tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56403012024-03-08T11:36:52.966-05:00rememberthewhalersthe blog of jon gibbonsjghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10786027344290274471noreply@blogger.comBlogger209125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5640301.post-20421312993626249132015-03-28T16:46:00.001-04:002015-03-28T16:46:05.444-04:00Time for Change in the NHL and NBARecently, Buffalo Sabres fans in attendance for "Tank Night" were cheering openly for their team to lose to the visiting Arizona Coyotes. When the Sabres tied the game near the end of the third period, the goal announcement drew boos from the home crowd, as did the horn signaling the end of regulation (presumably because the Sabres earned one point by sending the game to overtime).
In the NBA, jghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10786027344290274471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5640301.post-54354962932076574262011-03-02T13:08:00.003-05:002011-03-02T13:11:38.022-05:00Rejected Titles for Bristol Palin's MemoirLife at 20. Whew! When Will I Ever Find the Time to Watch Jersey Shore?
Oh Noes! A Baby!, or, The Father of My Child is A Big Jerkface Meanie-head
What to Do When Your Dad Has No Balls Left Because Your Mom Ate Them
Life In the Big City: How to Survive In a Place With a Population of 1,000
I Still Think I Should've Won Dancing With the Stars. Thanks for Nothing, America!
Not Afraid of Life, But jghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10786027344290274471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5640301.post-44823019784180777312011-02-17T17:42:00.002-05:002011-03-02T13:31:17.452-05:00HOF is a JokeThe baseball Hall of Fame is a joke. It's absolutely ridiculous that guys like Bert Blyleven get elected, and someone like Albert Belle isn't even on the ballot anymore.
I mean, Bert Blyleven? Really?
To me, the HOF is for guys who fathers will tell their sons about. Remember those days when you'd sit and watch a game with your dad, and you'd get all excited because you thought some guy was jghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10786027344290274471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5640301.post-65630023089853556512011-02-03T03:09:00.003-05:002011-03-02T13:31:29.559-05:00Daniel Snyder, You're an AssholeHi, Dan Snyder. You're an asshole. Why are you suing Washington City Paper? Is it because they wrote this article, in which they totally cut off your balls and shove them down your throat? Yep, that's why. But, still, why are you suing them, really? It's not because of the article. It's because the newspaper is calling attention to the fact that you are a fucking asshole, that's why. And, Danny jghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10786027344290274471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5640301.post-42550517945204752342011-01-12T03:31:00.001-05:002011-03-02T13:15:19.796-05:00NHL on HBO? I want moreTonight I was watching the HBO special, "24/7 Penguins/Capitals: Road to the NHL Winter Classic" with a friend of mine, and it was awesome. I mean really awesome.
A lot of times with these kinds of "behind the scenes" shows, I feel like they have to manufacture a lot of the show to make it interesting. Which isn't to say that these guys weren't aware that the cameras were rolling, because I'm jghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10786027344290274471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5640301.post-61243644218173772352008-11-08T19:38:00.011-05:002011-03-02T13:14:28.375-05:00the fools of chivalryApparently, Esquire magazine recently published an article entitled "Dating Etiquette: How to Navigate the First Date". It was also apparently written by someone who either last went out on a date in 1963, or learned everything they know about sex from watching "It's the Great Vagina, Charlie Brown!".
Thankfully, I'm here to offer some helpful corrections.
So, without further ado, I present to jghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10786027344290274471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5640301.post-85296691421414491762008-08-25T13:08:00.003-04:002011-03-02T13:15:05.460-05:00take my testI made a Hartford Whalers test. You should take it.
http://www.helloquizzy.com/tests/the-hartford-whalers-testjghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10786027344290274471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5640301.post-44975175577286832752008-08-17T15:34:00.004-04:002011-03-02T13:16:49.351-05:00don't call it a comebackYou know what pisses me off? People who insist on using flavored liquors for every drink that contains said flavor. They'll use espresso vodka in an espresso martini. Citrus vodka in a cosmopolitan. Lime flavored tequila in a margarita. And so on.
