Sunday, January 08, 2006

Warning this post contains severe gibberish

Just spent too much time reading "threads" with respect to the Toronto Maple leafs Hockey team.
And you know what? I no longer see musician related threads as inane as I use to.

I was looking for some information on Owen Nolan... a Leaf player involved in a bitter injury dispute with the Club. I wasn't sure what was going on... possibly he would be back from an injury soon. It looks like it will be a snowy day in hell before he will dawn a Leafs Jersey again. Well I got my answer, and then I stumbled on a thread of "hockey experts" discussing the various acquisitions the Leafs made before the season started. And then you start thinking... are these people for real? clearly if you are spending your time as a "die-hard fan" wouldn't it be more enjoyable to know what the fuck you are talking about.

And then I recall the game I went to earlier in the year... the loud high end high blasting rock music over the delays that just went on. The crowd directing that happened after the extra long commercial breaks (you are sitting there for so long you forget that you are even at a hockey game and then the scoreboard has some lame animation and a big flashing MAKE SOME NOISE... and people start to cheer... and it flashes LOUDER... and they cheer louder... and it flashes LOUDER... and they cheer louder... and it flashes LOUDER... and they cheer louder... and so then everybody is cheering and they race over and drop the puck like it's an emergency. which would look good if you were in a bar and you just got back from a long piss and stopped to ogle some large breasted fine bodied woman and you got back to your chair and the last commercial ended and the stadium was suddenly filled with ravenous screaming fans and then a second later the puck drops.)

What was I talking about?

Probably has something to to with the fact that I am an intense Insane Maniac with a tendency to be a real stickler for the truth.

I remember reading a HST quote to the effect "there are no good people left to party with"... it's like the whole world has gone soft in the head and none of them have got any balls.
That is the essence of why people (myself included) love Don Cherry.
He doesn't compromise himself to do his job. He had a great quote a few weeks back while discussing who should be on the Men's Canadian Olympic Hockey team. The dilemma of course is that Canada has so many great players that some good players will have to be left off the team, which of course will cause the speculations to fly... probably plenty of good "threads" as well. Anyway Ron McLean said "anyway you look at it there are some hard decisions to be made" and Cherry shot back "They're not hard decisions, not if you call then right they're not hard".

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