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 |
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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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Football season is 365 days a year
But I'm still hanging on to that Cheveldae rookie card.
Football and basketball season don't end on Xbox.
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 ...
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.
This is why I thank Canada for hockey and my parents for moulding me into a die hard Red Wings fan.
Red Wings playoffs are the crack that keep me going through, hopefully, a good part of the offseason.
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
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.
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hate things. Mostly me, and when I'm around them. But not then. No way.
and the Monroe Street Fair (http://www.monroestreetfair.com/index.htm). Not a bad week to be in Ann Arbor
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.
Gentlemen, start your ped-diddly-edals?
Geese love ganders,
Everybody else loves the Tour de Flanders!
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.
I'll give you a weather prediction:
1. Cold
2. Grey
3. Rest of your life.
Geez, I almost planned my schedule around watching the game last night.
Until I remembered about the springtime hiatus.
<<gnashes teeth>>
it would be brought up in response to this post
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."
You contemplate it later, when you are alone in your room with your own thoughts. That's when he speaks most clearly to you.
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.)
Rumor has it that there are a couple of interesting basketball games Saturday evening.
The Pistons are retiring Dennis Rodman's jersey at halftime of tonight's Bulls-Pistons game.
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:
Valentino's awesome.
Not so thrilled with Red Bull Racing, but no better way to spend Sunday morning from 7:30-10:00.
Sounds like the perfect time to fix that posbang/negbang thing
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.
"...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.
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