"Of Leafs & Men"

The Flyers are starting to fall into the annual curse of not being able to score more than one goal in a game. What looked like a short series with the Flyers up 2-0 go flip turned upside down when the Leafs came out on fire in Game 3 and the Flyers have yet to find a way to put it out. The Flyers have been the Maples Leaf’s little bitch from that point on, and allowed the Leafs to bounce them around like bocce balls. Every Flyer played most notabely Brasher and Recchi have spent the better half of the past two games on their belly’s with their helmets dangling off after being crushed against the boards.

Meanwhile JR seems out of sorts and one if he is seeing stars again from his major injury during the regular season. Once in the offensive zone JR the last two games he has seemed confused and intimidated and coughed the puck up an alarming amount of times. Handzeus has appeared as if he is skating through mud. Of course that could be said about most of the Orange and Black the past few days. Now the lead has been erased and it’s a best of 3 series.

The Flyers take it back to Philly tomorrow (Sunday) and really need the fans behind them. I am not saying its time to melt the ice for the season (or forever pending hockey Armageddon) but its certainly time for concern. Hopefully the Flyers can black out the past two games as if they never happened. It is time to just give it the old Sporty Jones spirit and step it up.

All the Flyers are being outplayed with the exception of Robert Esche who has had to stand on his head to keep the games at respectable scores. The Leafs have been free to toss everything and the kitchen sink at the Flyers net-minder. On the other end of the ice the Flyers remind my of an old hockey computer game that I used to have when a glitch would occur. For some two forwards are going so deep that they are spending most of the time dilly dallying behind Eddie the Eagle. Since even the Great One only scored a few goals in his entire career maybe that isn’t the best position to be in to put the puck in the net. Meanwhile the third man in is too deep in the goalies face that he could practically has his nose against the Maple Leaf logo. How the hell are you going to score a goal when you have almost no room to move your stick, while your line mates never bother to utilized the face off circles or the slots to any degree? So many stupid plays.

Now the player I have the biggest beef with is John Lecalir. Some people still love him though I remember Alyssa’s ex-boyfriend Anthony used to say how great he was, and I would argue that his post season performances were constantly sub-par. For years he would use his bad back as a crutch, but the last two seasons John Leclair has seemed healthy to me. So that excuse is out the window.

Leclair is for lack of a better word , useless. Including the last the last series when everyone and their dachshund were racking up points against the Devils, John Leclair has one assist in 9 post season games. ONE ASSIST!!!!!!!! For a guy making 9 million a season it’s an understatement to say he has to step it up. At least you hear Recchi and JR’s name several times during the game; I haven’t heard Leclair’s name once this entire series. The only evidence he has to prove he played at all recently was the dumb penalty he took. You might as well dress Peter White with kind of production you are getting from this sad sack. Every post-season Leclair does a disappearing act. Sadly with the money he makes Hitch will likely never bench him even though he should, so we are doomed to have this roster spot wasted for the remanding playoff games. Leclair has no heart and knows we can’t trade him ever and will get his 9 million dollars, not to mention amble ice time even if he stands at center ice and starts doing the triple axles for no apparent reason. Did I mention he sucks?

So the Flyers have overcame the Demons from north jersey. Now its time to shake the spring time zombie syndrome that have the Flyers looking like the walking dead every time they are about to be sent out to the golf course for the summer. Time to over come this like men. Don’t give up Flyers fans, but remember who ever wins this game 5 is likely going to win the entire series. Tomorrow the Flyers get take a step forward to everyone I can think of getting R-rated angry emails full of frustration or a step towards a parade down broad street. I will be having my fingers crossed the rest of the series and the other hand on the caps lock.

"Live From the Vault"

I have recently come to the conclusion that I don't see myself being able to call the new home of the Phillies the Citizens Bank Park everytime I reference it. That is what I miss most about Veteran's Stadium is the brevity of the nickname. So I am going to jump on the move to give it our own name. I'm going with the front runner that I happened to also like the best and refer to the ballpark as the Vault.

Also the home the Eagles Lincoln Financial I will continue to spell the name of the stadium's name "The Link" with a K instead of a "C" so farther distance it from its company name. No offense to Jenna or any of the fine people of Lincoln Finacal.

"Tucker & Mindless"

Well I hate to turn Tucker’s World into a dear diary, but I feel like I want to address my fellow blogger Jenna who writes Jenna & Mindless. I would also like to apologize for the lack of posts for the last week or so, and invite my readers to come back this weekend for what should be a heavy blogging weekend.

Anyway I have some readers who don’t read the crew blog, but so I didn’t want to drag them into the “hot water” that I got into a few weeks ago that put my friend ship with Lima Beanz and Jenna on the rocks. After Lima Beanz posted about his experience in a luxury box for the Flyers with some of the tax money that Jenna received for having a son. I commented the following

“I can't afford to go they tax too much money out of my paycheck to support other people’s children.

Hopefully I will get a better job soon so more money can be hijacked and you can be part of the HOME ICE advantage.

I never really got the expression "It Takes a Village" till recently.”

