Fire Ryan Poles | Fire Ben Johnson

Well isn’t this just excellent.

1. How about the Blackhawks forgetting how to play hockey this past week? Stupid turnovers. Dumb penalties. Sound like another team in town? Oh don’t forget the odd-man rushes. For one weekend, the goalies were not to blame completely.

2. Chicago Bulls – Suck. Moving on.

3. Fighting Illini basketball – This is exactly what I expected. This is what has been going on for the last four, five years. Blown leads, missed opportunities and missed free throws. They can beat teams like Wisconsin twice, Michigan State and Clemson but lose to the teams like Bradley, Utah and Georgia. They take Ohio State to the limit and then piss all over themselves in the final seconds. Enjoy the NIT. Turds.

I’ll have a March Madness thread before the games on Thursday. Feel free to talk about what upsets you may have. I plan on working on a bracket when I finally get all my work done at my real job.

I have been finding it very hard to get excited about this teams chances of  doing well and making the playoffs. The window for the Cubs was 2008, but they couldn’t get it done. The window is closed. I am just hoping that Ricketts has enough sense to see Hendry for what he is, and fire him.

Hendry has spent countless of millions on players that haven’t produced to expectation. He has a fetish for signing players that have  injury issues, and try to rehabilitate them to where there were. The newest victim is Nady. Hendry shelled out over 3 mil for a player that might not see the field until June.

What. The. Fuck.

On Sunday, I decided to go to the Blackhawks game. As soon as I heard on the radio that Cristobal Huet was starting, I should have done the right thing and turn the car around to save a trip. But then again, I figured I got lucky enough to get tickets three rows back behind the net at face value. So then that way, I could get a clear view of the Blackhawks lighting the lamp. Well, there was plenty of that. However…

The lamp was going off quite a bit in the 2nd period. Four goals in just over 10 minutes by the phenomenal Cristobal Huet. I’ll cut him slack on I believe the second goal because he was screened. However the other three were his fault. But no excuses. Not even the best of goalies will have an excuse for such a piss poor performance. And as I mentioned, I was sitting in the 3rd fucking row and I happened to catch the highlights when I got back home so I have a pretty damn good reason for going on this rant.

It sure beats me why Joel Quenneville continues to put this bag of shit out in net. How bad does this guy have to be to lose his job? I have been screaming for Antti Niemi to be the starter all year. Is he awesome? Who knows. Will he kick ass in the playoffs? I don’t have an answer for that either. But what I do know is that Huet is NOT the answer. He will never be the answer. And let’s not get on the discussion of “Huet needs to be the goalie because of his experience”. Experience of what? Being bad? What a bucket of bullshit. Experience means nothing. You are either good at what you do or you suck.

So ahead other fans. Call me a meatball. Go ahead and tell me that Huet is the best option. We’ll find out come playoff time if your guy puts his foot up all of our asses.

Even Jeremy Roenick says the Blackhawks probably won’t win because of Huet. He isn’t the best analysis out there but he knows a lot more about hockey than I do. I just don’t want this season to go in the shitter in the early rounds of the playoffs because this team is really good. One of the top five teams in the league. Maybe the Blackhawks best chance to win the cup because of all the salary issues they will encounter in the next couple years. Quenneville has just over a month to fix this problem. It’s simple: Bench Huet.

Oh and getting off the topic of hockey, after the game we went to Texas Roadhouse for a nice dinner. Don’t ever go there.

Fire away.

Illini slipping…

Bulls charging…

And I am not sure about anyone else, but I am really enjoying watching the Olympics mainly curling and hockey. What a game Sunday night between USA and Canada. Our good friend Nemo is probably liking this outcome.

The Cubs are preparing for a new season of hopes and dreams. The off-season was rather quiet as Hendry spent most of it trying to undo all of his mistakes from the season before. What he got in return is nothing to get excited about.

The key to any success for this team lies with the overpaid underachievers playing to their potential or better. I leave Derrick Lee off this list. He was the only position player that earned his keep last year.

The way that Hendry has configured this team rests on the core players staying healthy and producing in order to compete for the division. The starting rotation and bullpen remain an issue going into the new season.

Antti Niemi making saves when it mattered the most and closing the door in the shootout. And nice job by the man from Wisconsin, Jake Dowell on playing a good game. I am sure our friend Mad City Mac is enjoying that one.

It’s a sign. An earthquake starts two miles away from Fire Jerry Angelo headquarters in Dekalb. The man upstairs does not want me to write any more articles. The outsiders were right. This site is not only the worse site on the internet but it also has the worst writer EVER. Or maybe our friends the Mayans or even Nostradumbass predicted this earthquake and The History Fictional Channel will produce another documentary on how this is a sign of bad things to come.

Anyway…

For about the fifth time this year, the Blackhawks, Bulls and Illini all played on the same day and nearly at the same time. As usual on these days, I find myself flipping between all three games. It’s not too bad because if one team is getting their ass kicked, I always have a second or third game to watch.

1. Good game by the Blackhawks to pull it out and finally beat the Stars this season. But the defense has been a bit shitty lately and it lead to two of the three goals given up by Antti Niemi. Although I am not in favor of the Olympic break, this could give some of these players a bit of a rest. For those obsessed with stats (Cue Irish Yeti), Antti Niemi is leading the NHL in goals against average.

2. This Chicago Bulls team is hard to figure out. They can play so well against some of the best teams in the NBA then take a crap against the bad teams like the Pacers. Last night was another one of those nights. If it wasn’t for Indiana basically missing every shot in the 4th quarter, the Bulls don’t win that game. The fact that they only won by eight points shows that they should stop playing to their opponents level of competition. If they can do that, they are capable of beating any team on any given night.

3. My beloved Fighting Illini pulled yet another win out of their asses against the Badgers. They barely beat Michigan State despite the Spartans not having their best player in the game so I didn’t get too excited. Now all of a sudden, they are tied for first place in the Big Ten. I always thought Bruce Weber was a good coach and he gets the most of the players he has. This job he is doing is shocking to many including myself. Next year when the new class comes in is rated the #7 recruiting class in the nation according to ESPN. Things are finally looking up for Illinois.

Discuss.

The Chicago Tribune is reporting that the Bears have hired Mike Martz to be their offensive coordinator.

Just another guy who sucks at play calling and that is friends with Lovie.

Sigh.