Seattle 2008 SJ.com outing: T-minus one week

hockeybeat · Nov 10, 2007

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Wicked and IJAG are right. It's not fair to point at Dallas as the reason there should only be East Coast outings. Dallas fell apart because of the timing and the organizer's schedule.

With a seven month window, there's plenty of time for people to put aside money and take time off. And I believe Seattle will be a success.

sportschick · Nov 10, 2007

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RedSmithClone said:

Flash said:

Booooooooo. If Tom Petty says he's going, I will book my vacation on Tuesday.
Screw it. I love Seattle. I'm going anyway.
But we have to make a trip to the fish market, for sure!
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I wanna catch a fish at the market!
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The fish market, the Experience Music Project and the Space Needle will all be visited by me.

I'm not touching no fish though. Bleech!

BYH · Nov 10, 2007

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buckweaver said:

BYH said:

Plus, it's a fact that nobody on the East Coast can be bothered to travel out west, while the Left Coasters have managed to show up for at least a half-dozen SJ outings/gatherings on the far side of the Mississipp'.
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OK Bucky, you want to get personal? You want to get personal, SABR4Kidz? I can make this messy!!

I fucking went west this summer. You can look it up on a map, Sparky! Where I went to meet a handful of SportsJournalists.commers in the last week of July is indeed west of where I live! That's a fucking fact!!!!! DON'T MAKE ME POST THE YAHOO MAP!!!!

RedSmithClone · Nov 10, 2007

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We do have tournament games into the second week of June.

sportschick · Nov 10, 2007

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buckweaver said:

wicked said:

The timing is not good for most people who cover preps, as I told SC when she first proposed the idea of mid-June, but that's what will happen.
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Do preps really go into mid-June for y'all? When I was in the Southeast, they ended in early-to-mid May and, here in SoCal, they end around Memorial Day.
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I remember them going well into June in Indiana, but they're nuts there.

wickedwritah · Nov 10, 2007

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buckweaver said:

wicked said:

The timing is not good for most people who cover preps, as I told SC when she first proposed the idea of mid-June, but that's what will happen.
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Do preps really go into mid-June for y'all? When I was in the Southeast, they ended in early-to-mid May and, here in SoCal, they end around Memorial Day.
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State finals in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, the two states with which I'm most familiar, end about June 20, give or take a few days.

BYH · Nov 10, 2007

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Oh and in case the spate of didn't make it clear, I was only riffing on my East Coast elitism when I said only outings out here would work.

wickedwritah · Nov 10, 2007

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BYH said:

And if one of them isn't named Wicked, maybe I'll go. I can't stand that hunk o'crap.
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Fucking dickhead!

hockeybeat · Nov 10, 2007

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BYH said:

imjustagirl said:

A.) Dallas fell apart because the organizer bailed.
B.) This is earlier in the summer, away from football media days.
C.) I've been to every one, and I will make every effort to go to this one.

You choose not to go, that's fine. And things do change within the next 7 months...jobs, family concerns, etc. I don't think it's fair to paint with a broad brush.
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And you and Wicked are right, there were exteniauting (sp) circumstances that helped implode the Dallas trip. But my experience (and Passy has said this as well) is that people are gung-ho when the trip is announced and increasingly less so as it approaches.

No fault to that, it's human nature.
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I'm not sure that's a fair statement. I was going to go to the D.C. and Toronto outings but fate conspired against me in both instances. D.C., I was working because it was a Yankees-Mets series. Toronto, I had a friend get married in Vegas and I couldn't afford both trips.

But to say posters become "are gung-ho when the trip is announced and increasingly less so as it approaches" is as IJAG said, painting with a broad brush.

buckweaver · Nov 10, 2007

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BYH said:

buckweaver said:

BYH said:

Plus, it's a fact that nobody on the East Coast can be bothered to travel out west, while the Left Coasters have managed to show up for at least a half-dozen SJ outings/gatherings on the far side of the Mississipp'.
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OK Bucky, you want to get personal? You want to get personal, SABR4Kidz? I can make this messy!!

I fucking went west this summer. You can look it up on a map, Sparky! Where I went to meet a handful of SportsJournalists.commers in the last week of July is indeed west of where I live! That's a fucking fact!!!!! DON'T MAKE ME POST THE YAHOO MAP!!!!
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You're right. My bad.

BYH · Nov 10, 2007

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hockeybeat said:

I'm not sure that's a fair statement. I was going to go to the D.C. and Toronto outings but fate conspired against me in both instances. D.C., I was working because it was a Yankees-Mets series. Toronto, I had a friend get married in Vegas and I couldn't afford both trips.

But to say posters become "are gung-ho when the trip is announced and increasingly less so as it approaches" is as IJAG said, painting with a broad brush.
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Hey, it's human nature. Make a cool-sounding suggestion to people and the immediate response is positive. And here, in November, it's easy to imagine that one can make the trip to Seattle in seven months. But as the trip gets closer, reality creeps in...job demands, tight budgets, what not. That's all I'm saying: I will be surprised if the turnout in Seattle is as large as initially advertised.

And I would say the same thing if the outing was in NYC, or Boston, or DC or any other far superior East Coast city.

BYH · Nov 10, 2007

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buckweaver said:

BYH said:

buckweaver said:

BYH said:

Plus, it's a fact that nobody on the East Coast can be bothered to travel out west, while the Left Coasters have managed to show up for at least a half-dozen SJ outings/gatherings on the far side of the Mississipp'.
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OK Bucky, you want to get personal? You want to get personal, SABR4Kidz? I can make this messy!!

I fucking went west this summer. You can look it up on a map, Sparky! Where I went to meet a handful of SportsJournalists.commers in the last week of July is indeed west of where I live! That's a fucking fact!!!!! DON'T MAKE ME POST THE YAHOO MAP!!!!
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http://tinyurl.com/3bzgnz

You're right. My bad.
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As usual, Bucky, you overflow with quality.

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