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True, it is all out of context since we have no idea what the state of everyone is at this point. Couldn't be too far in the future though seeing that during the flash forward at the start of last year he was celebrating his 52nd birthday and then later in that season during present time he was celebrating 51. This still has me wondering why he just wouldn't make some more ricin. Even if he isn't risking much it would seem a lot simpler to just do it at home. I guess as far as a plot device goes though it is better to see him retrieving it as a foreshadowing of something to come.

One thing I was kind of curious about.... Why would Walt risk going back to his seized house for the ricin? It didn't seem like it was that difficult for him to make it way back in season 2 when he did it the first time so risking being seen to recover the poison didn't seem worth it to me.

Since when have any of these ESPN "journalists" every bothered with research before spouting opinion? ESPN is far from being a news outlet. Supposedly entertaining idiots just regurgitating the popular opinion is all you ever get from them. "Oh the Bills? Well they always stunk so I'm going to say all their draft picks were bad and they still stink." Way to think outside the box guys.

I think the special teams play has me most impressed so far. Especially seeing most of those guys out there will be the same ones playing ST in the regular season unlike the late efforts of the O and D.

" A full 40% of the city's street lights have been turned out. Roughly 120,000 of its buildings sit empty. Response times for 911 calls extend to nearly an hour, while fewer than 9% of crimes are ever solved." Wow, I knew Detroit was in rough shape but this sounds like it is close to becoming the Detroit from Robocop. Maybe all the teams should get out of there and then we can just wall it up Escape From New York style.

It is nice they are finally looking at something that people have been complaining about forever. It always felt like a punishment having to buy two of these meaningless games at full price a year as a season ticket holder. With the exception of kids day at Ralph I can't imagine that many "non-season ticket" seats actually get sold to these games so why not make your season ticket holders happy while at the same time increasing the chances someone would actually walk up to the gate and buy a seat to these meaningless games?

Finally found my own answer for anyone that might have been interested. Looks like CBS 5 is picking it up live in the Syracuse area. http://www.tvguide.com/Listings/

Anyone have any info about local affiliates who may be picking up the game for people without NFLN? Where I am, in the Syracuse area, one of the local channels has picked up the feed and broadcast the game in years past but so far I haven't been able to dig up any concrete info if that will be happening this Sunday yet.

A couple of posts about switching their avatars up brought a question to mind. What is the consensus on switching avatars frequently? For small time contributors or lurkers it wouldn't matter much but for me it seems like if the long time celebrities of the board changed a long standing avatar it would be like changing the main actor in a long running television show.

Same here. I rolled with the Powerslave cover for a while too but when I saw it popping up in other posts I needed to switch it up so I wouldn't get confused. For non-maiden people, this is from the cover for the single release of Stranger in a Strange Land.

I don't disagree with some of the complaints listed about how colleges handle their student athletes and profits off of them but I don't understand the rights violation point. How is the NFL saying you have to play college ball at least 3 years or be at a certain age to work for them any different than any other company requiring you to have a 4 year degree or more to work for them? Playing football for a living isn't a "right". If they want to work for wages there are plenty of other things a college athlete could do.

Performance from Wootstock of a song urging Martin to write faster. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=w5vw9RTVky4

Maybe the league retains ownership of any publication photos as part of the agreement to let them use their employees to sell print? Just a guess but it would make sense that they, being the league or the Bills, would have a huge repository of photos from all sorts of publications that they can pull from.... then again maybe it was SJ13's private stash.... either way it was stupid for BB to post it and Stevie's degree of stupidity is TBD.

Has anyone figured out where this picture came from for sure? That should play into a lot of the judging going on here. It could be from a magazine photo shoot and the shirt be something that he didn't purchase on his own. He was in an NFL issue of Maxim a year or so ago, maybe it was them or some other publication who gave him a rack of stupid clothing to try on for some promotional shots? If it was a publication of that sorts then the level of humor would kind of fit. If he did the SI body issue naked would people be up in arms over someone re-posting those pics as a happy birthday? Not defending him so much as just saying before people call out his maturity level maybe we should have all the facts.

Wow, that is worst than the "McDonald's served me hot coffee" lawsuit. I wonder why he would stop at Apple, why not sue Al Gore for inventing the internet in the first place?

Pok-A-Dot still exists? I grew up in Genesee county too but haven't been down that side of Ellicott, let alone in Batavia at all, in a long time. I would have bet money on that place having been gone for years. It's amazing how some of those hole in the wall places just hang around forever.

Hopefully they are questioning Mr. Glass about this.

Yeah, I get the first part and I agree with the second. What I think Yall was getting at was a part in the article where an NFL spokesperson talked about some scenario where directTV wouldn't be blacked out but local TV still would be and was using it as an argument against dropping, or for keeping the black out rule. But if the rule went away wouldn't local affiliates be able to show it as well as DTV? :blink: It's just weird that no one called them out on that... or maybe the author of the article used an old quote that was originally just an argument for DTV being blacked out...? That is the only thing that makes sense to me.

You know I thought you might be missing something... but when I went back and re-read the article there wasn't any explanation about the scenario the NFL guy talked about where directTV would show the game in Minnesota but the local Minnesota affiliates could not.... Maybe I am missing something too?

That NBC to CBS move was a long time ago so you'd think this all needs revisiting, especially with the new signals. Like PTR mentioned it is extremely unlikely that the digital signal can come close to those 8 houses anymore but I know it is a long shot for anyone to care enough to check again.... unless somehow CBS can lose the AFC back to NBC, guess we need to hope for that in Syracuse. I've only been out in the CNY area for about 8 years so I can only imagine the frustration for those who have been dealing with it all along. I wouldn't have ever believed Syracuse was blacked out until the first time it happened after I had moved.

These two arguments seem to be the strongest for how the black out rule is completely backwards or at least outdated and in need of revision but no one really seems to talk about it whenever these articles pop up. The digital signal thing really annoys me. I live in Syracuse which is also blacked out because way back in the day some eastern part of Rochester could supposedly receive the Syracuse CBS affiliate. I can't imagine that is true anymore but I don't expect the FCC to revisit it. Also because Rome and Utica get their CBS from Syracuse they also black out. Rome is almost 200 miles away from the stadium.

For any Star Wars nerds out there... here are the first 3 episodes of Course of the Force 2013. They are some silly parodies about a search for a missing light saber leading up to this years comic con. Lots of cameo guest stars. Episode 3 is probably the best one with Michael Rooker (Merle from Walking Dead) as Boba Fett. Enjoy. Episode 1 http://youtu.be/gkCWhB3jT_o Episode II http://youtu.be/uEXs9M_-jM0 Episode III http://youtu.be/mrOqAHKtbMo Episode II http://youtu.be/uEXs9M_-jM0 Sorry the other links didn't come out embedded. Guess I can't have more than one in a post.

On the surface Pacific Rim seems like another bunch of giant robot nonsense but I am kind of excited to see it. Seems exactly like what a big summer action blockbuster is supposed to be. I'm thinking it could be a sleeper hit.

Picked it up last Friday. I have listened to it only once all the way through and about halfway through once again. Most of the songs caught my interest right away so I can only imagine it will be even better the more times I listen to it. I agree that it is a solid Sabbath album. Ozzy sounds surprisingly good and there are some classic Iommi solos. I saw a couple reviewers getting a little down on the lyrics but I couldn't care less about what Ozzy is saying as long as there is a good rhythm and excellent guitar. I caught Black Sabbath with their original line-up at Ozzfest in 2005. Was an amazing show.

Plus everyone knows that "fast zombies" is just a myth.