"Don't Let the Door Hit Your Ankle on the Way Out"

The Peter Forsberg saga has come to and end tonight. Peter skated with his now former teamates before the Flyers/Leafs game tonight. But, by the drop of the puck Forsberg was MIA. Rumor started right away that he was traded and heading out of town.

By the first intermission it was confirmed that only the NHL needed to sign the paper work and Peter would be on the next flight out of here. The Flyers captain has been traded to the Nashville Predators

Apperently the Flyers agreed to trade Peter Forsberg to the Nashville Predators for Scottie Upshall, Ryan Parent and two draft picks. The first pick is a 1st round pick for this year. The 2nd rumored to be a 3rd round pick that the Flyers will only get if Peter stays with Nashville in the off season.

That is right the saga and drama might be over for now, but Peter could sign back with Philly during the summer. But, he could also retire and leave the game behind. Forsberg will be on a really good team now and have a chance to bring another team the cup. It would be Nashville's first ever cup.

An emotional week for the players and fans coming on the rout of the Red Wings for Keith Primeau night, and having their one time savor of the team basically abandon his team. As talented as he was, he was a poor captain. Obessed with his skate problems, he would talk about nothing else but his ankle or his skate. He rarely seemed to offer advice or chew anyone out for their play. WHen the team got down he would just drop his head on the bench and look down at the floor, or perhaps his skates. Guess thats why Sakic was always the captain. I am not sure Peter ever felt comfortable with his role.

Rumors for the new CAptain or Mike Knuble and Sami Kapanen both who signed on for a few more years with the club.

I hope these prospects pan out for the Flyers, and I guess you can't argue that they had to get something for Forsberg. But at this point, I would not want to see him return. He left his team in trumoil and I don't see why anyone would want to accept him back as the captain.From what I hear some players have quietly said if he goes, he shouldn't bother coming back. Of course others, such as Gags would likely want him back. I wonder what he said when he left the ice for warm ups.

"Have fun sucking guys, I am going to go play in the playoffs and try to get another cup!"

The Flyers will really have a ton of free money under the cap now if they decide not to bring Peter back. I know I have to pick a 2nd team now that the FLyers wont be in the playoffs. It will likely be the Penguins, and I can assure you I will be rooting for Nashsville to go out in 4 games the first round.

"Better Late Than Never"

So a few weeks ago I was lucky to get a wingbowl ticket at the last second. Yeah, I know its been almost two weeks, but I promised I would blog about it.

The night started around 2:30 am when I woke up to make it over to my friends place in Pitman. I arrived there around 3:30, and we made it to Philly at 4am.

Now I guess my mind wasn't all there at 3am when I left my house, but I didn't bother to take my gloves. It was about 24 degrees and snowing out. So, yeah that made my hands freeze, and it was hard to drink my beer in the parking lot. We stood in the parking lot for about 2 hours or so pre-gaming.

My friend's friend only have punching bag gloves for me. Despite the fact that they had the fingers cut out, it was better than nothing. Although, I clearly appeared to be looking for trouble all morning because they are punching gloves after all.

Our seats were behind the action, but we had to wait till about 7am to start drinking again, because of some stupid Philly law about not selling beer before 7am. Anyway, we were all pretty much feeling good.

Girls were flashing like crazy, but its illegal to show it on the big screen. So, you had to see them in the crowd or hope to god that a hot girl in your section was drunk enough and hated their father enough to show her bare chest to strangers.

Sadly though the girl in our section never showed us everything and was a bit of a skank. It was The best view I got were middle aged over weight women. So, yeah I guess our seats werent that great after all.

The thing that you must learn if you go to WingBowl is the the security guards will break up crowds and make the girl that is putting on the show sit down. So, just stay in your seat gentlemen. If you make a crowd, they make the girl stop and make you all sit down. Of course there wasn't much regard for rules or laws at Wing Bowl. From smoking in public places to, throwing objects onto the stage, and I would imagine under age drinking. Who cares, its Philly, its wing bowl.

