arrogance Stories - Raw Charge
Did The 2006 Mets Have Swagger, Arrogance And Condescension Toward Opponents?
Here is the pertinent excerpt from a piece by Andy Martino of the Daily News, "'Too nice' New York Mets would do well to pick up some swagger from arrogant, condescending Phillies": This is what characterizes the Phillies of this era, and what separates them from the Mets: Swagger. Arrogance....
Off Topic: In defense of Jim Joyce and the fallibility of on-field officials
About a year ago, I wrote a piece expressing disdain at NHL referees and linesmen, as well as their boss at the time. I labeled them Club Two-Minutes and slammed the pomposity, arrogance, and the lack of accountability among them. Yesterday in Major League Baseball, there was a little event in...
A day later...
Damian Cristodero at the Times reports that NHL official Stephen Walkom sees nothing wrong from last night: Stephen Walkom, the NHL's director of officiating, said the ruling that Lightning goaltender Mike Smith deliberately threw his stick to disrupt Milan Hejduk's shootout attempt on Thursday...
People Will Never Accept Advanced Statistics (Or: You Can't Win If You Don't Buy A Ticket)
People as a whole will never accept advanced statistics because they are bad at math. The MSN website has an article up on it's main page right now talking about the odds of winning the lottery; here's the relevant portion: Lotteries are often used as examples of innumeracy or financial illiteracy...
Showboating
It wasn't aimed at the Tampa Bay Lightning directly or deliberately, it was aimed at the fact #50 was notched against them. That's about all I take from the where, when and why of Alex Ovechkin's goal celebration Thursday night at Times Palace. That also being said, is there a place for this in...
The Record of Wrongs: Memphis Tigers
The Reading of the Record of Wrongs committed by the Memphis Tigers: Memphis claims that the Volunteers are not "Tennessee's team." No, Memphis is "Tennessee's team" and "America's team." Memphis believes that "playing Tennessee is not beneficial to [its] national schedule." John Calipari...
New York Giants: Runnin' Down A Dream
Confidence & Arrogance. The difference between those two terms was the difference between winning and losing Super Bowl XLII.As I settled into my recliner with my girlfriend last night, both of us decked out in Cowboys gear, I was still a bit unsettled with the whole idea of actually rooting...
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