The Glendale Arizona Mayor and City Council have voted to void their 15 year contract with the Arizona Coyotes Hockey team, just two years into the $225 million contract...What does that mean? It means the Coyotes do not have a home...It means they have stopped all tickets sales...They have put all plans of courting unrestricted free agents on hold...They are in limbo...
It also means the Coyotes will be taking the City to court...Coyotes attorneys have started working claims seeking $200 million...Attorney Nick Wood told city officials before their vote that "If you decide to go forward, you will lose and it will cost taxpayers millions of dollars."
Clearly they don't give a shit about the taxpayers!
Coyotes president Anthony LeBlanc has called the city's decision "political grandstanding" and has also said it will be seen as "not ethical in the court of public opinion."
Glendale's decision they say comes down to a conflict of interest, as a former City Attorney is now on the Coyotes payroll...To me, it sounds like they are just looking for a way to get out of the deal...
And of course, why would they care about the taxpayer/fans...Well, there was one fan, Ronda Pearson, @CenterIceSweety on twitter, who let them all know just how fans feel, and they're sick of politicians and their bullshit games...
I in no way approve of hitting women, and would never do such a thing, but I thought the picture was funny, based on the topics this post is going to hit...Political Correctness, Humor, Caitlyn/Bruce Jenner...And how this PC shit is running wild and needs to stop...
First to Jenner...I have seen it on TV, heard it on the Radio and Podcasts, in day to day interactions...If someone happens to refer to Jenner as Bruce, (his given name) or says he instead of she, there is someone else right there to chime in and tell you how you have misspoke...That you are possibly intolerant, and offensive...Listen dipshit, Jenner has been known as Bruce, a dude, for what, 65 years...Fuck off, and give people a chance to get use to calling him Caitlyn and she, and her...Yeah, I said him...You know why? Because the Cunt still has a cock! Until he lops that dick off, grows a puss and fucks himself with said dick, I don't care if people call him he, or him, or dude, or whatever the fuck!
Now we move into the humor area...Spike (the guys network) cut Clint Eastwood doing a joke about Jenner at some bullshit awards show, because suddenly they have a "No Trans Joke policy"...What the fuck ever...But they aren't alone...The Late night comedy shows have been sidestepping cracking jokes about Jenner...Seth Meyers said he wouldn't do any...So now I give you a long video, but worth the time...It's Opie and Jim Norton, along with comedian Sherrod Small talking about all this and then watching a clip of Jerry Seinfeld on Meyers' show talking about how people are getting carried away with the PC shit...Seinfeld, who has always been a clean comic...They stop the clip a couple times for Norton to go off on his own rant, and praise Seinfeld...The video is 15 minutes long, but worth it...They get into the Seinfeld clip around 2:50...As they get back into the clip around 8:00 some guy from the New Yorker chimes in, and Seinfeld eventually grills him about the PC shit, before calling out Meyers about not doing Jenner Jokes...
America, do you understand how far we have taken this bullshit...Jerry fucking Seinfeld, has had enough...If Jerry Seinfeld, a clean, safe, TV friendly comedian is telling us we have taken the PC shit too far, then I think we better listen...
NBC Sports Chairman Mark Lazarus wants NHL players to shave their beards...While I'm happy NBC and NBC Sports show NHL games, they really have no say in policy for the league, so this ass-hat seems like he's overreaching....Here is his full statement....
“The players won't like this, but I wish they all would stop growing beards in the postseason. Let's get their faces out there. Let's talk about how young and attractive they are."(sounds kinda like a boner smoker to me!)"What model citizens they are. (Hockey players) truly are one of a kind among professional athletes. I know it's a tradition and superstition, but I think (the beards do) hurt recognition. They have a great opportunity with more endorsements. Or simply more recognition with fans saying, 'That guy looks like the kid next store [sic],' which many of these guys do. I think that would be a nice thing.”
Seriously, dude sounds like he wants Patrick Kane's dick in his mouth
And in case this guy dick-bag didn't know, over the past 6 years the NHL has sponsored a charity "Beard-A-Thon" that has raised over $3 million...
