Worseday

[captainsblog]

Even an honorable non-drinking-type holiday like MLK Day has its hangover, as the rest of the week gets shoved into the brain compactor. On that first workday of this week, I saw a great way to put it from the always well-spoken troubleagain, who termed it "Tonday."  That worked, so I took the concept and ran it out. Yesterday would be Woozeday, today becomes Worseday, but tomorrow remains Friday.  You don't mess with the Friday.

I had pretty wicked insomnia around 2-3 a.m., so I got the obligatory glass of milk and stayed up reading what there was to read at that hour. Which, for the most part, is everything there is to read at this hour.  On the sprots pages, though, I was confused. The Sabres had a game against the Kings last night, and the local fishwrap had nothing about it online. Not even a wire service report. Damn dying newspapers, laying off reporters and night editors to update the website. What WAS the score, anyway?

0-0, you moron. They play in L.A. tonight.

Oh. My bad.

"Bad" is hardly the word to describe how they've been playing, though. Four games into a seven-game cross-country road trip, they've claimed seven of the eight possible points and are just two points behind San Jose for the Presidents Trophy lead (if you even up the games in hand). Despite no big-money signings over the summer, they've brought up some kids who are lighting up the ice, if not the actual lamp, just about every night. They've come back from major deficits and held once-leaky leads with alarming regularity.

Despite all that, half of the local population is bitching about them, and 95 percent of the national sports community doesn't give a flying puck about them, or anything else in the sport.

Your loss, hosers. We're hardly losing any of them nowadays.

Comments

[troubleagain.livejournal.com]

"Woozeday" and "Worseday" work for me! I get so confused....

[headbanger118.livejournal.com]

Whoops! Fear not, I've lost more than one game of my teams on the schedule.

Glad to hear that the Sabres are having a good run. That counts in the "Win" column, even if it's not covered by the media.