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AFL All-Star game archived online

sharks — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:36:25 -0000

AFL All-Star game archived online

So if you missed it here it is, they even cut out the commercials. I was pretty down on how the season ended, a World Series between the Phillies and the Yankees was bad enough, but it being called by Joe Buck and Tim McCarver made it almost unbearable. This game saved it big time.

Embarrassing

sharks — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:21:03 -0000

Embarrassing

Calisthenics in shorts and T-shirts? Seriously?

You can record 4 outs in an inning?

sharks — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:39:35 -0000

You can record 4 outs in an inning?

Took me awhile to figure it out, but I finally did.
(note: the D-backs did not actually record the fourth out of the inning)

Jocketty on not trading Votto

sharks — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:17:23 -0000

Jocketty on not trading Votto

- The Reds aren't going to trade Votto. His name gets mentioned from time to time, but that's just senseless speculation. "No chance," Jocketty says. -

Best news I've heard all off-season.

NY Rangers vs. SJ Sharks Game Recap; Sharks win 3-2

sharks — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 11:02:46 -0000

Me = Happy

via www.extremefunnyhumor.com

via www.thefunnycartoon.com

via www.all4humor.com

[This item was created by an awesome member of this blog's community and is not necessarily endorsed by Fear The Fin, but should be, given no one else stepped up to the plate and came up with something better, so this is what you get. How in the world could Sharks fans let this happen? You should be ashamed of yourselves.]

Awesome?

sharks — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:47:25 -0000

Awesome?

I think you could get it to work with practice. I'm holding out for the wooden model though......

Sean Avery is an idiot pt II (or is it pt 2,000,000?)

sharks — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:16:36 -0000

[Editor's Note]: Sharks has his take on the Sean Avery debacle. If you missed it, Sean Avery was suspended earlier this week before Dallas' game against Calgary. I don't necessarily agree with all his points, but felt it was noteworthy enough to put on the front page.

Alright I know this topic has been hammered to death but I just had to get my two cents in. As we all know Sean Avery is a massive idiot, this is really not news. Getting suspended for being a moron isn't something we should be surprised about. What surprised me were some of the reactions I saw to this whole thing.

First off however, my opinion on the comment/suspension: The suspension in my mind was completely justified. If you disagree, personally I really don't have all that much a problem with that, and I can see where someone with the opinion that a fine would have been more appropriate is coming from 100%. However what did you expect the league to do? Sit on it's hands and hit him with a little fine later on? Doubtful that would get any kind of message across. Yeah I would have loved to see the fights or the hit where Avery got his clock cleaned, but It reminds me of how the NFL started putting restrictions on TD dances, sure you love to see them but I completely agree with the way the No Fun League handled it (I like all the TD celebrations except the ones where guys prance around like faeries...but that's another topic for another blog for another day). So for that reason I'm pretty ok with the suspension. Had they not suspended him, well I wouldn't have been all that pissed about that either. Also it's not like the NHL can keep Avery from playing against Phaneuf forever.

The video, from YouTube:

First thing I notice is how pissed Turdo was, which pretty much summed up how angry the rest of the teammates were but they just didn't want to say it to the media. That's the biggest thing here, how stupid a distraction is this is to force on your team. Believe me I find this hilarious as much as the next Sharks fan does because of the division rivalry and all, but seriously how frickin stupid is this to dump on your teammates, all because he just wanted to get under Phaneuf's skin (or more likely to gain his insecure ass some attention). Will be interesting to see what comes out of Avery's meeting with the commish, until then he could always go play with his purse collection.

This post from Yahoo's Greg Wyshynski was, I thought, a massive overreaction. He drops some nice cheap shots at the NHL and at Gary Bettman probably because thats just the easiest thing to do in order to get readers. He also says the NHL didn't do anything when Ian White commented that Ilya Kovalchuk would "get what's coming to him". This has to be the dumbest comment ever to compare to what Avery said, not only was it not sexist in any way, it wasn't even inappropriate. And the "rendering the game unwatchable" part? Well, come on, my guess is it would only have been watched by Hockey fans salivating at the chance to see either a massive on-ice brawl or Avery get his head knocked off. It was already pretty f-ing unwatchable before his comments anyway, so why such a big deal. No way it would have brought more people into the sport and no way did the NHL "drop the ball" here. If the NHL just let it go, they would have had a massive media firestorm the next day. Wow, let's hammer on the NHL for actually acting professional just like any of the other big 3 sports organizations would have....

Lost in all this was Avery's misuse of the term sloppy seconds, something I immediately noticed being the dirty minded person I am. Technically using Avery's definition anyone whose ever been with another person (pretty much 95% of the population) would be considered sloppy seconds. In fact he would fall under that too. Here's the sloppy seconds wikipedia page for all you fifth graders (that includes me), not so sure they needed the last part of the 1st sentence though. Also notice Avery is linked to the page...nice.

Another funny thing I found: Gary Bettman gives the fans his position using Yahoo Answers. You can decide if it's real or not, either way it's still pretty funny.

One last thing: Avery did apologize.

Black Armor

sharks — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:44:42 -0000

Have the new uni's been leaked?

(courtesy of sharkspage.com via icethetics.com)

(not sure how those photo's will work, if they don't I suck, if they do I'm frickin' awesome)

If these are indeed the black alternate jerseys then I like the simplicity of them, too often you see pro teams try and get fancy and make jerseys that look like a 4-yr old designed them splashing colors all over the place. Not sure I'd call them "armor" or anything dumb like that, but what ev...

{UPDATE: See below in comments for your pictures punks. This stupid posting feature isn't being friendly to my attempts to actually post something cool. "Insert image" could be more accurately titled "Insert link to image where the image is linked by confusing the writer into thinking a link to a picture would make a picture in a post for better blogging"}

Savard and the pink slip

sharks — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:26:35 -0000

Wow, how unfair is this. Fired only 4 games into the season, talk about a small sample size. The Blackhawks record was 1-2-1, really could have been much worse. The first loss, on the road by the way, was against a Rangers team which so far is one of the better teams in the league. The second was against the Capitols on the road, another team first in their division. The third game was an OTL which means the game could have gone either way. And the fourth was a win vs. the Coyotes.

Sure the home loss to Nashville is a tough one, but come on can you really blame the coach? I guess the Blackhawks went crazy-insane on hyping the team before the year, but you can't blame that on the coach. I also heard soupy isn't turning out to be worth the money it took to sign him away from the Sharks.

Regardless 4 games isn't near enough time to justify firing somebody. It looks like he possibly was on a short leash to begin with, so why even start the season with him? Poor form. Keep an eye on this team, I bet they struggle for a little while to begin the year being in such disarray. That said, look out for them to surge late.

Oh and since the trend is to post a poll and I'm one of those guys who follows everything everyone else does I have to add one right? You all going to jump off a cliff later? If so count me in.

Poll

So how pointless is this poll?

This is the most pointless poll in the history of pointless polls, or perhaps polls in general

9 votes

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