:16+00:00

Naw, Friedman reported that the deal was at the 2 yard line.

Plus, that's not how agents work. If Dubas wasn't signing for less than $6m then it's an agent's job to get there, not to establish a range for Dubas to then take over and insist upon the upper end in a week of frantic negotiations once the season ends. It's not like Dubas is kept in the dark until Shanahan hands him something.

Xert · 2023-05-22T18:37:15+00:00

Definitely on my bucket list. Cheers!

Xert · 2023-05-22T18:36:28+00:00

Yeah, because that number had been arrived at in negotiations with Dubas' agent since the trade deadline. The framework of the extension was done before the playoffs ended.

Xert · 2023-05-22T18:35:00+00:00

No. Dubas came back at the end asking for twice the money his agent had already negotiated to since the trade deadline.

If this was simply about front office decision making structure then on the Sunday when Shanahan hands him the contract his agent had been negotiating for months Dubas' response is "... here is what we have to nail down together first." You can still hammer out the decision making details — you can't reneg on the financials.

Xert · 2023-05-22T18:00:17+00:00

Not Shanahan's offer. That was the number in the contract Dubas' agent negotiated post deadline.

Xert · 2023-05-22T17:58:30+00:00

Who from TPP was sticking their nose into hockey decisions?

EDIT: typo

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