Roundup: Watch a Woman Drive Through a Florida Grocery Store, there’s an Attractive Female Chess Prodigy & Week 1 NFL Lines Are Out
Rihanna … “Police handcuff Georgia kindergartner for tantrum” … UNC student tries to interview Newt Gingrich … “BMW owners twice as likely to be adulterers as drivers of other brands” … has anyone picked this apart yet? … that’s quite the error … these are some pretty smelly things … so cool: “Physicist Uses Math to Beat Traffic Ticket” … man charged with allegedly selling weed from an ice cream truck … Hot Sauce is hot … horrible story out of Houston … Ted Nugent is a lunatic …
Really enjoyed this NBA piece – Staying on the treadmill vs. nuking the core. [Basketball Prospectus]
Coolest part of the NFL schedule release? NFL lines are out for week 1. [Covers]
Here’s a profile of FSU’s Greg Reid, the “most popular athlete in Tallahassee.” [FSU News]
That’s one attractive chess prodigy. [Daily News]
Fewer and fewer African Americans are playing Major League Baseball. [USA Today]
Meet Kristina Akra, who now covers the Nationals for MASN. [DC Sports Bog]
Pittsburgh’s in full hyperbole mode over the Penguins. [Tribune Review]
When it comes to pitching fast, the Cleveland Indians are winners. [WSJ]
On Mad Men’s popularity. [New Yorker]
Tulsa’s best player, impressive freshman Jordan Clarkson, is transferring. [Tulsa World]
Over the last 15 years in North American Pro Sports, the Spurs have the best winning percentage. [Sportige]
Ozzie Guillen returned to the dugout without incident. [Herald]
A 76-year-old woman hit the gas instead of the brake and ran through a Publix supermarket in Florida. Incredibly, nobody died.
Absolutely love this Michael Jordan commercial.
The racer, Matt Hagan, walked away from this unscathed.
From Monday night: Derrick Williams, the rookie from Arizona, with a fairly impressive dunk against the Pacers.
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April 18th, 2012 at 8:09 AM
Best bet from that weekend’s games? Take the Pack laying the pts. 49ers at Packers (-5), 4:15 p.m.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:11 AM
That MJ ad is awesome. Also, I am a Seminoles fan and Greg Reid is overrated. Good return man, average corner. He thinks he is better than he is.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:12 AM
How did the kid in the stroller not die?
April 18th, 2012 at 8:13 AM
As a soon-to-be-dad, this uncontrollable stuff is what freaks me out.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:13 AM
Nice Rihanna pic.
Meet Kristina Akra, who now covers the Nationals for MASN.
Pleasant-enough looking. Unless she’s reporting on an injury, I wouldn’t miss her if she wasn’t there.
But, speaking of the Nationals (since I won’t be here for Yardwork), Gonzalez pitched well again last night. Don’t know what the future holds, but the team is in 1st place today.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:13 AM
Will now pay attention to Nats games. Kristina, here, here and here
April 18th, 2012 at 8:14 AM
A girl I went to HS with did this when she was 15 and learning how to drive, but she drove into the side of a Blockbuster video. Her dad was screaming at her for parking shitty and she panicked. Dumb girl, dumber dad.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:14 AM
In other breaking news, water is wet, sand is dry, Rick Santorum is gay and Duckworth is dead.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:17 AM
Welcome to fatherhood.
First 6 months are tough. Gets really fun after that.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:18 AM
Maybe Jordan could stop trying to stay relevant and fix his basketball team.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:18 AM
That was good.
“Michael. Michael Bolton!”
April 18th, 2012 at 8:19 AM
When you think about the logistics involved with playing baseball, it’s amazing this many African Americans play as it is.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:19 AM
Glad to see the WWE refs working the NHL playoffs.
/I see nothingk!
April 18th, 2012 at 8:19 AM
I don’t think you actually watched the commercial…
April 18th, 2012 at 8:20 AM
Fewer and fewer African Americans are playing Major League Baseball.
One, this article gets recycled every year or two.
Two, do a large number of African-Americans actually want to play baseball as a career? If so, I hadn’t heard.
Three, is there a large uproar in the African-American community about the paucity of “brothas” in the Show? Again, if so, I hadn’t heard.
It’s my favorite game by far, wanted to play it professionally, but I wasn’t good enough. I’d like to see a few more blacks playing it, but I don’t think the product on the field is suffering in the present case.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:21 AM
Pleasant-enough looking. Unless she’s reporting on an injury, I wouldn’t miss her if she wasn’t there.
they could pay a fat sports fan to tweet the injuries, and then have an announcer read those tweets. Then hire a hot girl to dance while they read them.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:22 AM
This is an entirely too reasoned response.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:22 AM
First 6 months are tough. Gets really fun after that.
and later, it gets un-fun again, when the kid learns about screaming no, and how to hit
April 18th, 2012 at 8:22 AM
they could pay a fat sports fan to tweet the injuries, and then have an announcer read those tweets. Then hire a hot girl to dance while they read them.
You, sir, are a freakin’ visionary. Make it so.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:22 AM
I don’t think you actually watched the commercial…
I did, he’s getting his name mentioned repeatedly on ESPN. It was funny.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:23 AM
Meet Kristina Akra
I wonder who she Petrino’d to get that job.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:23 AM
One without a closeup of her face is key
April 18th, 2012 at 8:23 AM
Wow. I can’t believe from the force of that impact that nobody died.
As my Dad would say, “rather be lucky, than good”.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:24 AM
/does hand over head thing
April 18th, 2012 at 8:24 AM
+1 I like that. I’m gonna start using that in conversation. “Petrino’d”
April 18th, 2012 at 8:26 AM
Also, fewer Whitefro-Americans are playing. But more Latinos and Asians than ever. It truly is a global game.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:26 AM
As a soon-to-be-dad, this uncontrollable stuff is what freaks me out.
When I think of some of the dangerous situations I was in as a child, I’m surprised I’m alive.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:26 AM
Regardless of race, baseball would appear to be the best sport for an athlete with professional aspirations. NBA has guaranteed contracts, but small roster sizes it’s tough to stick. NFL has larger rosters, but the money is not guaranteed, and the game is brutal on the body. Baseball has larger roster sizes, guaranteed contracts, and a large and minor league system where you can hone your craft.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:27 AM
Interesting callback to yesterday’s tax/income gap discussion. Labor Department reported today that between mid-2009 and Q1 2012, the top 10 percent saw their wages rise 10 percent. The bottom 10 percent? 2.5 percent growth.
