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Good morning, Washington. That was some sports night last night, eh? Still not sure what was more amazing: the hat trick(s) or the fact that the Nats have now technically won two games in a row. Talk about different levels of expectation! Game 3 against the Penguins is in Pittsburgh tomorrow, while the Nats stay at home today for a 12:35 p.m. matchup against the Astros.
Same Sex Marriage Showdown: If you're looking for something potentially even more dramatic than last night's incredible Caps victory, consider heading down to the John A. Wilson Building this morning. As we told you yesterday, the D.C. Council is set to cast its final vote on a bill that would allow the District to recognize same sex marriages performed legally in other states. Pro-marriage equality folks and religious groups are both already down there to make sure their voices are heard by the Council, but we're still expecting this vote to be a non-issue in terms of passage. The Council will approve the bill, with the main thing to keep an eye out for is how the councilman from Ward 8 ends up voting.
More Mayor/Council Fightin'!: In the Examiner, Michael Neibauer writes up yet another feud between Mayor Fenty and the D.C. Council. This time, it's over $140 million in IDIQ contracts, which Council Chairman Vincent Gray says is just Fenty trying to dodge Council oversight in the budget process. Story ends by describing this as just the latest in an "ongoing war between the legislative and executive branches." Indeed.
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Can someone please tell me what a hat trick is? People keep talking about it, but never explain it for those of us unfamiliar with hockey.
The image I get in my head is of a hockey player in full gear pulling out a top hat, and then pulling a bunny out of the hat. I'm guessing that image is not totally correct.
A hat trick is when a player scores 3 goals. Fans traditionally throw hats onto the ice (or respective playing surface). Not sure where the term origiated, however.
The term originated in cricket. Something about recording wickets on three consecutive balls. If you do that, your teammates buy you a new hat. Hence, hat trick.
Someone should explain a hat-trick to Crosby. Apparently he asked the refs to "please make an announcement" to tell fans to stop throwing their hats after the third Ovechkin goal.
As a Penguins fan who was there last night, you guys have really turned things around lately. We can no longer call DC our home away from home, sadly. Here's to a good series from here on out...
I hope you don't associate with these two. Not only did they give us that gem, I saw them on the corner of 7th and F by the portrait gallery on Saturday yelling, um niceties, at the sea of Caps fans on the sidewalk. Pure class.
Can someone please tell my why people ask questions like this that have easily Google-able answers?
Did you mean: Can someone please tell me why people ask questions like this that have easily Google-able answers?
Ehh, I don't mind. It also gives us an opportunity to provide answers like...
A hat trick is when an offensive player takes to the ice wearing a sombrero. As he charges, the goalie thinks 'WTF is Ovechkin wearing a sombrero for?' The offensive player takes advantage of the goalies distraction and scores.
Gosh, thanks for the correction ... you're right, my meaning was totally obscured by that mistake!
For the attention? Mayhaps?
this might help
It might also help if I learn to use tags....until then
http://qna.indiatimes.com/Miscellaneous/Why_do_people_ask_questions_which_mostly_can_be_googled_for_answer_%3F.html
1) asking a question in a forum is a social interaction. And some of us humans still like to engage;
2) If you are already in a forum, it is easier to do than Google and wade through a wikipedia entry;
3) it spawns other insights. For example, I never knew the cricket origins.
4) Why not?
NewHCE, Social Media Psychologist
I figured googling hat trick would only get me references to last night - though now I see that the first result is the wikipedia entry. But then I would have had no reason to mention the top hat and bunny.
If you don't want to answer, then don't.
Hey, I am with you!!! Ask away!!
woops, I clicked reply to your comment instead of the original. Sorry, bad thread etiquette.
Can someone tell me why people find it necessary to take the time to question people who ask questions like this that have easily Google-able answers?
I'd tell you, but it's clear you already know.
I too, was at the game, and was amused with all of the whooping whenever #55 received the puck. Some people hate it, but I enjoy the spontaneity of grown, albeit intoxicated, men looking/sounding like complete tools.
Speaking of complete tools, Crosby complained to the refs about hats being thrown on the ice following Oveckin's hat trick: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcsportsbog/2009/05/crosby_objects_to_hats_on_ice.html
That's not spontaneity - that is a Caps fan tradition...to "whoop, whoop" former Caps defensemen who leave via Free Agency or have a history with the club when they have the puck.
Guys like Kevin Hatcher, Larry Murphy, and in this case, Sergei Gonchar. I love it. I think it's hilarious...and it shows that Caps fans know hockey and are paying attention.
Read the Caps fan boards on this - some would disagree with you about this "tradition." Regardless, I DO agree that it was fun.
Uh, you can't deny that it's a "tradition" - fans have been doing it since the 80's. Now, whether all fans like it, that's another question.
For the attention? Mayhaps?
Finally we can put these malicious rumors aside: Harold Brazil did not urinate on the floor of the Jinx Proof Tattoo Parlor. In fact, he peed on himself. So please, no more jokes about how "that rug really tied the room together, dude, did it not?" As a fellow sufferer of Painful Irritable Septic Syndrome, I too have been humiliated by having to soil myself when no restroom facilities are available. And if I manage to get to the bathroom in time, pressure builds up so much that I often end up knocking enamel off the urinal, destroying most of the plumbing, shattering mirrors, andand causing the roof tiles to collapse. Yet apart from the occasional arrest, I continue to lead the relatively normal of a billionaire playboy, bon vivante, and globetrotting pervert, and make my contribution to society. Of course, that contribution involves large quantities of urine and the requisite storytelling about my mensroom exploits. But none of this prevents me from using "the yellow gift" to fight crime, injustice, and the enemies of freedom using my alter ego, Captain Urinal Cake. Because he's the hero DC deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So you'll hunt him because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A yellow knight.
Yeah, but I bet he peed on the rink after the hat trick. Maybe that's really Crosby was really complaining about.
I bet he peed on the rink
Players were complaining that the ice was soft ....
Did anyone catch sight of the PIGMAN washing himself in the Reflecting Pool yesterday? I didn't.
Sommer, what's up with the 9:50 morning posts? You'd get a lot more "engagement" if you got something new up in the pre-work, kill time, ease into your day 8:30 time slot.
Just a suggestion.
Cut her some slack. It's not easy editing pee and hat trick stories with a hangover. One false move and you're issuing multiple errata on hats that were incorrectly described as being filled with pee. And there goes your sterling reputation. Why do you think the Boston Globe is going out of business?
The rains have washed away most of the tumbleweeds. Old bodies are popping up in the Potomac. Many Washingtonians don't get off on Nats or Caps hype.
"Explosion causes Alexandria day care center to evacuate.
And boy do those diapers stink.
(Baseball) Washington Nationals = Nats
(Ice Hockey) Washington Capitals = Caps
(Football) Washington Redskins = Reds
Right?
skins, dude. 'Skins.
Reds are commies. Or drugs.
I vote for 'Skins.
But not exclusively. I supported the Democrats back in 2000 when Lieberman was on the ticket, to give one example.
That's so cold war. Reds are now Republicans, not communists.
OK we can call the Redskins 'Skins, but the Capitals become "Tals and the Nationals become 'Nals. Fair enough?
Well, the Reds are already taken by Cincinnati.
Edmonton Capitals
LBJ.
MVP.
All day I got that.
Lebron so good....he solved chess.
Cold sweat!
Over priced tickets!
Over priced food!
PIGMAN seen it.