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reno cool
thats good to hear. What is it that people hate so much about him? I have my own reasons, but wondering about others. Is it the strikes, expansion, game rules?
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I personally do not like his lying and weaselly lawyer-speak. Don't talk to me like I'm stupid. It is by no means limited to work stoppage situations. He is always putting ridiculous spin on stuff that doesn't really even do himself any good. No one believes him. He is just like some pathetic SBR weasel trying to convince himself of his own lies and imagining he has smartly done something.

He is the Casperwaits commissioner.
 
Mudcat
I personally do not like his lying and weaselly lawyer-speak. Don't talk to me like I'm stupid. It is by no means limited to work stoppage situations. He is always putting ridiculous spin on stuff that doesn't really even do himself any good. No one believes him. He is just like some pathetic SBR weasel trying to convince himself of his own lies and imagining he has smartly done something.

He is the Casperwaits commissioner.
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that has a good ring to it
 
Mudcat
I don't understand why my headphones cord keeps getting so twisted around. I pick them up and put them on, I take them off and set them down, always in the same spot. I am not flipping them through the air or anything to make the chord get twisty. Certainly my head does not spin round and round when I have them on.

But I frequently find it necessary to dangle the phones so the chord can unwind. Like at least once a day. And it unwinds like 10 spins.

I have no idea how it got like that.
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Seriously. I am not completely ignorant of things. I studied Physics at a University level. I have some understanding of why things happen.

I exaggerated a bit about it unwinding 10 spins every day. It's probably more like every 3 days. But still . . .

It makes no sense, what I experience with this.
 
rito
simmons always writes about how he thinks Betman was planted by David Stern to destroy the NFL and to make the NBA more popular
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That would be a hell of a trick, for the destruction of the NFL to come out of it. :laugh:


No but seriously man, the problem with Bettman is he has some raw numbers that he can point to that sound good to many people. Like NHL's revenues have doubled in the last 7 years (or something like that). Since the start of his commissionership (??) it is like 7x.

If you don't think at all, that sounds impressive. And he certainly would like to be celebrated for it.

And a lot of people do see that stuff as something to his great credit. Even many media people who dislike him and his style, will point to those revenue numbers as the other side of the story.

I say no. I say he has just been along for the ride during a period of extreme expansion in the consumption of all sports. You can make a pretty strong case that, compared to other leagues, the NHL has dramatically under-achieved revenue-wise during Bettman's years.
 
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