She had eighty years on this earth...

She was a Fox News watching...

Flag waving...

Ronald Reagan...

And John Wayne lovin’ Republican...

She ogled over Tom Selleck and...

George Strait...

She loved him in Pure Country...

A movie buff she was...

Especially westerns...

Airplane was a western, too, wasn’t it???

That one cracked her up...

As did...

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels...

She wasn’t your typical Shirley...

Because she was...

Shirlee...

She was Mom...

To Scott, Chris, and myself...

She was a much better cook than she thought she was...

Parmesan Chicken...

Chili Mac...

Beef Stew...

Illinois style Italian lasagna...

Rump roast...

Nuts and bolts for the holidays...

Chicken and noodles...

But there was one dish she always threatened to make...

But never did...

When she had a little rift with Dad...

She called that entree...

“Pecker Pot Pie”...

Ouch...

In her final years...

She was introduced to facebook...

Some of her posts are family classics...

Pointed or poignant...

Pick your poison...

John Wayne.. my very favorite guy of all time.

The best movie line from 

TRUE GRIT.......

FILL YOUR HANDS YOU, SON OF A BITCH.

Makes me laugh every time I hear it.

I am all for freedom of speech...

BUT..no matter which side your mouth you are speaking from

(liberal or conservative)

...is it necessary to BORE US TO DEATH?

Give us break, PLEASE.

What can bring tears in a big hurry?

Kindness of heart and soul.

Reduce our military?

Has any dumb ass in D.C ever heard of Pearl Harbor?

etc.,etc.,etc.

?"TEMPUS FUGIT"

"Time Flies,"

But not during an ELECTION YEAR.

On and on and on and on.

It is time for the "dregs of society"

to get off their arses and do something worthwhile.

As for sports???

She didn’t like baseball...

Gave my baseball cards to a neighborhood boy when I moved out...

Ouch!!!

Didn’t watch basketball...

And instead of the Super Bowl...

Watched the Puppy Bowl...

Dabbled in golf...

Bowled for a season...

Poker and bunco with the gals...

But there was one sport she loved...

Because she loved it with Dad...

Los Angeles Kings hockey...

Shirlee adored Luc Robitaille...

During one of her last few days...

She mumbled a weak, “Oh yeah?”

When informed they won the Stanley Cup...

Mom had her rules, too...

Turn off the water after you do the laundry...

Clean out the lint in the dryer...

No utensils in the sink...

No drinking glasses on the patio...

Plastic cups only...

Sometimes we rolled our eyes at the rules...

Other times she got irked when we forgot them...

And speaking of irked...

Mom didn’t get mad...

She got irked...

With her imaginary Irk-o-meter...

Irked at the politicians...

Irked at the waitress...

Irked at people for whatever...

But she rarely raised her voice...

And she was there...

When we needed her...

In our childhood...

And adulthood...

Never charged for room and board...

And it was only our pleasure to reciprocate...

As she battled cancer...

She took her last breath Saturday night...

We memorialized her Wednesday...

She was a blessing...

Surely she was...

dvt

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Hello Gabbers

Welcome to another addition to Talking Sports so lets get started.. The Lobsters have nothing to do with anything. I spent a week in Maine never even had one. Besides they charge like $19 bucks for it at a Resturant go to the Lobster pound up there they are live kickin and $3.99 a pound. Neve could figure out why they charge so much the damn things almost crawl to the Resturants.

Common you knew it was going to come and you know it would happen sooner or later. Like me you didn’t want to happen but it did. So I guess we can move on and not have to worry about Lebron getting a ring or whether it will make him a complete player. The guy did have a good playoff run prett much carrying the Heat through both the Boston Series and the OKC series. It’s done and over with.

Speaking about being done the Red Sox sent Kevin Youklis to Chicago in a move they felt they had to make. I agree Youklis played hard he took a beating from playing hard. His replacement at third Will Middlebrooks it was his time to shine and he has and will be a good player for years to come. I just can’t wait for this kid to go into a slump and all these talk radio callers start with the We should have traded Youk. This kid has played hard struggles will happen but we need to look at the whole body of work.

