Hoffa Explodes!!

[Jon]

Re: Hoffa Explodes!!

>C'mon, pay attention here.




Well you DID quote my post, so it's not like I had a complete lapse in attention....

[BisonHurdler]

Re: Hoffa Explodes!!

>>That's what happens when a poster's knowledge of an
>event is limited to last
>week's ESPN broadcast....




Guess again.

Being a Brit, I have never
>watched ESPN in my life. However, I was in the stadium, watching the SP when he
>won the World Indoor title (admittedly, I think that's the only time I have
>EVER seen him compete, as most of his comps are US-based and not televised here
>in Europe).

But still, I'm not the only one to pick up on there being a bit
>of a difference to last year. Yes, during last year he was less consistent
>indoors than outdoors, but he still went the whole indoor season undefeated and
>won the WICh. Compare that to this year, and he has already lost two of his
>three meets, when most fans thought that the OT fiasco would have motivated him
>to throw further this year.

>That is all I was commenting on.





Jon I wasn't talking about you, my comment was about BigBlue86's post. C'mon, pay attention here.

[Jon]

Re: Hoffa Explodes!!

>His 'burial' there is urban myth. He was a union boss that ran afoul of the
>mob, who had him whacked and fitted with a cement coffin. It's akin to
>'sleeping with the fishes' in the East River. Mess with the godfather and you
>will meet a colorful demise.




Cheers - saved me a google!

[tafnut]

Re: Hoffa Explodes!!

His 'burial' there is urban myth. He was a union boss that ran afoul of the mob, who had him whacked and fitted with a cement coffin. It's akin to 'sleeping with the fishes' in the East River. Mess with the godfather and you will meet a colorful demise.

[Jon]

Re: Hoffa Explodes!!

>Jon is SO not going to get that!



Lol! You're right!

But a bit of intuition and a google search later, I see that Jimmy Hoffa is buried at the Meadowlands stadium. Not that it means much - will need more googling to find out more about THIS Hoffa....

[tafnut]

Re: Hoffa Explodes!!

Jon is SO not going to get that!

[gh]

Re: Hoffa Explodes!!

My reaction to a "Hoffa Explodes" head? "Did he leave a big crater in the end zone at the Meadowlands?"

[Bob R]

Re: Hoffa Explodes!!

It is a massive indoor PB; previous was 21.07 in Budapest.

[Jon]

Re: Hoffa Explodes!!

>Hoffa improved by almost five feet in one week





I think, to most fans, that is called 'inconsistency' and not 'improving' per se.

If he is in 21.60+ form, then obviously he was having an off-day with his 20.12m from Boston.

[Jon]

Re: Hoffa Explodes!!

>That's what happens when a poster's knowledge of an
>event is limited to last week's ESPN broadcast....




Guess again.

Being a Brit, I have never watched ESPN in my life. However, I was in the stadium, watching the SP when he won the World Indoor title (admittedly, I think that's the only time I have EVER seen him compete, as most of his comps are US-based and not televised here in Europe).

But still, I'm not the only one to pick up on there being a bit of a difference to last year. Yes, during last year he was less consistent indoors than outdoors, but he still went the whole indoor season undefeated and won the WICh. Compare that to this year, and he has already lost two of his three meets, when most fans thought that the OT fiasco would have motivated him to throw further this year.

That is all I was commenting on.

[tafnut]

Re: Hoffa Explodes!!

>Hoffa improved by almost five feet in one week i.e. 66' 1/4" to 70' 11 1/4".>If you are not impressed by such an accomplishment then it is fairly obvious>that other than familiarity with track and field statistics you do not know the
>event.<

It's not a PR, and how do you know that his result last week was not just an off-day?

[guru]

Re: Hoffa Explodes!!

oh boy.

Jon, deep breaths.

[BisonHurdler]

Re: Hoffa Explodes!!

>>A lot of throwers have trouble during the indoor season. They have trouble
>with
>the indoor shot. The bigger circumfrence of it makes it a bit more
>difficult to
>grasp sometimes.






This is what happens when a poster's knowledge of an event is limited to last week's ESPN broadcast....







edit: for clarity.

[Jon]

Re: Hoffa Explodes!!

>A lot of throwers have trouble during the indoor season. They have trouble with
>the indoor shot. The bigger circumfrence of it makes it a bit more difficult to
>grasp sometimes.




But Cantwell, the reigning World INDOOR Champ, has never seemed to have had any problems throwing indoors before.

[macthrow]

Re: Hoffa Explodes!!

Hoffa improved by almost five feet in one week i.e. 66' 1/4" to 70' 11 1/4". If you are not impressed by such an accomplishment then it is fairly obvious that other than familiarity with track and field statistics you do not know the event.