You want an embarassment to the sport?

Look at Canada's Men's Hockey team....

Actually don't. It's enough to make you want to cry.

The Olympics is supposed to be about the best your country has to offer. If these "professional;" players are the best Canada has to offer, then we have to look at getting some amatures on the next team.

I would have expected better form pro team players. Note the words: PRO TEAM PLAYERS.
"They didn't even have a true checking line". So what? They are supposed to be professionals. They should be good enough and able to adapt. The coaching staff SHOULD have assigned a players as checkers.

"They were stock-piled with NHL scorers". Fat lot of good that did.

"Another disappointment was Canada's undisciplined play. Too often, players took penalties that proved costly." Yup. But again, these are PROFESSIONAL players. They should have disciplined played NO MATTER WHAT. They should be able to be put on a team with a bunch of guys that never put skates on and still play a good game.

I've heard people complain that the Canadain Men's team didn't have time to practice together. WHAT THE HELL? Some practice would have been good, but again, they're supposed to be PRO HOCKEY PLAYERS. They've played with/against each other often enough that they should know thier styles of play, the coaching staff even more so. They should have been able to set up better lines. All of the players should have been able to follow a coaches instructions and follow a game plan.

Well Buke Lacktavose, there's your "embarrassment to Canada and a blemish on the sport".

Shut the fuck up.

What the hell is wrong with people? The Canadian Women's Hockey team has been kicking some serious ass in Torino. 16-0 against Italy, 12-0 against Russia. That's damned awesome. So why are some people complaining they are an embarassment to Canada?

This is the Olympics people. The team members are SUPPOSED to be the best the country has to offer. I'll admit that maybe, maybe, the thrashing of Italy was a bit harsh but that's only beacuse they are new to this. But you don't improve if someone takes it easy on you.

I was discussing the first win with a US friend of mine over AIM. He was quite proud that the US Women's Hockey team won 2 games, both shut out. Thier game against Russia was 3-0. His reasoning is taht Russia is a much tougher team than Italy could ever hope to be. Based on previous performances by any Russian hockey team they should have been a challenge. If they were that good why did we get a 12-0 win?

I came across this article on the (CBC website)
talking about weather or not our women's team was right in thier wins. Don Cherry, never a big fan but I did (yes did) respect him, said that as a coach if his ream had a big lead he'd get the guys to ease up. WHAT THE HELL IS THAT ABOUT? You don't want embarrass an obviously inferior team? I'd be more embarrassed if I found out you "took it easy" on me.

This is in the article:

"What a terrible display of poor sportsmanship," fan Buke Lacktavose wrote in CBC's Hometown Heroes message board. "The way the women's hockey team ran up the score against Italy – what an embarrassment to Canada and a blemish on the sport."

You sir, are an absolute and utter dipshit. I'd like to use stronger more descriptive words but there isn't a word in any language to describe you. An embarrassment to Canada? A blemish on the sport? How so? Becasue they played thier best and won? OR because they play better then 90% of the men in the NHL?

All I can say now is that I hope they DESTROY the rest of the competition as they have with the first 2 teams. I look forward to seeing Canda vs USA for gold and seeing the USA lose 12-7. If the US can actually play that strong of a game....

It sucks being 5.

It been a rough month for Logan.

Around the middle of January Logan came home from school with lice. So we bought the goop for all of our hair and shaved Logan's head. He was quite upset that he lost hid rat tail to.

Yesterday he went to school. I picked him up and he was fine. He was fine all afternoon. At bedtime I was reading him his story and noticed a couple of spots on his face and forhead. I figured Nova and Logan had been playing and he had a scratch. Boy was I wrong.

Spots started popping up on his arms and legs. All over his back and chest. He was doing fine at bedtime. Not scratching or even complaining of being itchy. He even went to sleep fine. I still needed to get some stuff for him so I ran off to the drugstore.

I checked in on him at 2200hrs and he was still snoring away. I went to bed at 0000hrs and slept untill 0200. WhenI went to the bathroom I could hear Logan grumbling.

I go into this room to see if he's ok and he says, "Daddy, having chicken pox is no fun." I spent the next 10 minutes dabbing Calamine Lotion on as many spots as I could. I gave him a couple of kids Advil and he went back to sleep....I wish I did.

At 0800 he comes into my bedroom saying he's itchy again. More Calamine put on him. As of right now he's in the bath tub with some colloidal oatmeal treatment. He asked me if he could have a spoon to eat the oatmeal. He seemed rather disapointed that I said no.

Now if that isn't bad enough. Carrie, appearently, hasn't had chicken pox. Personally I've never met anyone that's had chicken pox as an adult, all I've heard are rumors that it's by far alot worse than for a kid. So I'm the only one that's healthy, but I've been told I can still be a carry for it for a few days. Better safe than sorry I guess.

Onver the last few days on the Spec Ops forum (link in the side bar) We, the forum satff, have been talking about upgrading the software. I believe the version that was being used was version 3. the new software is version 6 or something. It was thought the upgrade would only take an hour or so. That was at around 1600hrs yesterday, it is now nearly 1200, 20 hours later. And it's still being worked on. "Computers will make thing easier for everyone!" HAHAHA! <- My sarcastic laugh. The 1950's were sooooo full of shit!