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Hockey Vs. Baseball

So I'm headed out to a Diamondbacks game today and I'm not super excited. The team is horrible and is better at throwing games and leads away than the Yotes are!

5 reasons hockey is better than baseball:

1. The fans. I've NEVER gotten crap from a hockey fan for yelling for the players. And this is shocking cuz I yell all the time at hockey. The Dbacks game I went to in May? I yelled THREE times for Chipper Jones and the lady next to me says, can you warn me so I can plug my ears? Ummm baseball sucks.

2. Speed. I may actually catch a catnap at the game today. It takes for-ev-er for an at-bat, especially if the fool keeps fouling off the ball. Hockey = constant motion. There is more consistent action during an intermission of Coyotes hockey than there is in a Dbacks game.

3. Who the players are. Shane Doan would never turn down a kid getting an autograph. Mark Reynolds had to because they *charge* for autographs. NHL players are real people. They are never short with their fans. Get over yourselves baseball players, must be nice to spend half of your game sitting on your butts in the dugout while hockey players get to sit down for like 2 minutes at a time.

4. Expressions of anger. The pitcher throws a ball at another player on purpose. What a pansy thing to do. In hockey if you are mad at that man, you punch him like a real man.

5. Playoff beards. Nothing like some good lookin men growing some playoff beards so their women are too scared or disgusted to try the hook-up because the boys don't wanna mess with their mojo during the playoffs.

I'm off to get ready for the game. I can't wait for hockey season. The end.

Showdown: Aug 5th

So one bid is in to keep the Coyotes in Phoenix and one "letter of intent". We all know how Baum feels about anything short of a real bid, but maybe the other group will get their crap together before Aug 5th, which is the auction. I'm slightly worried about this other group, who shall be referred to as the "Non-Jerrys".

The Non-Jerrys said that they have ideas that are "out of the box". That could be amazing or it could be that the idiots want to play half the home games somewhere else, such as Hamilton. How could that possibly be good for the boys? Like they don't have enough travel during the year, now they want them to have to either have a home in Hamilton or stay in hotels...again? Seriously? Stupid. Also, they indicated that they definitely want to keep Gretz around. I'm not against keeping him around, but can he just be someone that we trot out for special occasions? Can he be banned from the bench area?

I have much more hope if Jerry Reinsdorf is the new owner. He's a proven winner and knows that it takes. *Crosses my fingers*

Peter Mueller. Version 7.21

So I've always had a pretty bad attitude about Scottsdale. Seems like a pretty snobby place. Greg asked me if I wanted to go to a concert at a bar and since I had nothing else going on, I figured what the hell? So we show our IDs, walk in, and immediately, I noticed this guy standing at the bar. He had jeans and a dark gray t-shirt on, and had his hat pulled down pretty low. I walked past him and did a semi-double take. Then I said to Greg, I think I recognize that guy. I walked back towards him and was 85% sure I knew who it was. So I touched his shoulder and said, "Are you Peter?". He looks at me and is like "yeah, why?". I just smiled at him and was like, "I thought it was you, I'm a big Coyotes fan." He asked me what my name was and asked me if I was there for the show and he said he was a huge fan of the band. I asked him about his tattoos and he gave me a tour of all of his arm tattoos (super cool) and introduced me to his tattoo guy who was actually there with him (who gave me cards so lemme know if you want a tattoo by Peter's dude). I told him I was born in and went to grad school in MN and he's like oh you're a dragon! Greg came over and I introduced Greg to Peter. Greg asked Peter what other kinds of music he was into and Peter mentioned Skillet (who I love). I asked Peter if he was excited about Vrbata coming back and he said oh yeah, he's a great player. I said Marty will be excited and Pete said, yeah they're like best friends. So the music was gonna start so he said he hoped we enjoyed the show and Greg & I went into the stage area.

