Alright, baseball fans. It looks like the Rays have an 11 – 1 lead against the most recent “World Champions” the Boston Red Sox. This means that the Rays will probably have a 3-1 lead in the ALCS and will win the series. As a Yankees fan with 2004 engrained in my memory, I say anything can happen, but it looks like the SOX R DUNNNNNN!111!!
Archive for October, 2008
R.I.P. Alexei Cherepanov
October 13, 2008Alexei was the greatest thing that happened to the New York Rangers in a long time. Today he collapsed during the third period of an Avangard Omsk match after colliding with former Ranger superstar Jaromir Jagr, and died. Although the details are not immediately clear, it seems as though the ambulance stationed at all KHL games, left early, and took a while to return.
Nicknamed the Siberian Express, Cherepanov was in his second season with Avangard, a team in southwestern Siberia. In his rookie season in the RSL, Cherepanov had more points than now-NHL stars Evgeni Malkin, Alexander Ovechkin and Ilya Kovalchuk did in their first seasons in the Super League at the age of 17. In March 2007, Cherepanov surpassed the Russian league rookie goal scoring record previously held by Pavel Bure (17 goals).
On June 22, 2007, Cherepanov was drafted in the 1st round, 17th overall by the New York Rangers in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft, despite being considered by many rankings to be a top 5 prospect, and the top European available. Among the reasons offered by analysts for his lingering in the draft was the lack of a new transfer agreement between the NHL and the International Ice Hockey Federation concerning players in the Russian Hockey Federation, though Russian players can simply give two-weeks’ notice and leave any team, as was the case with Pittsburgh’s Evgeni Malkin.
On November 5, 2007 Cherepanov was named RSL Newcomer of the Year for the ‘06-’07 Season.
On October 3, 2008 Alexei tied the Avangard Omsk goal scoring streak record with goals in 6 consecutive games.
R.I.P. Alexei, you were a world class talent.
OVER 9000!!!!
October 13, 2008We're SAFE! (For now)
So the Dow is back over 9000, and I’ve been saving that joke for a while now. If you don’t know what I’m referring too, its the 4Chan meme in action here:
Hello!
October 12, 2008Wow, I have not checked this in several months. Looking back on it, I completed maybe 30% of what I set out to accomplish. Today I finished my second application, and all I have to do is send it, but I’m waiting to get a second opinion on my essay.
Woo.