I would have loved to been former NHLer Adam Oates Yesterday. He was named Head coach of the Washington Capitals  yesterday and then a few hours latter he gets the call from the Hockey Hall of Fame. I loved Oatesy when he played for the Bruins . He just added to Neely and Bourque. It was shame that those three never won a Cup together.

Congrats to Adam Oates on his big day yesterday.

Speaking of future Hall of Famer retired Jet and Charger Ladaainian Tonilson was asked give the choice would he want a Superbowl Ring or be a Hall of Famer. He choose Hall of Famer. At first I thought what a pompus ass. Then I thought this is a guy that cold have possibly sent the Chargers to a Super Bowl and didn’t play on a Cold Night in Foxboro against the Patriots while Phillip Rivers played with a broken leg or some injury that I don’t recall. Became an instant Rivers Fan that night. But after some reflection  the guy never got the opportunity to be on a Superbowl Team and we all knew he would be first ballot Hall of Fame, So why not choose the Hall only 237 others have been inducted out of all the players of all the years. Anyway he is well deserving.

This Video Sucks but it was the only one I could find of the catch on You Tube

Dwayne Wiser the Yankee Outfielder in case you didn’t see it dove into the stands afterr a James Hammerhan foul down the left field  line at Yankee Stadium. He dove in and came out like he had the ball in his glove. The Umpire called him out but the replay clearly showed the ball falling and not being a catch. I love the way Wise played it cool like he had the ball. In my humble opinion that call fell squarely on the umpire. He made the call and Wise just went along with it.

I mean did Wise cheat, No did he fool anybody probably not. He just played it cool. I’m sure that umpire got a call from the league office and some sort of discipline action.

Yesterday, I called my 12 year old from work to see if he wanted see the Red Sox and The Blue Jays play. I figured it maybe fun because he was on the Blue Jays. He said no. When I got home from work my 10 year old the Sidewinder said can I go. So I kind of hymmed and hawed about going back into town. I work downtown about a10 minute walk to Fenway from my office nad I have parking. I got home at 5 after an hour comumute. So finally around 6 I said let’s go.Iw as going to drive back in but figured there would some nasty traffic especially getting near the ballpark. We decided to take the train in. We drove to a Suburban Subway station maybe 7 miles from the house. Took the Subway which means switching lines. The Boston Subway system quite frankly is run very poorly. The take trains out of service for no reason and don’t put extra trains on game nights. Frankly it stinks. It took a little over an hour to get there by train. We get off at Kenmore Square. It’s just about game time and we have no tickets. I knew I could get some pretty good seats at the Sox box office they always have them.

We get off the train and I see a licensed ticket broker s office. 5 people seating behind the counter. I greet them and say you have anything good for tonight. The guy says yeah I have a pair of $94 (each)  dollar seats . I can give them to you for $35 a piece. I jump on it. The seats were Loge or for us  old timers Upper boxes right behind the Toronto Dugout about 20 rows back far enough above the aisle that people walking bye wasn’t issue close enough to see everything clearly. Nobody in the two rows in front of us nobody on the side. The little man had a blast. Even the subway ride home was bearable barely. It was a great time.

All hail the King?? Air Jordan out of air?? Who is Lynn?? 4 team playoff suck?? President Obama not making friends with Red Sox fans?? This and more in this weeks edition of….

Is this a paid endorsement? I wish. Congrats James for a great NBA finals.

Congratulations go out to the Miami Heat. They played great basketball on their way to winning the NBA Title.

Some have called him cocky, some have called him selfish, some have called him arrogant, but now all have to call him a champion. That includes me. I was upset because he didn’t go to my favorite basketball team the Brooklyn Nets. Sure it is easier when there are other superstars on the team your going to, but that doesn’t make it that much easier to win a championship. Otherwise the Heat would have won it all last year.

