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Rockies posted...

Zelda Oracle games

Rockies posted...

I can't remember, did any of you play the Zelda Oracle games? Both are on sale on the 3DS eShop. I own both carts but I might have to take advantage of that deal since I only own an OG GBA which is like impossible to see anything on

I might take advantage of this deal. I have seasons still and I've lost ages. I might try and see if I can find a working copy, that way my kids can play it too on the game boy player.
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No one has posted about this so I guess I will. The Giants are benching Eli for Gen Smith. If you filter out everything with the word Trump that might be the craziest sports sentence of the year

It's only crazy if you assume Eli is a great QB. There's no reason to keep trotting him out there anymore.
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Why would they bench him for Geno and not that other guy though

I'm guessing they'll both get some play time in.
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Zeeky_Bomb posted...

It's only crazy if you assume Eli is a great QB. There's no reason to keep trotting him out there anymore.

Geno smith dude

Oh I know Geno is shit, but you have a chance to get a top 3 pick in a strong QB draft.
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I also don't think it's that crazy for the reasons above, plus it could give Eli a wake-up call that he's not untouchable on that team.

Honestly, Eli deserves better than being benched for five meaningless games for a QB everyone knows is worse than he is. He led them to two championships.

His pass rush, and someone not getting out of the way of a punt in overtime won them two championships.
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It's pretty shitty that they'd bench him for fucking Geno Smith. He wasn't going to catch Favre's record (he'd have to play over five more seasons) but they might as well have let him finish out the season and let him go to a new team next year where he could extend the streak.

What are the chances that his team next year is not the Broncos or Jaguars?

Zeeky_Bomb posted...

His pass rush, and someone not getting out of the way of a punt in overtime won them two championships.

Come on. You don't need to deny him all credit like that. You know he played well in those games.

Rockies posted...

It's pretty shitty that they'd bench him for fucking Geno Smith. He wasn't going to catch Favre's record (he'd have to play over five more seasons) but they might as well have let him finish out the season and let him go to a new team next year where he could extend the streak.

Some reports are saying they offered to let him start games, but not complete them. Eli didn't like this idea.

STLCards1991 posted...

Come on. You don't need to deny him all credit like that. You know he played well in those games.

I'm not saying he played badly, but he kind of managed the game for the first three quarters. He has spurts of brilliance, mind you, and can take advantage of mistakes. But let's be honest, without that defense hounding Brady like they did, does Eli keep up?
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Rockies posted...

What are the chances that his team next year is not the Broncos or Jaguars?

For the record, I hope it's the Jaguars. Cousins is better from every standpoint except probably money. I'm not even sure if I'd prefer Eli over a guy like Keenum. I want a younger player who will leave the team some breathing room to not spend draft picks on the "QB of the future". Eli is the kind of guy you go after to please fans, since the average fan doesn't realize just how much worse than Peyton he is.

By the way, hypothetical situation: three way trade.

Buffalo gets Eli
Baltimore gets Tyrod
Giants get Flacco

This would be so dumb but I would bet Buffalo would do it. The Giants might.
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That seems like a pretty random scenario and also a bad trade for each team.

I think there's a good chance he might just pull a Romo, too. He's still under contract so the Giants are probably going to leave him in limbo while they try to find a trade

Garrison Keillor, Sockman's hero, got shitcanned

Nobody under the age of 60 cares about him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUNBpeUHKXQ&feature=youtu.be

oh my god
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Already seen it, not as good as the Chinese one imo

MNTwins1991 posted...

Nobody under the age of 60 cares about him

Happy 61st birthday bitch

There's been somebody posting on PotD lately who I think recently said they were 70 and I was like wtf. My parents aren't that old. I wonder if PO or BTB or Whiskey's parents are even that old

Do you remember Elizabeth Ramos from the baseball board? She was like in her 60s and became a hardcore Trump supporter at some point.

I remember somebody being called Lizzy/Lizzie, if that's her, but I thought that was just some dude's joke account

Wasn't the account named ericaspencer777 or something like that? Was that a different person?