I can understand his idea, but who the fuck is he to try to fuck with tradition and superstition...Oh, and he's the same guy who has that fucking idiot Mike Milbury on his airwaves...Milbury who this week said about Chicago goalie Corey Crawford, "This one, he's going straight to hell on," after Crawford let in a weak goal in game two...
And that's not the only dumb shit Milbury has said...He says dumb shit all the time...Earlier in the year he was saying how we need to get the fighting out of hockey...The fucking asshole wouldn't have made it in the NHL if it was for fighting... So Lazarus is okay with his talking heads being complete idiots, but thos fucking beards gotta go...Lazarus, stick another pair of balls in your mouth and shut the fuck up!
If you google "Guilty pleasure definition" you'll get this..."something, such as a movie, television program, or piece of music, that one enjoys despite feeling that it is not generally held in high regard."
I would say I probably have a good number of guilty pleasures, so why not make a series of posts about them...And I'll start with comic book star, Harley Quinn...I'm not a super comic book geek, but I do have a bit of geek buried inside there...I won't get into the whole back story of this Gotham villain...You can do that if you wish...She has had many stages of dress and how she is looks, and as time has gone on, she has gotten sexier and sexier...Thanks mainly to those ladies who like Cosplay...(Costume play)
Here is an example of how her look has changed...
Here are some Cosplay examples...
And here is how she'll look played by Margot Robbie in the new "Suicide Squad" movie....
It's not so much that the character is a is a psychopath...It just the look...You know, how you always hear guys talk about the crazy chicks they've known, dated, fucked...They talk about the crazy ones for a reason...They're good at what the do...They're unforgettable...Harley Quinn is a dick wrecker!
I'm just saying this...If the wife comes home with a Harley Quinn costume, the kids are getting sent away for the weekend...
And when they get home and aske, 'Dad, why can't mom walk anymore?' I'll respond, 'Because I'm Batman!'
That's it for volume one...I'm a pervert...Big surprise!
There's a lot shit going on in the "news" and it's all pretty fucking annoying to me....I truly, honestly, don't give a damn about Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner...I'm all for people being happy with who they are, you want to change your sex, go ahead...I've always supported equals rights for EVERYONE...That includes celebritards who are fucking media whores...Do what you want, I just don't give shit...I won't be watching your fucking show, and I won't be following you on Twitter...
Then there was a lot of stink, because the super media whore factory ESPN, has decided to give Jenner their big Arthur Ashe award at their annual 'Let's pat ourselves on our backs' award show, The Espy's...The laundry list of athletes more worthy was widely reported...ESPN doesn't care, they are looking at selling ad time because they will be hyping the drama of seeing a former male, U.S. Olympic gold medalist, wearing a lovely evening gown...I have never watched the Espy's and I won't this year...
Next pile of shit I don't care about...These fucking Duggar people...Holy fucking shit...The Television industry should be ashamed of itself already...All this so-called "Reality TV" bullshit is such fucking nonsense....These fuckers have '19 Kids and Counting"...That's the name of their show...I've never watched, because I'm not fucking idiot...But I looked into them a bit after the news about their one asshole son broke...These people are full-blown-bat-shit-crazy! Just fucked in the head...Then it comes out there one son has molested multiple girls...Including two of their daughters, HIS SISTERS!...They covered it up...They tried to "get him help"...The father even went to try to justify it by saying he did most of his molesting, "Over the clothes".....These fuckers can't die fast enough! I'm still trying to figure out why the parents aren't in jail for covering it up...
Then I saw family members blaming the media for leaking the story out there, and 'Doing this to our lives." Really cunts!?! You put your idiot life on TV...You have no problem with the media paying your fucking bills, to feed all those fucking mouths, but now the media is evil! Again, these people can't die fast enough!
-Okay, I feel better...
Now, I live in Cleveland, but I have made it clear over the years that I don't like or follow basketball...And I have made it clear over the years, that I don't like LeBron James at all...(Long before "The Decision" I wrote about my distain for him)...So the Cavaliers are in the Finals, but I'm not willing to be Johnny Bandwagon...I'm not going to suddenly write like I know something about Basketball...I'm not even watching....If the Cavs win, I will not celebrate it, I won't suddenly be wearing Cavs gear...I will be happy for my friends who support the Cavs, but I'll stay true to myself, and remain not a basketball fan, and a LeBron James fan...
