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May 15, 2006
All bad, all the time
With all the big markets - Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Detroit, Toronto, Denver, Vancouver, Montreal - long eliminated from the post-season, this is where the NHL would start to see the results if they'd spent the past eight months aggressively pushing the players and personalities of all these other, smaller markets.
Does he even know where Anaheim is?
Posted by Chris Selley at May 15, 2006 08:05 PM
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And the Sharks, of course, are the sole home team of the 6th largest media market in the United States.
Posted by: Colby Cosh at May 15, 2006 07:34 PM
I think argument that Anaheim is a "big market" went out the window after the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim fiasco.
I am curious about Denver's inclusion as a big market (which I missed in my first read). Is Cox just being lazy and equating big market with popular franchise, or is Denver that large of a market?
Posted by: Jason at May 16, 2006 12:05 AM
Cox is being lazy. His standard approach to column writing or TV analysis is to start with a view that makes sense to him and then jam the facts into his mental box that will then support his argument. If the facts don't belong in said box you can expect them to be ignored.
In fairness to Cox, most of sportswriting is done exactly this way.
Posted by: Mike at May 16, 2006 08:23 AM
Where *is* Anaheim?
Posted by: Jason at May 16, 2006 09:08 AM