The sun was setting behind me as I grilled up dinner.

There will be Easter Egg decorating in our house, as well as a wonderful dinner tonight.

This is the funniest example of blatant cheating* I’ve ever seen in a professional sporting event.

Last night’s game between the San Jose Sharks and the Los Angeles Kings had serious playoff implications… and check out what Ryane Clowe of the Sharks does… from the bench.

How on Earth none of the officials saw this, I will never know.

It’s hysterical*.  He should totally be suspended by the league for it, but it is freakin’ hysterical*.

*It’s hysterical, assuming you aren’t a Kings fan.

The Bruins scratched Chara, Bergeron, and Thomas last night and still beat the Senators.  The big story of the night was Anton Khudobin.  Holy crap!  44 saves.  He played out of his mind!  Just imagine if he really is as good as he looked last night.  Thomas, Rask, Khudobin… we’d be like goalie paradise!

The win gave the Bruins 100 points in the standings.  Remember when 100 points was impressive?  That was prior to the loser point for overtime games.  The Blackhawks have one game left.  If they either win or lose in overtime (the loser point) they will be the 10th team in the NHL to hit the 100 point mark.  That’s one-third of the league.  Yeah, earning 100 points isn’t what it used to be.

As for the Red Sox… well… opening day in Detroit pretty much went down exactly the way we feared it would.  John Lester and Justin Verlander were both lights out.  It was an awesome pitchers duel with both teams ace completely shutting down their opponents.  It was a great game to listen to.  By the time the starters were done it was 1-0 Detroit in the eighth.  Bring on Boston’s bullpen.  Vincente Padilla comes on and gives up a second run.  That looked to be a painful development as Detroit’s closer, Jose Valverde, didn’t blow a single save throughout all of last season.  In the top of the ninth though, the Red Sox rallied to tie the game.  Then in the ninth Mark Melancon comes in and puts two runners on.  Then in comes “closer” Alfredo Aceves who hit the first batter he faced, and then gave up a game ending single to Austin Jackson.

Add me to the growing list of Boston Red Sox fans who are thinking that Daniel Bard needs to go back to the bullpen.  We can try the Bard-as-starter plan again next season.  We need a real closer right now, due to Andrew Bailey being out for at least three months, and he’s the best option by far.  Let’s be honest, he should have been named the team’s closer the day Papelbon signed with the Phillies.

So once again we open the season with a painful loss.  Last year that lead us to the worst start in Red Sox history.  Here’s hoping there really is nothing wrong with Josh Beckett’s thumb, and the Sox come out on fire in game two tomorrow.

Go Bruins
Go Red Sox

A simple tribute to the memories of two giant innovators, Jim Marshall and Les Paul. Rest in peace.

I had a nice little run.

Over the last few weeks the red sea that is Boston area traffic parted enough for me to have a few easy all-highway commutes both in the morning and evening.

That’s all over. Yesterday I was stuck in a seven mile back up on 495. Today I got off of 495 before that spot, but I still got stuck in a five mile back up before I got off. I followed that with 50 minutes in gridlock on route 2. Tonight on the way home there were idiots everywhere and then a traffic jam on 495.

The happy drives are gone for a while. It’s back to the all back road routes.

Crud.

Sad news today for guitar players around the world.  Jim Marshall has passed away at age 88.  Here’s a link to one article. 

Jim Marshall started out selling drums.  He was a drum teacher too.  Some guy named Mitch Mitchell took lessons from him.  He had this side business building amplifiers.  One day Mitch Mitchell told him that he was working with a new guitar player who was looking for a nice powerful amplifier.  Jim Marshall let him use one of his prototypes and it was love at first crunch.  That guitar player’s name was Jimi Hendrix and the rest is rock music history.

I have one of Jim’s amps in my house right now and it’s hands down the best amp I’ve ever used.  Thanks Jim.  Happy trails.  We owe you a huge debt of gratitude.  RIP.

Five years ago today, the love of my life and I went on our first date.

That night kicked off what has been by far the best five years of my life.

I love you so much Jen. I can’t wait for the next five… 10… 20… Forever.

That does it. The Red Sox season has not even started yet and already it has descended into a complete and total farce.

As of today, Red Sox manager Schmucko the Clown, aka Bobby Valentine, is doing a weekly appearance on a New York radio show that is hosted by Yankees play by play announcer Michael Kay.

There is precedence for this selling of the Boston managers soul. I mean we all remember when Robert E Lee did a weekly television spot on Abraham Lincoln’s talk show, and Adolf Hitler used to make regular guest spots on the FDR show. Those were classics, right?

I exaggerate a little, but if you are a Red Sox fan you understand what I mean. Schmucko the jack ass clown has insulted all of us. All of the people who buy the tickets that pay his salary have just been shit on by the voice of the franchise, and by voice I mean asshole who can’t shut his friggin pie hole.

Now usually when a member of a pro sports team wants to interact with the media outside of the usual means, pre and post game interviews and such, it needs to be approved by the team. That means that this marriage with hell was probably given the green light by either Ben Cherrington or Larry Luchino (did I spell that right?). Which means that not only is Schmucko the Clown completely out of touch with his fan base, but his bosses are too.

The very thought of the manager of the Boston Red Sox yucking it up with the TV voice of the f***ing Yankees makes me want to puke my guts out.

You suck, Schmucko the Clown.

No, we’re not being gouged at the gas pump at all. I am positive that the huge increase in gas prices coming right before the start of the busy, good-weather travel season is purely a coincidence. I’m also sure that it has nothing to do with this being an election year. Not at all.

No, we’re definitely not being price gouged at all.