Berenstain

[Gustav 6,469]

...not "Berenstein", as you may think you remember it. We'll come back to that in a minute.

 

I wasn't sure what I'd write about this week. I had some stuff to do, some of which involved getting started on some real live lab work (which I'd get into if it weren't for the fact that I have to make these LeAguE-rELaTed, so I guess you'll be missing out on that one). Honestly, I haven't really thought too deeply about the league all that much, which is why I ended up on the Wikipedia page for Catalonia at 1:00 in the morning, trying to understand some current world events and deepen my own geography nerd-ness. We'll get back to that in a minute as well.

 

Remember Charles Puigdemont? VHL vets who can think back to S65 remember arguably the greatest draft bust of all time, a first-gen who shot up the TPE rankings, became GM of the Minnesota Storm (back when we were working with our SUPERIOR TWO-LEAGUE SYSTEM), and showed all the promise in the world before dealing New York a classic dose of New York luck and completely disappearing off the map not at all long after the draft. He's still cited to this day as a major piece of VHL history, for all the wrong reasons--I have my "Hall of Not Bad" series, but he'd be right up with the best of them in the Hall of Bad (despite surviving 7 seasons as an inactive). 

That's all well and good, and we know the story. Even those of you who weren't there to see it might know the story.

 

Anyway, back to something I said earlier, I learned some details about that time 5 years ago when Catalonia declared independence from Spain--the Spanish government decided to crack down on the region and punish a handful of high-ranking Catalonian politicians, and some of these politicians were able to get out and go to other parts of Europe. This included, of course, the president of Catalonia at the time...Carles Puigdemont.

 

Carles.

 

I have ALWAYS thought it was Charles, and another look at the player page has confirmed that it isn't. And somehow my little North American brain never knew who this guy is. And while I don't think anything of the Mandela Effect and generally consider it some nonsense that 12-year-olds like to obsess over...

 

I'm not the only one

The mistake has been made before

Perhaps something supernatural is afoot

 

I'm curious if anyone who's still active these days has thought the same thing.

[der meister 3,246]

Sorry - I got stuck at the title, because I was just having this conversation on twitter 30 minutes ago. 

[Victor 11,021]

No because I always knew he was named after the Catalan president...

[Berocka 2,263]

15 hours ago, Gustav said:

The mistake has been made before

This link was a blast from the past. I wonder if I still have the spreadsheet