Tim Murray Serves Up the Answer to End All Answers

SB Nation - The Buffalo Sabres finished their season in dead last, but if you think GM Tim Murray was happy about giving his team a top pick, think again.

"This year was completely unacceptable" was Murray's message to his players, and it was the way he began the organization's season-ending press conference. The Sabres GM bristled every time he was asked about finishing last or the concept of tanking. "We want to be competitive. If anybody thinks there's a message of tanking being sent from upstairs, I would suggest they put a camera for 60 minuets of the game when we're losing, and you'll know that tanking is not what we want," Murray responded after a long pause to think. "I know that tanking is a word that's used a lot, but I don't know where the tanking would come from if the GM doesn't want to lose, and coaches don't want to lose, and the players certainly don't want to lose their jobs."

Hey the Colts did it when Andrew Luck was coming out; Suck for Luck. You can't tell me that tanking is not an option. When you have the first overall pick in any draft you have pick of the litter. Take the consensus top pick or find a diamond in the rough with the elusive upside. So when the team is mid way through the season and you don't even have 6 regulation wins, you give up on the pipe dream of finishing with 15 or more wins and start shaving points. Day one stuff. 

But that is besides the point. Tim Murray put every other answer on notice. I was under the impression that when you get beat badly there were a few things you could say to make the analogy. For example, we just didn't show up, beating a dead horse, the availability just wasn't there. None of those are in Murray's vocabulary. He uses one reference and one reference only: peepee slapped. I'll say it cause he can't, but he really meant that his team went out there and got their dicks slapped. Game changer. If I am summoned for a post game interview after my fantasy team takes a beating I can't be caught dead saying we didn't show up, or we got beat plain and simple. I have to throw down with a no you know what Boom Boom we got our peepee slapped. Can't use anything else, won't use anything else. 

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When your team is getting beat up and down the ice on a nightly basis like a redheaded step child, what other analogy can you use other than we got dick slapped.