"Roenick Rocks"

JR will be returning to Philly for the last time in less than two weeks. Unless of course Philly and San Jose face off in the finals. Most people thought that was no shot of this ever happening. Roenick a fan fav while in Philly, was ousted the season after the lockout to make room for Peter Forsberg. While the Flyers had huge problems (out in the first round, and worst season ever during the Foppa era) JR had it worse. Fans and teamates turned on JR in LA, and so did the coach, he was pissed his body wasn't what it was. It didn't help that he came to training camp out of shape. The year after that he returned to PHoenix, where he played before Philly. Things got worse there, and he became a joke. ESPN.com had article slamming his poor play, and his fall out with "The Great One". All Flyers fans and JR fans should read this article though. How Roenick has turned it around after hitting rock bottom. Now a member of the Sharks, JR has a new lease on life. Although, he wont win any scoring race (he is one point shy of 20), he does have 5 game winning goals, and is making the best of what is likely his final cup run. Can't wait to welcome JR back to philly in a few weeks, price and I will be at the game!

"Terminus Dead?"

Drew's blog seems to be gone. Either he has a girlfriend and has better things to do with his time now or he is dead. I text messaged him when I saw his blog was down, but got no response. People want to know what he thinks of Super Tuesday. He must be dead. Maybe Bush had him shut down or something.

I plan to stand outside his window with a boom box playing "In Your Eyes" till he starts blogging again. Drew, how could you ever leave us like this?

FOPPA BACK TO PHILLY?!?!

PEter Forsberg could be coming back to Philly, which would make Gags happy to have his man crush back.

Soon, we will know if you can take the Jersey out of the closet and put on your orange and black crocs.

"obama Mania!"

"Whacky Players"

Looks like OVECHKIN got Crosby again!

dr katz

Found this clip and have been laughing about it for about 10 mins now. I am netflixing Dr. Katz right now. The entire series is now out on DVD. I loved this show, I wish Comedy Central was still good. The late 90s-early zeros were a golden age in comedy on tv.

"Our James Dean?"

People are already comparing him to River Pheonix and James Dean. Dying at the young age of 28, he is likely to become a legend now. Do a google image of his name to see some cool Joker pictures, but of course now the movie will have a dark cloud around it. Don't know all the details of his death, but I am cutting and pasting something from IMBD. I wonder if they will take it down sometime soon, so I am posting it.
The Joker's character is based on his first two appearances in the comic books, as well as his portrayal in the graphic novel "The Killing Joke." To prepare for the role, Heath Ledger lived alone in a hotel room for a month researching the character and developing his performance, which he claims is based upon Sid Vicious and the character of Alex in A Clockwork Orange (1971). Ledger found the role extremely difficult, and suffered insomnia as a result.

"4 Pete's Sake"

Hey, I am back and likely to be blogging a lot again. I was going to write about why I think we should just let Forsberg stay over in Sweden, but someone else wrote a really good article about it. Seriously, Gags is all grown up and no longer needs him. Check out this article.

"Damnit Hatcher"

This is from Saturday's game if you missed it.


Okay first off this about as fast as I have seen Hatcher skate since we got him. Hatch apperently had a beef with Steen on the leafs. So, he goes to level him.

Steen sort of senses the large man gunning for him and sort of ducks.

On the other side of Steen is Joffrey Lupul. No, it could not have been Rote, or better yet Fitzpatrick it is the player who played the best hockey in December.

Luppy didn't see it coming and his helmet pops off and he cracks his melon on the ice. After that Hatch lands on him.

Luppy seemed to think he was on Mars after that and messed up his spin and has a "minor concussion" of course so did Gagne and he has missed about 25 straight games now.

Its very unlikely that Lupul
will return to pre-injury form. On top of that Kappy got his face messed up.
So,
No Uppy
No Kappy
No Gator

No Gags

No Rathje because he flat out refuses to retire, and is still on our roster.
and No Luupy.

I am glad they won on Saturday though, they have to keep it up and hold the fort down till the others get back.

"Game Over"

I never had a video game system growing up, so I was always a bit behind the times with video games. Many years after it was new the kid I grew up with that lived across the street broke out his old Nintendo game system. One game we played over and over again was RBI 3. One of the best baseball games ever made.

Many years later when Duke had the Central headquarters in Hi-nella that was all used as a meeting place, Jay knocked the dust of his old Nintendo and brought it over. He brought it over with many other games. I was excited to play those games, because I prefer them over the beat the hooker and smash up car games they would usually play.

I was so fired up that I went to gamestop and picked up RBI 3 and Superman. Superman, I picked up because I thought it was the arcade game I played in the town bowling alley many years ago. It wasn't. Actually, the game was pretty awful. It was huge effort to make SUperman fly. In fact I mostly ran around as Clark Kent which is kind of lame. PLus peoples punches hurt me which makes no sense being the man of steal and all.

RBI 3, on the other hand was awesome. I brought it over there and we had a blast playing it. Jay would get mad and toss it across the room, which was always funny. I loved it.

I figure since I didn't have the game system I would leave both games there for all to play. That that did I am pretty sure.

