Can We Please Put the Basement Dwelling Remarks to Rest?

But seriously if you live in your mom’s basement for whatever reason, that’s your own business, and not something you deserve to be mocked for. Everybody has their own circumstances in life that led them to where they are.

Who doesn’t love their mom, or want to feel pride in where they live? Bringing up either is a cheap shot. It only exposes your own insecurity to reach into that basket.

part of me is hoping he got stuck with a gardner view.

Or perhaps his desk is in the basement?

Right by the beach, BOYEEEEEEEE!

fanboys are afraid of logic and reasoning.

Fan Boy

Avid Fan

Eh, you got me on that one. First Saturday game in Toronto, we’re coming up and I believe I owe you a drink or twelve. You better be there.

Maybe so, but I’m not giving so much as a wink until I see an Allan Bester “Where are they now?” profile. :-)

none of us ought to drum up controversy

So you’re basically saying you may or may not be on steroids. I think someone just found a new article topic…

THUMP a THUMP a THUMP a THUMP
“What? Its head? Who beats a horse in the head.”
THUMP a THUMP
“Say WHAT are you going on about? Horse is bed? Tired I’ll give you. Stop shouting.”
THUMP a THUMP a THUMP
“Dear god, why did you have to bring Fuller up, do you know how futile that is!”

You need new glasses.

We like repetition around here :)

We like repetition around here :)

Signed,
- NOT Dave Fuller

And toskala!

everything it its right place?

basically, snuggies are actually useful, unlike Cox.

Another reason not to read/link/follow the ones who are just being deliberately provocative/stupid. You’re playing right into their hands.

Viva the long tail. Leads to much better sports blogging and music, my two principal on-line diversions.

I often ask reporters and editors I know why they’re not going into greater detail of the CBA, cap situations, or advanced stats and the answer is always the same: there’s no appetite for it.

[Emphasis added].

The site traffic numbers here and elsewhere on SBNation would like to have a word with these reporters and editors.

Agree with your Pareto distribution observation; shouldn’t be surprising that the audience distro would look like that – it’s been a while since undergrad economics, but IIRC Pareto distros look a lot like indifference curves.

Second, the MSM is more bland because it has to appeal to a mass audience. The MSM cannot go into the level of sophisticated analysis that we do because it would go way over the heads of your average newspaper reader or sports radio listener.

this is the problem with MSM sports coverage in a nutshell, and it will never change. my father-in-law doesn’t give a sh8t about hockey, but he reads the star and globe every weekend, so he’s at least ‘informed’ enough to tell me the leafs suck, they missed the playoffs again, and they shouldn’t have traded draft picks for kessel. it’s infuriating getting this ‘insight’ from a man who hasn’t watched a leaf game in probably 15 years, and even more infuriating that i can’t discuss it with him rationally since he doesn’t know enough or care enough about hockey to make it worth my while.

The thing about online is that because the “printing” and “storage” costs are zero (or nearly so) you can appeal to that long tail.

Lesson: The demand for movies and books is also pareto distributed, with most people just wanting a small number of best sellers, and then other books becoming increasingly obscure as you move out. If you have a physical shop with storage costs, you’re mostly stocking the best sellers because you can only store a few hundred, title – a couple thousand at most… There are 10’s of thousands of books that only 1 person in a million is interested in, but you don’t have space for them when only 3 or 4 people in the entire GTA would care about each one..

But because storage space online is free, Amazon and Netflix can sotck books and movies well into the obscure range, and in total volume they actually end up being more than the best-sellers. They can cater to the long tail in a way that physical stores just simply cannot… which is good for people who like obscure books, and good for amazon.

This place is a little bit the same. If PPP had to be printed on paper and phsyically distributed at great expense to stores and/or addresses, it would never work – the few hundred people who started it going wouldn’t have been able to support it, which means it would never have been found by the few thousand who read it now – and even then, if you started charging money for PPP, a lot of us who read it free now would balk, and the circulation would shrink to something that couldn’t pay for the printing and distribution.

So, in short, the MSM and blogs are playing different games, and that’s why their content looks different. The MSM only has physical space to cater to the marginally engaged best-seller crowd, PPP is able to appeal to the genre-fiction taste of a smaller and scattered subset who will actually read posts with math in them.

/long winded

It’s what I keep telling myself.

FWIW, I think you def land in the humorist category. Yaaay LD.

Raycroft understands his place in the goaltending world. Signing with Dallas was smart on his part, because playing behind Lehtonen and his papier mache hamstrings, he could easily get a shot at the starting job, as opposed to playing once every three weeks behind Luongo

Do we all think the same???? I hate the Post too but now read Bruce Arthur because of twitter…

the people at the Sun have the same IQ as their political commentary. Simmons: a sellout, Fuller a cheat. Oh where have you gone Wayne Parrish?

a friend of a friend was working there out of school, and i started talking to him about the environment, and there is a whole laundry list of topics (and people) that will basically be ignored, denied coverage, or result in you being sent to report on manure farms.
depending on what other projects that board members are into, there are also government people who you are not allowed to say anything bad about, lest it affect the status of their deal/business/proposal.

hooray for free media!

is probably the best because it is filled with open comment. I read the Globe, Star and online articles daily. But the best insights(often used to win an argument or two) come from the blogs. This is a core stuff. The Star however appears to be nearing Nova and thus an eventual black hole. Might explain Cox’s place there.

It’s a different kind of respect. I don’t care what they think of me as a writer or a blogger but I do care that they respect that what is produced here is done with effort and belongs to the writer and is not to be lifted.

Leetch, Guy Boucher and Messier.

Really I have no problems with any of those 3 (even though I think Messier is badly overrated by Rangers fans), but Jagr is a hilariously poor choice.

well, the original six era is completely a lost cause to the rangers, they finished second once, third once, fourth 5 times, and fifth and sixth eight times each. That’s pretty bad in a six team league.

The Rangers have more retired jerseys than Cup banners. Their history isn’t particularly great.

No, but NINE-TEEN-FOR-TY was pretty popular.

I thought that was just Islanders fans.

the blogger who wrote that is actually 40 years old.

Seriously, I had to double check to see whether this one related to the Texas Rangers.

Hey Ranger dudes: THEY NAMED A WHOLE DIVISION AN’ A TROPHY AN’ SUCH AFTER THE GUY. With eighty years of crappy teams to pick from, you’d think a fellow like that, who spent twenty years with your club, actually brought it a championship and PLAYED GOAL WHEN HE WAS THE MANAGER AND A CHELIOS-ESQUE 44 YEARS OLD…well, you’d think a fellow like that might stand out a bit.

that’s what I’m saying

Is hilarious.

Yeah, and I remember they specifically modelled that on pre-existing contracts (or at least, that was the rumour).

So the Rumble in the Jungle becomes the Rumble in the Bronx, and Bettman is part Ali, part Jackie Chan?

Not sure I can get my head around this.

I bow to your superior analogy-making. Also, “Rope-a-dope” is a good future nickname for Gary.

bahh apologies

…are useful so we can minimize the post and the page runs smoother for longer.

We have separate bathrooms.

Well you’re obviously not partying hard enough.

The dining room, the hallway and the front foyer, yes, but never the living room. :)

“I’m so tired of listening to Hotel California in the car”

Neither of which were the product of

this offseason.

I did’t say it was a bad signing. But Orr could score 20 with St. Louis, Stamkos, Vinny and Malone.