Friday links: Don't take the escalator after a loss edition

by averagejoe on Oct 9, 2009 6:15 AM CDT

Well that sure was fun. Blues lose and the arena tries to kill the paying customers.

Blues news

Yeah, so that sucked. [Stltoday.com]
The AP write up can be found here. [AP]
Adding injury to insult, the escalator at Scottrade malfunctioned injuring at least 13 people. [Stltoday.com]
The new Al MacInnis statue is pretty cool looking. [Blues]
D.J. King is going to Peoria for rehab. [Belleville News-Democrat]

Hockey news

Results from a full slate of games last night. [Yahoo!]
It's Friday night let's play some hockey ... wait, just two games on the schedule? Huh. [Yahoo!]
The Leafs got absolutely nothing for tampering. [Canada]
Shooting distance vs shooting percentage. [Behind the Net]
Things got bitey in Philly last night. [ESPN]
Jonas Gustavsson, the Monster, played one game and is now on the injured list. [TSN]
Sergei Shirokov, a guy many (including me) thought might be a breakout player ... is going to the AHL. [TSN]
Chris Chelios won't quit. He's going to be playing for the Chicago Wolves on Monday. [TSN]
From Carnie comes a hockey blog that made her laugh her ass off. [Lil Cindy Lou's Silly Hockey Blog]

Other links

YouTube comments presented out of context. [Awesome YouTube Comments]
A bunch of dwarves have set up a village. [Metro]

Video

Roman Polanski gets busted by Chris Hansen. Enjoy.

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Just a totally sucky evening

Cards are ahead and lost.
Blues are ahead and lost.
Mizzou was ahead and …. I give you 3 guesses.

This rain sucks and my kids probably won’t play their soccer games tonight because the people that designate themselves field protectors are pussies. The games will be rescheduled for days I work and I’ll miss them. I know it.

I am depressed.

by luvhockey on Oct 9, 2009 6:51 AM CDT reply actions

I was nearly inconsolable last night....

….being a sports fan is really a fucking bad idea. What asswipe thought this up in the first place?

At least the Blues loss was the least of the carnage to my psyche last night.

I’m gonna go drinking tonight…..

by Rich of GASL on Oct 9, 2009 11:06 AM CDT up reply actions

Likewise.

This week (much like last) has blown, and I was kind of hoping for something to go right last night.

I place too much stock in watching a sports team succeed cheering me up.

Reporter: There`s a "stamp out the Beatles movement" underway in Detroit. What are you going to do about it?

Paul McCartney: We`re going to start a campaign to stamp out Detroit.

by hildymac on Oct 9, 2009 12:14 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs

SAME!!!

Pujols takes out "I" in BIG and "A" in MAC, previously considered to be an unyielding, consonant threat

by DESTROYER on Oct 9, 2009 12:21 PM CDT up reply actions

Clearly, you have never seen Fever Pitch.

The real one (Colin Firth and Arsenal), not that Barrymore/Fallon/Red Saux abortion they released over here.

Just a taste:

Colin: “This is the worst day of my life. 18 fucking years, and they blow it on the last weekend of the season.”
Colin’s Friend: “Come on. It’s only halftime. It’s only 1-nil.”
Colin: “Doesn’t matter. They’ve blown it. … Useless bastards.”

Later:

Colin’s Girl: “It’s only a game…”
Colin: “DON’T SAY THAT! PLEASE! THAT IS THE WORST, MOST STUPID THING ANYONE CAN SAY. It quite clearly isn’t only a game!”

by Washoo on Oct 9, 2009 12:49 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs

You just said the magic words...

Colin Firth.

That, and the fact that the British are funnier and didn’t invade and ruin Busch to film any of their stuff.

Reporter: There`s a "stamp out the Beatles movement" underway in Detroit. What are you going to do about it?

Paul McCartney: We`re going to start a campaign to stamp out Detroit.

by hildymac on Oct 9, 2009 1:47 PM CDT up reply actions

The whole concept of that movie (the American one) just didn't make any fucking sense.

Not to mention the fact that Colin Firth (as much as I get tired of American ladies lusting over every single one of the approximately 13,746 chick-flick roles he’s taken on) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Jimmy Fallon.

by Washoo on Oct 9, 2009 2:00 PM CDT up reply actions

Never got why they even kept the name “Fever Pitch” for the American film. Anyone who read the real book was destined to be disappointed by that film*, and anyone who actually enjoyed that film surely wouldn’t have the fourth-grade reading skills needed to comprehend the book.

*disclosure: I did not actually see the Fallon film, but I’m goin’ on a little assumption there…

Lighthouse Hockey: Side effects may include Weight gain and frequent game loss.

by Dominik on Oct 9, 2009 3:09 PM CDT up reply actions

Haven't seen either one...

… and will never see the American version, partly because Jimmy Fallon is a no-talent hack and partly because I don’t need to be reminded of the 2004 World Series. (I threw things at my TV when the final out appeared on a TV during an episode of ‘Lost’. That was bad enough.)

Where does the British one fall on the chick-movie scale? Colin Firth has been in enough chick movies that my wife could be talked into watching a movie starring him; and if it’s not actually a full-on chick movie, so much the better.

by BleedBlue42 on Oct 9, 2009 4:40 PM CDT up reply actions

The escalator incident sounds pretty scary

One commenter said the pile of people was about 30 or 40 and it sounded like a car driving through the arena it was so loud.

“Blue owners Dave Checketts, Mike McCarthy and Ken Munoz and Club President John Davidson went to the hospital where those hurt on the escalator were taken to check on them, the club said.”

Classy, what other organization would visit the hospital. I hope in this sue happy society the fans have integrity.

by luvhockey on Oct 9, 2009 7:32 AM CDT reply actions

Yeah that escalator thing was crazy, we were waiting up at the top of the two big escalators.. It sounded like a car burning its engine out of control, and there was a burnt odor in the air, after the fact.

http://www.stlouisgametime.com/

by cold on Oct 9, 2009 9:06 AM CDT up reply actions

I imagine that all the people who saw final destination shit their pants.

"It’s a brand new day
And the sun is high
All the birds are singing
That you’re gonna die" ~ Dr. Horrible

by Carnie on Oct 9, 2009 10:02 AM CDT up reply actions

Scary.

It’s always been faster to take the stairs on the way out. Who knew it was safer, too?

Lighthouse Hockey: Side effects may include Weight gain and frequent game loss.

by Dominik on Oct 9, 2009 1:02 PM CDT up reply actions

I may have told this story before . . .

but I remember back when I used to watch wrestling regularly (this would be the late 90’s), I’d check out match previews and reviews at several different wrestling websites (back in the dark ages of the Intawebzzzz).

I remember one time reading a review of a WCW match between (the now late) Brian Adams and some other schlub who couldn’t move.

Whoever wrote the review of that match described it as “a feculent tsunami of suck”.

That about describes my viewing of the Blues and Cardinals games last night (fuck Mizzou, sorry Mizzou heads).

One day, David Backes and Albert Pujols will combine forces to become the most awesome piece of violent force known to man.

by Donut King on Oct 9, 2009 12:38 PM CDT reply actions