But you have to give credit where credit is due, and to that I congratulate King James. Got to say LeBron James played “Lights out” during the Heats run to the Title. He carried the team the whole way. He was the runaway winner of the Playoff MVP award. He turned his game around when the Heat needed it.

Who would have thought that Mets pitcher R.A. Dickey (11-1) has more wins than Cliff Lee and Roy Halladay combined.

But even more surprising is that Cardinals pitcher Lance Lynn (10-3) also has more wins than Lee and Halladay.

Just figured out why the Phillies are 9 games behind the Nationals, no Howard, Lee or Halladay.

He might have been the NBA’s greatest player ever, by as an owner, Michael Jordan is a shell of his playing days. Why did he pick Mike Dunlap to coach the team?

He had some of the leagues smartest coaches interview for his head coaching job, so what does Air-Head Jordan do, he takes a college coach with no real head coaching experience to guide his team.

How can anyone sue a youngster? A New Jersey woman is. Elizabeth Lloyd was sitting at a picnic table near a fenced in bullpen when she was hit in the face with a ball that catcher Matthew Migliaccio threw while warming up a pitcher. Lloyd is asking for $150,000 in damages.

Is this the new trend is celebrating a save?

Apparently the Reds were not happy with the situation as several Reds players talked to Chapman after the game.

I am not a fan of the new college football 4 team playoff. This was made to suit the SEC and the Big-10 and could suck even more than the BCS. It would be better if the NCAA gets off their fat asses and realigned the conferences to 10 twelve team conferences. The winner from each conference championship will go to a playoff to determine the National Champions. It can be done.

Way to go Mr. President. The President, during a fundraiser in Boston, playfully joked with the crowd, referencing the trade between the Red Sox and White Sox that sent Kevin Youkilis to Chicago.

President Barack Obama certainly isn't helping his campaign in Red Sox Nation.

"And finally Boston, I just want to say, thank you for Youkilis," Obama said.

The President's quip was met with some laughs, but mostly with boos and "Youk" chants from the crowd at Symphony Hall.

"I'm just saying, he's going to have to change the color of his socks," added Obama, a known White Sox fan.

The rough crowd caused Obama to backtrack on his jokes and realize that he should not have mixed baseball in with his re-election campaign.

"I didn't think I was going to get any boos out of here," Obama said. "I should not have brought up baseball. I understand. My mistake! My mistake! You've got to know your crowd."

Man Red Sox Fans take things way too seriously!!

Til Next time

Scott

​I was sitting here getting ready to watch the Tigers and Rangers play, I stumbled across the blog by fellow Wings fan AVD. I wanted to tip my hat first, because this was a great blog with some great points about Joe Sakic. However, this is the reason why the Wings won 4 Cups, without these guys they would not have had the success they have had.  

​Draper, Maltby, McCarty and Kocur were the antagonists. Sure they scored goals from time to time, but they killed penalties, caused penalties by irritating the hell out of their opponents and even fought the opposing teams enforcers to make things right. Do the Wings win those Cups without them, I highly doubt it because those guys were leaders and understood what sacrifices it took to win. Should they be in the HOF, no but in my mind they should not be forgotten for their contributions in the success of the Red Wings over the past 20 years.......

I thought I would bring back a few memories from the 97 season, this one is for AVD......

​Unfortunately for Drapes, this will be the hit that he will be remembered for. 

​So if they consider Sakic a great player in the line of Stevie Y, what about the role players that contributed to the success the AVS had, should they be in the HOF next to him? Without the 4 players I mentioned, the Wings would not have been as successful as they had been.......

Joe Sakic was a son of a bitch.

That was the sentiment for most Detroiters during the mid-1990’s. As a team, the Red Wings had just come out of a surly period where the team was commonly referred to as “The Dead Wings” around Hockeytown. You could get tickets for free. People were that desperate to be rid of them. That all changed around 1994-95. Sure, they’d made the playoffs before, but they’d get bounced by San Jose or Chicago. It was around 1995 when the Red Wings started to sniff the cup. The city took notice. Tickets were no longer given, but sold for a king’s ransom. We were Hockeytown again.
 

