paranoya
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"Iverson was cool but I supported Victor Page. It's a DC thing, in case you ain't notice." - Wale
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Post by paranoya on Feb 5, 2007 17:15:00 GMT -5
Well put MB, I wasnt trying to argue just give you another perspective and I didnt know about the yahoo thing thanks for the tip.
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PDRHoya99
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Post by PDRHoya99 on Feb 5, 2007 17:21:38 GMT -5
it took me a week to find an internet cafe in Singapore to find out that we beat WSSt While I've only flown through the Singapore airport, if it's like every other major asian city I've traveled do, it should take you less than a week to find an internet cafe (especially because they speak english there!) Also, I think most Hoya fans would agree that the WSSt game hardly qualifies as a crucial game. I know if I was halfway around the world for either business or pleasure I'd be safe waiting til I was back stateside to find out the score on that one. I understand the situation is different for expats, but given the number that find a way to post on this board, I'm guessing they've come up with some sort of score finding solution that doesn't rely on a ticker or the international herald tribune.
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theexorcist
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Post by theexorcist on Feb 5, 2007 17:29:49 GMT -5
I was stuck in Canberra for a week and had lots of meetings.
Canberra didn't have much in the way of internet cafes, or anything else, for that matter. I did have "Alabama-style BBQ ribs" with soy "barbeque sauce" in some fusion restaurant.
If Australians hate America, it's at least partially because of that food getting passed off as American grub.
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Hoya06
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Post by Hoya06 on Feb 5, 2007 17:53:52 GMT -5
As for checking scores, this is the best option I have found when away from your computer.
1-800-555-TELL (8355)
When the automatic dude starts talking, Say "SPORTS"
when the dude starts talking again (no need to wait for him to finish), Say "COLLEGE BASKETBALL"
(wait...)
"GEORGETOWN"
This provides score and time, and updates VERY often and even though im not good as explaining it, only takes 20 seconds. or so.
BTW: there is also a great source for baseball or any other sports scores, weather, stock quotes, movie tickets, and driving directions (this take a LONG time but could save you in a jam)
BEST OF ALL: ITS FREE!
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vcjack
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Post by vcjack on Feb 5, 2007 17:56:01 GMT -5
Public Libraries are good for this purpose too, just stop in and check the score from time to time
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Post by HoyaSinceBirth on Feb 5, 2007 18:23:59 GMT -5
anyone who doesn't like watching gtown highlights ad nausium or doesn't get warm and fuzzy every time they see the score pop up on the bottom line is a racist, there i said it.
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Post by washingtonhoya on Feb 5, 2007 18:34:20 GMT -5
As for checking scores, this is the best option I have found when away from your computer. 1-800-555-TELL (8355) When the automatic dude starts talking, Say "SPORTS" when the dude starts talking again (no need to wait for him to finish), Say "COLLEGE BASKETBALL" (wait...) "GEORGETOWN" This provides score and time, and updates VERY often and even though im not good as explaining it, only takes 20 seconds. or so. BTW: there is also a great source for baseball or any other sports scores, weather, stock quotes, movie tickets, and driving directions (this take a LONG time but could save you in a jam) BEST OF ALL: ITS FREE! Took the words out of my mouth. Plus you can play Blackjack against a fake Sean Connery voice! As for the polls, I don't think anyone's mentioned it yet, but we are now atop the Area Top 11 poll via Dan Steinberg's blog. So we've got that going for us, which is nice...
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3xhoya
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Post by 3xhoya on Feb 5, 2007 20:01:51 GMT -5
Being ranked is a big deal because it draws more attention to the program. The Marquette game on Saturday featuring number 12 against 23 will get a bigger audience than number 12 vs an unranked. A casual fan views a ranked team playing an unranked team as a pointless game to watch because they feel there is little chance of an upset.
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Post by Fan Of The Game on Feb 5, 2007 22:05:22 GMT -5
MBHOya, in addition to the ticker factor is the fact that every thirty minutes or so ESPN News will be showing Hoyas highlights..Now, if you dont enjoy watching Jeff Green alley-oop highlights every thirty minutes, I might have to start questionning your fan loyalty.. THAT's why I love it. Coming home from a Hoyas game, catching a late game on the deuce, getting giddy every time the Hoyas score shows up on the bottom of the screen... We pay attention when we're not in the top 25. Not everyone else does. Two add a corollary to an old expression: in sight, in mind.
