August Question Time With The15!
Welcome back to a new recurring feature here at The15net dot com! You have questions about local sports and culture, we will try and answer them. Let’s go!
Q: Having watched the FIFA Women’s World Cup, it was dismaying to see how many matches were decided by penalty kicks. I think those, and penalty shots in hockey are the worst way to decide a match. Why don’t they just keep playing endless overtimes like they used to? Why did they change it?! Is it because other sports didn’t like being reminded that hockey players are the absolute toughest players in pro sports? Michael Woby, Worcester, MA
A: Yes. It is an open secret that professional hockey players are tougher than any other athletes, as well as many nations’ top Special Forces troops. ‘Memba when Gregory Campbell skated an entire shift on a broken leg? Or when Patrice Bergeron played with broken ribs, torn cartilage, a separated shoulder, and a slowly collapsing lung?
Q: I’ll argue that combined no hitters are just as impressive if not more so than one-man no hitters. The fact a team can’t muster one hit against multiple different pitchers after the one starting pitcher that mowed them down is taken out is terrible. Seve, Points Unknown
A: That wasn’t phrased as a question. But many people disagree and feel it’s much harder to get a hit in 3 tries off a guy who is fatiguing as the game goes on than it is to get one off of a fresh reliever throwing 101 with a devastating slider.
Q: I was saddened to hear about the death of film director William Freidkin, who has a Boston connection thanks to filming The Brinks Job on location in and around the capitol city of Massachusetts. My question is, knowing that the studio tied his hands with regard to having Al Pacino star in Cruising, did Friedkin give a flying FUCK through a rolling DONUT about ANYTHING Al Pacino says or thinks?
A: He reportedly did not give a flying fuck through a rolling donut about anything Al Pacino says or thinks.
Q: Should I use words I’m not sure the meaning of, or would that be salubrious? Sven Kowalewski, No. Reading
A: You should not use words you do not understand. In this case, salubrious. Which means ‘healthy, health-giving, or pleasant.’
Q: Why can’t I take a moving truck onto Storrow Drive? Paul, White Plains, NY
A: Because your moving truck is somewhere between six and sixteen inches overheight and will get at best, tuna-canned and at worst, stuck under one of the bridges that have only 10 feet or 10 feet, six inches of clearance. So please don’t.
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