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Homeboy is huge right now ... off some tweets. :wow: Enjoy your run man. Milk this shyt. :salute:

anybody watch GMA this morning... :krs:










oh... and if you need some business and media tactics to help sustain this run, then PM me. I gotchu. For a nominal fee of course. :usure:
 
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Hockey is dope watching it live.

it's best live. Can't really fukk with it on tv, but every now and then I'll get some box Hurricane seats, and I'll use 'em. Usually a good show. Especially when the Canes were decent. :snoop:

It doesn't help the NHL has spread itself thin with expansion into southern states that don't have a hockey culture. There are fan bases down there, but they are going to the games not watching many. They need more teams in Canada and in places with actual winter.

I really don't give a shyt about hockey though. Some people do, but I can't pay close attention to two sports in the same season and I find regular season hockey as uninspired and boring as basketball haters love to point too :mjpls:

Eh... it just depends on the southern states. As some folks with the 'Canes have told me, NC was ripe. It had a high amount of northern transplants who fukked with hockey heavy. they adopted the 'Canes. And once you win a chip, it changes things. the bandwagoners come out... just have to sustain it.
 

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I just can't with the fights.

Took my wife (then girlfriend) to a match several years back and we were both turned off by the fighting that took place. Seems to be the only professional sport in the US where fighting and thuggery is engrained, permitted and encouraged (except for MMA, boxing, etc of course).

There's no way I would take my young daughter to see a match in its current fight-full form.
 

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Hochman: New Blues fan catches playoff fever

He’s becoming the most popular Tony in St. Louis since Tony’s. He’s the best story of the NHL postseason. He’s accidental Twitter sensation Anthony Holmes, AKA “Tony X,” a diehard Blues fan dating all the way back to Monday.

If you haven’t heard of Holmes yet, the refreshing St. Louis native’s tweets went viral during Game 7 of Blues-Blackhawks.

“I knew zero about hockey,” the 26-year-old Holmes told me by phone Wednesday. “I’d never even watched a game before the other night. Honestly, I was looking for the Cardinals game to watch them.”


By Wednesday night, the South County resident had 47,000 Twitter followers. The popular site Deadspin featured Holmes in a piece entitled: “Man Discovers Hockey, Loves It.” The Blues invited him to be their guest at his first-ever hockey game in person: Game 3 of the conference semifinals.

“And I’m actually doing a Skype session tomorrow morning with Michael Strahan on ‘Good Morning America,’” said Holmes, who grew up in University City and works at a local cable company. “Hockey got pretty exciting real quick. It was just nonstop action – it was like I was almost having a panic attack every time somebody shot at the goal. Football is exciting, but after every play they take a break. Hockey never stops. It just never stops.”

When the Blues tweeted at Holmes on Wednesday, inviting him to Game 3 against Dallas, he responded: “I’m there. should i bring a jacket? I’m so serious. It is a room full of ice?”

The athletic company Reebok promptly tweeted to him, offering Blues gear to wear. And hundreds of people tweeted back with advice on what to wear to games, as well as words of wisdom. I’m smiling as I type this tweet @SteveDodd sent to Holmes: “You are everything that’s great about sports fans, Tony. Have fun!”

CHAT: Benjamin Hochman Live at 2 p.m.

The emergence of Holmes into our lives has been such a treat. It feels as if everyone in this city is into the Blues. Of course, there are the true diehards who have earned this ecstasy, those folks who suffered through the postseason stomach-punches. The diehards who watched the Monday Night Miracle, who remember 50-in-50, who can name all the Sutter brothers, who recall all the Blues ratings on NHLPA 93, who know the Towel Man’s real name. But what’s cool about April 2016 is that we’re getting to share the Blues. For a city that lost a team, it’s reassuring and reinvigorating to watch us come together for another team.

The players are feeling it, too. Brian Elliott said the neighborhood kids wrote chalk messages on the street in front of his home, and others decorated his home with balloons, beads and blue lights.

“The neighbors put a sign on our front door,” Alex Pietrangelo said. “It’s fun, it’s a good feeling, we’re glad to bring the fans what they want to see, it’s been a tough couple of years in the postseason for them.”

And for Ol’ Hitch, the coach who got over that first-round hump, he said Wednesday with a smirk: “I got back to the condo and there was signage everywhere. And it wasn’t ‘Get Rid Of Hitch.’”

Love the candor and candidness. Game 7 really was a heck of a win.

As for Holmes, he described his St. Louis pride by saying: “I ride for all my city’s teams,” explaining that “if it was a different hockey game, I probably wouldn’t have had this experience, because it had nothing to do with St. Louis. So I’m glad it was the Blues so I got to watch them.”

St. Louis is lit.
 

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I just can't with the fights.

Took my wife (then girlfriend) to a match several years back and we were both turned off by the fighting that took place. Seems to be the only professional sport in the US where fighting and thuggery is engrained, permitted and encouraged (except for MMA, boxing, etc of course).

There's no way I would take my young daughter to see a match in its current fight-full form.

You know why ... :mjpls:



Fukk with white people shyt and get famous , brethren .



I'm bout to start tweeting about curling .
 

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I just can't with the fights.

Took my wife (then girlfriend) to a match several years back and we were both turned off by the fighting that took place. Seems to be the only professional sport in the US where fighting and thuggery is engrained, permitted and encouraged (except for MMA, boxing, etc of course).

There's no way I would take my young daughter to see a match in its current fight-full form.

There's usually no fighting in the playoffs, but I think fighting will be gone sooner rather than later due to CTE/Concussions that had an negative affect it's had on retired enforcers that played in the NHL.
 
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