FUCK YOU BILL WIRTZ!

Can I swear on here?

BJ gave me the keys, so I'm gonna take this bad blog for a quick spin..........

You guys are lucky. REALLY LUCKY! In fact, you don't know how lucky. I'm gonna tell you why.

I live in Chicago. *WHISPERS - I'm a Blackhawks fan. *WHISPER OVER* We suck. Perpetually. We've made the playoffs once in the last 10 years. No big feat in a league where like 80% of the teams make the playoffs.
The above has nothing to do with why you are lucky. I just wanted to get it off my chest.

Here's why you are lucky. You can watch your home games on TV. That's right. I'll say it again. You can watch your home games on TV. I can't. Ever. Unless of course, we make it to the semi-finals. Way to give us hope Wirtz.

Bill Wirtz (AKA Dollar Bill, Scotch Farts, He of the bulbous nose), who owns the Hawks, will not allow home games to be televised locally. It is a vicisous, convoluted, circular arguement that is provided by Scotch Farts. His line is that it's not fair to our season ticket holders for the games to be on TV. They pay for tickets and to show the games on TV cheapens that fact. Basically, he's saying that if you want to see a home Hawks game, pay up.
I assure you, Dollar Bill, does not need the money. He owns the largest liquour distributorship in the midwest. Which , of course, has exclusive rights to the United Center liquor sales. Oh yeah, he owns 60% or so of the United Center itself. He also owns the concession service, not to mention all the parking lots near the place. Did I also mention that we have like the 4th highest ticket prices in the entire NHL. I could go on and on.
I apologize if it seems I am rambling. I probably am. It's been a long time since my bitching had an audience
(at least one that doesn't live it as I do). That's part of the problem. Dollar Bill has killed NHL hockey in this town. Seriously. This has nothing to do with the lockout. It was dead even before then. We routinely sell only 10,000 tickets to a place that holds 20,000. There are 8 million potential fans in the metro Chicago area and the best you can get is 10,000? C'mon. I can actually hear every word in the National Anthem. That would never have happened 20 years ago.
Where am I going with this you ask. Well, it all comes full circle. You need to get fans back in the seats. It's unrealistic to think that average folks in this day and age can afford to go to more than a few games a year.
Cheapest ticket $25. Parking $18. Hot Dog $3. Beer $6 (crappy) and $7(imported, but still kinda crappy). Right there for one person is $52. Take your family of 4, now its's $150. Part of getting fans back is generating interest. Wouldn't a good way to do that be airing your games on TV?

It seems like such a small thing to do. Yet it's not even an option. Which brings me to how I really feel about the whole thing. To know that, just read the title of this post.

Hey Joe.

Start posting you mother. I think the other guys have gotten the invites but don't know what the hell this is about.

It's not MY blog about hockey. This is supposed to be a team thing where all you dudes and post shit. So get to posting already. Making me feel lame.

Steve- How about that trade offer? We gonna dance or what?

In other news, the asshole from my other fantasy league (the guy drops folks like St. Louis and Bonk and Crosby) is looking for goalies. This is the same guy the said that he had the 2 best goalies in the league (in LaBarbera and Lundqvist) and that we would "learn to like it."

Why don't you like my hairy fuckin' balls? This guy is still at the bottom of the league and conitnues to drop high players in order to get his rocks off, I'm sure.

Satan round 2.

Isles v.s rags round 2. Let's hope the power of Satan holds out.

I also need the rest of my fucking guys to produce. What the hell? I'm only higher than Bill who, for some reason, drafted Mariusz Czerkawski.

Bill- hope the Polish Prince pays off for you.

Behold, the power of SATAN!

I've had a hard-on to get this guy on the Islanders since 2001.

He's billed as a world-class winger but the fact of the matter is that it's just damned cool to have someone named "Satan" on your team. Now, I'm not pagan or satanist or occultist nor a practitioner of Santaeria but you must admit, when you look at the paper or ESPN score ticker and see "Satan, 1PPG", it's pretty damned cool.

The only thing cooler maybe would be if Satan played for the Devils. Of course he'd have to be the captain but we don't want that since we're Islander fans.

