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  1. 13 hours ago, Echo said:

     

    Chicago was wearing black jerseys in 1928.  Boston didn't have a black jersey until 1948. 

     

    And Chicago was using black since their inception 2 years prior, so not sure where Jeremy Jacobs gets off, but he's always been a clown.

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  2. On 9/17/2023 at 6:07 PM, Kevin W. said:


    Yep. In a vacuum that logo is horrible, but when you remember the spoked B is just their 25th anniversary logo I think it's a great call back. 
     

    On 9/17/2023 at 5:03 PM, jdavidev said:

    As a Bruins fan, I definitely agree with you. These are awful. White numbers?? Black socks?? I was expecting a jersey from three different eras, Orr, Bourque and Bergeron (all the old timey classic ones have been mined for Winter Classics already). Home - Bourque, Road - Orr, and Third - Bergeron. That would tie up the history together.

     

    White numbers??/// WTF? 


    White numbers are a head scratcher. The Bruins have used white numbers on their primary black jersey for a total of 9 years out of 99. Makes no sense to use them here, especially if you're getting fancy with shimmery gold everywhere else. The black socks come as no surprise, Jacobs loves the claim that the Bruins are the first professional team to use black as a primary color, even though I'm not buying that whatsoever.
     

    44 minutes ago, AndrewG70 said:

    But in all seriousness -- the six combined gold stripes on the two sleeves represent the team's six Stanley Cups.


    If that's true, and it probably is - it's a tremendous stretch.  There are 9 stripes per sleeve, and I can guarantee the casual fan isn't going to put together that there's 6 gold ones to signify 6 Stanley Cups. Hell, even I wasn't reading it like that. 
     

    On 9/17/2023 at 2:15 PM, the admiral said:

    Ice looks good, but I can't get over what a downgrade it was to go from yellow seats to black seats. It really gets in the way of being the spiritual continuation of the Boston Garden that the naming rights and being next door to the old one would suggest.


    Going from yellow to black was a great way to remove any and all character from an already characterless building. 

  3. On 6/13/2023 at 9:22 AM, tBBP said:

    First of all, teams/organizations throw the word "iconic" around WAY too much. I've been to Denver's Union Station several times and I don't think even Denverites think of that signage as "iconic". That said, regarding the actual inspiration, let's let the pictorial comparison do the talking here:

     

    travel-by-train.jpg?w=1200&h=-1&s=1

     

    I'd say that's a pretty great match...specifically in how the gradient effect of the side panels mimics both the color and the lighting effects on the brick facades of Union Station as pictured above.

     

    I lived in Denver, and in that white building behind Union Station for 2 years. Considering Denver as a city is... boring, I'd say that signage is recognizable enough to use. Everyone who visits Denver takes a picture of that damn thing, it's a great visual. There's not much else to pull from, it's either the mountains (too easy), parking lots, or the Capitol/Civic Center Park, which looks like every other capitol in the country give or take, and it's not really an area anybody in Denver visits on purpose.

    Just learning the side stripes are supposed to mimic the station itself, nice touch - bit of a Nike force, but still nice.

  4. 11 minutes ago, MJWalker45 said:

    Yep. I noticed that some teams in Hummel have goalkeepers wearing their own choice for uniforms as well. 

    That was more of a supply issue. There's only 4 GK kit colors, so if they clash or don't fit they're wearing their own.

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  5. 22 hours ago, MJWalker45 said:

    I like that the teams aren't all wearing one kit in different colors. I think some of the entrants probably have rules against wearing anything other than their primary kit sponsors.  Como apparently sent a group of first team players. 

     

    Most teams (20ish) are in Hummel, the teams that aren't are contractually obligated to wear Nike/Puma/Adidas etc.

  6. 1 hour ago, who do you think said:

    I know talk of the 3-0 comeback is inevitable, but the main difference is the "spam threes" strategy coin flip has been coming up heads the last two nights (yeah Tatum's attacking and they're actually getting after it on defense, but when the threes aren't falling, that stuff tends to go too). What happens if/when it comes up tails again? Are they going to say screw it, we can't win and check out? Probably, that's what they've been doing all year.