One day I realized they were gone. I had no idea what happened to them. This was upsetting because my girlfriend at the time gave me her Nintendo from back in the day. That game system I even brought with me when I moved out of my parents. It sad it my closet all this time here at my apartment. Waiting and hoping the games would return to the rightful owner.

I figure it was some sort of conspiracy against me. Mosco had just been in town and when he left it was around the time the games vanished. I accused him for taking them with him. Thinking the joke would end when I he game back in town again. Everyone after awhile kept saying it was not Mosco. So, I began to suspect Duke's cleaning lady. Yes, I realize the odds of her ONLY stealing my two games were pretty slim. NOt to mention, unlikely that a cleaning lady would have a use for two, twenty year old video games.

However, where the hell us could they go? Their whereabouts haunted me for years. I wanted to find the truth. Everyone said they had no idea what happened. Then eventually some hints were dropped that people did actually know the location of the games. As recently as this summer I had asked Duke about the games. He said he didn't know. But they likely were never coming back. I swore it was john. All these years. Teasing me. Having the games on the west coast, and perhaps knocking the ball out of the park when ever he pleased. Having his friends come over and have RBI 3 tournaments.

This past Christmas eve, my quest came to a close. At least I was told a version of the story what happened to RBI 3 and SUperman. When I did I was shocked, and felt almost empty knowing neither game would ever find their way back to my hands. Apparently, when Duke moved he nonchalantly tossed them in the trash. No care in the world. No remorse. No warning. No reason at all. Perhaps hatred toward everything pure and fair in the world was the reason? To remove a piece of my soul? To send me on endless quest?

It was revealed to me (likely cause duke moved to Flordia for ever and ever) that Duke had thrown them in the dumpster. Apparently, everyone knew this for years. Even former Flyer Dave Brown's niece knew before me, and I had just met that night. She was even laughing about it. So, there it is. You see Jenna's co-workers mother's/friends/cousin's former roomate was Dave Brown which some how makes him Uncle Brownie to her. RBI and Superman were taken from my life, as quickly as they arrived. My Nintendo sits in the closet with no use at all. I can only hope that karma comes back to haunt DUke one day and two things that he has end up in the garbage. PErhaps someone picked it out of the dump and are lofting homers into the cheering stands RBI 3 style.

"Iowa by the Numbers"

They held up ears of corn. They went to peoples house and had coffee and some other people from another house talked about the candidates. Than there was a Talent show, followed by each candidate doing a turn on the catwalk. Here is what you were waiting for. The results!


Obama 75 points

Edwards 43 points

Clinton 25 points



Rudy 45 points

McCaine 53 points.

Huckabee 72 points.

The Guy WHo Played Benson 20 points

"01/01/08"

Today is a new day, a new year. Forget how ugly things could get in an election year, gas prices, war, etc....today or at least for the next 3mins 18secs.

Enjoy watching Kermit singing in a swamp. Singing all full of hope.

"I will be with Dreeeeeew Again"

I recall listening to this song about 10 times on the way to Drews in New Brunsick one year. Also, that whatever year it was, after I had missed the ball drop the year before. I was paranoid somehow I would miss it again. My friends got joy out of me fear and wanted to thwart me seeing it again that year too by picking me up and putting me on Drew's porch so I could not watch the ball drop.

This is a live performance of U2's New Years Day. Friggin' awesome U2 rocks. This is from some random concert in the windy city. Can't be New Years for me unless I hear this song and watch "The Hudsucker Proxy".

"The Gift"

This has become a yearly thing for Tucker's World. To be honest I don't even recall how many years I have posted this. But people expect it now, and its kind of nice to have a yearly Christmas post. Just to answer the questions before they are asked, although its not a true story, its based on some events that happened when I was kid. Enjoy it, and happy holidays to everyone. Hope Santa hooked you up!



Some time around the first week of the year. I took a second look at one of our traditional Christmas decorations; it was a complete and total eyesore. It was a gift some old lady gave my mother 10 years ago for Christmas and I guess she felt obligated to put it on the tree each year. It was a gaudy looking knitted cat. It was one the most hideous things I have ever laid my eyes on.They say its thought that counts well it’s the thought that angers me when I see it every year.

That same Christmas like every year an epidemic spread through the grade school. This year it was in the form of Sega, the newest video game system. Over greasy square pizza, pale yellow peas, and flavorless mashed potatoes shaped like an ice cream scoop, I would hear all the kids discuss the latest video games. I would try my best to stay absent from the conversation. I wouldn’t know what to say when they would ask me if I had gotten past the castle board yet.

One day went I went home I sat my father down and tried to tell him how I would benefit from having a Sega game system of my very own. I told him it would give me better hand eye coordination and against the popular notion it made kids zombies, I told him it acutally made them think and make quick decisions. He went on and on about how when he was a kid he would just use his imagination to have fun, and how kids today are spoiled

. I think that conversation is had all over America in every family at one point and time. I used to think that my parents and all the other parents would go to secret meetings at night or when all their kids were in school and discuss stuff like this. I pictured a man with a gavel leading the meeting and hammering home the idea of telling children why they are spoiled and to shove vegetables down their throats. One time I actually searched my mother’s purse for a pamphlet when they got home late the night before. That Christmas I was hoping for a miracle.

