By Steve Rhodes
The Chicago sports scene always provides Deadspin with plenty of material, but this week we went above and beyond our duty to provide the world’s most popular sports site with wacky hijinks. Let’s take a look.
1. Ugly Blues-Blackhawks Series Gets Uglier With “Wakey-Wakey” Taunt.
Hawk Harrelson can only exist in this town because Chicagoans are still so goddamn parochial. It’s Homer City. So when Brooks Orpik puts a legal, unpenalized hit on captain Jonathan Toews, a great crime has occurred. And when the Blackhawks don’t retaliate for said legal, unpenalized hit, well, idiocy abounds.
But when Brent Seabrook puts a dirty hit on Blues captain David Backes, and then Duncan Keith taunts the concussed Backes with a childish “wakey, wakey,” well, yeah, it was, um, wrong, the sports commentariat sheepishly and grudgingly acknowledges, but who knows, maybe he didn’t really say it (“I don’t remember everything that gets said,” Keith claimed, which is essentially an admission), and hey, you know, it’s good for the Blackhawks to play a Backes-less Blues at any rate.
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Posted on April 25, 2014