Hump Day

A few quick hits while I'm on lunch...

-Sorry for the lack of posts. The crew here at BOLB has been tied up for one reason or another...the charger for my laptop is fried, thus limiting my internet usage from home to nonexistent for the time being. Sixth Ward was away for a week on a business trip, and Biggamekilla is suffering from a lack of journalistic confidence, something along the lines of using the word "and" too much in his last attempt at posting. I reached out to another potential blogger, frequent BOLB contributor PW Hallstrom but apparently he has contracted the lack of journalistic confidence bug as well.

-Decent week for the Pens. Big wins over Philthadelphia and Montreal, but they then shit the bed against the Crapitals. Gotta win tonight against the hapless Isles. Hopefully MAF snaps out of whatever funk he's in and allows less than four goals tonight.

-Speaking of the Craps, I enjoy watching Alex Ovechkin play, but why is it ok for him to showboat? In football when a player celebrates after a touchdown, he's supposed to act like he's been there before. Is this not a double standard? AO jumps and points and hugs everyone around like he just scored a series-clinching goal, and everyone applauds him, saying how refreshing it is to see him enjoying himself on the ice. It's shameless self-promotion, nothing different than what TO or Joe Horn or Chad Johnson (or Ocho-Cinco or whatever his last name is now) has done in the NFL. If Ovechkin is praised for it, then let athletes in other sports be individuals and express their excitement as well. If AO continues his shenanigans, maybe someone will pull a Dale Hunter on him and it might calm him down a little bit. I know if I was an opposing goalie, I'd be half tempted to channel my inner Ron Hextall after an Ovechkin celebration. On a side note, I'm 95% certain that I could score 30 goals in the NHL if I took as many shots as AO. Just saying.

-Refreshing to see NFL commissioner Roger Goodell take a 20% pay cut on his $11 million a year salary because of the struggling economy. It's only right that the big guys help lessen the load a bit as well. It doesn't make up for the hundreds of other jobs the NFL had to cut, but at least it may save a few more. I guess all the fines he's levied for the aforementioned banned celebrations isn't cutting it alone. Now let's see if joke Bud Selig decides that he can part with some of the $18 million he'll bank this year.

-Add me to the list of those hoping the A-Rod steroid saga ends as soon as possible. And who is this Selena Roberts character? She's now famous for hunting down A-Rod, following his every move to get the latest juicy scoop, and she outed him, but nobody else, for testing positive for a banned substance. I hate narcs. How sad does her life have to be that she gets famous by telling on somebody else? Does she feel some sense of vindication pointing out the faults of others, when chances are she's doing things in her life that are just as bad, or most likely worse? People need to take a look in the mirror once in a while and reevaluate their lives.

That's all for now. More to come as soon as I get the chance. And before I forget...best of luck to our beloved Buccos as they start their Spring Training slate today in Bradenton, they're gonna need as much luck as they can get.