Tuesday Links: Deep dish pizza sucks edition

by Poor College Student on Dec 28, 2010 6:00 AM CST

Blues/Hawks tonight. Anybody need help getting excited for this one? If so, get the fuck out.

Blues News:

The Blues will have to play better than they did against Nashville if they expect to beat Chicago. Also, Backes is a point per game player since signing his contract extension. I likes it. [Post-Dispatch]
Need a ticket? [TiqIQ]
Links went in the can a little early last night (as they are again tonight) so here's JR's recap of the win against Nashville. [Post-Dispatch]

NHL News:

Jason Spezza will be missing from the Sens lineup for an indefinite amount of time due to a shoulder injury. [TSN]
Dustin Byfuglien gets debated and discussed concerning his trade and his Norris chances. [Fifth Feather]
Wysh looks at potential headaches for the ~~New Year's Hangover Cure~~ Winter Classic. [Puck Daddy]
Gallagher had it Fanshotted yesterday, but here's On the Forecheck's thread on Tootoo entering the substance abuse program. [On The Forecheck]
Puck Daddy looks at the 10 most shocking moments of 2010. Better believe the Evander Kane KO of Matt Cooke gets some love. [Puck Daddy]
File under "Wouldn't even be mentioned if Subban wasn't involved": PK gets into it with a couple of teammates at Habs practice. [TSN]

Other Stuff:

When parents text, everyone loses. [When Parents Text]
How Growing Up Stole Christmas. [CollegeHumor]

Video:

Since I was too young to ever hear Dan Kelly, I only have Ken Wilson to reminisce about concerning past voices of the Blues. Whether you take Ken over Dan Kelly is one thing, but I think everyone would agree that Wilson is much preferable to John Kelly, even if he has the pedigree for it.

UWWildthing has some more Christmas music. It's good until the new year and then the holiday music should go back into the box until next season.

Like Adam Banks said in the first Mighty Ducks movie: "Kick some Hawk butt."

Let's go Blues. Gametimelinks (at) gmail.com

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Sorry but......

I respectfully disagree with the title of the thread……..Deep Dish Pizza does not suck……Imos sucks………thin crust pizza in general sucks…….When I eat pizza I want more than a damn cracker for crust…..and some of the places in Chitown that do pizza well put Imos to shame……

But fuck the blackhawks…..

I still maintain Vladimir Konstantinov got what he deserved...If you can't handle that then kiss my ass......

"I've got a bad feeling about this..."

by dablues7 on Dec 28, 2010 7:00 AM CST reply actions

it's a trick

All they want to do is fill you up with bread

No beer and no TV make Homer...something something.

by Poor College Student on Dec 28, 2010 7:46 AM CST via mobile up reply actions

Gotta say both suck

I like thick crust but not deep dish. Seems like deep dish they make a lake of sauce to fill the middle, yuck.

Hockey players wear numbers because you can't always identify the body with dental records.

It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. Laura Ingalls Wilder

by luvhockey on Dec 28, 2010 9:52 AM CST up reply actions

^^ This ^^

When I get a deep dish pizza, I want more than just a bread bowl filled with tomato sauce with a little sausage and cheese on top.

Thin crust pizza, done right — like the previously-cited (by DK) Roma’s in Gillespie — is awesome.

"If we do not prepare for ourselves the role of the hammer, there will be nothing left but that of the anvil."

-- Otto von Bismarck, 1851

http://futurenotes.blogspot.com

by Tomorrows Blues on Dec 28, 2010 10:31 AM CST up reply actions

I like both, actually.

One of the more memorable dates with the woman I married involved dinner at Pizzeria Due in downtown Chicago. Another of those memorable dates included Joe Boccardi’s in Eureka.

by BleedBlue42 on Dec 28, 2010 12:42 PM CST up reply actions

When I think of Classic Blues broadcasts

I always here Wilson’s trademarked “This is St Louis Blllluuuues hockey.” He and Michaletti were a great duo.

by MTBoltFan on Dec 28, 2010 7:35 AM CST reply actions

I was listening to Joe Michaletti last night, watching the Rangers/Isles game...his voice tooke me back

by I_AM_SPARTACUS on Dec 28, 2010 7:55 AM CST up reply actions

While I loved Dan Kelly

I have to say these 2 together were a great pair.
Why the Blues or whatever station got rid of Wilson and Mic I’ll never know.

Hockey players wear numbers because you can't always identify the body with dental records.

It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. Laura Ingalls Wilder

by luvhockey on Dec 28, 2010 9:54 AM CST up reply actions

I'm pretty sure...

Michalchevshki got a national deal with FOX or some one (now he’s with NHLNET?) and had to be in NY to be close to all those east coast games. Bernie doing color killed Wilson. Wilson was even more star struck about Bernie than John Kelly. I do love the Wilson, Mic, Affleck line up. There’s no comparing Dan Kelly SR to anyone.

by stlhockey on Dec 28, 2010 10:26 AM CST up reply actions

Dan Kelly was the best. Bar none.

