Wednesday links: Introducing the Phoenix Expos!

by averagejoe on Aug 26, 2009 6:00 AM CDT

It's Wednesday. We are almost done ... come on Saturday!

Blues news

The Blues have three new commercials for the upcoming season. You can watch them here. [Blues]
David Backes' move to center has helped him become a big-time player for USA Hockey. [USATODAY.com]

Hockey news

The NHL is trying to turn the Phoenix Coyotes into the Montreal Expos pre move to Washington. Just give up NHL. Let Jim Balsillie buy the team and move them. Make him pay a big fucking moving fee and make him get Hamilton a nice new arena. [TSN]
Re the Coyotes: What does it all mean? [Puck Daddy]
The Boston Bruins are hosting a "Swing Like Happy Gilmore Long Drive Contest." Nothing can go wrong from this. [Stanley Cup of Chowder]
Stephon Walkom would rather ref than watch refs. Good call creepy dude. [TSN]
Team Canada has Cam Ward and Marc-Andre Fleury -- both Cup winners -- riding the pine and they are worried about who is going to play in net. [CTV Olympics]
THIS is why Greg Wyshynski is the best. [Puck Daddy]
The Wilds third jersey has been leaked. [icethetics]

Other links

From Andy: Boredom in Ireland. [Bright Cove]
Hildymac has an axe to grind with Arkansas. She passes this along: An Arkansas woman, who is having trouble paying the bills, tried to sell the naming rights to her SEVENTH kid. STOP HAVING KIDS. [Fox News]
Nightmare fuel: The Hypnocat. [the Internet]

Video

This video is from Classic17. It is creepy. Why? Kids? Check. Ginger kids? Check? Kids dancing sexy? Check. Holy shit. Also, classic17 says dont go to the Web site tagged on the video -- he says its naughty.

Hope that haunts you. gametimelinks(at)gmail.com. SEND US SHIT!

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Backes barring injury is a USA lock.

Of course we all knew that.
Still not sure about the commercials. They may have to grow on me. Seeing them all at once annoyed me.

by luvhockey on Aug 26, 2009 7:21 AM CDT reply actions

Because moving the Expos to D.C. really helped those folks a lot.

They do have, as you might see in the standings, the worst fucking record in baseball. They also traded away the last remaining link to Montreal at the trade deadline. Money doesn’t fix everything.

Oh, and even if the Wild are gonna be boring, at least they’ll look schnazzy doing it.

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 Aug 26, 2009 8:04 AM CDT reply actions

BUT

they DID still pound the Cubs for 15 runs yesterday. That’s gotta be the gut punch for them. When you get absolutely pwned by the league’s retard, you know it’s time to hang it up. That would be like getting destroyed 10-0 by the Isles (no offense, Dom).

2009 offseason reading: "Nate the Great and the missing powerplay."

by NateTheGreat. on Aug 26, 2009 8:25 AM CDT up reply actions

You don't think...

… the new owners of the Cubs’ll actually get a brain and fire Lou, do ya? Because after last night, if I owned the team, his bags’d be packed and waiting for him when he got home.

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 Aug 26, 2009 10:26 AM CDT up reply actions

Fire Lou: #2 on the to-do list.

If the new owner’s first action isn’t to send GM Jim Hendry packing, he’s confused.

by BleedBlue42 on Aug 26, 2009 11:01 AM CDT up reply actions

They just probably need to generally clean house.

There are a LOT of players on the Cubs who are overpaid wastes of space. Of course, if they want to keep the whole thing. I’m not going to complain.

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 Aug 26, 2009 12:31 PM CDT up reply actions

YOU

are in my neck of the woods here, fire hendry, get rid of soriano fukudome, theriot, fontenot, and redo the entire pitching staff

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

by DESTROYER on Aug 26, 2009 3:29 PM CDT up reply actions

really not much difference between cubs and cards

top 10 ab cardinals include

ankiel .233/ .401

duncan .227 .358

and k greene .209 .358

dreadfull in all measurements

cubs have

sorreanto doing ankiel numbers, fontenot during duncan numbers, and the two headed catcher of soto and hill doing green numbers.

and remember that duncan’s farts don’t smell despite him being unable to make a aaa club (or hit .200 down there)

the difference between first and where the cubs are is that carp, wain, and pin have edged out lilly, dem and zambro, basically our 3 have 7 more games started and won all 7 of them. toss 7 more games to boggs loshe and wellsy and we would be in a virtual tie today

not insignificant by any means is the games played and results of our top 3 arms. but if that is the difference between selling everything off and failing or to the playoffs. it isnt MUCH of a difference.

our gm pretty much dumped the duncan and did actually add stuff at the deadline.

we started "set in the outfield and finally having the 2nd base position solved. today none of those guys do much anymore for us.

anyone have a greene sighjting they wanna share. recent one? I think i saw him in charge of the humidor’s door in colorado….

