There's that, I agree. My biggest beef with the NBA has always been that it interferes with hockey season.
- tangent_man

My beef with the NBA is 5 guys on each side taking turns running, jogging, walking from one end of a surface to the other bouncing a ball, yes I said it BOUNCING A BALL and trying to throw it in a metal hoop that happens to have a net hanging off of it.
Just in case the shooter misses there is a backboard with a square that suggests where to shoot the ball.
Because the sport, activity, passing of time doesn't take long enough each side is given 30 trillion time outs to make the last 2 minutes of the sport, activity, passing of time last forever.
Then throw in the witty banter of the play by play and color guy in between these 30 trillion time outs and you get the NBA.
Oh and this drawn out excuse of a game is basically a way to give espn endless highlights to tick me off because I want to see hockey highlights instead.
Thank god for the NHL channel.
At least the NBA doesn't finish tie games by a game of HORSE.

I think they both do have a future.
MAB showed real hockey sense when he was first called up. Then he hit the wall a bit.
Gusty has skills and can skate. His size is an issue, but maybe he will pick up how to be a small but effective defenseman from Timonen over the next season.

I hope they are patient with them.
- Marc D

There was one play last night where Gus completely rode someone off the puck and took it. He's been using his stickwork for the most part effectively, but I was very impressed with that play.

on a side note, my 1/2 brother, who is much younger than me, got into college, etc., but the dude cannot spell for the life of him. I have no idea how it is possible to make it through high school and into a decent college and not know how to spell.
- wilsonecho91

Plenty of people like that. Their are smart people who do well in school but have zero common sense, goes both ways.

*bangs fist on old oaken table, 1776-style*

/no wig
- Flyskippy

"For God's sake, John...sit down!"

Plenty of people like that. Their are smart people who do well in school but have zero common sense, goes both ways.
- stveshdy

true. my brother-in-law didn't graduate high school and is insanely successful and smart. But he can also spell so there's that.

true. my brother-in-law didn't graduate high school and is insanely successful and smart. But he can also spell so there's that.
- wilsonecho91

Theres more to the world then being book smart imo. Their are many people who didnt graduate high school and are very successful.

My beef with the NBA is 5 guys on each side taking turns running, jogging, walking from one end of a surface to the other bouncing a ball, yes I said it BOUNCING A BALL and trying to throw it in a metal hoop that happens to have a net hanging off of it.
Just in case the shooter misses there is a backboard with a square that suggests where to shoot the ball.
Because the sport, activity, passing of time doesn't take long enough each side is given 30 trillion time outs to make the last 2 minutes of the sport, activity, passing of time last forever.
Then throw in the witty banter of the play by play and color guy in between these 30 trillion time outs and you get the NBA.
Oh and this drawn out excuse of a game is basically a way to give espn endless highlights to tick me off because I want to see hockey highlights instead.
Thank god for the NHL channel.
At least the NBA doesn't finish tie games by a game of HORSE.
- bird_dog

jeepers

That's NE Pennsyvlania, where I'll be is more central. Knowing my luck, it will just barely be out of the broadcasting zone.
- _Zippy_

I lived in Allentow a couple years ago, and no I did not get msg. Sorry

There was one play last night where Gus completely rode someone off the puck and took it. He's been using his stickwork for the most part effectively, but I was very impressed with that play.
- wilsonecho91

He seemed to have a lot of confidence.
In the Detroit game he was a little tentative and it led to some failed clears and D zone scrambles. Last night he really stepped it up.

jeepers
- Crimsoninja

the last line is true though

Theres more to the world then being book smart imo.
- stveshdy

if you can't recite all of Faulkner's works by heart, you are meaningless and worthless. unless you are a Flyers fan of course.

if you can't recite all of Faulkner's works by heart, you are meaningless and worthless. unless you are a Flyers fan of course.
- wilsonecho91

Now if you have no book smarts or common sense then your in trouble.

Now if you have no book smarts or common sense then your in trouble.
- stveshdy

Take it down and PM me an apology and we'll be ok
- Crimsoninja

- wilsonecho91

Example: Dan Carcillo. j/k people

j/k= Just Kidding.

Don Vito Corleone: Book smart, no; but he had horse sense.

if you can't recite all of Faulkner's works by heart, you are meaningless and worthless. unless you are a Flyers fan of course.
- wilsonecho91

Have never read any Faulkner. Not that fond of the whole Southern U.S. dynamic in literature. More of a European lit, military history, and trash fan. (Trash is FUN!)

Spelling is funny. English is such a mysterious amalgam of different languages that the rules are broken in almost every sentence. But spellcheck does help a lot for the spelling challenged in our techno age.

My sister is an MD (now retired). She never enjoyed reading for pleasure because she reads so slowly. But she has total recall. So maybe that slowness is a function of absorbing everything. She'd never have made it through med school though if she'd had to reread anything. Read it once, slowly, and had it.

Not to be mean, but someone who read a lot would know that discuss and disgust are not the same. And that supposedly there is no such thing as supposively.