In 1995, the Red Wings fought their way past the hated Chicago Blackhawks to earn the right to face the Jersey Devils for the cup. That same year, the Quebec Nordiques had been bounced in six games by the NY Rangers. Detroit was swept in the finals, but we had loads of young talent and some of the best scrappers in the game. We had the Captain Steve Yzerman, a fresh Sergei Federov, and brawlers like Darren McCarty. It was hard not to feel confident going into that 1996 season.

That next year, those Nordiques who’d been swept up moved to the West. They moved to our division. They put up a 16-6 record and scored 80 goals. They bested those hated Blackhawks in 6, while Detroit held off the Blues in 7 games. Those upstarts were all that stood in the way of us getting our first Stanley Cup in 41 years.

Game one was a gutsy 3-2 overtime win by the Avs. They carried some confidence after that and took game 2 by a 3-0 score. The Wings came back to win Game 3, but weren’t able to seize any sort of momentum. The series became a back and forth affair and with a two game advantage, the Avs came away with a 4 games to 2 semi-final win. Sakic had 10 points in the series with four goals. He scored twice and added an assist in the clinching game to put us away. Sakic went on to power the Avs to a Stanley Cup over the Florida Panthers and took home to Conn Smythe. His stat line was ridiculous (18 goals, 16 assists, and 34 points).
 

Sakic was a son of a bitch.

His teams were, if you asked any Detroiter, the dirty bunch of thugs to hit the ice in some time. Sakic was a pretty boy front runner. We absolutely hated the man, but as a young card collector, you still got excited if you got his card in a pack. Still, should you get doubles; it was your obligation to burn one.

Still, Sakic and his band of goons only inspired the Wings to work harder and acquire more talent. Looking back, I can see how the Wings in those un-capped days were much like the Yankees in baseball. We got some guys you’d never believe a Detroit corwd would cheer for to come in and become crucial members of the team. Chris Chelios came over from the Blackhawks. We got Luc Robitaille, then Brett Hull. These were guys from rival squads that were loathed and then became not only special players, but beloved. Chelli was welcomed so much that he opened a series of Chelli’s Chili bars around the Detroit area.
What Sakic did in 1996 both pissed off and inspired Detroit. We became Hockeytown in response to Sakic and the Avs. We grew one of the most intense and talked about hockey rivalries from that 10 point, 6 game series Sakic had against the Wings. Sakic gave me a lot of frustration, but also some of my best sports moments. He was one of those players that you hated, but that you also knew you had to respect. If there were a Detroit-specific dictionary, Sakic and the Avs would be used as an example under the term grudging respect, but also under many words that I choose not to list here. Suffice it to say that most of them are four letter words and some may be preceded by “mother”.
 

It was announced today that Joe Sakic would be inducted along with Adam Oates, Mats Sundin, and Pavel Bure as the newest members of the hockey hall of fame. All of them were fierce goal scorers and few people who rooted for their rivals were sad to see them retire. I have to admit now, that I’m glad to see Sakic get his due. He was a son of a bitch on the ice. I hated seeing him in that sweater with that big, stinking foot on it. Still, you have to admire the fact that he wore that sweater for 14 years. He would’ve worn it all twenty had the team not been the Quebec Nordiques for six years before that. He compiled 1641 points including 625 goals in his career; the most points out of the four men inducted today. In a fact that might have made him smile a little, Sakic was inducted in his first year, while former Red Wing and rival Brendan Shanahan was left out in his first year of eligibility. Joe Sakic was a hell of a player, but in Detroit he’s still a bastard.

avs, noun

the colorado avalanche nhl hockey team from denver, colorado
 

do you remember the avs / red wings rivalry back in the 90s? that shit was sick-nasty bomb-diggity, yo.