Miami Cheerleaders “22” by Taylor Swift
Feeling a bit groggy this morning? Bummed about having to get up and go to work? (Pun intended)
Well neither did I but here I am. And thank everything that is holy in this world for the Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders and their new video! Cheered me up enough that it didn’t feel so bad to be at work before 8am!
Lebron loses headband but leads the Heat to a late game rally and win
The first half of the game was dominated by Duncan and Spurs, being up 50-44. Duncan had 25 points at the half, but was burned out and only got 5 points the rest of the game.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, Lebron had 8 points at the half but had a huge 3rd and 4th quarter, ending the game with 32 points. James did exactly what he needed to do to keep his legacy in tact, even though he had a lousy first quarter, he bounced back and came back strong to finish the game.
The final score was 103-100 through OT
Game 7 will be in San Antonio on Thursday the 20th
Photo Credit: ABC Sports
Big news for Colorado Avalanche fans!
Colorado’s first overall pick will NOT be Seth Jones in the upcoming draft. They are also looking to trade their pick as well.
Avalanche executive vice president of hockey operations Joe Sakic told the Denver post;
“If we do pick first, we’re leaning more toward one of those three forwards”
The big word is “if” meaning they are shopping their pick to other teams. I doubt they will trade out of the top 3 though.
He would go on to say;
”We feel those three forwards are just too good to pass up,”
It looks like they will pick MacKinnon or Droiun with their first pick. Patrick Roy personally scouted them in the Q and seems to be more comfortable with them on his team.
The Avs are passing up on a chance to fill the huge hole in their back end. Which I think is a mistake, but only time will tell.
If they draft MacKinnon does that mean that they are going to trade Statsny this offseason as well? And what does that mean for Duchene?
Use fancy social networking and send me your opinion @fanxchange on Twitter or on the FanxchangeFacebook page!
Photo Credit: Boston Globe
Anthony Richardson, a British comedian takes up sports commentary for half a game!
Richardson’s top observations include:
• Calling umpires “FBI” agents.
• Calling the Red Sox “another team … to be confirmed.”
• Calling an obvious foul ball a home run, adding (NSFW): “Smack me! Wowzers in me trousers!” The Anglo equivalent to “You can put it on the board … yes!”
Watch it to see what else he says!
Want to learn how to flop like Lebron? Well here’s your guy!
Credit to Mike Polk Jr Show
Rumour Mill Monday!
A rumour has been traveling around about the Toronto Maple Leafs, if you haven’t heard it, here it is:
The Leafs have offered the Tampa Bay Lightning two 2nd-3rd line players and a collection of picks for Vincent Lecavalier and their 1st round pick, 3rd overall. This deal makes sense since the Lightning have been trying to get rid of Lecavalier’s contract for a while now, but they can’t buy him out since the franchise doesn’t have the money to do it. He will make $10 million until the 15/16 season, then make $8.5 in the following season and $4 in the next season and so on until he makes only $1 million in the final year of his contract in the 19/20 season. The Leafs have enough cap room right now to take on the contract and are in desperate need of a true number one centre and they also have the funds to buy him out. Not forgetting the 3rd overall pick, the Leafs could get a NHL ready prospect in either Nathan MacKinnon, Aleksander Barkov, Jonathan Drouin.
Rumours:
Jonathan Bernier:
Bernier is going to be a RFA and the Kings don’t want to commit too much money to him since Quick has the starting job on lock. He is untested but has the potential to be a number one goalie, especially if he is mentored by future hall of famer Brodeur. Look for him to be traded at the draft to either New Jersey, Edmonton, and if Bryzgalov is bought out Philadelphia would be a front runner.
Projected Team: New Jersey Devils
Valtteri Filppula
The Detroit Red Wings veteran has been linked to certain teams around the league, with Colombus front running the group. However, playing his whole career in Detroit, and since the Wings are good at keeping their stars I don’t see him moving.
