Comments on: Edwar, Yogi, and Me http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2010/02/28/edwar-yogi-and-me/ Development site for Bronx Banter Blog's upcoming look and feel Sun, 19 May 2013 06:50:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: RIYank http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2010/02/28/edwar-yogi-and-me/#comment-95812 RIYank Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:54:10 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=29666#comment-95812 [16] Damn. [16] Damn.

]]> By: monkeypants http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2010/02/28/edwar-yogi-and-me/#comment-95811 monkeypants Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:46:11 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=29666#comment-95811 [15] What I do here is indeed silly. It's a diversion, and indeed baseball is my own obsession. But I don't bind my own sense of self-worth to it. More importantly, I do not feel that my nation's value or dignity is bound up with a goddamn game. It's just not healthy, I tell ya'. [15] What I do here is indeed silly. It’s a diversion, and indeed baseball is my own obsession. But I don’t bind my own sense of self-worth to it. More importantly, I do not feel that my nation’s value or dignity is bound up with a goddamn game. It’s just not healthy, I tell ya’.

]]> By: RIYank http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2010/02/28/edwar-yogi-and-me/#comment-95810 RIYank Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:08:24 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=29666#comment-95810 <i>and especially into binding their sense of self worth and national pride to a silly game.</i> Yeah! Instead of what we do here at Bronx Banter, which is sophisticated and appropriate! Hitting a cylinder with sticks: silly. Hitting a sphere: sublime. Wearing funny pants: dignified. Wearing funny pants with shorts over them: clownish. One guy wrapped in latter-day armor with a huge glove and wearing a mask: very cool, as long as he doesn't also have a stick. and especially into binding their sense of self worth and national pride to a silly game.

Yeah! Instead of what we do here at Bronx Banter, which is sophisticated and appropriate!

Hitting a cylinder with sticks: silly. Hitting a sphere: sublime.
Wearing funny pants: dignified. Wearing funny pants with shorts over them: clownish.
One guy wrapped in latter-day armor with a huge glove and wearing a mask: very cool, as long as he doesn’t also have a stick.

]]> By: Mr. OK Jazz TOKYO http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2010/02/28/edwar-yogi-and-me/#comment-95809 Mr. OK Jazz TOKYO Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:16:15 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=29666#comment-95809 <b>I don't think Joba has the intellectual capacity to go through a lineup three times</b> From an un-named "scout", over at ESPN...I never knew you had to know who Mencius was, or to understand "Ulysses" to throw a complete game... why do i stil read ESPN?? I don’t think Joba has the intellectual capacity to go through a lineup three times

From an un-named “scout”, over at ESPN…I never knew you had to know who Mencius was, or to understand “Ulysses” to throw a complete game…

why do i stil read ESPN??

]]> By: Mr. OK Jazz TOKYO http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2010/02/28/edwar-yogi-and-me/#comment-95808 Mr. OK Jazz TOKYO Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:16:33 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=29666#comment-95808 Laugh Riot O' the Day! http://fackyouk.blogspot.com/2010/02/kevin-youkilis-has-new-stat-for-you.html Laugh Riot O’ the Day!
http://fackyouk.blogspot.com/2010/02/kevin-youkilis-has-new-stat-for-you.html

]]> By: williamnyy23 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2010/02/28/edwar-yogi-and-me/#comment-95807 williamnyy23 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:00:12 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=29666#comment-95807 [7] It was a great game, and Canada probably is still better, but not by much. This was a very young U.S. team that went 1-1 against an A1 Canadian team. Fresh off a victory over Canada in the world juniors, I think it's safe to say that the U.S. is catching up. After all, it isn't that long ago when the best U.S. team couldn't have even skated with the best Canadian team. [9] By losing to the U.S. the first time, Canada had a much more difficult road to the final. As in any sport, the champion doesn't always wind up with more wins than the team they beat...the rules are the rules going into it, so you can't complain. [10] I absolutely love the Olympics...aside from baseball, it is my favorite sports experience. To each his own I guess. [7] It was a great game, and Canada probably is still better, but not by much. This was a very young U.S. team that went 1-1 against an A1 Canadian team. Fresh off a victory over Canada in the world juniors, I think it’s safe to say that the U.S. is catching up. After all, it isn’t that long ago when the best U.S. team couldn’t have even skated with the best Canadian team.

[9] By losing to the U.S. the first time, Canada had a much more difficult road to the final. As in any sport, the champion doesn’t always wind up with more wins than the team they beat…the rules are the rules going into it, so you can’t complain.

[10] I absolutely love the Olympics…aside from baseball, it is my favorite sports experience. To each his own I guess.

