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By Mark D, June 18, 2011 4:37 am

With thousands of fans filling the streets outside of where the Canucks play, you would have thought the police might have taken preventive measures in case of a victory or defeat. It wouldn’t be the first time. But that’s not how I really wanted to started this. Following the riots it quickly came out that it was actually anarchists in Canucks Uniforms who were rioting. Yes, all the anarchists I know in the area have Philly Team Jerseys just in case it looks like a riot might start due to a sports team.

Even better though is that it was quickly discovered that the kid who lit one of the police cars on fire was a well to do 17 year old who was a Polo Player. He even had high hopes of making the Canadian Olympic Polo team. Sounds like an anarchist to me.  I know the anarchists cause some trouble on the west coast of both Canada and the US, but this jump to blame them for a sports riot is ridiculous. It seems to be an attempt to discredit the movement. But everywhere you go and look at pictures of the riots it’s 99% people in Canucks jerseys.

If it really was some “dangerous element” in the crowd, the crowd would have turned against them. Especially if they weren’t Canucks fans. These people couldn’t have just shown up in the last 5 minutes of the game and suddenly worked their way closer to the arena. Anyone who thinks so hasn’t been to a major concert and tried to push their way up to the front row during the main act. If anything it wouldn’t surprise me if any “anarchists” in the crowd were actually undercover agents looking to blame anarchists in order to crack down on them. Especially when you consider what happened at the G8 Meetings in Toronto earlier in the year.

Of course if I was the press and the police I’d want to blame the Anarchists too. There’s nothing scarier to those in power then Anarchists. While movements can come and go, some of them getting incorporated into the clique in power, the Anarchists stand alone with their beliefs. The reality is we do not need governments, we don’t need to live as slaves. Governments exists only to insure that those on top stay on top. The world has enough resources today that we can all live a happy life. But those that always want more for themselves are the biggest part of the problem. Share and share alike and the whole world can be happy.

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By Mark D, March 17, 2011 10:32 pm

Look, maybe I’m a bit obsessive, but I can’t stand Mike Milbury. Obviously if you’ve read this blog before you’ve heard his name mentioned a few times before. I’ve reviewed his bumbling of draft after draft, his waste of high draft picks and reviewed every trade he ever made. The guy made just about every mistake in the book, even if you excuse him for the trades he was forced to make to cut salary.

To make matters even worse, with the recent purchase of NBC by Comcast, the decision was made to move some of the NBC commentators to VS. God only knows why, considering that Comcast owns VS and bought out NBC, you would think replacing the NBC guys with VS guys would make more sense. So now Milbury is commentating on VS. Meaning every time I see his ugly mug I want to throw a loafer at the TV.

It wouldn’t be a problem though if he didn’t keep popping up EVERYWHERE. Now he’s on NBC’s Pro Hockey Talk. I actually enjoy it. I like most of the writers and they keep it short and simple. There’s just one little problem, on every page you get to see this picture:

First off one of his columns as I searched the site for his name (they don’t have a column with all his videos in one place) is called “Ask The Expert” May I dare ask what Milbury is an expert on? He was a marginal defenseman on a good team who clutched and grabbed when he couldn’t legally stop better players. His most famous on ice moment? Going into the crowd and beating a fan with the fans own loafer. He coached a great Boston team (an early Bruce Bordeau?) to two good seasons before taking the Assistant GM job and then moving on to destroy the Islanders. Quite the Expert.

Even worse is that his partner in crime in a lot of these videos is much maligned Pierre McGuire. Even my roommate who is much more of a casual fan (and we don’t watch games together because she’s a Flyer fan and I’m an Isles fan) then me hates all the NBC guys. Without me even prodding her about it one night she went into a 5 minute rant because the Flyers game was on NBC instead of Comcast Sports Net Philly. The NBC analysts (except for Roenick, who I enjoy) talk down to hockey fans, taking the time to explain such complicated ideas as Icing and Offsides. Plus it’s obvious that Milbury has absolutely no connection to this generation of hockey players.

To piss me off even more, one of the first times I saw that Milbury had a video anywhere, it was him and McGuire bashing the Islanders for going too far against the Penguins. Yes, that’s right the guy who ran into the crowd after a game at MSG said that the Islanders went too far. Let’s not forget this is someone who forced the league to change how it picked All Star teams after he loaded the team up with Goons.

I’m going to beg now. Please Milbury, say something so insane or so offensive without realizing it that you get fired. You say so many stupid things, one of these days you have to say something so insensitive that the networks dump your ass. Plus why does NBC hire the dumbest former managers? Also working on the football side of things for them is Matt Millen of all people. Go say Matt Millen in Detroit and see how quickly you get stabbed.