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Preview: A Cold, Empty Nothingness In Your Heart
HOCKEYBEAR IS—AW, HAMBURGERS THAT'S NEXT WEEK
The Essentials
| WHAT | You vs A Weekend Without Michigan Sporting Events |
|---|---|
| WHERE | The Depths Of Your Existential Dread, Pancreas, TX |
| WHEN | An irritatingly persistent feeling that serves as a preview for the Long Dark after the Frozen Four |
| THE LINE | Existential Dread -7 |
| TELEVISION | Versus (Versus will televise anything) |
Flipping Through The Channels, Finding Nothing But Clippers Games
(And the Final Four, I guess)
Record. 10-10, 5-5 in conference. Everything this weekend is a nondescript defensive battle between teams too bad to be exciting and too good to be interesting. Both teams wear grey, and Ricky Davis is nowhere in sight.
Previous meetings. Last summer this was a merciful end. The prospect of being required to watch nothing except half-full NBA arenas that double as Ambien for their attendees was sweet relief after football and basketball imploded and hockey only narrowly avoided doing so.
Dangermen. You're really going to want to watch out for old baseball/football/hockey cards (17-27-44), especially that Tim Cheveldae rookie card you thought was going to be worth thousands by now. They will remind you of a time when even bits of cardboard with pictures of people on them were endlessly fascinating. Remembering this could lead into other reveries, like the first time you saw a boob on pay cable, that can only go downhill from there.
Goalie and defense and whatnot. Alcohol, probably. Hang on to the "previous meetings" factoid. It will help to remember that the alternative to feeling lost and alone after relevant sporting events cease is feeling like that all the time. Wait, that doesn't help at all.
Special teams. Their power play is better than Michigan's, I tell you what!
You Versus The Dread Sports Distracts You From
Good luck with that, buddy. You may even find yourself bowling. You hate bowling.
Scandals are pretty much sports too. Jim Tressel, man.
When in doubt.
HOCKEYBEAR IS GO ANYWAY
The Big Picture
Next Thursday and, God willing, Saturday are the Frozen Four. The methadone of spring practice and the spring game-type-substance will provide a gentle glide path into May, but at that point you're just waiting for September. Prepare.
April 1st, 2011 at 1:08 PM | 
I guess you won't be at Crisler
I guess you won't be at Crisler
April 1st, 2011 at 1:22 PM |
I'm going to the Lacrosse
I'm going to the Lacrosse
I'm going to the Lacrosse game tonight. They're facing the #2 and #3 teams (we're number one of course) in the country this weekend and need support. So yeah. Strange, a weekend without hockey. Feels...wrong.
Avatar is a reference to this. Go Blue!
April 2nd, 2011 at 9:13 AM |
Don't forget...
Don't forget...
about the 31-2 Women's softball team playing this weekend against Indiana.
Of course, it would be better if they moved the weather up from Tampa at least until the end of May.
Give the ladies their props, they're for real.
April 1st, 2011 at 1:09 PM |
Appropriate
Appropriate
Yesterday, I was so pumped to watch the Frozen Four actually televised in Florida with my beloved Wolverines. I had told a bunch of fellow Michigan alumni at work to "watch the game tonight!" We had the storm from the depths of Hades all day yesterday, so I wouldn't feel guilty perched in front of my television watching HD college hockey and pretending I still lived in the Great White North. As I clocked out from work, I double checked the start time only to find out that it was next week they are playing. I April Fools'd'ed myself.
tl;dr: fail.
Hail.
April 1st, 2011 at 1:14 PM |
There is always mgoblog recruiting updates
There is always mgoblog recruiting updates
Football season is 365 days a year
April 1st, 2011 at 1:16 PM |
Say what you want
Say what you want
But I'm still hanging on to that Cheveldae rookie card.
Tressel: Pounding kids since April 2010.
April 1st, 2011 at 1:16 PM |
Football and basketball
Football and basketball
Football and basketball season don't end on Xbox.
April 1st, 2011 at 6:04 PM |
that depends
that depends
on whether you prefer online or offline play and how often you're willing to buy a new game.
Because if you prefer online play, then even those seasons end, usually in a sizeable group and without much warning, the assumption being that you don't care because of course you keep buying the same game every year ...