Okay it may have been in bad taste, but it wasn’t anywhere near as bad as the insults that I have gotten from Jay over the years on the (gasp) internet. He has called me all kinds of nasty names and it was usually just over differences in politics. I mean come on Lima Beanz has a long track record of saying horrible things to people including his own girlfriend.

It was mostly meant as a joke partly about how many taxes were taken out of my wages, and it was riff of how they decided to spend their money. It was also advice that maybe they should be wiser with their money. You can argue that wasn’t any of my business, but that’s what friends are for to try to make people from doing stuff that will hurt them in the long run right? Wasn’t it Jenna that wanted me to stick upf for her when she thought Jay was pissing baby money away on Vet seats? Jenna now has a part time job, but didn’t at the time. After that I was slammed and cursed out and called an idiot in addition to physical threats.

It was over the top sarcastic like always; no different than Dan spending his cash on 5 computers, yet still making Jessica split the rent. Things got out of hand, and recently Jay offered me an olive branch. That was cool and all, but I really didn’t need it since I would have no problem with hanging out with Jay or Jenna at all. In fact I hung out with Jay a few days after the fact at Sharkey’s. However whenever conversation flowed down the table (we were at opposite ends) Jay would look in the other direction. I addressed the entire table including Jay, but he was unresponsive. Let me just say, that I am sick of talking about something I posted a month ago. So I am never posted about that comment again. Jay and I are past this I thought, why isn’t Jenna?


This past weekend the crew war broke out. Again I wasn’t there, but Lima Beanz supposedly made ethnic slurs about Duke’s girlfriend who is 100 percent Italian. I gave my readers a heads up to read what I knew was going to provide entertainment for the likes of Tom, Ed, Etc..

Anyway summed up the Crew War which can still be read I guess she thought was slanted against her. Well yeah, Duke and Monica clearly said worse things. But what do you expect after you tell Duke he has no balls and should dump his girlfriend on top of calling her a crazy bitch? Not to mention that the title of the article implied that the Crew had officially fallen. Jenna got upset that I said I called her every name in the book. Okay if you want to quibble it was 3, but there is not really a book so what the heck is she talking about?

I didn’t really state a side on the issue, but I most people read into it. I would need to understand Jenna’s side of it more I guess. Maybe I’m missing something but how I pieced together, but its confirmed that Jay used a slur that upset Monica. Period. They had from what I told a half kidding/serious conversation about Cezchs. (Lima Beanz’s background) versus Italians. Monica and Duke left not long after that, perhaps to avoid a public display of emotion. It was clear that Monica was upset by he comments. A reasonable amount of time passed for Jay to say he was sorry. It never happened.

Then Jenna told Monica she was a bitch and the downfall of the crew. Did I miss something? Jay admitted using the term, and if he didn’t realize it would offend her, I guess I can understand. However I don’t think he would make slurs against Steve Hanna’s girlfriend who is aisan. It clearly upset her (he knew this), and Monica at the time hadn’t said anything (that I know of ) nasty in return to either Jay or Jenna. All of the sudden Jenna who heard the incident via a third party comes out swinging calling her a few names. Of course Monica and Jamie’s post were going to be nastier in less than 12 hours Monica was called a couple of slurs, crazy and a bitch. I doubt anyone’s retaliation would involve a mathematical equation to figure out how many nasty words should be included.

Maybe she overacted? How many times did Jenna stomp out of Duke's apartment and slam the door after Jay upset her? Eventually she would return if Jay said sorry or not. Just two different girls dealing with it differently. We all remember the soda remark Jay made about Jenna most guys would have slapped Jay after that! Jenna admits she can't stay mad at Jay, which is a good thing in away. Chalk it up to girls being girls if you really want.

Many years ago the crew in the golden years there was a running joke about Price being Wican. It was fair game however one night I took things too far. I honestly don’t recall what was said. The next day Price came into Shoprite where I worked and told me that the comments had to stop and he was hurt but whatever it was I said. I was a little surprised it being in the Dan K era where all we did was roast each other for hours on end, but I understood. It was never and issue again. Most people don’t even remember it. There was no defending what I said if it hurt Price, so we put it behind us that very night. Now if I went on the internet and called Price a c**sucker or crazy a**hole (have to bleep out FCC regulations) I doubt we would be friends anymore. So maybe with that said I am on Duke’s side who is also my friend (who I knew years earlier) because without that blog post it wouldn’t have gotten to this level. It was like trying to put a flame out with a can of gas. I have remained friends with SO many people on other sides...ex Jay and Dan, Jay and Rob, Jay and Jenna.

Jenna and I have been friends since were in junior high. My record for taking her side is like 81 Jenna 1 Other people. She just posted that our friendship is apparently over. Over because of a hyperhole. I put my neck on the line and did major damage to the relationship with me and someone who is like a brother to me in defense of her. I stood up for Jenna more times than she will EVER know. Jenna might be able to blindly take sides knowing deep down inside she is wrong, but I can’t even it upsets that person. Sorry, I just don’t see why she wouldn’t want to be my friend if I think that you over stepped your bounds. If you want to quibble over how many nasty names it takes to fill a book, that is just a waste of my time. It was just an expression


I will not post anymore about its clearly time to turn the page in the book of my own life.

