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OT: What are you Watching/Listening/Drinking?

Slinger 48 said:
Thoughts on this? Some of the subject matter doesn't agree with me but it's a hell of a piece of music IMO.


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This is a great song with 2 massive production mistakes.

1) letting lady Gaga upstage mick on the vocals. 80 fucking year old mick fucking jagger slays it. Total throwback and he sounds great. Lady Gaga should have come in at. 6-7 out of 10. Not 100.

2) how do they not come out of that with a guitar solo!!!! If the thought is that Ron can’t hack it for the song then find someone else. Bring in Clapton. It’s the ducking stones.

anyways, I’m nit picking. I think this is a fantastic track. Throwback mick. Crazy he was able to find that in him.
 
Mick sounds amazing. As for Gaga... if you're going to get her on your track... let her do her thing. I'm not sure the song's AS good if she's mailing it in.
 
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Grabbed Gretzky's 1990 Autob off the used bookstore shelf and had a quick read on the weekend. It was a fun read, with lots of great reminders of what the league was like for Gretz and his Oilers.

He had a list of 10 things he'd like the NHL to change (and it was interesting to see how some of these have been debated or enacted over the years).

  1. End the fighting. Make it illegal. Period. If you fight, you're out of the game.
  2. Expand. The NHL is going into the San Francisco area next year. Great. Now expand to Seattle, Houston and maybe Milwaukee.
  3. Rename the conferences. It's parochial to call them the Wales Conference and the Campbell Conference. And it doesn't help to have the Adams, Norris, Smythe and Patrick Divisions. We have enough trouble trying to explain the blue line to people. Just call them East and West.
  4. Realign the conferences. Everybody wants to blame the president, John Ziegler, for the NHL's problems, but he's pretty good. The trouble is that some of the owners always do only what's best for their own team, not for the game. For instance, the lineup of the conferences is ridiculous, but it's set up so that Toronto and Chicago are almost guaranteed to make the playoffs. What should be done is put ten teams in one conference and eleven in the other. As it is now, we play teams in our own conference eight times -- which is way too many -- and the other teams three times. The new way we'd play them six and three, respectively. More people would see more players and therefore build interest. Forget the divisions. Keep the playoffs the same and eventually have the two conference winners play the Stanley Cup.
  5. Bring on free agency. Why shouldn't we fight for it? Free agency hasn't hurt any other professional sport. It's only helped baseball. Now football is getting it. Look at the Green Bay Packers. They rebuilt their team mostly from Plan B free agents. If the players wanted to strike for it, I'd strike. The fans don't know it, but it'd be the best thing for the game.
  6. Institute a week-off plan. By the end of February, the players are so spent that the fans and the owners don't get out of us all that they could. The owners have us running all over the country doing exhibition games before the season, then the All-Star game (which now includes an extra "skills" competition and if you don't participate in the skills, you can't play the game) halfway through the season, then the playoffs at the end of the season. That's over one hundred days of hockey sometimes. How many years does it take off your career? Give the players a break. Give each team five consecutive days off (not counting travel days) in January or February. You never have more than two teams taking time off at once, so you don't have to shut down anything. The league just keeps right on going. When the players come back they're playing better and everybody is getting their money's worth.
  7. Let the players help make the rules. In the NHL, the people making the rules usually never played the game. For instance, the league sneaked through a rule last year that let only "official suppliers' " logos appear on the skates, sticks and gloves we use. The players have to use the "official" stuff because the league wanted the new revenue. If we want to use another stick or a different glove that isn't "official", we have to obliterate the name with magic marker. Guess how long the players will keep getting their tailored sticks from the suppliers if the logos are removed before we can go on the ice? Of course, we can always use the "official" stuff... The league does some surprising things when money is involved. In 1988, there was a company in Japan that was going to pay Bruce [McNall, former LA Kings owner] $1 million to bring us there to train for ten days and play two exhibition games, all expenses paid. Apparently the International Committee of the NHL killed the deal. The NHL was angry that it wasn't getting a cut. Never mind that Bruce had lost millions and risked millions more to build an NHL franchise in a tough market with lots of other championship teams, and had even, in the end, offered them a cut.
  8. Pay the refs more. The top referee in the entire league makes something like $85,000. An everyday linesman makes $30,000. If you want the best refereeing, you've got to pay the price. I mean, would you want to break up those fights?
  9. Bring back ESPN. When the NHL chose Sports Channel America over ESPN, it was another decision by the league to choose the quick buck over long-term effects. Sure, we got more money from Sports Channel, but how much did we lose in exposure? Who sees Sports Channel, anyway? I'll tell you who, only one in ten U.S homes, that's who. ESPN, who had bought the NHL rights before Sports Channel outbid them, goes into fifty-one million homes. Obviously, the NHL's decision was based upon what was better for the owners' pocketbooks, not what was better for the game. What a shocker.
  10. Let us play in the Olympics. Every three or four years the NHL's best players give up seven weeks of their summer to play in an international tournament -- the Canada Cup. Granted it makes the players association a lot of money -- mainly because the players ask for only nominal compensation. But the Canada Cup was created also as an alternative to the Olympics since the NHL pros weren't allowed in the Olympic Games. Now the Olympic rules allow us to play. The NHL doesn't. If our stars played in the Olympics they would be seen in new markets that might stimulate interest and new followers of hockey. Eventually the sport could truly be national in the United States and network television might come calling.
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Should Gretz replace Bettman when the time comes? Cause it feels like Gary just cribbed these notes.

Plus we’d be replacing one Bettman with another bet man. 🥁
 
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