The 2015 Blackhawks playoffs thread

[CT III]

Oh dear. http://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2015/6/3/8720833/blackhawks-cubs

That shit was worse than the unfunny type of cancer.

I've never been so insulted on someone's behalf as I am for Marcus Kruger right now.

[Quality Start Machine]

Oh dear. http://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2015/6/3/8720833/blackhawks-cubs

That shit was worse than the unfunny type of cancer.

I've never been so insulted on someone's behalf as I am for Marcus Kruger right now.

Nothing like a guy who doesn't know shit about the Cubs. despite watching them every day, analyzing a hockey team he clearly never watches.

[Oleg]

Oh dear. http://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2015/6/3/8720833/blackhawks-cubs

That shit was worse than the unfunny type of cancer.

I've never been so insulted on someone's behalf as I am for Marcus Kruger right now.

Nothing like a guy who doesn't know shit about the Cubs. despite watching them every day, analyzing a hockey team he clearly never watches.

Kyle Hendricks: Patrick Sharp. Sometimes overlooked, nearly always consistent.

Can someone explain what "nearly always consistent" means?  He's consistently consistent except when he isn't?

[Quality Start Machine]

Oh dear. http://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2015/6/3/8720833/blackhawks-cubs

That shit was worse than the unfunny type of cancer.

I've never been so insulted on someone's behalf as I am for Marcus Kruger right now.

Nothing like a guy who doesn't know shit about the Cubs. despite watching them every day, analyzing a hockey team he clearly never watches.

Kyle Hendricks: Patrick Sharp. Sometimes overlooked, nearly always consistent.

Can someone explain what "nearly always consistent" means?  He's consistently consistent except when he isn't?

He's a consistent enigma.

[InternetApex]

Oh dear. http://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2015/6/3/8720833/blackhawks-cubs

That shit was worse than the unfunny type of cancer.

I've never been so insulted on someone's behalf as I am for Marcus Kruger right now.

Nothing like a guy who doesn't know shit about the Cubs. despite watching them every day, analyzing a hockey team he clearly never watches.

Kyle Hendricks: Patrick Sharp. Sometimes overlooked, nearly always consistent.

Can someone explain what "nearly always consistent" means?  He's consistently consistent except when he isn't?

He's a consistent enigma.

Al's a consistent enema.

[Tony]

Oh dear. http://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2015/6/3/8720833/blackhawks-cubs

Yeah but who is going to play everyone in the movie?

[Saul Goodman]

Oh dear. http://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2015/6/3/8720833/blackhawks-cubs

Yeah but who is going to play everyone in the movie?

I should note both teams have a player named "Kris," for whatever that's worth.

Nothing. It's worth nothing.

Rizzo could also be called the Cubs' "Captain Serious," though he's seen laughing and having fun more than Toews is.

"Rizzo could be the Cubs' Captain Serious, although he's not a captain nor is he serious."

[Tonker]

Oh dear. http://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2015/6/3/8720833/blackhawks-cubs

Yeah but who is going to play everyone in the movie?

I should note both teams have a player named "Kris," for whatever that's worth.

Nothing. It's worth nothing.

Rizzo could also be called the Cubs' "Captain Serious," though he's seen laughing and having fun more than Toews is.

"Rizzo could be the Cubs' Captain Serious, although he's not a captain nor is he serious."

DAT TONY BALLGAME IS DEAD SERIOUS ABOUT HITTIN DEM DINGERS AN DRIVIN IN DEM RIBBIES MY FRENT.

[Quality Start Machine]

Let's not forget Alvin is a Then, Now, And Forever Blackhawk fan, which he was bold enough to declare when the Hawks were one win away from the Stanley Cup in 2010.

[SKO]

Let's not forget Alvin is a Then, Now, And Forever Blackhawk fan, which he was bold enough to declare when the Hawks were one win away from the Stanley Cup in 2010.

I'll never forget that one, where a guy who basically has built his entire "career" off of never having given up on the Cubs after watching them every day for 70 years, made an argument for how the Blackhawks drove him away by being a bad, poorly run team in the 70s.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

Let's not forget Alvin is a Then, Now, And Forever Blackhawk fan, which he was bold enough to declare when the Hawks were one win away from the Stanley Cup in 2010.

I'll never forget that one, where a guy who basically has built his entire "career" off of never having given up on the Cubs after watching them every day for 70 years, made an argument for how the Blackhawks drove him away by being a bad, poorly run team in the 70s.

Which is really funny when you consider that the two franchises were on somewhat of the same track--end of a solid run that ended without a championship followed by a malaise. 

Except the mid-to-late 70's Cubs were generally a worse team in that time.

