Mario Lemieux announced his retirement from the NHL today. The guy was a phenomenal talent, and he is partially responsible for changing the game. I'll give the man credit he was a great hockey player. But his leaving the game makes Steve Yzerman the greatest all-time active player and thats what I'm most happy about.
What I'm not happy about is the disrespect that Yzerman is getting in a couple of sports website polls. On tsn.ca and espn.com they want to know who we think the best all-time 'pure' scorer and the top offencive talent are respectivly. Yzerman's name doesn't make it onto either list. This is the part where I put in my favorite trivia question that you've heard and read from me many times: What player in the NHL has the highest point total for a single season not named Gretzky or Lemieux? Even if you haven't heard me spout that one off before you should probably be able to figure it out based on the way this paragraph started out. Fuck Brett Hull. Also not getting any respect on those polls are Pavel Bure and Mike Gartner two of the purest goal machines the game has seen.
Speaking of pure scoring machines and stupid polls how bout Kobe '81' Bryant. You can head over to nba.com and vote on which you think was more amazing Kobe's 81 point game or Wilt Chamberlin's 100 point game. I'm no math major but I think Kobe's game was about 80% as impressive as Wilt's.
Now I want to see the race to go 100+ and I want to see it this season. Obviously Kobe has to potential to make it, but how bout some guys like Iverson, McGrady, Lebron or even Garnett make a run at it? And I'm sure Shaq would love to break 100 before Kobe did it. Next time any of those guys have a game against the Raptors thats the mindset they should go into the game with 'Fuck it, I'm puttin 101 up on this team!' and if there was a team to do it against it'd be the Raptors. Or maybe a run and gun game with the Suns, that'd work too.
I was gonna write about the Ron Artest trade but that already came off the table faster then Artest himself after being hit with a projectile beverage.
Yeah, that was a cheap joke, but in my own defence it was better then setting it up with 'that Ron Artest trade sure got punched in the face...'
Well that covers two of the major sports. I'm not all that hyped up about the superbowl but I'll make an official prediction later in the week. I pretty much hate the Steelers so I'm cheering for the Seahawks by default...if you're gonna call the Superbowl "XL" I think there should be at least 3 teams playing the game.
I can't even make up a baseball story to let me say I talked about all the major sports so I'm going to cheat and say that golf is just as good. I actually don't have anything golf related to say either, but I did start a golf pool so if you want in on that sweetness just gimme a shout.
I'm putting the answers for the last music quote ID in the comments down on that post. No one got the hockey one, so try to get the one that the title of this post came from. Hint: The 'artist' is an athlete
And a bonus just cause I've got a couple more minutes to kill before House. "I started writing 22 months and 20 weeks prior to Lebron shaking the deal for the Nike's I'm right here 6 years after Randy Moss caught his first touchdown for the Vikings."
- posted by Mike @ 8:09 PM
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Mentioning the word Artest is enough to send me into a foaming rage. I am a Pacer fan, after all.....