     

    Grind out a win when the threes aren't going your way, then I'll start giving credit. Miami did that in game 2.

     

    Welcome to Celtics basketball. When the threes fall, they play a complete 2 way game. When the threes don't fall they crap themselves.

  7. 21 hours ago, Digby said:

     

     

    Getting into the sporting act, too. Certainly one way to warm up.

     

    As an aside -- what are these panels of faux-snow they have covering the entire field for these things? It's been 50 degrees in Boston for a week and I'm not sure we've had any snow at all this season.

     

    When I headed back east in mid-December it was snowing in Boston, and cold as F too. A great reminder why I don't live there anymore.

     

    I didn't mind the faux snow, it fit's the aesthetic far more than nice green grass surrounding an ice sheet. 

  8. 1 hour ago, Digby said:

     

    I mean that's pretty much it. It's fine. Almost anything is better than an wasteful empty lot in downtown Boston. I'm not really interested in the luxury condos, office building, night club, gigantic underground grocery store or Guy Fieri burrito restaurant so I can't really speak to those. The food court is the usual fast-casual concepts that have enough VC backing to afford rent in a new build, not anything revelatory but better than the nightmare bro bars across the street. The gigantic sports pub is bad. The fancy movie cinema was kind of nice for the few months it was open before covid and bankruptcy. Every new building in Boston makes a big show of "we're not the old stodgy Boston" by adopting a weird offset stack-of-boxes aesthetic, and at this point this is an area where I prefer old stodgy Boston.

     

    I lived off Causeway in 2010-2013, it was a seedy area before redevelopment and remains that way even with all the flashy new glass buildings they put up. There was a plethora of food and sports bar options in the immediate vicinity of the Garden with actual character, the area really didn't need what they added.

     

    The only plus of the whole thing was the supermarket in the basement as there was really nothing in that neighborhood other than a smallish Whole Foods.

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  9. 10 minutes ago, Kooky01 said:

    I admit we did cheat in 2017. But you guys are overreacting. It's not like we hit home runs on every pitch just because we knew what was coming.  And oh yeah, the Steelers cheated in Super Bowl 40, and yet I see no one put an asterisk on that title. Same with the Patriots with Deflategate, but no one has an asterisk next to their ring either. 

     

    I'm not sure anyone here is overreacting. It seems that you're the only one bothered about it.

     

    There's no asterisk for 2017, either. This isn't the NCAA, they aren't going to take a World Series away. Astros players on that team will continue to pay the public price for what happened, and that's that. Guys like Beltran, Cora, and probably unfairly Hinch will always have that blemish.  Do I even actually care that the Astros stole signs in 2017? Not one iota. 

     

    However.... The outcome of a play doesn't correlate to the seriousness of the level of cheating - in any sport. Just because there wasn't a home run or RBI on every pitch does not make it a lesser infraction. Baseball is an incredibly hard sport, even when you know what's coming you still aren't going to square up on it more often than not.  It's still a very clear advantage, though.

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  10. 14 minutes ago, Digby said:


    Naive to think anyone wasn’t cheating, the Astros just maybe partied a little too hard on that front. 
     

    Baseball‘s widespread cheating era was better than the modern Excelball, anyway. Bring back PEDs, ban data modeling.

     

    Did the Red Sox cheat? Yes. Did 90% of baseball do the same thing? Yes. Did the Astros take it a step further? Yes.

     

    However, the "we can with without, just look at the year we didnt win the World Series" is an odd take.

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  11. 10 hours ago, Germanshepherd said:

    I was ready to crown Purdue as B1G West champs, but that time management was atrocious. 
     

    Still, that’s a scary team offensively because every skill position guy is 24. I love them. 

     

    Yeah what were they doing? The Dan Quinn School of Time Management was on full display in those last 6 or so minutes.  And then icing on the cake not calling a timeout with 29 seconds left and letting it run down to 20ish. Weird, weird stuff. They should've won that game.

