Comments on: Saturday morning snippets

By: eggsngrits

eggsngrits — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:00:02 +0000

And, the Clippers and Cubs are basketball and baseball, respectively.

By: 1985 Gripen

1985 Gripen — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:08:08 +0000

AEROPILOT: couldn’t just ignore the comment and move-on, huh?

By: Ken H

Ken H — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:17:45 +0000

aeropilot – it’s about ice hockey, not football. And this is a blog, not a forum.

By: AEROPILOT

AEROPILOT — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:27:05 +0000

Please stop that football crap ! Put it in another forum..

By: 1985 Gripen

1985 Gripen — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:56:56 +0000

eggs: the Clippers have only been in L.A. since 1984. The Kings debuted in L.A. in 1967 as part of the National Hockey League’s first expansion (when the league expanded from six teams to twelve) and in their 41 years of existence have not yet won the Stanley Cup, having only made it to the Finals once.

Meanwhile, 35 miles down Interstate 5 the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim played their first season in 1993 and skated with the Cup only 14 years later.

Last season the Kings finished second-to-last in the league standings, and were on-track to finish dead-last (and therefore have a chance at the highly-touted first-overall entry draft pick Stephen Stamkos) but blew even THAT at the last minute by winning one game too many when it really didn’t matter anymore. This season the Kings are predicted by many analysts to finish dead-last in the league.

We Kings fans might not be suffering like Cubs fans, but at least the Cubs do have championship wins in their past to point to…

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:08:27 +0000

ctm – I think it’s fair. Saab really does have a reputation for that. There’s a new concept every year or two, and we still only have the same three models.

Even so, the Urus (Estoque my ass, I think “large cow” is a much better moniker than “thin fey sword”) shouldn’t have won. It’s an obvious attempt to cash in on a recent trend, and it looks ridiculous, more so than the other Lambos.

By: eggsngrits

eggsngrits — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:43:46 +0000

Grip: How quickly the Clippers come to mind.

By: ctm

ctm — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:21:34 +0000

So the concept lost points because *other* concepts haven’t yet materialized into production models? That’s a new one…

By: No.9

No.9 — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:06:02 +0000

I came upon a new white vert at an intersection recently and I was stunned by its beauty. It just stood out from the other cars, and other 9-3s for that matter.

As for the 9-7x, its 4000 or so heavily subsidized sales per year (guesstimating), are surely not going to make a difference on GM’s catastrophic balance sheet. I’m not sure the bastard child was a plus for Saab, but good riddance to the dinosaur as far as I’m concerned.

*Bravo Swade for reintegrating the viewing mode for images which opens them without opening a new page.

By: Bernard

Bernard — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 11:28:48 +0000

Swade,

I’m sure GM will build enough 9-7s to sell through the (Northern) summer. They may actually want to follow Enzo Ferrari’s advice and build a few less than the market demand so that they can keep the prices reasonable.