This morning I read two disturbing news items. One, ESPN is not renewing its broadcast rights for the NHL next season. Great. Lovely. Just terrific. ESPN may negotiate a cheaper deal for next year, but the one they had in place was shitty to begin with, with barely any games being aired. hmpf. I don’t understand why more people aren’t interested in hockey, especially sports fans. It’s a much more athletic and skilled game than any other sport. I hear grumblings from hockey fans in Canada that maybe hockey will return to Canada finally, “where it belongs” and I just want to smack them. How about someone tell me the number of players who take their paycheck in Canadian dollars? Hockey doesn’t “belong” anywhere, you morons. You don’t own the exclusive rights to hockey fandom. You wouldn’t have any better luck there than here. I hope that this turns out well, that they reorganize the league and drop some of the unnecessary teams (I hate to say it, but there just isn’t a big market here in Arizona for hockey, so maybe the Coyotes should be on the chopping block). Maybe they can arrange better deals where hockey IS popular. In Boston, we got to watch every single Bruins game, and maybe they can make some sort of TV deal that shows more games in the Northeast and other areas where hockey is appreciated. But I doubt it, because the NHL is full of a bunch of jackasses and it seems no one wants to do the smart, fair thing here.<\/p>\n
Two, it is extremely likely that Rehnquist will be retiring soon and President Bonehead will get to select the new justice. Great. Lovely. Just terrific. They say Rehnquist is very politically savvy and that no time is more perfect than right now, politically speaking, for him to retire. This really irks me. When it comes to justice and law, I really think we need to leave the politics out of it. I understand that is difficult to do sometimes for us average citizens, especially on hot-button issues, but we’re talking about the highest court in America, the brightest minds, the best of the best. If they can’t leave their political biases behind, there’s no hope for the rest of us.<\/p>\n
It all makes me so angry that I can barely function.<\/p>\n
So we’re screwed. Hockey’s screwed, the justice system is screwed, democrats are screwed, the fans are screwed. we’re all just screwed. <\/p>\n
When will anything good ever happen?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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