No White Hawks Dream Come True - Ever!

It wasn't the Boston Bruins that missed a golden opportunity in this year's Stanley Cup Finals, folks. No, not at all; it was, in fact, the Chicago franchise that totally blew their chance to redeem the entire ChiTown -notoriously renowned as it is for being infested with liars, cheaters and slimebuckets of all shapes, sizes and ages- by becoming the complete antithesis to what their counterparts who played baseball back in 1919 were - and will be forevermore, in the minds of so many...

They were the Chicago White Sox of their day - and they became the Black Sox.
In 2013, the Chicago Black Hawks could have become... the White Hawks.

As the Black Sox turned ''black'' by throwing the World Series, for money, the Black Hawks would have turned ''white'' (or, dare I say ''incandescent''... or ''radiant''... or even ''luminous''!?) by ''fixing'' the 2013 Stanley Cup Finals the right way: for the joy of the Boston Marathon Bombing victims. By allowing the Bruins to win, as they should have, by not scoring garbage goals in excessive numbers (two in the last minute of a game come to mind here) and by not stealing victory when it was clearly not merited, the Chicago Black Hawks would have erased that stigma that has been branding all things Chicagoan ever since the days of Giovanni ''Johnny'' Torrio, the inept mayor Wentworth, Al Capone & Murray Humphreys! The Black Hawks could have and should have bowed out of the 2013 Finals and handed over that ''cup'' to the better city, which so recently suffered unjust and outright savage senseless attacks that cost innocents dearly.  What better way to pay homage to ''Boston Strong''...? And, in doing so, the Black Hawks would have, verily, become winged angels of sorts: ''White Hawks'' by any other name...

But they didn't - now, did they?

Once they got to the Big Dance once again, they could do only one thing: think of themselves and rob their nobler opponent of the victory by any means necessary. Garbage goals that could have easily not even counted were the deciding factors: it was, perhaps, acceptable back in 2010 against Philadelphia, the city of false brotherly love (and other fallacies) - perhaps.

However, this year, stealing victory from a cleaner city is simply not right, Chicago.  Boston's fine population was literally torn into by those blasts back in April - they deserved this championship as rightful compensation!  You are ready to dive in boxing rings, Chicagoans; you dive all the time in the ice rink, too, in order to prevent superior shots from penetrating into your net...  You had to take a dive in games 6 and 7 (or, truly, games 5 and 6) and allow Boston to raise another title over their weary shoulders, a mere two months after the tragedy and terror (as the Boston Globe phrased it) lived through on the 15th of April of this year. Tragedy and terror that has left its mark forevermore indeed: some men and women, in the prime of their lives, having lost either an arm or a leg...  Their brief moment of joy, when they could forget this sad new reality that is theirs for the rest of their lives, was when they were watching their team rise to the fore, raising hope in their heart of a better tomorrow, if only for game time or so...  The Bruins (and all other Boston teams) needed to provide this all-important diversion for these unnecessary victims at that crucial team - and they came through brilliantly; prevailing against all odds in their first series, as they had dug themselves into quite the corner there... Outplaying rivals from the most evil town, bar none: New York (even Chicago doesn't come close; ChiTown's number 2 in this case - a shitty position to be in, usually, but, hey, for one thing, in this case, it makes sense. And secondly: it is where they deserve to be!) before sweeping over-rated foes that were both familiar and infuriating with their sheer arrogance: the Pitt. The Boston team came through it all with inspiring flamboyance - exactly what the population needed after the terrible events that had darkened the atmosphere all across Massachusetts.  From April all the way to late June, the Bruins -and their fans- were, through it all, exemplary (and the fact that the Hawks acknowledged that by taking out a page in the media after their theft had been officialized -a mere ''thank you letter'' riddled with mistakes, if one believes the transcript of it published by usatoday, that is- does not mean a thing, really! All it made me think of was the time the Chicago Daily Tribune went to print with ''Dewey defeats Truman'' in 1948...!  Another famous Chi-not-so-shy-Town BLUNDER - that's all it is!  Ah, Sweet Home Chicago... not! Still, I'll take this rare opportunity to send off my regards to friendly fellow alliterative astute Candid Candace, despite all that...!)

Truly, the only thing that could have assuaged the open wounds that those Bruins fans who lost either an arm or a leg have got festering on their minds right now, was VICTORY.
No matter how fleeting a feeling it is...

But no - you had to be selfish, Black Hawks, you had to take it for yourselves, by all wretched-dirty tricks-and-means there could be...

And, in so doing, you, the 2013 Black Hawks are even worse than the 1919 Black Sox ever were.

Luminous Luciano Has Spoken... er, blogged!

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