Tuesday 3/18/25
I have been up less frequently during the night of late--no times at all last night and the night before. Maybe it's my new coffee policy of no more than thirty-two ounces per day and I'm not diabetic after all.
Can't say I have enjoyed my new coffee policy but I assess things, make adjustments, and then stick to the plan with whatever it is. That was also how I stopped drinking alcohol.
I did look into decaffeinated coffee, but too much was unknown. Here we are, all of these years in, and you can still have a lot of uncertainty--scientifically, that is--about something. I saw some potential negative things about the heart and even cancer, all under the umbrella of "maybe," and I don't mean the Chantels' song.
Date a Leo like me , literally an amazing dating experience not to brag
The endless stupidity of our age. Someone like above will have thousands of followers because they are stupid. That's the reason. The person who posts something intelligent will have few. The more intelligent, the less they will have. The stupider, the more. More or less. That's how life now works. The problem is what to do about that. I am a bit surprised she got the "an" right, to be honest.
How do people manage to be sports fan for years--decades--and adults--technically, age-wise--and have no clue how basic things work, even when it comes to sports? I want an explanation for how people can be so dumb. They're around these things, they see them time and again, they're simple things, and yet, people don't get it at all.
For example: On Reddit, I see many of these sports fan adults saying, "The Bruins should just trade Jeremy Swayman for a really good forward and a really good defenseman. He sucks."
Oh. That's what they should do. Problem solved. Why aren't the Bruins doing that?
Honestly, how can you be this thick? It defies logic. There should be no way you can not know how this works. I don't understand how it's possible that you couldn't, let alone that this is basically everyone.
Jeremy Swayman is the worst goalie in the NHL right now. He has a huge contract in terms of both average annual value and term. There are seven years--seven years!--left on that contract after the close of this season.
Who wants the worst goalie in the NHL? Who wants to pay that worst goalie a lot of money for each season for many seasons?
Nobody. Nobody times nobody times nobody.
And it's not like he had a track record where he was the man, won a couple Vezinas, but then hit a rough patch this season because he was going through a messy divorce and his team was in rebuild mode.
He's never done it. There is no track record. The Bruins made a gross error. They fucked up big-time. This is there problem. No one is going to assume that problem for them, let alone assume it, make it go away, and give them two--two!--really good players.
If you follow sports, how can you not know this? If you are a fifty-five-year-old lazy lump who sits on the couch watching sports night after night, who listens to sports radio, day after day, who can only talk about sports insofar as that person can talk about anything at all, how can you be that ignorant? That's like watching baseball for forty years and not knowing what a baseball is and each time you see one it's this brand new foreign body to you.
I don't understand how it's possible. I don't understand how it's possible for people to be as stupid as they are in all of the ways they are. A beaver comes up to a tree in the woods and he knows what to do. He doesn't think, "Hmmm, what is this odd, erect woody thing? I should probably set in on fire."
No! He chews that sucker down! He builds some dams!
He gets it. The wood chips fly!
People? They get nothing it often seems like. How do these guys work the flies on their pants? "Hmmm...guess I'll try and mash it down really hard over and over again...maybe that'll close it. Actually, I'll just leave it open. College girls like that. They'll probably be into me. We can go out to dinner. Mmmmm..."
I am not trying to be cruel. Or not especially. But it's as if people make this dedicated effort to be as stupid as possible. Why? Because if you do just sit there on the couch and you do yap away about sports and presumably get yapped back at by other humans who also resemble thumbs, then how can nothing penetrate your brain simply by constant exposure?
It's like standing out in the middle of the desert for forty years, naked, and your skin is as white as the day you got there. How is that possible?
But no, Bruins fans--Jeremy Swayman isn't headed anywhere. He's going to be one of the reasons you have a bad team for the foreseeable future. If the Bruins were to move him, they'd need to pay a lot of that contract. I could not think of a single reason why they did this deal at the time. It was absurd to me. Remember how many times in these pages I wrote about Swayman's lack of competitive fire? With the stupid goalie hugs and all of that nonsense? Told you. This isn't a competitor. A fighter. And when guys like that get paid, they coast. They check out. They're not driven like you need to be driven from within to be highly successful on a level playing field with competitive people.
If you can't watch play this year and see how unfocused he is, then you just don't know hockey. I also have a strong feeling that he's locker room poison. Or that he is on a team with veterans. I believe the Bruins' oldest player in now thirty-two, so maybe that's less of an issue. You don't need a great goalie in today's NHL. But nor can you have one of the worst goalies in the league. Someone solid is good enough. Solid means you're not great, but you don't give up too many softies. Swayman has given up the latter in bushels this year.
Why does there need to be sixty-eight teams in the NCAA tournament? Answer: There doesn't. Everything gets padded, added to, but not improved.
Magic broke the Cavs' 16-game win streak Sunday afternoon--in Cleveland, no less. Saw some of the game. At the half, looked like another Cavaliers win. Magic were playing hard on defense. 16-game win streak is very impressive. You don't see that kind of thing. You can be one of the best teams of all-time and you're almost certainly not going to win that many in a row. Whatever the sport is.
Saw a potential men's hockey bracket yesterday, which doesn't mean much, given that these conference tournaments need to wrap up first, but even looking at this you can see how BC could make the Frozen Four. Quite doable. That would be a decent year. I don't think Greg Brown is a very good coach. Doesn't have the team ready to go for the bigger games and makes few in-game adjustments.
Comments