I did hear about the Kyrie Irving injury, and I saw the entire national media basically say that the Cavaliers have no chance...All I will say about this America, and Cleveland....The National Media is wrong more often then they are right...Just look to Vegas kids...Since the Irving broke his knee-cap, and media put the nail in the Cavs coffin, there has been a lot more money in Vegas being put on James and the Cavaliers...I put more stock in what the books are saying then the media....
-Saturday, American Pharoah won the Belmont Stakes, and completed the Triple Crown...The first time in 37 years....I'll be honest, I'm a cynical bastard...I had my money Frosted...I had American Pharoah coming in second...I mean shit, There have been a bunch of Triple Crown hopefuls in my lifetime, and I have seen them all fail...And while watching the Kentucky Derby, I really like how Frosted closed...I told my wife that day, "Frosted will win at Belmont." Well, fuck me, I was wrong...
As they came around the last turn Frosted had started charging from the back, and was quickly in second coming down the stretch...Pharoah had been leading the whole way...Frosted was surging...But some how, American Pharoah just kept cruising...The horse just ran a smooth race, and finished five and a half lengths ahead of Frosted...The horse didn't even look tired...
Now American Pharoah, as long as his owners aren't stupid, is looking forward to a wonderful life...They shouldn't run this horse again...Don't even take a chance at a loss, or an injury...Just put him out to Stud... a life a relaxation, eating, and fucking! (Ahhhh, my dream!) That's gonna be some expensive sperm!
-The Stanley Cup Finals were evened up Saturday as Tampa Bay pulled out the win...They seemed to push the tempo most of the game...The Strangest part of the game was Lightning goalie Ben Bishop coming out of the game twice in the third period...The second time for good...20 year old Andrei Vasilevsky filled the relief role well...He was tested heavily, and held the lead his team gave him...
The Lightning are not saying what caused Bishop to leave the game, and they are not saying who will start game 3 Monday night in Chicago...Some have speculated that it was a leg injury after Bishop was run into by Antoine Vermette...There are others that are speculating that Bishop had a case of the green apple splatters, and couldn't hold it...Vasilevsky looked calm in relief, and is a highly touted young goalie...And considering the inconsistent play of Blackhawks goalie Corey Crawford, I'm not sure if it matters if either team needs to go with a their backup goalie...
The Atlanta Falcons have released second year LB Prince Shembo after he was charged with Aggravated Cruelty to Animals...Shembo a former player at Notre Dame, had admitted to his now ex-girlfriend that he had kicked/killed her dog after she had left the Yorkie with him...The dogs injuries were as follows...
"The dog had a fractured rib, fractured liver, abdominal hemorrhage, thoracic hemorrhage, extensive bruising and hemorrhage in the muscles in her front leg and shoulders, head trauma, hemorrhage and edema in lungs, hemorrhage between the esophagus and trachea, and hemorrhage in the left eye with internal injuries," police said.
What a fucking asshole!
Now I'm a diehard, loyal Notre Dame fan, but I have no problem calling bullshit on them when needed...And clearly Notre Dame had the warning signs that this guy was a fucking psycho...While at Notre Dame Shembo was accused of Sexually Assaulting female 19 year old St. Mary's College student Lizzy Seeberg...
The Police filed no charges and there was no real investigation...Shembo wasn't even interviewed...Seeberg was told to by friends of Shembo to not "mess with the football program"...The University, instead of investigating the assault charges, started a smear campaign against Seeberg...Within 10 days of her assault, she killed herself...
Then the University felt some pressure to look into it, but it was far too little, and way too late...Shembo's name was kept quiet throughout the whole thing...Seeberg's father said that "the university and police more aggressively investigated the 2012 case of linebacker Manti Te'o's fictitious girlfriend than that of his dead daughter."
It wasn't until he admitted that he was player in question during the NFL combine that it became public knowledge...So the Falcons also knew he was a possible piece of shit too, and still drafted him...Such is the NFL...
I hope ND has changed how they handle things like this, but the big business of football often clouds judgment...I'm very disappointed.
Sexual Assault...Killing a dog...What's next for this psycho Shembo!?!
