Catching Up

Drugs are good!

Friends, family, loyal readers, and Fah T:  How the hell are you?  I sure missed all of you beautiful people.  Where have I been, you ask?  Well, mostly I've been busy with the 2nd child, constantly going back and forth on whether parenting is a sport.  All is well in the family land, by the by, and thanks for asking to those who asked.  Entire family got sick at one point, but we got through all that.  Been posting the picks on the tweets, pretty much at .500, as I had been all year.  Exactly .500, for the playoffs, to be precise, though 1-0 on locks.  Yee haw!


Anyways, been wanting to write about the NHL lockout being resolved and the ND/Alabama game, and just never got around to doing it.  So figured we'd hit them both this time around, and do neither of them their due diligence.  Cause that's what I do's.  So a here's we go...

NHL Lockout Looms and Week 2 Picks

The NHL is about to gamble on the loyalty of its fan base one more time.   Yep, Gary Bettman, in his infinite wisom, is doing his best to fuck over the sport get another cash grab for the NHL owners.  Note - this would be his third lockout since he became commissioner.  Niiiiiice...

Seriously, it's this crazy

Now, I'll be the first to admit, and have written many times, that the NHL needed to do something drastic during the last labor strike.  And it worked.  But what gets me most, and seems to be recurring theme of late, is one of the sticking points the owners want that makes absolutely zero sense...

The NHL needs a hug

Awesome logo, use this NHL!



I've written extensively about why the NHL isn't more popular.  Seriously, it's been a lot.  No, really, A LOT.  Scroll down that last one, it's #6.  You're welcome.  I used to be more wordy, you see... oops. 



But then it occured to me I'm not thinking logically about this at all.  Those reasons up there, that's all well and good, and genius and right.  In reality, it comes down to two simple reasons: