As most know, Francesa doesn't know anything about hockey and hates when the Rangers do well, because then he has to put up with callers who want to talk hockey. Today it came out that he doesn't know who Jonathan Quick is (let alone the other Kings players). "I heard today that their goalie has never lost a Game 7. I don't know if that's true or not... Who would you rather have, Lundqvist or their guy?"
@KatieStrange - in an incredible coincidence, both Jonathan Quick and Henrik Lundqvist are undefeated in Game 7's this post-season.
That Slob Phil Mushnick just attacked John Amirante of all people for being "Disrespectful" during the national anthem by... waving a towel?!?! http://nypost.com/2014/05/31/singers-anthem-rendition-at-garden-shows-no-respect/ It was Gilbert, Beaver Cleaver’s buddy, who regularly provided perspective: “Gee, Beav, if I did that, my dad would clobber me!” Mine, too, Gilbert. If for example, he took me to a ballgame and I spent the national anthem waving a towel over my head or even fidgeting rather than respectfully standing and singing, he would have shot me one of those looks, the kind far more effective than lectures. Put it this way: I never would have done anything like it, again. Either that, or he never would have taken me to another game, the greatest punishment of all. Therein lies the problem. Those parents who recognize and encourage class in their kids — values likely inherited from their parents — have fewer and fewer working examples from which to choose. Class, as in classy, largely has been lost to everything less and then to much less. Sure, it’s no big deal that with the Rangers’ exciting climb to the Stanley Cup finals that the Garden has allowed anthem-singer John Amirante to present our national anthem as if it were a mix of “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” and the Rangers’ Fan Club song. And I suppose it’s no big deal that Amirante has chosen to exploit our anthem to showboat by waving a towel overhead while singing it. Still, why must classlessness be systematized? If spectators choose to wave towels over their heads during our anthem — as if these people wouldn’t otherwise have been as pumped — that should be their unilateral business, not something encouraged by Amirante and the Garden. But I’m way behind on such matters. That ship sailed long ago. Public classlessness is now requisite, and it seems those kids raised on such sports-delivered messages are stuck with it, as will be their kids. You can’t return to a place you never have been. The WFAN/CBS Sports Network’s “Boomer & Carton” show every now and then takes a stab at providing legitimately clever entertainment and even interesting conversation — until hosts Boomer Esiason and Craig Carton panic, then scurry back into the down-and-dirty formulaic “Morning Zoo” hole from which they crawled. To that sorry, name-calling, crotch-centric, obligatorily salacious and unfunny end, their listenership should soon pick up. With the end of school, Esiason and Carton can draw from the all-important 9-14 male demographic, thus reinforcing their position as hosts of “The Pee Pee & Poo Poo Show.” Reader Dave Oniffrey: “I might have thought that Boomer and Carton were funny this morning, had I been an immature, gutter-minded 14-year-old. “They continuously made fun of the name of Cubs’ pitcher [Brian] Schlitter. There wasn’t even a point to it, and it certainly wasn’t funny despite all their laughter and cackling. Why doesn’t ‘Weekday Boomer’ go with something like that weekends on his [CBS-TV] NFL show?” Better yet, why not throw that hysterical doo-doo bit at N.J. Gov. Chris Christie, another guy often short on classy public comportment, during one of his appearances, when Carton and Esiason enact some transparent self-cleansing. Yes, Schlitter, rhymes with you-know-what. Nothing funnier than that! Not sure, other than that’s what it now takes to win fame and fortune, why people would be so eager to avoid identification as a person with class — at least not, heaven forbid, in public. Class? Gee Beav, what’s that?
I was going to create a Stanley Cup Thread or rename this one but I know many are superstitious so I think we should just leave it as is... What do you guys think?
Filibuster? By the way Mushnik championed the cause of banishing Nhlpa93 because when you checked a player a certain way blood would come out of his head...geez I never saw that in a real hockey game....
His favorite thing right now is his Ranger gig, he's been rockin' a playoff beard since day 1 of the playoffs...
What a pathetic tub of lard, I listened some today, It's hilarious that whale talking about hockey...
Got an e-mail from the NHL Im not getting that jersey Im gonna e-mail them back and rip them a new asshole.
Seriously Gecko, if they end up giving that up 40 jersey's and us normal folks not a single jersey I will blast them a new asshole as well
