Above-average mirage
Aug 5, 2005 9:40:00 GMT -5
Post by M. Beaux-Eaux on Aug 5, 2005 9:40:00 GMT -5
Above-average mirage
The NHL's have-nots are on the rise, but for how long?
Posted: Thursday August 4, 2005 4:32PM; Updated: Friday August 5, 2005 10:25AM
As the unprecedented NHL free-agent frenzy continues -- Scott Niedermayer going to Anaheim! Peter Forsberg's with the Flyers! -- it is time to take a deep breath, buy stock in a moving company and spare a fleeting thought for the cultural phenomenon known as the Lake Wobegon Effect.
For those unfortunates among you who are not familiar with Lake Wobegon, America's leading fictional town, humorist Garrison Keillor's delightful creation is a place where, as Keillor notes weekly, "the women are strong, the men are good-looking and the children are all above-average."
Now, everyone being above-average might work just fine in a make-believe 'burg, but out here in the real world, or even in the reinvented NHL, it just doesn't compute.
- tinyurl.com/c7r2z
The NHL's have-nots are on the rise, but for how long?
Posted: Thursday August 4, 2005 4:32PM; Updated: Friday August 5, 2005 10:25AM
As the unprecedented NHL free-agent frenzy continues -- Scott Niedermayer going to Anaheim! Peter Forsberg's with the Flyers! -- it is time to take a deep breath, buy stock in a moving company and spare a fleeting thought for the cultural phenomenon known as the Lake Wobegon Effect.
For those unfortunates among you who are not familiar with Lake Wobegon, America's leading fictional town, humorist Garrison Keillor's delightful creation is a place where, as Keillor notes weekly, "the women are strong, the men are good-looking and the children are all above-average."
Now, everyone being above-average might work just fine in a make-believe 'burg, but out here in the real world, or even in the reinvented NHL, it just doesn't compute.
- tinyurl.com/c7r2z