It's F-You Friday.

by gallagher on Jun 4, 2010 5:03 PM CDT

What's F-You Friday, you ask? It's like the Festivus tradition of The Airing of Greivances. These are mine, you add yours in the comments.

Fuck the Blues for all the changes in front office this summer. If they were just waiting for Doug Armstrong to take over before canning Wamsley and letting Kekalainen go and hiring Mellanby, then what the shit were the last two years about? Just waiting for Larry Pleau to be done fucking around? I've tended to give Larry Pleau the benefit of the doubt in his job as the GM, but the higher-ups had to know that Doug Armstrong had some different feelings about the organization, right? Were they really happy to knowingly coast along on autopilot for the last couple of seasons before letting Armstrong employ the 'real' plan?

Because that seems awfully wasteful for a team that wants more money from us this year to help keep the operation afloat.

Fuck everyone who keeps telling me that they "LOVE the way the Blackhawks built their team." You mean mind-fucking fans for two decades, miring themselves in mediocrity until their owner dies and then actually taking advantage of good picks, some money and some m ind-numbingly mundane marketing "ideas" like putting games on TV to build a good team. Genius fucking plan. Why didn't our owners think of that?

Fuck you Blues rebuilding. Right now this "Parade on Market" plan seems a little watered down to me. The management do-over is starting to look a little bit like it should have been employed a year or two ago. The players in the room have already pulled off a successful mutiny and gotten a coach fired. But most concerning to me is the on-ice product. All of the Blues high draft picks have not yet netted one explosive game breaker. The duo of Alex Pietrangelo and Erik Johnson could someday become defensive cornerstones like Al MacInnis and Chris Pronger once were, but the Blues won exactly zero Cups with Pronger and MacInnis on the blueline.

This team needs an offensive game breaker, and I have yet to see him. David Perron, is he our game breaker? Do it already then. Right now he looks like a sometimes awesome, sometimes invisible little man. Oshie could be a Brian Sutter, but that doesn't mean he's a superstar. Berglund? Eller? How many second line playmakers does one team need? Which one of those two is going to explode and become the franchise can't-trade top line set up man? Right now looks like neither. Even if they do, who's going to be the goal scorer who exploits that playmaking? Right now I don't think he is in the organization.

And don't get me started on the goaltending. That's an F-You Friday topic all its own.

Fuck you Blues Ticketing. I might not be priority this summer because I'm just a lowly season ticket holder in the cheapest seats in the building, but in business I've always been taught to treat every customer like they are your only customer, even though it's not true. As for me and my two measly little cheap seats? No one has called, no one cares. Guess who else is starting to not care?

Fuck you Answer Man You and your poignant conversations about values. Let me sell out already! I had a conversation with the Answer Man years ago about punk rock and GT and not selling out and staying true to your roots to stay happy. Why can't I sell out? Believe me, we've had opportunities to do so and I have sabotaged each and every one of them. What the fuck, am I retarded? Thank a ton Answer Man - this is all your fault.

Fuck you Gary Coleman. You and Dana Plato and Todd Bridges too. Yeah, that's right.

Fuck you SBNation. The fact that this article isn't called Fuck You Friday already chafes my groin, but the fact that I heard about the Official SBNation Meet Up St. Louis! by reading about it in a FanPost on our own site just lets me know what you think about me, too. My guess is that it's Fuck You Friday every day at the ol' HQ when it comes to Game Time.

Fuck you George Lopez. I'll watch your show if it's that, Jay Leno or getting my dick smashed with a brick, but it's a narrow victory over the brick. Sure, you're better than anything Carlos Mencia ever put on TV, but your show is still only a scritch better than a dick-slamming brick, so maybe ease up on the self-satisfied smug and kiss-assy questions. That bitch you're interviewing is a watered down Ryan Seacrest after all. Let's not pretend she's actually important.

Fuck you Eric Brewer. If robots could express emotion the first one you would have learned would be surprise when you were offered F-You Money for being the worst plus-minus player in the NHL over the last five seasons. If you were a President, we'd be looking to impeach you. Get off my team. Get. Off.

Feel better? I do. Got some of your own F-Yous for Friday? Let's see 'em in the comments.

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Best feature ever?

Best feature ever.

Here’s mine: Fuck you to the Eastern Conference for being so shitty. You’re on national TV all the time and have the game’s biggest stars, but you all suck dick. Philly is the best team you’ve got? Really? Fuck that shit. Chicago is probably going to win this whole thing in five games because some shitty team waltzed through the playoffs. Any of the 8 teams out West could’ve dispatched the Flyers. Fuck.