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hoyarooter
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Post by hoyarooter on Feb 5, 2007 22:12:22 GMT -5
MBHoya, I'm not piling on you, but just to add to the scenarios where it's good to be able to get frequent scores on ESPN, when we played Notre Dame (which was a 9 AM game here on the left coast), I was unable to access my computer, because my mother in law was sleeping over, and the computer is in our guest bedroom. I therefore put on ESPN2 to follow the game, and since the Irish were ranked, the score came up frequently.
Speaking of traveling during a game, I happened to be in New Jersey and scheduled to return to Los Angeles on the day that we played SMU in the NCAA Tournament. I boarded the plane at halftime. I spent the next five hours in agony, fretting over the game, since as I recall, we trailed something like 24-16 at the half. The first words my father said to me when I disembarked at LAX was, "boy, was Georgetown lucky." I couldn't have asked for a better greeting.
BTW, I'm going to make note of that 1-800 number.
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cincyhoya
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Post by cincyhoya on Feb 5, 2007 22:24:56 GMT -5
Can we all just agree that being ranked is a great thing? Seriously, I think we have to acknowledge that most Hoya fans are casual fans. Sure, bleed hoya blue. That's great in college (never missed a home game my final three years), but man, living out of the area / being married / having a job / having non-Hoya friends (they do exist, seriously), there's any one of a million reasons why having the Hoyas score flash a little more often. Actually having highlights on Sportscenter is a great thing. Helps recruits too (the debate of if it should is irrelevant - it does - live with it).
As a Cincy resident who works with an abundence of UC / Indiana / OSU / Louiville / Kentucky alum, it's a great feeling and great bragging point particularly to people from other schools who aren't that die hard fans. Beleive me, when my OSU alum boss asks me how the Hoyas are doing (sarcasticly - trying to make up for last year), it's a lot easier to say "#21" then "they're actually really good, they're 15-5 but the 5 losses are to good teams - well, 3 of the five are ranked, but the other 2 aren't bad losses."
Seriously, I'd bet the average Hoya fan has maybe 15-30 mintues during the day for this kind of surfing, and yeah, I read the board almost every day. So yeah, it's 1030, I'm still working plus gotta get in house things, family things - basically I've got the 11pm Sortscenter to get caught up, or wait till I log on the next day and read the board so yeah, to me it's important, and I'd bet to alot of other alum who aren't avid supports, it'll get them interest and maybe involved, so that makes it pretty important to the program...
Thanks for that 800 number, btw - that's awesome..
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lichoya68
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OK YOUNGINS ARE HERE AND ARE VERY VERY GOOD cant wait GO HOYAS
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Post by lichoya68 on Feb 5, 2007 22:49:49 GMT -5
OK WE SNUCK IN and does anybody remember my crazy post about the seventy two top twenty five teams that lost on sat and i thougth we might sneak in and i asked for comment.. .well thanks to the one person who gave a rational comment.. go hoyas but dont sleep this week need to be upand at em for the ville at there place and then thquette at home be aggressive dont read the polls and go hoyas... this is february for real and these two games both critical tto not drop outa the polls ans to stay in second and put distance between us and them.. gohoyas two wins necessary for the drive DONT PLAY ON WED IN NY CANT PLAY WED.. NEED 69 OR MORE TO BEA THE VILLE AT FREEDOM HALL GO HOYAS ONE BY ONE ;D ;D ;D ;D
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lichoya68
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OK YOUNGINS ARE HERE AND ARE VERY VERY GOOD cant wait GO HOYAS
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Post by lichoya68 on Feb 5, 2007 22:51:30 GMT -5
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Post by DoubleOhHoya on Feb 5, 2007 23:50:07 GMT -5
We should all be able to agree that ceteris peribus, more hoyas is better. More hoyas coverage is better. More bozo sports writers than don't give a crap noticing that we're ranked again is better. Hoyas buzz is good buzz. We've got the buzz, and I want more.