A strong anvil fears no hammer

by Childhood Trauma on Aug 26, 2009 4:47 PM CDT up reply actions

what are you talking about?

theres a huge difference between the Cubs and Cardinals, for the pitching staff
CHUBS:
Dempster 7-7, 4.03 ERA
Zambrano 7-5, 3.80 ERA
Lilly 9-8, 3.40 ERA
23-20

Cardinals:
Carpenter 14-2, 2.16 ERA
Wainwright 15-7, 2.50 ERA
Pineiro 12-9, 3.15 ERA
41-18
BULLPEN
CHUBS:
Gregg 23 saves, 6 blown
Marmol 5 saves 4 blown
Heilman 1 save 6 blown
Cotts 0 saves, 1 blown
Guzman 1 save

combined record 10-15

Cardinals:
Franklin 33 saves 2 blown
McClellan 2 saves 2 blown
Reyes 1 save
Miller 1 blown
Motte 3 blown
Kinney 1 blown

out of nine blown saves the combined record is 14-9

thats a big difference, also your stats, Duncan is gone, Ankiel and Greene have been benched and upgraded to Ryan .297/.403, Holliday .387/.676, Lugo .291/.481, and Rasmus .252/.423 thats one hell of an upgrade…

once again Fuck the CHUBS

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

by DESTROYER on Aug 26, 2009 5:51 PM CDT up reply actions

im talking about failure

said the top 3 bird aces outdueled their cub conterparts and that it wasnt insignificant, cubs got a real young 4th and we pray for rain :) and we don’t even bother watching our 5th (though with smoltzie maybe we start)

and yes the other issue was the strengths on our team, the “overhyped” and perhaps “overpaid” have all meet the bench, or the enemployment line. cubs push at the deadline and get holiday, our 3 arms faulter just a bit and it is the cubs in first

it isnt the cards DIDNT fail. half the team did. some of the acclaimed still ARE

the difference is the cards upgraded most of their failures and the cubs have embraced theirs….

the only people who saved the cards season from being the cubs season are the owners. period. the PLAYERS we had would not have done it. the coaching we had would not have been the difference. they would have started duncan even more and talk to the press even less.

we WERE behind the cubs a month ago today. 30 days. 10 game swing.

so again you can blame anything you want to but can you praise ownership?

so who owns the cubs? no one. a pending sale.

the blues’ fans have seen what happens to a team with needs when the money is changing hands. it wasn’t pretty and a lot of people got blamed along with the deserving lauries. those other people and players blamed still wear some venom and spit we fans aimed their way years ago, deservedly or otherwize.

repeat our mistake if you must :)

A strong anvil fears no hammer

by Childhood Trauma on Aug 26, 2009 6:10 PM CDT up reply actions

just wondering

what in the links prompted a discussion on the chicago freakin cubs? i’m not mad just confused how this happened.

by averagejoe on Aug 26, 2009 6:16 PM CDT up reply actions

Blame the Expos.

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 Aug 26, 2009 9:06 PM CDT up reply actions

For beating the Cubs.

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 Aug 27, 2009 9:51 AM CDT up reply actions

ill praise

the ownership for opening their wallets when they needed to be otherwise we would be the cubs, the problems came from yes duncan but hes not entirely healed from a neck surgery, Ankiel is in a sophmorish slump if you can call it that, Greene has had anxiety issues which really isnt to uncommon anymore. and the cubs did finalize the sale to the ricketts family last week. the problem with the Cubs is they are full of streaky players, theriot, big Z, Soriano, Fukudome, and Bradley, overpaid for all three. The Cards just made some bad investments that still have some upside and sold the ones that didnt (duncan), also i forgot to add how much DeRosa has ment as far as leadership and production over guys like thurston, barden and greene, remember Boston is on the hook for all of Lugo, A’s for most of Holliday and Smoltz is only being paid 100k, the front office was very smart about reallocating funds and prospects for producers and are very much in a win now mode.