St. Louis Game Time

by averagejoe on Jun 4, 2010 5:30 PM CDT reply actions

My list is too long to put down here. Too many things i hate

Cheers, Complaints, homerism and bashing of mediocre pop musicians in 140 Characters
"DO NOT get stuck behind Kyle Wellwood in the buffet line. This isn't really etiquette, but it will prevent you from starving to death"- Down Goes Brown on Etiquette for Jason Spezza's wedding

by Kevin Sellathamby on Jun 4, 2010 5:51 PM CDT reply actions

fuck you BP

i dont mean to sound like a pussy, but i just saw video on the news of birds all covered in oil and i was like COT DAMN.

so BP, munch on an oily dick. nomnomnomnom

Paul Kariya's hips don't lie and he's starting to feel it's right.

by NateTheGreat. on Jun 4, 2010 6:42 PM CDT reply actions 3 recs

Rec'd like Bill Laurie's reputation

"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 Jun 4, 2010 7:12 PM CDT up reply actions

Rec'd like the daughter's resume

Lighthouse Hockey: Playing the NHL Lotto

by Dominik on Jun 7, 2010 5:11 PM CDT up reply actions

fuck you you fuckin’ fuck!

oh, dennis hoppper, rest in peace.

by bzgea2 on Jun 4, 2010 9:18 PM CDT reply actions

oh yeah, not directed at anyone, that was just some expletives for everyones enjoyment.

by bzgea2 on Jun 4, 2010 9:18 PM CDT up reply actions

Serious Question

In the first period of game 4, should there have been a penalty/possible suspension on Campbell’s hit on Leino (that, to me, looked to be the definition of the new blindside hit to the head rule) and the play where Toews tripped a guy by turning his skate sideways and taking out the other player’s skate. Is that a “slew foot” play? If not, what is a “slew foot”?

by stlfan on Jun 4, 2010 9:27 PM CDT reply actions

It's Called Pride Motherfucker

That’s why you can never sell out Gravy. The only reason I am around here still is because of you and my penchant for hockey buggery.

Gravy, you are the Graviest and DIY is built into your fabric. When Punk hit the malls it looked like Green Day and Blink 182. When punk was some of us outside in an alley behind the club pounding the shit out of skins because it was “our scene” and it meant something. GT means something. It brings “unity”. If our beloved GT ever sold out, it would look like Blink 182 punk and I wouldn’t waste my time to even take a shit on it.

I got your back dude, you know it. Always have and always will because in the underground, integrity lies within.

North Co! North Co! North Co!

by Answer Man on Jun 4, 2010 10:08 PM CDT reply actions

Can I add a few, too?

I’ll even actually say “fuck,” instead of just redacting it.

1. Fuck the idea of saving a few bucks by cancelling the Prospect/Development/Orientation Camp. That thing drew big crowds at time of the year when hockey is about the furthest thing from most people’s minds. The Blues could have charged a minimal admission — two bucks for adults, a buck for kids — and sold some 8×10′s of the players for a buck each so that the kids could get The Kids to autograph them, and they’d have made back a good chunk of whatever they spent on putting up the players in a hotel for a week.

The players, from what I was told, had to spend their own money to attend, so it’s not like the Blues spent a fortune on first-class tickets from Sweden for some of these guys. The money you’re saving by cancelling this event isn’t worth the goodwill and PR points you’re losing by cancelling this event. It was a stupid decision.

2. Fuck whoever had the brilliant idea to trade Aaron Palushaj for Matt D’Agostini. I haven’t met D’Agostini, and I’m sure he’s a great kid, but I have met Palushaj, and I know he’s a great kid… and a skilled hockey player, one that this organization could have used during the stretch run in Peoria. Someone gave up on him way too soon down at 14th and Clark…

3. Fuck whatever it is that makes the Blues’ European prospects shun an assignment to the AHL like the plague, while Euros in other organizations have no problem going down to their team’s AHL affiliate.

If it was just one or two guys, Id say it was a problem with the individual player. But no, it seems like every time the Blues try to assign a European-born player to Peoria, they all of a sudden find a better opportunity back in The Old Country.

You don’t need more than the fingers of one hand to count the number of Euro prospects who were assigned to Peoria in the last five years and stayed there for the whole season. Four. In alphabetical order, Eller, Lemtyugov (who bailed early in Year Two), Pola’k, and Schwarz.

Hellstrom played part of his rookie season in Alaska and bailed this year rather than go back there. Kana bailed in his first assignment to Alaska, and then was traded this year for a guy who’s now also gone over to Europe. “Ears” Toivonen was banished to Finland midway through his first season in P-Town, and traded this year after spending a year-and-a-half bak home in Suomi.

I don;t know if it’s a perception that Euros have, that Peoria is a shithole (it’s not; no, it ain’t Vegas, but it’s not that bad), or if there’s an organizational philosophy with the Blues that no Euro will come over to North America and go to the NHL; before spending “x” number of years in Peoria (we’ll see what happens with Eller this year; who wants to bet that the Blues will acquire some waiver-wire schmoe hlfway through camp, and assign Eller back to Peoria to start the 2010-11 season).

