Tuesday, December 23, 2008
My Last Crosby Post EVER
I'm hereby declaring, just like my Sabres predictions, that I will never write another post about Sidney Crosby again. Hopefully Kirky or Denson, or atleast some anonymous Flyer's fan who can't stand the little prick, will fill the void. This will be my final opinion on him and the NHL's love affair with the nugget.
On Sunday the NHL issued a press release stating the indeed Sidney Crosby had broken Jaromir Jagr's 8 year record of highest all-star votes of 1,020,736, with 2 weeks of voting left to register.
At first glance this reads, OMG CROSBY IS SOOOOOOOOOOO POPULAR! HOMECOMING QUEEN! But seriously, In 2000, how was the voting done? If I recall, by paper balloting in NHL arenas throughout the league. So at any given night about 18,000 votes were being cast.
Yet as we all know now, you can vote online as much as you want. Those of us with unlimited text plans can vote as much as we want, and imagine that, energized fan bases, especially Montreal and Pittsburgh, have literally blown away vote totals from prior years.
Why is the NHL pimping Crosby like he did something special? These people did.
Obviously he didn't do anything, he just plays the game. It's like how this summer the media was pimping The Dark Knight as the highest grossing movie ever, but now tickets are $12 a pop, how does that compare to the movies in the 80's that made as much money as TDK, but tickets only cost $3? This is the same concept. Apples to Oranges. This shouldn't even be an effing story, but here's the NHL pimping there grundel fisting poster boy once again.
There is one common denominator here though, Pens fans don't have enough to do with their time. Hopefully this will bring them back down to earth.
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