Ed Note: This is about hockey. If you don’t care about hockey, you can skip this one…
This past week, Jack White (of The White Stripes) made a six-figure donation to National Blues Museum that’s under construction in downtown STL.
The donation will fund a museum feature called MIX IT UP, an interactive experience that allows patrons to use “intuitive editing tools” to “blend [musical] selections together and share their new compositions with others,” according to the museum.
Foreshadow much?
Blocks away on the corner of 14th and Clark, the hockey embodiment of the blues are hearing emphatic calls from their fan base to ‘MIX IT UP’.
If you’re getting a paycheck from the St. Louis Blues, I could find some article/Tweet/FB or Insta post that is asking for your removal sooner than later. (Unless your sweater reads Tarasenko. He should probably run for mayor.)
It’s an ugly time for a franchise that is no stranger to failure and despair.
It must be late April pic.twitter.com/drDIGOYEbX
— Andy Karandzieff (@kzieff) April 27, 2015
The Blues have been eliminated from the NHL playoffs 39 times in 39 entries.
People are fond of calling them the ‘Cubs of hockey’, but that’s not all that fair to the Cubs, who have won 2 World Series, but seem to scuffle more through losing seasons than winning ones.
Or to the Blues who have qualified for postseason action a very healthy 83% of the seasons they’ve played.
Candidly, they don’t really have a parallel in any of the professional sports.
You’d have figured by just showing up to the dance all these years that they’d have found one partner, right? At least made it to the finals. Hell, even the conference finals. But since 2002-03, the franchise has won 1 playoff series… during the ‘age of parody’ in the NHL.
Stunning, really.
https://twitter.com/FTatis23/status/592448601453887488
Where do the Blues go from here?
No idea. None.
How do you evaluate a franchise where everyone needs to be evaluated? Perhaps volunteer for an internal audit from the Blackhawks and hope they’ll reveal some of the secret sauce?
Change the name of the team to something more peppy? The St. Louis Zips? The Dandelions? The Happies? Forget the ‘Blues’ ever happened?
Take the entire next year off and REALLY re-charge the batteries?
No idea. None.
Good luck to everyone involved. I’m not being sarcastic in the least when I wish you the best – because I really, truly would like to see St. Louis be successful in the playoffs.
Will it ever happen?
Who knows.
Photo: Star Tribune
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