Bruins bend Rangers over the couch, take devastating 3-0 lead: Yanks & Sox both lose

[Rock Strongo]

remember the old ESPN commercial with evander holyfield and charlie steinner?

'charlie, come out and get yer whoopin' '

that sums up the way the bruins absolutely abused the rangers last night. tho only a 2-1 game, it was one of those 'the score doesnt tell the story'.

3 breakwaways in the first period

defensive lapses

players on the rangers refusing to fight thornton

torts has entirely lost this team, and barring a miracle, hes lost his job. one year left on his coaching deal. NY teams eat that no problem.

 

[Rock Strongo]

for those who remember the classic....

 

[Rock Strongo]

i do feel bad for lunquist...arguably a top 5 in the world goaltender...maybe the best (not in OT anyway)

but man, hes 31, and gotten nothing but disapointment from the team in front of him. they let him down year after year. he deserves better.

 

[Rock Strongo]

in other sporting news...sox lost 3-1 to the whitehose. doubront pitched pretty well.

el nuno blew el game-o in baltimorio last night for los yankees

 

[Rock Strongo]

in more hilarious laughable news, the yankees...never afraid to ride the redsox coattails, have entered into ownership of soccer

well, american soccer...in NY...teaming with manchester city to create the NYFC...yankees already provide man city with concessions (legends i believe)...but...a 3rd NY soccer team? how long will this abortion last?

A Team Is Born, but Not All Cheer



A few days before Thanksgiving, as the city still reeled from Hurricane Sandy, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg convened a meeting at Gracie Mansion to jump-start talks for a project he considered part of his legacy to the city, a new soccer stadium in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens.



Executives from Major League Soccer were joined by investors from the United Arab Emirates, the owners of the Manchester City Football Club, who were willing to build the stadium for a new American soccer team they hoped to buy. They were at odds with another group in the room: Jeff Wilpon and his cousin Scott, who represented the Mets and who were demanding more than $40 million from the Abu Dhabi investors as compensation for allowing soccer fans to park at nearby Citi Field.
The mayor entered the room and, to break the tension, joked that he would visit the park if there were a golf course there rather than a soccer stadium. Then he cut to the chase: The stadium “would be good for the city,” he said, according to people at the meeting.
“Reasonable people can work this out,” Bloomberg added before leaving the room minutes after arriving.
Almost six months later, the Mets and soccer officials have still not come to terms, and the stadium issue remains intensely disputed among elected officials, youth soccer leaders and parks advocates. But the Manchester City owners — an investment group led by Sheik Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan, a member of the royal family of Abu Dhabi — forged ahead anyway, announcing Tuesday that it would buy an M.L.S. team for an estimated $100 million with an unexpected partner, the Mets’ crosstown rivals.
Those rivals, the Yankees, will be a part-owner of the New York City Football Club, a new team that is expected to begin competing in M.L.S. in 2015 but has no home to move into.
The Manchester City-Yankees partnership, which will no doubt antagonize the Mets, will deepen existing ties because the Yankees’ stadium concessions business, Legends Hospitality, already provides services at Manchester City’s home ground, Etihad Stadium. Manchester City, the recently deposed champion of England’s Premier League, will play an exhibition match against another British powerhouse, Chelsea, on Saturday at Yankee Stadium, and city and M.L.S. officials were eager to announce a deal before that game.
“In the Yankees, we have found the absolute best partner for developing a world-class sports organization and a winning team that will carry the New York City Football Club name with pride,” said Ferran Soriano, the chief executive of Manchester City.
While initially willing to buy the team on its own, Manchester City decided in the last week to team with the Yankees. In doing so, it gained a wealthy local partner well acquainted with building a stadium and navigating New York’s often treacherous political and regulatory shoals. Manchester City’s owners are also hoping that a partnership with the Yankees will shield them from criticism that a stadium project in the park represents a sweetheart deal for Arab royalty, according to team executives.
By joining with one of the top teams in the Premier League, the Yankees — who are investing as much as $25 million in the new M.L.S. team — also hope to turn Yankee Stadium into a marquee destination for high-profile soccer matches.
“We’ve been doing business here a long time and we know how things work,” said Randy Levine, the president of the Yankees, who said the team’s cable network, YES, could broadcast New York City F.C.’s games. “We’ll have their back throughout all of this.”
Mets officials declined to comment on the deal.
The agreement represents the culmination of two years of negotiations involving conflicting interests that included the mayor, city agencies, the Abu Dhabi investment group, M.L.S., parks and community advocates, soccer fans, the Mets and the United States Tennis Association, among others. In addition to paying for the proposed stadium in Queens, the sheik’s investment group would spend about $90 million to replace lost parkland and soccer fields, and on other measures.

