Inside Bill's Mind: Recent Episodes
Bill Chase
Bill Chase is just a 37 year old guy from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Over the years he has become a pop-culture junkie, an aficionado of film, TV, and music. Also an avid sports nut, and likes to explore a fair bit of history. And of course, Bill loves karaoke ... and he loves wrestling.
This is not a show about one specific topic, it's just one guy, with one mind, and whenever he feels the need or has the time, he will share what's on said mind.
On this episode, I talk about Edge winning the Royal Rumble, the (not-so) SuperBowl, SuperBowl commercials, Celebs in wrestling, Eric Bischoff labeling Bret Hart as boring, paying tribute to the late Butch Reed, as well as the great Christopher Plummer, and of course, social media stupidity.
Since the issue of mental health was brought up a lot this week, I figured I'd tell some stories that have effected me significantly.
This is Inside Bill's Mind ... Bill Chase is a 37 year old man from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He's what some call a "Pop Culture Junkie", lover of film, music, TV. He's also a sports nut, and loves the world of professional wrestling. He's also big on history, politics, current events, whatever is on his mind, he'll talk about it.
In this episode inspired by numerous YouTube videos from Sportsnet's Steve Dangle, Bill decided to do another trade-tree episode, this time chronicling 4 huge trades that took place for the 1990-91 season! This includes the infamous Ron Francis/John Cullen trade ... and after researching the tree, this lead to pretty much every bit of Pittsburgh's success they've had in the last near 30 years!
This is Inside Bill's Mind ... Bill Chase is a 37 year old man from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He's what some call a "Pop Culture Junkie", lover of film, music, TV. He's also a sports nut, and loves the world of professional wrestling. He's also big on history, politics, current events, whatever is on his mind, he'll talk about it.
In this episode inspired by numerous YouTube videos from Sportsnet's Steve Dangle, Bill decided to do another trade-tree episode, this time involving the five trade trees of Hall of Fame defensemen Larry Murphy. Now Murphy is the principle subject of these trades, but hall of famers such as Mike Gartner & Dino Ciccarelli also become part of a scenario, and how while Murphy wasn't an easy player to sacrifice not everyone lost by trading him, but others lost significantly.
This is Inside Bill's Mind ... Bill Chase is a 37 year old man from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He's what some call a "Pop Culture Junkie", lover of film, music, TV. He's also a sports nut, and loves the world of professional wrestling. He's also big on history, politics, current events, whatever is on his mind, he'll talk about it.
In this episode inspired by numerous YouTube videos from Sportsnet's Steve Dangle, Bill decided to have a little fun and research some trade trees of his own. On this edition, he looks at three trade trees involving three of the most popular Leaf players in the late 70's. Lanny McDonald, Tiger Williams & Darryl Sittler. These three were the toast of the town in Toronto, but two of these trades worked out not so good for the Leafs in the long term, and one actually worked out very well, can you guess? As a matter of fact, one of these trees lead to a significant part of the New Jersey Devils' Stanley Cup success. Also, a BONUS trade as part of this episode that was one of the worst in not only Leafs history, but NHL history to boot.
This is Inside Bill's Mind ... Bill Chase is a 37 year old man from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He's what some call a "Pop Culture Junkie", lover of film, music, TV. He's also a sports nut, and loves the world of professional wrestling. He's also big on history, politics, current events, whatever is on his mind, he'll talk about it.
In this episode he fondly remembers Jon Huber, best known to wrestling fans as Brodie Lee, and Luke Harper.
This is Inside Bill's Mind ... Bill Chase is a 37 year old man from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He's what some call a "Pop Culture Junkie", lover of film, music, TV. He's also a sports nut, and loves the world of professional wrestling. He's also big on history, politics, current events, whatever is on his mind, he'll talk about it.
In the debut episode, Bill talks about all that lead up to, and surrounded, the infamous trade of star-hockey goaltender Patrick Roy, from the Montreal Canadiens to the Colorado Avalanche. Bill talks about his fandom for the eccentric goaltender, how Roy was seemingly being shortchanged by pundits and analysts in favor of other goaltenders, also going on about how the Habs management was crumbling making constant bad decisions.