A Hockey Fan's Plea: SHUT UP ABOUT COOKE!

Alexander Ovechkin got a 2 game suspension for this hit:

Dear Washington Capitals Fans,

LMFAO!!! Please cry tears of injustice over this. Please! I understand that Washington Capitals Fan tears cure cancer. Also, please continue to blame Matt Cooke's hit on Marc Savard for Ovechkin's penalty.

Just for the sake of argument, lets compare the two hits shall we?

WOW!

They look NOTHING alike!

One was a headshot, the other was a boarding call. One was an accident, the other was pretty intentional. One was from Matt Cooke... the other was from what the NHL has since deemed to be a "repeat offender."

No Superstar Treatment again for you.

Any hockey fan who is following the media's lead that the Ovechkin suspension is a direct result of the Cooke hit is a sheep. Worse yet, their shepherds are Doc and Edzo since it was those two jokers that originally brought up the idea that "Beeg Ruski Skoror" was on the ice when Cooke hit Savard. How else could Ovechkin have been penalized for it?

If that last part didn't make sense to you, good. It wasn't supposed to. That means you can use logic.

Another thought to ponder: why is no one talking about Mike Richards with as much passion as they're talking about Matt Cooke? David Booth got splattered across the ice and Richards didn't even get a slap on the wrist but Cooke is Satan (sans #81). I guess this just proves that Matt Cooke is better than Mike Richards at say... everything?

Except Leadership, right? Isn't it ironic how Ovechkin and Richards are captains? Don't you think?

A little too ironic... and yeah I really do think they're shitty teams.

Go ahead and blah blah blah me about how the Caps have 101 points to the Pens 87 (hi Sid) since its regular season point totals that win Stanley Cup Championships... oh wait.

Talk to me about how Sid and Geno are now marked men in Boston, like its not something they aren't already dealing with... oh wait:

Meanwhile I'll talk to you about how Macho Man Steve Downie went after Pretty Boy Ovechkin earlier this season but Pretty Boy couldn't fight for himself so Bradley had to step in for him:

1:30

Hey Steve Downie, I'm pretty sure I could beat up Ovechkin. I'm not sure why you'd waste your time stepping up to Beeg Mahn but whatever your reason, I'm sure it was Matt Cooke's fault too.

Here's an exchange I had with Kyle Roussel earlier:

kyleroussel @TSNBobMcKenzie Why can't recklessness and stupidity be the big factor instead of the result of recklessness and stupidity?

omgitsjen @kyleroussel cuz you can't prove intent unless you get those precogs from Minority Report to tell you before it happens.

kyleroussel

@omgitsjen I didn't say anything about intent; that's tough to prove. Stupid and reckless isn't

omgitsjen @kyleroussel well that's just opinion. Ask any of his fans how AWESOME he is and they'll tell you. Whats dumb to us is great to them.

kyleroussel

@omgitsjen well he is awesome...but the intelligence on the ice is sorely lacking at times. Seemingly more and more often.

omgitsjen @kyleroussel Wouldn't intelligence sort of factor into his awesome play? Great players don't leave a wake of injured players behind them.

kyleroussel

@omgitsjen He's Jeckyll and Hyde. When the puck is on his stick, he represents great hockey. When it's not on his stick...yikes.

omgitsjen @kyleroussel Touche. Unfortunately, I believe his legacy may reflect his Hyde personae but it'll depend on if he opts to mature as a person

kyleroussel

@omgitsjen In the end, IMO, we will be unable to separate both sides of him. It's why we never refer to Jeckyll without talking about Hyde.

#blamemattcooke

Matt Cooke doesn't have a wake of injured players following him around the league or a Jeckyll and Hyde duality. Matt Cooke's intelligence doesn't come into debate regarding the physical game he brings to the table every time he steps on the ice. Matt Cooke got suspended in November. He didn't get suspended again in March.

I could embed a montage of some of Ovechkin's greatest goals over this past year. I could play devil's advocate with myself and say that you know what, Ovechkin really is a great player. But great players like Lemieux and even Gretzky had too much class to take a run at someone... so unfortunately, all the "great" Ovechkin does will forever be overshadowed by how filthy a player he is.

Skip to 1:00 and 1:21 and lament with me the potential that will never be realized.

NBC: Not Bright Crayons

Preface: I hate Kathie Lee Gifford. I always have. Its one of those natural things that will never change. When NBC brought her back to television, I wanted to start rioting in the Plaza outside 30 Rock. The woman is more of a train wreck than Britney Spears on a bad day, she just has less paparazzi following her around because she's Fucking Kathie Lee Gifford and who gives a shit about her?

Right now, I do.

In this final night of The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, there's certainly quite a bit of buzz surrounding this entire mess incited by NBC affiliates dropping Jay Leno's 10pm show. As this ironically real life yet completely on screen drama comes to a close, it seems that the NBC cats have started to bare their claws... or at least started meowing so obnoxiously that I want to throw my shoe out the window at them.

I keep NBC on for background noise most of the time (since that's all its really good for). On the last hour of the Today Show this morning (which NBC really needs to work on reformatting by the way), Hoda and Kathie Lee opened their "Scoop" segment with a discussion about Conan's behavior on his show the last few days. This bit included calling Conan classless and suggesting that he reimburse the broadcasting company for the amount of NBC money he's been spending just because he can.

First and Foremost: Kathie Lee Gifford calling anyone classless is a joke. She's the most painted up excuse for white trash in this country. She sits on her soapbox inside Studio 1A and subjects all of America to her ignorant ramblings and judgements. Without her expensive makeup, wigs, jewelry and great lighting, you can imagine her in cutoff jeans and a halter top outside the trailer home with a cigarette in one hand yelling for Frank and the kids to come in for supper... or not to touch the dog there.

In this "time of cutbacks," Kathie Lee, how about you reimburse NBC for the amount of cash you regularly spend trying to look so good for the hour you're on TV. You publicly shunning Conan O'Brien isn't going to do anything for you in your career (which has needed plenty of help since the early years) so why bother? Why bother saying anything? Remember, Those in Glass Houses Shouldn't Throw Stones.

Also, using the last hour of the Today Show to suck up to your NBC Executives isn't exactly what they call graceful. So by being tactless you're guilty of doing the exact same thing you're accusing your late-night counterpart of doing: being classless.

Lets see how well your big, opinionated mouth reacts if they pulled you off the air for something that wasn't your fault, Kathie Lee. This is your boss' fault, not the employee's so how about keeping the lunchroom drama behind closed doors instead of in the open air.

All in all: I can't believe I was so infuriated by her asinine comments that I actually had to write a blog entry about them (especially since its been about 3 months since I last posted). I feel like a sheep because ringing up more controversy over the complete mismanagement of this catastrophe is me playing into her hand. Argh! Hey Kathie Lee, bake your own pie instead of trying to take a piece from the post primetime crew's.

This all said: I like Hoda Kotb. She deserves better.

Edit: PS I'm usually way more coherent but I was kinda pissed when I wrote this. Blegh