2nd String Stories

The days of pushing around the Detroit Red Wings are over. I had a blog, podcast, TikTok you name it, last week talking about how this season is the start of the renaissance for the Red Wings. Well, the boys must be big fans of the brand because they fulfilled my prophecy. Both games they've played against Tampa and then Saturday against Vancouver have been WWE Hell in a Cell cage matches. If you come to Detroit and don't have any interest in getting cracked in the face at least once, you might wanna tell coach you got the stomach...

What the fuck is the Big Ten thinking? Two of the biggest brands in your conference and not only are they squaring off in what should be an undefeated top 10 matchup with literally everything on the line, but they are ALSO bitter, mortal, arch rivals that fucking hate each other, AND THE GAME IS SLOTTED FOR NOON!?!?!? Where is the logic there, why would the Big Ten ever allow that to happen unless they got mixed up with some cronies on Wall Street and somehow shorted the Big Ten as a business. That really is the only explicable reasoning...

Every day I wake up and honest to god, other than world domination, my first thought is about how incredible it is that Michigan State football is 6-0. My next thought is more of an inner dialogue asking myself whether or not Kenneth Walker being the legitimate Heisman front runner is more incredible. Not exactly sure what that says about me or about my mental house or whatever, all I know is, I fucking love MSU football and I love K9. I almost forgot from 2015 to now just how much better the fall is when your college football team...

This is the year, this is it. The Detroit Red Wings of old, the ones we grew up with knowing nothing but domincance, skill, class, and being of elite standing in one of the most presitigious professional sports leagues on the planet, those Detroit Red Wings start again, today. The days of losing and gaming for draft position, the days of LCA being this cool, new building that doesn't really get too full or get too loud, and hasn't really seen anything resembling tradition or history made inside of it... that shit is over too. And last but not least,...

Monday morning and the Michigan State Spartans are 5-0. This week is off to about as hot of a start as any week could possibly get off to. Woke up this morning, and naturally, my first thoughts were about Mel Tucker and what he's done, and just how crazy it is that MSU is where they're at. It was only 4 or 5 weeks ago where I was writing blogs and doing podcasts talking about how I just wanna see the Dawgs play hard and play physical this year. I was talking about how winning 6 or 7 games all...