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The greatest underdog story in the history of sports has come to fruition.  How embarrassing. 

20 minutes ago, Unocal said:

What say you?

 

 

If two expansion teams meet in the playoffs and nobody watches, did the series actually happen?

Oh my god, the punchline of the joke is coming and it’s remarkably unfunny.  Looks like I’ll be buying a renegades championship tee.   me. 

Ad reps in Chicago are already drawing up marketing for Bedard, but he's too young to shill for Binny's, so in a noble attempt to mend fences, they've signed Kyle Beach to be their 2023/24 Binny's Blackhawks ambassador for the 2023 holiday promotion run.  Insiders say Beach will be himself while Jay Zawaski comically portrays a caricature of Brad Aldrich named "Heywood Jablowme."

A Santa Claus-hat wearing Beach will pantomime giving fellatio to "Heywood" and turn to look at the camera, saying "this holiday season, it's better to give than to receive, right Heywood?"  Zawaski, feigning tears of shame, replies "the 2023 Binny's Beverage Lineup is *unf* assaulting store shelves all throughout *oh god, oh* Chicagoland!"

Beach then pulls a Binny's gift card out of his mouth and places it on "Heywood's" sweating, bare chest, telling him and the camera, "shhhh, don't tell!" as cheerful Christmas bells and reindeer frame the graphic with all the local Binny's addresses.

39 minutes ago, the admiral said:

Of course there's going to be spiking the football, and conversely, we can't act as if everyone else's weeping over Kyle Beach is exactly in good faith -- the two probably feed each other. You see people posting "better carry a rape whistle" and stuff and you realize it is just fans pissed that a recently good team got the best first overall since McDavid and they didn't -- "moral clarity" is just a convenient framing device for them. 

I guess so, but as a jaded Hawks fan I feel I don't fall into the buckets of envious outsider, so from that perspective I can potentially see your point.  Blah.  

I'd be a lot less irritated by this if Blackhawks fans weren't spiking the football after months of diminishing the Beach scandal.  The fallout was a big deal to me, and obviously hockey is the banner sport for scumbags across the world so perhaps I'm just a naive wimpy snowflake, but between the fans "so much salt LOL" "get blown, homo" crap and Rocky launching a two-inch putt from Mark Lazerus into the Grand Canyon, it just...sucks.  It's apparently too much to ask for some to take a thoughtful approach.

Chicago media this morning has been, as you'd expect, celebratory and fans are excited.  There's lots of "we can finally stop talking about the negative" angles, which is understandable.  I dunno.  Maybe I should just get over my empathy.

4 minutes ago, the admiral said:

Now that I actually do pop over to Ridleylash's home base and see the Moral Clarity Brigade firing off "don't drop the soap" and other such rape jokes, I don't feel quite as guilty.

The r/Hawks posters are, ah, something. 

Cool

2 minutes ago, the admiral said:

Everyone's always telling me to stop caring what The Discourse thinks about things. Well, people I know who aren't plugged into The Discourse do not care that some sub-90 got sucked off 13 years ago and are just happy that their favorite local hockey team is good again. What am I supposed do? get mad? I'll leave that to the Hurricanes fans.

Ok

Just now, the admiral said:

I'm glad the Hawks might be good again and I'm enjoying the mental anguish of a pervasively bad poster. 

Alrighty

1 minute ago, the admiral said:

go back to r/hockey

I'm perplexed.  Are you a "You Beach scandal pansies are overreacting, off, all those players are gone now, blah blah blah" person?"

If so, that's a shame, but whatever, do you.

Just now, the admiral said:

Draft was rigged, they shouldn't have even been allowed to have draft picks, it's now more important than ever that the Chicago NHL team changes its racist logo, set 'em up, knock 'em down

Yep.  This is the hockey equivalent of Trump using a sharpie to draw a magical hurricane map.  

The Blackhawks deserved a death-sentence-esque period of disgrace.  It appears them losing Toews and Kane was too much for the shareholders to handle, so the NHL did what they felt they had to do, and, as per tradition, looks disgusting and corrupt in the process without a snippet of shame.

Definitely enjoying the Kraken's run thus far.  There's nothing terribly special happening here, simply 4 solid lines playing sound hockey with a goalie who's gotten hot at the right time.  Some of the passes have been stellar, and they're sweeping up Dallas's mess on the regular.  Fun.

I was talking to @IceCap about this earlier, that the Leafs are playing like a team who is waiting on a hockey grown up to save them, except they're one of the oldest rosters in the league, stymied by a Panthers team who isn't doing anything unique beyond giving a damn.

Super odd.  Also Woll is kind of bad, but he's a backup getting no help from his defense, so, big shrug.