"Crew War"

"The Crew War"

Some of my readers never read the crew blog. So if you were ever going to now is the time. The Crew seems like is has officially died just read all the nasty stuff that started when Lima Beanz supposedly made ethnic slurs about Italians that Duke's gf didn't like.

I wasn't there so I can't really say. But I can sum up what happened on the crew blog. Jenna (who actually wasn't there either) slammed Monica (dukes gf) who is Italian and the first of her family to be born in the states. She said Monica was making too big deal of the slur which apparently was only directed at her nationality and not her. She called her a bitch and every nasty name in the book. She called her crazy and blamed her for ripping the crew apart.

Monica and Duke fired back at Jay and Jenna. Jay made more ethnic slurs, and pretty much all hell broke loose on the crew blog.

What transpired could likely have been avoided if an apology had been issued. Would have been a lot easier. However after reading Jenna's post which did the opposite going on the offensive it was clear it was a flat out declaration of war. Things just got really ugly.

Of course I wasn't there so I really can't say much. However it looks pretty certain that the crew is officially dead. Too bad I didn't include the Crew in my internet death pool.

note to readers:

In Jenna's post she doesn't include Price as a crew member. Also Dan and Allen were original members.

"No Room On the Hill"

For those of you that haven't heard by now I switched jobs a few weeks back and now work in downtown Cherry Hill. The office building where I work isn't all that far from my house. The ride up really only takes about 20 minutes sometimes less, but usually 20 mins.

Riding back is another story, since I seem to get out at the same time every other person that works in 5 mile radius gets out.( Although I do work two staggered shifts).
Anyway what used to be the Garden State Race Track is being worked over to pave the way for more office buildings, shops, and maybe even apartments. The race track was located right near where I work.

Now its a real shame first off that the racetrack went the way of the IHL (two people got that). What makes it worse is that the town of Cherry Hill is either so greedy for money they will get for more businesses or just plain out stupid.

Figure that the office buildings will likely be highrises with several companies and floors. Just in one tower alone its going to be another 1,000 people on the road at least. Another 1,000 cars on a horrfically over used section of Route 70. Since so much of this area of South Jersey is employed in that area (cedent mortgage isn't far either which employees most people in the area than other company) route 70 is an absolute mess. The different streets, like Kingshwy, Burnt Mill Road, Haddonfeild Berlin Road..etc..are all way over jammed from the spill over of people coming off Route 70.

How can the state allow this? This area of the state is not only having horrific traffic problems,but many of the highways are in poor shape. There is times where there is literally is no where for these cars to go and you don't move through intersections. You just sit there.

Now add on at LEAST another 1,000 drivers (that is really a low est.) to the same area and you turn a problem into a disaster. What in God's names are they thinking? The area of South Jersey simply can not take it. It literally took me 50 mins to get home the other day from a place that is less than 15 miles from my house.

What does my state have to be so brain dead on transportation? Oh sorry I forgot about the Riverline.

Sopranos Wrap-Up

Sorry this is so late,but hopefully people check this before the new one airs. Sorry about not getting one up last week at all. It has been a hetic couple of weeks for me.

I defended the Sopranos all last season when people told me the show sucked. I thought it was pretty interesting during season 4. However there is no defending last week's show which was easily the lamest episode they ever made.

The plot involved Tony meeting up with one of this father's ex-girlfriends who was pretty colorful. Well okay so she was just a money hungry slut who according to her had a brief fling with JFK. The entire storyline was utterly worthless (not to mention a tad confusing) nothing new was revealed in the stories to Tony about his father's life. We already knew his father was unfaithful and his mother was a bitch. We got to see how Tony was a pawn in their relationship, but it was clear that Tony always took his father's side.

The direction of last week was fairly flawed. We aren't really given a reason why Tony's impression of this woman changes from minute to minute. The only thing I can gather is maybe he realized his mother was only a bitch because his father was terribly dishonest with her. So he tried to really like this woman that Johnny (Tony's father) decided to spend more time with for years than his own wife. Maybe making Carmella miserable would pass on the headaches to his children. That would explain why he blew her out of proportion to his friends at the end.

The other plotline involved Christopher having to put his business first over his friendship with a rehab friend who owed him money. It was the same basic plot we have seen before mobster gives someone a chance to make money, and eventaully has to resort to volience to get their owe. This was different because Chris was friends with the guy, but than again we saw Tony go through this an entire season with Robert Patrick's character. Chris' friend played by Tim Daly (2 pts for being a Wing alumni, and 2 extra points for being a Diner cast member) provided some laughs when he was at his meetings, and again when trying to sell the emmy. However maybe they should have just introduced him earlier in the season so there would have been more drama there instead of making it just seem like a guest star's storyline.

The third plotline had a bored Junior trying to get out of the house by attending and funnerals he could.

All and all it was pretty much a yawner of a show. I havent talked to anyone who actually like this past week's show.