The winner was one of the pros again this year, which prompted El Wingador to come out of retirement for next year. I just hope its not like when Jordan or Mario came back and were just a shell of their former self. I really hope El Wingador plays the way we remembered him when he left the sport of fat people eating wings.

The actual event was over in what seemed like a flash. It was hard to hear the people talk because the speakers in the WATCH OVER YOU center suck big time.

The after party was at Finnageans Wake in Philly. Yeah pretty much drinking all morning long. They had a buffet for like 6 bucks, and since they felt really sorry for my drunk friendthey let him eat for free.

Now he kept saying he wanted to go to strip club. I was pretty indifferent, but since my friend hooked my up with the ticket, I told him anywhere he wanted to go was fine with me. The other dude had a girlfriend and no real interest in going to a strip club and wasting his money. Eventually we talked down to one. However, my poor friend was flagged in the parking lot. I thought to myself I have never seen anyone ever flagged in a parking lot in my life. Not to mention the fact that I would only have been working for 3 hours normally.

So back to the bar we went. It got a lot crazier in there, contestants were t here and even former Eagle Hugh Douglas who was part of the Wing Bowl broadcast team. HUgh was giving free beer and t-shirts out. But at that point I was pretty much done. It was pretty much all dudes in there and I already at like two meals and was getting rid of my buzz.

So, my friend thought he caught his 2nd wind and fired us up to got to another strip club, this time he was going to "act sober" and everything was going to be "Cool". About 20 mins later he was sleeping in the car out could. At this point me and other dude kept trying to wake him up, and than we just started talking smack to see if he would wake up. Nothing. We pulled into the parking lot and considered waking him up. But he was out cold.


By 2pm I was napping with blurry memories of guys with wing sauce on their face, women flashing, and wondering how much longer I could have gone being outside without fingers falling off.


I was thankful to go again and every red blooded south jersey male should experience Wing Bowl once in their life. I plan on going for that hat trick myself.

"The Trilla in Phila"

If there is such a thing as playing a big win in the worst season in a team's history last night was just that for the Philadelphia Flyers.

Charged by the former Captain Keith Primeau who was honored last night in front of a sellout crowd the Flyers played their best game of the season. They held their own the entire game and exploded for 5 goals in the third period.

It was a loud sellout crowd and seemed like the days of old, which was bitter sweet when you realize how far down they are in the standings. It will be likely next season before we get to experience something like that again.

For the first time all season the players were smiling on the bench. Despite the good feeling of the night, the reality of the situation was clear with over ten scouts at the FLyers game all trying to check out Peter Forsberg. Many teams that will actually be in the playoffs were there to see if he still has it, and are many are interested in renting him for a cup run.

"Tucker's World Soda Can Drive"

So Pepsi is promoting the Flyers with 10 cans honoring 10 Flyer greats. I would like to collect them all if possible. So, if you are drinking a soda can and you see a dude that looks like a Flyer on it. Please drink it and save it for me. I don't even drink some of the sodas that are listed on here that will have Flyers on it. Here is the list of who is on what. What will you get out of it? Well nothing at all, just the satifaction of holding on to and empty soda can untill the next time you see me, feel free to put a comment on here when you get a can for me. You know what? Because of the likelyhood of not getting all these cans by myself. Whoever brings in the most cans gets a free dinner at Starview diner on Tucker's World. Rob, if the winner is your mortal enemy I will let you know who he or she is.

"Orange and Black Saturday"

They needed over time, but Simon Gagne lifted the Flyers to their first win on home ice since Black Friday at the Watch Over You Center last night. The Flyers knocked off the equally pathetic Saint Louis Blues when they had 4 on 3 peco power play. It was Micheal Leightons's first start and action at all as a Flyers. Leighton cliamed off waivers a month ago is likely to slide into the #2 spot if the Flyers are able to find any takers for Robert Esche at the trade deadline. This plan hit a snag with Esche having hip problems right now. Leighton had been set down to the phantoms to get his game ready. He played alright I guess. Most the goals weren't really his fault, but at the same time he wasn't anything to write home about. At any rate I hope he still gets a start this week I would like to see him in action again in hopes that we found some sort of waiver steal. The win puts the Flyers 11 points out of 29th place (out of 30) and 26 points out of a playoff berth. This is as of Sunday morning.

