The_Admiral

Cool, now we can shame anyone who doesn't vote the way we want them to. Congratulations to PK Subban on winning every Norris till he dies!

I had missed this:

https://sports.yahoo.com/trending-topics-hurricanes-shakeup-leaves-plenty-questions-174510190.html

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We all have our biases, right? People like me thought Francis was doing a good job because his transactions reflected a willingness to listen to the “smart” “analytics” people he hired (some of whom happen to be professional acquaintances of mine, in the interest of full disclosure), and some of us were already highly skeptical of Dundon’s over-the-top framing of himself as a Solutions Guy.

There's your answer, fishbulb: writers like Lambert and Wyshynski loved Ron Francis because he hired their friends.

"Aborted WHA reboot" sounds like something from one of those group exercises on Twitter where it's like "write a foregone conclusion in three words"

As the SPHL creeps northward, they need to avoid the Etchel's orphan initialism and get it over with: the Stupid Professional Hockey League

That sucks about the Mallards. Pancreatic cancer is a pitiless bitch.

Not that this makes it more possible, but I'd like to see the Quad Cities back in the AHL. They'd fit in on the circuit very well with Des Moines, Rockford, Milwaukee, and Rosemont. 

23 minutes ago, Sodboy13 said:

It's obviously better listening to have people who know how to talk and know what they're talking about on the radio. Jason Goff and Spiegel worked well together, and Jason on his own had some excellent moments of being more of a real person than probably anyone else in the lineup. But I can see how it becomes a hard sell with ad breaks stuffed full of strip clubs, football betting tip lines, and sketchy dick pills. You need to engage and placate the knuckle-draggers if that's where you're making your money.

Yeah, I mean, the spot load in afternoons got so light that they were doing an entire hour commercial-free. That was probably a bad sign. Shame they fell into the Twitter trap. Twitter is not the world.

On 10/25/2017 at 6:46 PM, the admiral said:

I don't even know that Barstool has great content, I'm guessing they don't, but they have something that there's a market for, which is sports talk as frat house/corner bar/whatever. That's what sports radio as a 24-hour format was built on, not people telling you how stupid you are.

Vindicated prior to the two-year deadline.

There appears to have been a bloody Stick To Sports coup at 670 the Score in Chicago. Entercom bought CBS Radio, as some may know, and after assessing the station, decided there was too much Deadspin/basketblogger/blue-checkmark regurgitation, firings and demotions all around, station now seems to be getting back to its roots of talking about point spreads and cocaine. Technically a loss in the culture war, but what was all that crap doing on dinosaur-ass AM, anyway? Take it to podcasts, come on.

I dunno, one or the other, because we know Bettman will never let them get to Chapter 11, wocka wocka

When asked then about concerns that he would be able to go it alone in this venture, Barroway said: “The league thinks I can handle this.

The Gang Can't Handle This

The drop shadows, the side panels that stopped at the shorts, and even the wonky S gave the Lakers some much-needed human charm. The white Lakers jersey is quirkless and thus bad.

I'm extremely down with that negative space H-Star, but the expanded 2004 Jays set does nothing for me. It's beyond redemption.

Probably for the best that the Jets went with such a conservative uniform. That "major junior stock template" one is atrocious.

Well, apparently Raleigh is gonna have a lot of stupid hockey!

3 hours ago, Mac the Knife said:

 

As someone who has lived in Raleigh longer than the Hurricanes have?  They're welcome to play 41 games a year there next season if they like.  The only caveat?  We get a Major League Baseball team in trade for 41 games.  We'll even take the Marlins.

This is a fantastic trade. If Raleigh is this wonderful teeming metropolis that will be the greatest place to live in America, just ask them, then they deserve a real team. Let stupid Hartford have stupid hockey.

I tell ya, these NBA marketing departments, they're sooooo thoughtful, sensitive, and creative!

The sports design community has never been more up its own ass than trying to get the "Steamed Hams But It's ___" meme into a baseball uniform.

On 2/8/2018 at 9:11 PM, Old School Fool said:

Watching old NBA and NFL games on Youtube is annoying though especially during the 70's when they didn't tell you the down and distance, either hear the announcer or you're left in the dust.. I know back in the day people use to say "Hey man, what's the score?" when walking into the room but that doesn't happen anymore.

Recently I came across an article about NBC losing the AFC which stated that Dick Ebersol refused to keep anything on the screen because people wouldn't stay tuned if they always knew the score. That mentality made it all the way to 1997.

I will agree that a centered bug with bolder lettering would be much better for hockey. I also think the logos are unnecessary with the team colors and city abbrevs., but I realize that's a fight I'm not going to win.

But if I have one big hockey on-screen information crusade, I would say it's to intermittently show shot attempts, not shots on goal, broken down into on goal, blocked, and missed. (Sometimes you get shot blocks or shot attempts blocked, which are the inverses of each other and only serve to confuse the crap out of everyone.) Shot attempts are the backbone of hockey analytics, after all, and failing to show misses and blocks in a league with such emphasis on six-goalie shells and puck-chucking really leaves a lot of the story out. It's basically the same as showing batting average but not on-base percentage.

Did you notice there's a tiny little notch in the highlight for the team on offense?

All that italic/skewing feels a little dated to me. I thought we moved past lazily skewing stuff to connote speed and action like ten years ago.

1 hour ago, Sec19Row53 said:

Except due to antitrust issues, the NFL can't start Saturday games until their minor league system (NCAA FBS) is done with its regular season.  I don't think Week 13 is doable, as its too early in the year.

I knew that part, but I thought Thanksgiving weekend was the end of college football so it was all clear. I don't follow college football.

You could keep Thursday Night Football in a limited capacity if you guarantee that the team is coming off a bye week.

Let's say you restrict bye weeks to Weeks 7-11 rather than 5-11. This way, no team plays more than ten games in a row. Split up the byes 6-6-8-6-6, with the six teams off Week 11 being the six that play on Thanksgiving for Week 12, and Thursday games from Weeks 8-11 being taken from teams with byes in weeks 7-10. Then after Thanksgiving, move to Saturday doubleheaders in Weeks 13-16. So that gives you a 12-game package of featured games, you gradually ramp up interest in football with the Thursday games in November leading up to the Thanksgiving tripleheader and the full NFL weekends in December leading up to the playoffs, and best of all no games on three days' rest.

I was at a dinner party and a few of us watched the third period or final or whatever with half an eye before dinner. I dunno, wasn't that impressed. At least it wasn't the Pro Bowl.

I know the Islanders had been floating the possibility of roughly one game a month at Nassau since they moved to Brooklyn, but still, this happened fast, huh.

I would guess they'll eventually spend a whole season back home before Belmont is ready. But yeah, this is great, gtfo, Brooklyn.

Black SportsCenter is over, or at least Jemele Hill is off it.