OLV, weatherman, MJMjr, NYCRedmen, and I are all predicting that St. John's pulls away at the end of an otherwise close game. The final score is not always indicative of how the game played out (per OLV).
One can hope.
One can hope.
@Providence, Tue., Feb. 13, 7p, CBSSN
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Fixed it so it looks like a post from a true Elitist.
Don’t see it happening but I sure hope it does!
Wait till the boa constrictors move in.Man do I miss those days or is it daze? When I used to get up at 5AM to shovel snow out of my driveway only to watch the ploughs in Huntington go by and redistribute the iced snow mounds in front of my driveway by the street. It was kind of like a challenge, could I get that mound taken down before the ploughs came again? So much fun.
Florida is boring, except for an occasional gator off the lake in my back yard, there are no such challenges.
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The brother-in-law of a family member got pissed that a plow was going to ruin his work so he tried to block him and the plow driver freaking ran him over. So for any bitter shovelers in New Hyde Park, don't make this same mistake.Man do I miss those days or is it daze? When I used to get up at 5AM to shovel snow out of my driveway only to watch the ploughs in Huntington go by and redistribute the iced snow mounds in front of my driveway by the street. It was kind of like a challenge, could I get that mound taken down before the ploughs came again? So much fun.
Game on per Providence BB twitter
The answer to that question is yes.
I will root for this, but certainly would not predict it. PC consistently plays at a level of effort that we only occasionally touch.
LOL, that must be a NHP special (the plow-in, not the driving people over) as that always happens to me here. On the other hand, it can snow 20 inches and usually within an hour of it stopping if I can get out of my driveway I can get most anywhere. Obviously not Maher's house, but most places.
The town of Huntington plow just came and did it to all my neighbors. Good thing my landscaper hasn't shown up yetMan do I miss those days or is it daze? When I used to get up at 5AM to shovel snow out of my driveway only to watch the ploughs in Huntington go by and redistribute the iced snow mounds in front of my driveway by the street. It was kind of like a challenge, could I get that mound taken down before the ploughs came again? So much fun.
Florida is boring, except for an occasional gator off the lake in my back yard, there are no such challenges.
Chalk one up for the Elitist who didn't shovel
SJUWillRockNYC
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I gotta admit, if SJU gets a double digit lead, I'll be turning the game off. I can't watch another big lead slip away as usual.
I'll get the score around 9:10, hoping that they held and got the W for once.
Yeah, I'm a horrible fan.
Did you not see my post? Ha.
Alumni Hall
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All this talk of snow and SJU hoops reminds me of the great snowstorm at Syracuse. Not sure if it was Fran’s first or second year here. Anyway we bussed up to the Cuse and stayed at our usual team hotel , Marriott Carrier Circle. Nice hotel, but a long drive on a good day to get to the Carrier Dome. Well bad weather was predicted by the local news so I advised Fran to leave right after 3 PM pregame to arrive with no issues.
Fran discarded my advice( I think he called me Mr Weatherbee) and we stuck it out till our usual 5 PM departure time. Well the big stuff started falling around 3 as predicted and by 5 PM there was already about 4-5 inches on the ground. We start INCHING our way on Thompson Rd. Traffic is at a standstill. Fast forward to 6 PM and we are still at least an hr away with tip off at 7 pm on National TV.
Now Fran is getting agitated, having me call Syracuse’s trainer, to get their AD on the phone. No dice. 630 pm and the bus is stuck in the snow. Fran now wants me to call Big East’s Commissioner Trangese asking him to cancel the game. No dice. We are at the bottom of the hill on a small road STUCK. Fran sees a police car, he jumps out of the bus , waves him down and tells him what’s going on. Fran hops back on the bus and tells me and 3 starting players to cram into the police car and they drive up the hill to the arena. Then another State Police car arrives and takes 3-4 more players. Fran commented that it probably wasn’t the first time some of these players were in the back seat of a cop car ! This goes on for 20 minutes. Finally it’s 715 and they announce a delay in the tip off time as the roof was leaking at the Dome onto the court.
So that gave us time to regroup in the locker room and regain our senses. Game starts with snow plows on top of the Dome trying to get as much snow off to stop the leaks. We must have stopped the game because of wet spots 5-6 times in the first half. They were close to stopping the game on numerous occasions. Not sure if we won or not, but it was a adventure trying to return back to the team hotel that night. Our bus had to be towed to the arena to get us post game. And then to make matters worse, the hotel sent home their food staff workers home with the blizzard, so we didn’t get our usual post game meal. Cold, hungry and tired we retired to our rooms. After that Fran always listened to my travel advice, be it air flights or bus trips
Fran discarded my advice( I think he called me Mr Weatherbee) and we stuck it out till our usual 5 PM departure time. Well the big stuff started falling around 3 as predicted and by 5 PM there was already about 4-5 inches on the ground. We start INCHING our way on Thompson Rd. Traffic is at a standstill. Fast forward to 6 PM and we are still at least an hr away with tip off at 7 pm on National TV.
Now Fran is getting agitated, having me call Syracuse’s trainer, to get their AD on the phone. No dice. 630 pm and the bus is stuck in the snow. Fran now wants me to call Big East’s Commissioner Trangese asking him to cancel the game. No dice. We are at the bottom of the hill on a small road STUCK. Fran sees a police car, he jumps out of the bus , waves him down and tells him what’s going on. Fran hops back on the bus and tells me and 3 starting players to cram into the police car and they drive up the hill to the arena. Then another State Police car arrives and takes 3-4 more players. Fran commented that it probably wasn’t the first time some of these players were in the back seat of a cop car ! This goes on for 20 minutes. Finally it’s 715 and they announce a delay in the tip off time as the roof was leaking at the Dome onto the court.
