Tim Thomas

Thanks Tim.

Earlier this year the Bruins organization took a big step toward spoiling the Stanley Cup Championship for me by signing convicted felon Joe Corvo.

Yesterday Tim Thomas finished the job.

He took the one final opportunity we had to bask in the glory of last year's Championship and turned it into a half baked political statement.  The Bruins went to the White House yesterday and had their balls washed (figuratively) by The President of the United States of America.  The most powerful man in the world gave a five minute speech where he told the universe that the Bruins kicked every flavor of ass.  He even pumped Timmy Thomas' tires for him by specifically mentioning how unbelievably awesome Thomas played.

And Timmy Thomas decided to turn it into a political statement by boycotting the event.  Thomas made a statement that said it had nothing to do with the political party, and that the government is out of control, and how the country is not what the founding fathers envisioned when they wrote the Constitution.  Well Timothy, the Constitution made slavery legal... should we bring back that institution?  It's what the founding fathers envisioned.  Women weren't allowed to vote.  It took a Constitutional amendment to give them that right.  Should we take that away now because it's not what the founding fathers envisioned?

Sports are escapism.  We watch sports because we want to stop worrying about the real world.  Thanks a pant load Tim for trying to turn yesterday into some sort of lame protest rather than what it really was:  A chance for the Bruins organization to shine one more time.  A photo op.  A (probably) once in a lifetime chance to visit the one time residence of both Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln.  And Tim, if you really wanted to make a powerful statement you should have manned up and met President Obama, shook his hand, looked him in the eye, and told him to his face how you feel about the job he's doing.  Instead, you took your ball and went home like a friggin' cry baby.

And for the record, this rant has nothing to do with whether or not I support President Obama's policies.  I felt the same way when Theo Epstein blew off President Bush and words cannot describe how happy I was to see the end of that particular administration.  That's about the politest way I can sum up my feelings on that political subject.

I would have been more than pleased to never learn a single thing about your political beliefs.  As long as you play hockey professionally I just don't care.  That's the very thing that makes being a sports fan enjoyable.  People from all walks of life with all sorts of various beliefs and opinions can come together and support a team as one.  The use of the word "nation" is very fitting in that respect.  Bruins Nation is made up of countless different people with countless different ways of viewing the world and we all came together to back you and your team... and you pissed on that.  Thanks Tim.