Wake Me When it's Friday.
by blurr1974 on Jun 12, 2009 5:00 AM EDT
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I'm just gonna come right out and say it. Thursday sucks, I'm so over it. What's up with Thursdays anyway? It's not like it's after Tuesday, so why start with the same letter? And how come it's got to get in the way of Friday? If there were no Thursdays, today would be Friday.
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What's that? It is...? Well then, carry on.
- Down Goes Brown gives you all the signs to watch for tonight so you can predict the winner. Nothing in there about a refund if you place a wager using his methods, but he's a stand up guy, I'm sure he's good for it (I kid, I kid.)
- Be still my beating heart. The man, the myth, the legend, Norte is getting in the rumor game with his latest post. Check out "He Score, He Shoot," but only if you haven't just eaten.
- TSM takes Lankhof to task, praises Cox (again, it's some kind of alternate universe we're living in now) and has a rumor on the Monster. And, Doug Gilmour is a drunk. Like that's a bad thing suddenly...?
- Far Away Leaf lives. He wants you to know that.
- Norman James gives Pens fans some hope, and Wings fans something to think about.
- MLHS takes a look at the top 5 prospects in the upcoming draft and gives us some scenarios to chew on.
- As we get ready for the cup to be handed out, Dominik reminds us of the lengths players will go to for the opportunity to lift the Stanly Cup.
- Speaking of drinking, Barry Melrose Rocks has a clip of a Penguins fan professing the greatness of Keith Jones.
- NHL2K10 has Ovechkin on the cover. Puck Daddy has the scoop, and a pic!
- Meanwhile, Second City Hockey talks about the upcoming NHL10 from EA Sports. Giggity.
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I never quite got the hang of thursdays…
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Jun 12, 2009 7:15 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
The Most Important Question To Consider On This Day of Days...
What song does the CBC go with for the opening video?
I basically spent all night going through my iTunes library settling on the best song. I’m going with ACDC’s “For Those About to Rock”.
“Stand up and be counted for what you are about to recieve
We are te dealers
We’ll give you everything you need
Hail hail to the good times
Cos rock has got the right of way
We ain’t no legends ain’t no cause
We’re just livin’ for today
For those about to rock, we salute you
For those about to rock, we salute you”
Game 7, baby!
by clrkaitken on Jun 12, 2009 7:46 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
They could go old school and break out Billy Joel’s “Pressure.” Not saying that the song would be cool, but it would work
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by Zachary Zielonka on Jun 12, 2009 7:49 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
When during the pregame do they do the intro?
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Jun 12, 2009 8:01 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
It would be at the end of the Hockey Tonight pre-game show, and the beginning of HNIC, right before the new theme song. So about 8 o clock.
by clrkaitken on Jun 12, 2009 8:30 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I like the AC/DC choice, hopefully someone at the CEEB is lurking. Likely they will something reflecting the sacrifices and going to war…blah blah…so, something relatively emo
Mee-Mee-Meep Meep Go Leafs Go Meep Meep! MEEP!!!
by blindfolded tank driver on Jun 12, 2009 8:33 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
If they want to go more mellow, like Game 1 with Coldplay, I’d use “One Thing” by Finger Eleven.
by clrkaitken on Jun 12, 2009 8:48 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
one thing is a good choice.
Mee-Mee-Meep Meep Go Leafs Go Meep Meep! MEEP!!!
by blindfolded tank driver on Jun 12, 2009 8:53 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
blurr has got me listening to The Rifles and I can’t help thinking that Great Escape would be a great opening montage song:
Go put your last £5 on the lottery
If you’re not in it to win it well then you won’t receive
Then maybe place all your winning on an outsider
And if it wins you’ll be grinning and you can celebrate
Six months of our lives are at a red light
And there’s a thousand chances to get it right
So put your in the door because it’s free admission
Or leave the TV on and make a decision when you’re
Waiting for the day you’re not looking for something else
jrwendelman
The Artist Formerly Known as "Junior", who blogs at heroesinrehab.ca/blog
"But if someone so eager to engage into fist talk, we can always meet after season end in Minsk." (Mikhail Grabovski and a well-meaning but not particularly skillful translator)
by jrwendelman on Jun 12, 2009 9:28 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
dood
the Rifles…
good call.
that made my day.