So that gave us time to regroup in the locker room and regain our senses. Game starts with snow plows on top of the Dome trying to get as much snow off to stop the leaks. We must have stopped the game because of wet spots 5-6 times in the first half. They were close to stopping the game on numerous occasions. Not sure if we won or not, but it was a adventure trying to return back to the team hotel that night. Our bus had to be towed to the arena to get us post game. And then to make matters worse, the hotel sent home their food staff workers home with the blizzard, so we didn’t get our usual post game meal. Cold, hungry and tired we retired to our rooms. After that Fran always listened to my travel advice, be it air flights or bus trips
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That was an awesome story R! Thx! You really are an asset to the site!All this talk of snow and SJU hoops reminds me of the great snowstorm at Syracuse. Not sure if it was Fran’s first or second year here. Anyway we bussed up to the Cuse and stayed at our usual team hotel , Marriott Carrier Circle. Nice hotel, but a long drive on a good day to get to the Carrier Dome. Well bad weather was predicted by the local news so I advised Fran to leave right after 3 PM pregame to arrive with no issues.
Fran discarded my advice(I think he called me Mr Weatherbee) and we stuck it out till our usual 5 PM departure time. Well the big stuff started falling around 3 as predicted and by 5 PM there was already about 4-5 inches on the ground. We start INCHING our way on Thompson Rd. Traffic is at a standstill. Fast forward to 6 PM and we are still at least an hr away with tip off at 7 pm on National TV.
Now Fran is getting agitated, having me call Syracuse’s trainer, to get their AD on the phone. No dice. 630 pm and the bus is stuck in the snow. Fran now wants me to call Big East’s Commissioner Trangese asking him to cancel the game. No dice. We are at the bottom of the hill on a small road STUCK. Fran sees a police car, he jumps out of the bus , waves him down and tells him what’s going on. Fran hops back on the bus and tells me and 3 starting players to cram into the police car and they drive up the hill to the arena. Then another State Police car arrives and takes 3-4 more players. This goes on for 20 minutes. Finally it’s 715 and they announce a delay in the tip off time as the roof was leaking at the Dome onto the court.
So that gave us time to regroup in the locker room and regain our senses. Game starts with snow plows on top of the Dome trying to get as much snow off to stop the leaks. We must have stopped the game because of wet spots 5-6 times in the first half. They were close to stopping the game on numerous occasions. Not sure if we won or not, but it was a venture trying to return back to the team hotel that night. And then to make matters worse, the hotel sent home their food staff workers home with the blizzard, so we didn’t get our usual post game meal. Cold, hungry and tired we retired to our rooms. After that Fran always listened to my travel advice, be it air flights or bus trips
I don't know if any of you remember All Star Baseball, the game with disks for each players, and you would spin an arrow on it?
I still remember that Murcer's card was the best. Almost always got a hit.
Alumni Hall
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NY Times article of that night hope it opens:
www.nytimes.com
COLLEGE BASKETBALL; St. John's Wins in Snow at Syracuse (Published 1998)
St John's defeats Syracuse, 67-65, in college basketball (M)
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At one time or another, I think we've all had a boss like Fran, a guy who thinks he's smarter than lake effect snow.
All this talk of snow and SJU hoops reminds me of the great snowstorm at Syracuse. Not sure if it was Fran’s first or second year here. Anyway we bussed up to the Cuse and stayed at our usual team hotel , Marriott Carrier Circle. Nice hotel, but a long drive on a good day to get to the Carrier Dome. Well bad weather was predicted by the local news so I advised Fran to leave right after 3 PM pregame to arrive with no issues.
Fran discarded my advice( I think he called me Mr Weatherbee) and we stuck it out till our usual 5 PM departure time. Well the big stuff started falling around 3 as predicted and by 5 PM there was already about 4-5 inches on the ground. We start INCHING our way on Thompson Rd. Traffic is at a standstill. Fast forward to 6 PM and we are still at least an hr away with tip off at 7 pm on National TV.
Now Fran is getting agitated, having me call Syracuse’s trainer, to get their AD on the phone. No dice. 630 pm and the bus is stuck in the snow. Fran now wants me to call Big East’s Commissioner Trangese asking him to cancel the game. No dice. We are at the bottom of the hill on a small road STUCK. Fran sees a police car, he jumps out of the bus , waves him down and tells him what’s going on. Fran hops back on the bus and tells me and 3 starting players to cram into the police car and they drive up the hill to the arena. Then another State Police car arrives and takes 3-4 more players. Fran commented that it probably wasn’t the first time some of these players were in the back seat of a cop car ! This goes on for 20 minutes. Finally it’s 715 and they announce a delay in the tip off time as the roof was leaking at the Dome onto the court.
So that gave us time to regroup in the locker room and regain our senses. Game starts with snow plows on top of the Dome trying to get as much snow off to stop the leaks. We must have stopped the game because of wet spots 5-6 times in the first half. They were close to stopping the game on numerous occasions. Not sure if we won or not, but it was a adventure trying to return back to the team hotel that night. Our bus had to be towed to the arena to get us post game. And then to make matters worse, the hotel sent home their food staff workers home with the blizzard, so we didn’t get our usual post game meal. Cold, hungry and tired we retired to our rooms. After that Fran always listened to my travel advice, be it air flights or bus trips
At one time or another, I think we've all had a boss like Fran, a guy who thinks he's smarter than lake effect snow.