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| Name: | Bill Lazar |
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| Homepage URL: | http://billsaysthis.com |
| Location: | mountain view, ca |
| ZIP: | 94043 |
| Gender: | male |
| Member since: | March 23, 2003 |
| Last visit: | May 22, 2013 |
billsaysthis has posted 166 links and 4515 comments to SportsFilter and 55 links and 1532 comments to the Locker Room.
MLS announces expansion team New York City FC: Manchester City and the Yankees partner to pip Cosmos to the NYC MLS franchise, which will play in a purpose-built stadium in Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, starting in the 2015 season.
posted by billsaysthis to soccer at 12:31 PM on May 21 - 8 comments
6 Things Your Business Can Learn from My Rookie Year in the NFL : Given Fleener is a Stanford grad, not too surprising that he looks at sport as a business. "One of the many “knocks” on the Colts team last year was our youth. We had a very young team by NFL standards. The media mistook young age for low maturity levels, and while it’s hard to argue that correlation doesn’t equal causation in that regard, it is too much simplification to say that youth = immaturity."
posted by billsaysthis to football at 11:44 AM on April 25 - 0 comments
Our Xmas OneWorldFutbol Campaign: We raised $608 to sent 32 futbols to kids in a small village in Mexico through a Rotary Club which goes down every year to build houses. Good on us!
posted by billsaysthis to culture at 07:00 PM on February 06 - 7 comments
Reebok signs 15-year-old hockey phenom to huge endorsement deal: The "next Sidney Crosby", only the third 15 year old allowed to play in the OHL, signs a multi-year, multi-million dollar deal with the Reeb. Hopefully there will be an NHL for him to play in before the contract term finishes.
posted by billsaysthis to hockey at 06:36 PM on December 13 - 1 comment
Champions League may have 64 clubs & Europa League scrapped: Seven English and five Scottish clubs would make the expanded field if M. Platini's latest, er, brainstorm becomes fact. At least it would end all those Thursday nights away requiring dark o'clock flights home from the Continent.
posted by billsaysthis to soccer at 11:48 AM on November 28 - 6 comments
Cheers to my first high hope / bitter let down season.
Are you forgetting last season, when Spurs actually qualified for Champions League but were edged out by fifth place Chelsea since as defending champs they had the right of return? Or does that not meet the high hope/bitter letdown criteria?
posted by billsaysthis at 11:38 AM on May 22
MLS requires a certain number of home nationals. As for profits, considering they'll need to pay off the stadium I doubt there'll be that much for a number of years. Plus, teams are allowed up to three Designated Players; for the DPs only $400k of salary counts towards the cap, which is how LA Galaxy had Beckham and have Landon Donovan and Robbie Keane.
Remember too that MLS is a single owner entity. That is, the league owns 51% of each of the teams and all the players sign contracts with the league. Owners own 49% of the team and a proportional share of the league. When players are sold to teams in say Europe, that fee goes to MLS, with the team getting a small share.
posted by billsaysthis at 11:36 AM on May 22
One wonders whetherhopes that Sheik Mansour bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan has understood the MLS salary cap and spending limits.
posted by billsaysthis at 12:32 PM on May 21
Premier League 2012-13 Final Standings
SpoFi 11-12 League
| 1 | Tuscaloosa Dumplings | BS Johnson | 60 | 2,135 |
| 2 | Heffron United | Patrick Heffron | 31 | 1,968 |
| 3 | The Foreign Exchange | el tigre negro de holden | 54 | 1,950 |
| 4 | BillSaysThisScores | billsaysthis billsaysthis | 63 | 1,910 |
| 5 | Garrity Motors | Lawn Wrangler | 59 | 1,908 |
| 6 | Ball Booters | ca buki | 37 | 1,852 |
| 7 | Gators FC | t s e l s o n | 25 | 1,800 |
| 8 | Dharma Bums | Fat Buddha | 35 | 1,797 |
| 9 | Dover Divers | Tom Clancy | 33 | 1,766 |
| 10 | Buckeye FC | Jeffwa Hogue | 62 | 1,755 |
| 11 | FC EAV | Tim Truxell | 61 | 1,692 |
| 12 | Blind Mango Chutney | Bill Pennington | 61 | 1,506 |
SportsFilter 2012
| 1 | Tuscaloosa Dumplings | BS Johnson | 60 | 2,135 |
| 2 | BillSaysThisScores | billsaysthis billsaysthis | 63 | 1,910 |
| 3 | Gators FC | t s e l s o n | 25 | 1,800 |
| 4 | Dharma Bums | Fat Buddha | 35 | 1,797 |
| 5 | FC EAV | Tim Truxell | 61 | 1,692 |
| 6 | Bel Biv Defoe | Jennifer Muller | 54 | 1,636 |
| 7 | Unmarked Attackers | Rogers Cadenhead | 19 | 1,575 |
| 8 | Blind Mango Chutney | Bill Pennington | 61 | 1,506 |
Thanks to MeatSaber for the Tableizer link
posted by billsaysthis at 10:51 AM on May 21
Does anyone have a script to turn a fantasy league table into code easily posted here? Would like to post the Premier League results.
posted by billsaysthis at 11:49 AM on May 20
James Harrison: I spend between $400K and $600K on body work' annually: "The live-in staff includes a chiropractor, an acupuncturist, a homeopathic doctor, a trainer and a number of masseuses."
posted by billsaysthis at 05:06 PM on May 17
Pats cut starting DT Love after diabetes diagnosis even though other players (e.g., Jay Cutler) continued their careers after being diagnosed with the more serious Type 1 variant. Bellicheck FTW!
posted by billsaysthis at 10:41 AM on May 16
The Falcon proposals look pretty sweet Reminds me of an episode of Build It Bigger/Extreme Engineering that covered the construction of the new stadium in Melbourne, very cool stuff can be done these days if the owners are imaginative enough.
posted by billsaysthis at 12:12 PM on May 15
PIT in 6
NYR in 6
DET in 6
SJ in 5
posted by billsaysthis at 11:30 AM on May 14
- Is there anyone in the west that can seriously challenge Chicago?
I thought the Bulls played in the East. You can't be talking about the Blackhawks, since they aren't likely to make it out of the next round whether they get the Sharks or Red Wings.
Famous last weords, he said...
posted by billsaysthis at 11:53 AM on May 10
"going on but not much is riding speculum" -- I always new Fergie was whack!
posted by billsaysthis at 11:51 AM on May 10
ManU appointed Gollum's younger brother.
posted by billsaysthis at 03:19 PM on May 09
I understand that because the club is an NYSE traded company they had an obligation to release the news once it leaked out but it seems strange to me they couldn't keep it quiet for 12 more days. Also, bigger question, why now? Hip replacement will sideline SAF for the summer but isn't otherwise a big deal and I'd have thought he'd try one more time for a double or treble.
Still, can't say there's been a better manager in any major league over the same time frame as good as him. Phil Jackson and Scotty Bowman up there too but only make the Europa League in comparison; for me he's the only Champions League qualifier.
posted by billsaysthis at 12:12 PM on May 08
SportsFilter: The Tuesday Huddle
Grum, I'm thinking she may win the 2037 Cy Young for the Blue Jays but she'll be winning the 2039, '40 and '43 World Series wearing pinstripes.
Yerfatma, here's hoping she'll be safe (and healthy) at home a few months from now!