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by blurr1974 on Jun 12, 2009 10:11 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I am digging what I’m listening to; the day-making is mutual.
For serious though, that tune has the insistent sixteenth-note beat and I repeated kind of dreamy-vocal chorus that would be perfect for a montage.
jrwendelman
The Artist Formerly Known as "Junior", who blogs at heroesinrehab.ca/blog
"But if someone so eager to engage into fist talk, we can always meet after season end in Minsk." (Mikhail Grabovski and a well-meaning but not particularly skillful translator)
by jrwendelman on Jun 12, 2009 10:45 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
i know
i’m singing it right now in my head with visions of hockey highlights playing.
it works…
If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That's the American way. - Homer
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by blurr1974 on Jun 12, 2009 10:50 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
and
not to hi-jack the thread, but did you find their “Great Escape EP” as well…?
Great tunage on there, although everything I’ve heard by them is good stuff.
If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That's the American way. - Homer
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by blurr1974 on Jun 12, 2009 10:42 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Found one torrent for same but it was taking forever – erm, I am told – to work the other night. Gonna try again this weekend.
jrwendelman
The Artist Formerly Known as "Junior", who blogs at heroesinrehab.ca/blog
"But if someone so eager to engage into fist talk, we can always meet after season end in Minsk." (Mikhail Grabovski and a well-meaning but not particularly skillful translator)
by jrwendelman on Jun 12, 2009 10:45 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
lemme know
I can try and upload some files to mediaden or something…
If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That's the American way. - Homer
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by blurr1974 on Jun 12, 2009 10:49 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Coolio.
jrwendelman
The Artist Formerly Known as "Junior", who blogs at heroesinrehab.ca/blog
"But if someone so eager to engage into fist talk, we can always meet after season end in Minsk." (Mikhail Grabovski and a well-meaning but not particularly skillful translator)
by jrwendelman on Jun 12, 2009 10:51 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
COLDPLAY
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PLAYOFFS!!!!1
by eyebleaf on Jun 12, 2009 11:05 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
or PHIL COLLINS “IN THE AIR TONIGHT”
I mean, it’s so bloody fitting.
BIG TUNE!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
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by eyebleaf on Jun 12, 2009 11:07 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Nonpoint does a decent version of that tune. It was in the Miami Vice movie…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I6SpZU_nvg
If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That's the American way. - Homer
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by blurr1974 on Jun 12, 2009 11:10 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
my brother just emailed me and told me they used “in the air tonight” for game 6.
fail on my part.
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by eyebleaf on Jun 12, 2009 11:16 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
It was pretty good. “HockeyWebCast” on youtube has uploaded all of the opening videos from the finals.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Jun 12, 2009 1:28 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Now here we go dropping science dropping it all over
Like bumping around the town like when you’re driving a Range Rover
Expanding the horizons and expanding the parameters
Expanding the rhymes of sucker M.C. amateurs
Naugels, Isaac Newton Scientific E.Z.
Ben Franklin with the kite getting over with the key
Rock shocking the mic as many times times the times tables
Rock well to tell dispel all of the old fables
I’ve been dropping the new science and kicking the new knowledge
An M.C. to a degree that you can’t get in college
The dregs of the earth and the eggs that I eat
I’ve got pegs through my hands and one through my feet
Shea Stadium the radium E M D squared
Got kicked out of the Palladium you think that I cared
If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That's the American way. - Homer
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by blurr1974 on Jun 12, 2009 11:07 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Think about Marian Hossa as the song plays:
I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh lord
Ive been waiting for this moment, all my life, oh lord
Can you feel it coming in the air tonight, oh lord, oh lord
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by eyebleaf on Jun 12, 2009 11:09 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
rec’d
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by furcifer on Jun 12, 2009 11:31 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
This calls for a montage
Fast song: Your Daddy Don’t Know, The New Pornographers (of course)
Slow song: Love Love Love by the Mountain Goats.
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by mf37 on Jun 12, 2009 11:37 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Where’s the Bill Guerin picture that DGB talks about?
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by furcifer on Jun 12, 2009 9:07 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Wysh has it...
