Beard of the Day - May 18th - Yosemite Sam

I like to add in all the old chat phrases, too, cause I know you love them. :)

I’m not sure I’ll like it, but I was a headbanger back in the day, and Master of Puppets is always queued up in the cassette player in the car. Never know when you may need to drive fast.

 I don’t think I’ve gone over the line anywhere here, but if so apologies. As I said in that analysis fan post, the reference to trolling in the subject line was a joke meant to draw eyes. I’m a hockey fan that likes reading and interacting with a variety of blogs, and I’m definitely not looking to come into your house and make a mess all over the premises.

Yell an obscenity at me after the Hawks score? I can deal, I’m an adult, you’re celebrating. Call me a bleeping so and so out of the blue, just because I don’t drink the Blackhawk flavored kool-aid and I have the temerity to show up here? I’m going to have a problem with that, and so should you. But I’m not going to respond in kind. A pissing match isn’t fun. A little back and forth? That’s more like it, and frankly, it’d be boring, like Trixie might say, if we were just Kumbayahing the whole time. So yeah, you went off on a rant….that’s cool. But, I don’t agree with many of your points, as I lay out below…

1) CK’s right about the ‘eh’ being bugs bunny…I’ve been to Canda plenty of times, mostly when I went to school within 40 minutes of the border, because the drinking age is 19 in Canada. Plus, with the exchange rate, you could get wasted for about $5.

2) You want to talk about disrespectful, take a peek at the Satan’s Asshole fanpost on this site.

3) But you don’t see me going off on that, because I know that that post is the opinion of one person, not representative of this site, or of the Blackhawks fanbase in any way.

4) If you think the economy hasn’t affected the Lions, Pistons, or Tigers sales figures, you’re misinformed.

5) Troy Crowder? Did he even play more than 10 games in a Wings uniform? I hated the fact that we picked him up, because he was totally worthless as a hockey player….I don’t remember him overlapping with Kocur at all, but I could be wrong. And I don’t remember anything called the “death wish” line. I think you pulled that one out of your…ummm….well, out of thin air anyway….

6) Yzerman, Shanahan and company didn’t win anything until they had a full Russian 5 line playing alongside them. Somehow, I don’t think you’d find too many Wings fans who’d trade so many years of close but no cigar for the 3 Stanley Cups that the European players helped win, and the 4th last year that they led the way to winning.

“Some Wings fans” can say anything they want, but they’re nowhere near the majority.

7) Seriously, did you really think the “no one cares about” post was about hockey fans or hockey fans in Detroit? The biggest point there was about Versus, and the disservice it’s doing the league by providing coverage that hockey fans disparage, and yet isn’t accesible to casual watchers, including this point by some guy you may have heard of,

“Worse news: no less than Rocky Wirtz is quoted in it: "Quite frankly, I don’t believe people know what Versus is, and I still don’t know what they do.”

8) How far are you away from the truth about fan support in Detroit? Honestly, I don’t know, I’ve been away from the home region for 6 years now. Just recognize that the economy in Michigan, and in SE Michigan particularly is further in the tank than most of the rest of the country. That said, I didn’t notice all the empty seats at the Joe until the last minute of the game, when things were well in hand for the Wings….was I just missing ’em all along?

9) Not that you did this, hawks61, but allow me to make the point that comparing the Detroit and Chicago bases can be a little misleading. Chicago has a larger fan base, and a richer one comparatively, and the excitement in Chicago for the Hawks is a brand new thing. If, in 2029, there’s another bad recession, and the Hawks have been consistently in the upper echelon of the NHL from now until then, then there may be a comparison to be made. That I make that point might in its own way prove yours, that in some way the thrill in Detroit surrounding the Red Wings has diminished. But then again, officially, yesterday’s game was a sellout….officially….for whatever that’s worth…

10) March 26, 1997 was one of the greatest nights of my life. Fighting in hockey is cool in my book. Winning Stanley Cups is cooler. just sayin’

11) I’ll say this about Winging it in Motown….it’s rising, and it’s about time. I’m glad Christy took on a couple of good bloggers like MrNorrisTrophy and Joehass who are on there regularly. I like the low key approach they have right now. But it’s not, by far, the leading Wings blog, by comment volume or readership, not by a long shot. For that, you should probably check out A2Y (linked to at the start of yesterday’s game thread). But then again, if you were offended by the relatively tame post you refer to in your rant, you might want to stay far away from A2Y….

12) I’ll admit to laughing at being called a Canadian by a guy who used the word “Favour” in his post. Why you Unamerican so and so!