To build a home for the team, the city, the league, Manchester City and now the Yankees must win over half a dozen community boards, the city planning commission, the City Council, and potentially state and federal agencies — a process that will take months, if not years. Some of the constituents oppose ceding parkland to a foreign billionaire.

“We’re not even talking about an American businessman who made shrewd investments,” said Peter Vallone Jr., a city councilman from Astoria. “We’re talking about a sheik born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and we don’t need to hand him parkland on a silver platter.”
Getting big projects built in New York can take years, especially sports sites that often become fodder for critics of the use of public resources for wealthy team owners. The Mets and the Yankees each spent nearly a decade lobbying for tax breaks and public subsidies before they poured a combined $2.3 billion into their new stadiums, which opened in 2009.
With opposition growing, the new owners indicated Tuesday that they recognized that building a stadium in Flushing Meadows would be problematic, and that other sites may have to be considered.
“Clearly, a lot of work has been done in Queens,” Levine said. “That’s where the focus is. I don’t know if there is an alternative. But we have some time now to take a step back and breathe.”
Levine added that New York City F.C. could play at least its first year in Yankee Stadium or Citi Field until a new home is built. M.L.S. began exploring sites for a stadium in 2011. The league hired high-level lobbyists, including HRA Advisors and Global Strategies, as well as CBRE, a real estate brokerage firm, and Icon Venue Group, a stadium architect.
M.L.S. initially wanted to build a stadium on Pier 40 along the Hudson River. The league offered to fix the pier and to give youth leagues that play there access to the field. Although some residents from the adjoining neighborhood liked the idea, advocates for Hudson River Park ultimately disapproved.
The league then explored about 20 other sites, including locations in Harlem, Staten Island, Randalls Island and Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, as well as four sites in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. M.L.S. officials liked the park because it was close to the many soccer fans in Queens; was near subways, rail lines and highways; and was accessible to parking at Citi Field.
Meanwhile, about half a dozen investors were inquiring about buying the second New York City team (the Red Bulls, a founding member of M.L.S. as the MetroStars, have played in New Jersey since 1996). Only two were considered serious candidates: one from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, and the sheik’s investment group from Abu Dhabi, which became seriously involved in negotiations in November.
The Mets have proved a thorny opponent for the Abu Dhabi investors. The team argued against the notion of someone’s not only gaining access to their parking lots, but also using the space for a competing purpose. The Mets demanded compensation, and they wanted to keep all the parking revenue from the lots (which are city owned) and restrict the right of the soccer team from playing games within hours of the start or finish of a baseball game.
The league and the mayor showed confidence in the proposal, but opposition in the community has mounted. When officials from M.L.S. held talks with Queens residents this winter to promote their plan, some opponents were prevented from sitting in the main auditorium, which was filled with soccer boosters.
Many soccer fans in Queens say they favor a stadium, but they do not want to lose access to the public fields that they use. Alfonso Vargas, the president of Allfut, a soccer alliance that comprises 14 leagues, 400 teams and about 5,000 players who compete at the park, said he supported the proposal as long as the local soccer leagues would be accommodated.
“Not only are they going to allow us to use the new facilities, but they’re going to rebuild all the fields with world-class turf and let us use the bathrooms, which the park is lacking right now,” Vargas said. “Maybe the clientele is not so refined. Still, we are human beings. We don’t want to be squeezed out.”
Parks groups seemed more alarmed. Though the park is listed as having nearly 900 acres, the actual amount of land devoted to public recreation there is far smaller, when land used by the U.S.T.A., the Mets, the M.T.A. and the Queens Museum is subtracted.