Comparatively, from 2003 to 2007 those same groups rose 12.9 percent and 8.4 percent, respectively. So as the recession supposedly ends the income gap gets worse.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:27 AM
Fewer and fewer Caucasians are playing NBA basketball?
April 18th, 2012 at 8:27 AM
not really. it’s been fun the whole time.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:28 AM
Also, fewer Whitefro-Americans are playing. But more Latinos and Asians than ever. It truly is a global game.
Well-played, sir. “You can dig what I’m selling”.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:29 AM
this is great news for me. I’m really trying to entrench myself in that top 10%.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:30 AM
The NHL has issues to deal with when it comes to handing out discipline. I think the league needs to start looking outside the box for solutions. I’m not a believer that stiffer penalties necessarily deter chronic offenders from being dirty bitches. I think ideas like suspending coaches and fining teams along with the player discipline might work. Do you think a team would choose to employ Raffi Torres if they knew his next search-and-destroy mission would result in a significant hit to their bottom line?
On a semi-related note, the people that see conspiracy or bias against their favourite team or the players they like in every discipline decision, penalty call or missed call need to get a grip. Shanahan has a crazy difficult job and referees are human.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:30 AM
I still don’t understand why when you hit 70 you aren’t required to reapply for your driver’s license.
Well, yes I do, because the AARP is far too powerful and doesn’t want old people to be inconvenienced. Menaces, how many more people have to die?
/Team Logan’s Run
April 18th, 2012 at 8:30 AM
Good luck to you.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:32 AM
Well, yes I do, because the AARP is far too powerful and doesn’t want old people to be inconvenienced. Menaces, how many more people have to die?
/looks askance in your direction
//Team AARP
April 18th, 2012 at 8:32 AM
I got my tax return today. A fact which I’m sure is causing MikeNYC to beat his man servant in rage with a rolled up yachting magazine.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:32 AM
not really. it’s been fun the whole time.
what i think he meant was the constant irrational fear that your kid is going to get killed, or just up and SIDS it. Or that you are going to trip and drop them down a flight of stairs.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:33 AM
I think every decision they make is the right one
-Geeezeus
April 18th, 2012 at 8:34 AM
My daughter just got her permit to drive and I tried to instruct her on Saturday. Nearly shit my pants when pulling into my drive she was a little too fast and the garge door was coming a little too close before she finally braked hard enough. It’s not easy but it feels great when you can tell she improves.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:35 AM
speaking of Geeezeus, how far did we get on mock draft choices yesterday?
April 18th, 2012 at 8:37 AM
Ya’ think? I assume maybe you’re referring to a lack of fields in the inner cities?
I have no idea what the number is, but I’m guessing that African-Americans make up maybe 5% (less?) of the suburban population in the US???
April 18th, 2012 at 8:38 AM
thanks!
April 18th, 2012 at 8:38 AM
Sharapova posts a game-changing picture of her with short hair and you instead go back to the Rihanna well. I’m ashamed.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:38 AM
She terk er jerbs! (She’s going to take someones job, damn genius immigrants destroying America).
Give Belichick that long to game plan with the super bowl loss taste in his month in a game with (maybe) Jake Locker starting? Almost as tempting as under 7.5 wins for ND.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:38 AM
How much do you have to make to be in the top 10%?
April 18th, 2012 at 8:40 AM
Based on 2010, you needed to make 189K if you were married.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:40 AM
STRANGLEHOLD!!!!!!
April 18th, 2012 at 8:40 AM
The unspoken disappointments are the best part of the Jordan commercial. I laugh everytime it comes on.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:41 AM
Stop me when I’m passin’ by
April 18th, 2012 at 8:42 AM
I would be all kinds of over NYG -3.5 against DAL for that Wednesday opener if sports wagering were legal in this state.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:43 AM
link?
April 18th, 2012 at 8:44 AM
Damn. I can’t imagine making that much money right now.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:44 AM
Really enjoyed this NBA piece – Staying on the treadmill vs. nuking the core
The 1979 SuperSonics were the last team to win an NBA title without a top-3 pick in the draft. You gotta nuke.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:45 AM
Gave the tax man a few grand last night. Still a bit miffed about that this morning.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:46 AM
Since TBL didn’t bother to put it in the Roundup
April 18th, 2012 at 8:47 AM
What about the dumbass that shot a new mother in the chest several times, then snatched her newborn baby and sped away? As a father, that is what freaks me out.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:47 AM
Ukraine…not weak.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:48 AM
I may have oversold it, but I can’t help it… I have a thing for her.
Would like to throw down, make the whoopie with, no problem
April 18th, 2012 at 8:48 AM
They say all my flavors are guaranteed to satisfy.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:48 AM
All of this. The first time our daughter slept through the night, I woke up and semi-ran to her room to make sure was ok. Paranoia strikes deep.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:49 AM
Baseball has become almost exclusively a suburban game and make no mistake about it, there are people in that circle who tend to be “territorial”. Also youth sports today has become more specialized at an earlier age. The travel circuits for summer basketball and summer baseball conflict, so choices have to be made, which often is the case for Black kids is basketball.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:49 AM
That’s part of it. Plus you need lots of friends with relatively expensive equipment (balls, bats, gloves) in order to get a game going. You can play in a league, but again, where’s that funding coming from? Where are they going to play? Is there enough interest to keep it sustainable?
It’s a lot easier to throw a football around with your buddy or shoot hoops than it is to play baseball.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:51 AM
The Ukraine is weak. It’s feeble. I think it’s time to put the hurt on the Ukraine.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:51 AM
Its not about introducing black kids to baseball. Its really keeping them in the game. With baseball in all areas and demographics, kids decide around age 12 to stick with it, or phase it out and key on other sports.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:51 AM
My neighbors have a 12 yr old and they let her roam the neighborhood in a golf cart. I actually think this is a pretty good idea. Fast enough to do damage, but not enough to really get hurt. Kinda learn the whole “gassing and braking” thing at a younger age so those motor skills aren’t so sketchy at 15-16.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:52 AM
Shanahan has a crazy difficult job and referees are human.
Finally, someone rational.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:53 AM
The travel circuits for summer basketball and summer baseball conflict, so choices have to be made, which often is the case for Black kids is basketball.
This, right here.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:53 AM
speaking of Geeezeus, how far did we get on mock draft choices yesterday?