Projected Team: Detroit Red Wings
Ryan Clowe
With Alain Vigneault coming into New York as the next head coach, there could be a lot of change. With Clowe being one of the people on the way out. I am hearing Detroit, Phoenix and New Jersey are going after him. Unless New Jersey loses Clarkson, I highly doubt they will make a strong push for him.
Projected Team: Detroit Red Wings
Brad Richards
Richards could be on his way back to Dallas, or heading to Philadelphia or Nashville. Since I don’t think Richards will be bought out by the Rangers, this is up in the air. But the team that is closest to the cup who is missing a key player is Nashville, so watch for them to make a move for him.
Projected Team: Nashville Predators
Photo Credit: ABC
![Deadspin first reports:
“Last month, Cougar Life—”the cougar dating site for younger hot men to meet sexy older professional women”—surveyed its female members. David Wright beat out Cole Hamels and Matt Kemp to take the title of “hottest cub.” It was for PR, sure, but it was good PR. It got play everywhere from SI to Fox Sports to the New York tabloids.
An enterprising staffer in the Mets’ marketing and communications department took notice, and on Friday morning he fired off an email to Cougar Life. Maybe the cougars could mobilize to put Wright in the All-Star Game?
From: [redacted] <[redacted]@nymets.com>Date: Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 10:18 AMSubject: David Wright ASG Push- CougarLifeTo:<media@cougarlife.com>, <blog@avidlifemedia.com>
Good morning-
We are trying to help push David Wright into the starting line-up for the 2013 MLB All-Star Game at Citi Field (his home stadium). He currently trails in the voting by 100,000 votes, even though he won win your vote as “MLB’s Hottest Cub”. We were wondering if you would be able to blog/post a story asking your users (who apparently admire David and would love seeing him play in the All-Star Game) to go to the below link to vote David and #VoteWrightNow as he needs their help. Voting online ends July 3rd and updates come out once a week, so the more support/posts about David the better. We would be able to share weekly updates if you would like to help push “your cub” into the game and ask your members to #VoteWrightNow @ mets.com.
http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/mlb/events/all…
Let me know if you have any questions and feel free to give me a call if you would like to discuss over the phone.
Thanks for all your help.
[redacted]
(We’ve redacted all names, per the tipster’s request.)
A few hours later, he got a response from a PR specialist at Avid Life Media, which owns Cougar Life as well as dating websites Ashley Madison, ManCrunch, and Swappernet. The email, and all subsequent ones, were also cc’d to other employees at Avid Life.
From: [redacted] <[redacted]@avidlifemedia.com>Date: Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 1:30 PMSubject: Re: David Wright ASG Push- CougarLifeTo: [redacted] <[redacted]@nymets.com>
Hi [redacted], Thank you for reaching out to us! We would be delighted to partner with you guys on this initiative seeing as our females are very fond of Mr. “Right”! I’m going to meet with our social media director this afternoon to plan strategy and we’ll get back to you later today or Monday with a plan.Quick question: David Wright is engaged, correct? If by chance he recently became single, we would love to do a “win a date” contest! Please let me know if you have any questions in the meantime.Cheers,[redacted]PS. Our spokeswoman Marlo Jordan (Miss CougarLife) is doing sports radio interviews across the country this week because of the “hot baseball cubs” survey… there’s lots of buzz about David winning top spot!
The weekend came and went, and on Monday morning the Mets marketing employee gave Avid Life’s PR person a call. She told him Cougar Life would love to help out, and pitched a few ideas.
“We’d blast our New York females asking them to vote,” she tells me. “We’d do blog posts, Facebook posts, Twitter posts, and a press release to boost attention. In exchange, I wanted ballgame tickets for a giveaway and a meet-and-greet with David for a member or two. He said both were probably possible but he’d confirm.”
After she sent a follow-up email reiterating the ideas floated in the phone call, the Mets employee wanted to get down to hard numbers.”
