Kerry Fraser: The Divider
by Greener on Aug 6, 2009 1:00 PM EDT
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PrintAs I sit here writing a post about Kerry Fraser, I sit here having a heated argument with someone I've never argued with... about Kerry Fraser. This person, whom I'll call "my 4:00 patient", listened intently to everything Fraser said as he fought for his life yesterday on Leafs Lunch. After telling me her impressions of the interview, which were "he said the non-call had nothing to do with it being Gretzky", and "...he seems like a genuine guy", I gave her my impressions, which were, "You're absolutely nuts", and "That'll be $2700 please".
AM 640 held the interview in its floating studios out on Lake Ontario, pirate radio style. This was because the Leafs Lunch technicians realized that the making of a street-level gallows is very noisy, and those mics pick up everything, so the station had to take it off-shore. After all that fuss, Fraser took calls made by Leafs fans, which is ironic, as he can't stand making calls himself.
I'm not sure what prompted Kerry to want to talk about himself, but I suspect he's going on a "protect the legacy" tour, kind of like George Bush. I know it's strange to think, but actually those two have a lot in common: Both men rose to their positions' highest office. Both men have all their hair. Both men totally ruined the world. Stripes never, ever, looked more fitting.
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"God's in His heaven. All's right with the world." - Robert Browning (1812-1889)
GRABBO TIGHT KOMIKAZI CUZ WE'RE EXELERATING INTO THE PLAYOFFS!!!!11
Very nice.
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Dougie’s blood was on that puck. Dougie’s blood was in the back of the net.
Never forget.
by general borschevsky on Aug 6, 2009 1:25 PM EDT reply actions
Rec’d, for that magnificent poster – soon to be displayed prominently in my office – alone.
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)
framed in solid gold and held up by a diamond pin…
"Sanity is not statistical." - George Orwell, a Leafs fan...
Stalk me here...
by blurr1974 on Aug 6, 2009 1:51 PM EDT up reply actions
Ha! I just compared Fraser to Bush on Puck Daddy!
Actually, knowing other people see the similarities just makes me that much sadder…
Welcome to PPP where the hatred for Kerry Fraser knows no bounds.
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Welcome
Thanks for joining.
Are you the ‘steve’ that is tearing up the comments on the Puck Daddy post and calling Leafs Lunch a homer show? Because if so kudos to you for wading into that cesspool to defend Leaf fans’ honour.
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by PPP on Aug 6, 2009 3:06 PM EDT up reply actions
Yep that was me. I’m generally pretty quiet on the Puck Daddy boards but Wings fans just make me…. GAAHHHH!!!
I have no words.
I enjoyed how in one breath they accused Leafs fans of playing the conspiracy game on the Fraser issue…. and then LITERALLY RIGHT AFTERWARDS complaining that this past playoffs was rigged!!!!
My head may explode.
But ya, you guys run a great site here and I’m happy to be commenting now! Keep up the great work!
I wonder
How many well groomed Zebra’s Clark has bunched out since that day…
Tom Kurvers, is that you?
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by general borschevsky on Aug 6, 2009 4:01 PM EDT up reply actions
STAR WARS REFERENCE!!!
I am ashamed to admit that I caught that one. But I did.
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)
i bent my wookie
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 6, 2009 4:42 PM EDT up reply actions
Welcome
Thanks for joining!
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by PPP on Aug 6, 2009 4:43 PM EDT up reply actions
no prob!
you guys do an amazing job here! i wish this was in the paper instead of cox,simmons,etc…. berger is a fag…
Thanks. But if we were in the paper we’d have to start hating the Leafs. At least it seems that way.
Someday we’ll just take over The Star and put Berger and Cox’s heads on pikes at the entrance to Toronto as a warning to other journalists.
Also, no calling people fags please and thank you.
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by PPP on Aug 6, 2009 4:46 PM EDT up reply actions
Well done, and rec’ed
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
Albert Einstein
by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Aug 6, 2009 4:04 PM EDT reply actions
im in.
lurker no more. not too much too say yet, but we’ll get there.
You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
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Borg, are they Swedish?
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
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by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Aug 6, 2009 4:17 PM EDT up reply actions
vun of us vun of us vun of us
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 6, 2009 4:19 PM EDT up reply actions
Welcome aboard!
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
Albert Einstein
by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Aug 6, 2009 4:17 PM EDT up reply actions
One of my best friend’s last name is Weiner. YO WEINER
Thanks for joining. I’m going to talk to you like you’re him from now on.
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Maybe it’s Greener sock-puppet alter ego. Greener-Weener.
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What about my…?
Oh. Never mind.
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)
Welcome
Thanks for joining and coming out of the woodwork.
Don’t worry about having nothing to say. It’ll come to you eventually.
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by PPP on Aug 6, 2009 4:43 PM EDT up reply actions
Chemmy’s a founding blogger and he hasn’t had anything………….never mind.
"We've had an ongoing problem with Grabovski this year." Bob Gainey, 4/04/09
by kidkawartha on Aug 6, 2009 5:44 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
see
that’s why you’re my favorite…
:)
"Sanity is not statistical." - George Orwell, a Leafs fan...
Stalk me here...
by blurr1974 on Aug 6, 2009 6:04 PM EDT up reply actions
im my own favourite
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 6, 2009 6:21 PM EDT up reply actions
Hello PPP!
Amazing blog here guys, I too have been following closley all summer. I can’t wait until the season starts! PPP, MLHS and DGB have made work fun again! _
Who can we blame ’94 on? any suggestions?
I am going to go with Kirk McLean for selling his soul to play for the Stanley Cup.