[SKO]

Let's not forget Alvin is a Then, Now, And Forever Blackhawk fan, which he was bold enough to declare when the Hawks were one win away from the Stanley Cup in 2010.

I'll never forget that one, where a guy who basically has built his entire "career" off of never having given up on the Cubs after watching them every day for 70 years, made an argument for how the Blackhawks drove him away by being a bad, poorly run team in the 70s.

Which is really funny when you consider that the two franchises were on somewhat of the same track--end of a solid run that ended without a championship followed by a malaise.  

Except the mid-to-late 70's Cubs were generally a worse team in that time.

Well, I mean I had considered that. Some might say it was even the point of my post, that it's funny that Al, a guy who you know prides himself on being with the Cubs through thick and thin and has undoubtedly made at least one bitching comment about people not being REAL CUBS FANZ like himself, wanted to be accepted back into the Blackhawks fold because "it's not my fault, the team was bad and drove me away!"

[CT III]

Let's not forget Alvin is a Then, Now, And Forever Blackhawk fan, which he was bold enough to declare when the Hawks were one win away from the Stanley Cup in 2010.

I'll never forget that one, where a guy who basically has built his entire "career" off of never having given up on the Cubs after watching them every day for 70 years, made an argument for how the Blackhawks drove him away by being a bad, poorly run team in the 70s.

Which is really funny when you consider that the two franchises were on somewhat of the same track--end of a solid run that ended without a championship followed by a malaise.  

Except the mid-to-late 70's Cubs were generally a worse team in that time.

Well, I mean I had considered that. Some might say it was even the point of my post, that it's funny that Al, a guy who you know prides himself on being with the Cubs through thick and thin and has undoubtedly made at least one bitching comment about people not being REAL CUBS FANZ like himself, wanted to be accepted back into the Blackhawks fold because "it's not my fault, the team was bad and drove me away!"

No way in hell I'm going to subject myself to that claptrap again, but IIRC didn't Al sour on hockey after the 1998 US Men's team broke a bunch of furniture in their hotel room?

[Quality Start Machine]

Let's not forget Alvin is a Then, Now, And Forever Blackhawk fan, which he was bold enough to declare when the Hawks were one win away from the Stanley Cup in 2010.

I'll never forget that one, where a guy who basically has built his entire "career" off of never having given up on the Cubs after watching them every day for 70 years, made an argument for how the Blackhawks drove him away by being a bad, poorly run team in the 70s.

Which is really funny when you consider that the two franchises were on somewhat of the same track--end of a solid run that ended without a championship followed by a malaise.  

Except the mid-to-late 70's Cubs were generally a worse team in that time.

Well, I mean I had considered that. Some might say it was even the point of my post, that it's funny that Al, a guy who you know prides himself on being with the Cubs through thick and thin and has undoubtedly made at least one bitching comment about people not being REAL CUBS FANZ like himself, wanted to be accepted back into the Blackhawks fold because "it's not my fault, the team was bad and drove me away!"

No way in hell I'm going to subject myself to that claptrap again, but IIRC didn't Al sour on hockey after the 1998 US Men's team broke a bunch of furniture in their hotel room?

Yes, but he was won back by the fine upstanding young men on the 2010 Blackhawks. Pretty sure he mentioned Kane and Versteeg by name.

[CT III]

Let's not forget Alvin is a Then, Now, And Forever Blackhawk fan, which he was bold enough to declare when the Hawks were one win away from the Stanley Cup in 2010.

I'll never forget that one, where a guy who basically has built his entire "career" off of never having given up on the Cubs after watching them every day for 70 years, made an argument for how the Blackhawks drove him away by being a bad, poorly run team in the 70s.

Which is really funny when you consider that the two franchises were on somewhat of the same track--end of a solid run that ended without a championship followed by a malaise.  

Except the mid-to-late 70's Cubs were generally a worse team in that time.

Well, I mean I had considered that. Some might say it was even the point of my post, that it's funny that Al, a guy who you know prides himself on being with the Cubs through thick and thin and has undoubtedly made at least one bitching comment about people not being REAL CUBS FANZ like himself, wanted to be accepted back into the Blackhawks fold because "it's not my fault, the team was bad and drove me away!"

No way in hell I'm going to subject myself to that claptrap again, but IIRC didn't Al sour on hockey after the 1998 US Men's team broke a bunch of furniture in their hotel room?

Yes, but he was won back by the fine upstanding young men on the 2010 Blackhawks. Pretty sure he mentioned Kane and Versteeg by name.

Ah yes, I had forgotten the whole "the Blackhawks are great guys for going to Dale Tallon's father's funeral" thing.