What is wrong with the Leafs?

There is one thing that everyone who reads my posts should know about, I am a HUGE Toronto Maple Leafs fan. I bleed blue and white. Also, if you have followed hockey at all these last couple of years you may know that the Leafs may not have been the most dominate team in the NHL. Well, i may as well face it, the Leafs have sucked. The last cup they won was in the sixties and last season was the worst i had ever seen them starting the season off with eight defeats. The Leafs had solidified themselves as the laughing stock of the hockey world.


And that really hurt me. I have so much passion for my boys in blue and white but even i gotta face the facts. However this season seemed to be the reward that every faithful Leaf fan was waiting for. Starting of the season 4-0 was a great sight after 0-8 and beating Ottawa 5-1 was the cherry on the top of my very high cake. Then something happened and i am still trying to figure it out, they started to loose. First an OT lose then it was multiple regulation loses. The question Leafs fans were asking themselves went from 'will they win the cup?' to 'will they win the next game?'. And the answer that keeps popping up in my mind, for both questions, is no. And, at least for the first question, it wont be yes for a long time. 


So, maybe the problem lies with Bran Burke. He after all traded away what ended up being the second overall pick in last years draft and the leafs first round pick in the upcoming draft. Also, he has built a team that can fight but that can not rely on scoring from more then two players. Wilson's time as head coach has not seen the Leafs see any success so maybe it is his fault? But, of coarse there are the players. Grabovski has had a disappointing start to the season along with Kulemin, Bozak and Versteeg. Phaneuf has yet to score a goal and Kaberle, as usual, will not shoot. In my opinion, all three have resulted in the Leafs troubles of late. 


The Leafs are by far thee most disappointing team in the NHL, and have been for a long time, and no one is more disappointed then me. Now the question on my mind is how can the Leafs be fixed? Answer: only God knows. Some possible answers are either bringing in all Toronto born players who grew up loving the Leafs or using draft picks to build a team (huh, might be a good idea Brian, maybe you should check it out). Whatever the answer is it won't be easy. So what do I do now? Give up on my boys? NEVER! Like i said before i bleed blue and white and that will never change. Besides, you don't cheer for a team because they are the best team in the league. You cheer for a team because they are your team, no matter where they are in the league table. 


I guess all thats left to say then is Go Leafs Go and thanks for reading and, incase i don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening and good night

I Wish

Hey this post is going to be a bit weird (well all of mine have been weird but this will be different). I am a big fan of poetry and this is some poetry i have come across, hope you like it, it's called I Wish.

I wish, i could play the guitar

i wish, i could grow a full beard

I wish i could write awesome poetry

and, I wish...I was bigger

And its not what your thinking 

I wish i was taller

I wish that i had arms that didn’t resemble pipe cleaners

I wish i had thighs of steal

And, i wish...i was bigger

And its probably what your thinking

I wish girls would look at me and say wow

But they don’t

I wish i wasn’t getting fat

I wish i didn’t have weird tan lines

I wish i could talk to beautiful women without sounding like an idiot

And, I wish that you had me and that i had you

I wish you could see past this flabery, weak, white guy

I wish you could see a caring, gracious person and thee most modest man you have ever seen in your life.

But you can’t

I wish you didn’t drink the way you do. 

I wish i didn't walk into the washroom that one night

I wish that you feel the same way i do

But you don’t

And i guess i was a fool, for thinking you could like me, for wishing something that could never happen

And, I wish i hadn’t

Hope you enjoyed that and, if not, too bad. If you guys have any poetry you want to share with me i would love to hear it.

Thanks for reading and, incase i don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening and good night.

