beep...beep...beep

that's the sound of the big ass truck i drove over jeremy roenick with backing up. turns out that i was misled by the heads at espn.com. if the players can blame the media, so can the fans, right?

i'm a big boy, i can handle the apologies. here's the rest of the story (in best paul harvey voice)

this was quoted in an espn article & sportscenter piece:

"We're going to try to make it better for everybody, period, end of subject. And if you don't realize that, then don't come...We don't want you at the rink, we don't want you in the stadium, we don't want you to watch hockey..." (note: he also said words that got bleeped a few times, but it was more or less just like this)

but...he spent the better part of the interview saying that everything they were doing had to be focused on making the game better and getting fans back. the above comment came after someone asked what he thought about people who blamed players. espn chose to only show the "blow up."

so i take it back, j.r.. you're not a flippin' a-hole. you're not a moron (your hockey team is full of sissies and you do suck, but it's the off-season so we'll let that go). you should've known better than to pop off in a press conference, even if you were goaded into it and spent the first portion talking about your love of the game, etc., but i'll let it go for now.

now how 'bout you get back to playin' hockey, my man? pr ain't your gig.