Tuesday, June 10, 2008
It occurs to me that I never expressed my gratitude to the Detroit Red Wings for ruining Pittsburgh's dreams of a Stanley Cup.
Thanks, Red Wings.
The better team won, and that's all there is to it. HA HA Pittsburgh. During the Eastern Conference Final, I saw a picture with one of your "fans" holding up a sign that said PHILLY NO CUP FOR YOU NEXT.
PENGUINS. NO CUP FOR YOU.
And good luck even competing for one next year when half your team is playing somewhere else because you can't pay for all of them.
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In the meantime, we had Sami Kapanen retiring. Realistically you had to know this was coming sooner rather than later. Sami's been, as they say, a heart and soul guy for the Flyers and it's too bad that his time here has had to end, but paljon onnea to him back in Finland.
We also had Ryan Potulny traded for Danny Syvret, a defenseman from Edmonton. He played in 63 AHL games last season. What do you think, a depth move? I'm sorry to see Potulny go; he probably would have had difficulty cracking into the Flyers this season, what with all the depth at center, but maybe not -- at any rate, the Phantoms will miss him. Good luck elsewhere, Ryan. I will remember your last-minute hat trick this season.
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I went outside yesterday at the close of my work day, to the parking lot. As I approached my car, I saw a Penguins magnet on the back, in the spot where normally I have a Flyers logo magnet. Cue a half-second of confusion, wondering if it was, in fact, my car, or some other silver Ford Focus. No, well, the license plate was mine. It was my car. But ... WTF? I took hold of a corner of this Penguins logo magnet and pulled it off, thinking I might find the Flyers magnet underneath, and someone just thinks s/he is funny by covering it up with this piece of trash. Well, the Flyers magnet was not there, nor was it anywhere else on my car, and the fact of the matter is that I have no sense of humor about this whatsoever.
Someone stole my Flyers magnet and replaced it with this...Penguins thing.
It is possible that someone from my lunch group thinks it would be a great joke, but I can't picture where any of those people would have gotten the Pens magnet. If they know nothing about it, the mystery deepens, and it really becomes not funny at all -- because that means someone I don't know has stolen my magnet and put that stupid Penguins magnet on my car instead, probably a Penguins "fan" giving me yet another reason to hate them. Something just short of vandalism!!! I want my Flyers magnet back!!!
UPDATE 1:15 p.m. No one at lunch seems to know anything about it .... their reactions were such that I tend to believe them, though it may still come out that they are simply very good actors. They behaved more as though "Oh haha! What a funny joke someone played on you!" rather than "Oh haha!! Our funny joke was a success!" I managed to convey my sense of non-amusement about the whole thing, and if it was one of them, maybe the magnet will reappear on my car by the time I go home tonight. On the other hand, my technologist, also a Flyers fan, couldn't stand it anymore and wondered about the tapes from the security cameras overlooking the parking lot. So he made a phone call and they may be looked at and maybe we can have some idea of the culprit regardless of whether the magnet's replaced by tonight or not. We shall see.
UPDATE 1:18 p.m. Ok, I'm pretty sure I know who it was. One strategically-sent email returned some valuable information which actually amuses me. Clever. Very clever. More later.
Thanks, Red Wings.
The better team won, and that's all there is to it. HA HA Pittsburgh. During the Eastern Conference Final, I saw a picture with one of your "fans" holding up a sign that said PHILLY NO CUP FOR YOU NEXT.
PENGUINS. NO CUP FOR YOU.
And good luck even competing for one next year when half your team is playing somewhere else because you can't pay for all of them.
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In the meantime, we had Sami Kapanen retiring. Realistically you had to know this was coming sooner rather than later. Sami's been, as they say, a heart and soul guy for the Flyers and it's too bad that his time here has had to end, but paljon onnea to him back in Finland.
We also had Ryan Potulny traded for Danny Syvret, a defenseman from Edmonton. He played in 63 AHL games last season. What do you think, a depth move? I'm sorry to see Potulny go; he probably would have had difficulty cracking into the Flyers this season, what with all the depth at center, but maybe not -- at any rate, the Phantoms will miss him. Good luck elsewhere, Ryan. I will remember your last-minute hat trick this season.
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I went outside yesterday at the close of my work day, to the parking lot. As I approached my car, I saw a Penguins magnet on the back, in the spot where normally I have a Flyers logo magnet. Cue a half-second of confusion, wondering if it was, in fact, my car, or some other silver Ford Focus. No, well, the license plate was mine. It was my car. But ... WTF? I took hold of a corner of this Penguins logo magnet and pulled it off, thinking I might find the Flyers magnet underneath, and someone just thinks s/he is funny by covering it up with this piece of trash. Well, the Flyers magnet was not there, nor was it anywhere else on my car, and the fact of the matter is that I have no sense of humor about this whatsoever.
Someone stole my Flyers magnet and replaced it with this...Penguins thing.
It is possible that someone from my lunch group thinks it would be a great joke, but I can't picture where any of those people would have gotten the Pens magnet. If they know nothing about it, the mystery deepens, and it really becomes not funny at all -- because that means someone I don't know has stolen my magnet and put that stupid Penguins magnet on my car instead, probably a Penguins "fan" giving me yet another reason to hate them. Something just short of vandalism!!! I want my Flyers magnet back!!!
UPDATE 1:15 p.m. No one at lunch seems to know anything about it .... their reactions were such that I tend to believe them, though it may still come out that they are simply very good actors. They behaved more as though "Oh haha! What a funny joke someone played on you!" rather than "Oh haha!! Our funny joke was a success!" I managed to convey my sense of non-amusement about the whole thing, and if it was one of them, maybe the magnet will reappear on my car by the time I go home tonight. On the other hand, my technologist, also a Flyers fan, couldn't stand it anymore and wondered about the tapes from the security cameras overlooking the parking lot. So he made a phone call and they may be looked at and maybe we can have some idea of the culprit regardless of whether the magnet's replaced by tonight or not. We shall see.
UPDATE 1:18 p.m. Ok, I'm pretty sure I know who it was. One strategically-sent email returned some valuable information which actually amuses me. Clever. Very clever. More later.
# posted by crusher @ 8:15 AM 