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by mf37 on Jun 12, 2009 9:18 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
As I told Chemmy, “Yo, (Gretzky) that chicken!”
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by SkinnyFish on Jun 12, 2009 9:25 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Also, Guerin looks like a younger version of my dad in that picture. No lies.
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by SkinnyFish on Jun 12, 2009 9:27 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
or an older version of you beard-o
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by PPP on Jun 12, 2009 9:35 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
OOooooOOOOOoooooo
Sorting the awkwardly feminine from the possibly Canadian.
by Mattblack on Jun 12, 2009 9:39 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Bill Guerin is a beautiful man and I’m honored to look like him.
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by SkinnyFish on Jun 12, 2009 9:39 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I don’t think that’s actually Guerin.
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by Chemmy on Jun 12, 2009 10:06 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, I think I might be with you, Chemmy.
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by Mabel on Jun 12, 2009 10:40 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
famous last words…
If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That's the American way. - Homer
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by blurr1974 on Jun 12, 2009 11:03 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
that is definitely Bill Guerin. He signed with the Islanders. He is THAT stupid.
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by eyebleaf on Jun 12, 2009 11:05 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Oh right. Yeah, I think I might be with you, eyebleaf.
Now those are some famous last words…
"If this is another one of your lectures about how we should all blah blah blah and whatever, well you can save it because we all know it by heart."
by Mabel on Jun 12, 2009 11:39 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
So who gets the Cup second?
Crosby should pass it to Gonchar but for Detorit after Lidstrom…Hossa?
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by furcifer on Jun 12, 2009 11:50 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
This remains my favourite Cup memory until the Leafs win one:
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by furcifer on Jun 12, 2009 11:52 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Rec'd
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Jun 12, 2009 1:27 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I liked this one better
Leaf, the universe and everything.
by 1967ers on Jun 12, 2009 1:56 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I was too young to remember that.
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by furcifer on Jun 12, 2009 3:17 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
That was the year I started to watch hockey.
Although being 12 i was not allowed to stay up to watch the late games.
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by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Jun 12, 2009 9:52 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
after Lidstrom
his testicles should get to touch it.
now that’s a visual…
If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That's the American way. - Homer
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by blurr1974 on Jun 12, 2009 11:52 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
hopefully they’ll save that for the locker room party and be able to blame it on the champagne
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by JaredFromLondon on Jun 12, 2009 12:02 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Just fill it with ice and let him rest them in it.
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by article1 on Jun 12, 2009 12:43 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think Sid would give it to Gonchar, but he’s not going to get the chance as Lidstrom will be passing it to….Osgood for winning the Conn Smythe.
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by SkinnyFish on Jun 12, 2009 12:01 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Just noting
I’ve been busy the past few weeks with the end of the school year…
but…
since the takeover of the FTB, my site has yet to make an appearance…
I’ll wear my umbrage on my sleeve… under my Leafs jersey.
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
- Sir Winston Churchill
I'm pretty sure he's talking about the Leafs.
by Steve@Leafs.HockeyAnalysis.com on Jun 12, 2009 12:04 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
apologies
but when do you post?
I compile the night before, so morning posts the day of tend to get missed….
If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That's the American way. - Homer
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by blurr1974 on Jun 12, 2009 12:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Also
If you don’t see it drop it in the comments in the morning so I can update it because Blurr gets up.
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by PPP on Jun 12, 2009 1:55 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Depends on the day... but
Usually around midnight EST. When do you compile by?
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
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I'm pretty sure he's talking about the Leafs.
by Steve@Leafs.HockeyAnalysis.com on Jun 12, 2009 12:42 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
about 10 PM pacific
I’ll check my google reader subscriptions, make sure you’re in there…
If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That's the American way. - Homer
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by blurr1974 on Jun 12, 2009 12:46 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
and
there’s the problem.
Sorry Steve, thought I had it all in there, but I guess not…
You’re in there now, so if I miss you again, feel free to slap me.
If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That's the American way. - Homer
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by blurr1974 on Jun 12, 2009 1:28 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
So does Chuck Fletcher get his name on the cup if the Pens win, even though he signed on as Minnesota’s GM 3 weeks ago?