  12. 17 hours ago, Digby said:

    I have to think that, if NESN and the Bally networks have continued to stay out of combined streaming services AND invest in building out their own bespoke streamers, that suggests there are no plans for MLB.TV to lift blackout rules.

    The problem with NESN's streaming service, aside from its ridiculous cost is it's of no use to me out here. It's essentially for locals only, which kind of defeats the purpose of the whole thing.

  13. 1 hour ago, Digby said:

    I love baseball on the radio but that's because I've been blessed my entire life to have Joe Castiglione doing Red Sox games.

     

    They occasionally do him the indignity of pairing him with Lou Merloni, Sean McDonough or that one bizarre year with Chris Berman (!!). But Joe with a partner who stays out of the way is pretty close to a Scullyesque platonic ideal of baseball. 

     

    (Also I'm not paying NESN $30/month for streaming their channel and their channel only.)

     

    (Speaking of NESN, though I watch them rarely anyway obviously, but bummed to hear that Dennis Eckersley is retiring from TV at season's end!)

     

    Eck was really the last glimmer of hope at that network. Happy to see him get to spend more time with his family and grandkids, but damn, what a loss for a booth already spiraling into obscurity. 

     

    @DG_ThenNowForever VPN into MLB.TV, that's how I watch the Rockies.  

  14. 2 hours ago, Digby said:

     

    I thought this frequently during the middle Henry era, where there was either a title or a dysfunctional last-place finish with no in-between. They seem to be settling in now, though, to one of those classic middle-ground filler teams. .500 records, the occasional appearance in an ALCS (but getting killed there), there's always next year. Which is a pretty wild place to voluntarily put yourself when you're the most successful team of the millennium and you charge the highest prices to your fans in the entire league, but I don't know how else to interpret the direction of the franchise.

    John Henry has won enough to no longer care about winning. It's solely profits at this point - and it's a business so I get it. But he's well aware people will still watch, and still go to the games regardless of how good or not good the team is. 4 championships for the freakin' Red Sox in 20 years is incredible, but when you zoom out and really look at the resume it's pretty bad. 

     

    He burns through GM's every 4 years, which if you catch fire is great (and they have), but it leaves the team as a whole with little to no direction long-term. There's no true plan for sustained success.

     

    I also signed off during the Bobby Valentine season and have struggled to care since then. Even in 2013 with all that was happening in the city, and as joyous as the WS should've been for me, I was disconnected from it - still left with a bad taste from the Inventor or the Wrap (TM). Moving to Denver last year, and San Diego next summer I'll be on the Padres train listening to Don Orsillo nightly while drifting even further from whatever the hell Henry & Co. are doing. 

  15. 15 hours ago, VDizzle12 said:

    CCM would keep the NHL looking the same for the next decade. If that's what you want, they're your answer. Their CHL/AHL uniforms aren't bad, but also aren't anything spectacular. 

     

    As much as people around here hate Nike at least they would bring some creativity to the table. Remember clients drive the bus. If the NHL is looking at the NBA/MLB and wants some "city" uniform money, that's what Nike will give them. If they want something like Reverse retro Nike can deliver that too. The jersey manufacturer has no power to force a league or team to do anything.


    The hockey ops team at Adidas is the best creative department in the business, bar none.
     

    9 minutes ago, WSU151 said:

     

    Adidas makes more than jerseys and hats for the NHL (t-shirts, sweatshirts). 

     

    Adidas agreed to Fanatics making most of the wearable merchandise. That was the original collaborative deal. 


    It's almost like they didn't want to deal with all the skus and/or the manufacturing it requires to produce all of that gear. And here they are wondering why they aren't making money. Really odd decision to leave the high selling cheaper items to another company.
     

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  16. On 7/1/2022 at 3:36 PM, DoctorWhom said:

    I have no clue how I should feel about this. 

    Hope he turns out good and not another "boys club" hire.  

