Hockey seasons will have their ups and downs. For whatever reason, be it injuries, a challenging schedule, an inexplicable loss of form, it is difficult for teams to maintain a good level of compete for an entire season. The good teams just limit their funks. The St. Louis Blues, however, are not a good team. They are a poor team, and poor teams sink under the weight of "here we go again" night after night. I will admit I only watched the first two periods of last night's 5-0 loss to a Colorado team that had been scuffling of late. Two periods were more than enough to get the gist of it. It was also enough to lead me to a diagnosis as to what ails the team. It isn't that they are young and are going through growing pains. No, the reason the Blues are so bad is that the veterans who are being paid to be the backbone of this team are not doing their jobs. I'm talking about Schenn, Buchnevich, Faulk, and even Binnington and Parayko. Over $30M of the salary cap is b...
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Ah, but the porn/sports analogies can go on forever-
"Like a soon-to-be-unemployed porn actor, we scored too early, and couldn't duplicate our success."
"A good running back is a lot like a female porn star- you want to use them a lot, but the wear and tear takes it toll."
"Substituting quarterbacks is the equivalent of bringing in a stunt c**k- you have to make the switch at just the right time."
But my favorites are the double entrendes never seem to stop:
"The coach gave him a much-desired blow." Possibly my all time favorite because it's used so much-I turn into freakin' Beavis and Butthead "heh heh, he said blow."
"We shot too early"
"You want to get the tight end into the right position."
And just for you Southlandish,
"We really took it on the chin today."