Whatever the issue is, fuck it… and the Blues had damn well better address it somehow, either by moving their AHL franchise someplace else (since they actually own the franchise), or by adjusting their “Euros must play two years in Peoria before we’ll even think about letting them have so much as a cup of NHL coffee” mindset, if that is indeed the problem.

Skachkov probably isn’t going to accept an assignment to P-Town if he doesn’t make the NHL roster; if the Blues cut him, he’s back on the red-eye to Mother Russia faster than Answer Man can say “Europussy.”

Rundblad isn’t going to want to go down to Peoria when he comes over, especially if his contemporaries MPS and OEL make NHL rosters right away this year after signing the Big Kontrak.

Konstantin Barulin — a goalie who could really help the Blues — won’t come over because the Blues refuse to even give him a sniff of the NHL before he gets his skates sharpened in Peoria for a bit. Understood, the Blues are chafing at his demand that he be guaranteed an NHL roster spot, but honestly, could he have been any worse than some of the guys who have “earned” NHL roster spots with the Blues since Barulin was drafted in 2003?

OK, that’s all for me. Enjoy the vulgarities from me, folks, because ou won;t see s many from me in print for a good long while. Call me a “sellout,” but I’m still trying to treat this professionally… even though the Blues’ PR department refuses to consider bloggers as “media.” Fuck that, too… :)

"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 Jun 4, 2010 11:01 PM CDT reply actions 6 recs

Sorry, I miscounted... it's five...

Junland actually stayed there for two years, making the AHL All-Star Team both years while the Blues gave NHL minutes to Jeff Woywitka (who this season couldn’t even take a regular shift for the putridly shit-knuckle Dallas Stars) and The Ghost of Daryl Sydor

"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 Jun 4, 2010 11:13 PM CDT up reply actions

You said Kontrak.

Fucking awesome post.

by JGB on Jun 5, 2010 12:47 AM CDT up reply actions

Rec’d like James Dean’s Porsche Spyder.

Let's go Blues!!!

by Milo. on Jun 5, 2010 1:33 AM CDT up reply actions

Rec’d like Lindsay Lohan

by Kevin Sellathamby on Jun 5, 2010 8:57 AM CDT up reply actions

Fuck you Vince Vaughn

you puffy mother fucker. I loved Wedding Crashers. Loved it. Memorized it. You made Owen Wilson look like a halfway decent actor, a feat once thought impossible after shitty performances in movies such as Starsky & Hutch and Behind Enemy Lines. I thought you were awesome in the little-known National Lampoon’s Blackball. Now, after several appearances near the glass at the United Splinter, I’ve come to realize the evil within you. I didn’t see you making any cameos there over the past few seasons, and I could be wrong about it because I don’t fucking care enough to research it. I remember the first time I saw you sporting the enemy colors, I was sitting on my couch, pissed off that the teams I was watching in the playoffs weren’t my team. As I arose from my seat, spilling beer in my lap, I couldn’t help but shout, “Vince Vaughn, you son of a bitch!” So fuck you, Vince Vaughn; I hope you become infected with Hepatitis C.

Oh and fuck you Kevin James, for Paul Blart AND being Vince Vaughn’s sheep.

And now here I am, wondering when a celebrity (sit the fuck down, Hamm) will stand up and bang the glass for my team.

and a small fuck you to TB, for posting your rant AS I WAS TYPING MINE. It’s like coming on stage after the fucking Beatles.

…I didn’t mean it. I’m sorry. To you TB, not Vince Vaughn. Fuck Vince Vaughn.

Did I ever tell you about the time Brasky was in a production of The King and I? Well anyway, before the show, Brasky chloroforms the entire cast, and slowly eats them in front of the audience for two hours. The production got pretty good reviews.

by ilikeboyes on Jun 4, 2010 11:18 PM CDT reply actions

And now here I am, wondering when a celebrity (sit the fuck down, Hamm) will stand up and bang the glass for my team.

You don’t talk about Jon Hamm that way. You saw the part about Gallagher not selling out and going staying true and all that as I’m sure the rest of us did. The simple fact that Jon Hamm became enough of a celebrity on an AMC show is enough to demonstrate that a great actor that rises to fame on a less-then-mainstream network that has enough stones to rep a team from St. Louis when no one else from Hollywood has tells me that he believes, especially when he can talk about the history (I realize all he does is name drop in the commercial alongside asthetic video clips) but I’d wager a night’s bar tab that he’d be able to do more than just name drop in a conversation concerning Blues historical figures and legends.

