my ideal prime time lineup
as a result of too much work, too little sleep, and lots and lots of playoff hockey, i’ve been getting a little bit loopy lately.
senators 2, devils 0
wow. ottawa is leading this series? when does the choking kick in? could this be the year when the curse is broken?
i hope not. to sound like a mean person, ottawa served their purpose when they cut the penguins out of playoff contention. now, i want the devils to crush them.
and instead, it’s ottawa that managed to shut out the devils in this game.
results like this always make me feel bad for
i felt kind of bad tonight because it’s the other goalie, not martin brodeur, who got the shutout. somehow, that just doesn’t seem right.
and then, because i’ve been kind of loopy, i started thinking about how awesome it would be to remake the sitcom “Martin” with Martin Brodeur, a happy-go-lucky kind of goalie who would have to spend most of each episode saying, “No, it’s Mar-TAN. MARTAN!” And the plotlines would largely revolve around how great dad was at saving games, but really lousy at saving the day – like he’d forget to do important errands on his way home from the game, or he’d embarass the kids by keeping a goal net in the living room – but somehow everything would be resolved at the end.
c’mon, you’d know you’d watch it.
especially if all the episodes features shots like this:
red wings 3, sharks 2
i don’t like baseball, but i’ll occasionally go to games with amit, where i will then drive him nuts by choosing who i will root for based solely on the name of the player. (Thus, during the first season the Nationals were in town, no one rooted harder than me for ‘termel sledge’.)
and i don’t have a dog in the red wings/sharks showdown – the only purpose for this series is to provide an eventual opponent that buffalo will be able to crush.
but as i was watching saturday’s game, i found myself strangely drawn to the sharks for one reason, and one reason alone:
that’s right.
cheechoo.
go ahead. say that name out loud and try not to get a grin on your face.
try not to let loose with a barrage of “cheechoos!”
it’s hard to do. i know.
and that’s why, on saturday, i began pulling for the sharks to win this series.
so it would figure that detroit would win. still, that last goal was very nice.
and i started to get the idea for a prime time series to follow “marTAN” that would be called “joanie loves cheechoo.” that would involve jonathan cheechoo mostly trying to do a bad fonzie impersonation, and i’m assuming producers would eventually substitute most of the acting with footage of cheechoo being cheechoo.
c’mon. you KNOW you’d tune into that.
rangers 2, sabres 1
this game went into double overtime about the same time i did, so i don’t have much to say. i can’t even come up with a cheesy sitcom example to describe this series. rather, this would certainly be a prime-time drama – one with lots and lots and lots of unnecessary drama. and at this point, i’m afraid it will end unhappily. sure, buffalo is up with a 2-1 lead in the series, but WHAT HAPPENS if the rangers turn it around? and THIS is why i watch sitcoms rather than dramas.
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