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- 06/19/13
| Name: | Holden O. |
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| Location: | Chicago |
| Member since: | February 11, 2002 |
| Last visit: | June 19, 2013 |
holden has posted 50 links and 2016 comments to SportsFilter and 8 links and 268 comments to the Locker Room.
Euro 2012 Confidence Pool (Final Standings): Congrats to our winner, goddam, who narrowly pipped second-place finisher owlhouse (and apologies to those of you whose entries the software ate). Full standings inside.
posted by holden to fantasy at 11:43 AM on July 05 - 1 comment
Euro 2012 Confidence Pool (Standings Post-Group Round): Standings after the group round inside.
posted by holden to fantasy at 02:59 PM on June 22 - 1 comment
Euro 2012 Confidence Pool: For those not interested in playing a full-blown Euro fantasy league or (like me) interested in both, click the link for the SpoFi Euro 2012 confidence pool. Additional details inside.
posted by holden to fantasy at 01:19 PM on June 07 - 22 comments
SportsFilter Euro 2012 Fantasy League: If you are interested in joining a fantasy league for the European Championships, see details inside.
posted by holden to fantasy at 02:41 PM on June 05 - 5 comments
An Anatomy of Three Hits: Hall of Fame goalie Ken Dryden pens an essay at Grantland about hits and their consequences in the NHL of today and yesteryear.
posted by holden to hockey at 02:30 PM on April 27 - 1 comment
Left a "teen" off the rebound total for Duncan, rcade.
I'm with tron -- as a neutral (although slight lean towards Spurs in this series), looks to be a good, attractive series.
posted by holden at 01:00 PM on June 07
Hawks 7
Pens 6
posted by holden at 08:58 AM on May 30
Congrats on the baby front, yerfatma and grum. As a father of three young boys, we could maybe pull some arranged marriage stuff -- craft brews, bourbon, old copies of Bill James abstracts, and Garth Iorg jerseys are all acceptable dowries.
On the CY Young front, at least one and maybe two of my boys are lefties. I keep figuring that if I can just somehow get one of them to be able to pump it in there high-80s to low-90s, I really don't have to plan for retirement. [Pulse + LH + reasonable velocity = LOOGY at worst]
posted by holden at 02:05 PM on May 22
It's not looking good for Gonk. At this point, I wonder about his future with the Patriots.
Perhaps they could upgrade and replace him with an R2-series astromech droid.
posted by holden at 10:05 PM on May 17
PIT in 6
NYR in 7
DET in 7
SJ in 6
posted by holden at 09:39 AM on May 14
Hey, man, I know. I came of age in central Michigan on late 80s to early 90s Wings. But I am more at peace with the travails of the past now. Age and 4 Cups, I suppose.
posted by holden at 01:46 AM on May 04
holden, that was a nice trip down memory lane. Can you dig up clips of the Wings losing to San Jose in 94, too? Oh, and fuck you, by the way... =D
What has come since has been worth it, no? I was at Game 6 of the 1994 Wings-Sharks series in Detroit. 7-1!!! No way they lose Game 7, right? Oh, Chris Osgood (at least he eventually redeemed himself).
posted by holden at 07:58 PM on May 03
grum -- maybe this will make you feel better.
Only time I think I have ever seen Nicklas Lidstrom (who was 23 at the time) exhibit poor defensive technique. I recall a number of commentators suggesting at the time that he was too "soft "(i.e., European) to be an effective NHL defenseman.
posted by holden at 05:22 PM on May 03
self-consciously liberal democrats they don't always college is really all that.
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nephew setting up after doing a lot of real estate so right toward the kuwaiti
posted by holden at 12:09 PM on May 03
Wish I could make some insightful observation about the consequences of ratcheting up levels of competition and anger in America (and I'm sure some will), but suffice it to say that this is an awful thing to have done and something that could greatly alter the course of this kid's life (and the ref's as well, obviously).
By the way, article says the player is 17, not 14.
posted by holden at 09:15 AM on May 01
Pittsburgh in 5
Montreal in 6
NY Rangers in 7
Boston in 6
Chicago in 5
Detroit in 7
Vancouver in 7
Los Angeles in 6
posted by holden at 10:25 AM on April 30
If you want your faith in humanity to be undermined, take a look at the comments threads accompanying this story at Yahoo!, ESPN, and other outlets.
posted by holden at 04:59 PM on April 29
Sources are reporting that Russell Westbrook is potentially going to be out for the remainder of the playoffs after suffering a knee injury (requiring surgery) in Game 2 of the Rockets-Thunder series. Without Harden around to pick up the scoring load, seems like this opens up the West considerably, making a Heat-Thunder rematch more unlikely.
posted by holden at 01:08 PM on April 26
LI -- I think the coverage in large part is due to slow sports news cycle but also that the injured player is a former CYA winner and was the biggest free agent pitching prize in the last offseason. It is not a small-team/big-team bias, but a small-player/big-player bias. If the Rockies or the Padres had a pitcher of Greinke's stature, I bet it gets similar press. Or if it happened in a Rockies-Padres game and Troy Tulowitzki was the guy who got busted up in a scrum that probably did not have to happen.
Also, somewhat slow sports news cycle this time of year.
posted by holden at 05:27 PM on April 12
2013 SpoFi Stanley Cup Pickem - Finals edition
Hawks 6 Kane