I know you’re busy Chris. I know the ball and chain, bless her, is a demanding harpy who keeps you chained to the chipped cherrywood bedpost. But you’ve got to start writing more often. Your fans demand it – and they are indeed out there. No one was as surprised as I was when I checked the server logs last night.
Perhaps getting a shout out in the little known New York frigging Times is what you need to get the creative juices flowing again? If not, you’re a shell of a man who isn’t fit to write their own name. In purple crayon. The NYT site requires you to register, so I’ll quote the best part of Keith Gessen’s generous article for you here:
"In fact, the position hockey occupies within the sports world resembles nothing so much as the position literature occupies within the world of media. So what is needed now, for the sake of both hockey and literature, is more hockey literature. Not just books about hockey, like "The Game," but also books not about hockey, like "Amazons" — which is not about hockey in just the right way. It is like my favorite of the new hockey blogs, Goonblog, which purports to cover fighting in the N.H.L. but is, inadvertently, all about the inability of the site’s chief writer, who seems to live near Lowell, Mass., to actually catch a fight on TV. He drinks a little too much, for one thing, and sometimes his girlfriend makes him watch a Bernie Mac movie, but even when he does make it through a whole Bruins game, no one seems to be fighting. "Where is all the emotion?" he demanded earlier in the season. "I realize the fighting will be down because of the rules, but where are the scrums after the whistle? I have seen one good face wash, and I am not happy about it."
Get mad, you funny little bastard, and come back to the GoonBlog.
How about a moment of silence for North American Men’s Hockey…
Someone please explain to me why the US men’s hockey team couldn’t find the net. They controlled almost 3/4 of the face-offs, played great defense, and minded the net well, but still only managed one win in six games? Doesn’t make sense to me.
Oh wait! They had Sully coaching them, it’s all becoming clear to me now!
Thanks for the shout out, and the ego boost. I have a story about a road trip with my brother to Bridgeport, and a visit to Lowell by all time AHL PIM Leader Dennis Bonvie. I will write. When I get out of the bottle.
Who does this jerk off think he is saying that our friend drinks a little to much, thems fightin words. Anyone who knows chris can point out that he drinks way to much
Here’s the unedited rant about North America sucking shit in Italy I posted on my blog…if you feel it doesn’t belong here yank it:
I’m sure that the NHL had the master plan of taking a two-week midseason break so that the legions of hockey fans across North America could watch Russia, Sweden, Finland, and Slovakia battle it out for the Olympic medals.
What the fuck is the issue with people who generally speak English as a 1st language actually performing well at the Olympics in hockey?
The USA went 1-4-1 in Turin (I’m not Italian, so I’m not calling it Torino), including a tie with Latvia, with the only win coming from Kazakhstan, which sounds like me hacking up phlegm when I have a cold.
What about the US’s hat, Canada?
0 Canada is more like it, as they flamed out with shutout losses to Switzerland, Finland, and the Russians, who KOed any chance of a Canadian medal. At least Janet Jones Gretzky cleaned up betting the under, eh?
You can’t blame the big ice for the North American failure most of the players in the tournament are NHLers who play on the smaller rinks, don’t blame the travel, or any other bullshit excuse.
Let’s look at who put together these teams:
Here in the States, it’s Don Waddell, who in his day job has presided over the anal leakage that is the Atlanta Thrashers. What has Waddell done with the Trash-ers that justifies putting him in charge of the USA team? I guess the Atlanta players don’t trash hotel rooms, so that must be it?
Up in North USA, the Canadians turned to Wayne Gretzky, who is the greatest player ever but has done jackshit as an executive (this being relative, of course, as he’s outpaced Isiah Thomas in the same manner as Secretariat outpaced the Belmont field, but that’s another story for another time) and is there on his name only.
In most sports, if you don’t get results on the field/court/ice, you’re shitcanned.
Shitcan Waddell. If you’re a subject of Queen Elizabeth II, you should shitcan Gretzky as well.
I agree with some of the points. I disagree with Gretz having done Jackshit as a exec. Don’t forget, they won gold in 2002, and the world championship with Gretzky at the helm.
Ah, letting details get in the way of a good rant…damn.
Maybe you don’t fire #99, but he’s probably feeling the noose tighten somewhat.
Yeah. Loved the rant. 2 minute hooking penalty on me for using logic.
I am also gay.