Time Again for our favourite game: 10 Questions.
As always, it comes with appropriate comments, quips and corollaries.
1. Why do Winnipeg Blue Bomber fans get their shorts in a knot over the signing of a nutbag like Pacman Jones, when the same fans have, ijn the past, fallen head-over-heels in love with (a) a guy who assaulted his wife (Kyries Hebert), (b) a guy who stole a car (Juran Bolden) and (c) a guy who robbed his own teammates (Kelly Rush)? Well, in fairness, stealing cars kind of makes you an honourary Winnipegger.
2. Why does the mainstream media in the Twin Cities essentially chase Tarvaris Jackson out of his job as the quarterback of the Minnesota Vikings and then when the same media gets a veteran like Brett Favre to come to town, wonders why Tarvaris Jackson ever lost his job in the first place? Come on dudes, one or the other.
3. Why does the goofy Yankee media (which means all the baseball writers in America) continue to tout Mark Teixeira as the American League MVP when Teixeira is hitting just .279 with 32 homers and 101 RBI while their own Derek Jeter, hitting out of the leadoff spot, is batting .330 with 17 homers, 61 RBI with 95 runs scored? Sorry, but Detroit’s Miguel Cabrera has better MVP numbers (.339/28 homers/84 RBI/.567 slugging percentage with a lot less help in the lineup) than Teixeira.
4. How can a bankruptcy judge accept an offer of $140 million for a bankrupt hockey team when another offer of $212.5 million is on the table? I thought a bankruptcy judge was supposed to be on the creditors’ side.
5. Then again, how does Gary Bettman keep his job as commissioner of the NHL when he runs around bad-mouthing current owners and prospective owners, who all pay their bills, while singing the praises of owners and former owners who stole money and went to jail? Is this the Bernie Madoff League?
6. Why do people still want to believe that professional athletes are role models?
7. Why is it that Butch Goring, John Ferguson, Lorne Chabot, Billy Reay and Murray Murdoch are NOT in the Hockey Hall of Fame, but Clark Gillies, Steve Shutt, Cam Neely, Bernie Federko and Jim Gregory are? That’s a freakin’ joke.
8. Why do referees and umpires still believe that instant replay is the enemy when, in fact, it’s the best friend they have?
9. Why does the mainstream media keep saying that steroid and HgH users are “cheaters” and are “taking shortcuts” when, as anyone who has ever been in a gym knows, the second you decide that performance enhancers are for you, you have to be prepared to work three times harder than you were working before? Those drugs create more work, they don’t make anything easier.
And finally…
10. Why do the NHL owners STILL believe that Phoenix is a good idea?