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PDRHoya99
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Post by PDRHoya99 on Feb 6, 2007 1:11:01 GMT -5
MBHoya, I'm not piling on you... Just to clarify, I'm sure scenarios have existed throughout the past century of Georgetown basketball where it would have been convenient to have a quicker ticker update, but pulling out the sleeping mother-in-law seems to be stretching. I just think for most on this board, that extra time in the ticker is probably valueless, since they already know the score. This is not to say that being ranked is valueless. Quite the opposite, I'm of the opinion it's very valuable in terms of collective mentality of the fanbase. I know the "I'd really like us to be ranked this week" crowd got beat up for the last few weeks by Gtown's continued presence in the others receiving votes column. Perhaps due to cognitive dissonance many of us reverted to saying that nothing good came from being ranked. Suddenly the only acceptable reason to post hoping for a top 25 ranking was for the extra time in the ticker. There are a lot of nice things about being ranked, and extra time in the ticker is probably the least important one. Sure it doesn't guarantee NCAA seeding, and sure the voters are stupid, but everybody -- from the crazies like us to the alum that happens to catch the score on sportscenter to the recruit that thinks he'll be playing there someday to the lacrosstitute that decides to attend her first game this Saturday -- gets more excited when we're ranked. If that alone isn't a good enough reason to be happy we're ranked, then perhaps you need to watch the bottom 5% of the espn screen and nothing else for the next 24 hours, or at least until your mother-in-law wakes up.
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EasyEd
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Post by EasyEd on Feb 6, 2007 7:17:13 GMT -5
Here's the scoop on being ranked now. Had we beaten St. Johns 69-48 the clowns that vote in the polls would have said "Georgetown beat St. Johns". As it was, we won 72-48 and these same clowns said "Wow! Georgetown beat St. Johns at MSG by 30 points. They must be good" so they voted us in. So ------ Sead's 3-pointer is what put us in the top 25.
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Locker
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Post by Locker on Feb 6, 2007 8:33:07 GMT -5
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Filo
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Post by Filo on Feb 6, 2007 9:36:58 GMT -5
MBHoya, I'm not piling on you... Just to clarify, I'm sure scenarios have existed throughout the past century of Georgetown basketball where it would have been convenient to have a quicker ticker update, but pulling out the sleeping mother-in-law seems to be stretching. I just think for most on this board, that extra time in the ticker is probably valueless, since they already know the score. This is not to say that being ranked is valueless. Quite the opposite, I'm of the opinion it's very valuable in terms of collective mentality of the fanbase. I know the "I'd really like us to be ranked this week" crowd got beat up for the last few weeks by Gtown's continued presence in the others receiving votes column. Perhaps due to cognitive dissonance many of us reverted to saying that nothing good came from being ranked. Suddenly the only acceptable reason to post hoping for a top 25 ranking was for the extra time in the ticker. There are a lot of nice things about being ranked, and extra time in the ticker is probably the least important one. Sure it doesn't guarantee NCAA seeding, and sure the voters are stupid, but everybody -- from the crazies like us to the alum that happens to catch the score on sportscenter to the recruit that thinks he'll be playing there someday to the lacrosstitute that decides to attend her first game this Saturday -- gets more excited when we're ranked. If that alone isn't a good enough reason to be happy we're ranked, then perhaps you need to watch the bottom 5% of the espn screen and nothing else for the next 24 hours, or at least until your mother-in-law wakes up. The point is that there ARE plenty of scenarios in which the ticker is useful to fans. Not everyone can be the McGyver of obtaining sports scores, as you apparently are. I would venture that there are even Hoyas fans out there who -gasp- don't even use the internet.
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Post by DoubleOhHoya on Feb 6, 2007 10:54:39 GMT -5
we could be undefeated, and Feinstein would still have us unranked. the prick.
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PDRHoya99
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Post by PDRHoya99 on Feb 6, 2007 12:26:50 GMT -5
I would venture that there are even Hoyas fans out there who -gasp- don't even use the internet. While I agree, there are people that don't use the internet amongst the Hoya faithful, given that my statements were regarding users of this message board, I'm gonna go way out on a limb and say that 100% of HoyaTalk members use the internet. BTW Filo, why the need to take a shot at me? Can't we all just get along?
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