DarkandStormy

The Golden Knights have 12 Stanley Cup playoff wins in their first season. The Jackets have 5 playoff wins since their inception in 2000. **** the Knights, imo.

FTW

Do you hear Laurel or Yanny?

http://money.cnn.com/2018/05/16/technology/amazon-hq2-arlington-texas/index.html Texas city (Arlington) reveals why it lost Amazon HQ2 bid

https://www.scribd.com/document/379408429/Read-ECU-poll-results Balderson up 45%-43% over O'Connor in latest ECU poll for OH-12 special election.

^That is certainly the series to expect next year and Boston probably has the best chance to get by GSW, if they can make it past Philly of course. LeBron/Love/Kyrie essentially added no one in 2016 while the Warriors added the 2nd-best player on the planet. They needed to find a way to add a Paul George (or someone of that caliber) to the big 3 to keep pace with Golden State. They basically dumped Kyrie for some role/bench players. The NBA won't be all that interesting until the big 4 in Golden State are broken up. Durant declined his 2018-2019 option, but he'll probably just sign another one-year deal a la LeBron. Thomspn is a UFA in 2019 and he'll want to get paid. Green is a UFA in 2020 and he'll want to get paid (? maybe?). But they look like they'll win the next two titles for sure.

Their ball movement might cease to exist?

LeBron had 42-12-10 and they still got blown the **** out. Jeff Green had 5 turnovers and was -17 in 28 minutes and went 2/5 shooting. JR missed all 7 shots he took. LeBron and Love had 64 points, the rest of the team had 30. Celtics won the turnover battle (15-5), had more offensive rebounds (11-8), and made their free throws (17/20 vs. 10/17). That's it. Cavs shot a better % from the field, but the Celtics got off 12 more shots. If you're going to get crappy Jeff Green, miss-em-all JR, and a nearly-nonexistent George Hill you're gonna have a bad time.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sherrod-brown-lays-agenda-little-guy-conference-progressives-154237226.html

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/pollster-ratings/ 538 says PPP skews R+0.2.

https://www.scribd.com/document/378736368/OH-Gov-PPP-for-Ohio-Democratic-Party-April-2018-May-2018

That's actually not how it typically plays out. A rough math estimate in your scenario (D = 60% of statewide vote) would be for Democrats to win 70% of the seats/districts, or 11 reps of the 16. Podcast on it - https://art19.com/shows/today-explained/episodes/54e8a8ad-8d89-4ef6-a84a-fadc53035b49 Another one - https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/whos-gerry-and-why-he-so-bad-drawing-maps/ If you're a big time math nerd, the efficiency gap can be found here - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.10812.pdf and here - https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1946&context=public_law_and_legal_theory Some more math - https://www.wired.com/story/the-math-behind-gerrymandering-and-wasted-votes/ More - https://www.wired.com/story/what-i-learned-at-gerrymandering-summer-camp/ I don't know about recent Ohio elections, but I know a common example used is Pennsylvania in 2012, where Democrats won 51% of the popular House vote but only won 5 out of the 18 House seats - less than 1/3. The Wisconsin state map is another where in 2012 and 2014 Republicans won ~50% or less of the popular vote, but took more than 60% of the seats.

It was a nice start, but I'd rather have some non-partisan group drawing the maps in an ideal world. Then again, I don't know if there is such thing as a truly "non-partisan group." I'm curious if any of the current gerrymandering cases at SCOTUS will have an impact on this if/when they rule on it.

LeBron was -32 lol.

https://www.sbnation.com/2018/5/11/17345170/lebron-james-history-coach-fired-dwane-casey

Wow! Not even Cuyahoga? That's sad for Dennis! Time to retire to the cushy life of a Fox News contributor. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/08/us/elections/results-ohio-primary-elections.html Schiavoni won Trumbull and Mahoning counties. Cordray won the other 86. In Cuyahoga it went Cordray 68,870, Kucinich 50,580, and Schiavoni 5,219.

I'd much rather face Houston than GSW, but admittedly I haven't been following the West much at all this year. The Rockets finished SEVEN games better than Golden State?

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/08/ohio-primary-election-results-2018-576782 Balderson almost lost.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/5/8/17326612/ohio-primary-elections-2018-live-results-kucinich-cordray-dewine-mary-taylor Cordray smashed Kucinich - Dennis didn't even win one county. DeWine beat Taylor by nearly 20%.

Judge orders 90-day toll in notice period in #SaveTheCrew suit. Motion to toll, motion to stay discovery both granted "in part," or for this 90-day period.

Easy sweep. Boston couldn't close out Philly so that series will go at least 5.

Any word on if anyone is going to take over the old Max & Erma's location? They had people write in suggestions on stickers this winter for ideas but as far as I can tell nothing materialized.

https://www.vox.com/2018/5/7/17304812/primary-election-2018-may-8-ohio-indiana-north-carolina-west-virginia Several potentially close U.S. House races (plus the governorship and U.S. Senate seat) profiled here.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/5/4/17312732/ohio-12-special-election-melanie-leneghan-troy-balderson Ohio's 12th District could be a flip. The GOP establishment is worried about splitting votes in the primary on Tuesday which could open the door for Leneghan.