Arizona State game thread

[CAS]

Time to look forward...

[French Rage]

How will the players' Christmas presents affect their play?

[dbilmes]

Arizona State is the CHN team of the week. Back-to-back wins over Clarkson is impressive. Let's hope our season isn't cancelled so we'll get a chance to play them ourselves.

[upprdeck]

its going to be interesting to see this play out.. we have no idea if the team has been sick or practicing through all of this.  Will they even be allowed to go?

[ugarte]

its going to be interesting to see this play out.. we have no idea if the team has been sick or practicing through all of this.  Will they even be allowed to go?

wrestling team is traveling and competing. basketball team is teams are looking for replacement opponents. i think so.

[Trotsky]

How will the players' Christmas presents affect their play?

Probably won't affect Stienberg much.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

How will the players' Christmas presents affect their play?

Probably won't affect Stienberg much.

Really?  I never figured he was an MOT.

[Trotsky]

How will the players' Christmas presents affect their play?

Probably won't affect Stienberg much.

Really?  I never figured he was an MOT.

Nobody knows Talmudist jokes anymore...

After months of negotiation with the authorities, a Talmudist
from Odessa was finally granted permission to visit Moscow.

He boarded the train and found an empty seat. At the next stop,
a young man got on and sat next to him. The scholar looked at the young
man and he thought: This fellow doesn't look like a peasant, so if he is
no peasant he probably comes from this district. If he comes from this
district, then he must be Jewish because this is, after all, a Jewish
district. But on the other hand, since he is a Jew, where could he be
going? I'm the only Jew in our district who has permission to travel
to Moscow. Ahh, wait! Just outside Moscow there is a little village
called Samvet, and Jews don't need special permission to go to Samvet

But why would he travel to Samvet? He is surely going to visit one of
the Jewish families there.

But how many Jewish families are there in Samvet? Aha, only two -- the
Bernsteins and the Steinbergs.

But since the Bernsteins are a terrible family, so such a nice looking
fellow like him, he must be visiting the Steinbergs.

But why is he going to the Steinbergs in Samvet? The Steinbergs
have only daughters, two of them, so maybe he's their son-in-law.

But if he is, then which daughter did he marry? They say that Sarah
Steinberg married a nice lawyer from Budapest, and Esther married a
businessman from Zhitomer, so it must be Sarah's husband. Which means
that his name is Alexander Cohen, if I'm not mistaken.

But if he came from Budapest, with all the anti-Semitism they
have there, he must have changed his name. What's the Hungarian
equivalent of Cohen? It is Kovacs. But since they allowed him to change
his name, he must have special status to change it. What could it be?
Must be a doctorate from the University. Nothing less would do.

At this point, therefore, the Talmudic scholar turns to the young
man and says, "Excuse me. Do you mind if I open the window, Dr.
Kovacs?"

"Not at all," answered the startled co-passenger. "But how is it
that you know my name?"

"Ahhh," replied the Talmudist, "It was obvious."

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

How will the players' Christmas presents affect their play?

Probably won't affect Stienberg much.

Really?  I never figured he was an MOT.

Nobody knows Talmudist jokes anymore...

After months of negotiation with the authorities, a Talmudist
from Odessa was finally granted permission to visit Moscow.

He boarded the train and found an empty seat. At the next stop,
a young man got on and sat next to him. The scholar looked at the young
man and he thought: This fellow doesn't look like a peasant, so if he is
no peasant he probably comes from this district. If he comes from this
district, then he must be Jewish because this is, after all, a Jewish
district. But on the other hand, since he is a Jew, where could he be
going? I'm the only Jew in our district who has permission to travel
to Moscow. Ahh, wait! Just outside Moscow there is a little village
called Samvet, and Jews don't need special permission to go to Samvet

But why would he travel to Samvet? He is surely going to visit one of
the Jewish families there.

But how many Jewish families are there in Samvet? Aha, only two -- the
Bernsteins and the Steinbergs.

But since the Bernsteins are a terrible family, so such a nice looking
fellow like him, he must be visiting the Steinbergs.

But why is he going to the Steinbergs in Samvet? The Steinbergs
have only daughters, two of them, so maybe he's their son-in-law.

But if he is, then which daughter did he marry? They say that Sarah
Steinberg married a nice lawyer from Budapest, and Esther married a
businessman from Zhitomer, so it must be Sarah's husband. Which means
that his name is Alexander Cohen, if I'm not mistaken.

But if he came from Budapest, with all the anti-Semitism they
have there, he must have changed his name. What's the Hungarian
equivalent of Cohen? It is Kovacs. But since they allowed him to change
his name, he must have special status to change it. What could it be?
Must be a doctorate from the University. Nothing less would do.

At this point, therefore, the Talmudic scholar turns to the young
man and says, "Excuse me. Do you mind if I open the window, Dr.
Kovacs?"

"Not at all," answered the startled co-passenger. "But how is it
that you know my name?"

"Ahhh," replied the Talmudist, "It was obvious."

Very nice.

[billhoward]

That was worth the scrolling. Good one. I scrolled so far, I thought there'd be a paragraph about the need for David Archer to move on.

OTOH, Facebook > Jewish Humor is terrible. The site, not the premise. Even the goyim heard most of those jokes by the 1980s.

[Rico68]

I'm new to this forum (as a poster but not as a reader) so please bear with me.  I have two GA seats to the 1/1 game and two SRO tickets to the 1/2 game that I cannot use.  Free to first claimant.  The arena is small and game is a sellout.  I assume one can respond on this thread with a link that I can send the tickets to.

[billhoward]

Thank you. Somebody will take you up on it. I'm not at ASU this year. Was at the event in Vegas, ah, 2, years? ago and that was great. Bigger arena then.

(There is ticket exchange section here as well but it's been pretty quiet there, might be nobody would look.)

[bernie]

I would be interested in one of the tickets for the Sunday game (jan 2) if still available.  if you have an electronic ticket through the asu ticket site, please transfer it to bernie.han@gmail.com.  thank you!

https://am.ticketmaster.com/sundevils/my-events

[Iceberg]

For those of us not able to attend the game in person, there should be a stream here from ASU during the games.

[billhoward]

Maybe it's part of the ASU student activity fee. RPI would be the benchmark for free and for student-run TV that's really professional TV including those roof cameras.

Although I think we've made our peace with ESPN+ streaming because odds are decent an opponent school not in ECAC uses its, too, so we have access.