I was cc’d on emails as far as the Bills selection.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:53 AM
Geez is pretty good about looking at the precedent for similar incidents and guessing what kind of punishment is going to be handed down. I don’t think that means he believes they’re all ‘right’ decisions but I can’t speak for him. I will say he tends to be more objective than your average raging hockey fan on Twitter.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:54 AM
That’s one attractive chess prodigy.
Really? I thought her face was busted. She’s a chess 10 and a real life 6 ish. And she’s 20. Time to drop the prodigy card. 20 is plenty old enough to be taken seriously in chess.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:54 AM
Gus Williams, Money Earnin’ Legend!
April 18th, 2012 at 8:54 AM
I haven’t been CC’d on shit.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:54 AM
Its a good thing/bad thing when your baby finally sleeps through the night. Good that you can get some rest, bad because its so quiet, you’re up every half-hour to make sure the kid is breathing.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:55 AM
I know right, let’s ban him!
April 18th, 2012 at 8:56 AM
Try having this….my 13 yr old had to bring a “real” baby for the last 2 days for Health class in school. Damn thing was yammering numerous times last nite, woke me up in cold sweats bringing back bad memories.
My kid told me this morning, “Dad, I believe your last name ends with me. I’m not having kids”. About choked on my coffee.
/Keep that damn thing in your pants!
April 18th, 2012 at 8:56 AM
Mint there is a driving school here that uses golf carts too but I did not go with that school because while getting used to an acceleration pedal is key, all they have to do is let up on the pedal and the cart slows down immediately. It’s different with a heavy car and a gas motor than an electric motor. I really should have spent more time at the high school in the parking lot teaching her acceleration and braking.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:56 AM
Meet Kristina Akra, who now covers the Nationals for MASN. [DC Sports Bog]
she’s no jenny dell
/ and jenny dell pales in comparison to heidi watney
April 18th, 2012 at 8:57 AM
That was the last email I was CC’d on as well.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:58 AM
I’m coaching 9 year old baseball this year, and I’m amazed at some of the equipment some of these kids show up with. when I was a kid playing little league, you brought a glove and that was about it. now kids are showing up with their own travel bags full of bats and their own helmets. we were always stuck using the musty old helmets that looked like they were crawling with lice.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:58 AM
Mine’s 18 months and just now making it through the night. Sleep is nice.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:59 AM
Oh man caribou, that’s funny.
April 18th, 2012 at 8:59 AM
I don’t think that means he believes they’re all ‘right’ decisions but I can’t speak for him.
Weber deserved a game.
Shaw’s punishment was on the harsh side, but that’s due to a combination of the focus on headshots and the GM’s insisting (in the middle of the year) that contact with goalies was unacceptable.
No issue with Neal or Asham suspensions.
Torres is going to get rung up, and rightfully so.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:00 AM
Baseball has become almost exclusively a suburban game and make no mistake about it, there are people in that circle who tend to be “territorial”.
This is pretty broad brushed. I live in a black area and tons of kids play little league in the fields right by my house.
Is baseball denying black kids the chance to play baseball? Is there outrage? It seems more disapppointment that kids arent being exposed to a great game, but most people will say its cultural. I am sure, sa you mention, there is some “territorial” nonsense, but I think that’s not the reason why black kids arent playing baseball at higher rates.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:01 AM
Sharapova’s hair.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:01 AM
Also, I would say that once you have had your first ‘existential crisis’ you are more wizened adult than prodigious child.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:02 AM
This is an entirely too reasoned response.
Jesse and Al won’t be happy with your reason and logic, sir.
Its not about introducing black kids to baseball. Its really keeping them in the game. With baseball in all areas and demographics, kids decide around age 12 to stick with it, or phase it out and key on other sports.
THIS.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:02 AM
That’s a pretty nice kitchen she’s standing in, too.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:02 AM
I for one, cant wait for His Objectiveness to rationalize how this quote from Shanny makes any sense
“While we are willing to accept Neil’s assertion that on this play he jumped to brace himself for an unintended collision, the fact that 42 seconds later he once again launches prior to making contact to Giroux is not acceptable.”
April 18th, 2012 at 9:04 AM
wow…quite the jump from 70%-75% and even moreso from 75%-80%.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:04 AM
Jesse and Al won’t be happy with your reason and logic, sir.
…which could be a post all its’ own (on a different site, of course), regarding “who speaks for the black community”.
Those dudes don’t speak for me. And, if you talk to other blacks, we don’t look at the Jacksons and Sharptons as standard-bearers.
Hell, Jay-Z has more cachet and influence in the black community than either Jackson or Sharpton.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:05 AM
maybe more and more black kids just dont like baseball. what the hell is wrong with that?
April 18th, 2012 at 9:06 AM
someone mentioned it before, maybe they just don’t want to. considering there is a large latino and growing asian presence in MLB it’s not like the game is moving back to segregation or these players are being held back int the minors.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:06 AM
Colleges and by extension, MLB aren’t scouting Little League. As someone stated earlier its after the age of 12 where you lose players.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:07 AM
Mine’s 18 months and just now making it through the night.
WHAT? 18 mos? 8 & 12 weeks here. Were you trying some of that white-noise nonsense or letting the kid sleep in your bedroom. Holy crap. Time to just let that kid wail and fall asleep. Sorry bout that man.
My one son now gets up in the middle of the night to go pee. We have these creaky hardwood floors so it sounds like a damn burglar and jolts me awake. So no, you really dont sleep through that much.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:07 AM
I emailed Lisk the email I wanted to use and I haven’t received any emails about it at all.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:07 AM
I’m guessing a lot of people on here are “richer” than they think. Since technically I’m single, I’m way higher than expected, percentage-wise.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:08 AM
I read this as ‘we’ll buy the explanation on the first one but there’s no explanation for the second one. Therefore, have a seat for a game’. I don’t find that hard to understand at all.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:08 AM
I emailed Lisk the email I wanted to use and I haven’t received any emails about it at all.
I think he was only going to email groups of 5 or so picks at a time to avoid clogging up everyone’s inboxes.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:08 AM
we were always stuck using the musty old helmets that looked like they were crawling with lice.