     

    I haven't read a bad thing about him outside of his personal issue which he's been very open about and dealt with, players unanimously like him. And then you add on to the fact that the timing of Bergeron's announcement and DeBrusk's withdrawn trade request - AND Krecji rumors swirling, it sounds like the reports of Cassidy losing the room are pretty accurate. 

  17. 1 hour ago, Sport said:

    I feel like the Avs stole that one, but that's what great teams do. Didn't play great for 60 minutes, were outshot, outworked, outchanced, and Kuemper looked shaky, but hold a team to under 3 goals and you'll win most nights. In overtime they had possession for what felt like 75% of the time and a goal felt inevitable, which is why I can't really care that much about Kadri going early on his line change. 

     

    Now, is it too much to ask to invent a net where the puck doesn't get lost so easily and/or there's some kind of puck sensor system that automatically turns the red light on when the puck enters? That goal was anti-climactic and the TV coverage of it was not good. They never did show the moment when the Avs figured it out. It just cut from the players standing around to the celebration and the announcers didn't really know what happened.

     

    Agree to disagree here. I thought Kuemper looked the best he's looked all playoffs, other than that softy from Hedman. The first goal he had no chance on, I understand the rule there, but as a former goalie it's pure dog:censored:.  It's a dangerous play and an impossible one for a goalie to recover from. If a skater has to leave immediately, the play should be blown dead for a goalie as well. Either way, he made some massive saves that kept the Av's within reach all game. Very impressed with how he bounced back.

     

    I was convinced with how the overtime was playing out that it was going to end on a random bounce for Tampa, Vasy was playing out of his damn mind.

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  18. 13 hours ago, DoctorWhom said:

    7-0 Avalanche win. 

    Most goals allowed in Vasilevskiy's career. 

     

    Honestly they should have just sat him in after the 2nd when it was 5-0. 

     

    The only thing I can think happened here was Cooper talked to Vailevskiy and asked if he wanted to sit and take a mental reset for Game 3 and he said no this is my net, then Cooper said "They scored 10 goals, Jim. Right now it's everybody's net." Or something like that.

     

    Literally the only reason he was out there was because he wanted to be. It might be pride in being the only goalie to play minutes on their current run or maybe he just wanted to find his game again, I don't know - but it was a really odd thing to see him out there.

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  19. 13 hours ago, Brass said:

     

    Great news. With a record like what Cassidy has, this has to be a move based on his relationship with the players. The way he’s talked during press conferences and about players doesn’t make that situation not plausible. He’s also failed to have his teams show up at really important times. That, in my humble opinion, falls on the coach.

     

    I was never a huge Butch fan.  Despite his record he was routinely outcoached in the playoffs, he let Berube run all over him in that Final and didn't fire back.

    With the veteran core the Bruins have, the leadership came from the locker room - not the coaches office. Cassidy getting fired really cements the fact, in my mind, that both Bergeron and Krecji return next season, and I sense a career year out of Debrusk who couldn't stand the guy.  Now just keep Claude Julien the hell away from New England in the coming months and I'll be happy. 

    Now if Neely would just steal Sweeneys phone and delete the nudes or whatever dirt he has on him that's preventing him from being fired the Bruins will be in great shape. 

  20. 32 minutes ago, DoctorWhom said:

    I don't understand why Cassidy needs to be fired. The team has made the playoffs every year with him. 

    He's not the problem. The problem is the Bruins had no depth. Can't really on Pasta, Marchand & Bergeron to bail them out every game. 

     

    It was a tough series, and home ice ended u being the deciding factor. Not like either team has a great chance of making it past the 2nd round anyway.  

    No, you can’t rely on them every game and expect to win.  Which is why Sweeney needs to go, the entire front office should be gutted and rebuilt. Cassidy should be a casualty as well - I haven’t seen anything that really wows me about anything he does. There’s absolutely no fire, his only go to move is a clueless look into the abyss.

     

    Also, Taylor Hall… woof. Lights looked a little to bright for that guy today.
     

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