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DMV: Okay, We Care About Hockey Now
By Jamie Mottram | May 12, 2009
DMV is a daily roundup of District-Maryland-Virginia (mostly) sporting links.
Caps win an epic Game 6 to set up an even more epic Game 7. [WaPo]
Game-winning goal scorer David Steckel is the Caps’ top star. [Puck Daddy]
Viktor Kozlov and Tomas Fleischmann are among the unsung heroes. [Japers' Rink]
A Pens fan with magnificent chest hair. [D.C. Sports Bog]
In the tallest matchup ever, Unit tops Cabrera, Z-Man homers twice and Willingham makes a butt ugly error. [WaPo]
Daniel Cabrera blows off the media after the game. [Nats Journal]
Strasburg’s college stats look like Kris Benson’s. [Beyond the Boxscore]
In short, Adam Jones is awesome and getting awesomer. [The Sun]
Peter King ranks the Skins as the 23rd-best team. Huh. [Redskins Blog]
Criticizing ESPN-980 for disposing of Mitchell and Koken. [Len Shapiro]
Brendan Haywood (AKA “your boy B-Wood”) starts a blog. [Yardbarker]
Today: Rays-O’s (7:05), Nats-Giants (10:15)
Topics: Capitals, DMV | 5 Comments »
May 12th, 2009 at 9:27 AM
B-Wood?
Does this dude want to be a living dick joke?
May 12th, 2009 at 10:53 AM
Please tell me- What did you or the “DMV” care about if it wasn’t hockey?
The Nats are the laughing stock of MLB. The Os haven’t had a winning season in 10 years. The Skins are a franchise in complete disarray with and napoleon owner and Vinny Cerrato as GM. The wiz won 19 games this year. And the Terps season has been over for 2 months.
The Caps are the only real team in this town. Glad you could tear yourself apart from all the other glorious franchises to finally ‘care about hockey.’
May 12th, 2009 at 11:08 AM
The headline was a bit tongue-in-cheek. But, yeah, I/we care more about baseball, football and basketball than hockey. That’s just how it is. That’s how we were raised.*
Doesn’t mean we don’t root for/follow the Caps, it’s just, generally speaking, not with the same passion that we follow the Skins, Nats, O’s, Wiz and Terps.
* Chris may actually care more about the Caps than Wiz, so I don’t mean to speak for him.
May 12th, 2009 at 11:35 AM
I hear you, I’m just not sure I will ever understand Nats or Os coverage taking any precedence over what the Caps are doing right now. And I don’t think I’m really alone (Caps have been on the front cover of the WaPo sports page for the entire playoffs)
The Os and Nats have no shot to be anything but the worst teams in their respective divisions. It’s an embarrassment, we have a GM who invited fans from Philly to come down to our ballpark on opening day! Not saying you shouldn’t care about a team if they’re bad but when you have a true winner playing at the same time (in the playoffs no less), it seems like a no brainer as to which one should garner your attention.
That being said I was raised to care about the Skins/Terps/Caps more than anything else, so I am decidedly bias.
Hey maybe 5 more years of Stanley Cup runs by the Caps and 100 loss seasons by the Nats will start to change your allegiances…
May 12th, 2009 at 11:46 AM
“I hear you, I’m just not sure I will ever understand Nats or Os coverage taking any precedence over what the Caps are doing right now. And I don’t think I’m really alone (Caps have been on the front cover of the WaPo sports page for the entire playoffs)”
WaPo is a news publication. Of course they’d feature a team currently in the playoffs over May baseball. That would be the case even if the Nats or O’s were in first place. We are not a news source. We let our biases show. And we’re biased towards baseball, even if our teams suck.
Having said that, and as Jamie noted, we have been following the Caps, even if they aren’t all over Mr. Irrelevant.