Entries from Cox Bloc tagged with 'Cox'
Be Afraid
Quite the swerve by Damien Cox this week. You know, that column that confirms that Balsillie ranks somewhere between Cliff Fletcher, Darcy Tucker and you on the DC Talk Enemies List. This one. What to make of it? Was he...
Cheap Pop Dept.
It's Friday, so let's have some quick and easy fun. Crossposted from Damien's mailbag:Colaiacovo/Steen for Stempniak, what some apparently fail to understand (or won't) is that it was far less important what the two former first rounders were or were...
Avery Thorn Has Its Rose
New YorkPicture Sean Avery sitting alone at his dressing room stall in Uniondale on Thursday night as he prepares for his first NHL game in three months. As he laces up his skates, iPod attached to his ear, his teammates...
We are kept down because we hate
According to Damien Cox's column in today's Toronto Star, the best thing for Leafs fans to do on Saturday night when Mats Sundin steps on the ice at the ACC wearing that orca whale on his chest (does he get...
Roll another number for the road
People can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. Fourteen percent of people know that."-Homer SimpsonThe great debate over fighting hockey continues to rage like a tire fire, and now, thanks to a recently released Harris Decima poll, we...
Something I Learned Today
We here at Cox Bloc get so wrapped up in the excitement of the Toronto Sports Writing scene that we often forget about those reporters and columnists that somehow exist outside the centre of the universe. Lest we get tarred...
Change We Can Believe In!
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2008 MITTENSTRINGER OF THE YEAR
The 2008 Mittenstringer of the Year Awards and Meat Draw took place on Sunday night. This unprecedented failtacular was perfectly pitched to the standards of those being honoured. It took place in the worst place on earth, Oshawa, and featured...
Congrats! It's a MOY!
Well, it is that time of year again when we bestow Cox Bloc's greatest dishonour upon one of the very deserving hacks that we have spent the past year mocking and maligning. Yes, it is time to choose the 2008...
All-Day Sucker
Look Blocheads, I'll level with you. Kim and I are sick as all hell of dealing with Damien Cox. When we got word of the Omen's latest transgressions against logic, Luke Schenn, and puppies, we passed the responsibility back and...
Top Ten Smash!
Damien Cox introduces us to a brand new straw man today. This scarecrow represents the army of analysts who are demanding that the Leafs take a pass on Brian Burke and keep the Silver Fox at the helm:But for people...
Jorn`s Jottings - Jorn to Run
Hello darkness my old friend We haven't kicked Tricky Dick Griffin around here in ages, and judging from the first half of his column today in which he made a compelling case for a Roy Halladay Cy Young win by citing WHIP...
Scout's Honour
Does anyone else get the impression that Damien Cox wants Luke Schenn to fail? Isn't that kind of messed up?Here's Cox's take from this morning:Schenn, meanwhile, received another 22:56 of ice time from Wilson, and for now is doing his...
And hey, whatever happened to Steve Simmons
What the hell has happened to Steve Simmons? Remember him? 2007 Mittenstringer of the year? The guy who invented Mats Sundin's hip injury? Didn't know how ERA worked? Strings together pointless brain-droppings and bad jokes with ellipses and calls it...
Thanks for the memories
Damien Cox yesterday:Yet interim/non-interim Cliff Fletcher is the one deciding that Luke Schenn must start in the NHL this season, again ignoring all the history of this team and the obvious reality that life for an 18-year-old NHL defenceman in...
18 and Life
I'm going to ease myself back into the world of blogging* by taking on one of the usual targets around here, the man who's bad name gave us our blog's name, Mr. Damien Cox.Damien, like the players on the team...
Hypothetical Questions, Actual Dumbassery
You know, one of the oft-repeated truisms about Leafdom is that the frenzied media atmosphere is the product of the market's obsessive (or delusional and sheep-like) interest in all matters Blue and White. The fans want to read about the...
On second thought...
Back in January we crowned Damien Cox as the 2008 Mittenstringer of the Year. Cox, the namesake of this site, was a shoo-in for the inaugural award in 2007, but was pipped at the finish like by Steve Simmons, who...
Separated at Birth?
This is Sports Illustrated's Allan Muir:And this is Toronto Star columnist Damien Cox:Notice the resemblance? No? How about after reading this:While every other club was loading up on skill in the first round, the Leafs gave up a pair of...
Does Not Compute
Reader Bim Jenning pointed out the other day that Damien Cox seems to have three templates for his columns: The Leafs are about to do something:"Richard Peddie, who rules the Leafs with an iron fist, is about to do something...
I'm Telling
What is the point of having this blog if Damien Cox is just going to review his own work for us:"Leaf fans are used to being treated as morons, but this is a new level of insult."Hell yeah! Except, unfortunately,...