Yep, I could use a nice cold beer! First off, I had a few things earlier this week to say about something that happened to my son...This LINKwill take you to the second of two posts, it also contains a link to the first post...
So yeah, after that I wanted a drink or two...Then the New York Rangers went and lost game 7 to the Tampa Bay Lightning...I was having fears all throughout this series...The Rangers have been known for their speed and team defense...Problem 1...They play defense first...If they get a lead they just play all defense, and will only take a offensive chance if it come from a defensive breakdown from their opponent...Problem 2...The Lighting had the speed to match (if not better then) the Rangers...
There was a lot of complaining about the play of Rick Nash, which drives me crazy...He plays the system that he is in, and his defensive play was exceptional...And in 7 games against Tampa Bay, he had 7 points...That's not horrible people...What was horrible was the play of Martin St. Louis...From the moment the trade of Ryan Callahan for St. Louis was discussed, I hated it...Trading your captain for a guy 9 years older...It was ridiculous...And it showed...St. Louis looked nervous and uncomfortable whenever he had the puck on his stick...He was noticeably slower...Not good when you've made your name being one of the faster guys on the ice...His play was horrible...Callahan meanwhile played his normal gritty fashion just days after having his appendix removed...
Big Money defenseman, Keith Yandle, brought in at the trade deadline sucked...His defense was bad, and the offense he was suppose to bring, he must have left in Phoenix...He played his best game defensively in game 7, having to pick up the slack, as shutdown defenseman, Ryan McDonagh saw less ice-time because he had been playing the last few games with a broken foot...
There were some complaining that the injury of Mats Zuccarello in the Washington series had amajor impact on the team...Listen, I love how Zuccarello plays...He's a small, fast, feisty, gritty player, who has come into his own the last couple years...But if losing him is going to kill your Championship hopes, then you have bigger problem...The Rangers decided to let Defensman Anton Stralman walk after last year, and he walked right into Tampa Bay, and had great season, and his defensive play against his old mates was outstanding...The Rangers have been dead-set on keeping D-men Marc Staal and Dan Girardi, and Stralman's play proved they made the wrong call....The Rangers have grossly overrated Staal for years...And Girardi just looked tired through this series.
While I bash my team, I have to give proper credit to the Lighting...They played excellent hockey...They have a great eye for talent as Ondrej Palat who was a force, was drafted 208th overall in 2011, and line mate Tyler Johnson was an undrafted free-agent...So far in the playoffs, Johnson has 12 goals and 9 assists in 20 games...Kid is killing it...
Thankfully, Saturday night the Chicago Blackhawks beat the Anaheim Ducks...It's bad enough a city like Tampa Bay is in the Stanley Cup Finals, but if it was a California versus Florida Final, that would just be sacrilegious!
As for the Finals, I think Chicago is a better team...More talent with the likes of Toews, (best captain in the game) Kane, (insane talent and skills) Keith and Seabrook, (defensive studs and minute eaters) Hossa, Sharp, Saad, Bickell, Vermette, and more...I think Lighting Goalie Ben Bishop is better then Cory Crawford, but Crawford has been there before, and has a Cup under his belt...Chicago have been also been playing with pretty much 4 defensemen...That could bite them in ass if they can't feel comfortable mixing a couple other guys in there...Tampa Bay on the other hand seems to keep their legs fresh, dressing 7 defensemen...I think it will be close, but I'm going with Chicago.
-So, now that I got that hockey stuff out of the way, I'll move back into some personal stuff...About a month ago I took a chance on a new job offer...It was a "mom & pop" Italian place...The offer was good, and the plans and goals the husband laid out in front of me were very exciting...I had very high hopes for this career move...When I got in there I was saddened to find out they were using premade, frozen meatballs...Premade, frozen gnocchi, raviolis, tortellini, no in house made pasta...There were a number of little frustrating things, including I was training a new staff, without even knowing all I needed to know...Like how to make the house Red Sauce (which was actually homemade and delicious)...There was no recipes and no one showing me anything...I received a number of compliments on the food from the staff and guests as I was just winging it (doing it my way)...The couple of staff members who weren't new were telling me, "it's gonna get better, you're gonna make it better." That's a nice thing to hear, yet slightly alarming...