And the helmets were one of 2 sizes: vice-like tight or falling down over your face huge.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:09 AM
Really. Really? “We’ll buy that the first one was totally an accident, but 20 seconds later when you did the exact same thing? That one was on purpose.” Good call.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:09 AM
i blame Tom Emanksi and the year round baseball culture kids have to go through.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:10 AM
Thanks GZ, that makes sense, I don’t pickuntil 31.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:10 AM
Wow. Incredible that nobody died in that Publix video, especially the baby in the stroller. Palm Coast, Florida, I think I have been to that Publix, its right next to Hammock Beach Resort.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:11 AM
Glad I’m not alone.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:11 AM
…which could be a post all its’ own (on a different site, of course), regarding “who speaks for the black community”.
Those dudes don’t speak for me. And, if you talk to other blacks, we don’t look at the Jacksons and Sharptons as standard-bearers.
I’d like to think most of “white America” knows this, but the older I get, the more dubious I become on that belief.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:12 AM
Just got to work after an hour and forty minute commute thanks to the miserable Lincoln Tunnel. I might go on a murderous rampage before noon today.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:12 AM
That’s when I stopped. Bitches don’t cheer at baseball games. No one except parents really went.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:12 AM
And the helmets were one of 2 sizes: vice-like tight or falling down over your face huge.
Eddie Murphy style here: hat inside the helmet
April 18th, 2012 at 9:13 AM
Police handcuff Georgia kindergartner for tantrum”
good. now go get the parents
April 18th, 2012 at 9:13 AM
Establishing a pattern. Seems like a very common approach to evaluating human behavior.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:14 AM
i got a bet: over under on sacks bears put on luck
April 18th, 2012 at 9:14 AM
Wow. Incredible that nobody died in that Publix video, especially the baby in the stroller. Palm Coast, Florida, I think I have been to that Publix, its right next to Hammock Beach Resort.
Ha. I’ve been in this area. My grama (95) lives in Flagler Beach and my aunt (72) lives in Palm Coast. That’s right there by the Hammock resort as you mentioned. I was just down there 3 weeks ago. LOTS of old people. Yes, my 95-year old grama just renewed her drivers license without an issue.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:15 AM
what’s the “all tax units” column mean? it’s about double the “single” column but quite a bit less than the “married filing jointly” column.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:15 AM
I’d like to think most of “white America” knows this, but the older I get, the more dubious I become on that belief.
If I understand your statement, that is somewhat unfortunate. Those two guys can be very much self-serving attention seekers.
Bitches don’t cheer at baseball games. No one except parents really went.
When chicks say they want a “baller”, I don’t think they mean “baseballer”.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:15 AM
Establishing a pattern would mean both hits were on purpose, correct?
April 18th, 2012 at 9:15 AM
(since I won’t be here for Yardwork),
what? retirement club meeting?
April 18th, 2012 at 9:16 AM
if he gets hurt and manning does well, can’t wait to hear talk of the curse of peyton manning.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:17 AM
maybe more and more black kids just dont like baseball. what the hell is wrong with that?
Not a damn thing. Now if we can just convince some of them to take up soccer, we’ll be dominating the world within 12 years.
/pulls pin, drops grenade
April 18th, 2012 at 9:17 AM
Most of our softball players easily have at least $500.00 worth of equipment(low end). Everyone has their own helmet.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:18 AM
I didn’t say I necessarily agree with that interpretation but I’m saying that I understand their explanation of their logic. Two different things.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:19 AM
Big Worm is real?
April 18th, 2012 at 9:20 AM
First 6 months are tough. Gets really fun after that.
whatever dude. let’s see….getting fingers caught in doors, falling down stairs, falling off playgrpund equipment, walking in front of kids in swings, looking both ways before crossing a street, learing to ride a bike and riding it out of your sight, doing dumb stuff with friends, if you have a daughter, dating mopes like you used to be, learning to drive, letting them go drive without you or with another kid who just learned to drive…..it will not stop until they leave your house
April 18th, 2012 at 9:20 AM
Your explanation still made no logical sense. Why on earth would they give someone the benefit of the doubt in such a situation, when you can clearly see their intent on a near identical play on the same shift? Its an incredible leap of faith, for as Shanny admitted, someone who has been in trouble before.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:20 AM
(since I won’t be here for Yardwork),
what? retirement club meeting?
Say ow!
Here is the deal (“story time with SROD”, I know). There is a lake in the middle of the Springs (Prospect Lake). I go most weekdays to walk around it for exercise.
There is an older lady who lives near the lake, and the two of us walk laps & crack jokes about my ex-wife. By the time I get back to the apt, Yardwork and Ballin’ are pretty much done.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:21 AM
Travel baseball for kids under 12 is idiotic nonsense. They are the worst. This cannot be denied.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:22 AM
Message to Lisk: Am I expected to actually write anything on the Saints for the mock draft post?
April 18th, 2012 at 9:22 AM
Fucking old people. I can’t believe the baby didn’t die. Crazy.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:22 AM
So true.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:22 AM
ladies love the long ball.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:22 AM
if he gets hurt and manning does well, can’t wait to hear talk of the curse of peyton manning.
i mean, colts fans, is the team planning on protecting golden boy? because julius and paiea and adonije are currently shopping for drool bibs
April 18th, 2012 at 9:22 AM
Your life sounds utterly fantastic. Im being absolutely serious. That sounds so relaxing. I WANT TO RETIRE NOW.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:22 AM
man charged with allegedly selling weed from an ice cream truck
What’s next, you’re going to tell me his a convicted pedophile who didn’t note that on his job application?
April 18th, 2012 at 9:24 AM
weed
did yu see the rapper pic fro yesterday, and all the medical weed he had? i put it in the hossa post
April 18th, 2012 at 9:24 AM
watch out for geese.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:24 AM
when you hit 70 you should have to apply to continue on living.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:24 AM
that is just crazy. when I was a kid, which wasn’t that long ago, no one even had their own bat.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:25 AM
American blacks will come back to basketball once the NBA starts developing kids in the DR and other Latin American countries via basketball academies.
/ probably not but saying blacks in cities cannot afford baseball is ridiculous compared to Latin American countries and the lack of wealth the kids grow up in there.
// oh that’s right they can play baseball year round there compared to here in the USA especially in LA, Florida and other southern states.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:25 AM
/Go on….
April 18th, 2012 at 9:25 AM
Perhaps. At least it increases the probability that they were ‘motivated.’
April 18th, 2012 at 9:25 AM
cj, admittedly sometimes I get a bit embarrassed that I’m not in the rat race anymore. I feel I should be in a cubicle somewhere, prepping for yet another PowerPoint-drenched meeting.
