Friday Caps Clips: Caps Get a Familiar Landlord

SG, as an ad guy, you should know better than to let facts get in the way of narrative.

but didn’t have the numbers.

Yep, I think it would be great to really make this whole town into a similar sort of color scheme (much like Pitt as much as I hate them) to really bring all the teams together. All of the ones actually located in the district seem to have a young core that could make them contenders for a long time (the wizards at least will soon) and it would be great to see a fanbase get behind all three.

Great idea with the red. He should really really rename them though….

i didnt take that as ted saying he would never rename them, just that he wouldnt (and couldnt) do it right now. i think he’s trying again to be respectful of the previous ownership and trying to tamp down the talk of what the new team name should be.

I’d love it if the jerseys looked like the US Mens Olympic jerseys but with the blue and red reversed.

Dude there was no Bears game last night. What am I missing? Game 5 is tonight in Texas. Am I high?

Agree that it was a bad non-call. Seems like the ref never saw the stick pop back up after the completion of the follow through. But Belanger has sure gotten fame for toughness—everyone shivers at the idea of personal dentistry work on the bench before the next shift.

Well, it’s not as though the Caps would have scored on the ensuing powerplay anyway.

It was a follow-through, right? No high sticking on those.

He used to post some of those emails in his blog (without putting in the names, of course). And I offered to answer them in the comments. The ketchup thing became a bit viral in his blog mostly because someone wrote to Ted to complain that the ketchup used to come in packets and was now in squirt bottles.

From there it took off, and people talked about the ketchup quality (they VC uses Heinz, so there’s no question of quality there…), the texture, the color, the shape of the bottles, etc. All in fun, of course. But not everyone can tell the difference between fun and controversy…

the same guy probably compains about high ticket prices too…

Prediction: the quality of the ketchup improves before the quality of the ice does.

Where’s Kelly working at nowadays? I still rock the old skool Miller when I go to games. And by “old skool” I mean the old authentic with the CAPITALS on the front, not the “patch”

Can anyone else in the world say that?

Ouch….can’t help but LOL at that, but I’m guessing that for the most part their fans could care less about that right now.

How likely are their chances to repeat?

Too funny. If for some strange reason the Hawks traded Toews, would that bonus apply to the cap hit of what ever team he got traded to?

I think that the Nationals are well on their way to embracing Ted’s values. Mark Lerner, the son of Nat’s owner Ted Lerner, and the member of the family that is the most involved in the day to day operations of the Nat’s was a member of Lincoln Holdings and is now a shareholder in Monument Sports and Entertainment, and has said that he talks to Ted fairly often. And yes, I would love for Ted to send CSN back to Philly where they belong and start his own network based on the Caps and Wizards. Watching the Nationals on a network owned by Angelos is bad enough, but at least MASN2 is in HD. CSN is not only responsible for the abomination that is CSN+, they are owned by Comcast, one of the worst corporations in the world, and who is to top it all off the owner of the Flyers.

Oh man, I’ve been saving up some choice comments for the Wraps for Don Fishman, Doug Yingst, Nate Ewell, and Greg Smith. And really Mark Nemish, what the hell?! You couldn’t design a training regime for Tomas Fleischmann that would allow him to keep the muscle he put on during the offseason? That guy totally gets a “2”. But I guess I should save it for his wrap, which should be around June 28 or so, right?

No Brent Johnson wrap?

We definitely need to have a Rink Wrap for Junior Seau….

The Bruce Boudreau wrap: turkey and potpourri, with a side salad. Can’t imagine what the McPhee wrap would be, other than there’s a lot of vanilla involved.

Thanks for the subject line

Enigmatic even at such a young age.

So where are the cigarettes?

…with a couple of Hershey kisses. That oughta bring the boys good luck (and rot my teeth completely out of my head)!

’Sabout time. The Stars are going with a new goalie tonight – their #1 goalie Brent Krahn has now sufficiently recovered from his concussion to go back in net, and the Bears had started to solve Climie. The Stars continue without their stud defenseman Hutchinson, who is out with a knee thing after a collision with (I think) Pinner in Game Three.

Hockey News has a more-or-less unremarkable discussion of the series so far (and every team that’s playing for a championship should fly charter, this mucking around with buses and commercial flight is just silly and let’s see if the Stars charter for the trip back to PA), but the lone comment to the piece is magnificent:

Yeah, you’re damn right I have a comment. After the Stanley Cup finals are over, there’s only a few million rabid, pure hockey fans who’d love to extend their hockey-watching season a few days by watching the rest of the AHL finals. This league seems to pride itself on being well-run, with stable franchises in well-chosen markets. So why is it that when I go the league’s website that the streaming they offer is of such unbelievably poor quality as to make the games literally unwatchable? That might be acceptable if the content was available for free, but they want THIRTEEN BUCKS a game for this guano. Memo to the AHL: It is June, 2010. To make a business decision not to be “standards-compliant” when it comes to internet streaming that you are CHARGING FOR makes you look like 59 year-olds who wanna try this whole “computer thing” while being too cheap to pay an IT guy a few hundred bucks to offer a product that YOUR TARGET MARKET (hockey fans, hello?) would be willing to pay for. Seriously, screw you AHL, from the bottom of my wallet. I got $13 on my desk right here. Want it?

Finally, we haven’t seen Braden lately, but his playoff beard is in game shape and ready to step in if Neuvy falters:

And secondly, takes a complete and utter copout on the whole issue by saying its just based on the number of complaints he gets, rather than his own stupid opinion.

Emerick always sounds like he’s having epileptic fits. I HATE IT. I fell asleep Wednesday ngiht with a baseball game on, but the second Mr. B switched over to watch game 6, Emerick’s screeching woke me right back up.

and Olcyzk is just an eff’ing idiot and anyone who says he’s the best analyst in the NHL doesn’t deserve to be taken seriously.

Oh, so the convention will be media-saturated too? I’m not sure that’s a good thing…

well, if they come out with the blue roadies circa 1998 i think they will hear a lot of grumbling…