After some time, I felt the need to discuss changing stuff like the frozen shit, and writing out recipes with the wife...She ran the actual restaurant, and these were things her husband and I discussed...The talk didn't go well...Her saying "You better think about the choice you made." I left frustrated and upset...I called the husband, and he was not receptive to me, saying he "wasn't going to choose between me and his wife." I wasn't looking for a choice, just for them to get on the same page, and then we can work it out from there...
I got home and a was a wreck...Added to this, just days before we found out my Mother has Stage 4 Cancer...My wife and I talked for a while...We decided I would quit...My Mother was our primary sitter...She watched Molls every day that we were both working...Picked up the kids from school on those days...Got them started on homework, and has a major part of all of our lives...She was starting Chemo right away, and putting Molls in Daycare for a fuck-ton of a money didn't seem worth it...
I had felt like I had missed out on the last year to year and half of the older two kids lives...I had felt like a shitty father...So, for right now I'm Mr. Mom...(but looking to pick up some part-time hours)...Cooking, doing the dishes and laundry, taking care of stuff with the kids, and getting to a park with the kids as much as possible...I've a had a great time with Molls, and she's come back a bit to being Daddy's little girl...I feel like my son and I are reconnecting...My oldest is 13, she likes me and helps, but she's a bit bot crazy right now...But I'm happier then ever, and working on becoming the best wife I can be...(yeah, my wife and I joke and call me the wife...I like to cuddle after sex too!)
It's been a crazy, rocky few months...I'm terrified about what's going on with my Mom, but for everything else, I feel positive that things are going to work out alright...Hopefully her health will too...
For all the things that have been going wrong, I'll close with this....
If you read my LAST post, you know my kids' school really pissed me off this week...And two days later I am still pissed...The school has not responded to either of my wife's emails, (one angry, one apologetic for the angry one, but explaining some of the frustration.) or my very angry email...After humiliating him at the bullshit awards ceremony on Wednesday, he didn't go to school Thursday...He was embarrassed and upset, and my wife was pissed and didn't care if he stayed home...I wanted him to go, be the better person...But really, should I have to expect my 10 year old son to be the bigger person when his teacher is 70-ish and his principal is in her mid 40's? He went today and we heard nothing from the school. He did get an apology from another student that he didn't get any awards...So if the kids notice that the adults shit on another kid, that's fucked up...
I have talked to some other parents recently and heard some things...Some unhappiness with things that go on there...We put the kids there because they promoted a "zero tolerance" policy towards bullying...I had always felt the term bullying has gotten overused...It seemed trendy...And that maybe we are making our kids too soft...But after my daughter was physically assaulted at her old school, and the kid got a tickle on the wrist for it, I was in with a "zero tolerance" policy....But from my talks, I now know of three families that have removed their kids, or a kid because of bullying and the schools lack of doing anything about it...they all seemed to get the brush off and saw no punishment for the offenders...
There was also a little girl from the school who's hair briefly caught fire at a mass where the kids were carrying in candles...No one from the school ever contacted the family just to check in and make sure everything was okay...Instead, the mother just gets dirty looks because she dropped a F-bomb in the church hallway when it happened and she putting her daughter smoldering hair out...
My son is a high-strung, nervous, sensitive, emotional kid, with eczema that makes him fidget, and A-D-D that makes him fidget more...We talked with the Principal and his teacher earlier in the year, because he said he wanted to leave...He was nervous to go to school most days...He felt picked on, and excluded, and that no one liked him...From talking things out with him, and them, some of this was built up in his head. He would hold something in that happened 3 weeks ago, and pile it onto something that happened last week, and today, and so on, and it would blow up in him...They said they would keep an eye on him, and talk with the students about how they should treat one another...There was never anything major that happened after that but there were dumb things here and there that bothered him more then the average kid...It is what it is...
But they knew all this going in, so on Wednesday when every kid in his class had their name called at least twice, and he stood there in front of the whole school not getting his name called, it hurt us as parents, and it validated all his fears...He had to work his ass off, and his grades were good...There was no justification for what they did...
Was he that difficult? I doubt it...