I rushed down the steps that morning and studied each mystery. I did the shake test, the weight test and the hold them up to the sunlight test. As I tore, open each one my chances of getting the coveted Sega was getting slimmer and slimmer. All kinds of flashes were going off from my mother’s camera capturing images of me, and my reactions to each present.Later that day my family and I went to my aunt and uncle’s for dinner. I was in a miserable mood the whole time.

The only bright spot was that my cousin Robby who was about my age was there. And guess what he got for Christmas? Of course the very same Sega system. He told me he got it weeks before Christmas even came. Robby and I were always highly competitive. So while the sweet smell of the pending ham dinner dissipated through the air we settled down in front of the television. With all those weeks of practice, he had on me he humiliated me. I think he set a record for goals scored in a hockey game, shot my plane down about a dozen times, and beat me all over the wrestling ring.

I went home feeling worse than I did when I realized I wasn’t getting the Sega. On the ride home my father tried to reach out to me. But I just pushed him away. The image of my wrestler I was controlling laying on the floor after about 30 seconds was burning in my mind. I sat in fit of rage in the back seat as my parents were in the front. My father turned the radio down. He told me that maybe one day I would get one. But I didn’t hear it. I wanted to tell him how Robby’s parents weren’t any richer than we, that I was the only kid that didn’t have a Sega. But all that came out at the top of my tiny lungs was I HATE YOU! And instead of saying anything after that. I just repeated I HATE YOU!

Because he was driving of course he had his back to me. But we passed a street light that light up the rear view window and I glimpse of his face. Suddenly I didn’t want to yell anymore. I did not apologize either, in fact no one said anything. The car just hummed along the rest of the ride.About two months later I got a Sega for my birthday. It funny the minute I unwrapped the gift and realized what it was, I almost had to fake excitement. Sure I spend many a night in the glow of my television going to far off lands and winning championships, but I could never take those words back. At least in a video game you are blessed with more than one life. At the time I meant the words that came out of my mouth. I hated my father as much as I hate that stupid knit cat now.

One time after coming home from a fishing trip with my father after many years of those words keeping me up at night, it figured it was time to apologize. However my mouth froze, I never did. I like to think that my father knew what I was thinking. Like I said they say it’s the thought that counts.I put the rest of the ornaments in a box, and I carried them basement. I placed them in a closet we hardly used. It was full of dust and mildew. I rested the box right on top of the Sega.

"My Scrubs Christmas"

Well SCrubs may have been cancelled before they final show was shot due to the writers strike. But, we still have the memories.

A few years ago, I am not sure how this came about but the cast did voices for a Charlie Brown Christmas.

The conversations are in the character of Scrubs (JD is Charlie Brown etc), but to the actual Charlie Brown Christmas.

A good laugh, even if you are not a big Scrubs fan. A must watch for all Scrubs fans.

"Winter Joke"

"Patrick Swayze Christmas"

Please enjoy the heart warming song "Let's have a Patrick Swayze Christmas" sung by Joel Robinson, Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo.

"Chances of Departure 100%"

John BOlarias the skirt chasing weatherman who miscalled the storm of the century that never happened is returning to the Philly media scene. This time he will be show up on FOX 29.


What sucks is this means the best weatherman by far Rob Guarino has lost his job. For years I have read his webpage on the FOX PHILADELPHIA website. He is right way more than you would ever expect a weatherman to be. If you are weather nerd like me it usually a good read.

I hope he gets another job in the area. But, I think his opitions are slim. There is MYPHL 17, but the news show they have no one watches, maybe CN 8? Aside from that unless a weatherman punchs a cop in the face. Than I doubt there will be an openings anywhere else, and he might end up landing a job with some other station.

When I heard BOlarias was coming to FOX, I knew Rob was screwed. This was his last week on the air, but he has his own webpage. He breaks it down pretty good on why we won't see any major storms this year. It's all about El Nino (he also tells how its different from El NiNa). So, if you want to know weather that is pretty on the money check that site out.

If you have some sort of crush on a womanizer with some cool hair, than tune into the FOX ten o'clock news.

WTXF Fox 29 can suck it. I hope Johnny boy makes an ass of himself again with a non-storm prediction. Maybe the next time buys panties for some dude's girl he will get his lights knocked out.

"Awesome Bears Playing Hockey in the Ocean"

The Flyers have been scouting these guys. Looks like Homer has found another two goons for the squad, and they are expected to both sign for 12 seasons like Richards. But, thats bear years so thats only like 4 years. BUt, thats not bad considering they are bears and all. I don't know maybe this is what the bears get to do when all the ice melts do to global warming?

Carol of the bells claymation special

In 1987 the California Rasins were taking the world by storm. They even got their own Christmas Special. Such and underrated Christmas special. The show was just basically music videos linked together by two dinosaurs who hosted the show. IT was actually really well done.

The rasins come at out later to close the show. This was my fav. and by far the most funny of the bunch. If people want I will post more.