D3 Championship Belt

Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) · January 27, 2019, 08:20:57 AM

I had to open the Belt Path file for the first time all year. I have a feeling it won't be the last.

sac · January 30, 2019, 12:44:56 PM

They're playing basketball in Dubuque, Iowa today.

lmitzel · January 30, 2019, 01:03:11 PM

Quote from: sac on January 30, 2019, 12:44:56 PM
They're playing basketball in Dubuque, Iowa today.

4:00 tipoff, forecasted temperature of -15 degrees?

They have the glory of The Belt^TM to help keep them warm.

sac · January 30, 2019, 06:47:39 PM

If anybody has an explanation for the team turnover on Dubuque with :12 seconds left in regulation trying to run a fancy in-bounds play I'd love to hear it.

The Belt^Tm deemed that no one should have to go outside in this weather so they're getting free basketball and a few more minutes of warmth in Dubuque. As if just being in Dubuque didn't warm your heart enough.

sac · January 30, 2019, 07:14:29 PM

Dubuque 96 Loras 94 OT

Belt^Tm classic. Dubuque completes the regular season sweep of their crosstown rival, noted they won the most important one.

Dubuque will host the Dutch of Central College on Saturday.

"Big Red" ......Cincinnati Reds on line one.

2018-19 Corn Belt^TM (obvious)
3-16-18: Nebraska Wesleyan
1-26-19: Loras
1-30-19: Dubuque

Pat Coleman · January 30, 2019, 08:07:31 PM

The trek is on!

SaintPaulite · January 30, 2019, 09:09:42 PM

This seems like it opens the real possibility of The Belt holder not making postseason and thus ending the season with The Belt!

kiko · January 30, 2019, 11:49:33 PM

Quote from: SaintPaulite on January 30, 2019, 09:09:42 PM
This seems like it opens the real possibility of The Belt holder not making postseason and thus ending the season with The Belt!

Top six of the nine teams in the ARC make their conference tournament. Dubuque currently sits in the #6 position with a 5-7 conference record, and their remaining opponents are:
Central 4-7 / currently 7th
Coe 5-5 / currently 5th
Buena Vista 3-8 / currently 8th
Wartburg / 8-3 / currently 2nd

It seems to me that the only real risk is if they beat Coe and Central but lose to Buena Vista. Or, if Central beats them but still ultimately finishes below the Ham Fighters in the regular season standings.

Also, the polar vortex won't protect you from the weasels if you insist on infringing the Belt^TM's trademark...

Gregory Sager · January 31, 2019, 11:18:42 AM

He's ready to sue your pants off in all kinds of weather:

SaintPaulite · January 31, 2019, 02:09:22 PM

Quote from: kiko on January 30, 2019, 11:49:33 PM
Quote from: SaintPaulite on January 30, 2019, 09:09:42 PM
This seems like it opens the real possibility of The Belt holder not making postseason and thus ending the season with The Belt!

Top six of the nine teams in the ARC make their conference tournament. Dubuque currently sits in the #6 position with a 5-7 conference record, and their remaining opponents are:
Central 4-7 / currently 7th
Coe 5-5 / currently 5th
Buena Vista 3-8 / currently 8th
Wartburg / 8-3 / currently 2nd

It seems to me that the only real risk is if they beat Coe and Central but lose to Buena Vista. Or, if Central beats them but still ultimately finishes below the Ham Fighters in the regular season standings.

Also, the polar vortex won't protect you from the weasels if you insist on infringing the Belt^TM's trademark...

Sincerest apologies. I didn't know how to make the ^TM. Fortunately for some reason your reply has showed me the coding for it.

Is Ham Fighters really their name? I thought that was only in Japan (and their nickname isn't actually the Ham Fighters).

Gregory Sager · January 31, 2019, 02:57:20 PM

That's correct. Japanese pro baseball teams are named after the corporations that own them, and the team that's nicknamed the Fighters and is based in the city of Sapporo on the northern island of Hokkaido is owned by Nippon Meat Packers, Inc., more commonly known in Japan as Nippon Ham. That makes them the Nippon Ham Fighters. But to Americans it's humorous to knowingly connect "Ham" as an adjective to the nickname "Fighters" instead of using it properly as the second element of the team's actual (corporate) name. Let's face it, "Ham Fighters' is a pretty amusing non sequitur, and not just to kiko, either. I've known plenty of baseball nerds (myself included) who've made jokes about the "Ham Fighters" over the years. It's been especially topical here in the Chicago area recently, since current Cubs starter Yu Darvish used to pitch for the Nippon Ham Fighters.

Here on d3boards.com, the MIAA folks do something similar to the basketball team of the Bible school in Grand Rapids, which has frequently played Calvin over the years. The school is Grace Bible College, commonly referred to in western Michigan as just "Grace Bible", and the GBC sports teams are nicknamed the Tigers. "Grace Bible Tigers" is thus set up for the same sort of humorous non sequitur; KnightSlappy and Ziggy and a few other MIAA posters make references now and then to the Knights having to play the Bible Tigers. (It's even funnier when you're aware, as a lot of Calvin fans are, that there are no tigers in the Bible.)

The linguistic process behind this is called rebracketing. It's been a source of wordplay humor for generations; i.e., "psychotherapist" becomes "psycho the rapist" and "together in trouble" becomes "to get her in trouble". The most popular use of rebracketing humor was in the old Saturday Night Live skit "Celebrity Jeopardy", in which Darrell Hammond's dimwitted Sean Connery would unintentionally rebracket Jeopardy! categories, frequently with a sexual or scatalogical twist.

