Book Excerpt - Andy Roddick Beat Me With a Frying Pan

[fredr123]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119143109983647814.html

Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal, an excerpt from Todd Gallagher's book "Andy Roddick Beat Me With a Frying Pan". The book seeks to answer sports' fans burning questions. This particular passage asks: could a morbidly obese goalie shut out an NHL team?

[troutman]

Originally Posted by fredr123

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119143109983647814.html

Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal, an excerpt from Todd Gallagher's book "Andy Roddick Beat Me With a Frying Pan". The book seeks to answer sports' fans burning questions. This particular passage asks: could a morbidly obese goalie shut out an NHL team?

Can we find a 4 foot tall, 6 foot wide Sumo to be a goalie? Aren't Giguere and Luongo already headed in that direction?

One answer is that professionalism and fair play prevent many sports teams from doing whatever it takes to win. This is also known as "having no imagination."

[icecube]

I'm the first one to make an Andrei Medvedev joke in this thread. YESSSSSSSS

[Table 5]

Originally Posted by icecube

I'm the first one to make an Andrei Medvedev joke in this thread. YESSSSSSSS

You didn't actually make a joke though.

[STeeLy]

Sumo Wrestler... just go and get Medvedev... I'm sure he's close in size... maybe even taller.

I am the first to make a medvedev joke in this thread

[foofighter15]

That article was pretty lame. Not going to lie. Got bored and saw how much longer it was, so I stopped reading

[Rhettzky]

Man that's a long article. Some pretty hilarious quotes near the end from some Caps players though.

The Real Kris Beech had an even more depressing comment for our new star: "You might spear him and see if chocolate came out.".....As Zubrus put it, "If he was dominant it'd be fine. That's the goal, to win, right?" Beech agreed, but with a reservation: "That'd be good as long as I didn't have to go to dinner with him."

[fredr123]

Originally Posted by foofighter15

That article was pretty lame. Not going to lie. Got bored and saw how much longer it was, so I stopped reading

It's actually an excerpt from a book, not an article. There's 288 pages full of that stuff. To each their won.

Note to self: Don't buy this book for foofighter15 for Christmas. You just saved me $11.85 plus shipping.

[foofighter15]

Originally Posted by fredr123

It's actually an excerpt from a book, not an article. There's 288 pages full of that stuff. To each their won.

Note to self: Don't buy this book for foofighter15 for Christmas. You just saved me $11.85 plus shipping.

Hahaha, well I decided to deal with it and finish it. Work is more boring then pointless reads. It was okay, but if anything I would rather watch the video of it. So, if you get me that, I'll be happy.

[Flames89]

I dunno, thought it was pretty funny ...

"We got Trevor situated in front of the net, though it took a good five minutes of work, including tying his torso to the crossbar . . . probably a disturbing sight, given that very few people were clued into the fact that this was not an actual 1,000-pound man. Trevor's goalie crouch was itself unnerving: butt on the ice and legs splayed out in front of him—really the only way someone that large could be situated"

[fredr123]

Apologies for raising this thread from the dead, but TrueHoop has posted another excerpt from ARBMWAFP about "making change" on the top of the backboard here: http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/...ping-Myth.html

It's an entire chapter from the book, so enjoy (or don't).