FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[raiderguy]

Duff

Happy belated Birthday.

I was building a case for Hat #10.

[Pat Coleman]

No need to ask for smites...I'm sure Pat is still supersmiting me for our "discussion" on the womens hoops board.

If that were true, you'd be much lower.

You're minus-4 today -- four smites from four separate users. Usually happens when posters complain about karma, of course.

[janesvilleflash]

A recent survey revealed that the average American walks 900 miles per year.


 
Another revealed that the average American consumes 20 gallons of beer per year.


 
Conclusion: The average American gets 45 miles per gallon.

[Kilted Rat]

Reason #5,493 not to watch women's basketball at any level:


Final score tonight Rutgers 59 LSU 35.
LSU shot 26% from the field and a Shaq-like 30% from the charity stripe. Not that Rutgers was that much better at 39% and 56%.

The oddity in the stat line is that LSU shot 33% and Rutgers hit 50% from behind the 3 pt line.

Watching this game must have been like watching paint dry with a full bladder that you weren't allowed to empty until it was over.


30% from the frickin free-throw line... I'm speechless. I think I could shoot better than that drunk! Don't they even get to use a smaller ball and the same sized hoop?

The real losers in this situation are the 20,704 people who paid to watch this crap.


Dear Women basketball players everywhere,
Want to know why you don't get the same respect, fan support, or $$$ as the boys do? Because you suck and you're boring to watch. I've been to girls b-ball games (and I use the word "game" loosely) at every level from 7th grade through college, and there have been very few times where I wouldn't have been the best basketball player on the floor. This is pathetic for a number of reasons; I never played basketball beyond 4th grade summer league, I suck at basketball, I'm pretty damn un-coordinated, I have severe white man's syndrome, and I can't shoot worth ****.

There's a reason the WNBA only pays their top players $93,000 vs $21,000,000 for the top men's players; they're 225X + better than you and that's an understatement. There's a reason the WNBA has about 1/200th the salary and operating costs of the NBA and still hasn't had even a single team turn a profit: It's more boring than watching wheelchair soccer!

If you want more people to come to your slopfests here are some ideas courtesy of KR:
1.  Lower the hoop to 8 feet, this way more then 2 players in your league can dunk.
2.  Have all the players wear moonboots, so they can actually jump.
3.  Instead of the "best" athletes, do what tennis does and get the hot ones.
3a. Make the hot ones wear skimpy clothing. It's a hard truth, but men will watch hot chicks in skimpy clothing regardless of how boring what they are doing is and how bad they suck at it.
4.  Encourage tackling. At least this way you'll have excuses for not getting your undersized balls into the net.
5.  Move the 3-pt line in to 8 feet so the scores at least seem higher.
6.  Make dunks worth 4 pts so people actually try them.

If this fails, realize that like the XFL, you are but a pathetic attempt at emulating a much more entertaining, more skillful, version of the sport you are attempting to play.

Sincerely,
KR

[tmerton]

KR - why waste your time on women's sports if you dislike it so much?  Did your wife make you watch it?

My son scrimmaged the women's team at ND his senior year.  He used to express views similar to yours about women's athletics but earned a good deal of respect for them after that year.  Strap it on with a good women's team and I doubt you would be boasting as you do.  BTW, I don't watch the WNBA either and Title IX grates on me in many respects, but there's no need to go overboard.  I haven't heard the WNBA players demanding pay equity and it's easy not to watch them.

Besides, you may be blessed with daughters.  I hope so.

[Touchdown Tommy]

Besides, you may be blessed with daughters.  I hope so.

And one of them could be a future Touchdown Tommy Trophy Wife....Oh the irony

[Pat Coleman]

RIP Herb. 

A generation fades away

[footballfan413]

Besides, you may be blessed with daughters.  I hope so.

Really TALL daughters!!!   

[DuffMan]

Strap it on with a good women's team...

Was the pun intended??? 

[BDB]

RIP Herb. 

A generation fades away

Herb Carneal passing on the eve of opening day and on the day before WCCO doesn't carry the Twins for the first time is crazy stuff.

He was like a summertime friend for me my whole life.

I remember in 1987 when the Twins came home from beating the Tigers in the ALCS to that monster crowd in the Dome. Herb was being the emcee and the NLCS was still going on.

Herb said "If St. Louis thinks they can beat us they are committing a cardinal sin, and if San Francisco thinks they can win they are making a giant mistake. 

You were the best, Herb.

[BDB]

Reason #5,493 not to watch women's basketball at any level:

Umm KR, could you run through the first 5492 reasons again? 

[johnnie_esq]

RIP Herb. 

A generation fades away

Nice blog post, PC.

Herb really was summertime.  There was something extremely soothing about listening to him behind the mic wherever you were--be it on the lake, at the cabin, driving around town, or walking into the dome.  All was right in the world when he piped in with "Hello, Everybody".

You're dang right though, Pat-- we're rapidly losing announcers who are students of the game first and announcers second.  Announcers whose mere silence spoke volumes-- without even watching the game, you knew when Herb said "Outside for a ball" exactly where the pitch went.  The modern group of announcers seem to need to tell more about the pitch than necessary, so as not to break the rule against dead air (which is a stupid rule for announcing a baseball game) or to show off their intelligence. 

Growing up with Herb, Ray Christiansen, and Al Shaver really was a treat-- they understood their roles as storytellers who used their voice and demeanor to tell the story, not tried to embellish a story that did not exist.

[sju56321]

Opening day for baseball- +K all around.

Was sad to hear about Herb Carneal, I remember many opening of fishing weekends listening to him while drinking and trying to catch that elusive Walleye.

[finsleft]

Many didn't know how good they had it, listening to the dulcet voice of Herb Carneal calling the play by play. In my head, his voice IS the Twins. Back to the days when he was paired with Halsy Hall to recent years, when I could look forward to the weekend home games, because you knew Herb would be doing the broadcast. He was the perfect blend of the voice, knowledge of the game, and knowing just exactly how to combine the two.

RIP Herb. And thanks for all the memories.

[sumander]

Often times even if I was watching the Twins would turn the sound off on the TV and listen to Herb!