That was fun. I was glad that Johnny got mostly applause (at least, after he tipped his helmet). Can't believe Ortiz's shot made it out. The wind just killed everything else to the outfield. Can't celebrate too much, tho. Still got 25 more of these to go! :)

Sorry about the Wings, tho, mick.

You also don't have to worry about those percentage points today either Chuck. Unless of course they give the game back right away.

Don't be sorry, Chuck. Be happy for the Oilers. They done good!

After going 0 fer 4, I heard Johnny said something like, "I'm still helping the Red Sox win," ...Cute.
mick

Go Pistons !

I thought the funniest comments came from Doug Mirabelli after the game. He was describing his experiences getting to the ballpark - as of yesterday morning he was in San Diego, a member of the Padres. When he got word of the trade, he hopped in a jet hired by the Red Sox, (approximating here) "and the pilot flew about 1,000 miles an hour...I felt like I was in a New York cab. When we landed, the pilot slammed on the brakes, and we skidded sideways to a stop. I had, like, 6 seatbelts on." He then mentioned he changed into his uniform in the back of the police car on the way from the airport to the ballpark. There must be something about being naked in the back of a police car going 100 miles an hour...

There is.....believe me.

Jeez, Steve Howe died on Friday. I didn't hear about it till today! Any word on the cause of the crash? I think we all have a guess, but I haven't heard anything definite.

I thought I read the toxicology reports were not back yet.

Ok, that's just gross!

No, no, no, no......

Naw, "gross" is watching Eddie Guardado trying to save a game.

Me? I'm a J.J. Putz fan. I think that he's kinda symbolic of true Mariner baseball.

In other news, David Wells travels to Lourdes for help to heal his knees. States that a trade to San Diego might provide a miracle cure also.:D

At least it sounds like we'll be spared that grossness for a while - didn't the Mariners announce he will no longer be the closer?

But how will we <B>ever</B> get rid of the mental picture of you naked in a police car? :eek:

Yep - they've moved him to "late relief" were the words Hargrove used...about freaking time, too...

And there is NO way to get that mental image gone - none of my mental tricks are working on that one...sigh. More nightmares tonight! :eek:

Jeez, Sox and Yankees are back to this "percentage points" thing.

But to get very far off-topic, even in this very far off-topic thread, did any of our hockey-loving brethren notice that after the first round of the NHL playoffs, the 1-, 2-, 3-, and 4- seeds advanced in the East; and the 5-, 6-, 7-, and 8-seeds advanced in the West? That's bizarre. No upsets in the East, all upsets in the West. That's gotta be a first.

Yup, and guess who's still in first place?

Aggravating l'il azzhole, ain't I?:D

Any team that has a Wiley Mo and a Coco Crisp playing for 'em can't be taken seriously. If JJ Putz(God, I love that name) was alive, he'd roll over in his grave.

Not sure if the toxology report is in yet. I would not put any money on 'negative'.
btw, those '*' signs at the Phillies-Giants game were pretty cool.

Having some fun tonight!! Beckett the Yankee Killer! While walking the stupid dog, I was listening to the Yankees broadcast of the game on my XM. The call of Manny's pop-up that was dropped was classic. Absolutely hysterical. "And he pops it up in shallow right. [routine question] Who's gonna catch it? [Panic now audible in his voice] Who's gonna catch it?!?!?" :D

Shut up....

It's not that bad, I've seen much worse things when I coached my kids in LL. For instance, a ground ball could have dribbled thru the first baseman's legs.

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1) Another good one tonight. Sox leave about 74 men on base. Jeter gives the Sox 2 runs for the lead. Timlin strikes out Giambi and A-Rod back-to-back to end the 7th. Still a ways to go, tho, so I'm not celebrating yet. I feel bad for Matsui. That was ugly.

2) Where did Greg Maddux buy his magic rejuvenation machine? His best start in like 30 years.

3) Anybody see the article in Sports Illustrated a couple weeks ago about the girl who pitched a no-hitter for her HS boys varsity baseball team? Pretty amazing. I can't remember where she was from. Somewhere in the southeast, I think.

Looks like 3 months for Matsui and maybe the year. As soon as I saw the replay, I knew it was broken. Wrists don't bend like that. Yucchh.....

Some great catches by Damon and Crosby, followed by Bernie performing the Waltz of the Toreadors on a l'il fairly routine fly ball. Double yucchh....

Maybe they'll give Melky Cabrera a real shot this time, instead of running him outa town on his first error. Hope so. The rumor mill in NY already has Soriano being parachuted in from Washington. We don't need another head case; we already got one in right field- even though he's on a sit down strike right now trying to get his contract extended.

Yeah, they should run him outta town for one error. They should run him outta town for his first name. Melky?!?! What kind of baseball name is that?!?!?! :D

Who's on the sit-down strike? Is that why Bernie was in right field in the first place?

