And now, a positive story about the state of New Jersey. And to be honest with you, I’m actually happy this story has nothing to do with the New York Islanders for once. For once, a landmark – epic deal (17 years!? I’m going to have a teenager before Kovalchuck and the Devils are done with this contract!!) does not involve Charles Wang and the Islanders (see: Alexei Yashin; Rick DiPietro) – for Gods-sake Yashin’s deal seems very tame now (except the fact that he is not of the same caliber of hockey player as Kovalchuck, but why would that minor detail have mattered to Mike Milbury and the Islanders of the early 2000′s??).
Between MTV’s Guido exploiting show “Jersey Shore” (since when do I care about exploiting Guidos?? I don’t . . . I don’t) – this crazy hairdresser show I’ve caught glimpses of called “Jerseylicious” (which, thankfully, I’ve never completely watched and I plan to keep it that way) – and of course, there is the ever-popular BRAVO series “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” – well, I know the entire “Housewives” brand must be popular (O.C., NY, Atlanta, and the upcoming D.C. – did I miss anything??) – so I’m going to assume that N.J. is just as popular as the other ones, even though I personally find O.C. and N.Y. to have more entertainment value.
http://video.aol.com/aolvideo/PopEater/the-situation-chats-with-popeater/106567260001
I could go many places with this – 1) I could easily joke about and wonder how the hell this guy is even able write a book (a not-so-smart joke here and there), but I’m not that cruel (besides, honestly, I don’t think he’s actually that DUMB – hence the fact that the guy IS raking in the dough) . . . I could 2) talk about how ridiculous it is that there are probably so many more worthwhile actual writers out there that are struggling, and all of a sudden some douche with ripped abs gets on MTV and BOOM – he’s got a book deal . . . but isn’t that America, ladies and gentlemen? Isn’t that how it seems to just keep happening? It seems the only goal for young people anymore is to be annoying enough, ripped enough, drunk enough, stupid enough, or anything ENOUGH just to be on TV – once there, anything can happen – like, for instance, writing a book on how to get ripped abs and do your freken laundry (unfrekenbelievable lol).
I watched the Devils score 3 late goals last night to welcome in Ilya Kovalchuk and stun the hapless Toronto Maple Leafs (keep trading away Toronto, it will never make a difference!) and I ended up speaking to a native New Jerseyan this morning (Nicholas) about all things Devils. We reminisced about Scott Stevens, and it instantly made me think of something. The Devils played the Leafs last night . . . Stevens was brought up this morning . . . ahh . . . my memory took me back to the 2001 Stanley Cup Playoffs when Tie Domi was a member of one of the dirtiest NHL teams – in fact – Domi should’ve been captain of that team just to symbolize how dirty they actually were. Here’s the clip:
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