Personally, I think that kiko made one of those wish-I-had-thought-of-that connections when he alluded to the University of Dubuque Spartans as being called the "Dubuque Ham Fighters", in keeping with the thread here of the past few days.

WUPHF · January 31, 2019, 03:37:28 PM

I said it once, I'll say it again, Greg, you have a book inside you just waiting to get out.

sac · January 31, 2019, 09:23:54 PM

Quote from: Gregory Sager on January 31, 2019, 02:57:20 PM
That's correct. Japanese pro baseball teams are named after the corporations that own them, and the team that's nicknamed the Fighters and is based in the city of Sapporo on the northern island of Hokkaido is owned by Nippon Meat Packers, Inc., more commonly known in Japan as Nippon Ham. That makes them the Nippon Ham Fighters. But to Americans it's humorous to knowingly connect "Ham" as an adjective to the nickname "Fighters" instead of using it properly as the second element of the team's actual (corporate) name. Let's face it, "Ham Fighters' is a pretty amusing non sequitur, and not just to kiko, either. I've known plenty of baseball nerds (myself included) who've made jokes about the "Ham Fighters" over the years. It's been especially topical here in the Chicago area recently, since current Cubs starter Yu Darvish used to pitch for the Nippon Ham Fighters.

Here on d3boards.com, the MIAA folks do something similar to the basketball team of the Bible school in Grand Rapids, which has frequently played Calvin over the years. The school is Grace Bible College, commonly referred to in western Michigan as just "Grace Bible", and the GBC sports teams are nicknamed the Tigers. "Grace Bible Tigers" is thus set up for the same sort of humorous non sequitur; KnightSlappy and Ziggy and a few other MIAA posters make references now and then to the Knights having to play the Bible Tigers. (It's even funnier when you're aware, as a lot of Calvin fans are, that there are no tigers in the Bible.)

The linguistic process behind this is called rebracketing. It's been a source of wordplay humor for generations; i.e., "psychotherapist" becomes "psycho the rapist" and "together in trouble" becomes "to get her in trouble". The most popular use of rebracketing humor was in the old Saturday Night Live skit "Celebrity Jeopardy", in which Darrell Hammond's dimwitted Sean Connery would unintentionally rebracket Jeopardy! categories, frequently with a sexual or scatalogical twist.

Personally, I think that kiko made one of those wish-I-had-thought-of-that connections when he alluded to the University of Dubuque Spartans as being called the "Dubuque Ham Fighters", in keeping with the thread here of the past few days.

Grace Christian Tigers will always be Grace Bible Tigers to me.

kiko · January 31, 2019, 10:23:17 PM

Quote from: Gregory Sager on January 31, 2019, 02:57:20 PM
Personally, I think that kiko made one of those wish-I-had-thought-of-that connections when he alluded to the University of Dubuque Spartans as being called the "Dubuque Ham Fighters", in keeping with the thread here of the past few days.

Bingo. I was too lazy to look up their nickname, that earworm of a commercial jingle won't evacuate the catacombs of my mind now that we've resurrected it, and so I just decided to give them a new nickname. I envision the mascot as a canned ham with arms, legs, and boxing gloves.

Gregory Sager · January 31, 2019, 10:50:33 PM

Quote from: sac on January 31, 2019, 09:23:54 PM
Quote from: Gregory Sager on January 31, 2019, 02:57:20 PM
That's correct. Japanese pro baseball teams are named after the corporations that own them, and the team that's nicknamed the Fighters and is based in the city of Sapporo on the northern island of Hokkaido is owned by Nippon Meat Packers, Inc., more commonly known in Japan as Nippon Ham. That makes them the Nippon Ham Fighters. But to Americans it's humorous to knowingly connect "Ham" as an adjective to the nickname "Fighters" instead of using it properly as the second element of the team's actual (corporate) name. Let's face it, "Ham Fighters' is a pretty amusing non sequitur, and not just to kiko, either. I've known plenty of baseball nerds (myself included) who've made jokes about the "Ham Fighters" over the years. It's been especially topical here in the Chicago area recently, since current Cubs starter Yu Darvish used to pitch for the Nippon Ham Fighters.

Here on d3boards.com, the MIAA folks do something similar to the basketball team of the Bible school in Grand Rapids, which has frequently played Calvin over the years. The school is Grace Bible College, commonly referred to in western Michigan as just "Grace Bible", and the GBC sports teams are nicknamed the Tigers. "Grace Bible Tigers" is thus set up for the same sort of humorous non sequitur; KnightSlappy and Ziggy and a few other MIAA posters make references now and then to the Knights having to play the Bible Tigers. (It's even funnier when you're aware, as a lot of Calvin fans are, that there are no tigers in the Bible.)

The linguistic process behind this is called rebracketing. It's been a source of wordplay humor for generations; i.e., "psychotherapist" becomes "psycho the rapist" and "together in trouble" becomes "to get her in trouble". The most popular use of rebracketing humor was in the old Saturday Night Live skit "Celebrity Jeopardy", in which Darrell Hammond's dimwitted Sean Connery would unintentionally rebracket Jeopardy! categories, frequently with a sexual or scatalogical twist.

Personally, I think that kiko made one of those wish-I-had-thought-of-that connections when he alluded to the University of Dubuque Spartans as being called the "Dubuque Ham Fighters", in keeping with the thread here of the past few days.

Grace Christian Tigers will always be Grace Bible Tigers to me.

"Christian Tigers" just doesn't have the same ring to it. Now, if they had changed their nickname to "Soldiers" when they changed the name of the school ...