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October 25, 2010
SportsFilter: The Monday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
World Series Pick 'Em open for picks in the Locker Room.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 11:30 AM on October 25, 2010
Did you know that Andy Murray was a survivor of the 1996 Dunblane massacre? His family knew the shooter who killed 17 mostly 5- and 6-year-old kids.
posted by rcade at 11:56 AM on October 25, 2010
posted by rcade at 12:17 PM on October 25, 2010
Flip Flop Fly Ball: Defensive positioning
posted by DrJohnEvans at 12:57 PM on October 25, 2010
I remember Dunblane. God that was awful:(
posted by Drood at 08:41 PM on October 25, 2010
rcade, that SNL skit was hilarious. Watching MNF and they just played the real commercial...would have thought they'd pull those off the air for a while.
Favre looks to try and play through a broken ankle, while Romo is out with a broken collarbone.
posted by dviking at 11:21 PM on October 25, 2010
I was at Stirling University in '96. The night before the shootings, I'd stayed with some friends in Dunblane. A drink or twelve had been had. The next morning, we were all woken by what sounded like fireworks. We all went back to sleep until the sirens started. The woman who cleaned my mates' house came in just as we were were staggering about trying to figure out what was going on. I've never seen anyone so ashen. She told us someone had gone on a shooting spree. The horror - the intrusion of horror on a sleepy, normal little town - was beyond description. I've often admired Murray's coolness under pressure and his ability to handle defeat, and I've wondered if, having been caught up in something as raw and horrendous as Dunblane undoubtedly was, he has an ability that some cosseted sports people lack to put things in perspective and truly grasp that what he does for a living is only a game. Or maybe he's just a typically pragmatic Scot and I'm looking for positives in a situation that seemed devoid of them.
posted by JJ at 04:05 AM on October 26, 2010
I can believe that Murray's experience helped him put sports in the proper perspective. One of the reasons Cliff Lee seems not to let baseball get to his head is because his one-year-old son was treated for leukemia and is currently in remission.
posted by rcade at 08:21 AM on October 26, 2010
Puck destroys camera. That would be sweet in 3D TV.