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  1. Fred not Lynn

    2024 Red Sox spring training games

    You’d better give Eddy Alvarez some credit for breaking his leg on his first game for Worcester, then…
  2. Fred not Lynn

    Jordan’s Frozen River

    EPILOG - No, Jordan Stolz didn’t lose the 10k by more than 33 seconds, and yes he added the World Allround to his collection of Championships this season. Stolz skated an amazingly mature race, doing pretty much every lap in the low 31s, vs Roest who made an attack dipped into the mid 29s for a...
  3. Fred not Lynn

    Jordan’s Frozen River

    Inzell, Germany is buried in the mountains about an hour and a half drive east of Munich - not even big enough for its own train station - but somehow this small town became the World’s epicenter for speed skating through the last quarter of the 20th century. When all the ovals were outdoor...
  4. Fred not Lynn

    MLB Expansion Watch

    The problem with public funding is that it comes with a bunch of questionable “feasibility” and “financial benefit” bullshit. If they just went with basically what you said; “I want nice stuff in my city, nice stuff costs money and I’m willing to pay”, and were honest about it - I think it would...
  5. Fred not Lynn

    MLB Expansion Watch

    With the added complication of a mandatory stop each direction that could be two minutes, or could be two hours…which if you packed the wrong stuff with you, or have anyone with even the slightest criminal record in the car could be costly or impassable. Truth is, there’s interest in baseball...
  6. Fred not Lynn

    Jordan’s Frozen River

    Great story about Jordan and his coaching situation Bob Corby laced his skates back up after 20 years for Jordan Stolz (USA)
  7. Fred not Lynn

    Jordan’s Frozen River

    Two straight years of the three race sweep - Stolz followed up the 500 & 1000m wins with an again uneventful 1500m… Next on the agenda is the World Allround Championships in Inzell. Up until 1972 (I think) the World Allround was the ONLY World Championship. It’s a combination of 500m, 1500m...
  8. Fred not Lynn

    Jordan’s Frozen River

    Stolz with the 1000m win. His completely uneventful dominance is something to see. The most interesting race of the day was the women’s mass start. The field had the good fortune of seeing Irene Schouten (NED) fall on the first lap, but foolishly failed to accelerate and drop her - so...
  9. Fred not Lynn

    Jordan’s Frozen River

    The pancakes seemed to work. Another race, another win. Jordan missed the World Record in the 500m by 3/100ths of a second, but frankly I’d rather see him take that one in Salt Lake so he can do that placard snapping thing again - he was last inner today, and for the first time I saw hints of...
  10. Fred not Lynn

    Jordan’s Frozen River

    Bumping the thread (and cleaning up the title) at the World Championships - Single Distance in Calgary this weekend. They call this the “Single Distance” Championships because each race is a Championship unto itself. In March there will be the Allround and Sprint Worlds in Inzell (Germany)...
  11. Fred not Lynn

    2024 Red Sox MiLB Acquisitions & Removals

    In defense of Adams, it was 2-1 when he left the game. The Mount St Mary’s bullpen appears to have struggled somewhat… (I guess it could have been 2-0…anyway, he gave his team a chance to win. Mt St Mary’s has actually been getting better though. I’ve seen an extended road trip where their only...
  12. Fred not Lynn

    2023-24 NHL News Thread

    Maybe if Arizona is such a great market (which it could be with a the right arena in the right location), NHL can move the current franchise, and then once a competent ownership group can have a firm arena plan in place do expansion to Arizona… While the Coyotes thrive in Utah, of course! (I...
  13. Fred not Lynn

    Jordan’s Frozen River

    They’re not going to build an oval. Mostly likely they will do a modular rink at a convention hall…and from a technical perspective, that can work great. I don’t like that it doesn’t leave a legacy - but maybe someone can acquire the temp rink and make it work elsewhere. Normally there is a...
  14. Fred not Lynn

    Jordan’s Frozen River

    Oh, also - unburdened by a 1,500 first, Jordan Stolz once again won the 500m at today’s World Cup in Ste Foy, QC. Stolz is the Harlem Globetrotters, everyone else is the Washington Generals.
  15. Fred not Lynn

    Jordan’s Frozen River

    The biggest objection to hosting the Winter Games is that you need to have a sliding sport track, and a place for long track speed skating…and Italy’s organizers have done a splendid job of dodging those two facility requirements. I’ll leave the grousing about the sliding centre to CLR, but...
  16. Fred not Lynn

    Jordan’s Frozen River

    The ISU needs to stop scheduling the 500m to be AFTER longer races. Last weekend it was after the 5,000m, today it was after the 1,500m. This is bullshit… Not that it was a problem for Jordan Stolz. He won them both today - with an hour between, maybe less. The 1500 messes one’s body up. Legs...
  17. Fred not Lynn

    Jordan’s Frozen River

    Another race day and another 1000m win for young Mr. Stolz. 4 In a row now. This time it was at the inaugural World Cup on the Gaetan Boucher Oval at the Centre de Glacé Intact in Ste Foy, Quebec (Quebec City suburb), which I have also insanely decided to attend. This now is the closest covered...
  18. Fred not Lynn

    Canada 2018 WJC sexual assault investigation

    The team certainly knew Dube’ was on that WJC team, and that this incident occurred - and could reasonably speculate privately when he invoked “mental health” as reason for his leave that it’s was likely about that. What the team probably did NOT know was that this specific actual action by...
  19. Fred not Lynn

    Canada 2018 WJC sexual assault investigation

    The problem is that it’s technically true. Having knowledge of the pending charges is a different thing than knowing about the incident - and when presented with a player asking leave for mental health reasons, I don’t think you can speculate on the causes - you just need to accept the player...
  20. Fred not Lynn

    Jordan’s Frozen River

    Popular rhetoric is that Olympic Games are horribly unprofitable, but reality is that the last three North American Winter Games (Calgary, Salt Lake & Vancouver) were profitable, and generated sizable funds that have supported programming and operation of the legacy facilities (I could put in an...