Ron vs the media.
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i love ron wilson. what a beautiful man. i was hoping that he would fly out and rip WCH’s head off, but i’ll settle for the verbal lashing.
by tugboats and arson on Mar 10, 2009 10:59 PM EDT reply actions
Wow
The ref should have stepped in and stopped that fight. Working Class Howard just got dummied.
That was the verbal equivalent of a mere mortal fighting Wendel Clark.
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Awesome.
Also, article1’s hardware > my hardware. He wins the upload race!!!
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The Artist Formerly Known as "Junior", who blogs at heroesinrehab.ca/blog
"But if someone so eager to engage into fist talk, we can always meet after season end in Minsk." (Mikhail Grabovski and a well-meaning but not particularly skillful translator)
I like the competition. Keeps you guys sharp!
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Nah. Someone else uploaded it.
I just sat on YouTube hitting refresh until it appeared.
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I don’t think I can go back that far on my PVR. Sorry.
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The Artist Formerly Known as "Junior", who blogs at heroesinrehab.ca/blog
"But if someone so eager to engage into fist talk, we can always meet after season end in Minsk." (Mikhail Grabovski and a well-meaning but not particularly skillful translator)
by jrwendelman on Mar 10, 2009 11:14 PM EDT up reply actions
that's alright
article’s posted that as well :P
by Karina on Mar 10, 2009 11:14 PM EDT up reply actions
jrwendelman’s better than that random.
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you do have integrity back there, you know
I like the emphasis on integrity there…like “bitches don’t know…”
Making stuff up since real Leafs news is far too depressing
Yeah
And of course Working Class Howard doesn’t understand the insult in what he was saying.
Why wouldn’t Wilson make that call in November? My guess is because the Leafs weren’t trailing by one goal with less than two minutes left. Then again, I’m just an idiotic fan.
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It was awesome. I knew something was up when he said, “Because you try to win the game, you know” in answer to WCH’s first question. You could just tell something was pissing Ronnie off big time. Wicked awesome.
I defy DGB to continue disliking the Burke/Wilson era, at least for tomorrow.
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The Artist Formerly Known as "Junior", who blogs at heroesinrehab.ca/blog
"But if someone so eager to engage into fist talk, we can always meet after season end in Minsk." (Mikhail Grabovski and a well-meaning but not particularly skillful translator)
by jrwendelman on Mar 10, 2009 11:05 PM EDT up reply actions
No kidding
I hope he never stops calling out these clowns. We need all the help we can get!
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I like the era. I just don’t agree with everything they do/say.
Still, if a cheesy and embarassing stick-measurement results in this sort of Howard Berger curb-stomping, maybe I’m for it after all.
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by Down Goes Brown on Mar 10, 2009 11:07 PM EDT up reply actions
I knew you’d come around! I knew it!
jrwendelman
The Artist Formerly Known as "Junior", who blogs at heroesinrehab.ca/blog
"But if someone so eager to engage into fist talk, we can always meet after season end in Minsk." (Mikhail Grabovski and a well-meaning but not particularly skillful translator)
by jrwendelman on Mar 10, 2009 11:07 PM EDT up reply actions
Curb-stomping
I guess that’s what I was looking for.
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ahhhhhhhhhhh
Ronnie… we need to give him some sort of appreciation award at the end of the season.
Perhaps sponsored by Cox Bloc?
by Karina on Mar 10, 2009 11:03 PM EDT reply actions
“wittiest motherfucker this side of the humber”
by tugboats and arson on Mar 10, 2009 11:05 PM EDT up reply actions
hmm
could be….
But I was seriously thinking appreciation for all the things he’s said to the media that we, the public, have wanted to say for so long but when we try, it gets ignored……..
by Karina on Mar 10, 2009 11:06 PM EDT up reply actions
We're on it
We did have a pool when Ronnie was hired on the first mittenstringer to get a new one torn. I think WCH won.
sweet
I was wondering if you’d already had the same though…
by Karina on Mar 10, 2009 11:52 PM EDT up reply actions
Geez, I think Wilson’s been doing this all year.
by James Mirtle on Mar 11, 2009 8:03 PM EDT up reply actions
oh yeah
Actually, Mirtle was the first one to catch the Wrath of Wilson ;)
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really?
when was this?
Mirtle’s the only sports blogger I’ve been following consistently for years. Like, I’m pretty sure I was one of the first ones to start reading him back on blogspot. So I can’t remember this wrath directed his way and I would like to have my memory jogged…
by Karina on Mar 12, 2009 11:37 AM EDT up reply actions
Nothing says "integrity"
than lying about something you said that is likely already posted on fan590.com for everyone to hear. Well done WCH.
