This Week in the Biz

It's Hard Out Here For A Biz

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Alien abductors have asked him... to probe them.

By Zak Griffin

He is the most interesting hockey player that nobody really cares about other than the fact that he is really funny... He is Paul "Biz Nasty" Bissonnette. Good morning, or in case you are not reading this in the morning, good afternoon, good evening and good night to all my fellow bipeds and welcome to the Biz Report, a week in the life of The Biz.

This week is a little bit different. Personally, I don't like it when I hear someone say this. When I am watching a band or a performer live and they say to the audience, 'We're going to try something a little different tonight. Is that okay with you guys?' and the whole crowd goes, 'Aye!' while I go, 'Nay' like that guy from The Simpsons episode, "Last Exit to Springfield." Or just like Hans Moleman.

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I was saying Boo-urns.

This week will be more of an opinion piece than anything else. The reason for this shift has to do with a topic that was brought up during another attempt at trash-talking The Biz.

During this past week, Lenny Belvin aka @NYRangerMan, attempted to do what so many other hockey fans have done: chirp The Biz. What started out as harmless banter (is a flame war every truly harmless?) quickly turned a little more serious when The Biz decided to respond to the tweet sent to him from Belvin. The Biz decided to respond to the chirp by tweeting:

"Says the guy posting naked pictures of his kids on the internet. Man, you are a LOSER. Get a clue."

The Biz was referring to Belvin's Twitter photo, which showed his two children, both of whom can't be older than two years old, sleeping in their cribs beside each other while naked.

What followed was an argument between the Twitter-verse about the appropriateness of posting photos of your children. Many felt that Belvin was right in posting those pictures. After all they are his children, he should be allowed to post those photos, regardless if the babies are naked or not. And besides, these photos were taken by a professional, there's nothing weird about that. These Twitterers (wow, that's actually a word?) soon made their opinions felt by tweeting back at The Biz, saying how it was inappropriate of him to bring a man's children into an internet argument, especially when considering, as a professional athlete, he is supposed to be a role model and should be behaving himself as such. The other half, though, sided with The Biz. The point The Biz was trying to make was that, to quote the man himself, "Putting naked pictures of children on the internet is messed up to me. Done by a 'professional' or not." These viewers were supported The Biz with words of amusement or support and eventually, as all flame wars do, they fizzled out.

I don't want to step on any toes here so I will keep this brief, and this is just my opinion by the way, but I agree with The Biz. While true the photos were not inappropriate, in that there was a professional photographer who took the photos, these photos make me feel uncomfortable when they appear on somebody's Twitter page, or when they are posted on Facebook. I am happy that you see such beauty in your children, I really am, but I cannot agree with this simply on the fact that it makes me feel uncomfortable. It really does. I understand the arguments coming from both sides. While true these photos were taken by a photographer and a father should have the right to post pictures of his children, but then where is the line drawn?

Things get even more uncomfortable after this, so I will end things here. Hopefully this post has not offended anyone, let it be stated that the opinion I just gave is entirely my own and does not reflect the views of The Neutral Zone Podcast at all. The point of this was to bring light to an interesting discussion that happened this week in the life of Paul Bissonnette, and I hope you have enjoyed it in some way.

And now, a picture of a cat.

http://themetapicture.com/im-sexy/

Thanks again, sports fans. Stay loud, stay proud, stay classy, and, as always, keep your stick on the ice.

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Zak Griffin will never chirp Paul Bissonnette on the Internet. He knows better. If you want to chirp Zak, follow him on Twitter at @ZakGriffin13