Thursday, May 31, 2007
Game Two
1 - 0
The first two periods were mud.
One or two flurries in front of the net that made broadcaster Mike Emrick have a vocal orgasm is all you need to know about the first 40 minutes.
It was easily comparable to a game of soccer.
Except for the fact that athletes were playing in this game.
A third period starting 0-0 is always interesting.
But when it's in late May and in the Stanley Cup Finals, wear a jock 'cause your testicles will fall off.
Ed Olczyk is a big-time performer. What a color commentator.
It almost makes us forget he was such an awful coach.
Eddie Olczyk sulks after Mario tells him,
"Yeah, that play you just drew up, it's not going to work."
Six.
cuts inside, uses Lee Malvo as a screen, and snaps it past Ray Emery.
Give yourself up, pee on the guy, do something.
This guy is your captain?
You can have all your goals.
Give your body up, dick.
Wow.
Hey, at least you made it there, Dan...fag
The best chance that the Sens had to tie it came a little later.
Paul Schaefer stared at a wide-open net.
The entire nation of Canada on his stick.
But he takes a huge dump, hitting the side of the net.
A Duck player lays his life on the line to block a shot.
Can the Senators win 4 out of 5 against the Ducks?
Not gonna deh.
News
Rachel F.
Picture: Bourgeois homos laughing at people who bought a Crosby jersey without the "C."
Chelios received the same honor from Moses in 12 BC.
Musicblog
In honor of him:
Lets start Musicblog off right.
This was posted a few days ago.
Stay connected
(Thanks Teej)
1993, a simpler time.
Ace of Base
No one even knows whats going on.
B-94 played this song 1,300 times a week back in the day.
B-94 was a joke.
(Thanks theNICK)
Back to some 80's
Tears for Fears
Everybody wants to rule the world
(thanks Karri)
Don't worry, be happy.
What a strange video.
This guy was on some type of pills.
Robin Williams sighting.
(Thanks Ryan)
Rick Sprinfield
Jessie's Girl
(Thanks Spencemo)
This may have been posted already.
The serious look in Rick's face warrants another view.
Hall and Oates
Thanks to Tiff for the mention
Rich Girl
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A Winter in the Sun
Game #14
November 10, 2006
Ouch. PENS LOSE
Five minutes into the third, Peter Schaefer strikes again, this time with a goal to make it 5-2. About three minutes after that, Maxime Talbot scores a shorthanded goal and it's now 5-3. I'm not gonna lie; that goal perked me up a little bit. We needed another goal before the 15-minute mark to make it interesting, but it just wasn't meant to be. Dany Heatley, his hands still covered in blood, scores again for Ottawa with five minutes left and that was it.
Box Score
Crap we said:
- What is wrong with Colby Armstrong this year? Crosby hit him with a perfect pass in the slot, and Army didn't even have his stick down.
- How awful was the officiating? We'll complain about officiating even if we win, so we're not just finding excuses here. What happened to interference penalties? And that terd hooking Crosby when he was on his way to the net? What a joke.
- On the play where Whitney blindly cleared it to the point, Steigerwald said that it wasn't like Whitney; that it was a panic play and Whitney never panics. Has he been watching the same games that we've been watching? He consistently makes plays like that, but they don't always end up in a goal being scored.
- Steigerwald also said in the broadcast that Whitney is our break-out pass defenseman. ok.
Message board said:
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Got to love people calling for Moore to see time on the powerplay
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If you are going to post American Pie you might as well post the Penguin equivalent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvA-Lsf_rmY
also i have no idea what this video is about
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KaeaiVhe-0 -
this song is just bad ass
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWzFaOkGCoI&mode=related&search= -
the guy taking the dump on the beach, may be the greatest picture you guys ever found on the net.
i would love to see what the FBI would find if they searched your hard drive. -
Watching Ottawa fail to get the puck deep into the Ducks zone last night the last two minutes of the game reminded me how ugly the Pens looked trying to do the same thing against Ottawa. For a second, I almost felt bad for the Sens ....then I remembered how Ottawa made the Pens look like a bunch of peewee hockey players and I reminded myself that paybacks are a bitch!!!!
By the way, what the hell happened to Ottawa's top line????? I think I saw them on my milk carton this morning!
