NJ Nets

The NJ Nets set an NBA record tonight by starting the 2009-2019 0-18.  No wins, lots of losses…

If I had one wish…

I’d wish that Vince Carter was stll on the team.  I miss his half-assed efforts and numerous injuris.  To bad.  Orlando will soon know what fans in Toronto and NJ have found out.

The Nets didn’t deserve this… But Vince sure does!

WWE RAW November 30, 2009.

Did Santino Marella – my favourite Italian wrestler from Toronto possibly named after former WWF referee Joey Marella who was the son, I believe, of former WWF legend Gorilla Monsoon – call Shaemus, “Lame Ass”.

The Lucky Charms comment was great… They are magically delicious…

But that dude, the “Celtic Warrior” needs something to keep his thighs from rubbing and some sunlight.  Seriously.

Canucks vs Oilers

I just watched the highlights of last night’s NHL game between the Edmonton Oilers (in very cool retro looking jerseys – thought is was the powerhouse Oilers of the 80’s) and the Vancouver Canucks.

I picked up on something clearly obvious from NHL on the Fly, specifically that the majority of the Canucks goals went into the top corner of the net because the Oilers goalies – starting with Deslauries-Drouin - were down on their knees in the butterfly as soon as the shots were taken.  So the Canucks keep putting them high and to the glove side and the Oilers goalies – not back catchers – were on their knees reaching up and missing the puck.

The one really nice glove save made by the Oilers goalie was when he didn’t go down and snared a bullet.

If I’m the goalie coach, I tie these goalies to the goalposts and crossbar in the next practice and remind them what it’s like to be hit by a puck.  It’s like they are afraid to be hurt. 

 

If I were running the NHL for just one day…

I would visit each arean and remove that stupid / annoying fog horn that sounds after each goal.

 

Seriously?!?

Do we still need this???

GDP and the NY Yankees

Below you will find a list of the gross domestic product of some countries and a comparison with the amount of money the NY Yankees spent this year on their World Series winning team.  What a wacky world we live in! 

Still with me???  GDP represents the value of all goods and services produced within a nation in a given year.

Yikes!

Here’s the list and yes there are a whole bunch of countries that I’ve never heard of but there are a bunch that everyone knows…

Yankees new ball park 1,500 ($1.5 billion dollars)

Yankees payroll 201 ($201 million dollars)

179	Samoa	1,049
—	Faroe Islands	1,000
180	Vanuatu	988
181	Monaco	976
—	Mayotte	953
182	Guinea-Bissau	904
—	Northern Mariana Islands	900
—	Western Sahara	900
—	British Virgin Islands	853
183	Saint Kitts and Nevis	777
184	Comoros	751
185	Dominica	720
186	Kiribati	579
—	American Samoa	575
187	Tonga	549
188	São Tomé and Príncipe	276
189	Micronesia	238
—	Turks and Caicos Islands	216
—	Cook Islands	183
190	Palau	164
191	Marshall Islands	133
—	Anguilla	109
—	Falkland Islands	75
192	Nauru	60
—	Wallis and Futuna	60
—	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	48
—	Montserrat	29
—	Saint Helena	18
193	Tuvalu	15
—	Niue	10
—	Tokelau	2

 

So the amount of money spent on the NY Yankees this year, 2009, is more than what was produced by the entire population of Samoa and team payroll was greater than the value of what was produced in 12 other countries!

Well done MLB.  No wonder fans are losing touch with the “game”.  Bring back reasonable salaries and $0.25 packs of baseball cards.

The Yankeeeeeeeeeeeessssss…

LOSE.

LOL.

Toronto: World class city… Shitty sports teams…

WTF is wrong with this city?

Can someone… anyone… please field / ice a sports team that doesn’t suck? It’s killing me!

I love this city, don’t get me wrong, but being a sports fan here is about as embarrassing as it can get.

Toronto Maple Leafs? Brutal! 0-7-1 and can’t even tank it to finish last because if they do, the Boston Bruins get their 1st overall draft pick… Ouch.

Toronto Blue Jays? Have a $30 million dollar player in Vernon Wells hitting .236, and their $17 million dollar player, Alex Rios was let go on waivers because their idiot former-GM decided it was better that way than to trade him for live bodies. In a division full of the teams like the Red Sox, Yankees, and (Devil) Rays, they are bound to finish 3rd or 4th from now until eternity.

TFC – Sorry, wanted to type KFC since they acted like headless chickens on steroids after losing a must-win game 5-0 to the just awful NY Red Bulls. No playoffs for this team yet.

Toronto Raptors? So much promise, yet usually disappointing.

Toronto Rock?  The lacrosse team that I have had season’s ticket to for so many years because they are entertaining and cheap are not so entertaining these days and not so cheap anymore.

I don’t even want to discuss the Toronto Argonauts Football club.  They hired an NFL head coach in Bart Andrus and after having their best game of the season being their 1st game of the season, they finished the season with a horrible 3-14 record.  Brutal, eh?  I even went to a game and have watched several on TV and not only did their QB stink, but the team stunk play after play.

Is there another major-league city with more shitty sports teams than Toronto?  If so, please let me know so I won’t feel so bad.

