Chesapeake is a nat-gas company, they make almost all of their money from it. In this case, I was actually talking about oil however, Chesapeake was trying to diversify as gas prices were dropping and, well, it's all shale, right? They did so in a big way and overpaid. Here's (http://beta.fool.com/nmaithya/2013/07/08/is-this-shale-gas-giant-backing-off-from-the-busin/39485/?logvisit=y&published=2013-7-8&source=eptcnnlnk0000001) a write-up about it.

I lived in Seattle for almost 20 years. I wasn't a diehard fan but I like to watch a game on the weekend. Mostly it was the dickishness.