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This pic is to trick non-hockey females into reading this article.
Sid the Kid pulled it off last night. Love him as the Next Great One or revile him as an over-hyped, high-sticking, privileged shitbird, he came through for Canada giving them the gold on the last night of home soil Winter Games in OT. All of Canada is celebrating. Like, I feel sure there are toddlers with a bit of whiskey in their sippy cups this morning.
He is now and forever in Canada’s hockey canon. Pretty heady stuff for a 22-year-old guy. Maybe now he will move out of Mario Lemieux’s basement. That was a cheap shot; I think it’s kinda cool he is under his roof. I hope having adult supervision keeps him out of the sort of ridiculous trouble so many young superstars get into. Stay gold, Ponyboy.
A rough video of the winning goal after the jump if you haven’t see it already. And, if you haven’t, then I know you’re not a Canuck in your heart or your geography.* That’s okay. We can still be friends.
I mean completely bought. According to their website, the Charlotte Bobcats said:
Jordan agrees to become Bobcats Majority Owner
Now I use the term ‘my team’ loosely. I have been a Celtics fan forever except when I rooted for any team that Xavier McDaniel played for. I guess it seems like having the best player of all time own the team would be a really good idea. But MJ has been making all the basketball decisions for a while now and they still suck. I mean, if I had the choice between Michael Jordan and… Warren Buffet I would pick Michael Jordan. I guess? I dunno now. Hmm.
I mean, I would hire George Clooney to be in my movie. But just because he is a good actor doesn’t mean that he would be good at owning the studio. And I wouldn’t want a garbage man to run my garbage collection company. Well, maybe I would if he smoked a stubby cigar and had other colorful traits. But other than that, meh. So here’s the video of him and Larry Bird playing Horse for a Big Mac. Why? Cause where do you think MJ got the money to buy the team?
Oh and uh…he has a gold medal now, too. About damn time, that maddening, fascinating, iconoclastic genius athlete.
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So the person above is an Olympic athlete. She is in Vancouver right now. On our team. What sport does she play? Ice Boxing? Kangaroo sliding? Mountain Climbing? Mountain Falling?
Take your guesses. First one who is right wins me saying they are right!
Trish Stratus was in the WWE in the late 90's early 2000's. She left to pursue other opportunities in Hollywood. Have you seen her lately? No? That's called failing.
This next video is gonna tell you some neat things about failing. And there are some cute anecdotes in there and the message is worthwhile. But it doesn’t really tell the whole story. Cause there are plenty of failures that will not really make you wiser. Here are some examples:
- John Denver
- Amelia Earhart
- New Coke
Anyway – make sure you temper your trying with some kind of ‘doing easy shit that it will be hard to fail at’. Oh, and don’t confuse being able to do something with automatically making that thing a good idea. We are all ABLE to fill our washing machines with cement, or switch our regular brand of toothpaste with a mixture of bleach and poop. But that’s not a good idea. And the little video down there doesn’t show all the people who got very good advice and went on to other things before they embarrassed themselves.
And before I FINALLY show you the video – take a look at Jenny Heil over there on the left. She is a Mogul Skier for Canada. She was the favorite to be the first Canadian to win an Olympic gold medal IN Canada. But last night she lost. She got Mogul Sandwiched by two Americans and ended up with the silver medal.
Did she fail? Yes. Will people say that a silver medal is awesome? Yes, and they are right. Except she didn’t win the gold. And she didn’t become the first whatever whatever. So she failed. Did she succeed compared to you? Sure. But she doesn’t compare herself to you, tubby. She compares herself to other world class Mogul Skiers (which seems stupid but ok). So she will look at her silver medal, the same medal that we would all be whacking off over, and say fuck.
Ungrateful Canadian. Oh, and there’s a video after the jump. I forgot about the video.
