Slightly belated, but my ranked preferences for Stanley Cup champion:
1) Honestly,
2) I
3) love
4) watching
5) playoff
6) hockey
7) enough
8) that
9) I
10) don't
11) really
12) care
13) who
14) wins.
15) Vegas
16) Carolina
Well, DKJ has correct equations while Popeye has a bunch of random letters, so
Looks like it's 34, quite a bit more than the 24 the Braves just pulled off. Thanks to Alex Boisvert for finding that the White Sox visited the Kansas City A's in April 1955 and won two out of three by scores of 5-3, 29-6, and 0-5.
Watching my favorite team put up a baker's dozen on Sunday Night Baseball is a good spirit lift on the flight home.
And it inspires a question: What's the MLB record for the most runs a team has scored in a three-game series in which they were shut out in one of the games?
Had to open my stupid damn mouth
I hung on for fifth place and the West title. As is the case for the last few years, I'm not exactly happy, but I am at peace with it. Farewell to Stamford!
Congratulations once again to the amazingly good-looking head coach of Denver Pioneers men's hockey.
I'm at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. I'm having a good time. I'm doing well, I'm very pleased with my performance... and I need multiple outright miracles tomorrow just to make the final. Shit's crazy.
I finished sixth in the Advanced division. Never mind how many people were in that division.
Stacks of booklets for the competition.
I guess I decided that one puzzle competition this month wasn't enough. Time for the Bay Area Logic Puzzle Open.
One hundred internets
I said "last name"
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He's insanely good, too. The answer to mine is #63.
Little puzzler for you if you like combing through a list of names: There's a player on the San Jose Sharks whose last name can be anagrammed to an apt three-word past-tense phrase.
It occurs to me that my favorite MLB team hit a walk-off grand slam and it was, by a huge distance, the second-most exciting thing in my sports weekend.
Whatever happens in the Final Four, I'm gonna look back on this fondly for a long, long time.
They led 2-0. That was it.
The #Braves are Grapefruit League champions! I'm absolutely certain that such a triumph invariably translates to immense regular-season and playoff success, and thus I will do no further research on it.
OK, it's high time I got back on Twitch to do more of the Orca variety cryptic slate. Call it 6:30p PT? twitch.tv/thatpuzzleguy
Didn't get mercy-ruled until the BOTTOM of the 7th; booyah
Things have not improved
UConn baseball vs. San Jose State. Another lovely evening, if the Huskies decided not to play defense.
At San Jose State this time. Down 9-4 in the third. Woof. The baseball gods clearly had to punish me after allowing me to see a win on Tuesday. #HookC
Multiple Unsubscribe clicks have done absolutely nothing, so I've started reporting them as spam until I stop being too lazy to set up a filter.
Luck of the Fire-ish
The two scorers for Brentford (nine letters) each have six-letter surnames.
The two scorers for Wolves (six letters) each have nine-letter surnames.
Enjoyed meeting new people at some GDC gatherings last week. I made a crossword especially for the occasion; give it a go if that sort of thing suits you. tylerhinman.com/puzzles/gdc2...
