Comment, baby - come on now!

Hey - why not ask
where's the beef
while you're at it,
pooch?

Oh right...
Some dirty minds out there
might think something of it
- and I don't mean
Asian dog-eaters either
- sic.

The Illogical Wild World Of Sports!

Let me get this straight now:
the Boston Bruins have garnered 5 more points versus the rest of the NHL than the Montreal Canadiens have - but, because, in head-to-head match-ups, the Bruins didn't get any breaks at all (managing only to garner one point in the standings, the dreaded "loser point", in a game they didn't really lose but actually should have won - because "losing" under shootout rules is not really "losing" - it is just forcing out a result when there wasn't any Canadiens garbage goal scored in "real playing" time to steal it for them... But I am digressing, I think...) it is, hence, the Canadiens who are battling the Penguins for top spot in the Eastern Conference...
And the Bruins are battling for mere positioning with the rest of the contenders, in constant danger of being left out from the dance party...

On top of that, in that one game in which Lady Luck ALLOWED the Boston Bruins to collect ONE POINT, at least, against the "Habs" - that sneaky s.o.b. otherwise beloved as Steve Bégin nailed Bruins playmaker Marc Savard FROM BEHIND. There was clearly penalty-worthy material there; but there wasn't any on the play! And Savard hasn't played since. Still, without their top center Savard, without top scorer Patrice Bergeron and without winger Chuck Kobasew too, the Bruins have gone on a winning streak since then. While the Canadiens have become sloppy - and seen their own top guy, Saku, get sacked in the footsie and he is out for "four weeks" just like that. Four WEEKS? Why not say "out A MONTH" - don't you know that four weeks make up a month? Plus, while losing to already eliminated Toronto (beaten twice in a row by Boston - who effectively eliminated the Leafs in the process) the "Habs" managed to get another guy injured too; a mere foot soldier like Francis Bouillon, but still! That is a good start - but some more injuries would be nice to truly see if the Candiens ae "that good" at all. If they are, they should be able to go on a winning streak like the Boston Bruins just did, not play so sloppily the moment they're the FIRST team "qualified for the playoffs"...

Qualified for a hasty elimination too! It was so laughable to see the Montreal rabble scramble for the mere 4000 tickets put on sale for the first round of the playoffs - and most going crazy that they got a pair or up to four tickets! And some would make inane predictions like "we're going all the way this year" - right. That same night, they couldn't beat a team that's already OUT of it: the Maple Leafs!

I don't know how it came to this - but a team like Montreal being able to pass for a "championship caliber team" has got to be right up there with any of Houdini's tricks!

Make it any of that Mindfreak's tricks, rather - Houdini had too much class for Montreal! Criss Angel (he's no angel - but you know it already) is more like your average Guy Carbonneau, Mike Komisarek or Tom Kostopoulos: a poser who does it all with smoke and mirrors! One who can't even SPELL for his own freaking sake - but that is beside the point right now...!)

And speaking of freaking Guy - he who always looks spooked at a post-game mediatic event, even when his team stole another one... I mean, what the hell Guy - you've seen cameras before! You've had to give out PLENTY of excuses before: more than you've had to flaunt anything! You look even more spooked than your namesake, Lafleur, when he went to court because his son is a ruffian who roughs up his girlfriends' fathers!!! And you even look CLUELESS as what to say when your dear Saguenéens de Chicoutimi are involved in barbarics on ice, with your old buddy Pat Roy providing the beatings on your own goalie, via his own ruffian of a son! But of course, how could Guy Carbonneau cry foul there, when his own players don't miss an opportunity to deliver cowardly illegal low blows, one after the other, and get away with it because even two NHL referees are not enough to make ONE good call!

I sincerely hope that the next player laid out and carried away on a stretcher is that little runt Bégin. That bastard had only this to say after cross-checking Marc Savard FROM BEHIND: "I was only playing my game"
(His actual inane words were more abysmal, because he spoke French and phrased it like this: "J'jouais ma game" - sheesh, that is not even his language! That is "Frenglish" and that should cost him another 2 minutes in the box right there! No wonder Saku can't say a word of French - heck, even G.M. Bob Gainey can hardly articulate anything other than gibberish, and he's the G.M. who's been around that town for over 30 years now!!! Bégin, though, has NO EXCUSE - wasn't he BORN THERE?!? He can't play "his game" CLEANLY, can't compete FAIRLY... and he can't even SPEAK HIS OWN MOTHER TONGUE! Truly, utterly PATHETIC!)

It is completely illogical for ANY fan to clamor that their "Glorieux" are any good, or better than any other team - especially the Boston Bruins! These Bruins who handle the Senators much better than the Habs EVER did, even back when they were a truly laughable collection of ''expressly-picked-for-an-expansion-team'' players akin to the ''Mickey Mouses of hockey'' that the New Jersey Devils once were, at least in Wayne Gretzky's mind...! (The Great One - now the coach of the Looney Tunes of hockey, the Phoenix Coyotes! Still looney they are, even though they're lacking the colorful presence of their Yosemite Sam of service, Jeremy Roenick! But I am digressing once again here...)

It is illogical to call the Montreal franchise "Glorieux" to begin with - they inherited tradition of decades past, they didn't accomplish a thing. And chokers like Alexei Kovalev tend to vanish when they are TRULY NEEDED...

Plus: none of the "Habs" have class - a Marc Savard, an Aaron Ward, a Patrice Bergeron, a Phil Kessel, a Marco Sturm, a P.J. Axelsson, a Petteri Nokelainen; now THOSE guys are gentlemen players!

