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Sean Avery, an NHL-playing fashionista who interned at Vogue this past summer, has dated many beautiful women, two of which are Rachel Hunter and Elisha Cuthbert (a noted hockey and hockey-player enthusiast). His ex’s are dating hockey players, and Avery asked why his peers are dating his sloppy seconds. The league has suspended him (and his team said they would have if the NHL didn’t). He’s been condemned by his own teammates.
His only support comes from those who don’t think that “sloppy seconds” is a derogatory term. Hockey players, from an early age, enjoy the company of “puck bunnies”. These women know what they are getting into, and they don’t care. Quite the opposite. While they may tolerate or somewhat enjoy the term “puck bunny”, no one wants to be called “sloppy seconds”. It’s more than crude, it is demeaning, something that those in power like to do, to those who have less power or influence.
This is yet another thing that we, as men, should have limited input of our opinion. We can have all the opinion we want, but the opinions that should mostly be heard are those that are most affected by the term, the victims and potential victims.
What I cannot believe is that Avery, who must have really ingratiated himself with the ladies at Vogue, would be so demeaning, in such a calculating and not off-hand way. And what I cannot believe more is that there will still be a long list of “puck bunnies” ready, willing, and for Sean Avery’s taking.
The NHL was the leader for the last two years, but not this year. Something called Runescape is the leader. The US version looks a bit different. No NHL or Runescape anywhere. Paris Hilton is the number one search term in America, while Canadians deal with Hannah Montana and Britney Spears in the top 10 (Americans have pushed those two to down to top 20 status). (TSX is the Toronto Stock Exchange, and Services Canada is a government site.) I suppose what people search for tells you what kind of place you live in.
We already have an air hockey table, but I was looking for a multi-game table that has foosball, billiards, pingpong, and whatever else I could get was a bonus. At Target, they had the 16-in-1 Sportcraft which I bought on Black Friday for 90$ prior to reading the reviews. Wal-Mart seems to have a competitor as well. If I get my money’s worth, I’m happy: I’m just looking for something that I can play with my kid, without spending too much money, knowing that he’ll be bored with it at some point. But, those reviews makes it seem that even at that price, it may not have been worth it.
Anyway, if you guys have some recommendations for multi-use tables (foosball, billiards, pingpong at least), I’d love to hear it, before I spend any time putting the Sportcraft one together.
I know we’ve done alot of Nate Silver pieces around here, but, we do less than the major media markets, plus we know the guy. Anyway, I love this interview.
If Nate ran it verbatim, then it’s impressive that he kept his cool the whole time, the exact thing an interviewer needs to do. All in all, an almost perfect interview: he almost never got personally involved. He let the interviewee answer whatever he wanted however he wanted.
It’s almost like he took the Colbert approach to an interview, and asked legitimate questions.
Huge nerd alert, if the thread title actually excited you. Here you go, actual blogging from someone who actually saw 20 minutes of the movie of which was actually introduced by director JJ Abrams.
(It’s the same link three times. I’m just excited!)
Now, do NOT read the section titled: “THIRD SCENE”. Skip over it, unless you know who the special guest star of the movie is. This is the kind of thing you do not want to know, but, inevitably, it will leak out far before the movie comes out.
This is great, honest, stuff. Think of Barry Melrose as, I dunno, Buck Showalter after he left the Yanks, but that Showalter was a commentator for a decade and then came back to rich powerful players. What would Buck do? Well, here’s what happened with Melrose. When he talks about Lecavalier, that’s Tampa’s best player, a superstar.
Dave Cameron is asking for your support. He’s currently leading the next votegetter 2:1, so it would be supercool if he won this thing. So, go vote already.
Non-sports post. However, it is also non-partisan, and heavy with numbers. You guys may like it, as you can see some application to it in the sports world.
Got back from a mini-vacation, and am in the middling of catching up. If someone wants to provide links to stories that you think readers of this site may be interested in, please post below. Best thing to do is post the URL without the http:// . Otherwise, it might get flagged for moderation. If the address is short enough (I think 50 characters), you can put it in the URL field in the comments area.
(And if someone can provide a quick-fix for expression engine’s URL limit, let me know. I’m sure it’s just some column in some table, but I haven’t researched it yet.)
So that I don’t get accused of censoring posts, I’m going to move all posts that I don’t think follow my posting guidelines to this thread.
As it stands, I have only ever deleted posts by two people: one person got two posts deleted, while another has gotten a few dozen posts deleted. Why that latter person continues to post here, I don’t know. Anyway, the first few posts in this thread are all by the same person. He wants his soapbox, and I’ll give it to him here, if he can promise to stay away from everywhere else.
I would recommend to all readers to completely ignore this thread.
Now this is cool. Forget Dan Rather, Keith Olbermann, and whoever else Nate has met. Stephen Colbert? Guest-speaker to the President’s dinner? Wittiest man in America? A one-time presidential candidate? That’s really cool. Nate looked nervous, unlike his very calm demeanor with the other guys. Must be tough to be sparring with a comedian as sharp as Colbert. Colbert was pretty good to Nate. Nate had one good line where he tried to put a baseball analogy to the race for presidency, likening Obama to the Rays, that we’re in the 9th inning down by 2, and Palin was just picked off first base. Must feel great to make a funny guy like Colbert laugh.
Nate has Obama with an 89% win expectancy as of today. Bottom of the 9th, 1 out, down by 2 is a 96% chance of winning. Down by one though is a 90% chance. So, that’s where we are in the race. Bottom of the 9th, 1 out, down by 1 run, McCain batting, Obama pitching.
The purpose of the BBWAA is not to vote on and hand out awards, although that has become a function that has grown in stature because of the attention given to the BBWAA awards, which I assume has developed because of a credibility others have given to the BBWAA voting process.
If by “others” he means “BBWAA”, then sure! Very Orwellian.
HarperCollins is posting unsolicited manuscripts on AuthOnomy.com to solicit the public to evaluate the stories. It is a fantastic idea, as you guys would have guessed I would have said. I’d also say that Lulu.com offers a similar opportunity for authors. (Hardball Times knocked out of #1 spot after 4 years!) What you would require there is more aggressiveness on the part of Lulu to get the buyers to rate the books they bought. This kind of system works wonders on Ebay. Indeed, I think it made Ebay.
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