So Peter ended up being shuffled back in the crowd and stood a couple people away from me. The people between us left and I asked him if I could buy him a drink. He said he was still recovering from his buddy being in town this weekend so he was sticking to non-alcohol tonight. I asked him if he got recognized often and he said he rarely does but doesn't really mind when he does. I said he'd probably feel different if it happened all the time and he agreed that it'd suck to be in a Canadian city. I said, damn you almost ended up in one and I woulda been pissed if they left.

So when I was walking out to use my phone outside, Peter kinda stopped me and said, hey, did you like the band. And I told him yeah, they were pretty great. Then when I was outside on my phone I saw him get in his car to leave. When he drove by I turned around and he waved so I waved back at him.

Umm, he's super nice.

Yotes July Update

The Schedule came out and we are playing Phoenix. Yay! With 18 home Saturday night games, it looks like the NHL scheduler gave us a little love. We also have an epic 6 game home-stand in January. We start on the road and end on the road, but I'm just glad we have a team at this point!

Prospect Camp:

Staal, other than endurance-wise, looked good. He's bigger and had some nice shots. Larssen had impressive movement with the puck and a great shot for a D-man. On a couple seperate occasions he put two or three in a row past the goalie. Brown: He's rough away from the puck and I'm not talking about his skills. He uses his body physically and has a Doan-esque feel. Darling is a monster in the net, a big skinny monster! Ahnelov: I hope to see you up with the big boys all year.

Moves:

There seems to be a direct line from the Rangers to us and from us to the Flames. We've picked up Lauri Korpikoski for Enver Lisin. It was a sad day indeed when our little Russian blur left us. He seemed to be a flight risk for Russia and Korpikoski seems to have a big potential upside, but we need more than potential in order to keep our team.

Prust, McGratten, and Dawes to the Flames. Ummmm ok bye. None of these are huge losses, however we are currently without an 'enforcer' to protect our smaller Pups. Please don't rely on Winnik to do it (who is pushing to arbitration by the way).

We picked up Aucoin, which makes me excited that we could be trading Jovo because they have similar styles, except Aucoin actually plays defense. Fiddler came in for faceoffs and PK. All in all, it was a sad free agency day for us because we only picked up these two and LA-Barbie (Mo's nickname for LaBarbara).

We resigned Yandle for two years. We resigned Prucha for two years (thanks for signing early, now I love you more for not making me worry!). Upshall, why are you lagging behind? No one will give you the ice time we will!

I was sad that Lindstrom didn't get an offer from us but glad he signed up in Russia. Bye Joakim.

Everyone is still pretty focused on the bankruptcy case. It's a legal education I didn't ask for or want, but alas, life is full of unexpected surprises.

Pups

Jonas, Baby Staal, and Oliver climbing Camelback on Friday??

Tumult

The definition of tumult is: highly distressing agitation of the mind or feeling; turbulent mental or emotional disturbance. My last blog said that the Coyotes would be leaving over my dead body. Well, three days after I posted, Moyes took the Yotes into bankruptcy in order to refill is own personal coffers. The offer maker? The Blackberry man.

It is hard to describe what happened. In those first few days, it was bleak. It seemed like there was so little anyone could do to stop this madness. How were a handful of individuals going to do anything against 212 million? Sadness. That man was going to take my team away from me.

Then, the rebel forces began to connect. Via Facebook no less! We had an impromptu rally. I met my two neighbors who are kickass! The Save the Coyotes Coalition was formed. I met more fans. Still it would be tough for us to make a dent in 212 million.

Enter one PISSED off NHL front office. Gary Bettemen, Bill Daly, Frank Brown, and their people stood up and said: Excuse me? You're taking the team where? So we had NHL support.

What about the players? When I went home in June, I had a dream that Shane Doan was at my Dad's farm and I was walking with him. I was asking him, do you want to stay? The players were quiet for so long. It was disconcerting. We love them. Do they love us enough to want to stay? Shane made some really strong statements in favor of staying. Peter wants to stay. The other boys are starting to talk about it. So we had most of the players.

Fans, NHL bigwigs, and players want to be in Phoenix. It is looking good. I bought season tickets in order to be committed to the team. Where there is a will, there is a way.