Dallas kickin' our ass & Wild Turkey Honey

So, went to a big ass halloween costume party at my college buddy's house. Sharpened up the DJ chops and threw it down old school while keeping one eye on the Blues game (since Mizzou was getting blown out by Texas). Saw a couple of Dallas goals which led to the eventual loss 4-1. Didn't really care as I was up to my ears in draft beer, frisky housewives and some crazy ass drink called Wild Turkey American Honey. Now, if your familiar with regular Wild Turkey, like I am, you understand that to consume it regularly means you have a drinking problem. Because no one chooses it for the flavor. To give you and idea of what I'm talking about - my father, who almost never drinks, pours himself some Wild Turkey for its medicinal purposes to battle sever colds and flu symptoms. This new stuff is unbelievably smooth even poured straight. The host and I were doing several chilled shots of the stuff and I could have done that all night long. My liver is thankful that didn't happen. Head was aching this morning, but probably more because of that awful keg beer than from the hard alcohol. Makes me wonder how we downed all those kegs in college with little physical consequence. I guess the young, college-aged metabolism is just adept at processing that stuff, whereas the mid-30's phsyiology rejects it outright. Regardless, rough Sunday with too much to do and no hope of a day off this week. Oh well. I may attend the Blues game on Halloween night at its seems there is a glut of tix available due to all the parents having to do the parental thing and pay attention to their kids. Keep you posted. Also upcoming: Mizzou on Nov 7 for Baylor. My prediction: Cold & drunk. May have to bring some of this new concoction for warmth.

Blues 3 - Wild 1

Yes sir! Home game #3, hosting the Wild, solid outing. Victory on the back of Chris Mason's strong goaltending, David Perron's first goal of the season. Beautiful effort off of an odd man break, came in from the right wing, beat the goalie to the far post. Good times in the corporate suite, although didn't get to hang with all the people I wanted to. Spent the third period in the club schmoozing with some VP's from the Blues. They seem to be happy with ticket sales and fan enthusiasm so far this year. If the crowd last night was any indication they should have a good year financially. To nearly sell out an early season game against the largely unknown and non-descript Wild is an accomplishment. Who is the Wild's best player? Havlat? Belanger? Friday nights are good nights for hockey. How about some more Friday night dates on the schedule? Bud Lights @ $8 per, not so much of an accomodation.

Blues 5 - Ducks 0

So, stayed up late and was flipping between the Yanks-Angels 13 inning game 2 of the ALCS and the Blues-Ducks in Anaheim. The baseball game went real late. The Blues dispatched with the Ducks fairly easily with a 5-0 victory. McDonald looked impressive against his former team and TJ Oshie got his first goal of the season on a skate deflection (shady!). Tkachuk had a solid outing and as usual in Blues-Ducks affairs there was some chippy-ness. Crombeen scrapped to be the first Blue to get a major fighting penalty this season (really?). And Ty Conklin had the shutout making a couple of highlight reel saves. Is it possible we could have another goalkeeping controversy by the end of the year? Also of note, Eric Brewer was travelling with the team and FSN-Midwest had some b-roll of him skating in practice, an encouraging sign.

Now, prepping for NFL Week 6. Need a big fantasy win this week - Houston (Schaub) and Cincinnati (Palmer) are playing each other so I had to choose between QB's playing each other. Given that Cinci's D has been playing tough (Malaluga) and I can't name anyone on Houstons's D, I went with Palmer. Also, NO and NYG are playing in The Big Easy. Would be nice to get a big game out of Brandon Jacobs, but I have a feeling Eli will be slinging it around trying to keep up with Brees and the NO offense. I took NYG in the pool and the confidence pick'em.

Had a three hapy hour week this past week - Monday @ Corner, Tuesday @ BARcelona, Friday @ Growlers. That's a good pace, although I can't say it made me any happier. Looking forward to this week - corporate suite at the Blues game for Friday night! Probably drinks before, during and after. Nice. Til later . . .

Rams & thoughts on cheerleading

So, the Rams are allegedly taking a page from the Blues playbook and opening their club section bar to the masses for pregame and postgame cocktails. Hopefully it's one small step toward improving the sterile environment of NFL football in the Edward Jones Dome. I had the 'opportunity' to attend the Vikes-Rams contest today, such as it was, and was still amazed at the incredulity of people with high expectations for a team which is clearly in the bottom 2 or 3 in the league. The most exciting part of the game are the cheerleaders - they look good and their choreography is mediocre. And there is less of them. Must be cost cutting or something. I could have sworn that there were nine of them of each corner last year for a total of 36. This year it appears there are only five per corner for a total of 20. This deserved further research. Here is a pic of a couple of them on a visit to Afghanistan.

Ah, no 2009 squad picture available as of yet. In 2000, I had set a New Years resolution to date a Rams cheerleader. Alas, never came across that opportunity. Although around that same time, I kept a former Rams cheerleader's hair out of her own vomit. Stylish.

Of course then you have the standard against which all others are judged . . .

Really, really bad sports night . . .

Last night may have been the worst sports night EVER for STL sports fans. I was fortunate enough to have a corporate suite ticket to the Blues home opener at Scottrade Center. Fortunate because that allowed me to watch the Cards game on the monitors in the suite while partaking in the festivities (ahem) of the Blues game. Also, Mizzou football was playing a rare Thursday night game vs. Nebraska in Columbia in a monsoon that also deserved some attention. Long story short - Cards blew up due to a Matt Holliday error in the bottom of the 9th, the Blues skated to an uninspiring 4-2 loss to Atlanta (I. Kovalchuck 2 goals) and Mizzou ended up getting beat in the 4th quarter. And it rained. And rained some more. Luckily I had a busy schedule on Friday, otherwise I could have been in the bar early and late.
So, Cards in a big hole. Blues looking a bit flat. And Mizzou's slide back into medicrity seems to be on schedule. Precious.

Blog intro

Second attempt at a regular blog that will cover a variety of topics - mostly sports, some politics, random musings, thoughts on stock picks and money plays, travel, and humorous drinking stories. Will publish something weekly.

Oh yeah, the blog title, you may ask? Obviously when the St. Louis Blues win the Stanley Cup there will be a parade down Market Street in downtown St. Louis and I will be there. Probably barely coherent, but I will be there. This is also the name of a story/screenplay idea I have about four friends whose lives change drastically over the course of a hockey season.

That is all for now. Until next time, enjoy the pic of Hayden Pantierre licking the Stanley Cup. I know I will be.