'Ockey - The Fraters attach

'Ockey - The Fraters attach a block and tackle to the Berg petard:

(Warning to Mitch. This post and probably any other posts of mine today will focus on hockey. No baseball. No bagpipes. No bread baking banality. Perhaps later this summer I'll compare the relative merits of the American and National leagues, Great Highland bagpipes versus North Thumbrian Smallpipes, and the differences between short mix, improved mix, and intensive mix but for now it's hard core hockey baby.)

Yeah, fair enough. Heck, I might even wind up learning the rules to hockey if this keeps up. I mean, I skate just fine - maybe I'll grab a hockey club and practice my chip shots next time I'm at the rink.

I liked this observation:

...why do Canadian fans feel the need to elevate every contest into a national showdown with the U.S.? The way the Vancouver fans were waving their Canadian flags around last night during the O'Canada you would have thought we were watching the Olympics. The series was Minnesota versus Vancouver not the U.S. versus Canada. There's just something desperately pathetic about a country so lacking in national self esteem that its people leap at any opportunity, however inappropriate, to demonstrate their patriotism and wave the flag.

Er, yeah - isn't that what the rest of the world's pointy-headed fundamentalist intellectuals criticize the US for?

Posted by Mitch at May 10, 2003 09:18 AM