Monthly Archives: April 2010

Red Bars Aren’t Fun

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Click here. These are the worst red bars I know! Wow!

I had a black colored car. It is now yellow.

My eyes hurt. My ears hurt. My nose hurts. My head hurts. I ache all over.

This area is one of the worst in the country when it comes to pollen count.

People love the cherry blossoms but not me!

Enough with the traffic. Enough with the sniffles. Enough with the goop in the eyes.

We need snow to kill this stuff.

We don’t need rain. Rain will make it worse. We will add mold to the mix. I am more allergic to mold than I am to pollen. Medicate, take lots of fluids, exercise a lot and now I have to take antibiotics to boot.

This season feels worse than usual. Be careful out there.

F Street was FUN Street

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We are allowed to have fun. We are allowed to smile and to be happy. It is our right. There are tough times. We have certainly had our share and there are times to be really serious. We know. We know. Keeping it in perspective and in balance is hard work too.

But last night was a fun night.

We won the game. We now have 120 points. How many points is that? There have been only seven franchises to garner 120 plus points, all of them being “Original Six” teams and then us as the 7th team to do it.

We were presented the Presidents’ Trophy at center ice by NHL executive Bill Daly. No one on the team touched it or frankly even looked it – NOT that we are superstitious or anything. :-)

Alex Ovechkin had a fun night. He scored two goals and garnered an assist. He has 50 goals. Only two other players in league history have had four 50 goal seasons in their first five years in the league - Wayne Gretzky and Mike Bossy. Alex now leads the NHL in goals and points and he has missed 10 games this season.

The Washington Capitals now have the top 5 plus/minus players in the NHL. That has to be a first in a long time as well. Schultz. Ovechkin. Backstrom. Green. Semin. The Caps have 9 players that have scored 15 goals or more. Mike Green has 19 goals. Should he score on Sunday we would have eight players with 20 goals or more.

Nicklas Backstrom garnered his 100th and 101st point and his 32nd and 33rd goals. He is now 4th in the NHL in scoring.

Alex Semin is 11th in scoring in the NHL and has 39 goals. I have a feeling he wants to be in the top 10 in scoring and garner his 40th goal. Sunday should be another fun game. We will show our appreciation to our fans, the last game of a fun season.

And then our work get serious again and our point of view changes. We have one goal and that is a shared and collective one yet to meet.

Have some fun this weekend. Smile – laugh – enjoy.

It will get dead serious next week so chill and kick back for a day. Thank you.

Jose Theodore and Double Bottom Line

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Jose Theodore is a remarkable 19-0 and 3 of late. Now that is quite a run. When we have excellent goal tending our team is tough to beat. We score a lot of goals and we are a big team and a fast team that wears opponents down. Jose Theodore is one of the main reasons we have the best record in the NHL this season.

Jose deserves to be our candidate for the Masterton Trophy. I know of no better candidate in sports. He and his family have shown great strength dignity and grace in the face of unspeakable tragedy. I am proud of Jose Theodore.

iPad Up and Running

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I am first one on my block.

I got it. I loaded the software. There is no manual. It is up and running. Nice. Fast.

It is beautiful. The browsers work and the screen is perfect.

I am not totally comfortable yet on the big key board screen.

I am online easily on Wifi.

I will start loading apps today.

It feels like a boom box now for my music :-) . I have morphed from an iPod to an iPhone to now an iPad.

My poor iPod seems old and tired now.

Do I feel comfortable yet in ditching my Kindle? My laptop?

Time will tell but so far so good and I feel relevant and cool and in the Steve Jobs halo again. Thanks Steve this feels like another “work of art”. I am unsure how I will use it but sometimes it is better to “look good than be good”.

Godfather of Punk – RIP

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Ouch. Malcolm McLaren, one of the great marketers and promoters of all time, passed away from cancer.

He was so smart and such a good promoter. He invented Johnny Rotten and the Sex Pistols.

I saw the Sex Pistols live once. Wow. Couldn’t understand a word they sang. They snarled and wailed and the music hung in the air. They looked cool doing nothing.

Malcolm was always around in the media - in the hallways. He was too cool for school.

I feel old. The Godfather of Punk dead at 64. RIP.

Weird Science

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Today our overall collective franchise record stands at 1214 wins AND 1214 losses. We have 303 ties and 71 OT losses for points as well. We have as many wins as losses – as of today - as a franchise throughout our history.

Since we have owned the team, we are a collective 386-310-51 and 71. Wow – 818 regular season games in our tenure. THAT is a lot of hockey!