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Allez les Elephants! - diamond_ace

You raped her! You murdered her! You killed her children!

I see them winning the group actually, I don't have the most confidence in Spain (Costa is injured but was still selected, Navas and Thiago weren't selected due to injury, Llorente left out despite comparatively-strong recent play) and if Chile can win the group, Brazil v. Spain round of 16 and Chile gets a nice cushy draw.

Chile, and Alexis Sanchez

Well that's one fewer person I have to worry about

Let's just say yes and leave it at that, no sense divulging industry secrets.

You know where to turn for writing

This is the best player card. All other player cards must fight for second

PNC PARK!!!! For the longest time, the best park in the country with a team unworthy of being its tarp crew. Now that we actually have a team that's fit to play there, everyone is going. I have a bunch of deals on tickets if you do get out here.

This definitely has a lot to do with it

No, it definitely wasn't you. Devise, it wasn't you either, but I do think you guys on the Pajodcast had said something about it post-draft, or it may have been another podcast.

Like I said, there was an individual with whom I'd discussed the plan to take Boychuk, and over the course of several chats he kept hedging his bets and saying how "Well if you think so" and "I don't remember seeing him around" and things like that. I overstated it for motivational purposes, but it was definitely there.

Mostly in chat from one guy, who for the sake of anonymity, I won't name. Also, one of the podcasts criticized it.

I took Travis Boychuk with the 8th overall pick in the S37 VHL Entry Draft. At the time of the draft, I kept saying how active Boychuk was and how he was obviously deserving of the pick, just no one seemed to notice because of the time of night he was active. After the draft, a few people's immediate reactions were that Boychuk was a poor selection at that point and how I should have gone with this guy or that guy instead, or not have traded down, or any number of armchair GM statements. One common sentiment was that I should have taken Lars Strummer, and we all see how that one would have worked out. He's a welfare guy, and there's nothing wrong with that, except that he's missed three weeks of welfare. Point task guys, like Boychuk, have a little leeway to miss a task here or there. Welfare guys really don't. (I'd also like to state that this is not a criticism of Strummer himself, merely the concept of taking him at 8th, considering his activity level. Strummer has the right to be a welfare guy and even to miss weeks, but it doesn't make him more valuable than Boychuk, not by a long shot.) Keep it up, doubters. Boychuk is easily deserving of the pick, and in a redraft I might not have even been able to get him at 8th. He's one of the leading candidates for rookie of the year, and is one of the biggest reasons why we're having relative success on the year. People are going to come on and say things about hindsight, and how of course I know now that it was the right pick, but that's missing the point. I knew THEN that it was the right pick, because I MADE THE PICK. Hindsight is irrelevant. tl;dr Boychuk is awesome.

NOPE. Les Elephants > All (and finally in a decent group!)

So this is the first time I looked at that home page link. I assumed it was going to just link to your player page, but no, it's an actual homepage on an actual website. That's a phenomenal extra step you're taking there, can't wait to see you in the bigs.

YES DO THIS. I want to win ALL of the TPE.

4 moths.

Yes, he of the no cups

Look at Seth pulling a me...

NEEDS MOAR $50 STICKER!

Let in 4 goals, still put up a .934 for the game

Me no wan speek goodz.

Flash Delirium (Yes, I know Flash Delirium was on Congratulations and not on Oracular Spectacular, but it's my favorite of theirs - although I like most of what they have)