The_Admiral

23 minutes ago, Red Comet said:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that the primary goal of the minor league system? 

If it were, it'd be an improvement. The AHL is a pretty short runway for good prospects: the longer they stay, the likelier they are to get laid out by some goon trying to get a cup of coffee as a 14th forward. Outside of the 2000s Red Wings, anyone who distinguishes himself there does so quickly or not at all. And because major-junior squats on all the elite prospects, a lot of what gets developed are just bottom-sixers, second-line wings and second-pair D at best, maybe. "Tomorrow's healthy scratches today" doesn't put asses in seats.

As a result of that structure, you can't blame organizations who choose not to agonize over that and just try to produce winning hockey with attractive promotions. 

There was a crank on HFBoards (yeah, I don't believe it either) who would post entire dissertations on why Scott Howson was an Actually Good GM and it was only the GMs before and after him who did everything wrong and made him look bad. I don't care enough to investigate whether there turns out to be a kernel of truth to that ranting, I'm reasonably confident that hiring a guy from the early 2010s Beej is the worst choice the AHL could make short of peeling off some hired goons from McKinsey and sending them up to Western Mass to go around firing everyone.

17 hours ago, DDR said:

Anybody in the Lo' Downiverse wanna go Villano I, II, III and IV style?

Villanos I and II are exclusive to Logoserver

1 hour ago, simtek34 said:

Oh my god, it’s the 2006/2007 ESPN Monday Night Football Graphics...

 

 

Ya happy Admiral?

Actually, no! I don't like logos in place of abbreviations.

Yeah it didn't let me do "I<3boobs69420" either

20 minutes ago, Buc said:

I don't suppose "Sean O Mac" would work at this juncture, would it?

A certain "Lisa S." -- no, that's too obvious -- let's say "L. Simpson"

I was a fan of the highly unpopular bottom-center bug that ESPN used when they first got Monday Night Football. 

He might just not catch that Purdue is what would be called "Indiana State" or "Indiana Tech" were it not named for its benefactor. The actual Indiana State is more like Northern Illinois.

I'm pretty sure Invision has always allowed for name changes, it's just a matter of whether the admins designate it for member use.

I think we should be able to change our names every 30 days. Name anarchy. Twitter gets away with it. Gotta keep up. 

No, I actually have no recollection of that at all. Interesting, good find. Did they do that before the Seahawks did?

On 1/2/2020 at 12:21 PM, kroywen said:

 

The red helmet always stuck out like a sore thumb to me. It didn't go with the rest of the Bills' uniforms, IMO. And the gigantic center stripes were hideous.

I liked it because I like the idea of the Bills somewhat balancing red and blue. An ideal system would be red elements having blue features (helmet logo/stripe/facemask, sock stripes), white elements having blue features, and blue elements having white features (stripes, names, numbers). I guess the idea would be that doing red/white/blue in that way would be sort of an "America's Team" aesthetic, or Drunk America's Team, as the case may be.

"You've got the hardwood, we've got the blight that kills trees" never gets used for basketball teams. Why would you promote that you're melting your own ice?

What a good movie.

"Will you be my dad again?"
"When the Angels win the pennant."
"Okay, they won the pennant."
"Yeah, I'm still not."

Fun for the whole family.

California is the worst designation of the three, you goobers! Did everyone like the Danny Glover remake of Angels in the Outfield that much?

You're right, you just solved talk radio. What people really want to hear is CBS Sports Radio where some guy talks to himself and takes a thousand pregnant pauses in arguing that the thing you like is bad or the thing you don't like is good.

4 hours ago, McCarthy said:

Nobody will ever take that tournament seriously if it's only held whenever they feel like it. 1996, 2004, 2016 what is that? 

The math says not again until 2034.

On 12/7/2019 at 11:40 AM, Ark said:

These uniforms are awesome. The No Fun Allowed people need to stop. 

If you want to set off a few CHL teams that are above such stunts (London, Regina, Quebec), that's fair, but for everyone else, aw, lighten up, s'just kids.

17 hours ago, Bucfan56 said:

I didn’t know Sacramento had a Coliseum Complex. 

On 11/7/2019 at 9:53 AM, McCarthy said:

 

Oh you mean obviously ghost-written articles that were far more expensive to produce than content created by non-famous writers and bloggers didn't work? Who could've known? 

Do you remember a particular Players' Tribune piece "by" Jamie Benn that went like "I like to listen to music when I drive to the game. It gets me really pumped" and every dumbass on HFBoards and r/hockey was like "oh my god okay this is THE best thing anyone has ever written"? Insipid. And this was what the ghostwriter punched up. Jamie Benn's first draft must have been in crayon.

On 11/10/2019 at 10:47 AM, BringBackTheVet said:

That empty pennant above the scoreboard is silly.  Just put a W in there or something.  It's weird that they're honoring the championships won by the other teams in such a prominent place.  I'd go with the NL and WS flag there, move the old ones to another place in the stadium (like a 'museum' or something).

Did they put up a blank pennant to signify the one they hadn't won yet but were intending to?

As for the Senators' championships, they have the right to put them up there, it's fine, as long as they denote that they were won by the Senators and not the 2005-present Nationals.

Rome was never big in Chicago, in part because of the logistics of originating his show on the west coast but more importantly because Chicago has always been a bit touchy about non-local radio. I don't think he was even on here for more than a year or two.

Chicago was always a caller-intensive sports radio market, just like New York. Maybe more so, because getting the Score off the ground sometimes involved having remotes at the hosts' homes. The Score got away from it when they tried to become Radio Deadspin a few years ago, but then abandoned that without ever fully going back to callers, so now it's just lots of boring interviews and point spread discussion.

3 hours ago, McCarthy said:

Don't even get me started on taking calls from listeners. I change the station so hard I break the preset buttons whenever Gary from Monroe calls in. Fastest way to lose me as a radio listener. 

 

I don't know how these shows even exist anymore when the podcast format is so much better.

But if you're going to commit to doing live radio as we know it, then you need to have regular callers and make them a big part of the presentation. That interaction has to be part of the draw. If you try to do the Get On A Microphone And Tell The Masses The Way Things Are approach like you're still Chet Coppock in 1989, then you're not offering anything that a whole ton of podcasts aren't doing a hundred times better and with more depth.

The reliance on those "father's rights attorneys" and sketchy home loan guys is a symptom of talk radio in general; you'd be hard-pressed to find a medium that has less esteem for its audience.

Live reads only is a good strategy. WFMT in Chicago has had a strict policy of live reads or pre-recorded reads by station announcers only, i.e, no canned spots, and it's a huge part of the station's image and prestige, though I don't think you can get more diametrically opposed than classical music radio and a Barstool podcast.