...not to have a post-season to worry about. Then, after losing your last game of the season, you can go out to a South Beach nightclub, get really hammered, then get arrested for either smashing up an emergency vehicle, or for being a drunken ass who refuses to leave a club when asked and then charges at the cop who's doing the asking.
Way to go, Ville Peltonen and Eddie Belfour.
If that link doesn't work, try these:
The Miami Herald's coverage:
Yahoo Sports' coverage:
They had PDFs of the arrest reports up on the Miami Herald site - kind of amusing reading.
In other hockey news, I won my fantasy league (the
Lake Effect League) for the second year in a row. That wasn't such a big deal last year, when there were only four of us in the league - but this year, we were a real 12-team league, complete with people I didn't even know! I wouldn't have minded losing to a friend, but when it came down to the final weeks, it was me against a stranger, so I felt honor-bound to win (if not exactly stomp his ass into the ground). My friend Meg, the Preds fan who lives in Nashville, came in 3rd. Next year, tho', I am totally going to come in in the middle of the pack, or else 1) people are going to start accusing me of rigging the thing somehow, and b) my husband is going to start up again with his theme of how I'm so competitive and how I can't stand to lose, which is not really the case.
Getting back to real hockey for a sec - who's psyched for the playoffs? I know I am. Y'all are so lucky up there - you can go see real, live playoff games! (If, y'know, you're willing to pay the arm, leg, and firstborn child to get tickets.) We don't even have a television set, let alone the cable subscription that would let us see the playoffs. We need to find a good, hockey-friendly sports bar in our neighborhood.
sigh. It was 88 degrees here today. Y'all might get
snow before the week is out. I really miss living in NY. (<---100% not sarcasm at all)
Oh, please do! I just know you'll like it. The Old 97's are more rockin' and more twangy than Rhett's solo stuff - but his awesome lyrics and song craft are still there. Actually, if you've ever seen a Rhett solo show, he wails and flails just like it's an Old 97's show, even if it's just him and an acoustic guitar on stage. Good times. :)
Though friends recommend it highly, I don't know the Old 97's music very well. But I like frontman Rhett Miller's solo project "The Instigator" (chica put me onto that a few years ago). On the strength of that alone I'd consider it, but now that the reco's are piling up I'll be sure to check out the Old 97s at the Square.