Huh.

Posted by Heaton on 02/21/08 at 04:34 PM ET

Weak analogy at best.  Cox is reaching here.  Maybe that is just my anti-Patriots bias showing.

Posted by hockeychic from Denver, CO on 02/21/08 at 04:56 PM ET

Huh.

Precisely.  Did I miss the Wings getting caught cheating, lying about it and paying huge fines while the league destroyed all evidence and chanted “nothing here, move along” in unison?

Failing that the comparison is weak, at best.

Posted by Rumbear from Sandy Eggo on 02/21/08 at 05:10 PM ET

I don’t remember the Patriots losing Tom Brady and a bunch of other top guys on the way to their 18-0 start, either.

If the playoff run is derailed by what happens the next few weeks, it will be injuries that will be the cause.

Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 02/21/08 at 05:21 PM ET

*yawn* Chelios is old, the Wings are too soft, blah blah, blah.  Wake me up when someone comes up with a new and interesting story. 

First the Wings don’t have enough adversity, then the Wings have too much adversity and there’s no way they’ll win the Cup.  I think the media can only see the best case scenario(win the cup when they’re playing well) and the worst case scenario(lose in the first round when they’re sucking).  I see the same thing every year.

If injuries are going to be a problem, then so be it, but don’t all of a sudden tell me that after a 6 game losing streak that everything the Wings did in the first part of the year was for naught.  That’s garbage…

Posted by Hap from Grand Rapids, MI on 02/21/08 at 09:04 PM ET

Check this out:

“Babcock, you should know, is a frequent visitor to Belichick’s Web site and reads the New England coach’s press conference remarks. He felt the impact of the Patriots’ defeat to the Giants in a very personal way.”

And I’m a frequent visitor to porn sites and study them with great attention. I take lack of access to them very personally.

Ergo, I am going to become a woman with triple D breasts.

Even Baroque cannot refute such logic.

Posted by Osrt on 02/21/08 at 10:09 PM ET

I laughed at that web site comment, too.  That’s pretty stupid for a serious journalist to write something like that.  He visits the web site!  Monumental!

sheesh.

Posted by PaulinMiamiBeach on 02/21/08 at 10:54 PM ET

Ergo, I am going to become a woman with triple D breasts.

I’m not even going to try.

But will you still leave your house?

Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 02/22/08 at 05:42 AM ET

Ergo, I am going to become a woman with triple D breasts.

Or you could become a superstud with a vacant stare of dull arousal, lousy tattoos, and the acting ability of an ear of corn.

Or a sex toy.  But I woudn’t hold your breath for that one.

Posted by AndrewFromAnnArbor from the set of John Rod's latest pic, "French Fisting" on 02/22/08 at 06:03 AM ET

Um, yeah.  This theory was being bounced about by the radio talking heads and their listeners this week—as it turns out, “The Ticket” will in fact take calls about the Red Wings, but only when they’re losing, and the professional critics who spend about 350 days a year bashing the Lions take a day off and come up with long-winded explanations as to why trading for Bryan McCabe would be an upgrade over that “bum” named Lidstrom. 

Seriously.  If you believed what you heard at the beginning of this week on WXYT and WDFN, you’d think that Matt Millen assembled the Wings’ roster.  Now I know why Maple Leafs fans are so rabid—they never run out of stuff to complain about.

Posted by George Malik from South Lyon, MI on 02/22/08 at 07:57 AM ET

AndrewFromAnnArbor from the set of John Rod’s latest pic, “French Fisting”

LOL!

I should forward this thread to my students and tell them “this is why you need how to write” ; gotta motivate those damn undergrads somehow…

Posted by Osrt on 02/22/08 at 08:00 AM ET

Motivating undergrads usually involves pizza.  Give a college student pizza, and he’ll sit through Eklund’s dissertation on how he puts the names of players who are in the rumour mill on five darts apiece, throws fifty darts at a 30-team dartboard each day, rates his hits on a scale of 1-5, and charges people $20 for the privilege of…Oh, wait, I hear the pitter patter of patent lawyers’ feet…

Posted by George Malik from South Lyon, MI on 02/22/08 at 08:09 AM ET