Read the rest of the article here: http://ow.ly/m2TpE](http://24.media.tumblr.com/658aa81b15f74bf829f7fb5765fd1026/tumblr_moebm9cy0N1rrhodlo1_500.jpg)
Deadspin first reports:
“Last month, Cougar Life—”the cougar dating site for younger hot men to meet sexy older professional women”—surveyed its female members. David Wright beat out Cole Hamels and Matt Kemp to take the title of “hottest cub.” It was for PR, sure, but it was good PR. It got play everywhere from SI to Fox Sports to the New York tabloids.
An enterprising staffer in the Mets’ marketing and communications department took notice, and on Friday morning he fired off an email to Cougar Life. Maybe the cougars could mobilize to put Wright in the All-Star Game?
From: [redacted] <[redacted]@nymets.com>
Date: Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 10:18 AM
Subject: David Wright ASG Push- CougarLife
To:<media@cougarlife.com>, <blog@avidlifemedia.com>Good morning-
We are trying to help push David Wright into the starting line-up for the 2013 MLB All-Star Game at Citi Field (his home stadium). He currently trails in the voting by 100,000 votes, even though he won win your vote as “MLB’s Hottest Cub”. We were wondering if you would be able to blog/post a story asking your users (who apparently admire David and would love seeing him play in the All-Star Game) to go to the below link to vote David and #VoteWrightNow as he needs their help. Voting online ends July 3rd and updates come out once a week, so the more support/posts about David the better. We would be able to share weekly updates if you would like to help push “your cub” into the game and ask your members to #VoteWrightNow @ mets.com.
http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/mlb/events/all…
Let me know if you have any questions and feel free to give me a call if you would like to discuss over the phone.
Thanks for all your help.
[redacted]
(We’ve redacted all names, per the tipster’s request.)
A few hours later, he got a response from a PR specialist at Avid Life Media, which owns Cougar Life as well as dating websites Ashley Madison, ManCrunch, and Swappernet. The email, and all subsequent ones, were also cc’d to other employees at Avid Life.
From: [redacted] <[redacted]@avidlifemedia.com>
Date: Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 1:30 PM
Subject: Re: David Wright ASG Push- CougarLife
To: [redacted] <[redacted]@nymets.com>
Hi [redacted],
Thank you for reaching out to us! We would be delighted to partner with you guys on this initiative seeing as our females are very fond of Mr. “Right”! I’m going to meet with our social media director this afternoon to plan strategy and we’ll get back to you later today or Monday with a plan.
Quick question: David Wright is engaged, correct? If by chance he recently became single, we would love to do a “win a date” contest!
Please let me know if you have any questions in the meantime.
Cheers,
[redacted]
PS. Our spokeswoman Marlo Jordan (Miss CougarLife) is doing sports radio interviews across the country this week because of the “hot baseball cubs” survey… there’s lots of buzz about David winning top spot!
The weekend came and went, and on Monday morning the Mets marketing employee gave Avid Life’s PR person a call. She told him Cougar Life would love to help out, and pitched a few ideas.
“We’d blast our New York females asking them to vote,” she tells me. “We’d do blog posts, Facebook posts, Twitter posts, and a press release to boost attention. In exchange, I wanted ballgame tickets for a giveaway and a meet-and-greet with David for a member or two. He said both were probably possible but he’d confirm.”
After she sent a follow-up email reiterating the ideas floated in the phone call, the Mets employee wanted to get down to hard numbers.”
Read the rest of the article here: http://ow.ly/m2TpE
Miami Bar Deck Collapses During Game 4
Photo Credit: Miami Herald
Colorado Fires worst in history
They have evacuated roughly the size of Denver in land.
CNN reports on what is being called one of the worst fires in Colorado history. Here is more from the report that puts the fire at about five percent contained as of this writing: “The fire’s evacuation area is 93,000 acres, affecting approximately 38,000 people and 13,000 homes, and the flames are estimated to have burned through 15,700 acres…”
Photo Credit: CNN and @PeterMcEvoy2
The Heat bounce back in game 4 against the Spurs
Photo Credit: NBA.com
