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by IwoCPO on 06/08/09 at 09:49 AM ET
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And just as I’m about to head to the airport…I see this.
Some tool at Puck Daddy who isn’t Wyshysnski
More of this drivel is available at Abel to Yzerman (“I’m sure there was discussion about the ‘tired’ remarks and the thoughts from esteemed writers like Helene Elliott, gushing and babbling happily about the ‘end of the Wing dynasty’”).
Please, everyone that isn’t a Detroit fan (i.e. tolerable people): Let us join together to issue a formal apology for ever having believed that anyone that is not the Red Wings would win this Stanley Cup, with a corollary that Chris Osgood(notes) is at least twice as good as Ken Dryden and Little Caesars has the best pizza on the planet.
Not sure what “The Two Line Pass” is up to, what he’s talking about, who he is or who he roots for. And I don’t have time to deal with him/her/it right now. Please someone review his literature and let me know if it’s something we should be discussing.
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So, everyone ... How ‘bout those Red Wings?
They’re pretty good.
Posted by Incognetis from Delaware... Hi... I'm in... Delaware on 06/08/09 at 04:29 PM ET
Andrew, I do believe I have offered my hand in friendship to O-Joe. No response yet. I am ready to move on. The ball is in his court.
Posted by calquake on 06/08/09 at 04:29 PM ET
So, everyone ... How ‘bout those Red Wings?
One more to go!
Posted by hockeychic from Denver, CO on 06/08/09 at 04:30 PM ET
Just a little public service announcement, it is free to join the National Bone Marrow registry June 8 - 22,
Much as I’d love to, being another touchy-feely do-gooder, the great irony is that I can’t. I used to donate blood regularly back in the States, but the International Red Cross in Europe won’t accept my blood since I’m American. And now that I’ve lived overseas for over three years, the Red Cross in the States will no longer accept my blood.
I may have to start pretending I’m emo and cut myself. (Or is that ‘over the line?’)
Posted by AndrewFromAnnArbor from Fortress Europe on 06/08/09 at 04:30 PM ET
FWIW, Wysh, I’m pretty sure half the post-lockout rules were designed to stop the New Jersey Devils. The fact that they didn’t is testament either to the League’s ineptness or your own team’s excellence.
They didn’t? Relatively speaking, maybe not (3 division titles since the lockout ended), but the Devils have been bounced in the first round twice and the second round twice. Nowhere near their pre-lockout glory with the dreaded trap that produced 3 Cups for them.
Posted by EFWolverine from Dearborn on 06/08/09 at 04:30 PM ET
Another whiny do-gooder who’s only been around a short while.
Nice attempt at a troll. I daresay you’re beginning to sound a lot like Jimmy, our friend from Windsor.
Posted by Alan from Atlanta on 06/08/09 at 04:32 PM ET
In regards to Red Wings: Do you think St. Nick will hand the Cup to Hossa if the Wings win tomorrow?
Posted by calquake on 06/08/09 at 04:32 PM ET
Jen - I hope your Mom is doing well. My Mom is currently battling cancer as well and so is one of my closest friends at work (this for the 4th time).
@hockeychic - thankfully, she’s been in remission for a little over 5 years now. Knock on wood. (Yes, I’m even superstitious about that.) I sincerely hope the best for your mom and your friend (and you - it’s never easy feeling helpless that you can’t do anything to make it all better.) Sending positive thoughts your way.
Posted by Jennemy of the Skate from putting the b*tches in the box on 06/08/09 at 04:33 PM ET
They didn’t?
Well, okay, so they’re not as ‘good’ as they used to be, but the new rules were not anywhere near the brick wall for the trap as they were envisioned to be. I think the decline of the Devils is more due to personnel turnover, problems scoring (heh…sure), and the lynchpin of their defense in goal succumbing to the inevitable aging.
And Calquake, I know you did offer the olive branch, and that’s big of you. I’m waiting too, but if he doesn’t, I don’t think you should take it personally. Let’s all just drop this and move on.
Posted by AndrewFromAnnArbor from Fortress Europe on 06/08/09 at 04:34 PM ET
And now that I’ve lived overseas for over three years, the Red Cross in the States will no longer accept my blood.