But, there are other days when I race thru the streets singing Rick Springfield or Bob Marley songs at the top of my lungs while every other driver is heading to work, and I think “retirement is pretty cool”.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:26 AM
Really? So far (2 months) I’ve found that it’s been far easier than I thought it would be. My daughter sleeps well, doesn’t cry much and is healthy at this point. Just hoping it stays that way.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:26 AM
link?
Since TBL didn’t bother to put it in the Roundup
thanks. it really accentuates her fucking schnozz that i never noticed before she cut her hair
April 18th, 2012 at 9:27 AM
i’m not even sure why they hand out driver’s licenses to teenagers.
driving age should be 25-59.5
before that you’re too fucking stupid to drive and after 59.5 you should be retiring early and hiring a chauffeur.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:27 AM
First sentence I meant baseball not basketball.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:27 AM
Agreed, but mostly because it forces kids to choose one sport at a young age. That is the biggest thing detriment to youth sports these days (yes, even above the parents), and I also think is contributing to the decline in baseball popularity (compared to 30 years ago).
April 18th, 2012 at 9:27 AM
“Senior citizens, while slow and dangerous behind the wheel, still can serve a purpose.”
April 18th, 2012 at 9:27 AM
I haven’t been CC’d on shit.
thissy this this. fucking bears will get whatever my kids pick from a hat and you’ll like it
April 18th, 2012 at 9:28 AM
YOU JUST JINXED YOURSELF DICKFACE!
/spinstergal
April 18th, 2012 at 9:29 AM
People are all kinds of raging about these US soldiers posing with Afghan “body parts.”
Imagine the kind of shit we would’ve seen in WW2 or Vietnam if we had interwebs and social media. It’s like people just suddenly realized how barbaric armed conflict can be.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:30 AM
There is an older lady who lives near the lake,
/Go on….
She and I sang in a choir together (my ex is still the choir director at that church).
After my divorce, I met the strawberry blonde I mentioned before, and she liked walks around the lake. When she dumped me (about a year ago), I kept going to the lake hoping to see her again. I didn’t.
A couple of months later, the older lady was out one day and recognized me from afar (not too many 6 ft 4 black guys in the Springs). She tracked me down, I recognized her, and since then we hang out.
For her age (70ish), she is fit. And she has that smart-ass quality I like in a woman. If she was 20 years younger, I’d carry her off in a heartbeat.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:30 AM
If they don’t believe the first one was an illegal play, it has no relation to the second one. Do I believe that those two plays happening a few seconds apart are related? Yes. What do I think the punishment should be? The first hit should have been a two minute penalty for interference and the second should have been a 1 game suspension. Could I have lived with two games? Yes, but I don’t consider it some massive injustice that he only got one.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:30 AM
I’d be in favor of far stricter tests and requirements for a license. If a 16 year old can do it, fine. If it takes until he/she is 20, so be it.
Of course, it’ll never happen, because of the added costs.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:30 AM
Most of our softball players easily have at least $500.00 worth of equipment(low end). Everyone has their own helmet.
a-holes. all of them.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:31 AM
Story about the old hag who crashed into Publix.
She was charged yesterday with “careless driving.”
April 18th, 2012 at 9:31 AM
I go most weekdays to walk around it for exercise.
i don’t want this picture, but I’m having it: tose white shoes with velcro, a limp, mom jeans, a windbreaker and a trucker hat with a flat brim on top of a salt and pepper fro
/hey, how YOU doin?
April 18th, 2012 at 9:31 AM
It’ll get worse, than better, than worse, than better, etc.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:31 AM
Just took a double dose of penicillin due to that Rhianna pic. Can’t be too careful these days.
/Dirrrty
//Not in a good way
I spent 3 weeks in a parking lot with my dad before he let me get on the road. Learned on a stick too.
/Dad was a Driver’s Ed instructor when he was young
April 18th, 2012 at 9:33 AM
she’s saying the same thing about you over at Oprah.com.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:34 AM
I don’t think it ever stops. Then you worry about what they’re doing at college. Will they get drunk and get a DUI (or much worse). Will they fuck around too much and not do as well as they should or could. Then you worry about how they’ll do post-college and on and on and on. I suspect you never stop worrying about your child.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:34 AM
My grandfather(RIP) was in WWII. He took souvenirs from dead Germans that he killed.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:34 AM
Also, I know we try to cater to all types here, but what’s with the pick of a dude wearing a bikini? Seems a bit risque for the Roundup.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:34 AM
i don’t want this picture, but I’m having it: tose white shoes with velcro, a limp, mom jeans, a windbreaker and a trucker hat with a flat brim on top of a salt and pepper fro
Dayum! You’re good. I do limp, BTW (steel pin in my left tibia).
You forgot the salt-and-pepper goatee, though.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:35 AM
i don’t want this picture, but I’m having it: tose white shoes with velcro, a limp, mom jeans, a windbreaker and a trucker hat with a flat brim on top of a salt and pepper fro
/hey, how YOU doin?
You forgot the fanny pack
April 18th, 2012 at 9:35 AM
When she dumped me (about a year ago), I kept going to the lake hoping to see her again.
awww
April 18th, 2012 at 9:35 AM
Just think how good the USA will be at baseball once we get all those athletic black dudes to play it. Can’t wait for that day.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:35 AM
sorry, i’ve been too busy racking up credit card debt and living a lifestyle that can’t be supported by my income to pay attention to the wars in the middle east for the past 11 years. the mission wasn’t accomplished 7 years ago like the news said?
April 18th, 2012 at 9:35 AM
Careless driving will be a max $500 fine and some points on the license, according to Florida law. Also increased insurance costs it looks like.
I wonder if those injured people will sue that old bitch.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:36 AM
she’s saying the same thing about you over at Oprah.com.
Ruh-roh.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:37 AM
Yeah…I suspect teething will suck. Then once they’re mobile you end up chasing them around all of the time.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:38 AM
I don’t think it ever stops. Then you worry about what they’re doing at college. Will they get drunk and get a DUI (or much worse). Will they fuck around too much and not do as well as they should or could. Then you worry about how they’ll do post-college and on and on and on. I suspect you never stop worrying about your child.
i meant mostly personal safety, but it sure will be intersting when they leave the home. i want them to experience as much as possible, knowing however that many risks are involved with travel, trying things like skydiving, etc. i want them to be exchange students in high school.
but it’s still 8 and 9 years off for our smallest and a couple more for the oldest
April 18th, 2012 at 9:38 AM
Ho-LY SHIT.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:38 AM
So he ran around with Aldo Raines?