QUACK QUACK QUACK!!!!!!!!!!! -
i always wondered why people purchased crosby jerseys with the 'A' instead of a 'C'.... oh well, the 'C' will look good on the new jerseys!
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I think I'm going to have to break down and buy a Crosby jersey now.
And I dare you not to sing along to 500 Miles by The Proclaimers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZojpl-p_5A -
B94 was absolutely terrible when it came to controlling repetition (with said Ace of Base song, among the other 4 songs in their rotation)...but I owe it to them, they introduced me to Beck ("Loser"), thus introducing me to the world of alternative music. What a musician.
Congrats Captain Sid!
That should have been a 5-0 game last night. Gotta give credit to Ray Emery...but I'm not. Quack quack quack...Mr. Goalie Boy. -
Isn't that Messier award the same one they gave Sid at the All-Star game?
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Gary Roberts has granted us immunity from the FBI.
Beck came onto the music scene with the brass of a riverboat gambler.
Lis, I totally agree. That's always frustrating. But the smiles slowly formed on Pens fans' faces last night as Ottawa tried limping into the zone.
The white jersey next year for the Pens may be the best jersey in the NHL. -
um, awesome malvo reference?
-canaan -
Buddy Holly Blog:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pribHw93OPc
That'll be the day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko0qw3nHwdU
Peggie Sue.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvQH7riS3V8
A nice tribute.
RIP Buddy. You are the true king. -
Football, er, soccer players not athletes?
I'm a big fan of the site, and I appreciate equal-opportunity rips on anything and anyone.
Is soccer boring to watch, especially to most in the States? Yes.
Do some players act like complete pussies at the slightest physical contact in hopes of drawing a call? Yes.
But I'm very curious to hear the reasons behind why someone would think soccer players are not athletes. -
Mostly because their pussy:athlete ratio is so high that you can't even call them an athlete anymore.
It's like helping a little old lady across the street, then drowning 16 crates of kittens. Sure, you did one good deed, but you destroyed all of that good karma by being one of the worst cocksuckers the world has ever seen.
Basically, soccer players, by making better drama majors than honest footie players, have been stripped of athletehood.
It's unfortunate, but it's something they brought upon themselves. -
(As an aside, my response rested solely on defining pussyhood as the polar opposite of athletehood. That's not quite fair - after all, you could run a 4 minute mile and cry like a little girl the moment someone pulls your hair - but I'm sticking with it anyway just to get my troll on for a bit :D
Also, I love watching world cup, but the diving in that game is so utterly ridiculous that anyone who subscribes to it should immediately be castrated; after all, it's obvious that that sort of behavior requires vagina-esque attributes.
Though, in all fairness again, you can't even equate that sort of behavior with being female, and to those women who are more hardcore than soccer players (ie: pretty much every woman who has ever existed), I apologize) -
Oh Captain, My Captain
http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/emptynetters/
Karri -
What people dont understand is that diving and "being a pussy" is part of soccer. They are trying to draw fouls by embelishing tackles, etc. Yes, some teams are especially bad (Italy), but i would like to see anyone get right up after someones slides into your ankles. Americans are so used to the football mentality where you cannot fake an injury or whatever. It's simply part of the game. And even though i hate to say it, i believe one of our beloved Penguins embelishes from time to time.
-Pat -
PENGUINS NAME CROSBY AS CAPTAIN
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Pat,
I am *well* aware it is "part of the game". That's what makes them pussies. Just like if "part of the game" involved having giant erect penises shoved up your ass would still make you gay. If you don't want to be considered a pussy, lobby to take diving and flopping out of the game. Until you do, your sport is going to be considered one of super-fucking-pansies first and athletes a distant, distant, distant.....third.
Second will be "omfg, footie hooligans! FIGHT! woooo!" -
http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=209447&hubname=
it didnt take baldsilly long to get the wheels in motion for a move to canada. kinda makes me sick thinking how close he came to doing this to the pens. -
Well, I say fuck Balsillie and his CrackBerry. He's a douche.
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Musicblog reminds me of the kid who discovered music from well before his era and spent all of high school jobbing himself to it in front of everybody, then going to college and joining a frat which references musicblog as a playlist for it's lame 80s party. Let's find some new feature to take up space... Like hitting enter 50000 times. It's nothing more than filler that makes it harder for me to get to the comments section.
