- AdamFrench

I will be grabbing this year's version of NHL on the Xbone. I can't honestly remember the last NHL game I bought, maybe 11? Whatever. So I was watching a video on how of course they improved the graphics (is that even still a word they use?) and how realistic the jerseys react to moving up and down the ice. Yet, with all the power of the next gen systems and new steroided up PCs, they still can't design the game to have the emblem/numbers/nameplate NOT stretch and look (frank)ing oblong whenever the jersey moves. (frank), they can put blinking eyelids and single (frank)ing hairs on a player.



Watching again, they say they make the uniform move like it would in real life. Yet the thickest part of the jersey, aka the (frank)ING EMBLEM, looks like it's made out of a single layer of silk and is blowing in the wind.

I will be grabbing this year's version of NHL on the Xbone. I can't honestly remember the last NHL game I bought, maybe 11? Whatever. So I was watching a video on how of course they improved the graphics (is that even still a word they use?) and how realistic the jerseys react to moving up and down the ice. Yet, with all the power of the next gen systems and new steroided up PCs, they still can't design the game to have the emblem/numbers/nameplate NOT stretch and look (frank)ing oblong whenever the jersey moves. (frank), they can put blinking eyelids and single (frank)ing hairs on a player.
- weirdoh

Enjoy it. I'm almost done Dark Souls 2.

Mr. Leiweke was more than a manager. MLSE has had a whole bunch of those.

He was a visionary, an 18-hour-a-day dynamo, a man who could work himself near tears thinking about the possibilities (and often did).

He brought in or elevated a series of fellow travellers who now control all aspects of the corporation. In every case, in every conversation, every one of them was keen to tell you who lit the fire underneath them: Tim.

“He is the most incredible person I’ve ever met,” an MLSE exec once told me, with a religious sense of awe.

For the past year, MLSE has been run as a function of one man’s outsized personality. It can’t just go back to being an insurance company that happens to own a hockey team.

Troublingly, they also can’t find another guy who exists at Mr. Leiweke’s level, because such a person does not exist. He wasn’t just the best-connected sports executive in the country. He may have been the most hooked-in entertainment operator in the world.

Take the most famous Leiweke recruit – Drake.

In recent years, the hip-hop star had reached out on several occasions to MLSE, wanting to get involved with the Raptors. He didn’t really care how. This wasn’t a business opportunity. This was a fan with leverage.

No one at MLSE ever returned his calls. Think about that. Seriously. If you’re a fan of any one of MLSE’s teams, have a long think about what you’re going back to.

Eventually, Drake gave up.



Ok, I know he gives great BJ's, but that doesn't mean you need to make up a bunch of poop and like his bumhole and call it "journalism."

Mr. Leiweke was more than a manager. MLSE has had a whole bunch of those.

He was a visionary, an 18-hour-a-day dynamo, a man who could work himself near tears thinking about the possibilities (and often did).

He brought in or elevated a series of fellow travellers who now control all aspects of the corporation. In every case, in every conversation, every one of them was keen to tell you who lit the fire underneath them: Tim.

“He is the most incredible person I’ve ever met,” an MLSE exec once told me, with a religious sense of awe.

For the past year, MLSE has been run as a function of one man’s outsized personality. It can’t just go back to being an insurance company that happens to own a hockey team.

Troublingly, they also can’t find another guy who exists at Mr. Leiweke’s level, because such a person does not exist. He wasn’t just the best-connected sports executive in the country. He may have been the most hooked-in entertainment operator in the world.

Take the most famous Leiweke recruit – Drake.

In recent years, the hip-hop star had reached out on several occasions to MLSE, wanting to get involved with the Raptors. He didn’t really care how. This wasn’t a business opportunity. This was a fan with leverage.

No one at MLSE ever returned his calls. Think about that. Seriously. If you’re a fan of any one of MLSE’s teams, have a long think about what you’re going back to.

Eventually, Drake gave up.



Ok, I know he gives great BJ's, but that doesn't mean you need to make up a bunch of poop and like his bumhole and call it "journalism."
- AdamFrench

Who wrote this?

Mr. Leiweke was more than a manager. MLSE has had a whole bunch of those.

He was a visionary, an 18-hour-a-day dynamo, a man who could work himself near tears thinking about the possibilities (and often did).

He brought in or elevated a series of fellow travellers who now control all aspects of the corporation. In every case, in every conversation, every one of them was keen to tell you who lit the fire underneath them: Tim.

