The Ditch part deux

Steelers man. those fans are crazy. cheering for the other team is a death sentence. I learned that from being in Philly when Dallas fans taunt the Eagles fans at kickoff and 4 hrs later they are in a brawl in the concourse. No thanks. This catfish is too old to fight. I will wear a neutral hat and cheer for the Steelers.

 

hey everyone - you guys are my friends and I've learned a lot of all of you. today is a special day for me. today is my second year anniversary of sobriety! i'm giving a small speech tonight as well on my journey. I know i'm not perfect and have driven you all nuts from time to time and i'm sorry for that. i'm still on the road to making amends and taking ownership of my faults. some posts on here are some of them. hope you can look past that and keep offering your support. thanks - Rob - aka Catfish

 

Rob, I have now had the pleasure of meeting four of our anonymous friends in person. Our time together in Detroit was a treat!

Driving people nuts from time to time comes with the territory on a sports' talk board where we only draw inferences about who a person is and their values.

You are a very genuine guy - sincere is the word. Congratulations on your milestone and best wishes as you carry your good work forward

 

thanks Dan for the kind words. Detroit was great. I love your passion for sports. Go Sabres and Bills.

 

Congratulations Catfish!

 

thanks Blitz. I'll be in Pitt in Oct seeing the Steelers-Falcons! I'll be cheering for Pitt obviously.

 

Congratulations! Never give up! You've been sober longer than me. Ive had a few relapses with the booze and drugs, but I'm doing it one hour at a time and kinda digging it. Best wishes, Cat!

 

thanks Will. Hang in there pal. Keep up the good fight !

 

Brad Marchand and some Bruins stuff'...

Leading up to Bruins media day on Wednesday, we hadn’t heard anything suggesting Brad Marchand regretted the licks heard around the hockey world. His tune has suddenly changed.

During the team’s final media availability of the season, the 29-year-old admitted that what he did was unacceptable.

“After having a couple days, kind of looking back on the year and seeing what’s happened the last few days with all the media and everything, I think the biggest thing for me now is to really take a pretty hard looking in the mirror and realize the actions, some of the things that I’m doing have much bigger consequences,” Marchand said. “I’ve always been a pretty easy-going guy and there’s not a whole lot that phases me at all. I think it’s kind of gotten to the point where the last thing I ever want to do is bring the embarrassment to my teammates and the organization that it did.

“I have to be a lot better. I know I’ve said that in the past but that’s got to be the thing that I really work on the most. I think I’ve gotten my game to a pretty decent spot but I’ve got some character things and things that I’ve done that clearly need some fixing. That’s going to be the biggest thing that I take away from what’s happened the last few days.

“At the time, I didn’t think it there was a big deal at all. I couldn’t believe where it was going that it was even worth talking about it.”

“I’ve got to cut that [expletive] out,” Marchand added, per the Athletic’s Fluto Shinzawa.

Either Marchand figured that out in a hurry, or someone in the Bruins organization got to him before he addressed the media. Without knowing for sure, it seems like someone spoke to him about kissing/licking opponents because his previous quotes and tweets suggested he had no regrets.

Either way, this is probably the best possible look for him heading into the offseason.

On another note, the Bruins forward announced that he played through a groin injury in the second round.

He wasn’t the only one on his team that had to battle through injury. Noel Acciari‘s groin injury will require offseason surgery, Riley Nash is hoping his injured hip doesn’t need to be operated on, Jake DeBrusk was dealing with a shoulder injury, Zdeno Chara played through an upper-body injury and Torey Krug suffered a fractured ankle in Game 4 against Tampa. He won’t require surgery, but he’ll have to be in a boot for two months.

Patrice Bergeron missed Game 4 against Toronto because of concussion-like symptoms. He had also been dealing with a groin injury that likely won’t require an operation. (NBC)

 

Congrats, personally apart from college, I never was a big drinker, but can relate to addiction via cigarettes, tho not the same thing. No one is perfect, drunk, or tea totaler, and we all can use some improvement.

 

thanks Sol !

 

Love a game 7.

 

Jets got this one.

 

According to Donald S. Cherry.

 

I’ll take Nashville.

 

Nashville here too. I want the Jets, but Nashville at home seems to be the pick.

 

It's Winnipeg's turn to win. They've been taking turns.

 

I've been sober for 0 daze, nice bottle of two vines Cab Sav and a joint says it will be rinse and repeat.