No Sale on NHL's New Team Jerseys, Yet

Have fun going out to look at antiques this weekend guys!

For the first weekend since late August, there is not a SINGLE tackle football game on television that matters. (No, the Senior Bowl don’t count, holmes!)

No really, I mean it. It might be a good idea to do something with/for your woman, that you would otherwise be willing to cut your own ankle off in order to escape. She’s surrendered you for the last what, 5 months? Treat her.

And if you are single, then please resume watching other sports at your leisure. Like college basketball.

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Here’s why the NHL is…. Well, the NHL.

They have their first All-Star Game in 3 years, and they decide to stash it mid-week on cable. Wonderful.

Also, did you notice, like I did, that the “hi-def” broadcast of that game, was absolutely piss-poor? Tons of pixilation, and only a decent picture on close-ups and shots where the action had stopped.

Finally, after seeing the new “hi-tech” Reebok jerseys, I said to myself: “Self, ‘dem jerseys are pretty cool. I just might want to go on-line and buy myself a Caps alternate black with the Capitol logo on front, not the teal Eagle.”

Then I find out, you can’t get the individual team jerseys, just the All-Star ones.

Puh-lease.

Did we lose a war? This is America, where we get…

a) What we want.
b) When we want it.
c) A lot of it.

Don’t roll out new hockey threads and then not have 31 flavors available on-line the very next day! Come on!

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Windows Vista Update: I’m not f’ing getting it. Period. There, how’s that, Bill Gates!

Not only will I NOT buy the stupid OS, but I really dread the fact that in a year or two, I’ll have to buy a new laptop, and I’ll be forced to use it.

Memo to anybody who will listen at Microsoft: “I don’t want to LEARN a new OS. PERIOD.”

It’s taken me long enough, to vaguely understand the nuances of XP, so that I can do some basic troubleshooting. I don’t need to start OVER, just because Vista has cool “translucent” windows.

F- that.

How about you make your next OS SECURE! In fact, you could call it “Windows Security.”

Strip it down to the essentials – net, office, wi-fi, and whatever. And lock that badboy up. Stop spending time on translucent windows, and more desktop calculators and calendars. I’ve got those already, you jerks.

I’m about as close as I’ve been since college to going Mac. I swear. I just have too many Windows based peripherals and some odd software, that I am not sure I can live without.

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Oh yeah, I loved this column by USA Today’s Edward C. Baig about his PC’s “surgery” to get Vista-ized. Sounds like just a wild barrel of monkeys kind of fun, doesn’t it?

Here’s my favorite part:

Post-op, most of my programs seem to be behaving. Same goes for the printer. I successfully installed the Vista-ready 2007 version of Norton Internet Security, too.

In most respects, Vista is a better Windows. But you'll need patience, money and a powerful system to upgrade. The overhaul isn't so dramatic that you couldn't hum along with XP awhile longer. Few folks ever enter surgery willingly.

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These all might be dumb questions…. But…..

How come ball carriers can do literally NOTHING to get an illegal hands to the face call? I get that “stiff arms” are legal. Where does it cross the line? Anywhere?

If you can’t get a pass interference call for “having your legs tangled” with the WR, why don’t coaches “teach” that technique to DBs? Tell your guys… “go ahead, and get your running pegs all up in his ass, and just see what happens.”

Are the Williams sisters no longer dominating because they are injured, bored, or over the hill?

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A young Mets fan by the name of Ryan Leli has accepted a ban on ever going to Mets games again, and community service, after he was busted for impersonating a reporter for NBC Universal, and bugging the shit out of Mike Piazza after a game last year.

And yet, Mike Lupica, still is on the loose.

But speaking of this kid’s stunt, I had an idea. Would it be the WORST thing in the world to credential – say, just one fan – per game? I mean, it would be sort of like those Coors Light commercials. Humorous questions for certain, and perhaps some good questions, that regular reporters don’t have the balls or passion for the team to ask.

I’m just thinking out loud here…

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And Now, Your Pic O’ The Day!!!

Here's the actual, offensive sign at Solider Field. Ouch.