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Don’t Doubt Me…Ever
by IwoCPO on 07/07/08 at 02:52 AM ET
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The odd relationship between you, the A2Y 19, and I continues.
I wrote a post the other day, one that was rife with startling coincidence and generational metaphors that should have left all 19 of you more than a little shaken at my abilities to tie seemingly unrelated pop cultural milestones to current Red Wing late breakers.
Instead, you elected to point and laugh at me. At least one of you questioned my loyalty to America’s greatest rock and roll band simply because I mentioned the Sammy Hagar era. I know. Much of America is still split into the Hagar and Roth camps. It was a gutsy move on my part, sure to irritate many of you.
But what you didn’t know at the time?
Is that I saw this coming bitches.
Speaking of old fat guys past their prime but still hanging on, your boy Gary has shafted us again. It looks like Wings/Hawks from Chicago on 1 Jan.
Traditional New Year’s Eve game? Disregarded. Thanks Gary. Ass.
Filling the Big House or Ford Field with a UM/MSU appetizer? Too good of an idea. Not gonna happen. Thanks Gary. Ass.
41,000 at Wrigley Field? 2,000 tickets, at my estimation and that may be hopeful, for Wing fans? Thanks Gary. Ass.
Mikey ought to push back just on principle.
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RWBill, now you’re starting to scare ME.Posted by AndrewFromAnnArbor from beneath the Red Flag, saluting it on 07/11 at 04:35 AM
Well, my actions on my birthday look like they will be limited to a very socially safe moving furniture around, mopping and resurfacing my dining room floor with high gloss polyurethane.
However with any luck that will not be the last reference to hardwood you hear from me today, even if it’s due to imagination (Osrt knows the deal).
Imagination, hmmm….
“RWBill Pleeeezze Take Me. Oh THANK you, Master”
Why do I feel like I’m 15 again? It’s The 19 I’m hanging around with.
Posted by RWBill from the Land of 12 in 12. on 07/11/08 at 11:19 AM ET
Now I have to work on putting the puck in the net with the power of my mind!
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 07/11 at 08:54 AM
Holy Cow! The similarity between Baroque and my childhood (and present day) fantasy is astounding!
Posted by RWBill from the Land of 12 in 12. on 07/11/08 at 11:24 AM ET
LOL. You just know that RWBill didn’t have to search the net for those images; they were sitting there on his computer just waiting for him to polish his…floor.
they were handed their moneymakers by former Party apparatchik cronies after the breakup of Communism.
+1 for using apparatchik in a hockey related post.
Has anyone else watched the Championship DVD yet? I think it’s pretty well done and worth the price for the on-ice and in game comments. Very cool stuff. Oddly, some of the play-by-play audio they use sounds like Dave Straiter (sp?). Does anyone know if and for whom he worked the Cup finals?
One of the bonus features is audio from Maltby during a practice; he’s clowning around and keeps everyone laughing. Good stuff. Makes you miss hockey like a mofo…
Posted by Osrt on 07/11/08 at 11:52 AM ET
If Lidstrom winds up haveing a shooting percentage of 65%
Hell, if half of William Tell’s shots actually find the fecking GOALIE, never mind the back of the net, next year, then I’ll assume it’s your psychokinesis at work. A man can dream, right?
Psychokinesis. Penalty Kill. Both abbreviated PK for some kozmic reason…
There was a small blurb about him playing a show here
Not the weirdest I’ve heard of. There’s Big Time and the infamous Quick Stop story (among others), and I saw him a few years ago on the Mule Variations tour in Amsterdam. He must have gotten down to a coffeehouse beforehand, is all I can say. Then again, the Berlin show wasn’t much less surreal…
Posted by AndrewFromAnnArbor from the lab, unlocking the Secrets Of The Universe on 07/11/08 at 12:01 PM ET
Oddly, some of the play-by-play audio they use sounds like Dave Straiter (sp?). Does anyone know if and for whom he worked the Cup finals?
I’d guess NHL Radio.
Thanks for the heads up. 
Posted by YzermanZetterberg on 07/11/08 at 12:31 PM ET
No prob YZ.
I forgot one of the best parts: The Legends Dinner! Ted, Marcel, Gordie amongst others reminiscing about their days. Great storytellers, and Ted is as charming and charismatic as anyone you’ve ever met.