"Trim Spa Baby!"

I am sure all my readers have been wondering over and over again why I havent posted about the death of Anna Nicole Smith. Well, I was staying at my parents for a few days and their stupid computer doesnt work.

Anyway, Ann Nicole died earlier this week much to the joy of americans everywhere that had her in their death pool. I don't think I ever heard so many jokes cracked about someone dying when news got out around my office that she died.

Anna Nicole was truely watching a 10 year trainwreck. She started off pretty normal I guess as a Guess Jeans model. From there she went to pose for playboy and at the time was considered the hot girl. She even looked as if she was going to have some what of an acting career in a 1994 starring in movies like Naked Gun 33 1/3 and The Hudsucker Proxy. However, that didn't last when she married that old dude. From that point on she was pretty much known as that money grabbing whore that married and old dude for his money.

At this point tabolids fell in love with her. She was really the first poster girl for the 24 cable news networks and the sleazy shamless cable network shows E! that pretty much started around the time she became household name. Daily updates on what she was doing and how it effected America as if she was a really important public figure would even take up time on such "news" channels as CNN and FOX NEWS.

Later came her E! reality show, where if you ever watched it would certainly think she belonged in some sort of nuthouse or rehab rather than on tv. She was drugged up and made an ass out of herself everyweek not making any sense. She also proved what a horrible mother she was by forcing her son who had no desire to be on the show appear. I saw one show where he just begged her to stop having cameras following her around.

As for her "career" her craziness and weight gain pretty much killed it. She did straight to video flicks and guest shots on tv shows but noting more than that. Sadly her son died last fall almost exactly the way she did under a cloud of mystery.

Might sounded like a mean they died post, but really its just more about the way humanity will always be interested in the suffering of others. Certainly the media wouldn't keep us up to date on Anna if we weren't rewarding them with buying their magazines, hitting up their webpage and tv ratings would they?

"Frozen"

The current temp, out right now is 11. Thats right 11! Might not seem to cold for you midwest readers, but Its pretty damn cold for South Jersey!

Tomorrow might the coldest rush hour in well I don't know how long. Doesn't look like we get above freezing for a few days, and not by much when we finally do. Could there also be some snow next week?

"Goodbye Echelon, Hello Town Center"

The extreme makeover for the Echelon Mall begins this week. The empty J C Penny's and Sears will be torn down in the coming weeks. This will kick off the transition from the Echelon Mall to the Voorhees Town Center. The Echelon name will eventually be dropped all together from the scaled down mall.

Many of the empty stores have buisnesses just waiting to move in when the place is over hauled, and there is a new entrance made on the Macy's end. The project hopes to have the scaled down mall completed by the holiday season of this year.

In addition to the overhaul, a grocery store will be added, along with a road way to drive up to upscale shops like the failed Mainstreet concept miles away on the other side of town. There will also be high end town homes build in some of the parking areas that rarely get used now at what was the Echelon Mall.

The Voorhees Town Center also hopes to attract a bar/ dinning place and already has the liquor licence in place. The entire project should be done by late spring or early summer of 2008.

"No March of the Penguins"

What appears to be an endless NHL storyline will finally end on Friday. The city of Pittsburgh is set to announce (at least ESPN.com thinks so) tomorrow that they are going to build a new rink for the Penguins. So, after various rumors of moving the team to dumb ass places like Kansas City, it appears the Penguins will remain in Pittsburgh after all. The team was been in trouble since the late 90s and got to the point that if the city didn't help build them a new arena they would just peace out. Good news, because I love them staying where the belong, the team has a lot of history in the city. Crosby and company will stay put, it is great news for Pittsburgh and for the NHL in general.

