John 3:16. Kiss, Larry Bird fan, #Avs analysis at Substack. Writer @sjrsports, @galesburg, @bellevillenewsd, @ILTimes. Alum Denver Post, SI, BR, author 7 books
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That was quick. Thank you folks. Much more to come.
Dater On Hockey is officially a Substack Bestseller!
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A great lady and great reporter. I wish her the best
Lynn Bartels' family has shared she is fighting brain cancer. No journalist in the last 30 years did a better job covering Colorado politics with such grit, tirelessness, and humor. @JonCaldara gives you a glimpse here:
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Jun 15
On one hand, Tortorella got Vegas to the Stanley Cup Final. That's something.
On the other hand, he cost them a second-round pick, probably cost them Game 2 of the Final with that idiotic challenge, and never made a goalie switch when it might have made a difference.
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If it’s a short flight and the mother asks nicely, I probably give my seat up. But 1. No chance on a long international flight (I’m 6-6) that I paid extra for. 2. Hell no, to anyone who acts like that
14-hour international flight. I specifically paid $150 extra for an exit-row window seat months ago because I'm 6’2” and need the legroom.
I get to my row. A woman is sitting in my seat with a toddler on her lap.
I show her my boarding pass: "Hey, I think you're in my seat."
She looks up. "I need to sit next to my husband. He’s in the middle seat across the aisle. You can just take his middle seat."
I looked at his seat. Row 42. Stuck between two strangers.
I said: "No thank you. I paid extra for this legroom."
She snapped: "Are you seriously going to separate a mother and child over a window? Have some compassion."
I didn't argue.
I called the flight attendant over. Showed my receipt and pass.
The flight attendant told the woman she had to move back to her assigned ticketed seat.
The woman threw a massive tantrum, took 10 minutes to move her bags, and spent the first hour of the flight glaring at me across the aisle while her husband muttered insults.
Halfway through, the guy next to me says I should have just given it up to "keep the peace."
No. Your husband could have paid $150 to sit next to you. My height isn't your poor planning
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Disgrace
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That's our member behind the wheel. He was pulled out of the cab and suffered shock and physical injury to his arm, back and head.
The whole city is elated about our hometown team — and that includes drivers who watched the game last night at airport lots while waiting for the next fare, listened on their radios while cruising for the next job, and huddled at hotel lines with the same heart-stopping anxiety that turned into the most beautiful joy.
Pulling the cab driver out of his seat, stomping on and shattering his hood turned our joy into a nightmare.
When you see the yellow, do you not see the person behind the wheel? That's someone's spouse, child, parent or friend — a New Yorker.
He wasn’t out there for a joy ride, he was working to make ends meet and to get his fellow New Yorkers home safely.
Cabbies pay just to go to work. They pay for their cars — whether through loans or leases.
Drivers need safety on the job, both in the quiet moments of ordinary days and in the middle of public celebration.
Shame on anyone who turns these joyful moments into nightmares for fellow New Yorkers.
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“Or I’ll huff, and I’ll puff, and I’ll blow your house down!”
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Jun 12
To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis:
Show us your laptop.
Show us your iCloud.
Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation.
You won’t.
You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out.
That is not who we are.
My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count.
For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame.
I no longer believe that.
Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us.
And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts.
That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena.
Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next.
Life does not determine our character. It reveals it.
Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next?
We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day.
So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop.
You won’t.
The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing.
That is the only definition that matters.
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Gee, I’m so effing happy for Elon Musk being a trillionaire. Meanwhile gas is $4.60 a gallon, inflation is up to 4.2 percent, ground beef is $8 a pound and health insurance is a joke.
Hurray!
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Jun 6
Nearly three years ago, at Omaha Beach cemetery, I helped chaperone high schoolers from Denver for a trip there. I asked this girl from Arrupe Jesuit High School her emotions while cleaning a headstone of one of the fallen heroes. Her response was poignant
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Jun 5
Gotta love when a @Newsweek hack rushes to get a “Caitlin Clark trade to Sparks rumor” piece out for engagement farming, and forgets to delete their AI chat prompts from the piece.
#NowYouKnow @IndianaFever #WNBA
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Jun 5
So many in Illinois who constantly bitch about taxes/Pritzker/Democrats/Chicago are upset they won’t give taxpayer money to billionaire NFL owners.
So many in Indiana who badmouth Illinois for the same reasons seem pretty jazzed about paying taxes for a new stadium.
#bears
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Very nice man. RIP
Jun 5
Long-time NHL general manager Cliff Fletcher has passed away at 90.
A Hockey Hall of Famer, Fletcher won a Stanley Cup with the Calgary Flames in 1989 and later brought the Leafs back to relevance in the early 1990s as the architect of what was arguably the most impactful trade in the franchise history.
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See ya. Trying to stick it to taxpayers to fund your business, when you’re already worth $6 billion, is a joke. Bye
Jun 5
Statement from Chairman George H. McCaskey and President & CEO Kevin Warren:
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And he’d be wrong 10 out of 10 times, like he was tonight.
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John Tortorella says he'd challenge the #VGK potential goal "10 out of 10 times."
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Bartender at Park Center Lounge in Westminster tonight knew who I was, a rabid Avs fan, so I told him a bit of inside stuff in between some really loud karaoke. Try the carnitas fries at PCL - phenomenal
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