I don’t understand the fuss over a stick measurement…. Wilson said why he did it, and I thought it was a decent reason…. hell, I would have liked it even if it was just a shot at Jason “Retard-Giggle” Spezza and his inexplicably large ego for a guy whose career is already in decline.
Man
As DGB mentioned, just wait until Saturday. I agree that Cherry is likely going to lose it.
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Can someone here take notes?
I will be curling in the semi finals when Don rants, and won’t be able to see it.
"So hide your passions in between the daily grind and broken dreams. The city is a drag."
welcome :)
WCH is quite the character. i can hardly wait until the next presser
i would have liked the shot at giggles the hooker as well but i can settle.
by tugboats and arson on Mar 10, 2009 11:15 PM EDT up reply actions
Thanks for the welcome
I figured I was lurking long enough, might as well say something.
by Jacques Strap on Mar 10, 2009 11:18 PM EDT up reply actions
Always a good idea
Now you need a user pic.
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good choice
on first comment! And WCH is a joke, he has a selective memory that must come in handy when he decides to make these comments questioning what Wilson was thinking in November….
by Karina on Mar 10, 2009 11:20 PM EDT up reply actions
That?
Is a million kinds of awesome.
Also? Did everyone miss me while I was gone? I like being missed.
"So hide your passions in between the daily grind and broken dreams. The city is a drag."
I would gladly surrender my quasi-hopeful soon-to-be status as a member of Team Awesome if it were given over to Ron Wilson, for that presser alone.
Also, absolutely we missed you. Hooked on curling?
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The Artist Formerly Known as "Junior", who blogs at heroesinrehab.ca/blog
"But if someone so eager to engage into fist talk, we can always meet after season end in Minsk." (Mikhail Grabovski and a well-meaning but not particularly skillful translator)
by jrwendelman on Mar 10, 2009 11:17 PM EDT up reply actions
Oh, we have room for more than one of you, so no worries on that front. If Odin gives the okay, both you and Ronnie are in.
"So hide your passions in between the daily grind and broken dreams. The city is a drag."
Yay!!! Um. Tentatively, of course.
jrwendelman
The Artist Formerly Known as "Junior", who blogs at heroesinrehab.ca/blog
"But if someone so eager to engage into fist talk, we can always meet after season end in Minsk." (Mikhail Grabovski and a well-meaning but not particularly skillful translator)
by jrwendelman on Mar 10, 2009 11:21 PM EDT up reply actions
Tentatively indeed. :)
And yes, I was wrapped up in curling. The second managed a craptastic 53%. His skip is totally going to kill him.
"So hide your passions in between the daily grind and broken dreams. The city is a drag."
Granite rock dropped on forehead while sleeping can be very painful.
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The Artist Formerly Known as "Junior", who blogs at heroesinrehab.ca/blog
"But if someone so eager to engage into fist talk, we can always meet after season end in Minsk." (Mikhail Grabovski and a well-meaning but not particularly skillful translator)
by jrwendelman on Mar 10, 2009 11:25 PM EDT up reply actions
Ronnie is a definite yes.
Wendelman we’ll talk about it when it’s not 2 am West coast time. There may be an essay and an application fee which may include a tshirt i’m designing. :P
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i did. i want thursday to come now. i don’t care about the outcome, i want to see the presser.
by tugboats and arson on Mar 10, 2009 11:17 PM EDT up reply actions
Me too
We can cancel the rest of the games and just have Ron Wilson yell at the media for three periods instead. The entertainment value would be astronomical.
"So hide your passions in between the daily grind and broken dreams. The city is a drag."
i would pay. and tape it. and watch it over and over. and over and over again.
by tugboats and arson on Mar 10, 2009 11:20 PM EDT up reply actions
I would love that
and I would take our point total as it stands so it’d be a win-win – entertainment AND tavares!
by Karina on Mar 10, 2009 11:21 PM EDT up reply actions
I did!
well I was gone too, but now I am here.
by Karina on Mar 10, 2009 11:17 PM EDT up reply actions
Did percentages improve? Or did they stay Toskala-esque?
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Some got worse
The skip for PEI managed just 39%.
"So hide your passions in between the daily grind and broken dreams. The city is a drag."
Wow.
I think even Scottish teams could do better than that.
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i wonder
if WCH shit his pants when ronnie was scolding him.
by tugboats and arson on Mar 10, 2009 11:21 PM EDT reply actions
i wonder
what his written response will be.
He’ll probably plagarize Cherry and use the “napoleon complex” criticism.
by Karina on Mar 10, 2009 11:22 PM EDT up reply actions
After this latest run-in, I’ll give even odds that WCH and Bruce Garrioch are going to move into a tree house together.