"Wing Bowl"

Well I realized recently that not everyone knows what Wing Bowl or understands what it is. I was talked to Price about it and he acted like he was talking to a "space alien". Anyway the great philly event is held every Friday before the Superbowl.

It started 15 years ago when the morning show on 610 WIP realized that since the Eagles usually suck there is nothing ever to get excited about this time of year. So a wing eating contest was invented.

The event got bigger and bigger each year, to the point that they now have it at the arean that the Philadelphia Flyers & Sixers play. They event is huge now and they have each contestant come out dressed up usually with wingettes. They are usually just strippers promoting their various clubs and wing bowl after parties.

What is crazy is that since this is put on live radio for the morning show is the events start around 5am. So, people sit out in the parking lot and drink till the doors open. Than flood in and watch the show down bettween wing eaters.

Most the people that go are guys, but the girls that do go love being the center of attention and usually without little but some cheering flash random strangers.

The event used to be free, but since they had to turn thousands of drunks away in years past you now need a ticket. Tickets cost a mere 5 dollars and goes to some sort of charity. Who cares which one?

The event is attended by many big names in local sports and media and afterwards the city is packed full of post game parties.

I went to Wing Bowl about 5 years ago with a bunch of friends, and early this week I was lucky enough to score a ticket for Wing Bowl 15 from a friend at work.

Expect a full report sometime,um well in the future I guess.

"Groundhog Day"

Hard to imagine, but the big day is FRIDAY! Click here to get into the spirt of things. Whats everyones plans?

"Mighty Tucker Strikes Out"

So, when you are single and you have friends that are couples. Often times they give you cliche advice about dating, and meeting someone. I guess they if anyone should be the "experts" in the "game" since they are both obviously with someone.

One of my favorites is, "It happens when you aren't looking"

I don't know if I fully understood that. I mean awhile back I bought a can of soup to work for lunch. However, when noon rolled around and my belly was growling, I could not find the soup can anywhere. Checked the drawers. Nope. Under the desk. Nah. Did I leave it in the car? Apparently, not. But, its not like I would just be on the phone at my desk and my soup can would sprout legs and come walking up to me, just cause I wasn't looking. I thought maybe I left it at home but that wasn't the case either.

As much as that theory gives many single people comfort, I have to think you have to proactive, if your looking for a relationship or to get laid. You have to go out there and get it, like anything else in life. Education, good job, or and building your ideal life in general.Unfortunately, that involves you have to have balls and approach women. Have to be interesting and charming. Recently Rick and myself were at one of our local establishments that we often frequent that serves beverages of the beer type nature.I was putting on my weekly music set at the music box, when a girl came up and started talking to me. We spoke for awhile. Eventually, I returned to my bar stool with Rick.

She was there with 3 female friends and a dude. I came to the conclusion that dude was with one of the girls, but not the girl I was intersted in talking to.Over a few more beers Rick and I started discussing a course of action. I said, it is tough, because of her friends around her. The couple and the two girls started playing that shuffle board bar game behind us. The dude and the girl were closer to Rick and me. The girl of interest and her friend (who was hottest) were on the other end.

came up with a great plan, that I thought was great anyway. I figured I needed to find out here deal, like if she had a boyfriend or not. I thought about asking her one friend (who I also talked to) but they were on the same team and next to each other. I could ask the girl closer to me, but the dude might think I was hitting on his girl. So, it became obvious to me what I had to do. I had to talk to the dude. The DUDE was the key! What do I say to the guy to break the ice? I had to make sure I asked him about the girl. But at the same time, I would have to make it less awkward with small talk. I started to tell Rick, I was going to talk to the dude. You know maybe open up with sports, ask him how the saw dust shuffle board game was going. Than, be like what about your friend down there. I had to talk to this dude.


At this point Rick was saying things like:"Why would you want to talk to the dude?!?!

""Keith (Er, I mean Tucker) , your insane, I think your losing it""

It's a dude, just get some balls and talk to the girl"

So, eventually I knew what I had to do. Time it perfectly. When she went to the restroom. I would too. So, hopefully we would both walk out the door at the same time. Yeah, that didn't work, I came out before her.