We put the 'I' in Quidditch

 Yesterday i reluctantly went to what my friends called a sporting event. Quidditch, for those of you who don't know, is the sport played by witches and wizards in J.K. Rowling's series of books about the fictional character Harry Potter. In the books, Quidditch is played on brooms flying above the ground. I was under the impression that this would be impossible and...i was right. The players had to run with a stick (broom, lacrosse stick, twig, etc.) between their legs at all times and they had to put a ball between one of the three hoops on each side. There were also three other balls that were called bludgers. They were basically dodge balls and if a player was hit they had to go back to their own hoops before they could continue playing. Only certain players are allowed to handle the bludgers, they are called the beaters, and only certain players are allowed to handle the qauffle (the main ball). On top of that there is something called the snitch. For those of you who remember from Harry Potter the snitch is a small golden ball with wings that, if caught, will give the team 150 points and, in all likely hood, the win. In the 'moggles game' (as the Carleton Quidditch Coach described it) catching the snitch is only worth 40 points. In both cases catching the snitch does signal the end of the game. The snitch in the moggle game is a dude dressed in gold who can go anywhere, yes anywhere, in the world as long as he/she is back by the 20 minute mark. The game is full contact and to be honest thee most ridiculous thing i have ever seen.

I was very skeptical of Quidditch being considered a sport. If it is a sport it would be the only sport made as a tribute to a book. I was told i could not judge Quidditch until i went to see a game so i did. I came to the conclusion that Quidditch is an amazing sport. I had loads of fun watching it and i really got into. It isn't my favourite sport and it never will be but i think that it was not only a sport but a great sport. For anyone out there who disagrees with me go check a game out and if you still disagree then you need to go get your head checked out. 

Quidditch is thee most unorthodox sport i have ever seen, it isn't professional in any way, and it is was basically made as a tribute to a book but it is so much more then that. Quidditch gives the spectator a game full of hitting, excitement and passion from the athletes and, at the end of the day, isn't that what all great sports are made of?

As usual, if you have a comment about my poor spelling and/or grammar or if you want to share a different opinion from my own you are invited to keep those comments to yourself. Seriously if you have anything to say about Quidditch, or any sports for that matter, i would love to hear it.

Thanks for reading and, incase i don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening and good night.

Heres to New Beginnings and Dolphin Lady, wherever you are.

So i have never blogged before so i don't really know what to talk about. A friend of mine told me to talk about my day (kinda like a diary). So here we go...

Dear Diary,

today i slept through two classes, why you might ask, because it was friday and i am a lazy bugger. but my day got worse after that. I became very upset. Well, thats an understatement, i was pissed off. It isn't easy for me to talk about it cause i have no clue who is going to read this. However i was pretty close to going against a principle i have always held dear. I was ashamed of myself. I wanted to punch something (and still do) but i have got over it a bit. Wait a minute this is sad and pathetic for me to be blogging about.

Now for something completely different, Papal Bling

Yes thats right i am going to talk about papal bling and memorabilia. I have been thinking about this for the last couple of days because some dude asked in my christianity class how much a papal ring would go for on ebay? This led the prof to show us different catholic and pope memorabilia such as:

1. The Papal Apron (available in three colours; red, white and yellow) with Pope's Papal crest on the front,
2. Catholic Church coffee mug and my personal favourite,
3. Pope Pious IX cologne (fresh citrus flavour)

Is it just me or is this just ridiculous. Why would anyone think to make a Pope Pious IX cologne? I won't lie though, i am intrigued by it.

And now for something completely different, Dolphin Lady

The other day i was walking to school with my roommate. On the way we stopped at a light and noticed a girl standing beside us. Her knees bent inward as opposed to outward, this alarmed us. Because i was going on 26 hours of being awake it made sense in my head to call her dolphin lady, why, i have no clue. Nothing about her resembled a dolphin yet as my sleep deprived mind thought about it it made sense. I was not even able to explain it to myself but deep down i knew she was dolphin lady and it got me thinking, what if she was a superhero? Maybe. All i know is that, despite the fact she creeped me out, i feel a little bit safer knowing dolphin lady is out there.

So thats it, if you are wondering why this post is weird, its because i am tired and not thinking straight. I only wrote this because i promised a good friend of mine i would. Now if you have a problem with anything i have said or with any grammar or spelling problems please feel free to keep those comments to yourself. Thus, if you see someone on the street that looks like a superhero in disguise or you see a ridiculous religious product i would love to hear about it.

Thanks for reading and incase i don't see ya good afternoon, good evening and good night