Wednesday, October 31, 2007
A couple of years ago, there was a big scandal with a couple of New Jersey cops and former NHL player Rick Tocchet (who must have known these guys from playing for the Philadelphia Flyers) running a book operation. At the time, Tocchet's boss was a guy named Wayne Gretzky...maybe you've heard of him. Sports icon. Perhaps the greatest player in any team sport, ever. The Great One. Wayne was, and still is, coaching the NHL's Phoenix Coyotes now, and Tocchet was the assistant coach. Anyway, when the gambling ring got busted, only one celebrity name came out as to having placed action: Janet Jones, former model and actress, and wife of...Wayne Gretzky. The Great One's reputation took a pretty solid hit, even though nobody accused him of anything, just because it was revealed what a degenerate gambler his wife is. She made TONS of bets, including really silly stuff like Super Bowl coin flip props (anyone who puts action on a coin flip, paying a vig, should immediately head to rehab...Do Not Pass Go). The bottom line is there would be NOTHING smarter of Janet Jones Gretzky to do than to lay super-low for awhile, especially when it comes to gambling. I obviously don't knock putting a little side action down on anything, but when you're connected how she's connected to a sport with a tenuous hold on the American sports market, you can't just do whatever the hell you want. So, what do I see when I turn on the High Stakes Golf action on ESPN? Along side Doyle, Dewey Tomko, Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu...partnering with Vince Van Patten...Janet Jones Gretzky. She repays everyone's forgiveness by anteing up $125k in one of the bigger gambling props ever put on TV. Wayne Gretzky is a small-town Canadian kid who happened to play a game better than anyone before, and likely anyone since. I don't care how hot she was, and how much of a MILF she may be now...nobody deserves that kind of disloyalty. Yuck.
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Maybe She Should Have Sat This One Out
A couple of years ago, there was a big scandal with a couple of New Jersey cops and former NHL player Rick Tocchet (who must have known these guys from playing for the Philadelphia Flyers) running a book operation. At the time, Tocchet's boss was a guy named Wayne Gretzky...maybe you've heard of him. Sports icon. Perhaps the greatest player in any team sport, ever. The Great One. Wayne was, and still is, coaching the NHL's Phoenix Coyotes now, and Tocchet was the assistant coach. Anyway, when the gambling ring got busted, only one celebrity name came out as to having placed action: Janet Jones, former model and actress, and wife of...Wayne Gretzky. The Great One's reputation took a pretty solid hit, even though nobody accused him of anything, just because it was revealed what a degenerate gambler his wife is. She made TONS of bets, including really silly stuff like Super Bowl coin flip props (anyone who puts action on a coin flip, paying a vig, should immediately head to rehab...Do Not Pass Go). The bottom line is there would be NOTHING smarter of Janet Jones Gretzky to do than to lay super-low for awhile, especially when it comes to gambling. I obviously don't knock putting a little side action down on anything, but when you're connected how she's connected to a sport with a tenuous hold on the American sports market, you can't just do whatever the hell you want. So, what do I see when I turn on the High Stakes Golf action on ESPN? Along side Doyle, Dewey Tomko, Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu...partnering with Vince Van Patten...Janet Jones Gretzky. She repays everyone's forgiveness by anteing up $125k in one of the bigger gambling props ever put on TV. Wayne Gretzky is a small-town Canadian kid who happened to play a game better than anyone before, and likely anyone since. I don't care how hot she was, and how much of a MILF she may be now...nobody deserves that kind of disloyalty. Yuck.
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