powderfreak

No shit, just looked it up. The KC Scouts in 1974. I grew up an Islanders and Devils fan, never knew that about the Devils. Knew they came from CO. Maybe KC can be a hockey town? Or it didn’t work, ha.

They can wait. There's a 'cane to track. This is when you pass that parked cruiser doing like 60 in a 40 and the cop doesn't even blink. The 18z EPS is out and it's real, other things to look at.

Yeah man, I don’t know what it is about the NHL trying to bring these teams into weak markets. I saw some buzz about Kansas City… once again just doesn’t feel like a natural “hockey town.” I know it’s about money, tax breaks, negotiations and stuff but they keep jamming these teams into weak markets just because they are sufficiently lobbied. No wonder an Arizona team struggled. The only reason it was there was because it was cheap to play there with tax breaks. I have several diehard hockey friends in Quebec that ski at Stowe and it’s always a topic of conversation how the NHL keeps trying to slight the Canadian teams despite ice hockey (men’s and women’s) being the most popular sport in the country. They have plenty of frozen water to utilize up there, ha.

Need more Canadian teams, those fans live and breath true hockey fandom. Would be awesome to see QC get its team back. I’m all in. Love Hockey Night in Canada.

You try referencing any nearby PWS or Cocorahs for May. I’ll have to double check mine but I’m pretty positive you have me beat for annual water (Jan 1) just from like June onward lol. We were catching up a bit in August until this morning, ha. That’s some Mansfield picnic table water and that average is like 75” a year.

Yeah 6+ is a shit ton of water. Then again a gypsy moth farts and NE CT gets 3-5” water this summer so who knows.

You can be right and radarman is right too. 12+ is a lot of water for New England. Depends on the area though too… Even widespread 4-8” is like full on Armageddon here in VT down to the Berks from the terrain (re Irene). I could see the Cape taking 8-12” with some parking lot flooding. I still think 12+ rainfall is a tough nut to crack but I’m more aligned with deep interior climo.

My dad said he had over 5” in their simple gauge this afternoon. Washed out the gravel driveway. All summer they’ve had pretty similar rain to you it seems to the right of 84 on the MA/CT border.

Yeah it’s been stuck in the Winooski Valley and south of I-89 all afternoon. Rainy here but seems more showery.

Snowbird, Utah with some August snow this morning.

Definitely seems like the afternoon will be ruined by rounds of showers, it doesn’t seem to be going anywhere too quickly.

It is exciting though, 5" in 4 hours here would literally destroy the place up here. I still have no idea how they've been getting those rain amounts this summer without monster flash flooding and 10 foot deep chasms through roads, houses washed away, etc. If we got 5" in 4 hours I'd honestly be concerned here with the river, thing would be absolutely raging eating away at the lawn while whole trees float by that probably fell in up by Mansfield lol.

Just a steady normal synoptic rain up here… about a half inch so far. Pretty much what we’ve done for a month now, frequent soakings that stay under an inch.

Nice! Wonder where in Thompson. Just catching up… holy rain balls dude lol. 5” today is nuts. Making up for Stein summers of yore.

Like 28 come from behind wins in the first half of season? You could set an alarm for like 9pm and tune into some magical ending for two months lol. Magic is nada mas. As ORH/Will would say, they out played their run differential handily in the first half.

How do ratios look?

I think I’m over 4” on the month, will have to double check at home. We’ve been pretty steady wet since mid-July. Had 0.18” this morning in the stratus. A lot of 0.2-0.75” type rainfalls this month.

That is a stomping. Teams going in different directions seems approp...

Floods, severe wind, tornadoes, crippling ice, tropical systems. Everything we get sounds better than scorched earth western forest fires. No thanks. Always the best of luck to all out in those areas. I'm sure the dynamics and fluidity of the situation is hard to grasp sometimes too.

You gotta be kidding me. Ball was barrelled with bases loaded too.

This rookie Gil has had 3 dominant starts now. Everything looking up for the Yanks all the sudden, it’s mind blowing lol.

I miss April/May/June when a guy named "Rougned" was the scariest hitter in the lineup because Stanton couldn't hit a beachball, LaMahieu was hitting .240 in singles, Torres couldn't field a ground ball to save his life or hit a baseball, Sanchez was hitting like .185 and couldn't catch a ball with spin on it (which is a problem for a catcher), the shaved head guy that looks like a traffic cop in the outfield never came up big, Gerrit Cole liked giving up 5-6 runs a game when they took his sticky stuff.... no one stole any bases, they stood flat footed on the bag waiting for the next strikeout.... life was good for Sox fans back then .

This is what makes the forum fun, ha. Good natured ball busting. That was a hilarious exchange.

Football is by far the best sport for fantasy because they only play once a week. Makes it manageable. You gotta be committed to do MLB fantasy. Personally though I like a sport where my team plays more than once a week. Like today, they lose one game, whatever reset and watch another a couple hours later. They lose the second game, we get to try it again tomorrow lol. And the next day, and the next. Don’t have to wait 6-7 days to watch my team and stew over it all week. Just reset each day for like half a year .

NFL has always crushed MLB because it’s on Sunday afternoons in the winter lol. NASCAR destroys most sports games too. Personally I find NFL to be one of my least favorite. MLB, hockey are tops.