Coco Crisp much?

I'm with you on that one, too. I don't think I'd keep using "Coco". Although Coco Dumarot has a nice ring to it!!! :D

Melky with your Coco Crisp?

Is this MLB or a cereal commercial?

This is one of the things that I love about baseball. Every once in a while stuff happens that is literally once-in-a-lifetime.

You look at the final score, White Sox beat the Twins 9-7, and you say "So what?" Then you realize that Mark Buehrle gave up all 7 of those runs to the Twins in the first inning. And the manager left him in. And on top of that, Buehrle ends up going 6 innings total, with a little help from a triple play in that sixth inning, and gets credited with the win. And then you find out that the last time somebody gave up 7 runs in the first inning and got the win in the same game was back in 1900!!! (Jack Powell of the Cardinals; Sept. 29, 1900; maybe it was the last game of the season.)

I know you all already think I'm a strange person, but I just love stuff like that. I think it's pretty cool.

Don't worry, Chuck - I know you're not strange.

The Easter Bunny told me so. ;)

I'll tell you what facinates me - how the heck do they find those types of statistics? And, who sits around and looks through all those box scores to find such a thing?

But, that is one of the things that makes baseball pretty cool. I'll guarantee you though, that this probably would never happen in a National League game, because they would've pinch-hit for Buehrle to get some more offense in early.

NSA. I would tell you more but then I would have to kill you. Very hush-hush and all that.

http://www.reproducts.de/museum/2005...mart/smart.jpg

Yo M......wassup with the rumor that the Cubbies are negotiating to bring Sammy back? I know that they need a bat big-time...so that does make a little sense.

Hey, I just saw that exact shoe a few weeks ago - it's at a special exhibit at the Int'l Spy Museum in Washington, DC.

I tried getting the number for the shoe, but it's unlisted. So, does that keep me alive a little while longer?

:eek:

Gawd, I really hope you're kidding...

There is no such thing as an unlisted number to the NSA.

Speaking of rumors...latest is Soriano's gonna make a return appearance in NY.

Oh yeah, and Chuck..."so what".

Actually, in this case there is - the shoe is a Qwest model.

Nope......read somewhere that he's in Miami working out to get in shape, and the Cubs have already held preliminary meetings with his agent. Supposed to be a base contract offer with a bunch of incentives. It makes sense kinda.......the Cubs do need a bat badly.

Sigh...

But right now they need 8 or 9 bats.

<font size =-2>There's no place like home...there's no place like home...</font size>

Actually, it does kinda make sense, M. If the Cubs can get anything at all out of Sosa, they're ahead of the game. If not, they just say bye-bye and it doesn't really cost them much. And they don't have to give up anybody out of their farm system to get him either.

And he's been able to train so far without worrying about any steroid tests either. Means he can partake of some of those good old Dominican vitamins.....

Sox take a commanding 1 game lead in the division. :)

Tigers still hanging in there, Mick. I can't wait to get out there in a couple months.

Nomar's been on fire lately. He had the game winning RBI last night for the Dodgers. That division just looks horrible again this year.

Are you kidding?! The Padres are just on fire! They are just awesome! They can beat anyone! They just got done sweeping the Cubs in the 7 game season series!

Oops. Never mind.

So who's Palmiero gonna sign with?

Keep up the mantra...pretty soon it will become second nature...and then one fine Tuesday morning you will look in the sports section and realize the Mariners are no longer in last place in their division and are only 4 games out of first in the division and thinngs will start to look good to you again - birds will begin to sing, flowers will start to bloom, there will be back to back days of 90+ temperatures...life is good!

At least for now...

Hmmmmmm......,

The Cubs <b>do</b> need someone for first. I think that Sammy could handle first too if they needed him there though. That position is kinda like the retirement home for aging stars anyway- Rose, Thome, Nomar, etc.

The Cubs signing Sosa is kinda logical.....too many rumors about him flying around to be just idle rumors.

I hear Jose Canseco is getting bored...maybe they can bring him back to play first??? Wouldn't that be a hoot...

And.....

http://www.sodamnfunny.com/Animation/Gif/pig2.gif

Canseco is in his 40's though. Sosa is only around 37, I think, which isn't that old anymore- baseball/wise. And Sosa was able to play a position too....something Canseco never really could do. Canseco was strictly a DH.

Even if Sosa can't hack it, what really are the Cubs losing? It's not that much of a gamble on their part.

...and

http://monkeybutt.ytmnd.com/

Hip hip -- Jorge!!
 