Is that the rule? I feel kind of ashamed admitting this, but I’ve never donated blood… mainly because I didn’t think I was allowed to. I studied in England for 6 months in late 2000/early 2001, and I was always told that I wouldn’t be able to donate blood because of the extended stay in the UK. I didn’t realize 3 years was the cutoff, but I never bothered to ask.
Posted by Incognetis from Delaware... Hi... I'm in... Delaware on 06/08/09 at 04:35 PM ET
Heh, awesomely oversized, that is.
Probably should have checked that first. Mea culpa there.
Posted by J.J. from Kansas on 06/08/09 at 04:37 PM ET
Holy shit, people.
***
In regards to Red Wings: Do you think St. Nick will hand the Cup to Hossa if the Wings win tomorrow?
Yes. And then Michel Therrien.
Posted by Triple Deke Tyler from Lansing on 06/08/09 at 04:37 PM ET
Is that the rule?
That’s what I was told by the Michigan Red Cross last time I was there and I went with my sister to donate blood. I even showed them my old donor card, but no dice. I may have had a nice steak frites or two in my time here, but I hardly think my blood’s going to kill anyone. Eh. Their loss. I’ll just have to channel my altruistic streak into some other worthy causes.
Posted by AndrewFromAnnArbor from Fortress Europe on 06/08/09 at 04:38 PM ET
J.J., that’s freakin classic. They do good work over there when not wiping their own dribble off their keyboards.
Posted by Incognetis from Delaware... Hi... I'm in... Delaware on 06/08/09 at 04:38 PM ET
Wishing someone’s cancer back is just not funny, no matter what.
This is something that reaches beyond the pipes and tubes and hits close to home for many.
I’ve lost an uncle to lymphoma, my Father has battled 2 forms of cancer and is well today. 3 other uncles on the same side of the family have had one form of cancer or another. Most likely with the family history, I have a battle looming before I take my dirt nap too. Feel free to take a cheap shot as I may have it in my future not my past.
I’m no touchy feely do-gooder, but I don’t wish that disease upon anyone.
I’ve met as many of the 19 in person as anyone, but I’ve only been around for less than 2 years… so my opinion isn’t as valid or valued?
Back to hockey or STFU bitches.
One game, one win away.
Posted by MOWingsfan19 on 06/08/09 at 04:40 PM ET
Alot people have sand up places…these “off days” must’ve thrown off the groove. Off day in the SCF, Gary. Ass? What the hell?
Posted by mrfluffy from Long Beach on 06/08/09 at 04:42 PM ET
DO NOT let what the trolls have said get so far under your skin that they turn you against each other. If that happens, it doesn’t matter what team wins in the Finals, because their fans have just beaten ours.
Just trying to help you out, Sheriff. Look at how all your deputies have ridden in on their [high] horses to confront me. If that isn’t proof to the Wyshysnskis, Chens and Melting Faces of the blogging world that most Wings fans aren’t, unlike myself, classless jerks, what is?
(Hey, I do what I can, cuz I’m a team-player—*shrug*).
Posted by O-Joe on 06/08/09 at 04:42 PM ET
In regards to Red Wings: Do you think St. Nick will hand the Cup to Hossa if the Wings win tomorrow?
Posted by calquake on 06/08/09 at 05:32 PM ET
Shut that whore mouth, with all respect to my elder and all.
Posted by MOWingsfan19 on 06/08/09 at 04:42 PM ET
Joe, i don’t think it is a touchy-feely thing. It is more of a generation gap.
We were raised differently.
but I remember back in the ‘70’s (dead wing years)...
I hated a lot of fans…Montreal, Boston, Philly…
But only because those cockroach fans would climb out of the woodwork and invade my space.
They would fill the Red Barn to the rafters, obnoxious as hell. Fair weather fans that only root for the current winning team. Normal to me was 4-5,000 and many from Windsor. They knew their hockey, and behaved properly. It just was irritating as hell to have Olympia fill up with thee scum that were excited by these team they were never allowed to watch (no cable back then).
In spite of that, one thing I never engaged in was Trash Talk.
(that is the generational thing)
There were standards and the MSM did not promote that sort of stuff,
nor engage in it.
a little tongue and cheek
some humor
some satire…
I’m all for it.
But ‘Trash Talk’ is unacceptable..to me…
(especially the vicious variety)
When I see a long string of that crap coming I avoid this site for a little while.
