By Jeff Moss
DetroitSportsRag@GMail.com
February 20, 2015
[Editor’s Note: I debated whether or not to post this article. Eviscerating Darren McCarty is about as difficult as convincing Scott Anderson to shove a Paczki down his gullet. But then Brian Cook of MGoBlog.com posted this disemboweling of David Brandon so I had to defend my turf. Stay off my corners, MGoBrian.]
“… don’t ever take sides with anyone against the Family again. Ever.”
Former Red Wings winger Darren McCarty obviously doesn’t adhere to the above Michael Corleone quote as he has spent most of his adult life taking sides against his various “families” via his abhorrent actions. He continued this behavior when he took to the 105.1 airwaves earlier this week to disparage one of his ex-teammates.
While filling in for another noted family man (Ratt Dreary), McCarty went on a rant about the potential for Sergei Fedorov’s number to be retired by the Red Wings. To put it mildly, McCarty is adamantly against #91 hanging in the rafters of either the JLA or the future home of the franchise (Bankrupt City-Financed by Taxpayer Money Arena at Little Caesar’s Yard).
Now, you might expect some moron Wings fan from Trenton with a sub-75 IQ to have such an uninformed opinion, but not a man who should be thankful to Fedorov for greatly assisting him in obtaining three of his four championship rings.
Oh, right. McCarty doesn’t have those rings because he had to pawn them off either during his bankruptcy proceedings or for a Texas Hold ‘Em buy-in. I forget which.
Look, I don’t normally care about individual awards, the Hall of Fame or jersey retirements. I couldn’t care less about Justin Verlander’s Cy Young or whether or not the Tigers retire Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell’s #1 and #3.
But the Fedorov stuff is personal to me and has become my cause célèbre. After years of being treated like a second-class citizen and being booed in Detroit, #91 is OWED that moment as an apology for his outrageous mistreatment by the fans.
The man won three Cups in this city. He is fifth in career points, fourth in career goals and sixth in career assists. And this bullshit argument that he didn’t play enough games in Detroit is indefensible nonsense considering he played more games in a Wings uniform than 29% of the players who DO have their number retired by the organization!!!!
Fuck, the franchise has been in existence for 88 years and only SEVEN players have donned the Winged Wheel more often than Sergei.
The man played for 13 seasons in Detroit. The New York Yankees of the NHL and the gold standard of the league — the Montreal Canadiens — have retired 20 numbers in their history. Want to know the average service time of all of those Hab players?
14.
Uh-huh. One year more than Fedorov played in Detroit. And that includes Patrick Roy, who ONLY played TEN seasons in Montreal and infamously exited the organization like this …..
Yet this knuckle-dragging, serial-philandering, drug-addicted, thieving pile of cow dung went on 105.1 and said the following about Fedorov on Monday ….
When co-host Neal Ruhl mentioned that Fedorov won a Hart Trophy in Detroit. Something Yzerman never did.
Stevie won the Players’ Association award voted on by your peers, which, to me is the biggest thing […] and you can’t put Sergei Fedorov in Steve Yzerman’s category. If you look who’s up there right now with banners is who should be up there. And I’m not slighting Sergei because of that, you know, there’s tier, and tier for us is Stevie and Nick.
I know all of the drugs probably impacted McCarty’s already very limited brainpower, but Fedorov won the above-referenced Lester B. Pearson trophy as well.
McCarty continued …..
And you could argue Shanny, you could argue Igor, you could argue Sergei, you could argue a lot of guys (Ruhl: Osgood) you could argue Ozzie, and I think where we’re at now, I think it’s where it should be.
Uh, no. You can’t argue for any of those guys, actually. Within a year, Shanahan will be ninth in career goals in Detroit, tenth in career points and nowhere to be found in career assists. Not to mention he had to leave the city because his wife thought he was boning Karen Newman.
Chris Osgood? The team once put him on waivers. During the PRIME of his career.
Igor Larionov? Can someone get McCarty to piss in a Dixie cup IMMEDIATELY?
I think in terms of history of the Red Wings and how it’s presented, you look at the guys who are up there, the Sawchuks, the Delvecchios, the Lindsays, the Howes, the Abels, the Yzermans, the Lidstroms … those are the epitome of when you think of Detroit Red Wing hockey and backbone […] and time served is a big thing. Now, if Sergei played his whole career here, or even most of his career here, which he didn’t, then you have a better argument […] Not enough [years]. If you look at the guys that are up there, they’re all 20-plussers.
I don’t even know where to begin here. Fedorov didn’t play “most of his career” in Detroit? He played 73% of his games in a Wings uniform. How much coke do you need to inhale through your nasal passage to forget basic math?
They’re all 20-plus players? Sid Abel played a year less in Detroit than Fedorov before leaving for Chicago. Sawchuk played 14 in Motown and then played for FOUR more organizations.
McCarty’s response to a texter stating that the Wings aren’t the Pistons. A team that retires everyone’s jersey, including Kid Rock and Eddie Money ….
That goes to my point. Sergei definitely deserves to be part of a ring of honor at the new stadium.
Fuck you and your ring of honor. And what the hell would Darren McCarty know about honor, anyway?
We are talking about a man who — while married — fucked so many recent West Bloomfield High School grads that he should get invited to every high school reunion from the 1996 class on.
He’s a piece of trash who made a habit of serving alcohol to underage girls, according to multiple DSR sources.
Human debris who abandoned his first family in Detroit and then married another woman in Calgary whom he walked out on by sending a “Dear Jane” letter — but only after leaving her with $20,000 in credit card debt from cash advances he used in the casino at which she worked.
