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WeedyMcSmokey
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Location: Toronto
Gender: Manee-manee-man (Orgasmo, anyone?)
Member since: July 16, 2003
Last visit: July 04, 2009

WeedyMcSmokey has posted 23 links and 4129 comments to SportsFilter and 1 link and 442 comments to the Locker Room and 2 columns.

Sports Bio

Toronto based sports enthusiast, who like all Toronto based sports enthusiasts is totally cynical about all Toronto based sports franchises. No Leafs, Nooooooooo.

I'm big on hockey, baseball, basketball, the Olympics, golf, football, tennis - aw hell, just about all of 'em - but in that order.

My teams are all Toronto-based for the most part:

NHL - Leafs
MLB - Jays
NBA - Raptors (sigh)
NFL - I have a soft spot for the 49ers and the Bills

I'm pretty much a pro-Canada guy throughout, so I have a free standing offer to beat the shit outta anyone who argues that Steve Nash isn't the NBA MVP in 2005 and 2006.

I also enjoy drinking, smoking and doing all manner of unhealthy activities while bemoaning the lack of effort on the part of wolrd-class athletes on the teams I support. To wit - I am very armchair.

If you are offended by what I say, or have said, just wait a day or so and I'll give you a better reason.

Recent Links

"I call him 'The Silent Scumbag.' … He's got a silent sickness to him. … Those quiet guys are the ones you have to watch out for." : Hee hee! I had post this because of the quote. David Wells is on the case and the Killing Machine may be getting a little too cozy. Sure, now he's just urinating on rookies, but when night falls....

posted by WeedyMcSmokey to baseball at 08:21 AM on March 02 - 31 comments

YES! It happened!: Like we all knew it would. The most predictable occurence in sports history. Larry Brown out - Isiah in. After all, it only makes sense that a team of five guards should be coached by one. Gentlemen, start your sarcasm.

posted by WeedyMcSmokey to basketball at 09:32 AM on June 22 - 46 comments

The Tao of a Toronto Maple Leaf Fan: Toronto's NHL team may be a storied franchise, but it's a horror story, according to Weedy McSmokey

posted by WeedyMcSmokey to commentary at 11:04 AM on April 03 - 0 comments

And on his greatest day...: Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion - inventor of the slap shot and the second man ever to score 50 goals in a season, succumbs to stomach cancer on the very day his jersey is to be retired by the most revered franchise in hockey.

posted by WeedyMcSmokey to hockey at 01:19 PM on March 11 - 16 comments

Polar bear interrupts hockey game: Mom takes matters into her own hands;: Lydia Angyiou - Mother of two wrestles a 700 pound polar bear and saves the lives of kids in her small Quebec town while playing hockey. Bear's career stats: One game played, no goals, no assists, five minutes for fighting.

posted by WeedyMcSmokey to other at 08:56 PM on February 21 - 28 comments

Recent Comments

Shaq Challenges YouTube Trick-Shot God to Game of Horse

That's some impressive stuff, Bruce Manley. And I'm not so sure Shaq is going to be any good at Horse. He can't shoot.

posted by WeedyMcSmokey at 12:30 PM on June 28

Steven Wells: a few memories of a unique and acerbic voice

I genuinely do feel like this is a greater loss than most. I just fucking love his stuff. RIP, big guy.

posted by WeedyMcSmokey at 05:24 PM on June 25

The San Antonio Spurs send three players to Milwaukee, get Richard Jefferson in return.

And yes, that's not a typo, Dan Gadzuric will make 7 mil in 10/11.

What the... He's STEALING MONEY!

posted by WeedyMcSmokey at 08:35 PM on June 24

"Essentially, this site is what I'd have been doing when I was 12 years old had the Internet and Photoshop been available to me in the eighties."

Great link. I feel like a kindred spirit.

posted by WeedyMcSmokey at 08:32 PM on June 24

Onion: Gymnast Put to Sleep After Breaking Leg

I think it's more telling that some people believed that 17 year-old gymnasts are put down after breaking their legs. Frankly, if I have to factor in these people then I'm giving up on this planet. They're sucking all the fun out of being semi-intelligent.... Moderately intelligent?... Ok, occassionally intelligent... Fine - occassionally not dumb.

posted by WeedyMcSmokey at 07:14 PM on June 22

Iranian Soccer Players Wear Green Protest Arm Bands

No, I meant baclava. It's delicious and can disguise the face admirably. Fantastic stuff.

posted by WeedyMcSmokey at 06:16 PM on June 19

Iranian Soccer Players Wear Green Protest Arm Bands

That dude is fucking brave. He's not some baclava-wearing student. He's got a lot on the line. Pretty impressive.

posted by WeedyMcSmokey at 05:40 PM on June 18

Onion: Gymnast Put to Sleep After Breaking Leg

And that's how kids learn not to be stupid and believe everything they read. I say, no foul. Keep it up.

posted by WeedyMcSmokey at 06:30 PM on June 17

Donte Stallworth Gets 30 Days Jail for DUI Manslaughter

Well, at first this seems a bit too lenient - however when one considers that Stallworth wasn't driving recklessly, was speeding but only by the strictest of definitions (10 MPH over), has no priors, didn't flee from the scene and cooperated with the investigation and the gentleman who died was jaywalking across a multi-lane road and it certainly makes sense that he wouldn't get a ridiculous 10 year sentence.

I guess part of me thinks that the guy shouldn't have been running across the street ethier. I don't think he's blameless here.

posted by WeedyMcSmokey at 06:17 PM on June 17

Sportswriter Seeks Active Gay Baseball Player

Why this may lead to gays living without the proper amount of shame they should have for their disgusting, amoral, godless lives. Why just the thought causes me to think incessantly of their supple buttocks and smooth muscular skin! It's just wrong!

They should be forced to work in interior design sweatshops, churning out the latest in esthetic furnishings and will be paid only in last year's Fall collection.

And cod-pieces! They ought to have to wear sweet, sweet cod-pieces!

I have to go not look at gay porn now.

posted by WeedyMcSmokey at 10:18 PM on June 15

Lakers Win NBA Championship

What the fuck am I going to do for the next four months?

posted by WeedyMcSmokey at 10:08 PM on June 15

You're all out!

Well, that Queen isn't going to save herself.

Enrico Polazzo! Enrico Polazzo!

posted by WeedyMcSmokey at 10:05 PM on June 15

Dirk Nowitzki's Ex-Girlfriend Pregnant

I think Dirk is just thinking that discretion is the better part of valour in this case. I mean what's he going to say? have been taken to the cleaners and now I've got a kid out of the deal?

Hope for the kid's sake that these two can come to some amicable conclusion.

posted by WeedyMcSmokey at 11:30 PM on May 28

$50 grand buys a playoff win

Yeah - that's a bit slanted. The quote reads to me like more of a comment on the quality and consistency of officiating rather than being literal.

But, Kobe vs. Lebron? I do want that to happen. With integrity, of course.

posted by WeedyMcSmokey at 11:26 PM on May 28

Mike Tyson's Daughter Dies After Home Accident

This is a terrible tragedy. It's a tough one. This too happened to my family. My nephew died when he was two. Suffered a seizure and died in his sleep. That was three years ago. My sister is an utterly amazing woman (though she struggles mightily), who is doing much better now, but the little guy's older brother, who's 6, is having a hard time. You just try to figure it out as you go. No easy answers.

We can kids who lose their parents are called orphans, and husbands and wives called widows and widowers - but there isn't a word for when you lose your child.

Sorry Mike.

posted by WeedyMcSmokey at 10:09 PM on May 28