GDB XX: Lunch time on the road
bingofuel
November 15 2009 10:03AM
I don't know about you guys, but these Sunday afternoon PPV games don't provide a very good incentive for me to get out of bed. That's why I'm writing this in my full-body jammies with sewn-on feet from my bedroom. I'm also eating an entire ham in bed, but that's a typical Sunday morning tradtion that really has nothing to do with hockey or PPV games.
Today's game against the Thrashers marks 4 of a 5 games on this road trip, a trip in which the Oilers haven't fared too well. We've lost two out of three so far, and all because some cowboys are ropping cattle and drinking $8 beers inside RX1. Add to that the fact the Wanye has apparently flown the coup — he asked me to drive him to the airport yesterday after he packed himself a small hobo sack and didn't say where he was going — and things haven't been what you'd call "peachy" here in OilersNation.
But don't despair, the Oilers have a few things going for them:
- Pat Quinn is getting to the point where he must be scaring the shit out of the players with his rage at their poor play. I'd like to think that this is going to inspire the boys into playing, you know, hockey.
- As Brownlee indicated yesterday, Big Sex, Horcoff and Nilsson skated yesterday morning, and there's a chance they'll play today.
- Kovalchuk's foot is injured, and although he's been stopping pucks, I can see us making this work to our advantage with some net-crashing (though I certainly don't condone this).
Sure, these aren't game-makers, but I need some hope — something to hold onto. And the Oil? They need a win. Or six. Before Pat Quinn's had explodes.
This won't be an easy win for the boys in copper and blue — but they'll take the "W" 4-3. And they'll do it for Fernando Pisani.
That's the spirit BingoFuel!! Go Oilers!!
Oilers: 4 Thrashes: 2
You can't leave us hangin' like that Bingofuel. S'up at ON?
Bingofuel, good thoughts! Pat Quinn must have upped his dose of blood pressure medication this season already.
Yeah, let's win one for Pisani--I can jump on board that!
@Skidplate
I wish I knew! Wanye said he needed a vacation. Last week he booked a plane ticket to parts_unknown™, and yesterday, I drove him to the airport. He said he'll be checking in every now and again.
But don't you worry. Willis, Brownlee, Gregor, Amber and I are still here. And there's some cool stuff coming down the pipe in the next few weeks!
So it begins....
I know it's early, but, Kovalchuck is putting pucks in the net, not stopping them. I mean he's good, but....
Seriously what time is it?
*scrapes away layers of crust from his eyes*
I'm here BOYYYY and the Oilers non-hacking TV feed police have to hive me diplomatic immunity because I can't rent PPV on the surface of the moon here.
My favorite website that cannot be named doesn't seem to have the feed though. What in the deuce?
@jeanshorts
Can you send that crust the Oilers way...thx.
ATDHE has it has Edmonton Oilers VS Edmonton Oilers.
WE CAN'T LOSE!
*they'll somehow find a way*
Bingofuel!!!
One question. Is that a smoked ham or a cooked ham?
Go Oilers.
This is extraordinarily troubling. I can't tell you how excited I was to watch the game.
*smashes fist through plate glass window*
@Wanye
Strangely enough... on my favorite site is says Oilers vs Oilers. I thought Friday the 13th was yesterday???
*shakes fist at hockey gods* PLEASE DON'T MAKE ME PAY FOR THIS!!!
@Wanye
Good news everyone! In the event we can't find a feed for the Oilers game we can watch HC Benzina Litvinov take on HC Ocelari Trinec! The day is saved!
Hi bud... Where'd you go? When you coming back? Is this going to be like when Baggedmilk told me he'd be back in a couple months and hasn't been seen since?
Don't you do this to me! I can only handle so much rejection.
Side note: I'm at work today so I can't watch the game. I will be requiring you gents to give me explicit detail what BIG SEX is doing.... on the ice.
What is with CTV today? The Vikings/Lions game sounds like they're broadcasting from the inside of a cement truck or something.
If I told you where I was right now and the rashness with which I decided to sell all of my major organs to fund my vacation you would firstly be amazed, then appalled at how I have shortened my life span, then disappointed that I am still kicking it on a GDB cause this is what I love so much.
@Wanye
As long as things remain "Peachy" at the Nation....
I too have sold off much of my dignity for various reasons.
@Wanye
rajangan dot net claims to have Oilers v Thrashers so we'll see. I'm in Saskabush and can't dial up the stink (ppv) here. I may have to go ice fishing.
Sunday afternoon games suck. But, on adthe, i found a red zone channel, that's great to watch my early pics go up in smoke so I can focus on the Mighty OIL. And, ya, I picke the oil as part of a 4 game combo....So, this game is pretty much a sure thing. 6-3 OIL.
Oh yeah things will proceed completely normally.