April 18th, 2012 at 9:38 AM
not worth it, she’ll probably die and doesn’t have anything other than her social security checks for income.
better off suing the state for giving her the license in the first place and the publix for putting the parking lot right next to the store.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:40 AM
I’ve never been in a situation like this, but I hope I’m more useful than the fat dude outside who just kind of hangs around talking on his phone.
Hey tubby, I know you don’t like moving quickly, but go see if anyone needs some help.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:40 AM
It’ll get worse, than better, than worse, than better, etc.
like marriage
/it’s for grown-ups
April 18th, 2012 at 9:40 AM
That makes me think of Saving Private Ryan when Caparzo takes a Hitler Youth knife from a dead Nazi and gives it to Mellish.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:40 AM
My grandfather(RIP) was in WWII. He took souvenirs from dead Germans that he killed.
Just hope he filed those spoils of war forms to make it legal.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:40 AM
Sweet. Deadbeat roommates strike again, power getting shut off tomorrow. WHOOP WHOOP!
April 18th, 2012 at 9:42 AM
You need to sit him down and set up some kind of auto payment.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:42 AM
Coolest part of the NFL schedule release? NFL lines are out for week 1.
The Giants Schedule is just brutal. The Pats, not so much.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:42 AM
Learned on a stick too.
i learned stick on a beat-up grain truck in tekoa, washington, working at the country’s largest volume lentil plant
April 18th, 2012 at 9:42 AM
Ho-LY SHIT.
You want to get caught doing that right? I have no other explanation.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:43 AM
those fuckers will still probably sneak into the playoffs 7-9 and run the table again. assholes.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:43 AM
My grandfather(RIP) was in WWII. He took souvenirs from dead Germans that he killed.
Was he part of a tontine with Asa, Ox, Monty, and Abe?
April 18th, 2012 at 9:44 AM
my granddad did the same thing. he kept a small bag of all of his “collections” and opened it up when I was interviewing him for AP History in high school. he whipped out this ~3′ x 5′ Nazi flag with bullet holes in it. his whole company signed it. it was badass. he was a forward observer and still had a bunch of his old maps too.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:44 AM
So the whole Secret Service prostitution thing blew up because one agent was arguing with his “escort” in the hotel room over paying her $150.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:44 AM
That’s the best I’ve ever seen Rihanna look.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:45 AM
Hearing Francesa whine about it yesterday was entertaining. He considers the Redskins a formidable opponent.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:45 AM
Oh…I have an explanation. There’s terrible fucking people who don’t value life for shit and think they’re untouchable.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:46 AM
Is it just me, or did the NFL put a lot of different teams on MNF this year? I mean, you get a very healthy dose of Chicago, for some reason, but there’s also Arizona, Seattle, Carolina, Cincinnati, and Atlanta. I know the last two were in the playoffs last year, but they still don’t get prime time very often.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:46 AM
He’s unemployed.
It’s not in my name, I don’t even know the person whose name it is. Won’t fuck up my credit. I’m completely paid up and always have been. I have the money to pay off the arrears amount but there’s no reason I should have to. I’ll just stay at my girlfriend’s until it gets cut back on. Took a week to get the gas cut back on.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:47 AM
Oh…I have an explanation. There’s terrible fucking people who don’t value life for shit and think they’re untouchable.
100% yes — I just mean with filming it. What is up with everyone wanting to document everything? Out of all of those terrible people, one person doesn’t say “uhh, yeah we probably shouldn’t be filming this.”
April 18th, 2012 at 9:47 AM
Strength of schedule arguments are so tired. Give it up.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:48 AM
or get new room mates.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:50 AM
that’s pretty bad ass.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:50 AM
Unfortunately, there’s some study somewhere that uses big words and complex ideas to back this up. There are very bad people on this earth.
From your link…
April 18th, 2012 at 9:50 AM
but what else is there to talk about in the NFL right now outside of the draft?
the new jerseys?
April 18th, 2012 at 9:51 AM
Generally I agree, but I heard on the radio yesterday that 7 of the last 9 teams that began the season with the toughest schedule missed the playoffs. I assume the radio host was right in his facts.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:51 AM
This is intellectualy lazy.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:51 AM
I mean, good on this fattie for getting laid a lot, but 87 kids? seems excessive.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:51 AM
That’s progress, people!
For some reason it reminded me of El Salvador on Mon putting out a press release that they went a day without someone being killed in their country for the first time in 3 years.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:52 AM
but what else is there to talk about in the NFL right now outside of the draft?
nothing, which is why the schedule release jabber is so pointless.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:53 AM
The Falcons alternate home game/away game the entire season. No two games in a row at home or on the road.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:53 AM
Well hello Mrs. Roddick.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:54 AM
There’s some reason ESPN apparently had a three-hour TV show last night regarding the schedule release. It probably has nothing to do with the actual schedule, rather that ESPN is a fucking monster.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:54 AM
I assume SC is ready to murder Raffi Torres
April 18th, 2012 at 9:55 AM
Follows my group work theory whereby the person who cares the most will do the work. Someone else will have to take control of the power bill or you will be living with extension cords and drum fires.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:55 AM
Hearing Francesa whine about it yesterday was entertaining. He considers the Redskins a formidable opponent.
That was pretty entertaining from the fat curmudgeon.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:55 AM
Sadly, that’s blocked at work.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:56 AM
So the whole Secret Service prostitution thing blew up because one agent was arguing with his “escort” in the hotel room over paying her $150.
Way to blow your career and that of your peers. Clowns.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:56 AM
Didn’t know that. Interesting.
As are they.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:56 AM
Ditto.
/Hits the IPhone for a quick peek
April 18th, 2012 at 9:57 AM
I got my permit at 16, but my parents didn’t let me get my license until I was 18 after my first semester at college. It was awful, but I kind of see why they did it now.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:58 AM
She looks very Tea Leoni-ish with that ‘do.
April 18th, 2012 at 9:59 AM
In keeping with their historical pattern of winning season-losing season-winning season-losing season …
April 18th, 2012 at 10:01 AM
aren’t they always?
April 18th, 2012 at 10:02 AM
Sigh.
April 18th, 2012 at 10:03 AM
my group work theory is tha thte person who volunteers the most is usually the one that can be least trusted to do the work adequately and in a timely manner. their up-front enthusiasm is usually a mask for their insecurity about another issue…usually procrastination.
