Hey Ladies! Lemme See Em!

 Sup ladies?

"Hey girl, can I see your boobies?"  Really professional athletes?  This is what it's come to?  You asking random chicks for tits on Twitter?  Come on! Show some standards (I didn’t say high, I said some)!  

You make $4.25 million a season, can you class up your quest for breast a little bit?  Or actually, why are you even asking ladies for these photos?  Shouldn't you have easy access at this point to the pucks of bunnies?  

 

Call me naive but if Joffery Lupul has to beg ladies to see what their sweater yams look like, what hope is there for anyone else?  At 28 years old and with the contract that Lupul has, I would think it’s safe to assume he’s no longer living in his parents basement, has a cleaning lady, and some sort of “signature move” that lands him the goods, I would assume he also has a phone that takes screen caps.  

To be fair, I make just above minimum wage and I could do a better job at snagging a look at what that lady is smuggling.  

 

Ladies, does being wooed like this work?  Guys, do you really think going this low will get you nice looking tits?  Actually guys, don’t answer that last one.  I know enough of you to answer this one on my own.  

 

But where does this leave the NHL?  How do they tackle the string of incidents that paint the league and its players in such a negative light?  Do they go the NBA route and fine players (like they’ve done with Amare Stoudemire, Patrick Patterson, J.R. Smith, and a few others)?  Can the NHL continue to leave this up to the individual teams and the player’s agents?  That doesn’t seem to be working well. 

So far, this summer there’s been a bit of a breakdown in the public image of the NHL and its players.  Lupul just adds on to the off season hubub.  Instead of going through the team’s PR or his agent, Tim Thomas took to Facebook.  Slightly less intense than Twitter, but still an uncontrollable force.  

And we all know about Patrick Kane and his summer adventures, we don’t need to wait for that back to school essay.  Between Deadspin and Twitter, there was no stopping that story.  

 

In this digital age of instant access, the NHL has a decision to make: babysit their players like Paul Bissonette, let them run rampant, or educate them in the art of social networking.  The world is progressing, we’ve seen what embracing these changes can do, it’s brought the LA Kings to the forefront of discussion prior to them winning the Stanley Cup, had fans connect with players and teams like never before, and given players that same access.  

 

While the NHL cannot control the fans, some sort of restraint needs to be put on players. I know stuff happens, but I’ve always prided myself on being a fan of a league that was smart enough not to have their dumb shit caught in the public eye. I don’t want to see a league wide ban on Twitter for players and I don’t want to see the Twitter accounts become a highlight archive or a place for players to push their charities.  

 

The some of the personalities that drive these accounts are hysterical, but these personalities need to learn the line or else these accounts will disappear or worse, become “locked”.  

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