The Undefeated and the Winless

[Greek Tragedy]

hopefan,

Thank you for getting back to basketball...my head started to hurt! 

[Flying Dutch Fan]

I agree, all of that pontificating was causing a spasmodic response to my abdominal muscles which was about to produce a gastronomical event, namely the regurgitation of my most recently consumed meal 

[hopefan]

Minnesota Morris wins a makeup game over Mayville St, falling off our winless list   -  down to 33

[sac]

Protestant pamphleteers -----Are these like the people handing out reading material in airports?


DC--I had to give you Karma for your 2 responses.....little known fact you can't give someone karma more than once in 12 hours.

[Flying Dutch Fan]

I thought the Pamphleteers won the first D3 national championship?

[smedindy]

Ah, yes the Pampheteers defeated the Yellow Journalists 21-14. 

[hopefan]

St Scholastica picked up a win also, leaving only Northland winless in the UMAC.    33  winless

[hopefan]

Lots of winless activity tonite, including a battle of the perfect records in the CUNY where  John Jay plays Lehman.

Other winless playing are Albertus Pujols Magnus, E Nazarene, Del Valley, Hunter, Mitchell, Dan Webster, Chestnut Hill, Swarthmore, Thomas, and Thomas More.

Undefeateds playing tonite are Widener, WPI, Middlebury, Keene St, and Carroll.

[David Collinge]

If the Czech national team adopts a run-and-gun style of play, would that be called the Offenestration of Prague?

*rim shot*

[Warren Thompson]

If the Czech national team adopts a run-and-gun style of play, would that be called the Offenestration of Prague?

*rim shot*

Did someone earlier mention "manure"? 

[diehardfan]

DC--I had to give you Karma for your 2 responses.....little known fact you can't give someone karma more than once in 12 hours.

I figured that out when I was trying to give Greg karma to make up for lame person that kept knocking off his karma. I've probably given Greg 40 karma points alone.... and look where he's at! 

Me talk pretty one day...

[Ralph Turner]

diehardfan, you have been giving him karma, too?

I have been giving him karma, figuring that the North Park has been testing his psyche with their play this season...and we haven't started CCIW play yet! 

[Gregory Sager]

Thank you, cj4l. And kudos to you for keeping alive the informal "Peppermint Patties" moniker for York. CMHScots, when I was in college my next-door neighbor on the fourth floor of our dormitory was a dangerously eccentric kid named Steve "Avalanche" Carlson who used to amuse himself by dropping stuff out of his window (pints of ice cream, pumpkins, even an aquarium) in order to see what happened when it hit the sidewalk. This was before David Letterman made the same routine (but with watermelons instead of pumpkins) part of his shtick on Late Night. "Defenestration" became a favorite word of mine right about that time.

So was the First Defenestration of Prague when they threw the manure out the window?

If so, it begs the question as to why the castle's proprietors were keeping horses in the upper rooms of the citadel. Silly Bohemian Protestants!

Thanks, April. I had a suspicion that you were my karma fairy. And now that I've gone ahead and called you that, you're probably going to snap your magic wand in half and will never wave it over my head again. I guess it shows my tendency to look a gift horse in the mouth -- no matter how high up in the castle he happens to be.

Ralph, you may have to cart in the karma by the truckload once NPU embarks upon what may be a very long and very trying conference schedule.

And as that gets us back to basketball -- sort of -- can we then infer from PS's metaphor about St. Thomas dropping Gustavus Adolphus from a second-story window that this was a case of a Catholic school commiting vengeance upon a Protestant school as a tit-for-tat response to the Second Defenestration of Prague? I mean, how many other D3 schools besides GAC are named after a Protestant hero of the Thirty Years War? Coincidence? I think not. 

[David Collinge]

If so, it begs the question as to why the castle's proprietors were keeping horses in the upper rooms of the citadel. Silly Bohemian Protestants!

This calls to mind the brief vignette in The Commitments (a truly great film) where a small boy holding the reins of a tired-looking horse is waiting for the lift on the ground floor of a public housing high-rise in North Dublin.  Jimmy Rabbitte comes to the lift, gives the boy and horse an unbelieving look, and asks the boy "you're not taking that thing on the lift?," whereupon the boy responds "I have to; the stairs would kill him!"   

[John Gleich]

If the Czech national team adopts a run-and-gun style of play, would that be called the Offenestration of Prague?

I think Offenestration should be the new name for the "Grinnell System!"

I mean, how many other D3 schools besides GAC are named after a Protestant hero of the Thirty Years War?

I had no idea about the history of the 30 years war, defenestration, or who Gustvus Adolphus was (actually, two years ago when Point played at GAC, I recall having a conversation about this... we wondered how he got a school named after him!).

Truth be told, I was just looking for words that could aptly portray what the score clearly showed: that GAC got crushed.

I guess we'll have to wait a few games to see if they landed in the pile of crap and merely have to deal with the stench of their play from last night, or if they met their demise on the cobblestones outside of Gus Young Court.