... Sooper-Dooper Sunday, a football-themed comment from Lisa Benson:
Yup.
I hear there's some sorta football game on today. We may or may not watch that game on the teevee this evening, depending upon if we're awake and sober. The latter having much to do with the former.
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In sporting news that matters to the curmudgeonly resident of El Casa Móvil De Pennington... a little item from George Malik, one of my favorite hockey bloggers:
Dear Red Wings,Panic in Dee-troit... with good reason. I listened to the Wings' game in El-Eh on my Very Expensive Radio yesterday afternoon and they blew a three goal lead going into the second period to lose yet another one, this time by a score of 4-3. That sound you hear is my heart breaking.
If you don't get your heads out of the vicinity of your hockey pants and play better, you will not make the playoffs, period.
It does not matter who makes mistakes. It does not matter who is injured and who is not. If you suffer so many slings and arrows that your top three consists of Brad McCrimmon, Larry Murphy, and Mark Howe, your scoring line's populated by Mickey Redmond, Paul MacLean, and and Mike Babcock himself because Steve Yzerman can no longer skate, and George Bowman's called in from the alumni team to spare the burnt-out Jimmy Howard because Chris Osgood still has to sit in the corner...
From stem to stern, your lineup has to take the initiative and no longer look utterly snakebitten. You must score more goals than you give up, you must play with poise, play with the puck, because you're lousy when you don't possess it, and you've got to stop looking like no matter what you do, you're either going to shoot yourselves in the foot from the get-go and surrender goals, or simply fail spectacularly in failing to dent the opposing goaltender, because the, "We played well, but..." line is far, far too trite. It's replaced, "Better and better" as the resident locker room cliche, and you are far too good a team and far too solid as individuals to be screwing up the way you're screwing up your season.
Your fans believe in you. You've got to start believing in yourselves. Now.
Thanks for your time,
Some random blogger.
The Wings had it in hand and flat quit after the first intermission. Period. I watched it. Get the Kings and Ducks on cable out here in the Mojave Desert.
ReplyDeleteI imagine my little girl in Wichita is none too happy, either. Bleeds Red Wings as do you my friend.
There's a football game on? I thought it was some guys beating each other's brains out in between some killer commercials.
ReplyDeleteGlenn: Wow, thanks for that observation. I listened to the game on a Dee-troit station's netcast and they were OBVIOUSLY homers of the worst kind, coz they kept sayin' over and over how the Wings were taking it to the Kings in the third. And then the winner came with two minutes left and despair set in...
ReplyDeleteKris: Careful - you're liable to catch some SERIOUS flack from NFL fans. I worded my post as diplomatically as possible today; some day I'll let loose with my REAL feelings about the NFL and it won't be pretty. (insert big-ass grin here)
Your Wings are looking pretty good in comparison to my 'Canes...I'm already in "next year" mode.
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ReplyDeleteWings or no Wings, that was a hell of a game between the Pens and Caps today. Sid and Ovie can't help but bring it all when they get together. Fantastic stuff.
ReplyDeleteWilliam: I sympathize. I'm also somewhat amazed they fell so far, so fast.
ReplyDeleteAndy: I missed that game... something's screwed up on my cable box and I can't get "normal" channels, only HD and digital stuff. THAT pissed me off. I read the recap and it certainly WAS one hella game.