Posted in Bully Pulpit, Laffs, Peanut Gallery on April 3, 2008 | 337 Comments »
We should be big enough people (and bloggers) to say the same thing Dainius Zubrus did about last night’s over-turned goal call: “We won the game. Big deal.” But we can’t help but feel a little residual bitterness at being jobbed so frequently recently, with three goals for being waived off and one [...]
Posted in Bully Pulpit, John Madden on March 30, 2008 | 204 Comments »
Today the spiders who live in IPB’s inbox had to scurry aside for a moment when we got an honest-to-goodness email from someone in response to yesterday’s edition of The IPB Hour. John Fischer very thoughtfully came up with statbitty rebuttals to a few of the assessments we made about which Devils forwards are [...]
Posted in Bully Pulpit, Podcast on March 29, 2008 | 230 Comments »
In the second episode of our podcast, The IPB Hour (Contents May Be Less Than An Hour), we address an important paradoxical question about the 07-08 New Jersey Devils: Is the team overachieving or underachieving?
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Posted in Bully Pulpit, New Jersey Devils, Open Thread, Peanut Gallery, Philadelphia Flyers on March 28, 2008 | 593 Comments »
Things are looking very bleak these days. The Devils have become putrescent of late; they show up for games, skate around pointlessly (both literally and figuratively) for a couple of hours, then wander away, leaving us wondering why we’re putting more effort into watching the games than they’re putting into playing them. We [...]
Posted in Bully Pulpit on March 26, 2008 | 99 Comments »
Last week Scott Burnside and Damien Cox had another one of their regular “Even Stev(ph)en” columns for ESPN, and unlike the usual way we ignore them (seriously — ever since he wrote Marty’s “autobiography” for him, Cox has been an even bigger Devils apologist than we are, and Burnside is an ardent Devils-hater. Right [...]
Posted in Around the League, Bully Pulpit, News and Notes on March 17, 2008 | 148 Comments »
We were going to write tonight all about how much the Pronger suspension is making us ashamed of being fans of the NHL, and we were going to rail in this space about how, once again, ESPN is letting hockey fans down. This is the stupid, arbitrary, irresponsible and asinine disciplinary action that has [...]
Posted in Bully Pulpit, Devils Miscellany, Marty Brodeur, Playoffs on March 16, 2008 | 239 Comments »
Another Sunday night, another woolgathering session (now with less wool!).
1. One of the most appealing aspects of watching sports, for us, is that it affords us the chance to see human beings excel in acts of individual and team greatness. We’re not athletic ourselves, so it’s hugely compelling to watch people who are, [...]
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