- Listening to #AudioAdrenalive on #Pandora …… great stuff! “to win you’ve got to come in last place…..” #
- RT @oracle_ace: ~ RT @cpurdy: Retweet this if you disagree w Twitter’s decision to hide replies to ppl you don’t follow. #fixreplies #
- On The Rox in the Testaccio District in #Rome just opened a new location in Trastevere! I’ll be back to check it out, that’s for sure! #
- just wandered outside, very nice out! might make it my first mountain bike day of the year! #
- #Oprah loves her private jet – http://bit.ly/A5pN4 #
- #Opera loves her private jet – http://bit.ly/A5pN4 #
- #NotreDame #NDResponse Student video against #Obama speaking at THEIR commencement ceremony on Sunday – http://is.gd/wlF5 #
- In effort to determine who will receive health care treatments, US govt mauling idea of taxing your sugary drink habits – http://is.gd/zbDF #
- researching external procedures to connect #Oracle’s #PL/SQL and #Perl, seems daunting……….. #
- Lord Stanley, Lord Stanley, get me the brandy! – @SportsCenter 10 top Mike Lange calls! http://is.gd/yTJ7 #PENS #LetsGoPens #
- Monday Morning Song on #Pandora – The Motions by Matthew West ….. good stuff folks! #
- Not COOl! YMCA Softball captain screwed our game time up, we had to forfeit as the game was at 8:30 am!!!! #
- New contacts came in, pathetic how exciting that is, but I have2 softball games & a hockey playoff game this weekend! #
- TSN reports Ovechkin won’t face any further discipline from the #NHL, #Gonchar to probably miss remainder of the playoffs. http://is.gd/y7Kw #
- #Pens fans, some thoughts on the #Ovechkin – #Gonchar hit last night & why number 8 should be forced to take a seat! http://is.gd/y4ez #
- That’s right #Pens! Taking back this series! #
- #Mario doesn’t like the #Caps too much either – http://bit.ly/11vQuz
Let’s Go #Pens! # - #Pens fans, if this doesn’t make you recite a Mike Lange-ism by the last frame, you must be a bandwagoner! http://is.gd/xPQJ #
- Nice evening out, gettin’ the mountain bike ready for the summer and maybe cleaning the Escape …… #
- I’ll be doing some #Perl reading tonight, kind of excited, somethings wrong I know. What happens when ur hockey game is canceled this week. #
- Thinking out of the box a bit here but I could build an #RMU form to allow students to update from the web, so awesome!!! http://is.gd/o9az #
- Oracle’s #PL/SQL & the #Twitter API, I love it, absolutely love it!!! (via @oracle_ace) – http://is.gd/o9az #
- Who would have guessed, the week I graduate, I’m focusing a project at work on my 2 degrees, Web & Security? Can you say “geeking out”? #
- #Pandora Station of the day – “Matthew West” – plays a nice mix of #ThirdDay, #Kutless, #PaulWright, @jeremycamp, and more! #
- Good #Web Form #Security article, covers the basics: http://bit.ly/GqanX #
- WOOOO!!! #PENS WIN!!!! #
- Am I being overcritical or is Fluery is La La Land?? #
- RT @james_shields YEEEEESSSSSS!!!!!!!! I don’t know who’s more excited me or Mrs. Malkin! #
- RT @chrislovett: Legends are born in the third period. In may. In the rain. In Pittsburgh. Go #pens. #
- #Opera’s #KFC coupon’s caused problems all over today. – http://bit.ly/IdXFg #
- See #Pens, sometimes shooting IS a good thing, wooooo now let’s go!! #
- staying positive, #Pens scored both opening goals and lost in Games 1 & 2 ……… #
- LET’S GO PENS!!! #
- #Pens fans, keep the faith! “Great Moments In Penguins vs. Capitals Playoff History” – http://is.gd/vlV6 #
- Some “Song of the Moment” action on Coram Deo, gearing up for the summertime, how about That Summer Song by Blue County – http://is.gd/msO3 #
- #Pens Fans, Gene Collier of the #PostGazette may have it just about right for us fans about going into tonight’s game 0-2 – http://bit … #
- #Pens fans, great article in the #PostGazette today by Robert Dvorchak about us fans, loyalty, & the city itself! http://bit.ly/rziX6 #
- Oklahoma’s House declares states sovereignty, wants to tell #US govt. to quit stepping out of line. – http://bit.ly/AptP3 #
- It’s a “Hockey Night it Pittsburgh!” but it’s “Always a Great Day For Hockey!!!” – http://bit.ly/HGwLe #
- Free #KFC value meal!!! – http://bit.ly/qR8I0 #
For sports fans, it’s a great time of year. We have the start of Major League Baseball, plus we’re in the midst of the NHL’s 2nd Season, the NBA Playoffs, and the PGA Tour is going full force. Unfortunately, there are spoilers out there. You know, the spoilers, the players or team affiliates giving their respective team or sport a black eye.
