Off Topic 2017: December to Remember

[ImTellinTim]

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Can't agree with that at all. When you have the clear two best teams matched up in the second round rather than the final there is something wrong with the format.

I agree playoff hockey is fun to watch, but the format is awful and the playoffs are way too long.

Couldn't disagree more. It builds rivalries and the sport itself is so random that any matchup could go either way. It doesn't matter to me which round the teams play each other.

[TracerBullet]

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Can't agree with that at all. When you have the clear two best teams matched up in the second round rather than the final there is something wrong with the format.

I agree playoff hockey is fun to watch, but the format is awful and the playoffs are way too long.

Couldn't disagree more. It builds rivalries and the sport itself is so random that any matchup could go either way. It doesn't matter to me which round the teams play each other.

Yeah, I'm with ITT on this. I mean the Western Conference pretty much ended up as a standard playoff format and the "8th seed" is in the Finals now. And considering how the Conference Finals ended up going anyway, don't really feel like we've lost much. Actually the Conference Finals have been closer since the switch in playoff format than they were in EVERY year since the strike season.

[Caulfield]

Re: Off Topic 2017: #GoBlue (Carolina Blue)

too much blue up in here, looks like a smurf blew himself up.
#betterredthandead

[Speedy]

Re: Off Topic 2017: #GoBlue (Carolina Blue)

too much blue up in here, looks like a smurf blew himself up.
#betterredthandead

Go Heels!

[l3ulvl]

Re: Off Topic 2017: #GoBlue (Carolina Blue)

too much blue up in here, looks like a smurf blew himself up.
#betterredthandead

too much green

[SPTO]

Re: Off Topic 2017: #GoBlue (Carolina Blue)

Pfft! Give me Columbia Blue

[Speedy]

Re: Off Topic 2017: #GoBlue (Carolina Blue)

Personal question, SPTO...

Do you root for any college teams or follow college sports much? Nothing comes to mind as far as the teams you root for.

[SPTO]

Re: Off Topic 2017: #GoBlue (Carolina Blue)

Personal question, SPTO...

Do you root for any college teams or follow college sports much? Nothing comes to mind as far as the teams you root for.

I don't follow collegiate sports as deeply as I follow the others. Generally i'm a Notre Dame fan in football (as a kid we had a weekly diet of the Irish, Michigan, Florida and Miami on TV) and a Syracuse fan in basketball. (moreso because I have a lot of respect for Jim Boeheim (sp))

[Caulfield]

Re: Off Topic 2017: #GoBlue (Carolina Blue)

R.I.P. Frank Deford, writer for Sports Illustrated since 1962.
Pictures may well normaly be worth a thousand words, but his word was worth a million pictures IMO

[SPTO]

Re: Off Topic 2017: #GoBlue (Carolina Blue)

R.I.P. Frank Deford, writer for Sports Illustrated since 1962.
Pictures may well normaly be worth a thousand words, but his word was worth a million pictures IMO

R.I.P.

One of the most classy guys who ever covered sports. He was someone who I think could've done just as good a job doing the regular news beat as well. He even once hired famed wrestling journalist Dave Meltzer to write for one of his publications in the early '80s.

[Majingir]

Re: Off Topic 2017: #GoBlue (Carolina Blue)

Anyone know how to fix this issue(if it is an issue):

When I go to any site like a Home Depot or Walmart or anything of that nature, it shows my closest store being one in a completely different city than I live in. Not even like a city close by. However, if I go to google maps or one of those ip address sites that shows you where your IP address is coming from, it shows my current city. I don't have cookies on, and don't have location settings on either. This problem has only started happening a few weeks ago.

I just find it weird that regular things like google map can get me an accurate location, but then websites showing me my closest store goes to a completely different city. So it can't be my IP Address. So what is it then that causes this to happen?

[ProfessaPackMan]

Off Topic 2017: #GoBlue (Carolina Blue)

Well, if you're going to an actual store website, 10 times out of 10, it'll ask for either your zip code, city/town and the number of miles you want to extend the search radius(10,25,50,etc)and then it'll will pull up the closest stores to your zip code, city.

[Majingir]

Re: Off Topic 2017: #GoBlue (Carolina Blue)

Well, if you're going to an actual store website, 10 times out of 10, it'll ask for either your zip code, city/town and the number of miles you want to extend the search radius(10,25,50,etc)and then it'll will pull up the closest stores to your zip code, city.

Not for me. Some might, but for most part for me it doesn't. Regardless if location is right or wrong(when the site looks for nearest store), it seems to do it automatically for me, despite me not having location finder on, or saving cookies.

[Speedy]

Re: Off Topic 2017: #GoBlue (Carolina Blue)

Speaking of hockey...somehow completely forgot about this fight until I heard it today. I was like "Wow!" the whole time watching this.

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6P4wg21mLf8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

[l3ulvl]

Re: Off Topic 2017: #GoBlue (Carolina Blue)

**** Lemieux