Is it because we aren't sending them back there because we can't afford it, and because he was unhappy there?
Is it that they don't like me, and they took it out on him? I hope not...If so, I'll personally drive them to hell and watch them burn...
The fact that they have remained quiet and not even, at least offered an apology just makes me more angry and frustrated...It doesn't seem like the right actions from people that teach Christian morals...Love, respect, forgiveness, kindness, compassion...Sure, I sent and angry email, and wrote an angry blog, and I stand by those...But I'm not the one riding around on a religious high horse with a "zero tolerance" policy...I have my own Zero Tolerance Policy...You fuck with my kids, I'm gonna light you up!
I'm hoping this is the last I have to say about this...My wife wants me to just drop it...But if I don't vent My heart might blow out of my chest while watching what I'm sure will be a stressful Rangers hockey game tonight!
Look at that sad looking fella...What is it? It's a character from some thing called "Five Nights of Freddie" that my son is into...He made this in just a few minutes after he got home from school today...My wife brought the kids home early...She was quite pissed off and upset...Today was their schools awards ceremony...They do it every year, they give out awards to the kids that made honor roll, and all that stuff, but they always mix in bullshit awards so everyone feels good....Right? That's the world we're in...
I've always been against the whole "Every kid gets a trophy"..."Every kid is a winner"..."Every kid gets an award" mentality...But I've accepted it...When I was coaching Baseball for the Rec that didn't keep score, and everyone wins, everyone got pissed when they found out the Rec didn't put awards in their budget...I was the guy that bought medals for the kids out of my pocket...So yeah, I've accepted it...
So at the Awards today, they brought up each class up on the stage and called the kids names out for their awards...Academic ones, band ones, and the BS ones...Every kid in my sons class got at least two awards...My son's name was never called for anything...What the fuck!
The thing is, they know how hard it has been for him...When we moved the kids there a few years ago, it was because my daughter was choked at recess by a boy, and his punishment was no recess for a week...Also my kids weren't being challenge academically...When he got there he was a half a year behind his 2nd grade class...they worked hard with him and got him caught up...He had struggles each year and was diagnosed with ADD this year...But he always did well...This year was also tough because his two best friends, (twin brothers) moved during the Summer...He felt excluded often...He's a high strung kid, and often nervous...It was a long year, but his final grades are all A's and B's with one C...So how the fuck does he not get at least a BS award?
He's amazing at art...He has more artistic ability in one pinky then the idiot art teacher could ever dream to have...Now her kid sucked at Baseball, but when he was on my team, I still gave him an award...So at least throw the kid a bone in art right? Wrong! I assume she (the art teacher) dogged my son because I chewed her out last year when in her art classroom, a boy called my daughter a dyke, and she responded by telling him he's going to die alone...My daughter got detention, and the asshole boy got no punishment...
Yes, this Catholic school has done some good things for my family and helped our kids...But today they embarrassed and alienated my son in front of everyone...They kicked his confidence in the throat, and gave him back the feelings he had earlier in the year, that "No one there likes me." Doesn't seem very Christian to me...It just seems shitty...His 80 year old homeroom teacher should retire, or at least die! My kids aren't going back there...That place can suck my ass....
Seems like my son was able to put his sadness into this little guy...Totally more talented then that bitch will ever be!
It's Memorial Day and I honestly don't feel much like writing...I spent Sunday with Little Beeze and myself both sick...He's really feeling shitty...just wrecked...I could trudge but I was finding myself on the shitter way too often...It was a real bummer because I spent some time Saturday whipping up and awesome slaw for a party friends were having Sunday...We were really looking forward to it, but then the boy got sick...There was talk of our oldest staying with him while we went briefly, she was feeling lazy after having a couple friends sleep over Saturday night, and of course they were up all night...But then my issues started, and the day was kicked in the head....
Yes, spare me the lecture that Memorial day isn't about cookouts and parties...I know, I actually read history books...Nonetheless it is a time when we happen to make time to see people we maybe haven't for awhile, so take a breath...We're hoping the boy will be up for going to the Parade Monday morning in our neighborhood...molls is very excited...