April 1st, 2011 at 1:18 PM |
Baseball
Baseball
I love that this comes out the day after Opening Day for MLB. I'm not being sarcastic - I really love that about this blog. And I'm not even anti-baseball.
- "Of course I care about that stuff. To the point of irrationality. It will always be Michigan first, cancer second." Jim Mandich (RIP)
April 1st, 2011 at 1:26 PM |
Eric Davis & Brien Taylor
Eric Davis & Brien Taylor
Eric Davis & Brien Taylor cost me $50 in 1992.
well, technically $49.25, since I'm sure those two rookie cards are worth around 75c today.
Harvard: The MICHIGAN of the East
We're not arrogant, we're just better.
April 1st, 2011 at 1:33 PM |
This is why I thank Canada
This is why I thank Canada
This is why I thank Canada for hockey and my parents for moulding me into a die hard Red Wings fan.
CHARLES WOODSON DOWN THE SIDELINE
April 1st, 2011 at 2:10 PM |
Couldn't agree more
Couldn't agree more
Red Wings playoffs are the crack that keep me going through, hopefully, a good part of the offseason.
April 1st, 2011 at 2:45 PM |
yes.
yes.
hopefully they will carry through till june
i have no idea what to expect from this team tho. with the current slew of injuries its hard to predict anything. i'd really like to see pav and howard back for a few games before the playoffs start. that game against the blues was soul-dong punch worthy
April 1st, 2011 at 6:09 PM |
injuries at most positions can be endured
injuries at most positions can be endured
but multiple injuries at goalie are a bad thing. Most teams would struggle throwing their #2 out night after night ... when you're down to a #3, no matter who it is, that's a problem, especially with the division title still up for grabs.
If it's "just" another run to the conference semis, it'll be a little disappointing, but things have been much worse, and there's been more than enough recent success to get me through the bad times, should they actually come back.
April 1st, 2011 at 1:44 PM |
Hey!
Hey!
How about some love for cricket????
World Cup championship is Friday, 5 AM Eastern. Directv is showing it on some channel, and its also streaming online (see myp2p.eu for links).
GOOOOOOOOOO INDIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is home...
April 1st, 2011 at 1:45 PM |
So damn true.
So damn true.
I hate things. Mostly me, and when I'm around them. But not then. No way.
April 1st, 2011 at 1:47 PM |
Hash Bash
Hash Bash
and the Monroe Street Fair (http://www.monroestreetfair.com/index.htm). Not a bad week to be in Ann Arbor
April 1st, 2011 at 1:51 PM |
Versus=cycling season!
Versus=cycling season!
Speak for yourself, but End of Basketball == Start of Cycling season on Versus.
This weekend we get the TdF(NTTDF) - Tour de Flanders, prelude to Paris-Roubaix. Then the big tours start: California, Suisse, France. Looking forward to Tour "de" California not being a rainy mess like it has been every other February.
"Why would you ask a dumb question like that?" -Lloyd Carr
April 1st, 2011 at 3:12 PM |
Tour de Flanders?
Tour de Flanders?
Gentlemen, start your ped-diddly-edals?
Sportscenter.com raves: Sgt. Wolverine, "Michigan's biggest fan"!
April 1st, 2011 at 4:13 PM |
Hens love rootsers
Hens love rootsers
Geese love ganders,
Everybody else loves the Tour de Flanders!
"Why would you ask a dumb question like that?" -Lloyd Carr
April 1st, 2011 at 1:55 PM |
So...
So...
Just to sum up what exactly occurs during that HOCKEYBEAR video...
- Giant bear is unfrozen from his prison beneath the sea.
- Giant bear manufactures giant hockey stick out of pure electricity
- Uses said hockey stick to cut a cruise ship in half, murdering hundreds of innocent people
- Fighter pilots in giant bear's army blow up the campuses of Miami (NTM), Ohio State, and Michigan State, killing thousands.
- Lead bear fighter pilot drops several nuclear bombs into active volcanoes, thereby blowing up the planet Earth (killing billions this time), the force of which causes him to travel to a parallel universe and land in Carlson Arena in Fairbanks, Alaska where he fires a slapshot before the game even begins that explodes the goal.
I think the NCAA needs to come down hard on Fairbanks using a genocidal bear as one of their top-6 forwards.
