What's up with all these blogs lately?

Here's Dellapizzle's blog over at the Daily News. The Zipper at Newsday. The Journal News is blog-covered by Sam Weinman. And even Uncle Larry halfheartedly has a blog that he never updates.

Today's update is delayed because I spent the last hour writing about the blog phenom and the direction of our sports media and blah blah blah. Who cares? Blogs are fun. The other day Steve Zipay quoted Dante Alighieri. Searching for Sam Weinman's blog brought me to this picture. And who doesn't love the idea of a 90-year-old Larry Brooks having to be taught by his grandkids how to log in to his blog while pop-up ads for penile enlargement riddle his screen? They might not be that entertaining, they might be overdone, and there are definitely too many of them, but the blog era is fine by me.

Now back to your regular scheduled programming.

Dellapina: "The Rangers are Pitt-iful." Zipay: "Penguins skate by Rangers." Brooks: "Douchebag Rangers crushing my will to live."

Wow. Strong words. Honestly I didn't think they played that badly last night. They, um, had some early jump and, um, their uniforms looked crisp and, um ... OK, so I didn't watch yesterday's game. I was tired from the day and had my mind focused on going out after the game, so my heart wasn't really in it from the get-go. Apparently Jaromir Jagr felt the same way. Zing!

Uncle Larry's Sunday Slapshots. The Zipper has a Sunday column too. Speaking of which, more info about the planned uniform switch being instituted by the league's marketing department. Zipay hits it on the head: the NHL has given up on the traditional crowd -- you fickle fans were the ones that really destroyed the game -- and is trying to remake the game of hockey from the bottom up. They want arena football on skates. When I was nine-years-old, I had a oversized Wayne Gretzky jersey that I literally could have pitched a tent with because it was so big, but nothing brought me more joy than that huge and loose team sweater. Think my future nine-year-old son is going to be equally excited by his form-fitting metrosexual Evgeni Malkin jersey? The one that's going to pin his wet and uncomfortable equipment to his body -- correction, his growing body, which means I'll have to buy him a new Malkin jersey every season. Thanks, new NHL.

And on that note, I'm cutting today's update short. I have about as much jump in my writing today as Martin Straka had last night. Even my Lindsay Lohan link is weak. Though, on the plus side, self-inflicted scuff marks on the wrist are right in my wheelhouse. I'll be your authority figure, Linds. Just give me a jingle.

Happy future Turkey Day, Rangers fans. See you next week.

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