So I’m going to the Kings game tonight.
The only other time I went this season, I wore a giant inflatable joust costume and fought my buddy Matt Crowley along the first base line while “Kung Fu Fighting” blared over the grandstand speakers. It was the same rigmarole I’d ignored so many times before from the [...]
Entries from July 2009
July 30, 2009
YES I CAN! apologize
July 28, 2009
Who would you pick?
It’s 3:30 p.m. and I’m sitting in the empty bar at London Grill restaurant in downtown Kalamazoo.
(Yes, I’ve had two Stellas. Perks of the job.)
A little while ago, a doughy guy, probably around 20, walked in wearing blue polyester basketball shorts, a one-size-too-small tan t-shirt that barely covered his paunch, and what appeared to be [...]
July 28, 2009
You can’t make this stuff up
Mets player personnel director removes dress shirt, challenges members of minor league affiliate to brawl.
New York Daily News reporter hears about incident from multiple sources, breaks story.
With an HR file the size of an encyclopedia due to the player personnel exec’s explosive temper on his desk, Mets general manager calls press conference to announce he [...]
July 25, 2009
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
The NFL and ESPN’s hostile takeover of the world is almost complete.
The league announced this week that its draft will begin on a Thursday night (instead of the typical Saturday-Sunday slot) and last three god damn days in 2010.
Their reason?
“Moving the first round to prime time on Thursday night will make the first round of [...]
July 24, 2009
Three Stars: Connauton leaves, Hossa to have surgery, Punks pounded
I started a “Three Stars” feature on this blog forever ago. You’ll recall, hockey games end with the selection of three “stars of the night,” who come back onto the ice for a little salutatory stick wave. Ladies and gentlemen…
TONIGHT’S NUMBER 3 STAR: Now former WMU defenseman Kevin Connauton
Blogger and journalist Farhan Devji emailed me [...]
July 23, 2009
The Rematch
Sixty-year-old Doug Prentice is five-foot-nothing, 150 pounds and, most notably, Canadian.
He’ll play hockey until he dies.
He has curly hair and squinty eyes, a combination that makes him look like he’s always just rolling out of bed. He’s fun, feisty, charming. The word cute (hold the teasing) comes to mind. Dougie’s quirky sense of humor never [...]
July 22, 2009
Told ya
From The Hockey News:
CHICAGO – The Chicago Blackhawks say recently signed winger Marian Hossa is rehabilitating a shoulder injury he suffered during the Stanley Cup playoffs while with Detroit.
The injury was first reported by the Daily Herald newspaper in suburban Arlington Heights. The extent of the injury was not disclosed by the team.
Team spokesman Brandon [...]
July 21, 2009
Perspective at the pump
PLEASE ENTER YOUR ZIP CODE.
What?
The gas pump at the Speedway station in Schoolcraft prompted me for information that, until now, I had only provided to the Sprint automatic payment lady and cashiers at The Buckle.
Yet, here I was this morning: BlackBerry carrying, laptop toting, Facebook friend requesting product of the information age caught off guard, [...]
July 17, 2009
Goldman Sachs Internal Memo
We — as in, everyone drop what you’re doing right now and caravan to New York — should be marching down Wall St. with torches. We should be overrunning Goldman Sachs corporate headquarters like wild space animals, clubbing its leaders to death with their solid gold desk lamps, pissing all over their $87,000 area rugs. [...]
July 16, 2009
If Kevin Connauton leaves…
Oy.
The Bronco Hockey Blog reported Tuesday that Kevin Connauton, prized Western Michigan defenseman and recent third-round draft pick of the NHL’s Vancouver Canucks, might abandon the sinking brown and gold ship and join the Western Hockey League’s Vancouver Giants to continue his development.
You can get the scoop on Connauton here, here and here. For those [...]