But, yeah I can see how the whole wingman comparison comes into play. The bar we sat at was like our air craft carrier, and sometimes you have to peel off and get a mission done. So, thats what I did. As my wingman wished me godspeed.

However, the bad thing is, yes its actually like being in a plane. So, that means when things go horribly wrong like in a plane, there is not much you can do. Just franically bound your controls as the sirens blar and the red lights go off. Her hotter friend was nicer to me, and invited me to go with the group back to the original side of the bar. At this point it was clear that the girl either forgot who I was, or just decided to be a bitch to any guy who was talking to her. Just pretty much a one way conversation. I may have trouble reading girls sometime, but it was clear the plane had been hit, and I was going down in flames.

The smoke poured out of the back of the plane there was no way I could make it back safely to rejoin my wingman. I had to land. Luckily, when I turned around my friend Allen was there playing pool, so it was almost a seemingless turn around to him. So, I shot the breeze with him for like 15 mins, and acted as if I cared about his pool game.

Yeah I crashed and burned, but thats what you have to do sometimes I guess. Girls don't just come easily. Better get shot down than kick myself for not talking to the girl (I have had tons of those nights) and learn from your mistakes. You always have to be on the look out, though for your chance.So, eventually I got back to the aircraft carrier. My wing man gave me a moral victory speech and that was that.

But, thats the game of being single. You have to play it. Even when you get past the first stage. THere is the whole how long do you wait to call the girl stage, the who is winning the phone call count game..etc..A few days later after my cell phone went flying in my car when I had to slam on my breaks. I started looking for it in my car when I got home for my cell phone. When I reached under the driver's seat I found the soup can.

"Signs of Life"

My God! Good news fans, the Flyers are showing signs of life for the first time in weeks. As a matter of fact they appear to be beating the crap out of each other. It looks like Todd Fedoruk is trying to hit Joni Pitkanen, and why not, everyone else in the league is. Fedoruk swings and misses. I don't know Monte it looks like Fedoruk is carrying his left a little low. This could hurt him in the later rounds.


Yeah, Todd "The Fridge" Fedourk hit lazy d-man Joni Pitkanen in the kisser during practice at the SKATEZONE earlier this week. Double points to catch what movie reference that was.

"Mean Streets"

Philly got out of hand this past year, and Mayor John Street didn't seem to care. We were narrowly beat by Detorit last year as far as murders. Also, it is kind of hard to say it was just one section of Philly. Check this link out with all the murders last year.

Its actually a really good break down on what happened. It gives you locations, although all the red dots the mark bloodshed might make it hard to read the words. You can sort, by sex, age time of day, and even what objects were used, which were mainly guns.

Mayor Street gave a press conf. on New Years all proud that the counter had been set to zero again. As, if he solved anything. A week before he was firing back at other city workers, basically saying they aren't doing anything about it. They blasted back saying he his the mayor and should be telling them what to do. It was a battle of the egos, but no one cared it seemed about trying to stop the killings.

Street, doesn't care too much because he can't run again. Even if he did, I am sure he would win, because the democrats have convinced many people that they are the people party. Certainly, not in this case given the fact almost all of his staff were crooks. He is either the most bumbling mayor who can't figure out all the stuff that goes on under his nose, or the most protected corrupt mayor who has his soliders protect him.

"Rise & Fall"

So if you looked at the Philly Skyline recently, you might have noticed there is something rather large in the middle of center city. Well, that is the frame of the soon to be finnished Comcast Tower. It will be the biggest building in all of Philly. I can actually see it down the street from my apartment where you can see the whole skyline.

Here is what it will look like when it is done. RIght now, its not too much to look at just the frame of a building, but its already taller than One Liberty.