“He is the most incredible person I’ve ever met,” an MLSE exec once told me, with a religious sense of awe.

For the past year, MLSE has been run as a function of one man’s outsized personality. It can’t just go back to being an insurance company that happens to own a hockey team.

Troublingly, they also can’t find another guy who exists at Mr. Leiweke’s level, because such a person does not exist. He wasn’t just the best-connected sports executive in the country. He may have been the most hooked-in entertainment operator in the world.

Take the most famous Leiweke recruit – Drake.

In recent years, the hip-hop star had reached out on several occasions to MLSE, wanting to get involved with the Raptors. He didn’t really care how. This wasn’t a business opportunity. This was a fan with leverage.

No one at MLSE ever returned his calls. Think about that. Seriously. If you’re a fan of any one of MLSE’s teams, have a long think about what you’re going back to.

Eventually, Drake gave up.



Ok, I know he gives great BJ's, but that doesn't mean you need to make up a bunch of poop and like his bumhole and call it "journalism."
- AdamFrench

Read the same article and had the same thoughts.

Mr. Leiweke was more than a manager. MLSE has had a whole bunch of those.

He was a visionary, an 18-hour-a-day dynamo, a man who could work himself near tears thinking about the possibilities (and often did).

He brought in or elevated a series of fellow travellers who now control all aspects of the corporation. In every case, in every conversation, every one of them was keen to tell you who lit the fire underneath them: Tim.

“He is the most incredible person I’ve ever met,” an MLSE exec once told me, with a religious sense of awe.

For the past year, MLSE has been run as a function of one man’s outsized personality. It can’t just go back to being an insurance company that happens to own a hockey team.

Troublingly, they also can’t find another guy who exists at Mr. Leiweke’s level, because such a person does not exist. He wasn’t just the best-connected sports executive in the country. He may have been the most hooked-in entertainment operator in the world.

Take the most famous Leiweke recruit – Drake.

In recent years, the hip-hop star had reached out on several occasions to MLSE, wanting to get involved with the Raptors. He didn’t really care how. This wasn’t a business opportunity. This was a fan with leverage.

No one at MLSE ever returned his calls. Think about that. Seriously. If you’re a fan of any one of MLSE’s teams, have a long think about what you’re going back to.

Eventually, Drake gave up.



Ok, I know he gives great BJ's, but that doesn't mean you need to make up a bunch of poop and like his bumhole and call it "journalism."
- AdamFrench

Could have just said that Tim was here to save us and now Leafs, Raptors and TFC are (frank)ed and saved a lot of time

Also, why the (frank) would we want Peddie or his lap dog running as CEO of MLSE when those two oversaw some of the worst hockey (basketball, and eventually football) that this city as ever witnessed.

Who wrote this?
- A_Tree

some tit

some tit
- AdamFrench

Stee?

Stee?
- Sammich

First.
- Not_Stee

you again

Stee?
- Sammich

NOW THE PUCK IS A PUCK AND IT NEEDS TO GO IN THE NET YOU KNOW AND THIS IS A PERFECT DAY FOR A GAME OF PUCKBALL
- AdamFrench

Man can't believe all the laughies I'm getting for that. It's some of my weakest work.

hughson is a mundane, unspirited twat....simpson a dry, redundant, know-it-all and and healey is a disgrace to broadcasting.


...at least rominuk has some energy.

- Not_Stee

Mike Augello: Loiselle Not Heading To NHL Offices; Saturday Tidbits
- mikeinbuffalo

Bob Cole should retire!

There, I said it.

Bob Cole should have retired 15 years ago!

There, I said it.
- dmnted

Fixed

So from what I gather, any broadcaster that isn't an out and out Leaf cheerleader, like Bowen or Cole, sucks.

Man can't believe all the laughies I'm getting for that. It's some of my weakest work.
- AdamFrench

It's a goody, especially if you do madden voice in your head.

Fixed
- Iggysbff

At least we concur on the subject.

- Sammich

I'm a twit, not a tit.

So from what I gather, any broadcaster that isn't an out and out Leaf cheerleader, like Bowen or Cole, sucks.
- DoubleDown

No, not all of them. Cole shoulda been shown the door.
I do enjoy Chris Cuthbert calling of games.

I'm a twit, not a tit.
- Not_Stee

nor a twat was that ......