So for the second time in three days, we get one of those "once in a lifetime" things. Yankees make a HUGE comeback (tied for their biggest comeback ever) to win last night. Apparently, they scored a touchdown as time expired and kicked the extra point with no time on the clock to win 14-13. But the really amazing thing is that no team ever has come back from a deficit of 9 or more runs and won the game with a "walk-off" home run. Until Jorge Posada did it last night. I love stuff like that. Even when the Yankees do it.

By the way, what do the Chicago teams spike their beer with? Some drunk chick almost plunked Jacque Jones from the stands at Wrigley! At least she didn't pick on some elderly first base coach.

Who's got the best record in baseball?? Mick's Tigers!!! Who'da thunk it? 'Course they're really only tied for the best record, b/c they've got the World Series Champs in their division, but still pretty amazing.

No...I think this might be their biggest comeback...probably up there in the HUGE category.

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<font size = +7><font color = red>Yo, M&M</font></font>
From Rick Telander's column in the Sun today:
<i>"It was funny that Hendry walked off into the Wrigley underbelly with agent Adam Katz, Sammy Sosa's business guy, at his side".</i>

http://www.suntimes.com/output/telan...pt-rick17.html

Won't be long now......

I'm still going under the impression that Katz was there to meet Hendry, not the other way around. There's more upside potential for Sammy to be the one to come in and "save the season", than upside for the Cubs. And, when was the last time Sammy hit major-league pitching? I really just don't see it. I hope Hendry doesn't see it either.

Talk to me again when you see Hendry talking to Pujols' agent.

Like Alice in the Looking-Glass
 

Pistons down.
Tigers U.P.
Good is Bad.
Bad is Good.
Everything is topsy-turvy.
http://www.clicksmilies.com/s0105/fr...smiley-002.gif

mick

Yo, M&M......

Trade ya either Prior or Woods- your choice- for Carl Pavano. At least they get in 2 or 3 starts a year......most years.

And ... as for that 6'10" goober we got...... :rolleyes:

OK, I am now officially a Chicago Cubs fan.

Actually, I'm a Mike Barrett fan, he just happens to play for the Cubs.

That is one tough SOB.

http://mlb.mlb.com/images/2004/09/10/CxHl9vJ2.jpg

Jeez, Mets gave it away to the Yankees yesterday afternoon. Wasted Pedro's great start. :(

Hero worship.
 

Tiger CF Curtis Granderson's idol, Ken Griffey, Jr., jacked one with bases loaded and Cincinnati took a one run lead in the 7th. Granderson jacked a solo in the 9th to tie up the game with 2 outs.

Kinda cool.

So, Bernie Williams has both the longest and shortest doubles of the night in consecutive at-bats? He bangs one high off the right field fence his first time up, then pops one up in the infield that lands between home and first that no one catches, and he ends up on second. I haven't seen that since Little League...

On the pop fly, if Barry Bonds hadda hit that one, they woulda thrown him out at first.....by 20 feet. Mr. Potatohead don't run out no pop flies, ground balls,etc......

Aw, don't beat around the bush - tell me how you REALLY feel about him...

That same charge was leveled against a couple of the Cubs on Sat.'s game against the White Sox (post-brawl). Runner on first, base hit into left, and both runners barely jog to their bases. No running hard, making the fielder think about having to make a play, perhaps forcing the fielder to make a mistake. I guess high salaries don't necessarily equate to high knowledge of the game.

:eek: I'm turning into a grumpy old man!

Jeez, I just saw the NY sports headlines on PTI tonight. They're killing ARod for hitting a home run late in the Sox game when the Yankees were already down 6 or 7 or whatever it was. "Thanks for Nuthin' " and "If it doesn't count for anything, you can count on ARod", or something close to that.

I realize that he's hitting .350 or something like that with nobody on base and only .160 or so with runners in scoring position, but we're not even a third of the way into the season, and the Yankees are right near the top of the division. I'm guessing that he's going to turn it around. I guess being the reigning MVP doesn't carry the cache it used to.

Geeze. A clever, sarcastic and caustic headline in a NY tabloid. Imagine that.

Next you'll tell me there was fiscal corruption on the Big Dig.

:rolleyes:

Back page of the NY Post: Taking it on the Chein.

Headline of the story: A Wang Night in Beantown.

NY Daily News Headline: The Way of Wang Needs Will of Schill.

Big sigh.......

Aw geeze, say it ain't so, Mr. Obnoxious Grammar Guy......

Is A-Rod hiding his MVP trophy somewhere? In his <i>cache</i>, maybe.

The word is <b><i>cachet</i></b>, not <i>cache</i>. They are pronounced the same, but have completely different meanings.

Now.....go sit in the corner.....
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go.....shoo, shoo......

Btw, A-Rod <b>is</b> an appropriate name imo.....

