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Rep Retirement Lodge #111: Filling in for the night shift

Rep Retirement Lodge #111: Filling in for the night shift

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Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #111: Filling in for the night shift

MinnesotaNorthStar said:
Good luck to Kat

Done with the interview. Only took 20 minutes, and went pretty well. Afterwards I got to tour the facility and talk to some of the people that work there...I'd fit in pretty well down here. :)
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Where is "down here". I thought you'd be up in a tower. :confused:
 
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goldy_331 said:
Go to the "Reform College Hockey" thread and come up with the next list, the current one is almost done. ;)
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Of course something else came up, so I just got out of another meeting. Days like this are nice though, since they make me feel like I'm actually doing something at work and contributing something valuable. :)

We'll have to put the list off until Monday, I never keep up with it on the weekends. :p
goldy_331 said:
Where is "down here". I thought you'd be up in a tower. :confused:
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What MNS isn't telling us is, he's actually applying to be like that guy in Die Hard 2, that lives in the basement and has all of the blue prints.
 
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Good afternoon Lodge.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #111: Filling in for the night shift

goldy_331 said:
Where is "down here". I thought you'd be up in a tower. :confused:
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At Minneapolis. :p

They're a bunch of smart***es. One of the supervisors of the TRACON (think Pushing Tin) is actually related by marriage to one of my teachers at UND.
 
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bigblue_dl said:
Confiscate the belts and shoelaces in boston.
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Assuming that many of the B's fans are also fans of other sports, they have little to complain about - multiple titles in the past decade. Meanwhile, those of us in MN have to look back to 1991 for the last title in anything.
 
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Could be worse. Cleveland hasn't won anything since 1964.
 
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Twitch Boy said:
Oh, they're fine. The Celtics just knocked off Basketball Jesus.
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Yeah...don't care. Even before this game, I didn't care.

Bakunin said:
Assuming that many of the B's fans are also fans of other sports, they have little to complain about - multiple titles in the past decade. Meanwhile, those of us in MN have to look back to 1991 for the last title in anything.
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Did the Gophers have to vacate the 2003 title?

Honestly, I don't get the "the other teams have won a lot, so it's ok that the Bruins suck" mantra. The Sox winning in '04 and '07 does nothing to make me feel any better about seeing the Bruins blow a 3-0 series lead, and a 3-0 game 7 lead. You could guarantee the Pats and Sox are going to win titles this year, and it wouldn't matter. It's all about the Bruins. They haven't won since '72; haven't even made the Conference Finals since '92. And they just choked. Epically.

Bruins blew a 3-1 series lead to the Habs in the Spring of '04. That fall, the Sox won. That Bruins loss still sucked (in fact, watching the Bruins lose that series was more painful to me than watching the Red Sox blow game 7 to the Yankees the previous fall).
 
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thecomicbookguy said:
Did the Gophers have to vacate the 2003 title?
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This is about pro sports, not college sports. If we expanded it to college sports, I would've mentioned BC and BU's titles and added them to the list of Boston success.
Honestly, I don't get the "the other teams have won a lot, so it's ok that the Bruins suck" mantra.
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It's based on the fact that most B's fans are likely to be fans of other Boston sports teams. They might reserve most passion for the Bruins, but they still have some for the Pats, Sox, and Celts.
It's all about the Bruins. They haven't won since '72; haven't even made the Conference Finals since '92. And they just choked. Epically.
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If I cared mostly about pro hockey, I could say the North Stars/Wild have never won it all, and the last time one came close was the Cup finals loss to Pittsburgh in 1991. To make matters worse, we lost our original team to a city in Texas. I can't begin to explain how big a kick in the balls that was. Fortunately, as a college hockey fan, I got to enjoy MN winning a pair of titles - otherwise I might very well be homicidal at this stage of my life (and even to enjoy Gopher titles, I had to wait out 14 years of disappointment since I started watching them).
 
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Bakunin said:
This is about pro sports, not college sports. If we expanded it to college sports, I would've mentioned BC and BU's titles and added them to the list of Boston success.
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And, I'd have responded with "Don't care" and "don't care (though the BU title was a lot of fun to witness)"; I'm a UNH fan. We ain't won squat. I suppose college sports were bad to bring up, since going to school in an area doesn't mean you're from there (and living in an area doesn't mean you root for the local school).

