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Women's shoes? I supervise a call center for a software company in silicon valley. Finish Line

I sell shoes. Looking for a new job though.

Agreed. Those are tremendous.

I'm waiting for Tracer Bullet to join. I'm pretty sure we had a Stupendous Man at one point. Yep, Stupendous Man *wants to change his name to Tracer Bullet*

I want to know how easy it was.

Barring that, they seem to be supporting the Thrashers right now. Jan. 14 (wednesday night), 12,800/18,000 Jan. 16 (friday night), 16,000/18,000 They seem to be supporting them. And for their big National TV game? 17,000_ fans. Not bad at all.

You would be correct. I just didn't want to explain another Simpsons joke.

Dunno, they are mostly like the Florida cities here. When there is talent and a good team to go see, they are supportive. I'm just going by what I see.

Well, the problem lies with the league not marketing these guys to be able to do business. Of those guys I listed, I didn't list Rick Nash, who is THE draw for Columbus, their most talented player, etc. Rick Nash puts asses in the seats in Columbus. What does the league do about this? Practically nothing. Columbus was on ESPN (the league's network) once this year... Instead, the league decides to focus mainly on the Detroits and Colorados of the league, which, while talented, aren't as marketable in the future as Rick Nash. Detroit is the exception with Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg being two future standout players, both marketable, both playing in a fantastic market for hockey. Colorado is great talent-wise right now, but where is the league going to be when Colorado falls? Go back to Dallas? Look what's happening to them now. They'll have to help some of the other markets succeed. There are great hockey markets that go untapped by the league. FFS, look at Boston. An original 6 franchise that gets little to no recognition, while the Rangers are given numerous television appearances so that we can all watch them burn. The league is as much to blame for all of this, and while the hole is deep now, the dirt has yet to fall on them. They still have wonderful, marketable stars in hockey towns. Gaborik in Minnesota Hossa, Spezza, Havlat in Ottawa (of course, that consists of ESPN admitting that the Ottawa franchise exists) Kovalchuk and Heatley in Atlanta, which both have proven to be draws, and Atlanta is a good sports city Nash in Columbus Iginla in Calgary LeCavalier, St. Louis, Boyle, Modin in Tampa Bouwmeester, Luongo, Jokinen with the Panthers Zetterberg, Datsyuk with Detroit. The talent is there, it's just a matter of allowing it to grow. The league has its problems yes, but the two things that are bad right now (CBA and the trap) will get fixed. The NHL will survive.

Only about 250. I don't listen to that much music at all.

Maybe not, but at least you can look forward to the Super Extra Long Extendo Extremo Mega Collosal Full Lord of the Rings DVD collector set and with the extra footage, it'll most likely feel like a new movie in of itself.

There are players that are worth 5 million dollars per season. I can think of...Marian Hossa, Peter Forsberg, Martin Brodeur, Milan Hejduk, Jaromir Jagr (when he actually wants to play), Marian Gaborik (once he heats up), Vincent LeCavalier (when he matures) and there are more future stars like Ilya Kovalchuk and Dany Heatley in Atlanta that are worth more than 5 million a year.

He already kind of did, with "Get your foot off the table please" and then Anson put his other foot on the table.

I'm waiting for Tracer Bullet to join.

That's a load of rich creamery butter.

No you didn't......unless your hair dryer is The Simpsons. *cough*THAT'STHEJOKEINTHEEPISODE*hack*

I stole it from a hair-dryer.

DVD: LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring Special Edition

It's a nice way to kill some time, as the games are almost always entertaining in some way. Season tickets are easy to come by too. The ECHL is expanding well.

Ft. Myers (where I work) is the spring training town for the Red Sox and the Twins. We get a lot of players in in February and March. Most of them are pretty nice guys, and it's nice to talk to them about some of the off-season stuff. Other than that, the only team around where I live is the ECHL Florida Everblades, and I couldn't pick them out of a line-up.

http://tsn.ca/nhl/news_story.asp?id=68302 Roenick blasts Bettman Well, I hate the Flyers, so this is funny to me. I'm wondering if he'll get a longer suspension from the league for my bolded part.

That happens to me all the time. Hit reload a few times is the only solution that I've found.

Heatley has two return dates: http://tsn.ca/nhl/news_story.asp?id=68225 This is good news for the Thrash... They've been on a skid lately, and getting back one of their best players to take some pressure off of Ilya will help immensely, with Savard going down this week.

Aaron fucking Boone. Game 7, ALCS. Still recovering.

Yeah, it sucks now, since they are all afraid of being suspended and such. Most of them fight now just to get a change in momentum or jump start their team.