It is also a reflection on the trash talkers background and ancestry. I would
be much more proud of the 19 if they all avoided it.
Just my opinion,
not wearing any armbands here…
everyone should decide for themselves.
I have learned over the years that hockey fans are about the same
regardless of the team they follow….It is kind of a brotherhood..
And there are still too few, Kind of tough enlisting new fans when
the first thing you try to teach them is there are a lot more people
that they need to hate.
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Legion of 19….nice…but…maybe too respectable.
I thiink I prefer:
A2Y-19 Band of Bitches
Posted by HockeyTownTodd on 06/08/09 at 04:44 PM ET
Right then 19, I’m off to a belated bedtime, but I leave you with this apropos quote:
“Watch ye therefore, for ye know not when the master of the house cometh.”
Behave yourselves, Bitches.
Posted by AndrewFromAnnArbor from Fortress Europe on 06/08/09 at 04:44 PM ET
Best wishes to your friend, that’s an extremely tough procedure.
Thanks, hockeychic. He is in Bethesda, MD now for the next 6 months. Here’s to hoping he beats this thing for good this time!
Thanks for the tip, but I don’t get to the Lake Michigan shoreline nearly as much as I should—I was last in Ludington four years ago, and the next time I go it’ll probably get to get The Badger over to Manitowoc for a tour of Frank Lloyd Wright houses in Wisconsin & Illinois, as Mrs. Andrew is a big FLW fan.
Not sure if the Badger is still running or not. I spent most of my weekends up at Hamlin Lake over the last 29 years. Unfortunately, it’s no longer just a 2 hour drive! I miss that place. Last I was there, though, there were rumblings about shutting down one of the ferries. Especially with the new high speed ferry running from Muskegon.
Posted by clemshady from Greenwood, SC on 06/08/09 at 04:47 PM ET
Shut that whore mouth, with all respect to my elder and all.
Posted by MOWingsfan19 on 06/08/09 at 05:42 PM ET
I think you missed the important word there “if”. I presume nothing. But, just to satisfy you… 
Posted by calquake on 06/08/09 at 04:54 PM ET
Mo - that Absolut bottle looks might familiar…
And O-Joe.
I certainly have a penchant for the borderline, but the cancer thing was bush league.
Posted by TeamDub from The gratch. on 06/08/09 at 05:00 PM ET
In regards to Red Wings: Do you think St. Nick will hand the Cup to Hossa if the Wings win tomorrow?
I just puked in my mouth a little.
Posted by Red Winger from Sault Ste Marie on 06/08/09 at 05:02 PM ET
Hey you guys! What’s going on?
Posted by cephalopod from Chicago...nope, still not over it. on 06/08/09 at 05:15 PM ET
I certainly have a penchant for the borderline, but the cancer thing was bush league.
Oh, good Lord, not you too? You’re the last person I would suspect to turn, not given your history (and mine) here with the Bay Area fellas a few years back.
Whatever.
The Vladdie thing was bush league, as was the Pitt troll wishing all in Detroit to lose their jobs. As Gramps said, it’s a generational thing. I come from a place where you fight fire with fire.
You carry on, though, as if you don’t have a history here of playing dirty.
Posted by O-Joe on 06/08/09 at 05:15 PM ET
(about two years ago).
That about the time you bailed on A2Y?
Glad you didn’t stick around my “vanilla” site, because comments from you may have been the one exception to my rule about a piss-poor commentariat having no effect on the quality of the blog. Fortunately for you, and for Bill, the quality of everyone else here is enough to eclipse (and then some) your own personal gaping singularity of classlessness.
As to your earlier accusation, my contributions here may not match the quantity or quality of some of the other true 19, but I have contributed here in good faith over the years, and not as a means to drive hits to my “joke” of a site. I have never given a frack about hits, or else I would have hitched my pony to any number of blogging networks out there. I blog there because I love it, and I want a record of this team down the road.
I will not have a sniveling asswipe like yourself question my blogging ethics.
Posted by Matt Saler from Grand Rapids, MI on 06/08/09 at 05:17 PM ET
I will not have a sniveling asswipe like yourself question my blogging ethics
So, what’s everyone’s’ plans for the summer??
