Some Words

It was a good day for Detroit sports. The Tigers have the 4th best record in MBL while on a 7 game winning streak (though it’s so early that doesn’t mean a whole lot just yet) and the Pistons are up 2-0 in the second round against Chicago.

But most importantly, the Redwings won their second round matchup against the Sharks. In the West, there were only two teams that I would think could take the Wings out, and they were the Sharks and the Ducks. Sadly, the Wings are up against the Ducks now in the Western Conference Finals. The Wings are now missing two of their top four D-men. I don’t know if they will make it through. Also sad to me is that the guy who went down in game five this round was Mathieu Schneider. I feel this weird tribal pride in him, as he’s the highest scoring Jewish hockey player ever. He was also eating up 23 minutes a game on the back end, which leaves 45 year old Chelios to take much of his time. If anyone can do it’s Chelios, but one would prefer he didn’t have to prove it.

But to celebrate getting past the second round, here is a Don Cherry picture I was saving for a special occasion:

That one comes from Daymented. I’ll be honest, I’m just doing google image searches for these suits. I need to find Cherry’s tailor. The guy must be blind now.

P.S. Open message to Eric. I was going to start some old fashioned trash talkin with you about the Pistons/Bulls series, but it’s just not going to be fun, as the Pistons are making the Bulls look like D leaguers.

The Redwings are still alive, having dominated the Flames in game 5, and so far it’s been a pretty exciting first round. I don’t know if Dallas and the Wings both pull out their series they’d play each other in the second round. Two weeks ago I would have loved that. But Marty Turco has posted a shutout in all three of the Stars wins. He also got two of the losses into overtime, the first game went to fourth overtime. Does anyone really want a piece of a goalie when he gets that hot? I don’t think so, but then again none of the other teams would look like easy targets either.

Anyhow, celebratory Don Cherry posting:

I haven’t forgotten about novellas… nope…

Randomly stumbled upon this article which sums up my feelings about hockey this season quite nicely.

Bill Simons likes to talk about Stern’s genius with the NBA. Stern really does make it tempting to believe in a conspiracy. Bettman really does make you want slam your head against a wall.

Can’t the fucking Florida Panthers just get moved to Seattle already? Oh wait, with the way that league is run, Seattle will want nothing to do with them, even with the Supersonics going bye bye.

Hockey Pre-Season has started. Today the Wild beat the Wings 2-3. My consolation is that the Wings only dressed something like two members of their team last year. The wild had Demetria and Gaborik on the ice, plus Fernandez in goal. It was frustrating driving to work today, as I had to go past the Xcel Energy Center, where the game was played. There were no broadcasts of the game that I could get either.

Boing Boing seems to have started in on a project using what amounts to micropayments. I was never quite sure I bought into the guys at Goats debunking the idea. Still, I don’t know of anyone making it work very well so far. Good luck to Boing Boing’s Emporium. I would love to think it will be a huge success. It’s a great sounding model when you belive it works.