The problem is, when you do that, you're FUCKING UP the drink. A cosmo is plain vodka, triple-sec (which is orange flavored), lime juice, and a twist jghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10786027344290274471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5640301.post-84475788164674094972008-08-16T19:24:00.004-04:002011-03-02T13:17:14.123-05:00Ch-ironyDoes anyone find something incredibly strange about the fact that, in Beijing, China, they are playing beach volleyball and blasting Rage Against the Machine over the loudspeakers?
The end of the world is coming soon. I'm pretty sure of it.jghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10786027344290274471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5640301.post-52361118120915238162007-11-02T13:46:00.001-04:002011-03-02T13:17:38.947-05:00in case anyone reads this in the next 24 hours or so...Please go here and show your support for the Whalers by voting for them in the logo championships!
They're only 65 votes behind with one day left in the voting!!
We can win this thing!
Oh... and also... A-Rod can suck my balls.
Go Whale!jghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10786027344290274471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5640301.post-25384191405894933072007-04-16T02:19:00.013-04:002011-03-02T13:19:18.978-05:00action heroes like the nhl too!here at rtw, we always (and by "always" i mean when i used to keep this blog updated on a regular basis) try to give you your sports with a side of pop culture.
here, then, for your reading pleasure, are the NHL playoff teams that movie action hero characters would be rooting for, if they were, in fact, real people:
seth gecko - new jersey devils: seth kicked some vampire ass in "from dusk tilljghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10786027344290274471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5640301.post-77006217281028390212007-04-11T02:28:00.003-04:002011-03-02T13:32:24.735-05:00imus be crazy, because is this really a big deal?dude.
seriously?
don imus? really?
why is everyone getting so upset about this? i mean, i don't think that what he said was very nice, but holy shit. get a grip people. it's not that big of a deal. we all know that if a black radio host made a comment about some white girls being "pasty blonde sluts" or something, that this would not be that big of a deal. i could understand if imus said it injghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10786027344290274471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5640301.post-2887435047758815702007-02-26T14:53:00.001-05:002011-03-02T13:27:48.147-05:00i'm absolutely not doing this because i lost a bet. i repeat, i am NOT doing this because i lost a bet.*DISCLAIMER: i am writing this post to display my undying love for the boston red sox. under no circumstances should it be taken in any way other than totally and completely seriously. there is definitely no sarcasm whatsoever involved. i just really really really love the red sox. they are clearly god's team, and have the most intelligent, thoughtful, and humble fans in all of baseball. and red jghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10786027344290274471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5640301.post-1156962421549587272006-08-30T14:12:00.001-04:002011-03-02T13:29:45.994-05:00disappointingdon't mistake my recent posting parade as a sign that i'll be writing on a regular basis again. we all know that wont happen. but one thing made me sad. i was clicking on a bunch of my very outdated links, and i discovered that many of the old blogs which have been long killed off are not only non-existant, but have been taken over by some type of spam-blog-marketing-entity-type thingy. I mean, jghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10786027344290274471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5640301.post-1156918778270761082006-08-30T01:59:00.001-04:002011-03-02T13:31:01.611-05:00fine then...you want me to say something? how about this...
what the hell is with all those e-mails i get. you know, the ones that have some random subject line, and then the body of the email says something like, "'i eat guava flavored jelly beans every day' said Harry, the five legged mutant rabbit-pig. Hopping down the hill with his new friend Punto, the very effeminate hedgehog, they walked inside the jghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10786027344290274471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5640301.post-1156194503312309912006-08-21T17:07:00.001-04:002011-03-02T13:33:03.483-05:00we all know i don't blog anymorebut, did anyone catch the yankees sweeping a 5 game series from the red sox? things are right with the world again after all...jghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10786027344290274471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5640301.post-1146509128993525862006-05-01T14:42:00.002-04:002011-03-02T13:38:18.485-05:00jollasalonyathis is the "word" that my phone thinks i'm attempting to spell when i try to input "lollapalooza." why was i trying to spell lollapalooza? because i just won two free tickets to the concert in chicago. my haiku writing skillz just punked your junior high school honor student nerd.