Now a recent article I read about the Curse of William Penn, pointed out something I never heard before. I didn't validate this but it claimed there are actually 7 buildings bigger than William Penn. The Philly teams since 1983, when the law to not build anything bigger than William Penn was over turned have gone to the finals and lost a combined 7 times. A building for each heart breaking defeat in the finals. Could this mean the Phils will lose in the World Series this fall? Will the fall into the same fate as the others? Is this rise of this building going to make the Phils fall short? The current time table is actually this fall for the tower to be totally done. Only William Penn knows for sure. Well, also Doc Brown, what with that time machine and all.

"NEW SOPRANOS TEASER"

Its very simple, but has got me fired up for the end of the show. It shows Tony standing at the bank of a river. There is audio from all the first 6 seasons. Great lines.

"Are you in the Mafia?" Meadow

"I want what I am entitled to" Carmela

"I AM A MADE GUYYYYYYYYYYYY!" Ralphie

"Not in the face" Pussy

"....My little nephew...." Uncle Junior


many more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33Zg1Q_WFVg

"Tucker's Banana Plant Oct 1,2006- Jan. 15th 2007"

Rip seems just like yesterday. Sorry, I forgot to water you for like a week and you didn't get any sun where you were at. Sorry, buddy. RIP

"MLK"

"One Crazy Mother Blogger"

Jenna is back in the blogging business. And by business I mean killing time by writing stuff and not getting paid for it.

Anyway, look like Jenna's blog will have a different tone to it. This time focused more on being a mother and all that stuff. That should be a good read, since my life is about as similar to a "single mother" as it is to a "space alien".

I was alarmed to read that she was cheating on my best friend with a guy named Mason. But by the time I finished jugging my beer in order to empty it and use it as a weapon against the woman who betrayed my best friend I realized it might actually be the same guy.

So, what can we learn from this blog? Perhaps tips on life after one of our condoms breaks? Maybe readers will be so horrified that they will never want to have sex again. Honestly, parenthood to my is like this total mystery. How people do it.

I can only hope that I can return the favor. She could learn the life of a bachelor. Like how to determine what old food in fridge is actually making that awful smell. Or how happens when you drank the last beer and your too drunk or lazy to drive to the liquor store. She may have a blog about how kids keep you from sleeping at night. But what about if you get really into a playstation game, or want to watch just one more Sopranos DVD before bed, is it worth the hour or so less of sleep for the night? Also, where all the damn bitches at?

Now poor "Mason" might be hit in the balls by his son. But, today I wondered to myself, what if I was hurt in my apartment? I don't really have any "pop in friends" and I am constantly losing my cell phone. So, there is a good chance a domestic accident could lead to an early grave. For instance today I was putting my groceries away. I was leaning down packing in the breakfast cereal, but I forgot to close the cabinet door above me where I store plates and drink stuff. So, I cracked my noggin really good on it. As I lay there cursing in my empty apartment laying on the floor flopping around in pain, I thought to myself two things.

First, how come on tv and movies people get knocked out so easily. If I was in a movie or tv show I would be out cold for like 30 mins. Second, what if I really knocked myself out. I would pretty much be laying there for awhile it wasn't the real world. I have the bump on my head to prove it.

I laid there with cartoon birds flying around my head. I thought to myself. I guess that's why people needs a significant others in their lives. Not only for her to give me anotherum, lets say stress reief outlet on a regular basis, so I don't have to wonder if my causal drinking has slid over to "problem" status or not. But, to say, hey jackass, your gonna crack your melon before it's too late.

"4th & 15"

Well the Philadelphia Eagles fell short Saturday night. So, the championship drought continues. Now, I am no expert in football by any means. But, I really thought that they should have gone for it on one of the final plays of the night. Down by a field goal, I figured they had nothing to lose when it was 4th and 15. Now normally you wouldn't do that but the amount of time left, wouldnt give them much of a shot to stop the running game of NO and run down the field again. I mean, yeah they may not have been able to get the first down, but at that point they had a better shot of that than preventing the Saints from cutting their throats altogether. I don't know.

I would like my readers that know a bit more about football to weigh in on what they think Andy Reid should have done.

Its over now, but at least they made it interesting. As they say around here. There is always next year! Bring on the phils.