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The He-Man Wilson Haters!
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This is the best idea for an animated series in years.
jrwendelman
The Artist Formerly Known as "Junior", who blogs at heroesinrehab.ca/blog
"But if someone so eager to engage into fist talk, we can always meet after season end in Minsk." (Mikhail Grabovski and a well-meaning but not particularly skillful translator)
by jrwendelman on Mar 10, 2009 11:25 PM EDT up reply actions
If they do....
….I’ll be there with a torch to burn it to the ground.
"So hide your passions in between the daily grind and broken dreams. The city is a drag."
right with ya there
if we could rid the world of the two of them at the same time, it would be wonderful…
by Karina on Mar 10, 2009 11:25 PM EDT up reply actions
Did you get annoyed when you kept taking those penalties?
That’s the best question Howard could come up with. What are the odds the answer is going to be anything other than a version of “yes”?
You constantly challenge us and you get challenged once back and you get all [Wilson interrupts]
And that’s Berger’s best retort.
All of those who wondered when Wilson would have an episode with the Toronto media put the emphasis on Wilson having a short fuse. Clearly, these folks woefully underplayed the local media’s ability to be idiots that ask a never ending stream of dumb questions.
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On the subject of dumb questions
The one after Wilson’s done with Berger asks him if he noticed all the empty seats.
Got anything relevant to ask boys?
"We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into Iraq"
- Major Mike Shearer
I really
don’t think they do….. they’ve all been so lazy for so long they’ve forgotten how to think of a relevant question.
I wonder if Ronnie’ll go “Pat Quinn” on one of them some day and push them out of his way as he gets onto an elevator….
by Karina on Mar 10, 2009 11:33 PM EDT up reply actions
True
I’m actually pretty impressed with Wilson holding out so long before totally losing it. I would have snapped ages ago with the questions these morons ask.
"So hide your passions in between the daily grind and broken dreams. The city is a drag."
Put your mic ON!
That was classic! Put your mic on so yo can play it back later! What a dumbass Berger is!
When Berger tell Ronnie that he constantly challenge the media or him, he should realize that journalist are not supposed to be challenged as in noticed/seen, if you are its because you are failing at your job.
Too bad the rags that he writes for look at this battle between Wilson and the idiots as $$$
...
Here’s the video of the pre-cursor when WCH asked Wilson about the stick measure call in Ottawa (his awful follow-up at 1:40 draws a death stare from the coach): http://mapleleafs.nhl.tv/team/console.jsp?catid=-5&id=36045
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I hate to pull out the old “you never played the game” bit, because it’s not always relevant, but it’s quite obvious to me that a number of the Toronto media likely has never played a competitive sport in their lives, because they clearly have zero insight into the psychology of an athlete.
by Jacques Strap on Mar 10, 2009 11:48 PM EDT up reply actions
ah
WCH had to see this one coming after that…. Ronnie was ready to bite his head off!
by Karina on Mar 10, 2009 11:56 PM EDT up reply actions
And yet, I’m not sure he’s bright enough to have made the connection.
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A search of the archives here can confirm that he is not, in fact, bright enough to have done so.
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I’m still astonished at how someone cannot make that connection, and yet land a gig as sweet as his…
by Karina on Mar 11, 2009 12:07 AM EDT up reply actions
Do you guys not have care in the community?
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THIS IS LIKE A CHRISTMAS PRESENT. AND IT NEEDS CAPS.
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by Wrap Around Curl on Mar 10, 2009 11:42 PM EDT reply actions
UN-FUCKING-REAL
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It will be interesting to see what (if anything) Berger will say about this tomorrow on the radio. When Wilson first came Berger was all happy and shit, saying it is good they have a coach who will speak his mind. I wonder if he will change his tune now that Ron pimp slapped him in public?
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As for Berger, I think he’ll definitely bring it up and play the victim.
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Wow...
just, wow.
I nominate Wilson as coach of the Leafs for life, or until MSM in Toronto finally “gets” it…
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by blurr1974 on Mar 11, 2009 12:07 AM EDT reply actions
He only has one lifetime :(
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I obviously missed this gem to watch an utterly useless WBC game and get kinda drunk, but next to a select few activities, this is so totally worth it to come home to and find out Howard isn’t as immune to total embarrassment as he once thought/wished.
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by LeafFanInVan on Mar 11, 2009 12:43 AM EDT up reply actions
I heard it this morning, Fan590 is playing the audio clip like every 5 minutes, it’s great. Pierre McGuire said it was more like Ron Wilson just making a point about his integrity and it wasn’t anything against Howard specifically (snicker). Anyway it was great, made my morning drive that much more pleasant.
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