Last night I tried watching the Thunder because Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was actually allowed to play against the terrific Phoenix Suns inside of an almost empty Pay. Com Arena. I may or may not write something down about the game later this week-end. I haven’t decided yet. The game itself as another scripted Thunder loss isn’t worthy of anything beyond two paragraphs.
You know, unlike others in this market …I actually take some journalistic pride in the content of my blog. I’ve always wanted the blog to read like something between the NY Times Magazine, ESPN, CNN, and a piano bar…..but coming from an Oklahoman’s perspective.
I’m not in this for numbers. I’m in this with my obscure underground blog because there’s such a paucity of honest objective writing in the Oklahoma markets on just about everything. Everything is just so over the top rogue red.
Alex Ovechkin is Russian and he’s in the twilight of his NFL career. In my mind…he will go down as a Top Ten player of all-time. I love watching Alex play.
Watching Alex on a power play is truly one the rare treats in watching an NHL game. I have him above Gretsky for two reasons…he can check and he can fiight.
The five shills of a hockey player are 1 skating, 2 passing, 3 shooting, 4 checking, 5 fighting. Gretsky was a three-skill hockey player. Pretty boy. Bobby Gordon Orr from Parry Sound, Ontario and Gordie Howe were not pretty boys. They were hockey players like Alex.
It did take Alex awhile though to focus on his checking and two-way commitment to the game. When he did…he finally won his Cup in 2018.
The fact is Alex’s Washington Capitals were in New York last night playing the NY Rangers. It was an awful game when I turned it off with the Caps trailing 3-0.
Alex didn’t seem like himself on the ice.
Anyway…this is Alex above giving his heart felt thoughts on the Russian-Ukranian War the world now finds itself enmeshed in just because of one man’s obsession of what the USSR was before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Soviet Union.
Alex stops short of condemning Putin on this video given as they’ve been friends in the past. But he certainly doesn’t endorse the war in any way.
Because unlike the Idiots Twins…Trump and Tucker Carlson…I think Alex like all of us realizes what a horrific thing war actually is for those who don’t claim bunions and have to be participants in the human brutality of war.