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Jun 12, 2009 1:35 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
As the Ass Man.?
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by furcifer on Jun 12, 2009 1:38 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yes, exactly.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Jun 12, 2009 1:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Doug Farraway has his own take on the Leafs influence on the Hamilton franchise and despite being a Hamiltonian(?) is much more even-handed and fair than Jack-off was
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by furcifer on Jun 12, 2009 3:32 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
so
rumor has it, the Kings traded Johnson and 5th pick overall to the Ducks for Pronger.
sources are sketchy, so take that for what it’s worth.
I’m still trying to figure out when a trade is allowed after the deadline…
If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That's the American way. - Homer
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by blurr1974 on Jun 12, 2009 3:40 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I’m saying it won’t be official until after the cup is awarded tonight… someone just got wind of it a few hours early.
"Life is just a place where we spend time between games. Hockey is where we live, where we can best meet and overcome pain and wrong and death." - Fred Shero
by Karina on Jun 12, 2009 3:41 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
but
under the CBA, is that legal…?
If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That's the American way. - Homer
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by blurr1974 on Jun 12, 2009 3:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
to agree to a trade prior to the end of the season?
My assumption is that as long as it’s not the Leafs, sure.
You can also, apparently, stash players in the minors and call them up just for the playoffs despite rosters being “frozen”
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by Karina on Jun 12, 2009 3:43 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
rosters "frozen"
means no team to team movement. If the player is the teams "property (for lack of a better word) then movement to and from the minors is at the teams discretion and, when applicable, subject to waiver claims.
If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That's the American way. - Homer
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by blurr1974 on Jun 12, 2009 3:45 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
yes I know, but I’m still bitter because it’s blatant cap circumvention.
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by Karina on Jun 12, 2009 3:47 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
We were discussing it on the SBN e-mail thing.
Andy Strickland wrote it on HockeyBuzz and that seems to be the initial report. He then deleted the post saying that it was a done deal and posted a new one couching his opinion and sources telling him that there were discussions. Typical HockeyBuzz actions.
The Score picked it up but so far Sportsnet and TSN haven’t done it. Maybe because the teams want it hush-hush because of Game 7 or maybe because it’s bullshit.
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by PPP on Jun 12, 2009 3:48 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
i’m leaning towards the latter…
If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That's the American way. - Homer
The Left Coast Lock
by blurr1974 on Jun 12, 2009 3:49 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
bkblades just posted in the CC that Lombardi has said the rumour is false.
"Life is just a place where we spend time between games. Hockey is where we live, where we can best meet and overcome pain and wrong and death." - Fred Shero
by Karina on Jun 12, 2009 3:51 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
as punishment
Bettman just fined the Leafs, by having the forfeit their 1st round pick in next years draft…
:P
If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That's the American way. - Homer
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by blurr1974 on Jun 12, 2009 3:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I was just going to post this from Rich Hammond!
“I’m away for the day, but here’s what I can tell you via iPhone. Dean Lombardi sent me a text message that simply said, “Rumors not true.” That’s about all I can tell you right now. I will update if I hear anything different."
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by PPP on Jun 12, 2009 3:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Clearly, great minds think alike. Right? Right?
But goodness, think of Anaheim’s core if this trade is actually true. Getzlaf, Perry, Ryan, Whitney, Johnson and #5 overall (Kane, MPS, Cowen) – all at least 26 years or under. Sick. Just sick.
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by bkblades on Jun 12, 2009 3:56 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, it’s scary. It would have been interesting to see if they went forward or defence with the pick. Still might happen but kudos to HockeyBuzz for posting it as a done deal and then deleting that post and reposting it as if they posted a rumour.
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by PPP on Jun 12, 2009 3:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
whoever posted it at the Score is gonna be in big doo-doo…
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by Karina on Jun 12, 2009 4:19 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
pfft that would require people holding reporters responsible for their babble. Howard Berger would have been fired long ago.
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by furcifer on Jun 12, 2009 4:27 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Exactly
They are the traditional media so it’s just a case of trusting a bad source or jumping the gun. It’s not irresponsible and stupid like if a blogger did it.
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by PPP on Jun 12, 2009 4:36 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
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