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| Tuesday, December 12, 2006 |
First of all, thanks to Beau Dire for mentioning me on the USA Today Sports Scope blog. Like I said, I'll miss Nick Rimando. Period. End of sentence. (Nothing against Freddy, he's all right; but Rimando had more personality, more joie de vivre. And Rimando didn't openly complain about his lack of play.)
Now I've met Tom Bridge and he's a great guy...but this comment on Metroblogging DC made me cringe a little:
All six fans of the DC United are likely crying in their beers tonight as Freddy Adu's been traded to Salt Lake...
It's not the "six fans" thing, it's the reference to "the DC United." WFY, where are you to set him straight? You've been to a game, I'm sure you know that they're not called "the DC United?"
Let's not forget the Redskins. After all, Philip Daniels gives the reason for their non-success:
"It ain't the success that's the problem," Daniels said. "It's how you handle it, and I don't think we handled it very well."
I'm sure he's wishing they had some success to handle at the moment, but what are you gonna do. More from the article:
The Redskins have many problems, but the one that might have affected them most this season is smugness.
Ya think?
Finally, in hockey news, JW over at AllThingsHockey had some interesting stuff to report:
Spotted in some urinals at the Capitals-Penguins game: Little pictures of Sidney Crosby. They read: "I'm thirsty."
Pittsburgh is supplying laptops at Mellon Arena to let fans vote for next month's All-Star Game. Twelve laptops to be precise. And even the Pens' cheerleaders have been spotted voting. Which may explain why Crosby, Malkin and Fleury are posting such gangbuster numbers in the balloting. Wanting to know what Capitals' owner Ted Leonsis (aka Mister AOL) thought of this, I e-mailed him. His reaction? "Wow -- interesting; thank you." Could the Caps do something soon to counter the Pens' laptops? Alexander Ovechkin, despite his amazing rookie season last year, continues to lag other players in the voting. Will the Caps' stand for this? Will Caps' fans continue to sit on their hands? Will Uncle Ted challenge Pittsburgh in cyberspace? A senior Caps' executive hinted in a recent e-mail that "hopefully" the Caps would have something in place soon.
OK, first of all, since when do the Pens have cheerleaders? And can you even imagine what they must look like? JW alerted me to the laptop loosey-goosey a couple of days ago, so I did a little checking into it myself. I asked my friend in the Caps front office about it, and he said that they had a laptop at one of the sales tables at one of the previous games, and there should be 2-4 more set up at tables around the arena for the next few games. Haven't been able to get to a game yet to check it out for myself, so I don't know if that's the case or not- but it should be by now. Vote early and vote often (for Olie and Ovie, of course)! |
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I called Bridge out on it, DCSC...
http://podcast.screaming-eagles.com/2006/12/some_more_on_freddy.html
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The Caps did have a few computers out, but have not noticed anyone actually using it. Maybe we need Cheerleaders to promote them.
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So, apparently I missed something. When I was a Columbus Crew fan back in the day (1998-2000), all the fans called it "The DC United". Is it the definitive article that needs to go, or are they in fact called the DC holy-crap-we-can-barely-fill-the-bleachers-at-RFK? (wait, is that the Nats?)
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Tom, there's your problem: "Columbus Crew fan." But that's OK.
I don't think I've ever heard anyone call it "The DC United," but if you're hanging out with other Columbus fans, that could explain the issue... :-)
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As a Pens fan, I can tell you about our cheerleaders - they are like most of them, pretty and annoying. I'm so glad they didn't come near me the last time I went...
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I can't believe a columbus fan is complaining about DC's attendance. I watch a game last summer where it looked like attendance was under 1000.
Also, in adition to voting for AO and Olie, don't forget to vote Rory.
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I called Bridge out on it, DCSC...
http://podcast.screaming-eagles.com/2006/12/some_more_on_freddy.html