Monthly Archives: May 2009
Poetic Playoff Prophecy Vol. III: Final-ly
I have no one to blame for this but myself. I wrote some time ago, no doubt giddy from a promising beginning to another post-season, that if the Red Wings found themselves in the Cup finals, I would incorporate the … Continue reading
Out.Coached.
I know what you may be thinking but — despite the title in the header of this blog — this is not a website dedicated to the Chicago Blackhawks Game 4 performance. In fact, one of the reasons we named … Continue reading
Never, ever make a mistake
Athletes are taught, from a very young age, that they shouldn’t “play tight”. Playing tight, a whole whack of Junior, Pee-Wee, Amateur and Professional coaches will tell you, leads to nothing but losses. If you are too terrified of making … Continue reading
Filed under Blatant Homerism, Hockey!, NHL Playoffs, Red Wings, Sports
F–k rationality, it’s an ode to Darren Helm
This post should absolutely be a scathing indictment of the media’s swine flu coverage. It could also easily be a heart-wrenching opus about how Manny Ramirez testing positive for steroids crushed whatever was left of a little boy’s love for … Continue reading
Filed under Blatant Homerism, Hockey!, Life Lessons, NHL Playoffs, Red Wings
Winners Never Quit
One of the easiest things to do in life is to say ‘fuck it’ and walk away. Things ain’t happening. You get the short end of the stick. You keep shooting and nothing goes in. It goes in and then … Continue reading
Filed under Blatant Homerism, Hockey!, Life Lessons, NHL Playoffs, Red Wings, Sports, The Franzen
Don’t even hope for a newspaper bailout
There are plenty of arguments one could make both for and against government offering a bailout to newspapers. And the arguments, at least in America, would probably fall on deaf ears, as the White House seems to have already made … Continue reading
Filed under 2008 Election, Endtimes, Media, Newspapers, Politics, R.I.P. Journalism
Pick on the Red Wings, not Detroit
I wrote a post the other day that drew a little bit of attention to our little corner of the internet. Who would have thought that unleashing amusing insults about another hockey team and finding great YouTube clips of players … Continue reading
Filed under Blatant Homerism, Hockey!, Life Lessons, NHL Playoffs, Rants, Red Wings, Sports