In short, so what if we don’t have an A-List super celebrity rooting for us?

Shit, I like it that way.

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

by Poor College Student on Jun 5, 2010 12:51 AM CDT up reply actions 2 recs

i was just proving a point

against Vince Vaughn, and only because I’m angry.

…and Hamm lied about his hat. Stupid jerk playing with our emotions.

But I will rec your response, only because I 100% agree that we don’t need an a-lister.. I rather enjoy being the team everyone hates and no one wants to support.. with the exception of all you fine peeps that is.

by ilikeboyes on Jun 5, 2010 3:48 AM CDT up reply actions

…and a small fuck you to TB, for posting your rant AS I WAS TYPING MINE. It’s like coming on stage after the fucking Beatles.

ILB,

For someone of my generation, that’s about the highest compliment one man can pay to another.

Thank you. Sincerely.

"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 Jun 5, 2010 11:58 AM CDT up reply actions

I dont understand how this was missed but.....

FUCK DETROIT….of course…..

Now let me really go…

Fuck…..Myself….

Yes I said Fuck Myself. I am the subject of every depressed sports fan movie ever made. The only teams that I root for that have ever tasted success are either good at what they do because theyve existed for so long or they cheat..yes cheat…….

Im for just across the river in BelleVegas and I grew up a lifelong Cards fan….the doing it right because theyve done it for so long team….

And my college football team that is successful is the Miami Hurricanes…yet they cheat so its a bit tainted…..

All the other teams I root for end in nothing but heartbreak(like a Cubs fan)….

Football….Miami Dolphins and Chicago Bears….Dolphins havent won crap since before I was born and the Bears havent won since that stupid Shuffle

Hockey…Blues….nuff said…

Baseball….While being a Cards fan I also grew fond of the Tribe when I was young…Before the “Major League” movies…..Joe Carter in a Tribe jersey was kinda neat…..And the best theyve done was screw up the WS against the Fish…..

College Sports….Im a big Illini fan and they seem to shoot themselves in the foot every year even when they have talent on the football side….And as for Basketball…while I do like Bruce Weber…..FUCK BILL SELF AND ALL OF KANSAS…….had he not left we would have EASILY beat NC in 2005 here……

And yes I grew up around the small dirt tracks in the area(Bellevegas, Pevely) so Im a big auto racing fan and all I can say is JR……

Do I know how to depress myself or what……

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 Jun 5, 2010 2:23 AM CDT reply actions 2 recs

FUCK BILL SELF AND ALL OF KANSAS…….had he not left we would have ~~EASILY beat NC in 2005 here……~~ still gotten jobbed by the refs and Sean May is still a big blubbering fatass.

Still, rec’d all the same.

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

by Poor College Student on Jun 5, 2010 2:32 AM CDT up reply actions

I'm with you...

Go fuck yourself.

/Door was open, so I’m walking through.
//NOTE: no harm intended to dablues7’s during the making or aftermath of this comment.

Let's go Blues!!!

by Milo. on Jun 5, 2010 12:13 PM CDT up reply actions

Its cool Milo....

I here it every day….

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 Jun 5, 2010 4:23 PM CDT up reply actions

Yeah,

me too.

Let's go Blues!!!

by Milo. on Jun 5, 2010 5:28 PM CDT up reply actions

Fuck you SBNation. The fact that this article isn’t called Fuck You Friday already chafes my groin, but the fact that I heard about the Official SBNation Meet Up St. Louis! by reading about it in a FanPost on our own site just lets me know what you think about me, too. My guess is that it’s Fuck You Friday every day at the ol’ HQ when it comes to Game Time.

SB Nation Meet-up – St. Louis
Contact:
Christy Hofmann
SB Nation
events@sbnation.com

MikeOxbig-at-gmail.com will attend… I wonder if Ben Dover & Phil McRevis will be there?

Let's go Blues!!!

by Milo. on Jun 5, 2010 4:15 PM CDT reply actions

Maybe not, but Hugh Jass and Plenty O'Toole will be there...

"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 Jun 5, 2010 6:01 PM CDT up reply actions

Is Plenty the cousin of Myles?

Let's go Blues!!!

by Milo. on Jun 5, 2010 7:55 PM CDT up reply actions

That's not sweet, sweet Christy, formerly of "WIIM," is it?

"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 Jun 5, 2010 6:02 PM CDT up reply actions

Beats the crap out of me.

.
That’s it. You need a Meet & Drink for tomorrow night.

Between this longing for the WiiM woman and “Nancy” over in the other thread, ~~it would~~ there would be a crime to if we leave you alone with the cows in Historic Macoupin County.

Someone figure out where we should go ===> CLICK HERE.

Let's go Blues!!!

by Milo. on Jun 5, 2010 7:54 PM CDT up reply actions