Like, you’d think after napalming your family (wife, son, three daughters) back in West Bloomfield you would try to avoid ruining anyone else’s life for …. ya know … a couple of years. Not D-Mac.
I have a family member who lived in the same subdivision as McCarty — in the Maple and Farmington area of West Bloomfield — and the Darren McCarty horror stories were legendary. One day he was impregnating his first wife for the fourth time, the next day he was at the Stage Deli with some 20-year old WBHS grad.
Blame this on his addictions all you want, the pattern was that of a sociopath.
This dog excrement from the bottom of your shoe has the audacity to state that a sure first-ballot Hall of Famer shouldn’t have his jersey retired even though he played with the man while McCarty was either hungover, drunk, high or strung out, according to multiple DSR sources.
A stain on society who claims he is sober now but in the next sentence admits to drinking beer and smoking marijuana. Yep, I am pretty sure standard protocol at Betty Ford is for former addicts to drink Coors Light and smoke bud regularly.
Or the time he threatened to beat up a DSR Elite member at the Hideout in Clawson because a few weeks prior, this person had the audacity to reject the girl McCarty was now dating, prompting McCarty to ask, “You want me to kick his ass?”
Or that he allegedly was banned from said bar because he ran up a bigger bar tab than Norm at Cheers and didn’t pay.
I could go on and on about how his own sister didn’t invite him to her wedding just last year; the many people who have told me they witnessed him doing blow in PUBLIC; or how his current mark — errrr, I mean, wife — had to get PPOs against McCarty’s old running buddies. I could even raise questions about who actually benefits from his charity, but what is the point?
Hell, I am sure if I wanted to waste $6.42 on Amazon I could purchase a copy of his book and learn about other people he fucked over but I wouldn’t want to finance this scum’s next bender or “Let it Ride” wager.
And by the way, why does 105.1 give this douche bag a platform to denigrate his former teammate in the first place? This guy has left a tsunami-like level of destruction in his personal life — destroying families in two separate countries — and Greater Media thinks we want to hear his take on ANYTHING?
This is the same delusional fuck who said this in response to a question about what felt better: Winning the 2008 Cup or punching Claude Lemieux ….
Punching Lemieux[‘s] face in, because without that game on March 26, 1997, none of those cups would [have] happened. Also the bastard deserved it.
Hahahahaha. What a lunatic. The Wings wouldn’t have won a Cup if not for the brawl versus the Avalanche? Oh, ok. The 1998 team was so good that they accomplished the almost impossible feat of going back-to-back. Something that has not occurred SINCE.
And that was without Vladimir Konstantinov.
And the 2002 roster was akin to the Harlem Globetrotters on ice. McCarty is so deluded, he thinks if the March 26th brawl never occurs, the franchise doesn’t win the title five years later when they employed TWO Hall of Famers (Larionov and Luc Robitaille) on the FOURTH LINE??
Ya gotta be kidding me.
A few years ago I was doing Webcast sports shows at UDetroit Cafe when one of the owners approached me about doing a Tigers broadcast with Denny McLain. I laughed in the proprietor’s face and told him I would never appear on camera with that degenerate.
When he attempted to sway me by listing off McLain’s credentials — like I cared about his 31-win season — I said I would agree to do the show if we could get employees from Peet Packing Company (whose pensions McLain helped pillage) for our studio audience. That was the last time the subject was broached.
Obviously, 105.1 doesn’t have my high standards.
When I started bombing McCarty the other day on Twitter about his horrid Fedorov take, a couple of mouth-breathers asked me why I wouldn’t give McCarty a second chance? A second chance? SECOND. CHANCE. I am pretty sure Darren is on about his 44th opportunity, having pawned off #43 at American Jewelry and Loan.
I mean, the guy ran up $20,000 on his wife’s credit card to play poker and then disappeared a few days later. Ya gotta wonder if, had just hit a royal flush, he’d still be married to Anna Okuszko.
Please, D-Mac, go on about how Fedorov is no Steve Yzerman. McCarty actually had the nerve to prop up Stevie Y. by stating on on the air that the difference between the two was that “The Captain” wasn’t selfish and willingly changed his game for the betterment of the team.
Uh, Darren, I know you were probably higher than Jordan Belfort at a Hamptons party at the time but Yzerman only changed his game after almost being traded to Ottawa by Scotty Bowman.
That’s like giving credit to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for giving the U.S. information about Osama bin-Laden …… only after being waterboarded at Guantanamo.
(And let me set the record straight about the Yzerman vs. Fedorov issue. Readers have attacked me since my last Fedorov article, saying that #91 fans always attack Yzerman in order to prop up Sergei. That is 100% not true. ALL Fedorov fans also love Yzerman, including ME. The only reason this becomes a debate is because the #19 worshippers choose to denigrate Fedorov’s accomplishments when we campaign for Sergei to be acknowledged appropriately. If you want to go down that road, I will be happy to bring up Stanislav Neckar and Alexander Daigle. EVERY FUCKING TIME.)
If anyone wants to go on the record minimizing Fedorov’s Detroit legacy and state he should not have his jersey retired you can expect me to go all Kathy Bates in “Primary Colors” on your ass.
I will bust dust until #91 is hanging alongside 1, 5, 7, 9, 10, 12 and 19.
While filling in for Dery, McCarty prefaced his anti-Fedorov statements by saying he was happy that Sergei was honored by the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame and that Fedorov was a good friend of his.
Knowing how treats his friends (and wives), Sergei should run for zee hills.
And hide his American Express.