April 18th, 2012 at 10:03 AM
Sigh.
Hossa, I presume?
April 18th, 2012 at 10:03 AM
GQ spread. She looks like a goddess, especially in photo No. 3.
April 18th, 2012 at 10:04 AM
3 winning seasons in a row, homeslice. Best ever in the history of their franchise.
/marinate on that fact for a moment
April 18th, 2012 at 10:05 AM
The Carolina Panthers, still the only NFL franchise in league history to not record back to back winning seasons.
April 18th, 2012 at 10:06 AM
Yum
April 18th, 2012 at 10:06 AM
You need to get that to Rick or Big Hoss, ASAP.
April 18th, 2012 at 10:07 AM
And yet, they’ve been to a SB.
/laughs at Cleveland and Detroit
April 18th, 2012 at 10:08 AM
guy on her train this morning touched her while siezing. she had to get off a stop early to shake off the cooties.
April 18th, 2012 at 10:08 AM
I would like to see if she’s performing similar topiary work on the other follicular area as well.
April 18th, 2012 at 10:09 AM
/Sticks up both middle fingers at St. Bear
//Realizes the truth of the humor
///Sobs
April 18th, 2012 at 10:10 AM
Just everything about that game. I love hockey so much but last night was gross.
April 18th, 2012 at 10:10 AM
My stepdad’s dad was in the Rangers and they ambushed an SS Totenkopf division and slaughtered them. He took several Iron Crosses, the flags from the cars, and knives and pistols.
April 18th, 2012 at 10:11 AM
Yeah, give credit where it’s due. Blank has turned them into a decent franchise.
Now that I’m no longer on board with the Aints, I also have to shake my lifelong enmity towards all things Dirty
TurdsBirds. One step at a time …April 18th, 2012 at 10:14 AM
He has. Bobby Petrino being a coward may have been the best thing for them, however I think 8-8 or maybe 7-9 is what they’re looking at this season. They may have one of the worst defenses in the league.
April 18th, 2012 at 10:16 AM
Just everything about that game. I love hockey so much but last night was gross.
You just echoed my sentiments about the Devils game as well. Up 3-0, and they lose. Ugh!
April 18th, 2012 at 10:17 AM
Devils hockey, its snoozetastic!
April 18th, 2012 at 10:17 AM
That’s harsh, spence. The only hope I have of ever shooting my age is if I live into my 90s.
April 18th, 2012 at 10:18 AM
This may be the gayest thing I’ve ever read on this site.
April 18th, 2012 at 10:19 AM
I wasn’t even that upset about the Blackhawks losing. I can’t believe the league is turning my favorite sport into a hypocritical joke. It’s really upsetting to me.
April 18th, 2012 at 10:21 AM
Oh, SROD. My high estimation of you just dropped a few notches …
April 18th, 2012 at 10:22 AM
Devils hockey, its snoozetastic!
/wanking motion.
I wasn’t even that upset about the Blackhawks losing. I can’t believe the league is turning my favorite sport into a hypocritical joke. It’s really upsetting to me.
Shanny needs to write up some very specific punishment criteria. Can’t be doing this kind of inconsistent crap.
April 18th, 2012 at 10:23 AM
Sounds like the beginning of a limerick:
There was an old lady who lived near the lake/
I filled up her oven, she baked me a cake …
Someone else will have to finish it up.
April 18th, 2012 at 10:24 AM
I believe the Texans also hold that distinction.
April 18th, 2012 at 10:25 AM
What does this mean? I don’t follow the sport (obviously).
April 18th, 2012 at 10:28 AM
Fuck you’re right. I forgot the records didn’t stay in Houston like they did with Cleveland.
Whatever the Texans and Panthers barely count as NFL teams anyways.
April 18th, 2012 at 10:29 AM
I’d like to see this too but I think people underestimate how incredibly difficult it would be to do. Do you build in standard multipliers for repeat offenders? Do you factor in the injuries incurred? Much easier said than done.
April 18th, 2012 at 10:29 AM
I dipped in my junk,
filled it with spunk,
She bit it and yelled ‘for fuck’s sake!’
April 18th, 2012 at 10:31 AM
The league needs to do something like send out a league wide memo about goalie contact. Oh.
April 18th, 2012 at 10:31 AM
I’d like to see this too but I think people underestimate how incredibly difficult it would be to do. Do you build in standard multipliers for repeat offenders? Do you factor in the injuries incurred? Much easier said than done.
Completely agree, but he needs to at least start building a proper framework.
April 18th, 2012 at 10:33 AM
Quick Quiz, anyone know what theory of negligence will be used against Publix in the lawsuits from this incident?
April 18th, 2012 at 10:34 AM
Agree, you might not be able to give specific numbers in those areas but couldn’t they at least explain which factors weigh the heaviest in the decision? First we’re told intent contributes to discipline but a guy like Weber (whose intent was perfectly clear) gets a fine. So in that case was the lack of an injury the most important factor?
April 18th, 2012 at 10:34 AM
This is way more analysis and information on the Falcons than is necessary for public consumption.
April 18th, 2012 at 10:34 AM
I can’t believe the league is turning my favorite sport into a hypocritical joke. It’s really upsetting to me.
Awful incident with a terrible result. But let’s not pretend that excessive violence and questions related to supplemental discipline are new to this year’s playoffs.
Hits like the Torres’ one where celebrated as ‘great hockey plays’ until very recently (see career of Stevens, Scott). The game is changing, witness the outcry over the hit last night, it’s jut not moving as quickly as some of us would like.
April 18th, 2012 at 10:35 AM
This should be mandatory. Amazing how many people I know who can’t drive a stick.
April 18th, 2012 at 10:36 AM
Im rooting against the blackhawks but damn, that was ridiculous last night. torres should have been given a game misconduct. He better be gone the rest of the playoffs since he is a repeat offender
April 18th, 2012 at 10:37 AM
He took souvenirs from dead Germans that he killed.
I used to work with a Vietnam vet who kept in his desk drawer pictures of Viet Cong he and his comrades in arms had killed. He loved to pull them out and show them to newbies. I believe the term he used for them was “gooks.”
April 18th, 2012 at 10:38 AM
No, but I know which theory of negligee-ence I would use against Sharapova.
April 18th, 2012 at 10:40 AM
Well the customers would be business invitees. Question would be whether it was a foreseeable occurrence and whether they fulfilled their duty to rescue.
