And miss the inevitable 100+ hours of diva-licious drama the NBA has virtually lined up?  I DON’T BLOODY THINK SO!!!

Oof.

I am sorry to hear of your loss. While I suspect it’s not the thing you want to hear (yet again), I can say that with enough time, the pain will ease and you will gain unexpected perspective on your relationship with your mother and your life after hers.

Francesa: Hold my Ensure.

Only to be interrupted by his own whining about a txt or email that contains inappropriate content that somehow, totally beyond his control, gets read on air.

A long time ago I worked with Earl Strom’s son, when Earl was still reffing. He didn’t talk about his dad a lot, but some of the stories... Yowza.

This is true, and it’s yet another way in which the NHL is currently broken.

So... the NBA and the NHL have a bet about who can have the worst officiating in the playoffs...?

The euphemism circuit in my brain is now glowing red and smoking.

BM is the poster child for all of Boston sports, including their fans.

Bingo.  The officials saw a bleeding guy and realized if they don’t hammer the offending player it will look very bad for them, so they hammered him, “knowing” that there was no way the Sharks would pull this one out.  Oopsie.

Yep. Latin = respectable, French = cultured, Italian = sexy, German = engineered, and American English = WTF??

Oh, they still call penalties based to a considerable extent on how much damage was done to the opposing player? This is a prime example of why hockey is still the caveman sport of the Big Four in the US. Calling penalties that way is insane. Hell, how they call nearly all penalties and hand out DOPS fines and…

As baseball continues to strut its way through its Diva Era, I can think of no one better to represent it than Bryce.

The Sharks are baffling, but they’re also one of the purest examples around right now of how difficult it can be for a GM to recognize the obvious and begin a nuke-and-rebuild.  I suspect they won’t do it for another two years, in which they’ll make the playoffs and be win donors yet again.

It’s not a reason to hate baseball, for me, but it is a reason for me to never go back. At one time my life I was as much of a diehard baseball fan as you can imagine. But life happened and I drifted away from the sport. And then baseball turned into a diva parade, which I seriously cannot understand. It’s like they…

Only if you’re strong enough to wrestle it away from the person using it.

In the NHL, calling the playoffs a “second season” has always made sense, not just for the obvious reason, the length of the playoffs, but because the game is played and officiated so differently.  You can build a team that racks up a lot of points in the regular season, when the competition doesn’t have their entire…

And thanks to all the ex-players, coaches, broadcasters, and, most of all, fans, who think that way, hockey will forever remain in its self-imposed sports basement.

What do we have in this series? The feel-good story of the NHL season (Lehner) and Sid getting something to whine about? Sign me up.