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Bartles

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  1. Our daytime activities were Skansen outdoor museum (awesome place if weather is OK) and Old Town/palace tour. Also took a brief ferry tour just around the main harbor which was neat. Best eating and drinking area we saw was the nearby Ostermalm neighborhood. Beautiful architecture, though the crowd had a bit of an uptown Dallas vibe.
  2. I drive fast but you're correct, looks like two hours for sure. Point stands though, most distance flights will connect at ORD anyway
  3. Been there a few times, though never in dead of winter. My friend lives in Arbor Hills area, he and his family love it. Nice neighborhood and fairly affordable. Traffic is worse than you would think, and as I recall the speed limit is 55 or not much higher. If you have to travel, I would just drive the 90 minutes or so to O'Hare. Cheaper and overall more efficient than MSN. But I guess that routine might get old after a while.
  4. I've wondered all day why this story about Leach tweeting a fake Obama video hasn't been posted on this thread. I guess there's no answer without Cloak Room implications, so I'll just leave the link here. Not his best work. Oh, and why does the video in the previous post contain an extended photo viewing of Nick Saban accepting the CFP trophy?
  5. Staircase (Michael Peterson) wikipedia includes an interesting "Owl theory" that the show never brought up, nor was it mentioned in court. Series was interesting but dragged a little towards the end. Pos rep for Ernest on the Backcountry rec. You sit through some typical buildup but damn the last 30 minutes are intense
  6. Some of y'all who actually follow this sport closely, how would you draw the bracket if it was a true 1-8 seeding? Ore St-UNC seems like an unfair pairing right out of the gate
  7. This, and I'm not wasting any more time on blogs or podcasts to nerdsplain it to me. This should be a really cool show about robots overtaking their human creators but in order to drag things out they need to mess with the chronology, and also add meaningless distractions like the map.
  8. I've watched up to the backpack and have loved it. The show has a consistent style that is definitely not for everyone, a lot of the jokes don't connect or are lost in the fast pace. But the money ones are worth it imo. Party Monster gets an A grade just for the "Innocence Broject"
  9. Fox gets first pick for Big 12 around half the time CBS is primary for the SEC There is no 6 pm Big 12 game on ESPN (it's an SEC game)
  10. Stupid shit your wives do: Get you ousted from job as NBA GM by using fake twitter accounts
  11. Fox News trying to implicate Zack Ertz as an anthem protestor
  12. I'm about 45 minutes from Delaware Park, but I don't want to be part of this on day one. DE and NJ saw this coming years ago and were ready to pounce once that case got to the SCOTUS. It's good they have a couple months before football to iron out any kinks.
  13. Caps score on PP a couple minutes after Vegas blows an amazing chance on their PP
  14. Saw a comment that wouldn't surprise me if true -- with govt and leagues trying to get a cut, look for vigs to go up as in most basic bets will be -112 to -115 instead of the current -110. Many newbies won't know or care about the difference.
  15. This. I won't insult Westworld with a Walking Dead comparison (yet), but it's giving me the same vibes much of the time. I think there were at least four scenes where two characters faced off, we KNOW neither of them will actually die, but each showdown ends in a miraculous last-second intervention or distraction.
  16. If "vs. other destinations" means south of France or something, then maybe don't bring her to Phila/DE. But if it's just a cool domestic trip you're after, this is a great area in July. Museums, food, beer, sports, festivals...and a bunch of very nice beach towns 60-90 minutes away. Beaches moreso in south Jersey than Delaware, though there is an easy ferry from Lewes, DE to Cape May NJ.
  17. My usual response to this: Pat's and Geno's are both fine, the cheesesteak isn't exactly the hardest thing to create. But while that intersection at 9th & Passyunk is historic and unique, it's still a bit of a hike from Center City. So my recs are: Sonny's on Market Street & 3rd; Nick's on 2nd St between Chestnut/Market; Jim's on 4th & South. If you're near City Hall, there's a hole in the wall called Bill's on Sansom between 13th & Broad. But honestly you have great odds of being very happy with just about any independently owned pizza/sub shop. ETA: Forgot my own go-to which is Lazaro's. Two locations: 18th & South or 7th & Sansom
  18. The scent is now super strong around the wife. Main question now is will he claim she did it without his knowledge? Even if so it's too reckless to allow him to keep his job...
  19. The Athletic did their in-depth feature on Northern Illinois this week. Not expected to do more than maybe contend for the MAC title, but wow their non-conference is a rare example of what a non-P5 team would have to do to get playoff consideration: At Iowa vs. Utah at Florida State at BYU
  20. I think I'd rather watch Get Up on continuous loop for 8 hours than one minute of Marty Smith's America (which I think is monthly)
  21. The NYC move baffles me. Weren't Mike & Mike supposed to move to Times Square about five years ago, and they scrapped the plan because it was too expensive? Now in an even worse business climate (for TV), they bring a lesser show to the city? And I haven't watched more than a few minutes but it doesn't seem like they use the outside scenery much. I guess it's easier to book some guests.
  22. I should clarify that while The Process succeeded, it is not good for fans nor advisable for a bunch of teams to emulate. The Sixers took advantage of the rules at the time. There were years of unintentional failure which made it more palatable to us, at least Hinkie had a plan and executed it. Ideally the NBA figures out a system to discourage another Process attempt. It's also hilarious that Embiid adopted that as his nickname
  23. That all makes sense, but I do give Bryan credit for some of the moves like Redick, Ilyasova and Belinelli, all of whom really solidified a roster that wasn't very deep until late in the season. Noel just ran out of time contract-wise, and they did get another contributor back in Justin Anderson (who really should have played more last week). Okafor was simply a bust, they probably should have traded down but at the time it looked like he could at least score in the NBA. It happens. The Tatum thing hurts. Before the draft there was a lot of buzz that he was actually the most NBA ready guy out there. He wasn't a perfect system fit, but damn don't hand him along with a No. 1 to your rival who is already loaded.
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