April 18th, 2012 at 10:42 AM
No, but I know which theory of negligee-ence I would use against Sharapova.
Proper.
April 18th, 2012 at 10:43 AM
The spotlight is glaring on the Player’s Safety Committee because of their lack of consistency during this post season. Do you recall a time when people were talking about hits and suspensions as much as they are now?
I appreciate that you may know more than most because you played hockey at a professional level but you don’t work for the NHL, you aren’t an official that interprets the NHL Rule Book, and you’re not a member of the Players’ Safety Committee. Your constant need to lecture my reaction to certain plays is unnecessary. If you want to lecture someone, go bug your kids.
April 18th, 2012 at 10:46 AM
I agree a listing of the criteria and the weight they are given would help the general public understand decisions. For example, with Torres, I think significant weight should be given to the fact that he has a history of making those types of hits (late, high, launching).
The tough part is trying to weigh in the injury. Yes, Hossa left on a stretcher but we have no idea what the timetable for his return is at this point. Do you leave room for the initial suspension to be reassessed/extended pending a review of Hossa’s condition at the end of the suspension? Does he sit until Hossa recovers? If you support that, would you support Keith still being suspended for his his elbow on Sedin? Or does the fact that Keith doesn’t have Torres’ history mitigate the fact that an arguably ‘dirtier’ play sidelined another player for the season?
Very tricky stuff.
April 18th, 2012 at 10:47 AM
The reason Publix gets sued is the driver will not have nearly enough coverage for all the injuries she has caused. The best theory I see from the video would criticize the design of the parking lot, allowing a car to drive straight into the doorway, and the failure to place concrete pylons in front of the door, which is a reasonable safety device commonly used in commercial business. Is it forseeable that a car could lose control and drive right into the store entrance? likely a jury answers yes.
April 18th, 2012 at 10:48 AM
Yep. That’s what I was thinking, watching it and noticing no concrete barriers. You see those more and more nowadays so I think it would be foreseeable especially given that this isn’t exactly the first time it’s happened.
April 18th, 2012 at 10:48 AM
geez, perception is reality, and most of the perception is coming from fans. they see lesser hits being punished worse than intent-to-injure. they hear whether or not a player is injured being factored in, so you have a healthy zetterberg affecting weber’s punishment and a healthy smith not affecting it because he’s a goalie who need protecting out of his crease with the most padding on of any professional sports player. the sport is regressing, as the playoffs used to be praised for intensity and excitement–the best postseason in sports.
this last 10 days has been nothing short of embarrasing from on-ice by players and refs to shanny and coaches mealymouthing in defense of their players
April 18th, 2012 at 10:49 AM
I found another photo of Rihanna from that photo shoot. Holy.
April 18th, 2012 at 10:51 AM
whether or not a player is injured should have nothing to do with punishment. some off-the-feet hits knock guys out some don’t — intent is what should be punished, carelessness included
April 18th, 2012 at 10:51 AM
Do you recall a time when people were talking about hits and suspensions as much as they are now?
Absolutely I do, I’ve been following the game closely for decades though.
I believe it’s a good thing that the spotlight is now on taking hits like last night out of the game. The culture of the sport is changing, it’s just not going happen over night.
April 18th, 2012 at 10:52 AM
this last 10 days has been nothing short of embarrasing from on-ice by players and refs to shanny and coaches mealymouthing in defense of their players
And yet ratings and league wide revenues are at an all-time high.
April 18th, 2012 at 10:52 AM
Most definitely. You’ve also got a lot of teams who are trying to use an injury to sway the decision. That’s why I think having a weight system would prevent a lot of this stuff.
April 18th, 2012 at 10:53 AM
Looking at the Google Map photos it also looks like she was driving the wrong way in the parking lot, the lane she comes out of is supposed to be one way based on the angle of the parking spots.
April 18th, 2012 at 10:53 AM
And yet ratings and league wide revenues are at an all-time high.
derp
April 18th, 2012 at 10:56 AM
I find the ratings argument so tiresome. Guys like Marek on the radio love it to prove that fighting is what all the fans want.
I find this question interesting, because it wasn’t that long ago that I saw many Hawks fans calling Daniel every name in the book, and lamenting the length of suspension for Keith.
April 18th, 2012 at 10:57 AM
Did Daniel go off in a stretcher in that game? I was there and don’t recall seeing a stretcher. Didn’t his coaches send him back on the ice for another shift? Hmmm…
April 18th, 2012 at 11:03 AM
This is my point. No stretcher for Sedin but his season is over. Hossa may have a much quicker recovery (no idea at this point). If the presence of a stretcher is important, we now need to start weighing the optics of the incident into suspensions.
April 18th, 2012 at 11:05 AM
No he didn’t. He hasn’t been able to practice since then, he did once and regressed, so yeah I’d say it was pretty serious. And no they shouldn’t have let him go back out there (nor should he be allowed on the ice tonight).
April 18th, 2012 at 11:06 AM
Agree with this right here.
April 18th, 2012 at 11:08 AM
Well he’s practicing with the team. His season might not be over if his team wasn’t down 3 games to the Kings. I’m mostly just talking shit. I was super pissed about 5 games for Keith but he had an elbow to the head and hurt a guy so sure, he deserved a lengthy suspension.
April 18th, 2012 at 11:13 AM
I don’t think suspensions should be less because a guy didn’t get hurt, but I think they should be more if they do.
Like let’s say a cheap shot at a head could be a three game suspension. If the player isn’t hurt, it should stay a three game suspension, not be mitigated. If he is hurt, five games.
Injuries should absolutely be used to escalate punishment but a lack of them should in no way be used to mitigate punishment.
April 18th, 2012 at 11:15 AM
I really think his season should be over. There is no need to take a risk at all. Even if they come back (they won’t) he should be shut down.
Honestly I hope Hossa is okay. I want to see a playoffs where the best players are playing, not this circus that is going on right now.
April 18th, 2012 at 11:17 AM
I like this. Kind of like how a high stick is 2 minutes, but if you bleed, its 4 minutes.
April 18th, 2012 at 11:19 AM
I think you have to also hit teams with penalties – fines, loss of roster spots, etc. – for discipline to have any effect. I know this has been mentioned before.
April 18th, 2012 at 11:19 AM
And here in lies the problem: the officials routinely mess up this call and don’t give four minutes when there is blod.
April 18th, 2012 at 11:19 AM
*blood