The big news in Cleveland, beside the Cavs, which I have yet to catch that fever, and don't plan on getting it...but the other news broke Saturday morning when the verdict on Officer Brelo came down...What a judge...Dropping the verdict on a Saturday morning, during a holiday weekend...Stellar move if you ask me...People are moving slow Saturday morning...So their protesting game took a hit...Brelo was on trial for shooting and killing too people who had lead police on a 22 mile high speed chase, and then had rammed a police car...There were over a hundred bullets fired, by a bunch of cops, but this poor bastard was the guy thrown on the grenade...Well, he got off...And the judge went into great length and detail explaining why... Here is a LINK to the entire transcript of the judge's decision....
Personally, here's my view...Mistakes were made...It's easy to say that after the fact...And when a bunch of cops put over 100 bullets in the car, why was one guy taking all the heat? But in my opinion, the most important part of this whole thing is, things wouldn't have gone so badly, and two people wouldn't have died, if these two dolts just would have pulled over...As I heard the two dozen protesters yelling "Hands up don't shoot!" I got really frustrated...These two didn't have their hands up, they were fleeing the police, and then rammed a police car...Then I saw the same phrase hash-tagged all over twitter, so I started tweeting comments ending with #PulloverDontRun...
The local media was very proud of how peaceful Cleveland was, but there were 71 arrests as the day moved into the night and people started acting dumb....They didn't bother to show this...
Yep, people were out enjoying the nice weather, having some dinner, and "protesters" started getting physical, throwing stuff, and spraying random people with pepper spray....Again I'll say it...People will not sympathize with your cause when you act like an asshole...Speak your mind...Have rallies...Protest...Go for it...But when you stop being peaceful, you lost all ground.
-As for sports, the New York Rangers, Tampa Bay Lightning series has been driving me crazy...While Lundqvist is the better goalie, the Lightning look to be the better team...Better speed, better passing, better scoring chances...The Rangers are a defense first team, and when they have the lead, they lay back and play only defense. (except in game 4)...But their defense has been picked apart by great passing and speed in this series...Tampa Bay keeps their foot on the gas the entire game...they play good defense, but they never stop looking for a chance at more offense...The Lightning are up 3-2, and I'm losing the hope I had after game 4...The Rangers were so flat in the third period, I put on M*A*S*H* the movie...Such a great, classic!
I hated when the Rangers traded for old man Martin St. Louis...I hated when they signed even older man Dan Boyle...(you can look up the old blogs and tweets)...And I wasn't please when they traded their first round pick, and top prospect Arizona for Keith Yandle...Everyone said Yandle would be the perfect QB for the power play...He doesn't even play on the top power play unit now...His Defense sucks and his offense is weak...Yeah, he got a goal the other night...The shot was going 6 feet wide, when it hit a Tampa Bay defenseman's leg and deflected in...Dude blows!
-Anyways...I feel like crap...I'm going to lay down...Have a good Memorial Day...Have fun...and if at some point you forget what the day is about, sit in front of the TV and put on "Band of Brothers" or "The Pacific" or "Hamburger Hill" and then maybe it will come back to you, just how lucky we are to live in a country where people (right or wrong) can protest, and the brave few are why.
Thursday the Toronto Maple Leafs officially announced the signing of head coach, Mike Babcock...After 10 years at the helm of the Detroit Red Wings, Babcock wanted to test the waters...Most of the talk was of him staying in Detroit, or going to Buffalo for 10 year deal and rebuilding on the shoulders of Jack Eichel and other young prospects...
Then seemingly out of nowhere...Babcock inked a 8 year $50 million deal with the Leafs...Detroit didn't want to go over 4-5 years and said it wasn't about money for them, just years...Not sure that I believe that but it doesn't matter, because they have their man waiting in the wings already...
Jeff Blashill head coach of the Wings AHL affiliate Grand Rapid Griffins...Blashill is eyeing his second Calder Cup, and Detroit GM Ken Holland says he's the leading candidate to replace Babcock...Blashill has also served time as an assistant under Babcock, so the transition should smooth and easy without the Wings missing a beat...
The team/fan-base most upset is Buffalo, who feel hurt saying "Babcock used their 10 year offer as leverage" in his negotiations...Umm, grow up Buffalo that's the way the game of business is played...
