PRE-HATCH CHICKEN-COUNTING, 101This ad (click pic to enlarge) appeared in last week's Sports Illustrated. With apologies to all you grieving New York Mets fans out there, methinks we need a little White-Out here...
THE GREAT DICTATOR?
Just wanted to share this little nugget that was e-mailed to me by a fellow owner in my Yahoo Fantasy Football League (Yahoo being the operative word here), the grammar and punctuation of which I have not altered at all:
"The commish deleted my post and locked me. This guy runs his league like a Nazi Concentration Camp, if you disagree or have a different opinion than he does, your through. Watch your back Hitler has a Knife and he is prepared to use it."
It's fuckers like him that take all the fun out of fantasy sports and have me truly reconsidering my participation in this activity these days. Evidently, our Commissioner—a very honorable guy I know well and once worked with (and a staunch conservative, no less!)—disallowed a trade this goomer wanted to make (and rightfully so), and as often happens within computer-based fantasy leagues, this asshole hides behind his cute little screen name ("Dawg Pound") and proceeds to call him every name in the book just because he didn't get his way. My guess is "Dawg" is probably in his forties and still living in his parents' basement...
AW, PUCK IT!
Hockey season is upon us, once again. The regular season got underway over the weekend as the Anaheim Mighty Quacks and L.A. Kings played a pair of games across the big pond in London, and tonight things got underway stateside and north of the border with a handful of games. I truly hope the NHL can reclaim its former glory and cease being the butt of so many snide remarks from the talking heads at ESPN (aka "Poker Central") like Tony Cornholio (Kornheiser) and others. Yes, the league took a major hit with the 2004-05 labor stoppage, and their TV presence ain't what it should be, but it's still a wonderful sport to watch, and deserves a lot more respect than what it's getting these days. I sure don't hear anything in the NHL about steroids, dog-fighting or referees that cheat...
And in a hopeful development, it seems that the tentative lease deal reached by the Nashville Predators to allow them to remain in Music City earlier this year is beginning to unravel like baseball's Milton Bradley, thus raising the chances of the team relocating to K.C. for the 2008-09 season. The puck may well stop here, after all...
1 comment:
Your Nashville reader believes that it's only a matter of time before the Preds land in Kansas City. Nashville sports fans only care about football and NASCAR. There just isn't enough of a fan base here to support a NHL team, and the city council is afraid the team will become a ward of the taxpayers. Our loss will become your gain.
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