SinBin.vegas Podcast #114: Aggressive Offseason Plans

Great podcast. Honestly there is so much going on this off-season I wish you guys were doing 2-3 casts a week until the July-Aug break.

Super interesting insight on what it would take to get each of the superstars and what it would mean with them on the team. Honestly it isn’t in my nature to be optimistic, but damn this team is in such a good spot both short term and long term.

Okay, here is my last, very long take on the #2years1cup tag.

I get it, I’ve always gotten it. I’ve always known you get it; of course, I can’t believe people think that’s not the joke. It is definitely funny. However there are a couple issues.

ALL these jokes have been made about the Stanley Cup in like 2008. Zetterberg + Linstrom = 2 Swedes 1 Cup; Crosby + Malkin= 2 Guys 1 cup. Even as Detroit was trying to repeat in 2009 I heard so many 2 years 2 Cups joke. The Stanley Cup being the infamous “cup” joke was old literally 10 years ago. It is funny but it is such tired lowbrow stuff, it’s like giggling every time a player gets a ‘hooking’ penalty.

Also, this tag isn’t really something we can rally behind. It is about the joke, not the team. It is true that it isn’t necessarily your job but rather the team’s job to make tags like that; but frankly your brand is essentially doing a ton of the stuff the team should be doing. That’s why you guys are the top source of VGK info. Not the RJ or the Sun or even the Team itself. When you guys come out with #2Years1Cup as the rallying cry, well, that’s the rallying cry.

It is a TERRIBLE rallying cry for all the reasons #CupIn1 was spectacular. #2Years1Cup does not make people think high faluting feelings of civic pride and our boys doing the unthinkable. It makes people think of 2 young exploited girls eating each other’s stool.

AND THAT’S WHAT PEOPLE KEEP TELLING YOU. When they say “I don’t like it because it makes me think of 2 girls 1 cup” that doesn’t mean they don’t get it, it means they DO get it and it is gross and bad.

Yes it’s funny. It’s a good hashtag to crack a joke about and it would definitely make for a good tee-shirt because lots of people like that kind of humor. It is a terrible, ugly, tag to use as our fan slogan for the season.

Okay, that’s it. I’ve said my piece, I’m going to move on to ignoring it.

Keep up the great work guys!