Caption This Photo: Caps on the Coaster
FanHouse —
... held a team outing to Six Flags of America yesterday, and their press team has been passing around this priceless photo of most of the team enjoying the first big drop on Superman: Ride of Steel. Click here to get a better idea of what the ride is like. To see an enlarged version of the photo, click here. It is not to be missed. Your mission: Write your own caption for the photo -- either for the whole team or just an individual. Hat tip: J.P. and Alex Ovetjkin. %Gallery-11318 Permalink ...
Hey, Don't Hurl On My Jersey, Backstrom [Hockey]
Deadspin —
In honor of hockey's impending arrival (see previous post), we give you this. It arrived by email with this simple message: "Seriously, they have the best player in the world and they're probably the coolest team in the world." And looking at this, who can disagree? At least until the season begins. Let's see, who can name these guys? The person who names the most correctly wins a corn dog. Hopefully This Is Not A Metaphor For The Season Ahead [Jasper's Rink]
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Buckle Up This Weekend Kids
The Big Lead —
That’ll be all for us this week, people. We’ve carved out a nice space on the sofa for watching insane amounts of sports this weekend. In addition to postseason baseball (White Sox/Rays and Red Sox/Angels tonight), there’s also the return of Kimbo Slice (CRM will be live-blogging the cauliflowered ear madness) Saturday night, unbeaten and untested Texas traveling to Colorado, and Redskins-Eagles Sunday.
Party like the Caps, and go get yourself a beauty pageant winner like Michael Phelps. Or, laugh at this Sam Cassell ...
Y'all are missing the obvious symbolism
The Peerless Prognosticator —
Much has been made about this photograph of Capitals players enjoying a ride at a local amusement park as part of a season ticket holder event... First, JP over at Japers' Rink, then Puck Daddy over at Yahoo! There might be others. The worry is that the picture is a symbolic representation of a potential decline in the Caps' fortunes this year. I think my esteemed fellow wizards have missed an essential detail in the photograph...the Capitals are smiling. Players on a club expected to go far, but who do a collective face plant in the ...
Monday Afternoon Required Reading
Sean Leahy's Going Five Hole —
... ) The Capitals love them some rollercoasters. ( Japer's Rink ) Copying the defending champs isn't always the blueprint for success. ( ...