My goal is to watch as many games as I can on this sojourn starting with this matinee clash of the *ahem* Titans. I am also going to find hockey fans and force them to listen to my theories about how the Oil are actually a dominant squadron. I left today and haven't been to sleep yet, but we are posted up with foreign beers and it is actually 7:30 here so I don't consider this to be a boring matinee game.
@Wanye
You're in Europe?????????????????
Are you visiting Human Torch for some reason?
You're in EUROPE????? AWESOME!!!!!!!!
You figured out that conversion 3 minutes faster than me.... Well played.
Links... i need links :(
I refuse to pay for this game, so choose instead to follow the road of senior..
He is on my list of people to contact. Of course if we veer near Amsterdam I will lose track of what the rest of the world calls "time" and I will basically become Baggedmilk2.0
I want to do some sort of contest for people to guess where we are as we panhandle our way around. I haven't figured out the fine points yet, but if drinking beers is going to help me think I will be smarter and smarter as the night progresses.
THAT'S MY BOY. DAMN THE MAN!!
And if that doesn't turn your crank, you can watch our beloved Springfield Isotopes- err... Falcons at 3pm! Featuring the likes of...
Schremp, no, Reddox, no, Pouliot, no, Potuln... uh, our hot new AHL defenseman Dean Ars... hmmmm...
Rob Daum!
@Wanye
*High five*
Now whats a link to use? This is my first time taking it to the man eh...
http://www.atdhe.net/
I am going to try and use rajangan.net and see if that works
@Wanye
Wanye said
I am also going to find hockey fans and force them to listen to my theories about how the Oil are actually a dominant squadron.
True story, I was in Greece this past summer. I was on some tour and a guy sees me and asks if I'm from Canada. He was from London Ontario. It took me 5 minutes to figure out how he could tell I was a Canadian just by looking at me. I was wearing my Oilers hat(Yes I am an idiot)
So I am walking along and I hear these two American couples talking. One group from LA the other from New York and they are talking about how they haven't seen any Americans. I am sitting by myself waiting for my tour group to catch up, and I say to them that they are about to run into a whole bunch of Americans up the road. They ask me where I am from and I say Canada. They say to me with absolute seriousness... "Wow, you speak really good English for a Canadian."
My lady and I were the only ones from Canada on the tour and NOBODY we ever talked to liked or even knew ANYTHING about "Ice hockey". It's crazy.
what is the suffix for this atdhe thing? dot net? dot ca? dot com?
@Travis Dakin
When I was flying home from Europe in grade 12, I was sitting beside this lady from Minnesota or something, and she commented on how I "didn't have a Canadian accent". And Americans wonder why they're not universally liked by the rest of the world.
Of course we don't condone interweb piracy and everyone should get the PPV game feed.
*wink*
@Travis Dakin
lol, americans.
JS was correct Oilers vs Oilers!!
WE CAN'T LOSE BWAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHA
See, I have no stories or frame of reference whatsoever for these types of travel stories. Thus why I am down a kidney and up a plane ticket. I want to be able to keep up when the conversation veers towards "ever been east of Castledowns?"
Simple touch of pride for everyone. My friends went to the Corb Lund show in Abbotsford this weekend and I guess he is a huge Oilers fan (didn't know this). In between songs he would randomly ask, "so how 'bout those Oilers" and then proceed to finger the jeering trogs in the crowd. Pretty funny and kinda makes the heart happy.
Most people I found were really interested in us Canadians. Nobody knows a thing about us. I always thought it was some BS that they thought we lived in Igloos and all rode a dog sled to school but it is surprisingly what many believe.
Dammit... Edmonton Oilers vs Edmonton Oilers ain't working..
shuit, anyone with a link that works?
I hate to break it to you but we really do have an accent. I even find some people from Washington state have a different accent from us in BC while only being separated by a border.
So I go to check for a stream on Ustream.TV and the "Featured Channel" that pops up on the front page is a delightful young black woman smoking a blunt. Awesome.
Geno with hot ice girls. Lucky guy. Seriously though, how do the Oilers not have ice girls yet?
"You are watching Edmonton Oilers vs Edmonton Oilers"
Finally, an opponent we can beat...
Wanye has flown to the Czech Republic to BEG 83's parents to tell him to SHOOOOOOOOOT.
@Shaun Doe
I'd call it a cadence, rather than an accent. And I can see your point, but still.
.... gregor must have offered up some advice to the oilers brass. Well done Geno!!!!!!!
lol. did you find an active stream? ATDHE isnt working...
You really notice our accent when listening to an American talk show on the radio like Howard Stern or Bubba the Love Sponge. A bunch of Americans sitting around talking and then they take a call from Canada and it jumps out at you just like they joke in the movies. Eh... Yes b'y.
I am listening on CHED now. It's better than nothing, but only JUST.