News of Saturday’s plane
collision near St. Brieux reverberated through the Elgar Peterson Arena in
Humboldt during the RBC Cup semi-final game between the Broncos and Woodstock
Slammers. It’s a puzzling tragedy as collisions like that are extremely
rare, especially in prairie skies. Hopefully investigators are able to
figure out the what and why. Meanwhile, there is now a big hole for
families and friends of the three who died that were from rural Alberta,
including an 11-year-old boy. Apparently, the boy’s dad needed to grab some
farm implement parts from Bourgault and his neighbor offered to fly them
instead of watching them drive six hours both ways. The other two who
died were a man and woman and we don’t know much other than that, except that
the plane was headed to La Ronge from Regina.
Speaking of the RBC Cup, it was disappointing to see the
Broncos skate through the round robin 4-and-0 and then lose in overtime to
Woodstock to be eliminated prior to Sunday’s final; but that’s why the games
are actually played out by the athletes instead of the pundits who sit and
analyze for a living. Head coach Dean Brockman commended his players and
said he wished he could ‘take away some of their pain’ that they were
feeling. He also had a parting word for the on-ice officials, who disallowed
a goal in the second period despite television replays showing the puck was
clearly over the line. “I guess when a referee tells me he’s always
right, I guess he isn’t. Maybe they shouldn’t be out late partying all
week like they have been. I don’t know, I’m just throwing that out
there.” Personally, I was out on Thursday night and when I left at 12:30,
there were a number of on-ice officials enjoying themselves. Having said
that, I didn’t see anything over the top occurring and in the defense of the refs,
there were no games on Friday. But, do you think any of the four teams
left in the tournament Thursday night allowed their players to party on
Thursday night?
Last year, I used this space to hammer on the incompetence
of Saskatchewan Roughrider management. I hope I don’t have to do that
this year. This year’s version of incompetence is the Boston Red Sox of
Major League Baseball. Can someone explain to me how you can flush $200
million down the toilet the way they have? And, I don’t care what level
of sports it is, but you can’t have people on your team that don’t want to be
there. Josh Beckett doesn’t want to be there. How do you explain
being too injured to pitch Saturday and unable to go in a 17 inning game on
Sunday, but totally fine to golf that weekend? It sounds drastic, but I’d
simply call him and give him his unconditional release if I couldn’t find a
trade partner. He can be someone else’s problem. In fact, I’d run a
broom through that entire roster with Dustin Pedroia and David Ortiz being the
only untouchables. Ortiz deserves a contract for life for his World
Series heroics. Pedroia is exactly what teams should want in a
player.
A few people have come up to me in recent years and remarked
that I should join the world of politics. I can’t lie, I’ve thought
about it; but I really don’t think I’d get very far. First of all, people
would actually have to vote for me! But, furthermore, I am not sure a
political party would ever want to take me on. While I may fall in line
with a particular party on most issues, I do feel as though a representative
should be able to stand up and say, “Hey, I don’t agree with my party on this
particular issue; but on most things I do and that’s why I wear the colors I
do.” I have been accused (if that’s the right word) of being
Conservative, but the reality is that Bev Oda should be in jail, in my opinion,
her political stripes having no bearing on my opinion. And, Peter MacKay
has pulled some stunts that make him come off as shady.
I saw a cool quote on Sunday: “God could not be
everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.” Hopefully, if you have
a mom, you took two seconds out of your day to wish her a good one.
I’m embarrassed for the City of Regina having to put up with
some of the kooks who have entered their mayor race. Michael Fougere is
going to win with Pat Fiacco like popularity based on what I’ve seen in some of
the candidates. Not enough space to go into it here. Google it if
you want a good laugh.
CBS has given the axe to CSI: Miami. The other two
CSI’s are expected back for the new season. The dude from Cheers (Ted
Danson) is now the lead in the Las Vegas version. CSI: New York is the
other member of the CSI family. CSI: Miami was on for ten years and I
watched it for about four. David Caruso and his over dramatization with
the sunglasses got to be a little too much.
Nice person mentions this week to: Rebecca McDowell,
Karla Hynes, Curtis MacLeod, and Sandra Nordin.
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