3 posts tagged “hockey”
This is depressing to me, and I wasn't even fortunate enough to live in a place where pond hockey was a possibility. As a hockey fan, though, you understand the significant role pond hockey plays (played?) in the development of many of the game's best.
Elegy for a Vanishing Pastime
17 February 2008
Almost no one skates outdoors in New England anymore. People seldom do it even in Canada or Minnesota. For hockey players the indoor area has long replaced the backyard rink or the frozen prairie slough as the incubator of future talent, and even in those northerly climes skatable outdoor ice has become an uncertain commodity. Around here it’s like oil, so scarce that its value goes up every year.
If your goalie is putting up numbers like this and you can't win, the blame falls solely on the offense.
Lundqvist has started in a career-high 11 straight games and seen action in 20 consecutive contests. He has given up only 20 goals in that span and posted a mark of 9-10-1. He is expected to start again Thursday at Carolina.
Damn...that is depressing. Back to scoreboard watching.
An old one and two newer ones...
Whether this led to the extinction of political ads or a major cutback in the amount of money sent on them, I'm for it. A half-hour's worth of commercials, sent to your TiVo and ready to view? No more half-billion dollar ad bill per election cycle? How is this not already in the works?
Newmark replied that one of the biggest problems in recent American history is elected officials' never-ending fundraising in order to pay for expensive television campaign ads. And therein lies TiVo's opportunity to save
democracy, he explained."The miracle of DVRs, not just TiVo, is that you can skip through commercials, and in my fantasy life...if everyone started skipping political commercials, that would defeat their purpose, and that would be a good thing," Newmark said. "Then politicians would have to say more."
-- Daniel Terdiman, Craigslist, Wikipedia founders chat at SXSW
This one just makes me want to move back up north. Somewhere where I could afford to have a yard huge enough to do this (which would even have to be the middle of nowhere by Vermont standards).
So, now I have backyard ice. Over the weekend, the rink was in full use... The sun was falling fast and the only thing you could see is what you could hear -- pucks, sticks, boards and laughter. Skating invariably brings smiles and laughter. There is no such thing as a bad skating day. I took my turn on the rink, skating by myself, with my Dell Jukebox playing the latest Shins album. I shoot pucks in the upper left-hand corner of the net, always the upper left-hand corner. This is life and how I live it.
-- John Buccigross, It's a mad, mad world (and backyard) for us puckheads
And you may not be able to access this link, but basically MLB is taking its Extra Innings package, previously available on digital cable and satellite providers, and placing it solely on DirecTV. Which is hella upsetting if, say, you had Extra Innings on digital cable and do not wish to get DirecTV.
MLB is literally taking away a product that half a million of its best customers enjoyed, got addicted to and were willing to pay extra money for. So those aren't just halfhearted fans this sport is going to seriously annoy with this move. They're the best fans it's got.
-- Jayson Stark, MLB's DirecTV deal a disgrace