April 1st, 2011 at 2:18 PM |
I'll give you a weather
I'll give you a weather
I'll give you a weather prediction:
1. Cold
2. Grey
3. Rest of your life.
2011 Totals: 3 Cracker Jack, 1 Mike & Ike, 0 Candy Corn.
April 1st, 2011 at 2:22 PM |
The long and horrible wait
The long and horrible wait
Geez, I almost planned my schedule around watching the game last night.
Until I remembered about the springtime hiatus.
<<gnashes teeth>>
April 1st, 2011 at 2:36 PM |
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"Dangermen. You're really going to want to watch out for old baseball/football/hockey cards (17-27-44), especially that Tim Cheveldae rookie card you thought was going to be worth thousands by now. They will remind you of a time when even bits of cardboard with pictures of people on them were endlessly fascinating. Remembering this could lead into other reveries, like the first time you saw a boob on pay cable, that can only go downhill from there."
Damn you Brian get out of my head!!!
April 1st, 2011 at 2:39 PM |
More like this...
More like this...
April 1st, 2011 at 2:48 PM |
I just knew
I just knew
it would be brought up in response to this post
April 1st, 2011 at 4:23 PM |
why is mattison such a
why is mattison such a
why is mattison such a pinkerton fan? is this something he discusses with recruits?
"the blue album was big, but pinkerton was a sleeper classic and everything since then, well, not the best."
2013 resolution - make it onto the 2014 favorite MGoPosters post, not ironically
i wish i would have made my screen name "IT WAS THE CHAIR"
April 1st, 2011 at 10:27 PM |
You do not question Mattison's wisdom
You do not question Mattison's wisdom
You contemplate it later, when you are alone in your room with your own thoughts. That's when he speaks most clearly to you.
April 1st, 2011 at 2:52 PM |
The last paragraph about
The last paragraph about
The last paragraph about withdrawal is key. Especially in the summer, when everyone's out exercising and enjoying the weather instead of typing verbose comments on MGoBlog. If it wasn't for ExpansionFest 2010, I don't know what I would have done for sports news. (I'm not much of a baseball person.)
Abort, Retry, Fail?
April 1st, 2011 at 3:02 PM |
Rumor has it that there are a
Rumor has it that there are a
Rumor has it that there are a couple of interesting basketball games Saturday evening.
April 1st, 2011 at 3:24 PM |
The Pistons are retiring
The Pistons are retiring
The Pistons are retiring Dennis Rodman's jersey at halftime of tonight's Bulls-Pistons game.
Michigan Resurgent? Michigan Resurgent!
The beatings will continue until the uniforms improve!
April 1st, 2011 at 3:28 PM |
I consider The Wolverine
I consider The Wolverine
I consider The Wolverine Season Preview issue my major dose of methadone during the summer, even though this here blog does alot of good reporting anyway, I still feel the preview issue helps us all cope. My dad saved the '97 preview issue and I read the article about Charles every once in awhile to make me feel good.
also, nobody a motorsport fan? Formula 1 and MotoGP are too cool to ignore see:
I find your lack of faith disturbing **force choke**
April 1st, 2011 at 4:22 PM |
VR
VR
Valentino's awesome.
Not so thrilled with Red Bull Racing, but no better way to spend Sunday morning from 7:30-10:00.
Larry
I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV
April 1st, 2011 at 3:54 PM |
Dead Period?
Dead Period?
Sounds like the perfect time to fix that posbang/negbang thing
April 1st, 2011 at 5:54 PM |
Hate bowling?
Hate bowling?
I don't hate bowling. I just hate how bad and inconsistent I am at bowling. I love going bowling though. I just hate watching myself bowl. Or throwing the ball down the lane. Or any of those things.
Hmm... maybe I do hate bowling.
April 2nd, 2011 at 7:02 PM |
Your comment
Your comment
"...Nothing except half-full NBA arenas that double as Ambien..."
My feelings exactly on the NBA, love the occasional good simile. Only thing is, I think Ambien plays more d.
Bo' Money Bo' Problems
For the women's gymnastics regionals tomorrow night, eh?
Or at the Fish for the series against Indiana?
Or at Oosterbaan tonight for lax?
There are Michigan sports everywhere, if you keep an open mind!