Well, I guess the season isn't technically over yet, but for all intents and purposes it is, a once promising season landed with a thud. It's just so depressing, but such as life as a Toronto sports fan. Really the writing has been on the wall the entire second half of the season. I turned a blind eye to it, and so did most Raptors fans, we all assumed that come playoff time a switch would flip and they'd stop playing like shit heads. Porous defence and reprehensible shot selection sunk this team, time after time it would be one pass and done. Hitting 3's is great when they sink, but when they don't why do you keep going to the well?? In Game 3 they were in the bonus for christs sakes and instead of driving the lane and drawing a foul it was just terrible jumper after jumper.
As much as it sucks that the Raptors are on the verge of being swept, some short term pain could end up helping out in the long term, because "In Masai I Trust". When the Leafs made the playoffs and pushed Boston to 7 games (ugh Game 7 memories...) the Leafs braintrust were clouded by that miracle run and assumed that they were just a couple of pieces away from being contenders. They stood pat with the core, bringing in nothing but shit head "character" guys to supposedly put them over the edge. Two miserable years later they've correctly decided to blow it up.
Masai Ujiri is a fuck of a lot smarter than the dunderheads that ran the Leafs and thank god for that. Amir Johnson, Lou Williams, Chuck Hayes and Landry Fields are all coming off the books, they don't have shitty contracts anchoring them, and they have cap space. I don't think Masai will be sitting idley by this off-season, something tells me he's going to have a hell of a lot more than a hundra messages on his shitty Blackberry. I am pretty ignorant to the rest of the NBA landscape so I don't know who is available, but they definitely need another Big Man, and maybe some "veteran presents" that isn't that old geezer Chuck Hayes.
I don't think Dwane Casey's job is necessarily safe either, when Masai was the GM of the Denver Nuggets he fired George Karl despite winning 57 games and winning Coach of the Year honours because of what they did in the playoffs. The Raptors have been talking about getting Kevin Durant in his free agent year forever, perhaps if they bring in his former coach in OKC Scott Brooks that will help with his decision.
Well this year was fun Raptors (at least the first half was!) Next year they'll be back with a new logo and snazzy new uniforms, and hopefully a new outlook on the season. I'll still watch Game 4 tonight, they might even win, fuck they may even make this a series still, but it'll take a miracle, and as I have already said, this sweep could be the best thing to happen to the Raptors long term.
As a Leafs fan, the only good thing about the NHL playoffs is hating on other teams. Hate hate hate hate hate hate. I'll admit I LOVE trolling my friends who are fans of other teams, Sens, Habs and Red Wings fans earn the most of my scorn. Pretty much after every team I hate is eliminated the hockey playoffs are less fun... plus the season goes way too fucking late, hockey shouldn't be played in June.
This Sens and Habs series can't end soon enough, I hate both teams so much and I don't want either to be happy. That being said the most hilarious outcome for a Player Hater like myself is for the shitty Sens to come back and beat the Habs in 7. The Habs sweeping the Sens would have been hilarious too, but since that is not happening a Habs collapse would be perfect. Whoever wins this series is likely to face the Red Wings next round, and while I like to give the gears to friends of mine who are Wings fans, I will cheer for them to beat either Montreal or Ottawa.
I'm not all hate this post-season, I have decided to throw my support behind those plucky Calgary Flames. Yeah I called the people who just cheer for the Canadian teams the Squid of the Week a couple of weeks ago, and I still stand behind that, but I would like this Flames team no matter where they played. I don't even like Calgary, it's full of Harper-lovers and wannabe cowboys. It's a decent enough city, but as far as Canadian City Power Rankings are concerned it's definitely low on the list. That being said I have friends from Calgary and I think they're swell.
The Flames play the Ducks next round, the Ducks weren't that overly impressive despite sweeping Winnipeg, as they barely led in that series and relied on timely scoring. Speaking of Winnipeg I am so happy they're eliminated so the Canadian hockey media can stop having a circle jerk over their fucking fans. Enough is enough, yeah they're loud and wear white, yippee-yay. Every NHL arena is loud, that's kind of what happens when you put 18,000 screaming people into a room. What does Winnipeg have to look forward to now?? It's still winter for another 6 weeks, then it's mosquito season, and you still live in shitty Winnipeg. Sorry buds.
C'Mon Bud, I hate the fucking Rays so much, the Jays were awful on Friday, squandered a lead yesterday and today they are booting the ball around like assholes while Chris Archer is shutting them down. Even back when they were the Devil Rays and the laughing stock of baseball the Jays couldn't beat them in that horrible, soulless stadium. Jays fans travel well, but that's the last place I'd take in a game, it's a terrible stadium and they can never fucking win there!! Not only do they lose there, they always find ugly ways to lose, it's the Blue Jays house of horrors, burn that place to the ground.
The Week Ahead: @ Boston (4/27 - 4/29) @ Cleveland (4/30 - 5/3) All those Red Sox games start at 6:10... what's up with that? Anyways, the Jays play a lot better in Fenway than they do in Tampa. Jose Bautista will hopefully come back, and maybe this is the series that will get EE going with that bat, both those guys love mashing over the stupid Green Monster. The highlight of the week though is your boy HDH will be in Cleveland as part of the 2nd Annual Beers and Baseball road trip. I'll be there for the Friday and Saturday game, and I am pumped! I'll tell you all about it in my blog next week. The Cleveland Racist Logos are shit, so hopefully this dreadful series against Tampa is long forgotten by then!
As shitty as the Rays series has been, and as much as I hate the Rays, the sweep against the Orioles (henceforth known as the Trash Birds) was awesome, and I fucking despise the Trash Birds, and I especially despise their asshole manager Buck Showalter, who is this weeks Squid of the Week.
My bud Andrew Stoeten put it best when he said "The shitheel Baltimore Orioles, a living, breathing, 25-man avatar for the pile of human garbage posing as their manager, Buck Showalter" Showalter is an asshole, he claims that he is "playing the right way" ....which pretty much can be interpreted as playing the "white way." He's had his shitballers throw at our best player in Jose Bautista twice this season and twice Bautista responded with a home run, because Jose Bautista is the BEST. Speaking of Jose Bautista being the best... let's watch him pimp that home run once again for old times sake.
Of course Showalter and the Trash Birds were up in arms over Jose's bat flip and his slow jaunt around the bases, but fuck them. Jose responded brilliantly to Adam Jones and the rest of those shit heads after that game. They said this shitballer pitcher is just a rookie and it was a mistake, well Stroman was a rookie last year when he hit a Trash Bird and they made a big stink about that. Fuck Shitwalter is responsible for all this mess.
Then the Squid comes out and says that they considered boycotting the game because of the new turf at the SkyDome, boo fucking hoo you plug. About the turf, it's a non issue, it'll flatten out over the course of the season and no one will talk about it again. Anyways Showalter is a terrible manager and a terrible human being and is quite fitting for this week's Squid of the Week Award.
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