On Lovely Things..... ummmm yeah

I have decided that not watching the Sabres for the time being does not mean that I cannot make fun of them. Jaro Spacho is hilarious. Can I just say that? Absolutely hilarious. I adore the songs he chose to be played at the last game. Well, mostly I just adore the fact that they consisted of U2 (what a surprise with this team of U2 lovers), the Rolling Stones, and Pearl Jam... OK, those all go together. And then, randomly, "In Da Club," by 50 Cent. You just know that Kotalik made Spacek pick that song. Overall, I think that Sissy is the biggest source of amusement on the team this season. First, the pigeon and the fact that the word "pigeon" came out of his mouth... Then the fact that he has actually been interviewed multiple times during games this year... That is just incredible in and of itself. He is by far the best interviewee on the team. He has such keen insight and avoids hockey cliches like woah. I mean, I think he does. Usually I am too mesmerized by his voice to really pay attention to what he is actually saying. I have a rather disgusting tendency to squeal in excitement when Spacek is interviewed. It is basically the opposite of my reaction when they gave Kalinin his yearly interview. I always felt so bad for that guy and secretly always kept rooting for him to play better, even when others had given up on him. In interviews, he always just looked like he wanted to disappear into a hole in the floor.

Anyway. Spacek. Most entertaining Sabre of the season. He's very entertaining during games when you randomly hear him shout obscenities. He'll be in the corner doing his thing, getting the puck, when suddenly he accidentally? passes the puck to the other team and immediately thereafter shouts out some profanity. Never hear a word from him all game or see his lips move, except for that. Oh, apparently his name is actually spelled Špaček. Excuse me for not getting the proper Czech spelling down. Probably I totally messed up the pronounciation by spelling it the way he has to spell it for us stupid Americans to say it right.

Apparently Tim Connolly now has a broken rib? That's a new one! Of course, all of his injuries are completely independent of one another and have absolutely no connection whatsoever. That's what is so terrible about it. So far he's had a concussion, a disc in his neck that was pressing down on a nerve (which is actually not that uncommon among athletes and is almost always misdiagnosed for months as post-concussion syndrome) a stress fracture in his leg, a bone spur in his hip, a pulled groin, a cracked vertebrae, and a broken rib. What's next? Seriously it is ridiculous. HOW can ONE hockey player have THAT many INDIVIDUAL injuries? Insane. There are plenty of injury-prone players in the NHL, to the extent that I would say every team has one, or perhaps 0.8 of them, but they almost always have recurring injuries. Not so for Tim Ho (see what I did there?). I really do feel terrible for the guy. He needs to get himself one of these:
It might hurt his stickhandling, but clearly it would be marvelous for rebounds. He'd just need to stand there, and the puck could bounce off him, gain velocity, and go right into the net. It would also be marvelous for blocking shots. He would literally have to move out of the way in order for the puck to not hit him.

In other news, Ryan Miller updated his blog.

"So after a very nice start to the season our team is in a little bit of a rut..."

You think so, Ryan? Really? I hadn't noticed. There's no reason at all that I've decided to quit watching your team suck for two weeks. No reason at all.

"But that is how things work in sports sometimes, not everything goes your way and the team has to find ways to push through frustration."

Sometimes, Ryan, semicolons can be your friends. I know, right?! It's so hard to believe sometimes. But it's true. (Why, yes, I am a nerd!)

I am checking out his tunes on YouTube right now (I don't know about you, but I soooo exploit YouTube on a daily basis in order to listen to songs from the '90s that I love)... "Skinny Love" is quite calming. I'm listening to this one first because I adore the steel guitar. I could actually listen to this song over and over again, kinda like what I do with "The Trapeze Swinger" by Iron & Wine (best song in the world; LEESTEN TO EET ON YOUTUBE RIGHT THIS INSTANT!). This song reminds me of that one in a very good way (though it's not a quarter as good). And now for "Thrash Unreal," which according to YouTube I have already watched/listened to before. Probably it was at like 3:00 in the morning when I was up studying for chem and perusing random music on YouTube via the "related videos" thing, because I... don't remember this song at all. But it's catchy.

Overall, I very much approve of Ryan Miller's taste in music. I know that was so imporant for all of you to know. Now you do.

It disturbs me that my life is seemingly better without the Sabres. Very much so. Last night, rather than watching them lost 4-2 to the NEW YORK ISLANDERS LOLOLOL STUPID SABRES, I was able to play euchre and scum/capitalism (which, after being either scum or vice-scum the entire game when I am usually no lower than middle man and actually usually president or VP, I advocated changing to socialism) with friends for hours on end and throw a spontanouse dance party in the cafe on campus because they were being AWESOME and playing... just the best music they've ever played there in the time I've been coming to this college. There was techno music, of course, but then they played all the songs that are played at sports games... "Livin' on a Prayer," "The Cha Cha Slide," "Cotton-Eyed Joe," the hockey song (I only know it by that name... it's the theme song for NHL '96, which I used to play all the time when I was little), ""Eye of the Tiger," "Blue (Da Ba Dee)," etc. We either danced to or sang along to or both to every single song. It was incredible. We got everybody else to join us, too... until about 1:00 in the morning. Eeeeexcellent.

HOLY FREAKING CRAP I JUST LOOKED UP THE SCORE OF THE BILLS GAME AND THEY SCORED FIFTY-FOUR FREAKING POINTS? WHAT THE FREAKIN FREAK FREAK FREAK?!!!!!! THEY ARE NOT THE 2007 NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS! HOOOOLYYYYY CRAAAAP!

Wow, Bills. Just wow. Way to kill the Chiefs. Wow. Epic lulz, too, because Trent Edwards had two rushing touchdowns. BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

I feel slightly better about Buffalo sports right now. I said two weeks, though, and I'm sticking by my word even if the Sabres trade for Brad Richards and Marian Gaborik by the end of the day.