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Still Complaining About ESPN...

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Slap Shot said:
You should have to pay to be lame enough to watch cricket.
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Try it. You'll like it. Beats the crap out of football - especially the 20 over format.

It takes about 3 matches to figure out out enough to fully enjoy it, but T20 is swing for the fences on every pitch (bowl).
 
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joecct said:
@PeteAbe: ESPN picks up two early #RedSox games: April 12 at #Yankees and May 3 vs. #Yankees. Both at 8:05 now.
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Whew. I was worried I wouldn't get the opportunity to watch all 45 Red Sox/Yankees games this year.
 
joecct said:
Try it. You'll like it. Beats the crap out of football - especially the 20 over format.

It takes about 3 matches to figure out out enough to fully enjoy it, but T20 is swing for the fences on every pitch (bowl).
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Lived in the Middle East for a year and it was on tv a lot. Went to see local tests and even participated some. Ok to play, a yawner to watch.
 
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Dude Love said:
Whew. I was worried I wouldn't get the opportunity to watch all 45 Red Sox/Yankees games this year.
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If people watched games that didn't involve the same handful of teams, ESPN would broadcast them.
 
Priceless said:
If people watched games that didn't involve the same handful of teams, ESPN would broadcast them.
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If ESPN was located in Springfield, Illinois instead of Bristol, Conn., Cubs-Cards would be as overplayed as Red Sox-Yankees.
 
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unofan said:
If ESPN was located in Springfield, Illinois instead of Bristol, Conn., Cubs-Cards would be as overplayed as Red Sox-Yankees.
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That must be why ESPN focuses so much attention on the Mets. Not to mention the Celtics, Knicks, Nets, Jets, Giants, Rangers, Islanders and Bruins.
 
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I want to ***** about ESPN like the best of them. But this 30 for 30 movie about the Soviet Hockey team is really interesting.

I had no idea that the Olympic Village in Lake Placid was built to be a prison- which is what it is today. We housed the world's athletes in a prison to be? Really?

Still, learning more about the Soviet hockey program is pretty interesting.
 
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alfablue said:
I had no idea that the Olympic Village in Lake Placid was built to be a prison- which is what it is today. We housed the world's athletes in a prison to be? Really?
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Disney conveniently left that out of Miracle, didn't they? :p

This is a great documentary so far. I heard Red Army is supposed to be even better.
 
alfablue said:
I want to ***** about ESPN like the best of them. But this 30 for 30 movie about the Soviet Hockey team is really interesting.

I had no idea that the Olympic Village in Lake Placid was built to be a prison- which is what it is today. We housed the world's athletes in a prison to be? Really?

Still, learning more about the Soviet hockey program is pretty interesting.
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From what history tells me, outside of The Miracle and Eric Heiden, the Lake Placid Games were a disaster.
 
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Just noticed there were technically no blue lines. With the blue dye they put on the ice that would apparently make it better to see on TV there were only red lines.
 
alfablue said:
I want to ***** about ESPN like the best of them. But this 30 for 30 movie about the Soviet Hockey team is really interesting.

I had no idea that the Olympic Village in Lake Placid was built to be a prison- which is what it is today. We housed the world's athletes in a prison to be? Really?

Still, learning more about the Soviet hockey program is pretty interesting.
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I had no idea they were housed in a soon to be prison either. That's crazy.
 
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After watching this so far I'm surprised there was such an outpouring after Tikhonov died. This and other things I've watched/read have said players hated him. Not in the "he was tough on us" kind of way either, but in the "he was the worst person in the world" type way. The only guys that have had any happy memories in this documentary have been the ones that played under Tarasov.
 
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alfablue said:
I want to ***** about ESPN like the best of them. But this 30 for 30 movie about the Soviet Hockey team is really interesting.

I had no idea that the Olympic Village in Lake Placid was built to be a prison- which is what it is today. We housed the world's athletes in a prison to be? Really?

Still, learning more about the Soviet hockey program is pretty interesting.
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icehawk said:
I had no idea they were housed in a soon to be prison either. That's crazy.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Correctional_Institution,_Ray_Brook
 
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Fetisov went through a lot of crap to be the first to be granted to leave the Soviet Army and basically become a free man and play in the NHL. Could of defected and didn't earlier. Have a lot of respect for the guy. And Tarasov made Soviet hockey. What a great coach and a guy with a huge heart. Unorthodox training methods but they worked. Great documentary.
 
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icehawk said:
Fetisov went through a lot of crap to be the first to be granted to leave the Soviet Army and basically become a free man and play in the NHL. Could of defected and didn't earlier. Have a lot of respect for the guy. And Tarasov made Soviet hockey. What a great coach and a guy with a huge heart. Unorthodox training methods but they worked. Great documentary.
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I haven't seen this doc, but read a book on the vor z zakone, and people like Fetisov...they had balls, man. Even as late as Pavel Bure...lots of extortion to get to the States/Canada.
 
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After watching it, I wonder if any of Tarasov's books have been translated to English. As much as I hated the Soviet Union, the kind of hockey that they played was mesmorising to watch. it would be interesting to read thorugh his books and see how he trained the kids from a young age. One big difference I got out of the movie- Tarasov got the best out of the players for the love of the game, Tikhonov did it via discapline.

Seems to me that you get very different results when someone is working his self to coughing blood when they love it vs. when there's a hammer over their head. And that attitude kind of played itself out in Fetisov.
 
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Jimjamesak said:
From what history tells me, outside of The Miracle and Eric Heiden, the Lake Placid Games were a disaster.
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I knew they were generally seen as a disaster, but I had no idea that our treatment/housing of the atheltes fit so well into our stereotype of our favorite country to hate at the time.

When I picutre a place where atheletes are put in some kind of place where it's not comfortable, and there are barbed wires fences surrounding it- all by its lonesome in the middle of nowhere- that seems to be in the Soviet Union. Not a nice sounding place like Lake Placid.
 
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The other thing to mention, like every interview he's done, Boris Mikhailov sounds like a whiny d-bag.
 
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