Monday Mailbag With Myself
Vicarious answers to your Avs questions
As I’ve said before, I’m not a big fan of the NHL being in the Olympics. For me, all of the games so far involving the U.S. and Canada have been tediously boring, lopsided affairs with no drama whatsoever. Good on the journalists on hand trying to find interesting stories out of these turkeys, but count me out as a consumer right now. Just wake me up for the Canada-U.S. gold medal game - should it happen, that is - otherwise please don’t wake my snoozing from this manufactured shit.
I want the NHL season back. I want Avalanche hockey back. I want the resumption of what was turning into a pretty exciting stretch run, with the Avs’ hold on the Western title not quite as firm as it was.
It’s all been interrupted so we can go three days between games such as U.S.-Latvia or Canada-Switzerland (zzzzzzzzz….), so we can watch millionaire NHL players beat up on, for the most part, teams with non-NHL players. So we can vicariously live through their struggle of staying in 5-star hotels (such as Canada is doing) and courageously battling Italian or Swiss hockey teams full of amateurs. (Same goes for the …. zzzzz. women’s tourney so far with …. zzzzzzz …. blowouts in most every game. Wake me for the U.S.-Canada final here too).
(I don’t see how anyone can claim being the world’s best at hockey, no matter the outcome, with Russia not being allowed to play. Hey, I hate Putin with the best of them, but some of the greatest hockey in the world still comes from there, so keeping them out only takes away more drama and quality from a tournament that was already severely lacking in both).
To pass the time, I thought I’d have a talk with myself. Hell, I already feel like I’m going crazy watching this crap from Milan, so might as well go full 5150 here and ask questions to myself. I hope some would be questions you’d also ask me, mostly about the Avs.
