So I finally launched my pet project this morning, HomesickFan.com. I’d like it to be a comprehensive index of sports bars for out of town fans. In theory I’ll be able to put up some adsense, stubhub, ebay links and make a little coin too. Check it out, let me know what you think.
Also, I used amazon mechanical turk to gather the information, very cool application.
Leave it to the NHL to have a lame imitation of what the other leagues are doing:
NFL: Dog fighting scandal
NBA: refs fixing games
MLB: steroid user about to break all time home run record
NHL: Canadian brothers arrested for being a bit too rowdy at a bachelor party. I heard they stayed up past their bedtime and made prank phone calls too! Scandal!
Well that was a rough 24 hours for the sabres, losing both captains. Before the playoffs this year, I figured that Drury would be overvalued because of his national exposure, and we should work to keep Briere. However, after their respective playoff performances, I changed course and figured we should keep drury and let Briere go (mainly because we have plenty of small skilled forwards and could use the $ saved to diversify with a big defensemen or power forward). Sadly, Drury wanted no part of staying in Buffalo and Briere got to free agency with a monster deal (prediction for his stats next year, 27-45-72, +5, and a lot of disapointed Flyers fans who realized they overspent for a 70 point a year player).
In retrospect, we should have made a bigger run at Briere, we really didn’t try to hard to resign him at all. Going forward, we have plenty of cap space to get that winger or d man (Souray from the Canadians would alleviate all my worries), so I’ll withhold my big worries until November.
no one from outside of nyc cares about nyc. a nyc team being sucessful doesnt make the sport popular (baseballs popular anyway) nor does them being bad make the sport unpopular (jets and knicks).
I never liked his writing anyway, but if i see him, i’ll kick him right in the box.
Go Sabres!
I can’t imagine how pumped people back home are, i’m excited watching game 1 here by myself. Please let this be the year.
Let’s Go Buffalo!
