Posts Tagged ‘Make the hurting stop’

Ender
Feb 4th, 2010
2:47PM UTC

Dear Oilers,

I’m a pretty big fan.  I’ve even supported the idea that you could be a great team with some minor personnel changes and playing as a team.  This is not the time to start doing that.

I’ll admit, even in the middle of January I was hoping for a repeat of Quinn’s undefeated streak (35 games) which could have propelled you into the playoff picture.  However, doing the math today shows that even if you win every game between now and the end of the season you’d be lucky to get 8th spot (with 96 points).  This is not the time to win.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying you should actively try to lose.  At this stage of the game if you break .500 for the rest of the season you’re still only likely to drop down to 3rd pick.  And while, yes, Toronto getting first pick would entertain me bitterly (I believe you’re aware that their pick goes to Boston this year) and I realize that there’s no real clearance between the first and second prospects this season it should be up to you to pick between Daigle and Pronger.  You don’t want to obsess over what might have been.

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Matt
Jul 14th, 2009
10:09PM UTC

Some Modifications…

Just a quick post to note that I’ve been playing a bit with the site, and I’ve customized it slightly to add in the missing links to the right, and some other minor changes.

More should be coming from me in the future…

Matt

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Doogie2K
Jul 14th, 2009
8:05PM UTC

"You smell very clean."

When Ender directed me to the site today, after days of it being down, I was immediately struck by how different it looked.  I definitely like the new aesthetic, having never been huge on the green (edit: I’m an idiot; see the comments, then play me off, Keyboard Cat), and hopefully, our shiny new site will be easier to spambot-proof after the disaster that befell us before.  And hopefully, it will also encourage more commenting, since everyone gets how WordPress and Blogger work, on a fundamental level.  (Certainly, if it doesn’t, there’s only one place left to lay the blame.)

No clue what we’re going to do with the old posts, though, especially if simply migrating them over proves difficult or impossible.  I may just repost the handful of articles and posts that I’m particularly proud of and/or may need to reference in the future.  This site is very much under construction, so stay tuned.

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Ender
Jul 13th, 2009
8:48PM UTC

I May Have Finally Given Up

Any of you who have been to the site over the last month or two likely have noticed that there’s been a lot of times when the server has been down.  Part of that is the server itself dying randomly, and part of it is the site itself having a memory leak somewhere.  Not to mention all of the spam comments.

For at least the next day or so, the normal site is down.  I’m switching over to WordPress for the basic posting stuff, so hopefully the comments should have an easier time there.  I’ll get the reviews and articles back up as soon as I can, but at this point that may take some doing.  We’ll see.

Either way, here’s to the start of something new.

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