Happy NHL Trade Deadline, everyone! Is this a National Holiday in Canada? It should be. It should be here in the US too. We shouldn’t have to work while monitoring the internets to see if our teams picked up any new players.
The Boston Bruins appear to have snagged a depth forward from Minnesota. Pat Maroon. I don’t know anything about this guy except that he seems to have one three of the last five Stanley Cups? WhatWhatWhat???
Granted… one of those cups was with St Louis… who beat the Bruins in the final. That kinda pisses me off. Dude better score seven goals in the first game he plays for us. Seriously.
I’m not expecting much from Boston today. They don’t have much to trade away, assuming they want to keep the current roster in place. There are rumors of them dealing one of the goalies… I don’t want that. We have an ace goalie tandem right now and I don’t want to screw with that.
I knew the Boston Bruins had a game today but I didn’t realize until the last possible moment that it was a 1:00 game. I took a vacation day today without realizing that it was an actual holiday (not one that I get off, but still a holiday) and the Bruins often play day games on holidays. Nice!
I watched the first period while eating my lunch. The period ended with the score tied at one. As the second period was starting I was going to write a quick post about how the Bruins have been bad since the all star break and they didn’t look all that great today. They haven’t been bad, it’s just Dallas has been better. Right as I was opening my laptop to write the post Dallas scored to take a 2-1 lead. Damn it! I don’t want to write a hockey post now. Blah. Just as I had made that decision, Boston scored to tie the game at two. WOOHOO! Go Bruins!
The mood swings I feel while watching hockey are unprecedented in human existence. I have similar mood swings when I watch baseball games, but the nature of the game is different and they are much less intense. The playoffs are close, but the chances of the Red Sox making the playoffs any time soon are too slim for that to be a consideration.
Let’s go, Bruins. Let’s get back to those pre-all star break winning ways, shall we? M’kay?
There was a time when my social life more or less consisted of watching sports. I’d say 50-60% of what I did with my free time involved watching sports. There was a period in my life where I had a partial season ticket package (10 games) for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League, a full season ticket package (40 games) for the Lowell Lock Monsters of the American Hockey League, and then during the summer we split a full season ticket package for the Lowell Spinners of the New York Penn baseball league (I think it was about 50 games and we went to half of them). At the same time I used to follow the Lock Monsters on road games because there were six AHL teams in New England. I would go to road games in three of the other five locations. Along with all of that, there were playoff games for the Bruins and the Monsters. One AHL season saw me go to maybe 50-55 games. Crazy.
Now? I still follow hockey and baseball closely, but I rarely go to games in person, and I have a tough time fitting actually sitting and watching games on television, or listening on the radio, into my busy schedule. I still hang on every goal and every run, but I miss tons and tons of every season.
So the answer to the question, what are my favorite sports to watch? Hockey and Baseball. The Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League, and the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball. Those are my favorite teams. I also follow some NCAA hockey but my old school, UMass Lowell, is seriously crappy this year so they are tough to follow. There is a minor league baseball team in Manchester New Hampshire, the New Hampshire Fisher Cats who are in the Toronto Blue Jays system, but I haven’t been to a game there since 2007. This year I am hoping to get to a game and maybe follow them on the radio a little bit. We will see.
I guess I wasn’t the jinx today. They blew this game without any help from me.
Unrelated, I’m watching my second episode of Deep Space Nine tonight. Season five episodes four and five. In both episodes a post-religious human being mentions god. Bashir sees Jake alive and says thank god. O’Brien realizes he can’t stop whatever is possessing his wife and says god help me.
These star fleet human cats are supposed to be atheists living in an atheist society that’s a few hundred years removed from religion. As a fellow atheist, though not a Federation citizen or a Star Fleet officer, I’m a little bummed out by the references. Like… hast society come up with new sayings yet? Come on, writers. Let’s get creative, shall we?
Back to the original subject, the next Bruins game is Friday. Hopefully no one will jinx them. Fingers crossed.
My step son Harry and I are in this video clip. Look to the right of the goal. We are in the second row. I’m the guy who looks happy that Lowell scored… unlike everyone else in the stands.
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