the cubs strength was supposed to be there starters and have failed misserably(sp?) the cards strength as well, has also come through in this instance, waino, carp have been healthy which is a huge boost. Pineiro is in a contract year and throwing like it just keep it up pinata. Lohse has been hurt, and welly just plain blew, in comes smoltz and Boggs, while Boggs hasnt been great he hasnt been terrible and better then welly, the game smoltz pitched on sunday if he keeps that up forget boggs and we have a 4 man playoff rotation that is stacked, the bullpen has been a little shaky lately but will pick up, since motte blew that first save op Franklin has been lights out all season.

so yea its part of the owners and part players, without the owners we dont pick up DeRosa, Holliday, lugo, smoltz, but without Yadi, Pujols, Carp, Waino, Frankilin, Pineiro, Rasmus, and Luddy keeping pace, and treading water we would be like the Astros 11 back. I give the owners credit but not all of it like you suggest, 2 cy young possibilities, and a MVP candidate isnt just the owners its the players will to win

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

by DESTROYER on Aug 26, 2009 7:03 PM CDT up reply actions

not to mention

Glaus has been out all year as well

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

by DESTROYER on Aug 26, 2009 7:05 PM CDT up reply actions

you cant say the expos/nats arent better off in dc

yes, the on the field team stinks right now but … the team has a shiny new stadium and actual fans at games. once the team learns how to draft/not steal from latin kids and gets better it would be a much better situation.

balsillie really wants a team and he is, from all accounts, a stable owner. wouldn’t it be nice to go from shaky to stable. so what that hamilton is small — it’s his money going down the tube. i feel bad for the phoenix fans, but the team is up for sale. since they already have an arena built, maybe someone can move there. i just dont see why, with no one else involved, the nhl wont just sell to balsillie.

by averagejoe on Aug 26, 2009 6:19 PM CDT up reply actions

send em

to KC already i want a fucking nhl team not a minor league team

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

by DESTROYER on Aug 26, 2009 7:04 PM CDT up reply actions

You might wind up with two of the latter...

… if the ’Yotes show up in KC.

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 Aug 26, 2009 9:07 PM CDT up reply actions

He's kinda like Mark Cuban.

He’s an overbearing asshole that no one in the NHL wants to deal with. They’re probably afraid he’ll propose odd rules changes . . . which considering what happened before ‘05-’06, would be like the pot calling the kettle black.

There’s a good reason Cuban was rejected as an owner of a baseball team. I’m honestly not sure how the NBA has been able to deal with him. But connections like this matter in management . . . and it’s quite obvious the NHL BoG wants nothing to do with this little prick.

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 Aug 27, 2009 9:54 AM CDT up reply actions

I can't blame them.

I mean, if you had a job interview with two candidates, and one was PERFECT for the job, but a total asshat – and the other was pretty good but a really nice guy, who do you hire?

I’d rather hire the nice guy because he can be worked on, and won’t make my life miserable on a daily basis.

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 Aug 27, 2009 1:45 PM CDT up reply actions

TV ads....

those old Ads (trying to mimic the Mac commercials) with the guy in the blues jersey and the guy in the other team jerseys are great. I hadn’t seen all of them before.. funny stuff. My favorite is the Nashville Predator one…lol…great stuff

by hockeyno93 on Aug 26, 2009 12:49 PM CDT reply actions

unrelated links

open the book review and watch the “larusso is an ass” legacy in its infancy.

let us get 5 guys and beat up a broadcaster

what brought this to memory?

Duncan thinks his son’s farts smell like roses

realistically, as a sports fan in general and a hockey fan in specific, I have little choice but to rely on the fair and accessable criticism of the local teams. Larussa and his wild bunch repeatedly use violence, intimidation, and silence to effect legitimate sports reporting policies.

the day that the bobby knight is the show menatily hits hockey where it really hurts, the media, is the day we really need to ask for bettman’s head.

fortunately even the greatest dwarf in the NHL has to have a sense of self deficating [sic] humor

by Childhood Trauma on Aug 26, 2009 1:29 PM CDT reply actions