Saturday, January 13, 2018

Expansion teams in ice hockeyThe Las Vegas Golden Knights are hitting hockey’s jackpotAgainst all odds, the NHL’s newest club appears poised for the playoffs


Look at that. Gettin' some love in THE ECONO-FRIGGING-MIST. Hittin' the big time! Vegas is truly a great story.

Just one problem.

I subscribed to The Economist for several years and I was surprised: they always had a section devoted to the Colonies, "Lexington," I think they called it, and everytime they wrote something about us they got something CLEARLY wrong. Didn't understand it. It was like they were covering El Salvador, their judgments were based, mystifyingly, on faulty facts. Like this: Econs, there is no such team called the Las Vegas "Golden Knights." You write a headline and an entire article on a true miracle American sports team and you don't realize you got the fucking team name wrong. I know it's a little dumb! Americans are very dumb, be that as it may, the team name is the Vegas "Golden Knights." They lost the Las, K? Got it? VEGAS, not Las Vegas. C'mon man.