Comments on: Open Thread: Eye candy http://riveraveblues.com/2009/12/open-thread-eye-candy-20788/ A New York Yankees Blog Mon, 28 May 2012 16:32:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Noemi http://riveraveblues.com/2009/12/open-thread-eye-candy-20788/#comment-1800392 Noemi Thu, 31 Mar 2011 06:50:16 +0000 http://riveraveblues.com/?p=20788#comment-1800392 We think the industry is going to be slower in the first quarter, if not the first half, than we originally planned. There's clearly downward momentum right now caused by higher interest rates, higher fuel prices. Probably the? biggest factor is consumer confidence drop i?n Decembe?r. The industry operates on mo?mentum and we? think it will take time for that ?momentum to turn around. We think the industry is going to be slower in the first quarter, if not the first half, than we originally planned. There’s clearly downward momentum right now caused by higher interest rates, higher fuel prices. Probably the? biggest factor is consumer confidence drop i?n Decembe?r. The industry operates on mo?mentum and we? think it will take time for that ?momentum to turn around.

]]> By: SS http://riveraveblues.com/2009/12/open-thread-eye-candy-20788/#comment-704649 SS Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:58:37 +0000 http://riveraveblues.com/?p=20788#comment-704649 If I didn't live in Atlanta (and if Georgia Tech wasn't five minutes from the dome), I would hope that a meteor hits the stadium. And lands right on Nick Saban's head. SEC fans are the most insufferable people in the world. And I've met Francesca type Yankee "fans", Red Sox fans, people from Texas, Notre Dame fans, Manchester United and Chelsea fans, fans of the Old Firm in Scotland, Real Madrid fans, and fans of the English national team. If I didn’t live in Atlanta (and if Georgia Tech wasn’t five minutes from the dome), I would hope that a meteor hits the stadium. And lands right on Nick Saban’s head.

SEC fans are the most insufferable people in the world. And I’ve met Francesca type Yankee “fans”, Red Sox fans, people from Texas, Notre Dame fans, Manchester United and Chelsea fans, fans of the Old Firm in Scotland, Real Madrid fans, and fans of the English national team.

]]> By: SS http://riveraveblues.com/2009/12/open-thread-eye-candy-20788/#comment-704645 SS Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:51:08 +0000 http://riveraveblues.com/?p=20788#comment-704645 Bullshit. It was handball, but it was the refs fault for not catching it. The idea that it makes Henry some sort of epic cheat for something that happens in a split second is ridiculous. More importantly, if Ireland had finished their chances in the second half they wouldn't have been in extra time (and France would quite rightly be setting Domenech on fire as he deserves). What makes the Irish hypocrisy complete though, is what happens in the Georgia game two months prior, where there was a blatant handball by Robbie Keane which the ref called against a Georgia player instead and awarded a penalty. If that gets called correctly, Ireland doesn't even get to the playoff against France. Fucking Irish whiners. Bullshit. It was handball, but it was the refs fault for not catching it. The idea that it makes Henry some sort of epic cheat for something that happens in a split second is ridiculous.

More importantly, if Ireland had finished their chances in the second half they wouldn’t have been in extra time (and France would quite rightly be setting Domenech on fire as he deserves).

What makes the Irish hypocrisy complete though, is what happens in the Georgia game two months prior, where there was a blatant handball by Robbie Keane which the ref called against a Georgia player instead and awarded a penalty. If that gets called correctly, Ireland doesn’t even get to the playoff against France. Fucking Irish whiners.

]]> By: Tseng http://riveraveblues.com/2009/12/open-thread-eye-candy-20788/#comment-704574 Tseng Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:26:20 +0000 http://riveraveblues.com/?p=20788#comment-704574 Sorry to get technical :P, but they don't blow it dead for offsides. I agree that he probably went a bit overboard, but who knows what exactly his O-line coach said to him. Sorry to get technical :P , but they don’t blow it dead for offsides.

I agree that he probably went a bit overboard, but who knows what exactly his O-line coach said to him.

]]> By: Jimbo http://riveraveblues.com/2009/12/open-thread-eye-candy-20788/#comment-704553 Jimbo Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:41:59 +0000 http://riveraveblues.com/?p=20788#comment-704553 disinfecting. disinfecting.

