Anonymous @ September 11 2003, 20:48:34 UTC

It would seem that the Cannons are making a comeback. The long-awaited Renaissance has finally arrived.

flourish @ September 11 2003, 20:51:18 UTC

Personally, I'm in Sacramento, and it kind of reminds me of the way we were when the Kings (our basketball team) made it to the Last Game of the Finals.

For those unfamiliar with US basketball: The Kings were the joke of the league for years and years, as far back as I could remember, and a couple years ago they made a gigantic comeback and nearly beat the L.A. Lakers for the championship. They didn't, but (Kings fan as I am) I claim that it's all because Shaq has monster arms and monster feet and Kobe is an Ebil Genius. ;)

vellum @ September 11 2003, 22:28:02 UTC

you're too cute in your icons. megosh.

flourish @ September 11 2003, 22:44:14 UTC

Thank you :)

Anonymous @ September 11 2003, 21:32:26 UTC

Is anyone else seeing parallels between the Cannons and the Red Sox? They never do all that well, potterstinks (I don't know how to do the lj name tags, sorry) mentioned that everyone only thinks they're good because they had a really good seeker in the 20s (http://www.livejournal.com/users/potterstinks/27450.html), and now the declarations of THIS YEAR'S THE YEAR!!(and so on). Ron and his dad sound like my Red Sox obsessed sister.

It occurs to me now that Babe Ruth played for the Sox in the teens, not the 20s, I think (am not really a fan), but other than the decade, everything else seems to add up.

I guess we just need to see if fans of the Cannons automatically hate some other team. Or if anyone mentions a curse. :)

Lisa (http://moocow.blogspot.com)

hobaggins @ September 11 2003, 23:09:41 UTC the s0x!!!1!

EXCELLENT.

That's a brilliant observation. Hailing from Boston and all, I must say . Well done, I hadn't spotted that, but I think it's rather brilliant. Would you like a LJ code?

primroseburrows @ September 12 2003, 03:12:33 UTC Re: the s0x!!!1!

I spotted it right away. How could I not, being a longtime bedraggled-but-I-keep-on-plugging Sox fan?

Not that there really IS a connection, it's just. Well.

*sigh*

Anonymous @ September 12 2003, 18:47:14 UTC Re: the s0x!!!1!

Go Red Sox, go!

No thank you on the code, though. I've already got a blog. (http://moocow.blogspot.com) :)

Lisa

sistermagpie @ September 12 2003, 06:52:38 UTC

Yes! Even as someone who doesn't follow baseball I was beginning to suspect that connection. It's fabulous.

I swear, NA has done more to make me interested in Quidditch through Ron, Arthur, the twins, Harry, Draco and Ernie, then I ever thought possible in the books!

notapipe @ September 12 2003, 16:14:41 UTC

Serendipitously, this morning David Post, blogging on the Volokh conspiracy, linked an entertaining column in the Washington Post (I am not a sports follower, so I actually mean this; though I've always had a special place in my heart for the Red Sox and their fans, there is something admirable about the Sisyphusian task of being a Red Sox fan, plus their logo is very cool) by one Thomas Boswell on the hopes of the Red Sox this year, the "This year is the year!" phenomenon and what David Post calls a "Reverse Tinkerbell" (the more that people believe it to be true, the less true it is; to the extent nobody believes it's true, it becomes true): The less people think "This is the year!", the more likely this will be the year.

The cincher, however, is this quote in Boswell's piece:
"Great," said Red Sox GM [I assume this means General Manager] Theo Epstein Wednesday. "Maybe we should trademark that phrase: 'This is not the year.' "

Double-checking, the column is dated to Thursday. So this is either a really cool coincidence, or someone connected to NA reads the sports columns at the Washington Post.

Anonymous @ September 13 2003, 03:08:59 UTC

O_O

No, none of the three of us who posted that follow sport unfortunately, so we don't even really know what anyone is talking about. o_O

zorb @ September 12 2003, 00:16:29 UTC

I love Luna so very much. Not that the player needed to do much to bring my GATL for canon!Luna over to RPGland. But still. <333

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noirenails @ September 12 2003, 05:27:21 UTC

I weren't very fond of her either. My first thought of her was "she's like some friggin' original character!" But I, too, am beginning to tolerate her. All thanks to fanon.

la_trix @ September 12 2003, 08:58:57 UTC

She seems a little taken with "Ronald," no? It's very cute; she's making bets on his behalf and mentioning him in all her posts.

noirenails @ September 12 2003, 09:57:08 UTC

Hear me squeal at the cuteness.

noirenails @ September 12 2003, 09:59:00 UTC

a_slytherin alert. Blaise has commented in Ron's post. By two words. Ain't that amazing.

zionsstarfish @ September 13 2003, 22:00:14 UTC

Luna's comment about the 'spares' freaks me out. O_O