17 minutes ago, VDizzle12 said:

I feel like the Suns have been trying too hard to bring back elements from the 90s uniforms. But completely missing the mark on what made them great. 

They want elements of the 90s while keeping their dated early 2000s identity.  Compromise like this almost always results in garbage.

Regarding the interlocking SA logo, you can probably get away with removing the crossbar of the A, and use the loop of the S to serve in that stead and somewhat de-clutter that fine logo.

30 minutes ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

 

I'm in full support of adding a pronoun field. We make a lot of assumptions that this board is visited by 100 percent cis men, and I think there's value in knowing that we're not.

Seconded.  Extremely welcome addition. 

Is refusing to pay for things in spite of great wealth and being a repulsive piece of  correlation or causation?  

15 minutes ago, Sport said:

 

 

Oooh a topic I'm uniquely suited to discuss. At the time in the mid-90's Cincinnati was already over-served relative to our population size with the Reds, Bengals, and college basketball, while Columbus was just sitting there without a major professional sports franchise (unless you want to count John Cooper's Buckeyes! FOLKS!) and in an open hole on the NHL map with a comparable population to Cincinnati. I think they also sold the BOG that Columbus could theoretically draw fans from all over the state, which happens more now, but definitely wasn't happening in the franchise's first decade when they were complete ass.

 

You're right that people that live in Cincy are from Cincy and people that live in Columbus are from Hilliard or Upper Arlington or Westerville or they're Cleveland, Akron, Dayton, Toledo natives who went to OSU and never left. Cincinnati is a city, Columbus is a collection of suburbs. Columbus is a boring person's Sim City city while Cincinnati is a drunk person's Sim City city. Cincinnati has more character, more charm, more of a centrally established culture, more history, more grit, more diversity, more tactility, less sterility, less planned, and is geographically more interesting. Columbus has better schools, more space, a better educated populace, but it's also more dull. People come to Cincinnati and they either love it or they hate it, nobody can ever seem to muster any emotion one way or the other in the same way for Columbus. And I'm allowed to say this because I'm from both places. 

 

Better hockey city? On vibes, maybe Cincinnati, but in actual practice I don't know if Cincinnati would-be the better NHL city. Columbus has quietly built a nice little hockey ecosystem there with very active adult leagues, lots of rinks, lots of youth and high school programs (a Columbus school just became the first school not from Cleveland or Toledo to win the state championship), and a good season ticket holder base. There's more white-collar money in Columbus and they only have to split sports dollars with an MLS team and a college football team rather than MLB and NFL and now MLS that Cincinnati has. 

 

Of course all of that grassroots development probably would've happened in Cincinnati if there was an NHL team plopped here in the late 70's WHA merger or a 2000 expansion team, but it's hard for me to imagine it being as good as Columbus has been.

 

 

 

I agree with everything else, but Carolina was second in attendance this year. I don't think they're in the shaky ground category right now. If you want to hold bad attendance against them because they missed the playoffs from 2010-2018 then you'd have to hold Buffalo to that same standard. If Carolina has solid attendance when the team is good then they're on par with most every other American market. 

 

Sunrise is Glendale East and I heard they didn't sell out game 6 against the Bruins. Don't know how true that is, but it looked like half the crowd was Boston fans. Wouldn't shed a tear if the NHL left south Florida. 

So Cincinnati is Pawnee and Columbus is Eagleton?

15 hours ago, AHcreative said:

I honestly anticipated the year 2015 for this exact reason. I really thought PepsiCo was going to do some cool Back to the Future promotion and I was so disappointed when nothing happened.

They did?

https://people.com/food/pepsi-perfect-back-to-the-future/

Just now, Unocal said:

The better teams did not win last night.

1 hour ago, LMU said:

They did it. They killed Tree.

 

 

 

Is UT a Bruins fan?  I thought he was all Pittsburgh all around.

Delighted that the Kraken, playing entirely with house money, are getting some playoff excitement to revel in.  They're a very solid team with a good mix on the roster who definitely outkick their coverage by sheer competitive spirit and a hearty dollop of luck.

10 hours ago, Ferdinand Cesarano said:

But once the reality sinks in that that league is a permanent part of the landscape, that title, should he actually win it, will be looked at for all time as one of the signature moments in sporting history.

Also this XFL title game is trash.  Defenders should win in a route.

3 minutes ago, Cujo said:

4-6 Arlington leads Houston in the South conference title game.

 

Dwayne gotta tweak the playoff format or expand to 10 teams to avoid this happening again.

Renegades saw that one person online (me) was stupid enough to buy one piece of their merchandise should they win the title game, and now they're going for it all.

On 4/26/2023 at 3:05 PM, Ark said:

This logo is very overrated sorry

that logo bad lol try again git gud