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Ice girls

At first, I thought the ice girls were a good idea. Hot chicks and sports. Nothing wrong with that right?
Well not only are TDS ice girls not very attractive, they also appear quite conceited and stupid as well.

But the really dumb thing about them, is this incessant cleaning of the crease ice. I have no love for opposing goal tenders. None at all. But holy crap, just leave them alone stupid girl. The girl pictured above on Wednesday night would skate up to this poor bloke, and then linger and wait for him to move. So then he tries to avoid her glance, and eventually awkwardly skates to the corner.

He's a professional athlete, you stupid little girl. Leave him alone. Those creases managed to make it about 100 years of NHL play without "Ice girls" to take care of them. Something tells me that it's going to be ok.

Quick hits

• -Yankees...suck it. Go Cleveland
• How about some drama in these baseball playoff games? I'll watch playoff baseball, but when I turn the game on and it's 9-3...I'm not that interested.
  
• -Thanks for Marty Reasoner for taking a stupid penalty last night so that the Sharks could points out of a game they shouldn't have. Brilliant. Moron.
  
• -Diamondbacks = good? Do I care that much? Not really, but I'm still from Phoenix and I reserve the right to root for them if they get further...
• -Why do people complain about the NHL teams wearing white on the road? Most NFL teams wear their whites on the road (Broncos, Steelers, Colts come to mind). The NHL does it so that the teams can wear their 3rd jerseys (which are always darker) at home. It's marketing. It's not hard to understand.

And what are the Mavericks going to do withour Damp to start the season? Did Diop learn how to not get 2 first quarter fouls over the summer? I think that's going to be really bad. Eddie Jones and Trenton Hassell aren't going to help not give up gobs of points in the paint.

Avs 4, Stars 3 (0-1)

Here are some stats from game 1:

• 34 shots on goal
• 2 power play goals scored
• 3 goals total
  
• Only 2 penalties taken

In my estimation when any combination of 2 or more of those things happen on the same night, you should win your game. You should win it easily. When all 4 of those things happen, and you don't win, you can pretty easily point the finger in the right direction.

Apparently all you have to do to score on Marty this year, is just back Zubov in and use him as a screen.

What is wrong with Zubov?

He was a -4. He was on the ice for EVERY Avs goal, and on none of the 3 Stars goals. He had similar numbers in the pre-season. His buddy Daley was -3. Think that pairing is going to work out? Sure it's just one game, but I've been saying all along that Zubov should be with Norstrum. Tipp doesn't want to put all of his good defensive eggs in one basket, but guess what?....Zubie might not be a good one anymore.

It Starts today. Game 1.

The Hockey season returns today, with basketball season close in tow.

And so the blog starts again as well.

Enjoy, all 4 of you, my thoughts.

Official Stars Prediction:

• The Ducks will be good, but not as good as last year. Not in the regular season anyways.
• The Sharks will be better. A lot better. I think they will win the division.
• The Kings will be improved, and annoying, but not deadly.
• The Coyotes will be the Coyotes.
• And the Stars....3rd in the division. 98 points, and a 7th or 8th seed playoff birth.

So there it is in writing. I predict the Stars will suck, but not bad enough to not get the chance to lose to Detroit or San Jose in the first round. And then it's out with Doug Armstrong, and out with Dave Tippet, and rebuilding while watching Mo and Zubie waste away. That's cheerful.

Cheeky, but genius

And just when I didn't think I could hate Jim Lites any more than I do, he goes and changes my mind completely. This is pretty gutsy. I don't think a lot of owners would try something like this in Hockey.

This might actually drive people away from hockey! But according to Lites, the web site has experienced an increase in traffic since the billboards went up. He neglected to say whether it was related to ticket sales or hate email.

Either way, I applaud you Dallas Stars. I love the NBA as much as anyone, but they need to learn how to take a joke. I'm sure Emperor Stern isn't very happy about it though.

A new season, a new look blog

I re-designed the blog. It was rather plain before, and since I have no substance to fall back on, style will have to do.

But the thorn in every bloggers side, is the name. What to call it? Do you go with a rhyme? Aliteration? A bad pun? Or INSERT NAME HERE: _______ 's BLOG? Maybe an offensive joke? A nice play on words?

Do I use my real first name, Brad? or my online alias, Flaco?

Ideas:

-"Flaco's Sports Flatulence" (hmmm not bad)
-"Hairy Flaco and the Goblet of Vodka" (not enough sports)
-"Flaming Flac0" (gay humor = funny?)

Alas, I think I'll just stick to Blogcasting Brad. I thought that I made that word up, until I read otherwise. Apparently I was about 5 years too late.

Damn you, Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogcasting

Previously....on my blog

I was gearing up for the playoffs.

Yay! Playoffs.

Every year I get suckered in to thinking it's the most wonderful time of the year. It's awesome. And even though my beloved Stars never seem to take the journey I wish they would any more, at least the Mavericks were poised for an awesome run, right????

Wrong!!!!

That's what's funny about sports. 5 months later I can't wait to do it all again. I'm a shmuck. A huge shmuck. Oh well.

Either way, after not blogging any of the Stars/Mavs collapse, I thought about closing the blog forever. What purpose does it serve? Does anyone but me and 2 of my friends care? Not really. Well it's fun most of the time. And I'm going to try to stay more humorous and keep my ranting to myself.

That should last until about October 5th or 6th when the Stars play their first back to back. Or mid September when the new uniforms are unveiled. I can feel that big vein in my forehead holding its own training camp in there....