Posted by Red Winger from Sault Ste Marie on 06/08/09 at 05:20 PM ET
Sorry, I committed apostrophe apostasy.
Posted by Red Winger from Sault Ste Marie on 06/08/09 at 05:24 PM ET
I will not have a sniveling asswipe like yourself question my blogging ethics.
That’s exactly what I’ve done and am doing.
If you’re not interested in trolling for hits to your lame blog, remove the link to it when someone clicks on your name here.
Disgusting, shameless mooching…
Posted by O-Joe on 06/08/09 at 05:25 PM ET
Being hated as a Wings fan is nothing new to me. I’ve endured 14 years of it out here (you haven’t lived until people throw pennies at you at a hockey game, I tell ya).
I feel your pain. I’m an Av’s fan, but a hockey fan, and I’m stuck living around people who genuinely can’t get over 10 years ago. I get railed every day from someone about my hockey opinion and how it doesn’t matter because I’m not one of “their” teams’ fans. I understand completely…
Here’s to empathy!!! *Toast*
Posted by Dust X from Grand Rapids, MI on 06/08/09 at 05:26 PM ET
Sorry, I committed apostrophe apostasy.
Posted by Red Winger from The Soo on 06/08/09 at 06:24 PM ET
Easy for you to say.
Posted by calquake on 06/08/09 at 05:29 PM ET
Mo - that Absolut bottle looks might familiar…
No clue where I got it from, but certainly not my creations. In true 19 fashion…. I stole it. I can build any piece of furniture in a house & make 3-d CAD drawings… but photoshop I don’t do.
Did you ever get a new rifle Dub? I seem to semi remember you mentioning that awhile back?
My summer plans are to hang out with the family around the pool and get ready for deer seasons. I do have a woodshop I should find my way back into as well…. long playoff runs seem to put alot of things on the back burner here.
Posted by MOWingsfan19 on 06/08/09 at 05:32 PM ET
The Chief isn’t going to be happy when he checks in, seeing all this in-fighting.
We need to regroup. It’s been a long, long year, and we’re on the verge. Tension is high and nerves are frayed. It is natural.
But we need to clean up this place before Chief gets back.
In ninety minutes we’re less than 24 hours from the biggest game of the year.
Time to refocus.
Posted by Red Winger from Sault Ste Marie on 06/08/09 at 05:34 PM ET
O-Joe, listen.
You and I know both know that, despite my recent history of being relatively calm, I have no problem busting out the internet shiv from time to time. I am about as un-PC as one can be while still managing to avoid a stay at a secret Obama unicorn ranch/work camp.
That being said, making fun of over-the-top fems from the left coast who sway to Depeche Mode whilst fondling their Getzlaugh posters is one thing, wishing cancer on someone is entirely different.
Entirely.
I don’t mind a healthy, asterisk-laden back and forth with deserving idiots, but some things just simply aren’t funny or warranted.
Vladdie. Cancer.
Kind of a surprising equivocation from you.
Posted by TeamDub from The gratch. on 06/08/09 at 05:36 PM ET
Jesus O-Joe, let it go man.
BTW Saler, did you know that your site is blocked at work due to pornography? WTF mate?
Posted by moore00 from Columbus, OH/Grand Rapids, MI on 06/08/09 at 05:36 PM ET
The Chief isn’t going to be happy when he checks in, seeing all this in-fighting.
We need to regroup. It’s been a long, long year, and we’re on the verge. Tension is high and nerves are frayed. It is natural.
But we need to clean up this place before Chief gets back.
In ninety minutes we’re less than 24 hours from the biggest game of the year.
Time to refocus.
Posted by Red Winger from The Soo on 06/08/09 at 06:34 PM ET
Consider the hatchet buried…. sorry O-Joe I didn’t realize that was your back. 
I apologize and extend my hand…
Posted by calquake on 06/08/09 at 05:39 PM ET
Mo -
I’m buried with an accelerated summer school schedule in a futile attempt to hasten the end of my educational suffering, so the rifle is on the back burner.