I know - that's illogical too, to be a gentleman, to bring finesse to a game that is sheer brutality on ice. That's why Shawn Thornton was brought in too...
And guys like Jay Miller, Chris Nilan and Bruce Shoebottom were teammates with Ray Bourque, Craig Janney and Cam Neely!

Even classy organizations know that they have to compete - fight fire with fire sometimes!

Even though those who kill by the sword shall perish by the sword.

Even though eye for an eye is not the solution...

But you cannot give pearls to swine either, you know...

Somebody sent me this... And, yes, I am rather lukewarm about it...

Subject: My Earth Hour
Hey, I just signed up to the new Earth Hour website for 2008 and I thought you might like to take a look and possibly sign up too.

Earth Hour is on 29 March 2008 at 8pm,
and it looks like it's going to be really big.

So far, as well as Sydney, there'll also be Adelaide, Atlanta, Bangkok, Brisbane, Canberra, Chicago, Christchurch, Copenhagen, Dublin, Manila, Melbourne, Montreal, Odense, Ottawa, Perth, Phoenix, San Francisco, Suva, Tel Aviv, Toronto and Vancouver all turning off their lights for an hour inthe name of fighting global warming. Even the City of Orillia (the sender is indeed a resident from there; hence the specifity and wonderment about it...) and Town of Huntsville, among others, have joined. I'm sure there'll be more cities by March.

Sign up for Earth Hour with me by visiting http://www.earthhour.org/user/BcfT and join the movement.
See "May You Be Blessed" Here



Hey - I reserve the right to be lukewarm about any doomed planet as I see fit!

But if any one of YOU is interested - be my guest and join up!
Beat a dead horse - or rather, a dying planet - why don't you.

This one goes out to SÃO - and her fave, BRUNO...!

Kitty Falls Asleep Standing

Comme le dirait BRUNO...
"dors, ti-minou... toi qui ne sais pas encore...
tout ce qui t'attend dehors... dans la ruelle...
quand tu seras chat errant!"

Ok - I am sending-up one of those "un-hits" I loathe hearing
on the local radio - one of those crappy songs
"made in Quebec - pure laine" yeah!

São understands
- ela é do mesmo sangue...!

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Bruins win, win, win, win, win, win, lose horribly, lose decently, lose badly, WIN in a rally! Those are the BOSTON BRUINS that we're talking about here though - aye! It is amusing to see the UCLA Bruins varsity club stage a rally (an amazing one, at that) just as the Boston variety does on the year that they scored their 18,000th franchise goal - a feat only one other franchise has done so far... Had to showcase it - though I remain lukewarm about all these teams and all...!

The fact is, at the trade deadline, the Boston team made no moves at all. And GM Peter Chiarelli came up to his players and pronounced such an inspiring speech... that it was suspicious! He said to the likes of David Krejci (who appeared to be shades of DAVE PASIN for the longest time but then scored in consecutive games for the first three goals of his NHL career - first goals that COUNT that is, cause he had scored on shootouts and pre-season games before! Hokey rules belong in hockey, I guess! But that is another story.) and the GM said also to the likes of enforcer Shawn Thornton (who won the Stanley Cup last year, with the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim!) that he "believed in this team."

I wanted to believe in these luminous words - and so did the Bruins players who then went on a tear, defeating the Senators 4-0 and Penguins 5-1 among others, building their confidence while looking like a good team and sometimes maybe even like a dominating team! But then a debacle in Washington happened and all the flaws became apparent again... :(
And my back-up theory for what the GM was really doing sprang back up to mind (almost in sync with the hour springing forward again, as Daylight Saving Time goes into effect as the NHL season, for its part, winds down - and once a shoo-in to make the playoffs, the B's have to engage in a dogfight to the end just to make it to the dance!) - and the theory is this: Chiarelli really wanted to trade away a couple more young blooming talents (as he traded away Boyes, Bochenski and Kalus - he was willing to deport the likes of Kessel, Krejci and maybe Kobasew too... Hmm, the KKK?!? Maybe it would have been a good idea too - who knows!?) in order to get Marian Hossa. That didn't work out - so he had to make the troops believe that THAT was his plan all along - not mess with the chemistry this team has between Chara, Murray, Lucic, Metropolit, Schaefer and, for the most part, Savard, Sturm and, when he's there, Bergeron. He had to convince them that he BELIEVED IN THIS TEAM - motivate these troops that will go the rest of the way without any additional "help" (or liabilities really, as many late seasons pick-ups turn out to be oftentimes!)

That sort of psychology can work - for a time!
Hopefully it will not have worn out already - as there is a month to go still BEFORE the playoffs start - and then such confidence is REALLY required IN THE PLAYOFFS THEMSELVES... Especially for the sometimes fragile psyches of the GOALIE creatures (hey, B's goalie Tim Thomas himself used the word "fragile" - so...)

Thomas has to toughen then- if not, Alex Auld is the capable hired gun. And there are two aces in the hole (to be used when the team's not already in a hole but when there's the slightest danger of falling into one!) and those are Tuuka Rask and Emmanuel Fernandez (Heaven Willing he comes back to play THIS YEAR...!)

Because moves must be made before desperation sets in!

Desperation H-O-R-S-E-like shots work in basketball - it worked for the UCLA Bruins. But no such tricks work in Boston Bruins hockey! Alas!

All the more reason for me to remain at best lukewarm about this team... eh?

I'm not in Chiarelli The Chia Pet's motivator-cause-my-job's-at-stake shoes, anyway...