The "Sin Bin"

I love ice hockey. Probably goes back to my youth slipping and sliding on frozen ponds or trying to play baseball on frozen fields or just because it's the ignored major sport. (By the way my L.A. Kings are in the Stanley Cup finals for the first time since 1993 GO Kings!)  One key feature of ice hockey that you don't have in other sports is the penalty box. If you foul in basketball you stay in the game, same for soccer, football and so forth. NOT ice hockey, the rule violator goes to the penalty box and his team plays "short-handed". The more serious the act of thuggery or rules violation and the longer you stay in the penalty box. It's just like a 3 year old having to do a time out or as I liked to tell my son: Austin that's 5 minutes in the penalty box. In professional ice hockey the penalty box is unofficially referred to as the sin bin. Well, I have compiled my list of some people that should spend time in the sin bin and why.


TO THE PENALTY BOX


John Moores the owner of the San Diego Padres, a game misconduct and ejection. Here is a guy that first of all lied to the fans of San Diego by telling them that if they voted for public funds for Petco Park he would consistently put a competitive team on the field. Wrong-o John. In the ten years we've had the park 2 good teams, 2 so,so teams and six awful teams and this year will be the worst. He's been an absentee owner and he's changed batting coaches as often as new borne gets a diaper change. Then there was his messy, creepy divorce and the bungled ownership transfer to John Moorad. All of that and still he will leave town with 400 million in profit. If we never see that Texas pin head again it will be too soon.

Magic Johnson and his investor group to the penalty box for high sticking. This group stupidly paid 2+ billion dollars to buy the L.A. Dodgers. No team in baseball, not even the Yankees, were valued at even 1 billion. Now the market is skewed more than Rush Limbaugh's views on college girls. Within weeks the lowest valued teams jumped 200-300 million more in value. Even the sad sack Padres went from 480 million to close to 700 million seemingly overnight  How in the wide, wide world of sports did Bug Selig (commissioner) allow this to happen? Oh yeah, that's right, his daughter owns a smaller market team the Milwaukee Brewers so his daughter just gained 200+ million dollars in equity. That's why the best interests of baseball and the fans weren't served.


Mitt Romney to the penalty box for interference. He recently said lower class sizes in schools don't make a difference. Higher classes, lower classes to Mitt it's all the same!  Of course, every study ever done on this proves him wrong and you'll not find 1 educator in 10,000 that agrees with him but I guess Mitt knows more. Of course his kids probably went to private schools where the class size ratio was 10-1 and he assumed the A's they got were only because of how brilliant they were and not class size.

Tony Gwynn to the penalty box for delay of game. I love Tony as do most San Diegans but in all seriousness he's been coach of the SDSU baseball team for 10 years and has one NCAA  playoff appearance to show for it. In fact in those 10 years the team's overall record is well under is under .500. Go have fun with Padres Tony and let the Aztecs get a new start.

Greg Williams and Johnathan Vilma to the penalty box for boarding.  In ice hockey when one player "boards" another player he hits him from behind and drives his head into the boards. Open thuggery on ice. These two clowns did the equivalent (of boarding) in pro football with their Attila the Hun bounty program. To rant a rave about wanting to club a guy in the head that had just recovered from a concussion should be subject to arrest for assault and battery. Instead they were only "suspended". They both lied about their activities and only when confronted with evidence did Williams admit he was wrong. Vilma still refuses to admit he did anything wrong. If being stupid were a rules violation, Vilma would be in the penalty box for life.

The Green Hornet's Illustrator to the penalty box for off sides. When a player crosses the red line before they should it's off sides (in hockey) and the Green Hornet's current illustrator has prematurely crossed the line by deciding to do a comic where The Green Hornet comes out of the closet and is openly gay. Page 2 we see the Green Hornet and his "friend" walking off together (probably to an IKEA home show) he in his costume and his friend clinging to him Kim Kardashian to fleeting fame.
Look, all the skin tight, cape wearing heroes that "can't allow themselves to have a relationship with a woman" (Spider man, Batman, Phantom etc) are suspect right off the bat BUT never has an illustrator felt the need to say it openly. What next Wonder Woman presented as a type A  personality, an aggressive uptight bitch with a whip in hand dishing out punishment to bad boys? Uh.........Uh.........OMG!