Mental Beer Shits: President's Day Edition

Thanks to Ty Conklin and Evgeni "Geno" Malkin, (love how he's assigned a blue collar name) the Pens are tied for first atop the most competetive division in the NHL...and the best player in the world is practicing at full strength. This could be the year if they catch a wave.

Deeply disappointed that Dan Rooney is showing his NFL good ol' boy colors by saying he's "satisfied" with Roger Goodell's bizarre and absurd response thus far to spygate. What a crock. His team was taped in two championship playoff games and he's fine with how the league handled it? This is what infuriates me about people howling over Arlen Specter's investigation. The NFL is not going to put it's golden goose on trial. You can't let the fox investigate the henhouse. Or any other barnyard analogies that apply...

Yahoo sports blog had a good post about Spygate

Here's my comment to it:

If other teams were doing it, where's the evidence, or even an accusation? Maybe Goodell knew if he slapped the Pats with a harsher punishment, the thing would blow wide open and the league would be in turmoil. But until that story leaks out, we don't know why he destroyed the tapes. What we do know is that Goodell, for some reason, didn't feel the need to disclose his knowledge that the Pats were cheating their ENTIRE SUPER BOWL RUN until someone held his feet to the flame. There's a lot more to this story, and ESPN and others' lack of coverage is disgusting.

Hat tip to one commenter who made this classic analogy/reference to Belichick's faux prostests of ignorance on taping rules:

Boss: I'm going to get right to the point. It has come to my attention that you and the cleaning woman have engaged in sexual intercourse on the desk in your office. Is that correct?
George: Who said that?
Boss: She did.
George: Was that wrong? Should I have not done that? I tell you I gotta plead ingnorance on this thing because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing was frowned upon, you know, cause I've worked in a lot of offices and I gotta tell you people do that all the time.

All this anti-Specter vitrol that is surfacing is just depressing. It's more of the "let's attack the questioner and not focus on the cheating" bullshit that seems to have permeated our society. WONDERFUL lessons for our kids. Sure he's an Eagles fan and that's a lot of his motivation for investigating. Who cares. He has the power to do it and he's speaking for his constituency and for all sports fans who want a solid product. Now if he would start investgating roids in football too we'd be on to something.