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I just wanna hear Tripp and Big Mike.

I went from DirecTV to Hulu+Live and I have Bally during the season (suspend my subscription once the playoffs start). I live in the Raleigh market, so I'm not really sure how/why I can see this game. Usually, the home nationally televised games are blacked out, and I miss 6-8 games a year because of that.

Where do you live?

Staal!!!! That's me, boys. Picking up where I left off!

Fug Cirelli. Known cheap shot artist.

KK just got cross checked in the mouth.

You keeping track this season, PC? I'm traveling a lot during the season, so it might be tough for me9 this time around.

I'm going Staal.

At least you aren't paying the highest property insurance rates in the country, if you can get coverage, unlike Florida. My brother-in-law bought a house in Punta Gorda and is in the midst of adding a second master suite. His 2 sons moved down there as well. I don't get it. "No income tax." So, I asked, which is better- no income tax or your $11k homeowner's policy and $7k flood policy?

In all seriousness, I do not understand the fascination with Florida. I don't understand why people seem to flock there, why people find it the ideal place to retire, none of it. I've been there several times, thankfully not for any longer than 4-5 days, but that was enough.

ESPN+ carries their games, and Bally Sports South carries all (home & away) except those nationally televised on NHL Network or ESPN, which is maybe 6-8 times a year. But I'm thinking you mean Hulu or Amazon, etc.

VPN & ESPN+ or Bally Sports. I'm hoping a streaming service will snatch NHL hockey since it's the only league without its own network with every game available.

Canes controlled every aspect of the game against Tampa Bay Friday night. Of course, it was the Canes A team mostly against TB's "depth" squad, as they put it. Kochetkov played well in net, he didn't have to make that many saves as TB's shots on goal totaled 17. One concern I have is Orlov. He wasn't good last night again- a trend during the preseason. He misplayed a couple pucks resulting in turnovers and wasn't able to stop outlet passes up the boards on at least 5 plays I saw. Maybe that's why he's playing in almost every preseason game because RBA has figured out it takes time for him to find his game. Slavin and Burns- exactly what you'd expect. And Burns was surprisingly physical last night. Although credited with 1 hit, he was a physical presence on both ends. The vets all played well- Staal, Aho was active, I had to look for Martinook a couple times, although he made a helluva play to save a goal when Kochetkov got caught out of the net. I also thought the Canes passed up a lot of shot opportunities trying to make the extra pass. And you know that won't sit well with RBA. Get pucks to the net- his mantra.

Was in Durham yesterday talking with some folks, native NC folks, and they have absolutely no clue just how remote some areas of western NC are. We may never know the real toll on human life this storm took for months, if at all. As a former resident of Asheville, it's difficult to look at some of the damage without thinking of the smaller communities not located in the population center. Edneyville, Gerton, Fairview. Some of those smaller communities are only accessed by small roads to begin with. Eric Rudolph eluded the FBI for 5 years living in the woods of Western NC, if that gives you any idea.

I'll be in the Lenovo Center for tonite's exhibition. I think the starters are playing, so it might be worth watching.

Carolina playing their camp roster and Nashville playing their starters. Already 2-0 Nashville 7 minutes in. Perets doesn't even look AHL ready.

Perhaps one of the more underrated singer/songwriters of the last 50 years, he passed last week at 78. One of the architects of the California folk-country-rock sound, he co-wrote huge hits for the Eagles and Linda Ronstadt. Best of My Love, Victim of Love, How Long, Heartache Tonight and New Kid in Town are but a few. He and fellow Detroit native Glenn Frey were roommates in SoCal in the late 60s and recorded an album together under the name Longbranch Pennywhistle (which I own a mint copy). He later put together the Souther-Hillman-Furay Band (SHF Band, for some), with Chris Hillman from the Byrds and Richie Furay from Buffalo Springfield. He was instrumental in getting Don Henley and later, Glenn Frey in the studio as backing musicians for Linda Ronstadt and then brought in Bernie Leadon from the Flying Burrito Brothers and Randy Meisner, the bass player from Poco. With Linda Ronstadt's full support, the foursome of Henley, Frey, Leadon and Meisner launched the Eagles. I'm very fortunate to have been able to see all of these people perform either solo or with their bands, the Eagles, Ronstadt, Poco, the list goes on. He worked extensively with Linda Ronstadt, contributing songs and worked on the production side with some of her albums. They dated through the early to mid-70s. He also worked with Don Henley, James Taylor, and was dating Stevie Nicks after he and Ronstadt broke up. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2013. I'll be listening to both of my SHF Band albums as well as Longbranch Pennywhistle.

The fear of moving into a different vibe because of the lead singer is very real. Look at Journey when Steve Perry walked away- they found someone who sounds nearly identical. Same with Foreigner when Lou Gramm left. On the other hand, Van Halen was far more successful with Sammy Hagar than David Lee Roth; and there are plenty of other bands who simply won't survive without their respective front-person, LP being one of those.

This is an often used, yet very misleading argument. There is no such thing as a team not making money in the NFL. Revenue sharing, TV contracts, etc. guarantee every team makes money every season. On the other hand, yes, one can call out an owner for being "cheap," but I'd offer that you should look at their cap situation before making that declaration. So, let's not confuse "cheap" ownership and how much money the team is making because they're 2 completely different things. In 2023, the league set another record with $13B in revenue, working out to $400M per team. https://www.sportico.com/leagues/football/2024/nfl-national-revenue-2023-tv-13-billion-1234786762/ The NFL’s economic model is the envy of every other major sports league, thanks to two main principles. The system benefits from a relatively hard salary cap that restricts owners from NBA-like spending that triggers luxury tax penalties. In 2023, the NFL salary cap was $224.8 million, with each club also on the hook for nine-figures worth of player benefits, stadium costs and team expenses. The other huge plus is the guaranteed check from the league each year that dwarfs the cap before a team sells a single ticket, beer, sponsorship or parking space. The result is that every NFL team is wildly profitable and worth at least $4 billion, with an average franchise value of $5.14 billion last year. Oh, and the team with the least amount of cap space as of yesterday, by some $2.6M, is the Carolina Panthers, with a mere $909k at their disposal. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/cap/_/year/2024/sort/cap_maximum_space

Except Eli beat the Pats and Tom Brady twice in the Super Bowl and he'll likely get into the HOF.

To be fair, none of the Florida regulars were dressed and tomorrow night will look like tonight in Florida's favor. That being said, I liked the line of Aho, Jarvis and Roslovic. Ghost looks like he never left and will likely be QB PP1 and give Burns a rest this season.

Lake Lure dam is failing according to WRAL, and a mandatory evacuation is underway.

I thought DeSantis outlawed any form of climate change and strictly forbids anyone from talking about it. So, does anyone really know if a hurricane hit Florida? Has DeSantis arrested anyone who made mention of it?

Turned off the feed after 5 minutes. If it wasn't for this hockey game, these announcers would be doing a high school chess match- fugging horrible.⁷