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by PPP on Aug 6, 2009 4:44 PM EDT up reply actions
Irbe
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 6, 2009 4:44 PM EDT up reply actions
Irbe put some sort of goofy mask falling apart equipment curse on us
I just know it,
also dont forget to use the reply button on coments to reply directly to em!
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 6, 2009 4:47 PM EDT up reply actions
ooops!
thanks brotha’.
I can’t remember…did Bure even have a big series against us?…..I remember Craig Adams kicking our ass for some reason…. i swear that series against the canucks is like the lost conference final….
For me, 1999 was the lost one. I blanked on basically all of the series beyond Hasek getting hurt.
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by PPP on Aug 6, 2009 4:50 PM EDT up reply actions
You mean in game one. Hasek played the rest of the series.
A Nation of Masochists The waiting is the hardest part but the truculence helps.
I also thought that it was more than one game.
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by PPP on Aug 6, 2009 4:53 PM EDT up reply actions
I’m pretty sure he missed games one and two
A Nation of Masochists The waiting is the hardest part but the truculence helps.
Also in retrospect their goalie in game 1 and 2 was Dwayne Roloson. He turned out to be a not-too-shabby goalie.
A Nation of Masochists The waiting is the hardest part but the truculence helps.
Irbe can be blamed for 2002 though.
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by PPP on Aug 6, 2009 4:49 PM EDT up reply actions
that ones on Owen Nolan
I also cant forgive Roenick for that friggen slapper from the blueline
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 6, 2009 4:51 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I think you’re getting your years confused. Happens when it’s been so long : )
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no, not confused, im mixing them for lack of claritys sake
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 6, 2009 4:56 PM EDT up reply actions
2002 was Almo’s horrible backchecking that allowed Gelinas’ winner in Game 6 OT.
Roenick was the sick wrister in 2004 that made me walk 20 minutes in the wrong direction because of the emotional trauma.
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by PPP on Aug 6, 2009 4:53 PM EDT up reply actions
it was due to the elation we all felt moments earlier when Tucker phased the DNA in Kapanen creating an unstable life form existing in two dimensions at once.
man that hit was epic…
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Stalk me here...
by blurr1974 on Aug 6, 2009 4:56 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
seriously i was confused for a week after that, my brain couldnt handle the sudden back and forth of emotion
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 6, 2009 4:57 PM EDT up reply actions
Don’t forget the 2002 elation when Sundin scored the tying goal. I don’t think I’ve ever screamed as loud in my life.
A Nation of Masochists The waiting is the hardest part but the truculence helps.
i taught my 5 year old cousin a new word that day
she was yelling “FUCK YEA” for a week after
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 6, 2009 4:59 PM EDT up reply actions
I woke people up two floors up with my yell.
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by PPP on Aug 6, 2009 4:59 PM EDT up reply actions
2001 when Mats Sundin singlehandedly legitimized the one piece composite.
SUNDIN… * DING * SCORES
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2002 was Almo’s horrible backchecking that allowed Gelinas’ winner in Game 6 OT
Undoubtedly true; but it bears remembering that the clearing attempt went off Dan Marouelli’s skate and deflected right to the Carolina player (Vasicek?) who passes to Gelinas, BOOM goes the dynamite.
Conclusion: Dan Marouelli is also evil.
I even asked DGB if he has the video of this goal; I don’t think a lot of people realize the refs played a role in that one too.
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)
If we listened to Howard Berger, all we’d blame is ourselves.
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mmm kool aid
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 6, 2009 4:51 PM EDT up reply actions
its always his fault, him and irbe
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 6, 2009 4:57 PM EDT up reply actions
yes
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 6, 2009 4:59 PM EDT up reply actions
who? Don’t recall that name.
A Nation of Masochists The waiting is the hardest part but the truculence helps.
he was that guy the leafs hired to talk to the media after the games and say funny quotable things, what he was doing on the bench was beyond me
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by JaredFromLondon on Aug 6, 2009 5:02 PM EDT up reply actions
oh you mean the funny one that looked like a squirrel? I always thought he was the mascot.
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Remember? Nice, polite? Expense account at Hakim Optical?
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George Bush ruined the world?
hat are you like,. 12? As someone who was born in the 60’s and grew up in the 70’s I can tell you that despite the histrionics of most people today’s world is far better than many people realize.
Oh BTW Burkie said “truculence” in his first press conference. Just in case you don’t know.
Why don’t we ask the average Iraqi citizen, see what they think?
"We've had an ongoing problem with Grabovski this year." Bob Gainey, 4/04/09
World’s kinda going to shit… of course if you use it like a giant garbage heap for 150 years that tends to happen. No I don’t hug trees, but sonovabitch people, walk the 20 feet to throw out your Timmys cup, take the 10 seconds a day to separate your recyclables, and don’t drive to the fukin corner store.
K, I am done now.
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
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by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Aug 6, 2009 10:31 PM EDT up reply actions
Maybe so, but Vietnam. Three Mile Island. Love Canal DDT would any of you like those to return? And if you think the economy is bad now how about mortgage rates of 20%? Wage and PRice Controls?
Trust me people if you think today is bad you haven’t lived long enough to see real shit.
by The Meatriarchy on Aug 7, 2009 12:04 PM EDT up reply actions
Unfortunately, I’ll probably live long enough to see the ‘real shit’ you describe, and worse.
I’ll bring the pictures by when you are in the OFH.
;)
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
Albert Einstein
by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Aug 7, 2009 12:57 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah i’m sure they would trade their fledgling democracy for a return to Saddam and his pycho sons in a heart beat. And even if not. Iraq is hardly the entire world.
by The Meatriarchy on Aug 7, 2009 12:02 PM EDT up reply actions
hehehe
Oh BTW Burkie said "truculence" in his first press conference. Just in case you don’t know.
So you’re going to be difficult eh?
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