]]> By: AndrewYF http://riveraveblues.com/2009/12/open-thread-eye-candy-20788/#comment-704549 AndrewYF Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:31:47 +0000 http://riveraveblues.com/?p=20788#comment-704549 I'm friends with Nik "Not Related To Bob" Turley! I’m friends with Nik “Not Related To Bob” Turley!

]]> By: Joseph Pawlikowski http://riveraveblues.com/2009/12/open-thread-eye-candy-20788/#comment-704527 Joseph Pawlikowski Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:57:08 +0000 http://riveraveblues.com/?p=20788#comment-704527 Strangely enough, it comes from South Park. Strangely enough, it comes from South Park.

]]> By: JMK aka The Overshare http://riveraveblues.com/2009/12/open-thread-eye-candy-20788/#comment-704525 JMK aka The Overshare Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:53:17 +0000 http://riveraveblues.com/?p=20788#comment-704525 OK, so I was actually at the Nets game tonight. <b>The Bad:</b> -Dealing with the concession workers there makes you wonder why the unemployment rate isn't higher -It was an awful game -The officiating was embarrassing -Neither team did ANYTHING until the Nets got hot in the 4th -The IZOD is a miserable arena. The crowd is dreadful and there are children EVERYWHERE. I don't like going to Baby Gap to watch basketball, or whatever that game slightly resembled. -The dance team and cheerleading team haven't the slightest ability to move in sequence and fell repeatedly. Quit it with the foreplay. They're not dancers---they're strippers! Make them strip! -Watching Josh Boone is kind of like taking a dump, forgetting to flush, coming back hours later and peeing on it to see how much of it you can break up into "subpoops." It's kind of fun, but you just don't feel clean or mentally stable after watching him. <b>The good: </b> +the mascot is a Master Splinter-styled rat/wolf hybrid. Way cool! +Burritos shot out of air cannons into the crowd? Not actually sure if plus. +They brought a whole bus of 4th graders, 4th graders I suspect of having flesh-eating viruses, to play a game during halftime. It was WAY more amusing than the actual game I'd (barely) paid to see. They were so unbearably bad, it was funny. Even for 4th graders. I loved it +The Nets practically paid <i>me</i> to watch the game. I paid a total of $8 for two really good seats. The parking was $12. Yeah. Crazy +I yelled/threatened a small child due to his Banshee-like shrieking +Witnessed history OK, so I was actually at the Nets game tonight.

The Bad:

-Dealing with the concession workers there makes you wonder why the unemployment rate isn’t higher
-It was an awful game
-The officiating was embarrassing
-Neither team did ANYTHING until the Nets got hot in the 4th
-The IZOD is a miserable arena. The crowd is dreadful and there are children EVERYWHERE. I don’t like going to Baby Gap to watch basketball, or whatever that game slightly resembled.
-The dance team and cheerleading team haven’t the slightest ability to move in sequence and fell repeatedly. Quit it with the foreplay. They’re not dancers—they’re strippers! Make them strip!
-Watching Josh Boone is kind of like taking a dump, forgetting to flush, coming back hours later and peeing on it to see how much of it you can break up into “subpoops.” It’s kind of fun, but you just don’t feel clean or mentally stable after watching him.

The good:

+the mascot is a Master Splinter-styled rat/wolf hybrid. Way cool!
+Burritos shot out of air cannons into the crowd? Not actually sure if plus.
+They brought a whole bus of 4th graders, 4th graders I suspect of having flesh-eating viruses, to play a game during halftime. It was WAY more amusing than the actual game I’d (barely) paid to see. They were so unbearably bad, it was funny. Even for 4th graders. I loved it
+The Nets practically paid me to watch the game. I paid a total of $8 for two really good seats. The parking was $12. Yeah. Crazy
+I yelled/threatened a small child due to his Banshee-like shrieking
+Witnessed history

]]> By: Kiersten http://riveraveblues.com/2009/12/open-thread-eye-candy-20788/#comment-704512 Kiersten Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:19:33 +0000 http://riveraveblues.com/?p=20788#comment-704512 I remember noticing that during the game. The Noles are such a joke this year. I remember noticing that during the game.

The Noles are such a joke this year.

]]> By: Kiersten http://riveraveblues.com/2009/12/open-thread-eye-candy-20788/#comment-704509 Kiersten Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:15:23 +0000 http://riveraveblues.com/?p=20788#comment-704509 Since the game will be over before the next open thread, I'm gonna take this opportunity to say ROLL TIDE Since the game will be over before the next open thread, I’m gonna take this opportunity to say

ROLL TIDE

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