The Major Leagues seem to be suffering the worst. Just this week, Dodger slugger Manny Rameriz was suspended for 50 games for taking a banned substance (knowingly or unknowingly it hasn’t been determined). However, this is another bad mark on Baseball after the recent forthcoming of news of Yankee’s infielder Alex Rodriguez taking steroids.
Coram Deo has been a critic and disappointed with the illegal and/or banned steroid/druge/substance abuse in the game. However, that’s not what I want to focus on. I want to focus on the league’s themselves, especially after the NHL’s controversial play last night involving Capitals star Alexander Ovechkin and Penguins Assistant Captain Sergei Gonchar.
Give credit to the Major Leagues for suspending Manny for 50 games this season. I don’t care if he knowingly took a banned substance or not (we could go off on a tangent here about Bonds & others but ….). You’re being paid millions of dollars, please take some responsibility for what you’re taking into your body. The MLB has a list of banned substances, cross check the list, not that hard is it? If so, have your team trainer do it, or somebody else, or get a second opinion. So good for the MLB for not worrying about what player they were suspending, whether a star or not, kudos to them! Now, some will say he should be gone for life or nothing at all. That’s not my point in this post, it’s just the fact the MLB gave the suspension w/ disregard to the name on the back of the jersey.
So back to the Ovechkin – Gonchar knee-on-knee hit last night. Let me break it down for you, Gonchar went to play the puck, pushed it aside and did his best to side step a what would have been a legal body on body hit from Ovechkin. Problem is, Gonchar did one heck of a job of side-stepping ….. until Ovechkin stuck his knee out and slammed into Gonchar’s (which is illegal in all levels of hockey to the non-hockey rules familiar fan). To the refs credit, Ovechkin got 2 minutes. However, in my opinion, 2 minutes too little. The severity of that hit immediately deemed a 4 minute penalty. But I move on …. to the league now:
Watch any sports highlight show outside of Pittsburgh and every analyst says that because it was Ovechkin, he won’t be suspended. The man stuck his knee out, what do you think he was doing?! Here’s some hockey insight for you (I play, I know), when a player sticks their knee out, they’re trying to get a piece of the guy, doesn’t mean it’s right, and he got a piece of Gonchar, so much so that the man couldn’t skate off the ice under his own power! The league needs to take a page from the MLB’s rule book and suspend Ovechkin. However, I don’t think they will, they have less than 24 hours to make a ruling before the next game and Ovechkin is half the star credit the NHL has been building up w/ Crosby for this series. However, do they want some publicity? I’m thinking “yes”, so suspend him. Show all sport fans you mean business, show the players you won’t back down from cheap shots (unless their a “goon” the NHL has no problem giving suspensions), and make the Penguins – Capitals/Ovechkin – Crosby saga even better by suspending the Caps star for cheap shotting. If the Caps win without him, what does that do for the story line?! If they lose, doesn’t that boost Ovechkin’s name and increase the intensity of the saga? Not that I’m asking for a suspension just for the publicity, I’m not. I’m asking for a suspension because 1) it’s the right call and 2) I’m trying to point out the NHL’s fear of suspending a star player is unsubstantiated and moot.
So get it right NHL, take a page from MLB’s book and suspend Ovechkin, you’ll still have your intense game saga, don’t make your own cheap shot.