But anyway, I remember during the lockout, Millbury and Stirling were making calls to season ticket holders. Pretty good PR move though I was skeptical when I got a call at work from a guy claiming to be Stirling.

After chatting for a bit, I could tell it was really him and not my dipshit friends trying to pull one over on me. I asked him when we were gonna get Satan to wing Yashin and I joked that if I were to win MegaMillions, I'd gladly pay for Satan's salary for one year.

Stirling laughed then abruptly said, "I'll hold you to it."

Uhoh. Me and my big mouth. But hey, if I win MegaMillions, I'd gladly do it. I'll write the check myself from inside my brand new Maybach.

Anyway, Satan is on board and, after much initial skepticism, he seems to be slowly waking. He currently only had 2 goals, both flukey, and didn't seem to be the killer sniper we were hoping for. But last night, he used his skill in the shootout and brought down the red-hot Rangers.

We got a win but a hard fought one. I was hoping to dominate but that just didn't happen. But the fact that we've got a "W" will hopefully create the momentum we need to get going as a team.

Now that I'm calmer...

And with less seasonal Pumpkin Ale in me, I realized that my diatribe of GodIsAnIslesFan can't be of any good. Besides making me feel good that is. And who knows? He may break down and cry or something.

And why fight when we've actually won a game! Against the Rangers! It took the shootout to do it but we won. Thank God for Jagr's broken stick.

More but I need to get my ass in the shower and off to work.

GodIsAnIslandersFan is an Asshole.

So.. I'm in this Fantasy league (not this one, another one) and our dipshit commish decides to drop Martin St. Louis from his roster. Martin St. Louis, folks.

He does so based on the premise that St.Louis, tied for last season's scoring lead, is scoreless in 4 games. Scoreless in 4 games out of 82. So I rag on him about htis.

Meanwhile, shitfuck is trash talking saying that he has the 2 best goalies in the league and that we "will learn to like it". The two goalies he's talking about are Jason LaBarbera (Ranger castaway) and Jamie Lunqvist (current Ranger phenom).

He maintains that Lunqvist is better that Brodeuer given his current stats.

What a goddam moron. So I tell him so. I tell him it's fuckin' bogus and ridiculous to be dropping players because they're scoreless this early. He says that he "knows hockey" and "you will be benched if you don't perform". Whut? You stupid motherfucker. What's St. Louis gonna be benched? 1 game... MAYBE?

I ask him if someone should drop Forsberg because he's goaless this season (though he has like 10 assists). Shitfuck doesn't respond. Instead he responds with a very eloquent "STFU".

I rag him some more since he's saying he's picked up great scorers off of the waiver wire. But why not trade your St. Louis? Why be a shitfuck and just drop him? Why? Because he's a penis-less motherfucker, that's why. And so, nutbag bans me from posting.

Big fucking deal.

He's too stupid to realize that what he's done is RUIN his league. You don't drop good players like that to free agency. It upsets tha balance. But nutbag thinks this is OK. I'd quit but I want to prove him wrong and make him eat all his fuckin' words.

He calls me a child but can't deal with the truth. I even posted on the Fanhome Fantasy forum and people said that someone who dropped St. Louis would be a laughingstock. What a dumb shit.

By droppping good players like that, you give guys at the bottom of the waiver wire an unfair advantage. It upsets the balance is almost collusion. If you want to get rid of St. Louis, that's fine, but recognize he's got value and that you should trade him.

Captain Ego says that he's so sound in his strategy he doesn't need to go picking up other players scrubs through trades. Um, excuse the fuck out of me but do you think you'll get a SCRUB off trading St. Louis vs. droppping him and getting Fee Agency Trash? Um... no.

If you're gonna do that, that's fine but drop some shithead, like Svatos (someone he has inexplicably kept on his team). He picked up Lindros off of Free Agency (which was good) but why not drop some other nameless bastard?

I tell you, this thing rankles me. I should've quit as soon as I saw the monkey hadn't set a "No Drop" list. Again, I'd quit but I can't wait to finish above Brainiac for the season.



Dear GodIsAnIslandersFan. You are a fucking asshole who doesn't know your elbow from you momma's vagina.

Go fuck yourself you senseless whorebag. I'll see you wallowing at the bottom of the standings with all your bonehead, shitfuck moves.

love,

Me.