 

[Rock Strongo]

a trout on a cycle?

perhaps, and no pun intended

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Mike Trout even surprised himself in adding to his growing list of impressive big league achievements.
Trout hit for the cycle and drove in five runs, Josh Hamilton celebrated his 32nd birthday with a homer and a triple his first two times up, and Howie Kendrick also went deep in the Los Angeles Angels' 12-0 rout of the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday night.
Trout, last season's AL rookie of the year and MVP runner-up, became the youngest AL player to hit for the cycle and third youngest in the major leagues since 1930. He's also the sixth player in Angels history to complete the cycle and the first to do it since Chone Figgins on Sept. 16, 2006, at Texas.

 

[Rock Strongo]

go hockey!

 

[Rock Strongo]

a local company has come out with torey krug tshirts

remember how i said this kid is awesome and the bruins should have been playing him all year? i do

the new t-shirt says "motley krug - goals goals goals"

actually, not terrible

 

[bksballer89]

Didn't the Bruins blow a 3-0 lead a few years ago?

 

[Rock Strongo]

since NY is no longer a hockey town...and the sox and yanks both lost...todays topic will be tom brady sucks and his model wife has a horse face, len bias's crack addiction, link requests and deflection.

 

[Rock Strongo]

Didn't the Bruins blow a 3-0 lead a few years ago?

roster is not close to the same one from that flyers series

remember when you said the bruins would have a hard time scoring?

i do

focus on african hand ball...its what you know

 

[Zig]

mornin Rocko. If the B's hold on it'll be Boston 18 NY 17 in head to head playoff match ups (all 4 sports) And that's with them having a huge edge in # of teams

LOLOLOLOL

Sox suck again though so that'll be the discussion if our NY friends even show up

 

[Rock Strongo]

mornin Rocko. If the B's hold on it'll be Boston 18 NY 17 in head to head playoff match ups (all 4 sports) And that's with them having a huge edge in # of teams

LOLOLOLOL

Sox suck again though so that'll be the discussion if our NY friends even show up

nice

does dirt still think NY owns all boston teams?

 

[Zig]

Man questioned in Boston Marathon bombing shot, killed by FBI | Local News - Home

 

[Rock Strongo]

LMAO

 

[Zig]

nice

does dirt still think NY owns all boston teams?

probably

 

[PeteNYC]

nice

does dirt still think NY owns all boston teams?

Only the ones that matter


11 posts before anyone even logs on to their computer - but this place means nothing to you, right?

Rangers look like shit - better team is winning this series.

In other news, the Yankees "garbage" starter that wouldn't make the roster of 28 other teams pitched better than any Blue Jays starter has in a month. Can't win every game if you can't squeeze a few runs out every once in a while. The team is getting dangerously close to being homer happy recently...

 

[Rock Strongo]

Man questioned in Boston Marathon bombing shot, killed by FBI | Local News - Home

"just a couple of angry drug dealers"

ORLANDO, Fla. —One of two men allegedly being questioned in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings was shot and killed by an FBI agent in Florida on Tuesday, sources told WESH-TV.

A friend of Ibragim Todashev said he and Todashev were being investigated as part of the Boston bombings. He said Todashev, 27, knew bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev because both were MMA fighters.

The man claims he and Todashev were interviewed by the FBI for nearly three hours on Tuesday. The friend said he left the interview, and when he came back to the apartment he found that there had been a shooting. Todashev was killed, WESH reported.
The FBI confirmed that a person was shot and killed, but would not disclose details about the investigation.
"We are currently responding to a shooting incident involving an FBI special agent," FBI spokesman Dave Couvertier said. "The agent encountered the suspect while conducting official duties. The suspect is deceased."
Sources said Todashev spoke with Tsarnaev one week before the April 15 attack.
Tsarnaev was shot and killed during a shootout with police in Watertown last month, days after the bombings that claimed three lives and injured dozens of people.
His younger brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was charged with using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death and malicious destruction of property resulting in death in connection with the bombings.

Read more: Man questioned in Boston Marathon bombing shot, killed by FBI | Metro News - WCVB Home
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[Rock Strongo]

Only the ones that matter


11 posts before anyone even logs on to their computer - but this place means nothing to you, right?

it was 8

 

[PeteNYC]

it was 8

my bad, that's only slightly pathetic