We're all losers now
As happy as I was to watch the last remaining Canadian team bomb out of the playoffs, I have refrained from taunting my Habs fan friends. Even though my inbox was filled with mocking emails at the end of March...
I Forgot To Remember To Forget
This week's Coxbag featured a startling revelation: I'd be interested to see the story or column in which I said Quinn can't relate to younger players. Others have said that many times; I never have. In fact, I remember him...
No Homers Club
My sources are telling me that people out there are talking about Godd and I and it is being said that we're either naive homers or MLSE shills (while either living in our parents basements, or working at the Toronto...
Mahalo, Mats
I tell ya, I'm exhausted by the unending inanity of the last few days, so tonite, when it comes to the mittenstringers, I'm going through the motions like Sid Vicious at a house show in Cornwall. Rosie DiManno made a...
Know Your Rights
It was all-systems go at the Cox Bloc Mobile Command Centre today. penaltyshots alerted PPP, who sent out the Blue and White Bat Signal to us about Scott Burnside's rip job on Mats Sundin. All those "Formidable Opponent" segments Burnside...
Jorn's Jottings V: Jorn Again
Quote of the Week"Everybody says the Toronto media is tough. Well, there's a couple of jerks here. By and large, most of the people here are fair. The team plays well and they write that. The team plays poorly and...
COX VS FOX
Jesus, Damien, could you give us five #$I*@& minutes here? We're dealing with the aftermath of the bloodbath the mittenstringers have bayed for all year here, a story so big we have Working Class Howard analyzing Dick Peddie's press conference...
And the Winner of the 2008 Mittenstringer of the Year Award Is...
...Damien Cox. It is over folks.* No matter how many injuries Simmons invents, no matter how much Working Class Howard smashes the state, no one is catching Cox this year. No way. Not after the day he had today.Cox's Diei...
Ignorance Is Bliss
In honour of our blog's appearance in the Internet's finest repository of WoW lore and Who's The Boss? episode recaps (hint: we're in the entry for a popular hair treatment; not Dapper Dan), I was looking up various Leafs arcana...
It Can't Be Nashville Every Night
Well, it's business as usual as the Leafs head into a tough road game against the stingy Rangers. I have a bad feeling that our pool (I've got Simmons, BTW), might just start to heat up. Early favourite would have...
Till Bits
The stupid's so thick I couldn't pick just one, so here are some assorted bits...Today's Coxbag marks a new low for DC Talk. After spending the majority of his replies talking about the dysfunctional mess that is MLSE, he then...
Cox Doesn't Know Where His Towel Is
With Simmons exiled to Grey Cup duty, we didn't get quite the mitten-stringer pile-on I predicted last night, but there's no shortage of idiocy on Toronto's sports pages today, much of it revolving around six-time Vezina Trophy winner Tuuka Rask....
A meaty appendage to an earlier entry
For some crazy reason I had a feeling that the Grand Old Damien might issue an apology today for his over-wrought and hyper-moralizing condemnation of Jiri NSFW on Wednesday...However, much like Simmons on a Sunday, I was completely wrong...That isn't...
Cox: Please Send Me Emails
We're a few hours away from the latest tilt in the Battle of Ontario. Rivalries like this one always get players and fans alike pumped up to bring their A game, give 110%, make it easy for themselves, and play...
It truly is a pleasure cruise
Mr. Till has done an admirable job during the last week, repeatedly beating down the sport-rag jobbers in squash match after squash match as I searched for my lost smile. For a while it felt like I didn't have that...
Klassic Kox
Well, the recent hysteria over the Leafs slow start has made some fans feel like we're back in the glory days of Danny Marois, Gary Leeman, and poor old George Armstrong being forced at gunpoint to coach the team. In...
See you next year
Well, Dick Griffin didn't respond to my letter in his mailbag today, so I'm not going to give him the honour of having me writing about him this week. Instead, we turn our bewildered gaze to the shiny-headed namesake for...
Blind Squirrel Department
In the midst of a mostly desultory column in which TEH COX compares the Leafs goaltending situation unfavourably with the Phoenix Coyotes, and closes with his standard '40 Years!!!' template, there is one golden line amidst the dross:By the final...
Jorn's Jottings
Simmons and Cox have both disappeared, which means no Simmons Says or Friday Incompletions this week. To help lessen the withdrawl sypmtoms for those of you who can only digest information in short half-sentences separated by ellipses, I will attempt...
Kids, Don't Drink And Write
Originally posted by Kim Jorn on August 16, 2007Mark Bell has been convicted of a hit and run while under the influence of alcohol, joining a long list of current and former NHLers who have found themselves on the wrong...
A Cry For Help?
Originally posted on August 13, 2007Ahhh, those lazy summer Sundays. A time when those of us who haven't invested our lives in covering children's games we've grown to actively hate spend time taking the dog for a walk, having a...
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