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Dwayne,
I knew I would receive that kind of response. In America that kind of play is seen as "pussyish", but there has to be a reason why billions of people around the world watch it religiously. For example, bunting is a part of baseball, but we don't call the hitter a pussy for trying to advance the runner. Or in hockey, we don't call the guy who dumps the puck in the zone a pussy b/c he didnt try to skate it thru 2 D-men. He was trying to create an opportunity. You wont see bunting and dump and chase taken out of those sports.
And way to go, you came up with the gayest analogy ever.
-Pat -
Dwayne said...
(As an aside, my response rested solely on defining pussyhood as the polar opposite of athletehood. That's not quite fair - after all, you could run a 4 minute mile and cry like a little girl the moment someone pulls your hair - but I'm sticking with it anyway just to get my troll on for a bit :D)
Right: That was my point...that being (or not being) what is considered a pussy is not equal to not being (or being) an athlete.
I'm not going to try to convince spectators who don't like or have never played soccer how physical it is, and/or how much it is or isn't embellished. That's a fruitless task. -
Pat,
The Appeal to Popularity is a fallacious argument. Google it if you want philosophers more qualified than I to give you reasons for it.
If you need illustrations, I suggest the relatively simplistic Henrik Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People" for your reading enjoyment.
As far as the analogy goes - that was precisely the point.
Stanley,
I'm not going to say Futbol is not a physical sport. No, there are not bone crushing tackles or glass shattering hip checks, but it's still a far sight more physical than running 200m or swimming the 200m medley.
Coming back around to Pat: just because the practice of throwing yourself on the ground and screaming like a stuck pig is accepted does not, in any way, shape, or form, denote manliness. It may be that the culture of the game, composed of both players, coaches, league officials and the fan base to not just accept, but condone such behavior - within the bounds of international soccer, an almost irrefutable point - but the fact that it is accepted or even expected does not in any way repudiate the point that those who partake in it are spineless bitches who couldn't hold the jock of any hockey player, american football player, rugby player, or even bull riding cowboy dbag.
And Pat, I'm sorry you can't see the difference between acting like a drama queen and taking a relatively cheap course of action. The former makes you a girl, fit only for braiding hair, talking about how cute you think all the boys are, and whether or not you would kiss Jimmy on the second or third date. And, I suppose, playing soccer. The latter makes you cheap. -
comparing diving in soccer and the "dump and passively pursue" (as the penguins do it) is a pretty bad arguement.
dump and chase is a strategy, diving is cheating.
who knew this had a video?
We Didn't -
"the fact that it is accepted or even expected does not in any way repudiate the point that those who partake in it are spineless bitches who couldn't hold the jock of any hockey player, american football player, rugby player, or even bull riding cowboy dbag."
Agreed, but I don't know if I'd say that soccer embellishers couldn't hold the jock of ANY hockey player. There are plenty of hockey players that either avoid contact or embellish its effects. The good news is that the league, and fans, to their credit will not stand for such acts and will punish a player for trying to embellish, or boo/bench the player if they purposefully avoid contact (if it's to an extreme degree). Unfortunately, soccer doesn't follow suit.
Conversely, there are plenty spineless hockey and NFL players who could be whipped up on by certain soccer players. -
"In America that kind of play is seen as "pussyish", but there has to be a reason why billions of people around the world watch it religiously."
I would like to take this moment to make another strong point that the United States is a GREAT county: No one in America gives a shit about soccer. The End. -
Soccer is way too regional to make any kind of blanket statements when it comes to anything, let alone flopping.
For example, diving is pretty much a way of life in Italy, but try that crap in England and (for the most part) they'll run you out of the country.
Just to throw gas on the fire, at least real football players can run for more than 10 seconds at a time, unlike all those babies in the NFL. The exception to the rule being Roethlisberger of course, that guy stops speeding cars with his face. Can't get any more macho than that! -
The United States is a country, not a county. My bad.
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"I would like to take this moment to make another strong point that the United States is a GREAT county: No one in America gives a shit about soccer. The End."
That statement is scary similar to our recent foreign policy. Is that you George Bush? If not, go ahead and create a posting handle of 'Ethnocentric'.
But I digress... I don't want to get into a whole political thing.
Not many more people in America give a shit about hockey, either.
Both sports have their pockets of rabid, knowledgeable fans.
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wooo
These lazy fall saturdays.
football doesn't even matter if the pens lose the night before.
HUGE game in car tonight.