Et Tu, Blue Jackets? Shakespeare Union Blue Style

At a time like this, we could all use a few words of wisdom.  I don’t have any, so how about some Shakespeare?

Shakespeare’s quotes are in bold, and my explanation and how it pertains to a Blue Jacket fan is below it.

Action is eloquence.

You damn betcha.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought

Please play as well as we know you can…you’re professionals.  Stop playing like cats with socks over your heads.

Assume a virtue, if you have not.

Yeah. Don’t part like the Red Sea when the other team approaches the net…actually battle for the puck. Go back to the basics and ask again what position you’re playing…kind of like when you were a mite and your coach had to keep telling you and your team-mates “Now you’re a defenseman, you’re playing offense and you’re a center.”

I wasted time, and doth time waste me.

Right.  We’re burning daylight here, fellas.  It just gets harder to make up the wins…Even those who love you dearly can’t stomach too much more of this.

I dote on his very absence.

Some have been suspended, others hurt and recovering.  The rest of you, just plain missing.  How can a whole team just disappear?  Your fans are confused and helpless…where did our team go?

A wretched soul bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But we were burdened with  like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.

We know you players are suffering as well. But we’re tired of hearing what “needs to be done.”  At this point it’s very simple. Just shut up and play.  Just PLAY.  See ice? Get on it…skate around (in some sort of organized formation that makes sense…) get the puck and hit it with your stick.

I am not bound to please thee with my answers.

Like the answer to Power-plays, the answer to scoring, the answer as to what’s missing…OR The anger, unhappiness and sadness all of CBJ nation is feeling toward you players and the whole team right now.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Some of us have known this for 11 years…

It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock.

Other fans in the NHL have teams that win…bastards.

Beware the ides of March

Spring comes real soon…playoffs, stuff like that….Of course who can think of that…who can NOT think of that?

Nothing will come of nothing.

Everyone gets this one.  It’s powerful.

Can one desire too much of a good thing?

Um, no. Not if you’re a Blue Jacket fan.

All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women are merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts…

What this means is anyone will be traded if the situation gets crappy enough. Too bad if you really liked him…get used to him in another color.  We hit the panic button and/or the point of complete desperation.  His jersey will be on the clearance rack in The Blue Line store soon.