That was her. She had/has approximately 100000 accounts. Her sig used to just say "Elizabeth Ramos" hence the Lizzy jokes.

Lol I found her "secret" boards in EricaSpencer777's sig, where she mostly posts some ICOYAR-level right-wing conspiracy shit

what the hell why would a 70 year old bother with making multiple alts on this board?
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The person on PotD doesn't have alts. I don't know why Lizzy would make a bunch of them, but I don't really know her. From what I remember, however, she posted like a crazy person (and not just because of the Trump stuff)

It was definitely a weird compulsion of hers to just keep making new accounts for whatever reason

I think she was new to forum posting and became obsessed with experimenting with the tricks and abilities associated with forum posting. Alts, sigs, secret boards, etc all seemed like science fiction to her

I gotta give her credit, though, I think she's the only female I've ever seen post on any of the sports boards here

I thiiiiiink RC posted on the NFL board before but I'm not sure

I don't know much about hockey, do the Avs have a legit chance at staying in the mix for a playoff spot this year, or is it all going to come crashing down soon? Maybe I should be asking that about Vegas, they're still leading the division? WTF

too early to tell for pretty much every team...except maybe the coyotes

They're gonna bring In-N-Out to Colorado... never really saw the big deal with it but I guess that's cool

Never been to one. Is it like 5 guys?

I googled in-n-out burger to find the nearest one and found this great sports take:
http://broncoswire.usatoday.com/2017/08/20/nfl-preseason-paxton-lynch-in-n-out-burger-denver-broncos/

Full circle. Secretly I knew all along that it was related to sports

I haven't eaten at one in like seven years so I don't know how it compares to 5 Guys but IIRC it's much cheaper and their big thing is thousand island island

There's gonna be a Shake Shack in St. Louis in a couple weeks.

Rockies posted...

I don't know much about hockey, do the Avs have a legit chance at staying in the mix for a playoff spot this year, or is it all going to come crashing down soon? Maybe I should be asking that about Vegas, they're still leading the division? WTF

They weren't as bad as last year's record. They're still mediocre, but they'll be somewhere in the wildcard race.

Also, their haul for Duchene was awesome.
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Whenever we get the In-N-Out I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be able to go to it for like a month. The lines are going to be insane; people have been starting rumors about In-N-Out coming to Colorado for years so I know everyone is going to go. I remember when we got Krispy Kreme here one of my teachers would tell us about going there at 4 or 5 AM and there were lines outside the building

I haven't been to in n out but when my mom went to Los Angeles I made her give a review. She said she likes five guys and shake shack better but the price difference is pretty staggering. It's like mcdonalds prices

By the way, who had Gregg Zaun penciled in as the next dude to get shitcanned for sexual harassment in the workplace?

*sees a sea of hands*
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Not me. I don't watch Canadian TV so I would have thought he was a random former-Major Leaguer until you mentioned it.

This shit is so out of hand. It would be crazy enough just to have this be a daily occurrence but it's like two or three a day now

Ggreg

He made sexist comments all the time for context
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Keith Hernandez is probably sweating lately

I'm kind of surprised that athletes with past cases haven't felt the brunt of it, though.
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Well, those cases have mostly been resolved/settled a long time ago, so I'm not sure what could come of them, or if the victims are even allowed to bring them up. But regardless, we all know that nothing will happen to them. I was curious to see what would happen with this kind of accusation now, but then I remembered we already have one courtesy of Jameis Winston. So nothing has changed there, even though TV guys and actors are getting fired with unprecedented ruthlessness

The mass firings are a good thing as I'm sure we all agree but when a known abuser stays at his job at this point it becomes all the stranger. I don't know if you guys are Potter heads but it's extremely weird and bad that JK Rowling and her brain trust seem to be moving forward with Johnny Depp as the main character of her new movies. I know he would probably be the highest profile one possible but even if he is it's not that much bigger than Kevin Spacey or Matt Lauer