Ken Wilson was excellent on the stick, but a major douchebag as a person.

Loved Joe Micheletti as well… would dearly love to see the Blues somehow get him back here.

Bernie Federko… God love him, but the Blues need to find the guy a role in which he doesn’t have to speak on the air. I love Bernie to death as a representative of all that is Blue, but the poor fellow has the on-air personality of a damp dishrag.

"If we do not prepare for ourselves the role of the hammer, there will be nothing left but that of the anvil."

-- Otto von Bismarck, 1851

http://futurenotes.blogspot.com

by Tomorrows Blues on Dec 28, 2010 10:36 AM CST up reply actions

You got that right!

Or is that just for GDT threads?

Now the Vinson Mortgage joke is out of the way, I have to agree that Ken Wilson was a great announcer. Listening to him go homer on the goals was always fun.

by Paperwork Ninja on Dec 28, 2010 10:42 AM CST up reply actions

Wilson had a fantastic voice...

… but the story at the time of his firing was that he had told the organization to go pound sand when they asked him to get involved in offseason marketing and other PR-type stuff.

Telling your employer to piss up a rope is usually not a good idea. Especially when your boss is Bill Laurie.

Fuck you, Bill Laurie. And fuck you too, Ken Wilson, for not at least pretending to toe the company line until Laurie finished running his toy into the ground.

by BleedBlue42 on Dec 28, 2010 12:57 PM CST up reply actions

I never liked Wilson for some reason

The “OH Baby!!” drove me crazy to the point I wanted to find him in the ole barn and toss him outta the booth over the rail. Maybe it’s my love for Dan Kelly that overcomes me, not sure.

Just a chew toy for the hockey gods

by spectr17 on Dec 28, 2010 3:31 PM CST up reply actions

I'm trying to remember who I had this discussion with . . .

And it may not have been around here.

But is it becoming increasingly more obvious to anyone else that if P.K. Subban were not black, he wouldn’t be getting this much attention any time he fucks something up? It’s becoming PLAINLY obvious to me.

Not to say Avery or Tootoo have never had problems like this, but Subban’s shit seems to be petty and overblown in comparison.

St. Louis Game Time . . . I need another beer.
And I can also write things in 140 characters or fewer.

by Donut King on Dec 28, 2010 8:00 AM CST reply actions

Yeah, that's a serious problem.

Subban’s decent enough, but being a black player in the NHL’s version of the New York Yankees means he’s going to be looked at very closely by the hockey media. If the Montreal Gazette doesn’t do the “In this article we make crap up and say it’s what he’s really thinking” thing, then someone else will. There’s already a huge/ insane media focus on the Habs, so being immediately recognizable makes it even worse.

by Paperwork Ninja on Dec 28, 2010 10:38 AM CST up reply actions

Spot-on, T-Money...

I’ll even go so far as to say that, were PK Subban not a person of color, no one outside of the city in which he plays would have ever heard of him.

Subban’s a good prospect, and has some skills, but I don;t think he’s the savior that the Montreal media is building him up to be. One guy in the comments on that story actually compared him to Guy friggin’ Lafleur…

I mean, come on. I saw Guy Lafleur play in his prime, and PK Subban is no Guy Lafleur.

"If we do not prepare for ourselves the role of the hammer, there will be nothing left but that of the anvil."

-- Otto von Bismarck, 1851

http://futurenotes.blogspot.com

by Tomorrows Blues on Dec 28, 2010 10:42 AM CST up reply actions

Yeah, anyone thinking he's a marquee player right now is fooling themselves.

I think he’s got potential to be a solid defenseman for the team, and I love how much drive he’s got. Again, he has the misfortune (in terms of media scrutiny) of playing on the Canadiens. They went apeshit over Carey Price’s off-ice antics, went apeshit over the fact that he’s not Jacques Plante reborn, and then later went apeshit over being a merely above-average goalie. Now that going apeshit over the Habs’ goalie is played out, they’ve gone to Subban. Why? He’s the black guy on the team. He’s as easily recognizable as the goalie. It’s bullshit, but that’s the Montreal hockey media for you.

by Paperwork Ninja on Dec 28, 2010 10:50 AM CST up reply actions

I'm not sure if it's 100% race related.

For me, when the Habs were here in ATL and Bogosian cleaned his clock, I know that the folks in the stands wanted to see him go down not because he’s black (obviously not – we have 4 black guys on the team and this is Atlanta), but because he’s got an attitude problem that needed adjusting. I think that might have more to do with it than race, though I’m sure as far as being a black player on the Habs, it probably doesn’t help scads, either.