Babcock also visited with and studied St. Louis and San Jose...
Babcock also made it clear that he wasn't going to walk into Toronto and turn that steaming pile of shit into a winner day one..."There's pain coming." Nice to see a new coach not bullshitting people.
There are a few things I have to write about this week...A couple we will discuss here, and another will be given it's own post...The first thing I am going to touch on is comedian Louis CK and his appearance Saturday on Saturday Night Live...Twitter was exploding Saturday during the broadcast, and Sunday morning the Internet was covered with columns, and blogs, and blurbs about how offensive Louis CK's monologue was...It appears Louis wasn't afraid to poke fun at three hot-button issues, as well as himself....Racism, the Middle East (Israel included) and Child Molesters...Here's the clip if you want to watch...
I have two problems with those getting upset about Louis CK's jokes...
1. He's a comedian telling jokes...You may not laugh at the same things as everyone or anyone...Just as we all don't like the same movies, music, politics, food, you name it...Everyone has their own tastes...It's comedy, not Maw and Order where every fucking episode is the same!
2. It's SNL...This use to be the place that did ground breaking comedy...The place where the envelope was pushed...Where it made you laugh, cringe, and think...I was happy to see them pushing again, because to be honest, with the exception of a skit here and there, the show has sucked for a number of years...
The Child Molestation shit really got people touchy...(pun intended)...Maybe you twats should go back through the archives and look up SNL in the early years, when they had a character named "Uncle Roy"...He was a babysitting pervert, who not only did creepy shit with young girls, but in the end, he won...He didn't get busted...Finding video is hard because SNL has gotten so soft...But here is a clip of the Opie and Jimmy show...Early in the show they are talking about SNL, and then some characters Jimmy does, which lead to discussion of "Uncle Roy...At 14 minutes and 20 seconds they play the sketch and give you play-by-play...It was a whole lot worse then what Louis CK said...
Uncle Roy is a fucking creep...But no matter how cringing something is, I'm not going to complain about it being on TV or radio, or whatever...I believe in freedom of speech, even speech I don't agree with...I also believe in something just as powerful...
The remote control! You don't like it, turn it the fuck off cunts!
And one last thing to all those bitching and tweeting about what a monster Louis CK is...Guess what, you're talking and writing about him...He won!
- Next, the stupid Patriots underinflated balls story kept getting air-time all week...And looking at it all closely, I have to say, When the fuck is Robert Kraft going to sue the NFL? Their idiot report clears the Patriots organization of wrongdoing, yet Goodell fined the team a million dollars, and ripped them of two draft picks...Doesn't really make sense...And the main reason they say Brady is guilty is because he didn't give them his phone for them to look at texts...A phone they had no legal ground to ask for....I do remember another investigation (with no legal standing) that asked Roger Goodell to give his phone and he refused....So why the fuck is this guy still the commissioner!?!
If Brady just would have punched a women, beat a kid, raped a girl, and covered up a murder, he'd be fine....
Fuck them all...I'm done with this topic now, and I'm done with the fucking asshole NFL!
- Okay, on a much more important topic...Sunday Cleveland had it's annual Marathon...Yes, we have a marathon...As long as I've been a live...It doesn't get the hype or the fanfare of some of the other marathons...We're a smaller city, and we aren't always mugging for the camera....Don't give me your shit New York and Boston, we all know you love the spotlight, and you know you're a little fucking annoying sometimes...
Honestly I don't really pay attention to any marathon...they're kind of boring to watch...But a friend of mine Brendan Goers was working down there and snapped a pic and posted it on facebook...
Yep, those are Firefighters running in full gear...26.2 miles...a high of 82 degrees with 64% humidity...I was blown away by how, as my friend described them, "Badass" these guys are...I had to dig into it a bit...
They had the full gear, including the 40 pound pack on their backs...The only exception they made was running shoes...Why did they do this? to raise awareness and money for ALS...One of these guys dad has the awful disease...The Parma Heights Firefighters raised over $15,000 for ALS...That's fucking awesome!
Screw your ice water challenge...Run a marathon in full firefighter gear....That's a fucking challenge...I shit on things in Cleveland area often...But I was proud as hell Sunday seeing this.