I have been looking at a Remington 700 VTR in .308 though…
Posted by TeamDub from The gratch. on 06/08/09 at 05:41 PM ET
If you’re not interested in trolling for hits to your lame blog, remove the link to it when someone clicks on your name here. Disgusting, shameless mooching…
I’m not going to speak for Matt, and I’m not necessarily implying that you, O-Joe, would claim that anyone that has their KK name linked to their own site is a self-promoting douche bag (although that may very well be what you think, the point is I don’t know) ...
... but as someone who links his site when he leaves comments, I would say I do it out of some kind of “Internet integrity”, or something. That is, I’d like to have one internet identity instead of many, which might be the case if I comment under multiple names. It’s about accountability I think. Even earlier this year a couple 19 members acknowledged that they didn’t know I was the same guy who wrote the site that I write, so providing a link helps shed the confusion.
But that’s just my two cents—I’m not trying to get my hands dirty here.
Posted by Triple Deke Tyler from Lansing on 06/08/09 at 05:44 PM ET
I’m buried with an accelerated summer school schedule in a futile attempt to hasten the end of my educational suffering
I did that crap for the last three summers, in order to get my Masters. I am so schooled-out right now the thought of education sickens me to the core; my very being shudders in disgust. This is troublesome for someone that picked teaching as a career.
So it’s beaches and beer this summer.
Beaches and beers, bitches.
Posted by Red Winger from Sault Ste Marie on 06/08/09 at 05:45 PM ET
One win. All eyes on the prize.
1 to 12. Plain and simple.
Posted by MOWingsfan19 on 06/08/09 at 05:45 PM ET
Red Winger, I certainly feel your pain.
Teaching 4-9 is suddenly seeming like perhaps not my best career switch.
(although I’m certain that will change when I’m actually DONE.)
Posted by TeamDub from The gratch. on 06/08/09 at 05:48 PM ET
I’m buried with an accelerated summer school schedule in a futile attempt to hasten the end of my educational suffering.
I think we’re living the same life.
Hope that didn’t come out too gay.
Posted by Triple Deke Tyler from Lansing on 06/08/09 at 05:48 PM ET
Sorry, I committed apostrophe apostasy.
Posted by Red Winger from The Soo on 06/08/09 at 06:24 PM ET
Look out - here come the grammar police to drag you away! Run! 
I’m going to be painting my garage - bright sky blue with white trim, but I’m thinking of painting the door yellow or green, because I think that will look neat. Ooohhh, exciting! But it’s flaking off really badly, and that will be a task that I won’t have to mess with for a while. I’m also going to make an afghan for one of my brothers in Chicago Bears colors for Christmas, and a bright red one for myself. I already finished a green and white one for my other brother (MSU masters degree). My sisters and parents already have a couple each.
I don’t donate blood because needles terrify me. Absolute hyperventilating phobia. I used to work in a hospital lab, and had to get a TB test annually as a condition of employment - I actually had a coworker’s boss offer to get me a beer or something IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WORKDAY because I was freaking out.
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 06/08/09 at 05:48 PM ET
Jimmy from Windsor and Pensin6 (hmmm, might have to change that name now), where are you guys???
5-0 drubbing still have you in the fetal position, thumb ensconced firmly in mouth?
You guys talked such a big game, I didn’t think a major-league a$$-kicking in game five would send you back under your rocks.
Grow a set, boys.
Posted by Red Winger from Sault Ste Marie on 06/08/09 at 05:51 PM ET
So you admit you’re a sniveling asswipe? Good. Admitting it is the first step to recovery, though I suspect you’re too far gone to bring back.
As for the link and the avatar, they’re tied to my online identity. It’s part of accountability. If someone has a problem with what I say, they know where to find me. It’s pretty common practice on teh intarwebs.
I’m sure this next sentence is too much for you to understand, but I’ll say it anyway: I’m not here hit whoring. Otherwise I’d be signing off like check out my site where I say the same thing!11!1!” with a location line like “from <<<< CLICK MY NAME!!1!!”
The link and avatar is simply how I identify myself around the net, and I’m not about to change it. I certainly won’t do it because you challenged me to.
Although, if I had something like this, would it make you feel better?
I’m really regretting ever validating your existence with a response, but there you go.
moore00,
That’s just something I added recently to spice it up for O-Joe.
In all seriousness, though, I don’t know what it could be. There’s none of that on my joke of a site.
Posted by Matt Saler from Grand Rapids, MI on 06/08/09 at 05:53 PM ET
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