Just Give Carey Price the Vezina Now

If you’re an NHL fan (and very, very bored) you may have been recently checked the NHL’s website for updated fan voting results for the upcoming All-Star Game in Montreal. If you have, you may have found a fascinating coincidence – every player leading the voting in the Eastern Conference plays for the Montreal Canadiens, the host team. For example, take goaltender Carey Price:

Whoa! Now, I’m not one to question the selection of a transcendental athlete like Carey Price to the NHL All-Star Game, but it’s clear something is going on here (other than Rangers fans apparently not giving a damn). The NHL, known for its marketing brilliance, has allowed fans to vote an unlimited number of times for any player of their choice and this has opened the door for sneaky Canadiens fans to abuse the system, stuffing the online ballot boxes (with the use of scripts) in an effort to see their front line take on the Western Conference’s best. As of a week ago today the NHL acknowledged there might be a problem and would investigate the matter, but there’s nothing new to report yet.

With the All-Star Game celebrating the 100th anniversary of the franchise, we can reasonably assume Canadiens fans don’t care how embarrassing the whole situation may look to outsiders, but embarrassing it is nonetheless.

The one thing the NHL’s fan voting has going for it? Kosuke Fukudome is nobody near the leaderboard.

eHarmony Gets Theirs

Most everybody who has listened to me rant before knows by now my myriad issues with the dating site eHarmony (the original article is no longer up) and its obnoxious and omnipresent advertising campaign. As such, it was good to see it recently get its comeuppance from, of all places, the state of New Jersey:

Online dating service eHarmony said Wednesday it will launch a new Web site which caters to same-sex singles as part of a discrimination settlement with New Jersey’s Civil Rights Division.

The settlement is the result of a complaint New Jersey resident Eric McKinley filed against the online matchmaker in 2005. McKinley, 46, said he was shocked when he tried to sign up for the dating site but couldn’t get past the first screen because there was no option for men seeking men.

I can honestly say that right now I do not care, in this case, about the arguments regarding states interfering in the operation of an online company – I’m merely glad that eHarmony was embarrassed and exposed. After all, everybody deserves love, claims our friend Dr. Neil Clark Warren, unless you’re gay or don’t answer a certain way on their “compatibility test”. How hypocritical. Good on you New Jersey (never thought I would say that) and good on Mr. Eric McKinley, the man who filed the suit.

What was Dr. Warren’s stance on the matter?

The company said that Warren was not giving interviews on the settlement. But attorney Theodore Olson, who issued a statement on the company’s behalf, made clear that it did not agree to offer gay matches willingly.

What a pompous coward. Think about that next the time this douche is on television imploring you to pay him money to find true love for you. On that note, I’m sure there will be a new wave of inescapable, obnoxious advertisements coming soon in response to this.

But for now? Suck it, you fascists.

An update.

My first website, Tino’s Land Of Spite, is officially no more after a six-year run on the interwebs. I decided its content was not necessarily vital to have up and the writing on a lot of articles was a bit immature to say the least. All of the original files are safely tucked away on my external hard drive.

I have been meaning to write an article soon on the cushy job that is MLB.com Mets beat writer (Marty Noble). That should be coming sometime this week. As for the election, I hope everyone out there voted, regardless of your choice. I was pleased with the outcome, as most of you probably know. Beyond that I probably won’t get any more political here than I have been in the past.

That is all for now.