(since the link no longer leads you to my haiku, here it is... the $300 poem in all it's glory)
Lolla oh-five jghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10786027344290274471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5640301.post-1144106305786301942006-04-03T18:46:00.001-04:002011-03-02T13:40:23.769-05:00if this was the best weekend of the sports year, then how come i didn't give a crap?you know me.
i like sports.
a lot.
i probably care about sports way way way too much.
well, all i've heard leading up to this past weekend was how this was the best weekend of the year for sports. presumably, this is because of the final four and baseball's opening night.
now, theoretically, there might be some -- some -- merit to that. i mean, i can easily pick out a couple of other sports jghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10786027344290274471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5640301.post-1143654728214214162006-03-29T12:44:00.001-05:002011-03-02T13:41:18.061-05:00Ahem...So...
Um...
Yeah...
I guess the last six months just happened.
Let's see... what have I been up to...
Um, I went back to Denver to visit some peeps... I met a girl there (which makes sense seeing as how I can't date a girl who lives in the same state as me)... She came to visit me... I might be going back to visit soon.
What else...
My dad has cancer. That's not so great. So, we'll see howjghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10786027344290274471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5640301.post-1142902504997053042006-03-20T19:54:00.001-05:002011-03-02T13:41:40.063-05:00is this thing still on?just checking ;)jghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10786027344290274471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5640301.post-1126283486241409822005-09-09T13:14:00.001-04:002011-03-02T13:43:01.967-05:00after further review...i want instant replay in all sports.
football, hockey, and basketball all use instant replay in certain instances to get calls right, and more often than not, they successfully do so.
i'm tried of watching baseball games where umpires blow calls horrifically. take, for example, last night, when the second base umpire called out angels' shortstop orlando cabrera for tagging up from second base jghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10786027344290274471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5640301.post-1125582253013454742005-09-01T09:44:00.001-04:002011-03-02T13:44:12.122-05:00step offso, it came to my attention last night that a certain friend of mine had this ingenius plan whereby he was going to hijack my blog and start writing on it as a guest writer. of course there are a few problems with his plan.
#1 -- my blog isn't popular enough for anyone to ever guest blog on it.
#2 -- he's a much better writer than me and would probably steal 3/4 of my audience (read: 6 people)
#jghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10786027344290274471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5640301.post-1125444904624428412005-08-30T18:45:00.001-04:002011-03-02T13:48:08.504-05:00my august blog posti couldn't go the entire month of august without writing something, so here i am.
my computer's still effed up, my job still sucks, and i still live at home. so not much has changed. but i'm still a sarcastic bastard, so at least i have that going for me...
TOP SEVEN THINGS THAT NEED TO GO AWAY IN A HURRY BEFORE I GO COMPLETELY INSANE AND SINGE MY NIPPLES OFF:
7. those snoop dog/lee iaccoca jghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10786027344290274471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5640301.post-1121959986038917732005-07-21T11:28:00.001-04:002011-03-02T13:48:37.234-05:0025 or 6 to 4that's right. CHICAGO. i'm leaving to go there tonight. i'll be sure to let all you punk-asses know how lollapalooza was, and i'll also give you my "state of amusement" report about cedar point.
the last two weeks at work was insanely busy and, thus, hardly any blogging has been done. however, if you read this even semi-occasionally, that is not shocking news to you. i blog in streaks. sometimesjghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10786027344290274471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5640301.post-1121350913276029692005-07-14T10:21:00.001-04:002011-03-02T13:50:55.653-05:00put me in, coachi went to see a new haven county cutters game last night. a friend of mine had free tickets, so why not go, right? plus, they were first row right behind home plate.
well, a couple of beers into the game, some guy comes up to us and says, "hey guys, would you be interested in participating in a game between innings?"
now, normally, if not under the influence of frosty beverages, we probably jghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10786027344290274471noreply@blogger.com0