]]> By: monkeypants http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2010/02/28/edwar-yogi-and-me/#comment-95806 monkeypants Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:31:32 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=29666#comment-95806 [9] More seriously, you're various analogies are flawed because you assume that the preliminary round and medal round of the Olympics correspond to the NCCA tournament or NFL playoffs, etc. The more appropriate analogy is to see the preliminary round as corresponding to the regular season, and the medal round corresponding to the playoffs. To make this more tangible, just think of the NY Giants Superbowl run from a few years ago: they lost to the Pats in the regular season, which had a bearing on playoff seeding (the regular season, that is, that individual game as it worked out had no bearing on seeding), but then the Giants won in the final game. Would you argue that the Pats should not have had to play the Giants in the SB because they beat them earlier? So too this Olympics with the US and Canada. [9] More seriously, you’re various analogies are flawed because you assume that the preliminary round and medal round of the Olympics correspond to the NCCA tournament or NFL playoffs, etc. The more appropriate analogy is to see the preliminary round as corresponding to the regular season, and the medal round corresponding to the playoffs. To make this more tangible, just think of the NY Giants Superbowl run from a few years ago: they lost to the Pats in the regular season, which had a bearing on playoff seeding (the regular season, that is, that individual game as it worked out had no bearing on seeding), but then the Giants won in the final game. Would you argue that the Pats should not have had to play the Giants in the SB because they beat them earlier?

So too this Olympics with the US and Canada.

]]> By: monkeypants http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2010/02/28/edwar-yogi-and-me/#comment-95805 monkeypants Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:27:53 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=29666#comment-95805 [9] I think the entire Olympics are horseshit, but that's another story. Also, I would have loved the wailing and gnashing of teeth had Canada lost [7], given the absurd amount of financial and emotional resources this gofy country put into the games, and especially into binding their sense of self worth and national pride to a silly game. God, I hate the Olympics. But, I am so, so, so happy they are now over and we can focus on BASEBALL!! [9] I think the entire Olympics are horseshit, but that’s another story. Also, I would have loved the wailing and gnashing of teeth had Canada lost [7], given the absurd amount of financial and emotional resources this gofy country put into the games, and especially into binding their sense of self worth and national pride to a silly game.

God, I hate the Olympics.

But, I am so, so, so happy they are now over and we can focus on BASEBALL!!

]]> By: Evil Empire http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2010/02/28/edwar-yogi-and-me/#comment-95804 Evil Empire Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:46:17 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=29666#comment-95804 Does anyone feel like maybe the US even playing Canada today was horseshit? The US was unbeaten and had already beaten them. Canada had a loss. Duke only had to beat UNLV once in 1991 to get to the finals, not twice. The US only had to beat the Soviets once in 1980. After the Super Bowl, I don't remember the Colts getting a second chance at the "real" title the following week... I realize the rules were laid out a long time ago, and weren't designed for Canada. BUT something about this format just irks the hell out of me. If you're going to give them another chance then do it round-robin style where the US would now get a 3rd game against Canada, since they're tied at 1 apiece. Does anyone feel like maybe the US even playing Canada today was horseshit? The US was unbeaten and had already beaten them. Canada had a loss.

Duke only had to beat UNLV once in 1991 to get to the finals, not twice. The US only had to beat the Soviets once in 1980. After the Super Bowl, I don’t remember the Colts getting a second chance at the “real” title the following week…

I realize the rules were laid out a long time ago, and weren’t designed for Canada. BUT something about this format just irks the hell out of me. If you’re going to give them another chance then do it round-robin style where the US would now get a 3rd game against Canada, since they’re tied at 1 apiece.

]]> By: rbj http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2010/02/28/edwar-yogi-and-me/#comment-95803 rbj Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:07:14 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=29666#comment-95803 Congrats to Canada. Can't feel bad, both teams played well. Congrats to Canada. Can’t feel bad, both teams played well.

]]> By: RIYank http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2010/02/28/edwar-yogi-and-me/#comment-95802 RIYank Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:56:27 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=29666#comment-95802 Another great one. I can't feel too bad that the US lost. The Canadians are better, deserved to win, and it would have been kind of pathetic and sad if they'd lost. Another great one.
I can’t feel too bad that the US lost. The Canadians are better, deserved to win, and it would have been kind of pathetic and sad if they’d lost.

]]> By: Just Fair http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2010/02/28/edwar-yogi-and-me/#comment-95801 Just Fair Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:55:48 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=29666#comment-95801 Storybook ending for Sid the Kid. Storybook ending for Sid the Kid.

]]> By: Alex Belth http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2010/02/28/edwar-yogi-and-me/#comment-95800 Alex Belth Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:37:59 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=29666#comment-95800 OT it is! OT it is!

]]> By: rbj http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2010/02/28/edwar-yogi-and-me/#comment-95799 rbj Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:31:37 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=29666#comment-95799 Heckuva good hockey game. It should go to overtime. Heckuva good hockey game. It should go to overtime.

]]> By: Cliff Corcoran http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2010/02/28/edwar-yogi-and-me/#comment-95798 Cliff Corcoran Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:03:19 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=29666#comment-95798 [1] Wednesday, 1:05, YES. Set your DVR! [1] Wednesday, 1:05, YES. Set your DVR!

]]> By: Mattpat11 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2010/02/28/edwar-yogi-and-me/#comment-95797 Mattpat11 Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:32:48 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=29666#comment-95797 Good Luck to Edwar where ever he goes, as long as its not the Yankees system. Good Luck to Edwar where ever he goes, as long as its not the Yankees system.

]]> By: The Hawk http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2010/02/28/edwar-yogi-and-me/#comment-95796 The Hawk Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:26:57 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=29666#comment-95796 I am so so so so so ready for televised spring training games to start. I am so so so so so ready for televised spring training games to start.

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