It's never too late to start reading (find a genre, any genre, that interests you--fiction or non) and just go for it. Start with really good young adult fiction if you need to ease into it. Harry Potter series, Hunger Games trilogy, The Book Thief (one of the best books I've ever read, and it was written for the YA market).

Worried about what people will think about what you're reading? Get a Nook or Kindle or download an app for your phone. You can read without anyone knowing or judging. And there's a LOT of classic writing out there available for free for those e-readers.

It won't make you smarter to read. But it will make you better informed. And you will be better able to understand and communicate with others. If most of what you know about the language is from what you hear, and not what you see, you'll be handicapped in written communication because so much gets lost in the transmission. Just an example--hear, here; where, wear, ware; there, their, they're; to, too, two--all sets of homophones with very different meanings.

:stepping down from soapbox:
- bodiva88

+1, I wish I were into reading more in the past. I've gotten a lot more into it the past couple years, but I'm a tragically slow reader when it comes to novels and the like.

Have never read any Faulkner. Not that fond of the whole Southern U.S. dynamic in literature. More of a European lit, military history, and trash fan. (Trash is FUN!)

Spelling is funny. English is such a mysterious amalgam of different languages that the rules are broken in almost every sentence. But spellcheck does help a lot for the spelling challenged in our techno age.

My sister is an MD (now retired). She never enjoyed reading for pleasure because she reads so slowly. But she has total recall. So maybe that slowness is a function of absorbing everything. She'd never have made it through med school though if she'd had to reread anything. Read it once, slowly, and had it.
- bodiva88

If I could do that I think I would read more books. I can read something 25xs and still have no idea what's going on sometimes. I have a hard time comprehending.

Have never read any Faulkner. Not that fond of the whole Southern U.S. dynamic in literature. More of a European lit, military history, and trash fan. (Trash is FUN!)

Spelling is funny. English is such a mysterious amalgam of different languages that the rules are broken in almost every sentence. But spellcheck does help a lot for the spelling challenged in our techno age.

My sister is an MD (now retired). She never enjoyed reading for pleasure because she reads so slowly. But she has total recall. So maybe that slowness is a function of absorbing everything. She'd never have made it through med school though if she'd had to reread anything. Read it once, slowly, and had it.
- bodiva88

Interesting. I wonder if she'd have trouble trying to be a DO instead of MD as MD's are more focused whereas DO's look at the whole picture. Different schools of medical thought. I appreciate both.

Had my schooling plans worked out, I'd be a DO.

+1, I wish I were into reading more in the past. I've gotten a lot more into it the past couple years, but I'm a tragically slow reader when it comes to novels and the like.
- BulliesPhan87

Currently reading Han Solo trilogy Book 1, "The Paradise Snare."

Currently reading Han Solo trilogy Book 1, "The Paradise Snare."
- Flyskippy

My problem is I would rather watch the movie then read the book. Much faster and easier to understand for myself. My imagination only works so well...

Have never read any Faulkner. Not that fond of the whole Southern U.S. dynamic in literature. More of a European lit, military history, and trash fan. (Trash is FUN!)

Spelling is funny. English is such a mysterious amalgam of different languages that the rules are broken in almost every sentence. But spellcheck does help a lot for the spelling challenged in our techno age.

My sister is an MD (now retired). She never enjoyed reading for pleasure because she reads so slowly. But she has total recall. So maybe that slowness is a function of absorbing everything. She'd never have made it through med school though if she'd had to reread anything. Read it once, slowly, and had it.
- bodiva88

russian literature is/was my favorite. because i read so much at work (other than being here and elsewhere on the internets), i really don't read much at home anymore.

My problem is I would rather watch the movie then read the book. Much faster and easier to understand for myself. My imagination only works so well...
- stveshdy

You just have to keep plugging away. There is no movie version of the book I'm reading. It takes place prior to the first Star Wars movie (what is now called "A New Hope"), published before the prequels. It's not hard to imagine a younger Han Solo taking his lumps before he becomes the person we see in the Tatooine Cantina, for instance.

Of course, if other genres are your druthers, then go with them. Bo suggested Harry Potter (I do, too) along with the Narnia series by C.S. Lewis.

EDIT: I also had a fantastic Reading class in my Catholic grade school. We were taught about comprehension, context, etc. It fostered my appreciation for reading, even if I preferred reading books that were not the ones assigned. (I did read them, too, though)

Have never read any Faulkner. Not that fond of the whole Southern U.S. dynamic in literature. More of a European lit, military history, and trash fan. (Trash is FUN!)

Spelling is funny. English is such a mysterious amalgam of different languages that the rules are broken in almost every sentence. But spellcheck does help a lot for the spelling challenged in our techno age.

My sister is an MD (now retired). She never enjoyed reading for pleasure because she reads so slowly. But she has total recall. So maybe that slowness is a function of absorbing everything. She'd never have made it through med school though if she'd had to reread anything. Read it once, slowly, and had it.
- bodiva88

blasphemy.......