Posted by Osrt on 07/11/08 at 03:36 PM ET
Jesus, so this is how I finished my birthday after 6 hours of cleaning the dining room and applying polyurethane clear gloss - talking to a dance instructor at Capital Ale House in Richmond for 3 hours? Jesus what a bust of a birthday. Didn’t even get her digits. I know, I’ve only got myself to blame. I still hold the unreachable goal of Barbara Eden in my mind.
Posted by RWBill from the Land of 12 in 12. on 07/12/08 at 12:29 AM ET
6 hours of cleaning the dining room and applying polyurethane clear gloss
RW Bill…always the pragmatist. Prepping the dance floor before retiring to a local watering hole for, uh um, interviews. “If you build it they will come” (Apologies to to Kevin Costner)
Happy belated B-Day RW!!!
Posted by Rumbear from Sun D'Eggo on 07/12/08 at 09:30 AM ET
Geez Bill…what a shame.
Why would you waste 3 hours talking to a dance instructor? Everyone knows dancers make poor hockey fans…she did you a favor by not giving you her number. Imagine you getting her number, starting to date….maybe things get serious, the next thing you know she will convince you that the ballet on Saturday night is more enjoyable than a silly hockey game. Oh, and why do you spend so much time talking to those 19 immature friends of yours when you could be talking to me (for 3 more hours….thus missing another hockey game.) She will never understand why you spend money on Red and White things and she will always think Sidney Crosby is a “cutie pie”....dancers like people like him. Oh, and she’ll convince you that all that fighting in hockey gets your testosterone flowing and would prefer you watch the game somewhere other than home because you’re too loud and might wake the kids up….so you start watching the game at the bar. One particular night when Lilja scores twice (on his own net) and the Wings lose to the Las Vegas Leopards 7-1 you have an extra cocktail to numb the pain and get pulled over on the way home….lose your license and your insurance goes through the roof. Your roof starts leaking during the conference finals and you go to Home Depot to buy some shingles and decide to stop at some crappy hole in the wall bar in Richmond only to find your wife sitting there involved in a 3 hour conversation about football which is suddenly her favorite sport even though she’s never watched it. She leaves you the next day for the meatball at the bar who just happens to be a relative of Dan Marino and is rich, good looking, and has a roof that doesn’t leak.
Happy Birthday, sir. It was better than you think!
Posted by Scott H from Kalamazoo on 07/12/08 at 11:55 AM ET
Or you could’ve had a glorious one night stand that made all fantasies of Barbara Eden disappear…
...jus sayin…
Posted by Osrt on 07/12/08 at 01:18 PM ET
RWBill, you were snapping pictures of her cleavage when she wasn’t looking, and yet she passed up on handing over her number?
Shocking. 
Posted by Gabriel from San Diego, CA on 07/12/08 at 06:34 PM ET
Posted by Scott H from Kalamazoo on 07/12 at 12:55 PM
That entire post was brilliant. Little did I know I had been prepping the dance floor.
Osrt I see is still out trolling for Cat.
RWBill, you were snapping pictures of her cleavage when she wasn’t looking..
Posted by Gabriel from San Diego, CA on 07/12 at 07:34 PM
<SIGH> I am truly ashamed of what I have become.
Posted by RWBill from the Land of 12 in 12. on 07/12/08 at 07:31 PM ET
Also, very depressing to learn from a dance instructor, apparently the following songs are no longer the hot dance hits at discos.
“Der Komissar’s in town oh-oh”, “Freeze Frame”, and “My Angel is a Centerfold”.
When did that happen?
Posted by RWBill from the Land of 12 in 12. on 07/12/08 at 08:19 PM ET
Osrt I see is still out trolling for Cat.
HAH…touche friend…touche
Posted by Osrt on 07/13/08 at 12:58 AM ET
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i don’t know what esoteric means, but using my powers of deduction, i’m going to assume that the word esoteric is an esoteric word.
Andrew, I think you mentioned Tom Waits before. I went back to look but couldn’t find it. Anyway, I had never heard of him until I was in my second office (the one with the porcelain chair) at work, reading the paper. There was a small blurb about him playing a show here, and it being hot as balls in there because he told venue to crank up the heat.
Posted by rwingscup19 from Dallas on 07/11/08 at 08:57 AM ET