OMG 4 days without any hockey!

verylowpriority · Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 1:31 pm Post subject: OMG 4 days without any hockey!

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**dfwbat** · Gross Misconduct Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Posts: 1184

/wrists!
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backupgoalie · Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 2:03 pm Post subject:

Try watching the NBA playoffs. It might help. Or if you want to watch some good movies I can refer to a couple of places. Just enter from the back door.

verylowpriority · Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 3:04 pm Post subject:

It's been years since I was able to feel entertained watching an NBA game. Give both teams 100 points and play the last two minutes.

I've heard that the Boston-Cleveland game was one for the ages, though....I'm sure the Neilsen ratings smoked the hockey game's.
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Wildcatters1 · Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 3:16 pm Post subject:

zambonirodeo · Five for fighting Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Posts: 438

I watched a little bit of the Spurs game last night and was marvelling at how I was completely oblivious to the whole thing, other than the Sixers for a bit, and noticing the Mavericks lost.

Hockey ratings have been way up, though I'm not sure that really reflects anything other than the participating markets. You put Buffalo and Ottawa on VS and all you get is 100,000 people in Buffalo (because a ton of Sabres fans live in Ontario) plus several hundred thousand fans around the country. And a team like Anaheim is in a big market but doesn't exactly get the entire Los Angeles area onto the bandwagon like the Stars and Carolina did during their Cup runs. You put Pittsburgh and Philadelphia on and suddenly a million people just in those two cities pay attention. They're actually saying the combination of the cities, Sidney and the Red Wings will make this the biggest final since '97.

**dfwbat** · Gross Misconduct Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Posts: 1184

I watched a bit of the Spurs game, hoping the Hornets could knock em off. There is something about the Spurs that I cannon stomach.

I think its hilarious that they had to sleep in their plane and on buses on the tarmac at Louis Armstrong Intl Airport last night after ther plane developed a 'mechanical problem.'
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zambonirodeo · Five for fighting Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Posts: 438

If you can find a way to catch the Memorial Cup semi tomorrow on the NHL Network I highly recommend it. Belleville and Kitchener already played a 7 game series for the OHL title and went all out (into OT) in last night's game, which didn't even count for anything but "home team" designation for last change (especially ironic considering the game is in Kitchener).

verylowpriority · Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 1:34 pm Post subject:

Day Three....it's been harder than Day Two so far....
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Ornery · Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 3:02 pm Post subject:

Mental pictures of VLP curled up in the fetal position twitching, drooling, and mumbling...

It ain't a pretty sight.
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verylowpriority · Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 3:51 pm Post subject:

Ornery · Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 8:18 pm Post subject:

**Shanny** · The Goddess Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Posts: 1509

I'll look for one, boys.

I just resorted to baseball...though I kept a count of the ways hockey is better: the cool climate and the sticking up for your mates to name a few....Valverde took a hit to the head and hit the dirt. The hoss got up and kept pitching. I kept waiting for the line brawl to avenge the hit...
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zambonirodeo · Five for fighting Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Posts: 438

Ha, if you want to apply hockey logic to that play, Valverde should have just manned up and made the catch (it actually looked like it glanced off his glove, which is probably the only reason he was able to get up and pitch with an intact jaw).

Be glad you didn't see the Memorial Cup game, it was a shocking mismatch.

verylowpriority · Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 11:09 pm Post subject:

verylowpriority · Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 11:11 pm Post subject:

Only had two cigs today. But zero hockey. It was another sucky day, and I really am ready to grab an IED in one hand and a garage door opener in the other.
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**dfwbat** · Gross Misconduct Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Posts: 1184

VLP, you could always go to Chap and watch men's league games.

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verylowpriority · Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 8:47 am Post subject:

During the 1981 baseball strike I spent most of the summer in Central Park watching the Broadway Show League.

Tyne Daly struck fear in the hearts of opposing pitchers. And Chita Rivera was a lot faster than she looked.
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backupgoalie · Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 10:08 am Post subject:

Actually the men's leauge (summer season) won't kick off until June 5th. I've learned how to enjoy yard work and watching basesball & and basketball. Maybe if the shorts were shorter and tighter I'd try the WNBA.

staltus · Gross Misconduct Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Posts: 782

Bug you should try watching Womens pro beach volleyball

backupgoalie · Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 6:00 am Post subject:

I have!!!!

MRice62377 · Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 6:06 pm Post subject:

verylowpriority · Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 6:25 pm Post subject:

I went to one of the games in that World Series in Philthadelphia. I can't remember which game it was, but it was the game that George Brett had hemorrhoid surgery in the morning and then played baseball in the evening.

Made my ass hurt just thinking about it.

As for "salvaging the summer," well, it was too late for me. I boycotted the rest of the season, and got forcibly removed from the Yankee Stadium grounds by George S's private militia for wearing a sandwich-board protest sign suggesting "a pox on both their houses." Got my photo in the NY Daily News.

Against my better judgment, I came back for Game 6 of the '81 Series. (Sweet Jesus this was a long time ago, wasn't it?) The Dodgers won the Series that day, but there was one memorable moment.

Davey Lopes had tied a WS record for most errors. Reggie Jackson came up to bat in the ninth inning -- his last at-bat as a Yankee -- and he hit a fourteen-hopper right at Davey Lopes. And it went right between his legs.
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Ornery · Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 9:01 pm Post subject:

verylowpriority · Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 9:34 pm Post subject:

LOL....it wasn't a particularly proud moment for Reggie (one of my heroes) either.
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MRice62377 · Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 5:24 am Post subject:

George sat out (figuratively) game one of that series in prep for his surgery. Early in game two he slid into third base and Mike Schmidt congratulated Brett's hit by patting him on the ass.

God, we hated the Yanks back then. Of course, we played them pretty near every season in the playoffs. Hated Jackson but it's obvious that Brett hurt the Yankees more than Reggie hurt the Royals.

Geez...that was 28 years ago!
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verylowpriority · Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 6:40 am Post subject:

You going to dance on Chris Chambliss's grave when he dies? LOL

Before the start of the inning I actually "called" that home run in the company of ten witnesses in a college dorm rec room.

I'm sure it's burned in your memory as well. ((snicker))

That was THIRTY-TWO years ago! OMG!
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Ornery · Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 9:43 pm Post subject:

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verylowpriority · Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 10:15 pm Post subject: