Kind of. You’d use stick side/glove side for a shot that went in. If it missed, you’d still say wide left or right.
ETA: how did I end up talking about hockey in this thread?
I remember George Carlin advocating making baseball more exciting by letting the base runners keep the bat. “You’re going into enemy territory, man. Take that big stick with you. Come into third base like this (swinging wildly) and see how many double plays you break up!”
Perhaps sports should use maritime terminology and refer to port and starboard.
Never heard that, myself. Only “wide”.
(adjusts bow-tie)
Still having an enjoyable glow 
from eight nights ago (which I’m sure will fade off soon if the DOJ somehow manages to gain traction with their childish warnings about Garcia’s investigations.)
Isn’t that always the case?
And I am not talking about hockey, american football or basquetball either! I mean, this is the Pit, not Sports Illustrated.
I rarely pass on an opportunity to talk hockey.
The wide left/right designation (plus “high and wide L/R” and “hit L/R post”) was introduced to official NHL scoring in the 2023-24 season[1]. You can see it in the game logs, like this one from last night.
If it helps, we can toss in some F bombs? Maybe curse most members of the US Olympic hockey team for their support of Trump to bring it back to sports?
FUCK Yeah! Can I curse at FIFA’s Gianni Mafiantino too?
Neat! Thanks for sharing.
Oh you just wanna see Kash beer-bong (well, not quite) with the Rangers again.
It’s been mentioned in other threads, but, two years ago, Mississippi Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith blocked Scott Colom from becoming a federal judge.
Today, Colom was declared the winner of the Mississippi Senate race, defeating Hyde-Smith.
I bet that now she’d very much prefer he got the judgeship,
Trump has already claimed the election was rigged, although (strangely) it took him 6 days before he got around to that. Chances are he’s going to be especially peeved that MS went blue. Just like he was especially upset about Georgia in 2020.
And to think how ketchupy he’ll get if Peltola wins.
I like it! We could call it “basebrawl.”
Russian diesel fuel tankers not landing. Up to four have now returned to sea.
From Reuters:
US companies are unlikely to import Russian diesel as a tanker full of the fuel idles off the US Eastern Seaboard, experts said, despite President Donald Trump’s temporary waiver of some sanctions on Moscow’s fuel exports.
Banks are likely to be reluctant to finance US deals for Russian diesel, the experts said, noting there are legal questions about whether the president’s waiver is enough to allow for the imports. There are also operational challenges, because importers would need to blend the Russian diesel to meet US heating oil specifications.
I would like to take this moment to say: Fuck you, Gretzky for loving Trump and fuck you, Alex Ovechkin for backing Putin. Gordie Howe forever!
The last I looked, she had more votes than the two Dans Sullivan combined.
At least it won’t run out of gas.
It seems that Alaska has released more vote totals yesterday and that’s no longer true. Now 86% of votes counted, Peltola ahead by 3975 votes, Other Dan has 4100 votes.
Why does it take Alaska so long to count votes?
Big state with lots of isolated rural areas with spotty mail service.
Their policy is to accept votes received up to 2 weeks after election day as long as they are post-marked by election day, if that gives an indication how long it sometimes take the postal service.