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Since Wednesday is the busiest day of the week this entry is going to be short and sweet so that you can get back to your meetings and constant check-ins with your cell phone.

Where do men cry?

I just finished watching sports highlights from last night games and there were two things that happened during two different games that made me want to cry. 

The first was during the Canucks vs. NY Islanders hockey game.  A fight broke out between NY Islanders, Matt Martin and Tanner Glass of the Vancouver Canucks.  At first the fight looked like any other hockey fight.  Both of their gloves came off, Tanner’s helmet fell to the ground, Matt took a swing at Tanner and got a little piece of him and then suddenly Tanner, magically transformed into Mike Tyson!  Tanner raised his fist behind his body for power, swung forward and knocked Matt square between the eyes, BOOM!  Matt fell straight back onto the ice and lied there watching blue twitter birds tweeting with his eyes barely opened.  I felt his pain through the TV; I grabbed my nose to check that it was still there and not bleeding.  The two men were escorted to their penalty boxes and in that moment I thought to myself, there’s NO WAY that Matt Martin isn’t crying, he MUST be crying. Forget seeing a doctor he would need a surgeon that specializes in rhinoplasty and facial rejuvenation.  I felt like crying when I saw the punch in slow motion, the connection between Tanners knuckles and his face was perfection.  It was the most painful looking punch I’ve seen since Sylvester Stalone knocked out the roided Russian guy in Rocky IV.  Now I know why VH1 doesn’t have a reality show for hockey wives, they’d probably only capture footage of them icing their husbands and riding in the back of ambulances.   All the drama would be in the emergency room and there’s already a show for that called ER.  They’d just show them shopping for tiger balm and picking up prescriptions all day.  

The second tearful moment I saw in sports last night was the final score for the basketball game between the LA Lakers and the Cleveland Caveliers.  Grab a tissue.  The final score was, drum roll please…112-57, the Lakers destroyed the Cavs setting a new record for fewest points given up and had one of the biggest margins of victory in their team history.  It was a massacre at the Staples Centre.  To add insult to injury, during the game, from somewhere in Los Angeles, where Miami was waiting to play the Clippers on Wednesday, came a proclamation from none other than LeBron James.  “Crazy,” he wrote on his Twitter feed with some grammatical errors. “Karma is a b****. Gets you every time. It’s not good to wish bad on anybody. God sees everything!” 

Ugh OUCH?!  There’s no way the team, coach and owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers didn’t cry at least once last night.  If I were the ball boy I would’ve cried.

So where do men cry…in the bathroom, while they’re driving really fast, while they’re working out so that their tears get mixed in with their sweat, at the bar while with the boys, when they visit their Momma?  Where?  Does anyone know? 

On the rare occasions when I’ve seen a man cry it was always as a result of an achievement or win.  But what about when they get knocked out square in the face, lose by 50 points or get insulted and humiliated.

 Where do men cry?

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