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by hildymac on Dec 28, 2010 1:03 PM CST up reply actions

race

meh.

i have to say this: a recent trivia included tootoo as an aboriginal award winner. ted nolan was taunted decades ago for being an first nation member, but part of the answer became how tony mckegney’s whl signing (although certainly this was more than a decade ago) caused a fan boycott call and an illegal contract voiding. ya gotta love birmingham in the winter.

there was the doan “anti-frog” thing although it remains both disputed as ever happening and an issue when doan does thingzs for canada.

and even more recent plus serval players had been accused of slurs on the ice.

while the nhl is a workplace and so therefore can not tolerate such things (cos lawyers circle and smell blood)

the fans are not as subject to such wallet dangeous restrictions on voicing ill-mannered thoughts

so i do’t know what to say. i guess it makes me more proud ot be a blues fan. i have never personally been subject to the fans slamming a black player (or fan) and the blues had an early history of getting (and apart from mckegney) keeping good (and even moderately acceptable) black players with SEEMING disreguard of their race.

the only time i was aware of a posible blues bias was they seemed to be pro-american for a time. it passed. well maybe :)

And a harvest of righteousness is grown from the seed of peace planted by peacemakers.

by Childhood Trauma on Dec 28, 2010 2:26 PM CST up reply actions

I played with a black kid in Germany

He was a young forward and he fought every game from all the taunting. We tried to run interference for him but the Herms called him “Schwarze” every time he touched the puck. Schwarze to them was like the N bomb I guess. At the end of the season I have to say that kid could hold his own with his mitts. Funny as shit to watch some older Herm mouth off to him and then get pummeled with a flurry.

Just a chew toy for the hockey gods

by spectr17 on Dec 28, 2010 3:27 PM CST up reply actions

I love TSO.

Almost makes me want to break my ban on listening to Christmas music outside the season.

That is sooooo not funny - Maize N Brew Dave

by jeepnut on Dec 28, 2010 8:13 AM CST reply actions

Every year I tell myself that I'm gonna go see them live...

…and every year something comes up to keep me from doing it.

This is beginning to piss me off.

"If we do not prepare for ourselves the role of the hammer, there will be nothing left but that of the anvil."

-- Otto von Bismarck, 1851

http://futurenotes.blogspot.com

by Tomorrows Blues on Dec 28, 2010 10:38 AM CST up reply actions

For the love of God, find a way to do it!

Simply fantastic show. I’ve seen them three times now and even though they don’t change their show up much from year to year, it’s still captivating.

That is sooooo not funny - Maize N Brew Dave

by jeepnut on Dec 29, 2010 2:51 PM CST up reply actions

Man

I was on top of my fantasy hockey league when the season started. Now half the people I drafted are injured.

Anyway, lets hope we rape the hawks tonight. I’m headed back from Arizona tonight (3 day drive) and could use some sort of good news.That would do nicely.

Barret Jackman is my hero.

Fueled. These new shores burn. Shadow, my sweet shadow, to you I look no more.

by BluesTiger on Dec 28, 2010 9:12 AM CST reply actions

Damn I wish I was in St. Louis

I’d jump on this deal:
http://www.groupon.com/deals/st-louis-blues-2?c=dnb&p=1

Baltimore Blast - 6-time MISL/NISL Champions
Let's go Blues!

by UIWWildthing on Dec 28, 2010 10:50 AM CST reply actions

Thanks

hadn’t seen that yet, picked up a couple of the $10 tickets. Don’t really understand how this works though, I used Groupon to buy some Pirates tickets a while back and it just sent me through the normal buying process (the same as if I’d bought them through pittsburghpirates.com, except with the deal applied), so when I was done I had digital tickets in my inbox. Here I just got a “you got the coupon!” after putting in payment info, and something saying they’ll send me more info in the next day, so I’m assuming I have to somehow go and redeem this coupon and purchase the actual tickets later? Anyone ever use this before and know what’s up? Do you still have to pay all the ridiculous Ticketmaster fees?

by Perrowned on Dec 28, 2010 11:03 AM CST up reply actions

I got tickets to the Blast game this way

You pay the price on Groupon, print out the receipt, take it to the Box Office and then they give you your tickets

Baltimore Blast - 6-time MISL/NISL Champions
Let's go Blues!

by UIWWildthing on Dec 28, 2010 11:04 AM CST up reply actions

Why does this part of the Groupon ad remind me of assembly instructions for Made-In-China furniture...

A tradition-rich NHL franchise, the St. Louis Blues look to continue their 2010–2011 campaign of slap shots, penalty kills, and all-around pucksmanship as they scrap for a spot in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. See if you can catch a glimpse of your favorite player amidst the blurred and helmeted faces of Eric Brewer, David Backes, and the rest of the squad as you cheer for the home team or wear a fake mustache and infiltrate a crowd of the visiting team’s fans. Kids 3 and younger get in free, though they are not guaranteed a seat, so bring along a lap or your dandling knee. Hockey is like the magnificent mutt of the sporting world. You get the suspense of watching an object swish through a net (like in basketball or soccer), the thrill of rambunctious brawls (boxing), the elegance of ice skating, and the utter brutality of golf all combined into one action-packed event.

"If we do not prepare for ourselves the role of the hammer, there will be nothing left but that of the anvil."

-- Otto von Bismarck, 1851

http://futurenotes.blogspot.com

by Tomorrows Blues on Dec 28, 2010 11:16 AM CST up reply actions