NY Yankees

I can hear their commentator in my head…

Close your eyes and picture it… Listen to his voice…

Thheeeeee Yankeeees LOSE!
Thhhhheeeeeeeeee Yankees LOSE!

Way to go AJ Burnett. 5 years as a Blue Jay, one decent season, also your contract year, with an 18-10 record.

While the Yankees may and probably will win the world series, AJ doesn’t deserve it. You think he was average this year winning only 3 games from July to September… See how he is when there is nothing to play for in his eyes.

There is still something to be said for loyalty!

TNA Bound For Glory review

Saw most of TNA’s Bound for Glory PPV last night and boy was I surprised…

Not only did I find a lot of the work sloppy and dangerous – with some great moves in between, but I found the refereeing terrible in some places, the camera work awful and all that confusion resulted in the commentators being caught off guard and surprised… Not well done at all. I think the production and planning (and writing) let the wrestlers down… Big time!

Off the top of my head, Booker T’s spin-a-rooni and Tara leaving to go attack a fan were both left off tape, while replay’s of great moves were also generally ignored.

My thought is that if the fans are always booing the good-guys, then you must have the worst writers in the world. Recall what happened to the Rock when her ws still new in the WWE. He was booked as a babyface, but the fans hated him so they turned him heel and that kicked off his career.  Why TNA / WCW doesn’t do this will forever kill me.

Take some of the matches for example.  Sting vs. AJ Styles.  Sting should retire after losing the match on a splash from the top rope after having his throat dropped across it.  The referee counted so fast it was clear that he wanted to make that pinfall before there was a kick-out kind of like what happened earlier in the card when there was a pin-fall in which the referee counted 3 but the match continued.  Even the announcers were like, WTF.  Shit lile that should not happen on TNA’s “biggest card of the year”. 

Also crappy was the ending to the Samoa Joe / Bobby “the boss” Lashley match.  Lashley won on a submission that even the announcers missed.  They were surprised, the fans didn’t know what happened, even Lashley seemed shocked.  Considering the fans were behind Joe, that submission should have come out of no-were but been a big – quick – move that everyone will know was deadly, not a little side headlock / choke.  Brutal.

The tag team match was confusing.  Ladders, belts, lots of guys.  Really fucked up.  I would have liked to have seen the belts hanging but both sets so that one team can grab both, or 2 team grab belts.  That way the champion will be a surprise… Not a match of dangerous suplexes off the top of the ladder and having to watch stiff-boy, Steiner and Boo-hoo Booker-T carry most of the match.  Is it really necessary, Vince Russo, for Stein to have to do the same move (ie/ belly-to-belly suplex) to every guy on the mat?  Really?

The Angle – Morgan match was odd as the fans were clearly behind Angle. 

The monster’s ball was gross, didn’t need that unless TNA is trying to put over Daphne.  She rocked.  Sadly, she suffered a broken arm after being tossed off the ring apron onto a board of barbed wire.  The writing and executing of moves was sloppy and careless.  Someone at TNA should lose their job over this PPV.

All in all, good effort, shitty everything else.

Not sure whether to laugh or cry…

I’m not sure whether to laugh or cry at the plight of my Toronto Maple Leafs.  Last season the team teased me by bringing in new GM Brian Burke and with already competent coach Ron Wilson, I figured we were a mere 3-5 years away from respectability.

Sure there were some odd moves – not re-signing Domenic Moore, promising to draft John Tavaras 1st overall then failing to move up from 5th, and in my opinion, the biggest gaffe was not trading away every tradeable commodity at the trade deadline, stockpiling picks and going nuts stocking the system.  Sure we’d suck for years like the NY Islanders, but there would be light at the end of the tunnel.  I would have traded Blake, Ponikerovsky, Kabarle, Van Ryn, Stajan.   I also would have played rookie goalie Justin Pogge a heck of a lot more and if he started to play well, play Curtis Joseph.  I would want this time to stink, and stink big time.  At least if they didn’t get Tavaras first overall, they would have got Hedman second overall… 

But something changed…

In the off-season instead of scoring the Leafs got “tougher”.  Specifically Colton Orr, Mike Komiserak, Jay Rosehill, Garnet Exelby and Francois Beauchemin.  That way, when losing 7-2, like the boys did to the NY Rangers last night, they can beat up the other team.  But wait… They didn’t do that either.

So as much as I like the acquisition of Phil Kessel from the Bruins for 2 1st round picks and a second round pick – the Leafs drafting has always been brutal so why not make this move, but this team has been just horrible.  I sense the same is going to happen, like happened to the Leafs in, what, 1991 when they traded away thier 1st overall draft pick to Tom Kurvers only to finish 2nd last in the league and allow the NJ Devils to draft Scott Neidermayer.  Had they finished last, ahead of the perennially crappy Quebec Nordiques, they would have given Eric Lindros to the Devils.  This year, after 5 games they are in last place.  Right now the top pick, believed to be Taylor Hall, will be a Bruin.  Enough to make me want to cry… or laugh… Not sure.   

Now they MUST make the playoffs!  OR continue to be the laughing stock of the NHL… next to Phoenix, Tampa, the Islanders, Kings, Panthers… Ahh, not so bad… Predators, Atlanta… You get the point.