That said, I would rather see UNH win a National Title than see the Sox, Pats, or Celtics win another championship.

Bakunin said:
It's based on the fact that most B's fans are likely to be fans of other Boston sports teams. They might reserve most passion for the Bruins, but they still have some for the Pats, Sox, and Celts.
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So what? Pulling out a DVD of the 2007 World Series doesn't change the fact of what the Bruins just did. In fact, all of that other success just throws the Bruins (continual) failure into sharp relief.

You're probably right that the majority of Boston fans just move on to other sports (I'm sure many of them immediately just started gearing up for the Celtics in the conference finals), but there are a lot of fans in the area who are Bruins fans first and foremost, and this won't be an easy loss to take for any of them.
 
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Bakunin said:
...... I could say the North Stars/Wild have never won it all, and the last time one came close was the Cup finals loss to Pittsburgh in 1991. To make matters worse, we lost our original team to a city in Texas. I can't begin to explain how big a kick in the balls that was. Fortunately, as a college hockey fan, I got to enjoy MN winning a pair of titles - otherwise I might very well be homicidal at this stage of my life (and even to enjoy Gopher titles, I had to wait out 14 years of disappointment since I started watching them).
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maybe you should be like uvm'ers and just hang banners for 'moral victories' by making frozen fours and stuff :D :D

"bud grant!! fran tarkington!!" :p
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #111: Filling in for the night shift

Bakunin said:
It's based on the fact that most B's fans are likely to be fans of other Boston sports teams. They might reserve most passion for the Bruins, but they still have some for the Pats, Sox, and Celts.
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I'm with tCBG. Just because the other Boston teams have won in the last decade we can't be upset about an epic choke job? Seriously?? Why can't we be upset about that? Why????? It ****es me off to no end. I'm a Boston sports fan. I root for the Bruins. And because the Celtics, who I also root for, won a world championship in 2008 and the Pats (last), who I also root for, won a Super Bowl in 2004 I have go "meh, B's lost" and not feel upset or annoyed or ****ed about how they just completely embarrassed themselves? We should just be thrilled that they made the postseason I guess? Is that it? I don't think any Bruins fan on this board is expecting or asking any non Boston fan to feel sorry or sympathy for us. What I do ask for the ability to feel ****ed and annoyed when MY TEAM ****s the bed in such epic fashion. I don't care if people here laugh and point fingers and say HA HA HA Boston choked!!!! But do NOT tell me that I don't have the right to feel negative about how the Bruins lost just because another Boston sports team won a championship six years ago.
 
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thecomicbookguy said:
I suppose college sports were bad to bring up, since going to school in an area doesn't mean you're from there (and living in an area doesn't mean you root for the local school).
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The only real exception to this is the state schools that have a wider following / fan identity. Most people in MN, WI, MI, and ND are very much aware of the Gophers, Badgers, Wolverines, and [name to be determined] and are likely to align with those schools (unless they end up attending one of their rival schools or grow up in a household with parents that went to a rival school). I started following Gopher hockey long before I ever attended school there, and I didn't even live in this part of the state at the time (ah, the wonders of cable tv and midwest sports channel).
That said, I would rather see UNH win a National Title than see the Sox, Pats, or Celtics win another championship.
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You're a hockey fan first, so that makes sense. How close would a Cup for the B's be to a title for UNH?
So what? Pulling out a DVD of the 2007 World Series doesn't change the fact of what the Bruins just did. In fact, all of that other success just throws the Bruins (continual) failure into sharp relief.
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Although for many other fans (like the sports guy), watching that DVD would help. Unless someone conducts an in-depth poll of fanbases, we'll never know how many of them find relief when other sports teams win titles after their primary failed to do it. It'd be an interesting sociological study if nothing else.
but there are a lot of fans in the area who are Bruins fans first and foremost, and this won't be an easy loss to take for any of them.
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I guess the only solace for them (and you) is that this loss didn't occur in the Stanley Cup finals. If there's one thing I've figured out in all these years of watching sports, it's that the closer your team is to the title when they lose, the more painful the loss becomes. This is why I don't really give a **** about the loss to Holy Cross but will always remember the sting of the OT failure against Harvard in '89.
 
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