Blaeser/Moy - Perfection or Monkeys got lucky?

I can't imagine picking 4 straight games perfectly...but they did it! They correctly predicted the score of all 4 games at the Pepsi!! Do they deserve the credit or is it a case of make enough predictions and by dumb luck eventually some will be right?

Seriously, I think they are to be congratulated...too bad for them they can't use this to sell their spreads in the future, since I don't think there is much of a betting line on college hockey.

All I can say is: after the results of the first three games, when Cornell scored the tying goal to make it 2-2, I felt pretty good about the outcome.

I think it's safe to say that DeLoreans and sports almanacs are somehow involved.

1.21 gigwatts!!

I think it shows the benefit of a Stuyvesant High School education (Jayson Moy, class of '85)

The article gets the analysis right, but it could have been much tighter. It looks like a Stuyvesant education to me also.

-big red apple (Bronx HS of Science '88)

BRA, It can't be the Stuyvesant education. Therefore, it must be the monkeys typing Shakespeare.

ursaminor (Bronx HS of Science '64)

Oooh, ganging up. I guess that's the only way Bronx Science people can match up with Stuyvesant alums (class of '85, and commuter with Jayson too).

Am I the only person on this forum who went to an honest, salt of the earth, workin' man's public high school?

Greg wrote:

Am I the only person on this forum who went to an honest, salt of the earth, workin' man's public high school?

Nope.

Stuyvesant and Bronx Science are, of course, public high schools. As for honest... I'll have to take the fifth on that one.

CUlater '89 wrote:

Stuyvesant and Bronx Science are, of course, public high schools. As for honest... I'll have to take the fifth on that one.

And BxSci was very much a working man's high school. Seemed to be the case with Stuy also, but because it was in Manhattan it seemed to have more Manhattanites - BxSci was very boroughs.

And I took you on by myself. But it isn't surprising that ursaminor had my back. We take care of our own, and you are all alone.



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If we're talking public high schools, why are we discussing all these pretenders to the crown? (TJHSST, '00)

I went to public high school and enjoyed every minute of it. Westwood '99, baby!

Queens in the house, baby! (of course, now I've reversed my parents' travels and have returned to the land of their births, Brooklyn)

Interestingly, I knew a number of people who lived in NJ, but used Manhattan addresses so they could attend. Did that happen at Bronx Science too?

I coulda sworn you were gonna say it was the RPI education.

I knew a few people from Westchester. I can't say that I knew of any that lived in NJ.

Sorry about this very parochial thread drift. Hey, JTW - now you know how I feel when I click through and end up reading a post about semipro baseball in Sweden!

FWIW - I went to Hunter High ('89) and knew a few people who lived in either NJ or Westchester but used NYC addresses to keep attending.

Josh,

It could be the RPI education.

Jayson and I had an email exchange some time ago in which he insisted that Stuyvesant has always been a better rated school than BHSS. Stuyvesant certainly appears to take more awards these days than BHSS, but this wasn't the case in the 1960's. BHSS suffered from the fact that the Bronx, its main source of students, became a war zone. I was one of 44 students in BHSS'64, a class of about 850, from Queens. Now the school is over half from Queens. Also, when I was in HS, BHSS was coed and Stuyvesant was not which meant that BHSS had a larger pool of potential students. Furthermore, now Stuyvesant is the one with a new, modern building.

Just remember that when Daniel Libeskind (BHSS'65), the architect who designed the new WTC for NYC, was asked whether he was part of the grand conspiracy of Bronx Science graduates to rule the world, he replied noncommitally and only stated "It's a wonderful school; you meet so many people who have gone there." [www.nytimes.com]

Sorry for continuing this off-topic conversation, but sadly for me, it's off-season.



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Not at all, Greg. I went to a public high school in the hills of East Tennessee (dropout rate ~20%) - and arrived at Cornell with 27 AP credits in my pocket. School is way more about what you put into it than what it "puts into" you.....

BigRed Apple wrote:
Sorry about this very parochial thread drift. Hey, JTW - now you know how I feel when I click through and end up reading a post about semipro baseball in Sweden!

Switzerland, dude, not Sweden.

I haven't joined in because I doubt anyone here has even heard of Poughkeepsie Day School. Although I did meet the brother of a PDS alum at a conference last week.

John T. Whelan '91 wrote:
Switzerland, dude, not Sweden.

Of course. How embarrassing. I shouldn't post at the end of the day on so little sleep. As for "Sweden" it must be playoff fever. I've got Murray on my mind. . .

Having gone to the local public schools there (through HS at Poughkeepie HS) and with a son now at Vassar, I'm one person who knows the Day School and holds it in high regard. Did you commute from Kingston or did you live on the East side of the Hudson back then?

Ken '71

Me, McKinley High School, downtown Honolulu. And I was the only public school student from Hawaii to Cornell in the Class of '87.

That is because 99 out of 100 students who choose Ithaca's weather over Honolulu's are certifiable. The admissions office must have sensed the hockey fan in you.

Commuted from Kingston. (I was originally supposed to go to Ulster Academy before they folded.) Six years by bus/van and my senior year by car. I listened to a lot of WPDH.

Stop wasting our time showing off about your public schools. You get what you pay for. If you didn't believe that you would have gone to CUNY instead of Cornell. (Andover)

Screw BU. ::flipb::

- Matt, Northport '99

My roommate freshman year was from Hawaii and a housemate junior yeat was as well. They each had a handful of high school classmates who chose Cornell too. But the only one of my friends who complained about the climate was a roommate from Flagstaff, AZ

In the '80s, Stuyvesant was considered the better school, if you judge by the cutoff scores for the exams and the number of applicants who put Stuyvesant as their first choice. That seems to me to be the only realistic way to judge how schools like that rate, since awards and the like are influenced by so many outside factors.