There's No 'I' in 'Team,' but There's 'I' in 'Timmy'

Every Saturday morning, I roll my butt out of bed and drive my son to to coach the Sharks U6 soccer team. Every week, I preach the same thing. T-E-A-M – TEAM! You win, lose, cry, stare at the butterflies, pick the grass and ask for donuts as a TEAM!

My inspirational speeches, at times, will bring tears to their young eyes. Could it be the fact that they would rather be sleeping? Yes – but it doesn’t matter! Point is, we are a team! This brings me to my first of many thoughts while I sit here on a Monday night watching the Bruins in Game 5 of their series.

• I will be the first one to say Tim Thomas has a great season. But take a look at what he said after Game 4’s loss to the Lightning: "We got outworked. They took over, they outplayed us, they started getting scoring chances and we stopped getting scoring chances." Translated: “The defense (defenseman and forwards) gave up too many chances and our offense stunk!” Yes, you are right Timmy, the defense and offense were horrible and got outplayed. But guess what? You stunk too! Your five-hole had as much space as the Kmart parking lot on a Sunday afternoon. Look at yourself in the mirror for once. You did not play well. Have you had good games in the playoffs? Yes. Did you stink in Game 4? Yes.

• I think the Rapture did happen Saturday. I think we are currently all filming the sequel to “Lost." We are all in Purgatory. I could have sworn I saw the black smoke, but I believe that may have just been my gym bag.

• OK, Milford folks, what left hand turn is harder to make in the morning and mid-afternoon? The left out of the parking lot or the left hand turn out of the plaza? I think I’ve visually seen people age trying to take a left out of these parking lots.

• That’s it! I now know for sure that the kids have a secret bet going on based on the number of times I say “keep your hands to yourself” to them. Really, is it that hard to just sit there in the morning, eat your breakfast without imitating each other, making fun of each other and poking, prodding and hitting each other?

• From the “Yeah I Know this Weird, But I’ll Share Anyways” Department: I had a dream last night that my wife and I had dinner over at Tom Brady and Giselle’s Boston apartment. I believe we had a nice Italian meal. It was quite good. You heard it here first – he was a bit annoyed that the Patriots drafted Ryan Mallett. Just ask the Giselle. She would tell you too if she wasn’t so darn busy flirting with me! Hello, Giselle! Look at the ring!

• Is it me or is it extremely weird to walk into the bathroom in work to hear someone talking on their cell phone in one of the stalls? Seriously, it couldn’t wait?

• I recently just acquired the noise-cancelling headphones for work. These are either a gift from God or from one of my blog readers. I’m betting on the big G-man.

• Not that I’m one for advertising products – although this blog is brought to you by “Wanokura – we feed Steve Borr” – if you like making soda water/seltzer and want to be a bit more green, look into buying one of the Soda Stream products. It is a great product…well worth every dime.

• Great, another Bruins power play – yippee! On a related note, Marc Recchi has officially changed his name to “43-year-old Marc Recchi."

• Count me as one of the converts over from WEEI to the Sports Hub. I used to work over at WEEI in my younger days and they were the young, up-and-coming radio station. They seemed to have lost a bit of their muster. They’ve turned into old-man radio. There’s no better compliment to The Sports Hub than to say they are relevant and climbing.

• The music industry is begging for an over-the-top rock star right now. Look at what Lady Gaga has been able to do just by being a bit controversial. I won’t get into the fact whether she’s talented or not. I could care less. The last controversial rock star probably was Marilyn Manson. C’mon people – eat a bird, put some makeup on, shout at the devil – WHERE ARE MY ROCK STARS????

• Why do I get a feeling that both “Hangover 2” and “Cars 2” are going to be horrible?

• We seriously, seriously, seriously need a Trader Joe’s closer to us!

• Best hidden restaurant in Milford? – best thai food in town. I feel like Norm from "Cheers" when I walk into that place. They know my order every time!

• Is there a running club in Milford? If there isn’t, let me know if anyone is interested..

• My wife wants me to stay away from politics in this blog. Do you agree or disagree? You can take it up with her.

 • Three closing thoughts: We had an awesome benefit yesterday at the for in the world and deserves all the best.  The ladies who organized the benefit deserve a huge round of applause.

• When will it be appropriate for the guy from the Jordan’s Furniture commercials to cut off that ponytail?

• And, lastly, I will miss you Macho Man! You brought a lot of joy to my childhood!