Jan. 2 (Bloomberg) -- The Detroit Red Wings’ 6-4 win over the Chicago Blackhawks yesterday at Wrigley Field topped last year’s National Hockey League outdoor game by 12 percent in preliminary television ratings.
The game at the home of baseball’s Chicago Cubs was the third annual outdoor contest and had an overnight rating of 2.9, according to Nielsen Media Research. That tops the 2.6 rating for last year’s match in snowy
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Ratings points are the percentage of the estimated 111.3 million
OK… it ain’t the Sooper-Dooper Bowl. But the ratings are pretty good, considering hockey still isn’t viewed as a “mainstream” sport in these
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More Fun with Site Meter… an occasional feature we do here at EIP when all else fails.
In the “Taken With a Grain O’ Salt” Dept:
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Well, only about 50,000 folks in the local area, give or take a couple. But, Hey! We’re hayseeds, so I suppose that doesn’t qualify us in the “anyone” category. We could have just as easily described this hit as “consider the source.” But we didn’t.
OTOH… this is a legit question:
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I didn’t know Ms. Steele was with child. Turns out she most definitely was… Now the question is… if Alexandra was due in October, why isn’t she back at work? Did she fall victim to NBC’s cost-cutting ax? If the answer to my last is “yes,” then it’s yet another reason to avoid NBC. Except for hockey.
As noted elsewhere, we got a
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My only question: OK, you’re in
I had another one recently that I cannot find, for the life of me. And it ain’t coz I didn’t look… because I did. This one asked a simple question: “should I wear a pea coat even though I have a beer belly?” I’ll spare you my witty retorts, Gentle Reader. Besides that… I don’t have tangible proof this visit actually happened, ya know. And we’re fairly conscientious about this proof thing here at EIP. Be that as it may… I really should have cut ‘n’ pasted that one into an ongoing Site Meter Oddities file. Alas, I have no such document… but I will start one today. Some of this stuff is just too good to let slide.
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In which I find myself in complete agreement with one of the Left’s Leading Lights… and that would be while reading Jonathan Chait’s piece in The New Republic titled “In Which Bowl Games Deliver Me Into the Hands of the Far Left.” Excerpts:
Several days of watching college football bowl games have left me with a fresh resentment for corporate
But what really gets me is the obligatory CEO interview. At every one of these games, the announcers must take five minutes to speak with the CEO of the sponsoring company. He is treated as a visiting patron, prodded to share his interest in the community that sparked his sponsorship decision. Often he will share his Business Philosophy as his interlocuters (sic) gaze on in wonder. Of course it takes place during the action so nobody can flip away without missing some plays. And then -- this is what really burns me -- they thank him for sponsoring the game, as if the game wouldn;t (sic) be happening without his beneficience (sic).
(cranky-old-man-rant mode) Hell Yes!! I’ll go even further in that I hated it when all the bowl games became The Corporate America Bowl, V 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, etc., etc., ad nauseum. I’m as big a corporate booster as the next guy and probably more than most. But there ARE limits and our cultural institutions should have been out of bounds for this sort of thing. You can go ahead and rename every damned stadium or arena in
Mr. Chait has a dandy of a closing line and one that can’t be quoted out of context while still having the line work. I’d have to post Mr. Chait’s entire article and I wouldn’t do that, ya know. The whole piece is only four paragraphs and I’ve quoted one a half already… so take 15 seconds and go read. You’ll get a good laugh, I promise you. Unless you happen to be a Marxist.
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Today’s Pic… We haven’t posted any gratuitous baby photos in quite a while. But don’t think we’ve run out, Gentle Reader. Oh no. Hell, no! There be tons of that stuff here at El Casa Móvil De Pennington. And in the unlikely event we run out of pics of our own, there are always the grandbabies*. And the GREAT-grandbabies, too*. We digress.
Back to the pic: SN3 in Former Happy Days.
*(About which: if an astute person reads between the lines correctly, is no more than a thinly-veiled comment on the absolute dearth of said pics in my in-box.)
Just the names of the bowl games has become comical.
ReplyDeleteI love the baby pics anytime.
The boy seems to love his ketchup and fries. LOL! What a cutie with those blue eyes!
ReplyDeleteThat bowl game article is a riot. And all too serious, at the same time. The corporate branding of sports has been driving me nuts for years.
ReplyDeleteLou: Agreed somewhat on your comical remark. I suppose we have two options: laugh or cry. Or maybe three: get pissed. Which is what I've seemingly done.
ReplyDeleteAnd you really shouldn't encourage me to post more baby pics, ya know. I'm too prone to do that already! ;-)
Jenny: Thank ya, Ma'am!
Andy: It's been driving me nuts, too. Thank God most hockey arenas seem to be immune from the trend...
My boys play in the Pepsi Center. Shameful. But it's a damn fine place, and we dodge the name by occasionally calling it "The Can."
ReplyDeleteLike I said in my rant... commercialized arena names and such don't bother me NEAR as much as crap like "The Nokia Sugar Bowl" does. But I'm glad the Wings still play at good ol Joe Louis Arena. I hope that never changes.
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