Sweet Tea, Barbecue, and Bodychecks
The one year I take only the most peripheral of interest in the ASG weekend, Eric Staal wins the Whalercanes’ first-ever MVP honours. According to what little I saw on Versus, the game was actually fun to watch–I did see Ovechkin’s attempt at a “trick shot”, though. OK, and I saw Nabokov keep messing up Martin St. Louis’ attempts to be cute with an occasional pokecheck. That was actually pretty funny. And I also felt the disturbance in the force that was the collective angst of Islanders Nation when DiPietro was caught on audio saying “FUCK! My hip!” 15 years, huh? Egad.
Former Carolina Hurricanes’ prospect Nate Hagemo is currently sitting in the Hennepin County lockup on drug charges after getting busted with paraphernalia in a low-rent part of Minneapolis. From this mugshot here, I am betting that he’s a tweaker–which is not a good thing. The ‘Canes helped him once before when he had issues with addiction, but now? He’s on his own, and his “comeback” attempt is pretty much hosed.
Shortly before the weekend, Luke DeCock made a very good argument for the Triangle finally getting the ASG. The NHL made a promise to us some years ago, and they have yet to deliver on it while we’ve been busting our asses to do whatever it takes to get the ASG in our town–including busting ass to get to 12,309 season tickets before the start of the 2001-2002 season (whether the numbers were fudged by people no longer with the org or not is another issue–but the League agreed that the effort was sufficient and vowed to deliver on their end of the bargain…which, of course, never happened). Want five-star hotel accomodations? We got it (wish I could afford to spend the night there). Want stuff to do? We got it. We even have a pretty good hockey team here. C’mon Gary, it’s time to finally man up and deliver on that oath.
Tomorrow the Hurricanes take on the Rangers at the RBC. I’ll be heading right over from work, which should be fun. “Hello RBC parkbots, here’s $8 so that you don’t call somebody to tow my car that’s been parked there since 9 AM.”
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Guess the All-Star break is the pause that refreshes.
Nice little win over the Rangers. I hate the MSG announcers. But at least I got to see the game thanks to TWC and the CI preview.
Oh I hope this is the beginning of a winning streak!
Low rent? There’s not a house on that block that sells for less than $750,000.
Because, of course, the average home value determines whether or not it’s a place where tweakers, crackheads, and blazers hang out.
Right.