Btw, Dan, you can say <b>A-Rod</b>, but you can't say <b>A-Prick</b>....:D

Nice job slapping our little buddy around there JR! Speaking of that, I googled "a little prick" and got this link. Enjoy

http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thum...nger_prick.jpg

Yeah, yeah. One time, I neglect to click m-w.com and I'm hoisted on a petard. My own, even! Enjoy it while you can. :p

Royals are in the middle of their second losing streak of 10+ games this season, and we're only two months in. Ugh.

Wakefield is just getting slapped around this season. I feel bad for him.

errrmmm...one is not hoisted on some random petard, one is hoisted by a petard that is in one's possession.

I knew that.

And.....Dee-troit won again last night. The Tigers are not only leading the AL Central, they've got the best record in all of MLB.

That sound that you heard was Mick having an orgasm.

Just waitin' for the other shoe to drop.

Huh? You wear shoes for that?

When the shoes are gone, all that remains are sox.

WOW.....that's deep......

When it gets that deep you should keep your shoes on.

Unless you're switching to boots.

13 games with the Big Boys.
 

Now we're gonna find out if a bear makes brown in the woods. :)

<TABLE cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=1 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcebe2" width="15%">May 26 </TD><TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcebe2" width="40%">Cleveland </TD><TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcebe2" width="30%">7:05 p.m. </TD></TR><TR><TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcebe2" width="15%">May 27 </TD><TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcebe2" width="40%">Cleveland </TD><TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcebe2" width="30%">7:05 p.m. </TD></TR><TR><TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcebe2" width="15%">May 28 </TD><TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcebe2" width="40%">Cleveland </TD><TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcebe2" width="30%">1:05 p.m. </TD></TR><TR><TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcebe2" width="15%">May 29 </TD><TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcebe2" width="40%">N.Y. Yankees </TD><TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcebe2" width="30%">1:05 p.m. </TD></TR><TR><TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcebe2" width="15%">May 30 </TD><TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcebe2" width="40%">N.Y. Yankees </TD><TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcebe2" width="30%">7:05 p.m. </TD></TR><TR><TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcebe2" width="15%">May 31 </TD><TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcebe2" width="40%">N.Y. Yankees </TD><TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcebe2" width="30%">7:05 p.m. </TD></TR><TR><TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ff0000" align=left>June </TD><TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ff0000" colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcebe2" width="15%">June 1 </TD><TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcebe2" width="40%">N.Y. Yankees </TD><TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcebe2" width="30%">7:05 p.m. </TD></TR><TR><TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcebe2" width="15%">June 2 </TD><TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcebe2" width="40%">Boston </TD><TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcebe2" width="30%">7:05 p.m. </TD></TR><TR><TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcebe2" width="15%">June 3 </TD><TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcebe2" width="40%">Boston </TD><TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcebe2" width="30%">7:05 p.m. </TD></TR><TR><TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcebe2" width="15%">June 4 </TD><TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcebe2" width="40%">Boston </TD><TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcebe2" width="30%">1:05 p.m. </TD></TR><TR><TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcebe2" width="15%">June 6 </TD><TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcebe2" width="40%">at Chicago White Sox
</TD><TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcebe2" width="30%">8:05 p.m. </TD></TR><TR><TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcebe2" width="15%">June 7 </TD><TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcebe2" width="40%">at Chicago White Sox
</TD><TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcebe2" width="30%">8:05 p.m. </TD></TR><TR><TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcebe2" width="15%">June 8 </TD><TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcebe2" width="40%">at Chicago White Sox
</TD><TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcebe2" width="30%">8:05 p.m. </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

Well, that's a no-brainer....
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The Royals break their 13-game losing streak by beating. . . the Yankees? Ouch.

Of course! The Yankees take what, 2 of 3 from Boston and then turn around and loose to the the Royals?:confused: They seem to always have a hard time with the Royals and the Devil Rays.

What does a .303 lifetime average and 1,400 hits over 13 seasons with one team get you? 26th place in a NASCAR truck series race. Strange.

http://msn.foxsports.com/nascar/story/5633138

NASCAR, Chuck?

NASCAR?

Racing has gone t'hell in a hand basket. I turned it on today for the first time in my life; mainly because someone told me a woman was driving in it. I sez "you gotta be sh!tting me- a woman?". Sho' nuff, there's someone called Danica Patrick just a-motoring away. First time I ever saw a driver in the 500 go into a curve while talking on her cell phone and putting on her lipstick.

Lah me......

It's true, it's true......

They should stick to bumper cars at the fair imo.

She's got a cute little figure on her tho, so they want her big time. She'll be on Letterman tomorrow night, I bet, since she races for Rahal-Letterman.

Marco A showed a rookie mistake - let the lead go with 300m left. There's gotta be a way to secure a victory in that sitch.

But I agree - racing ain't what it used to be.

Ob baseball content: 715. Asterisk, or mere progress?

Asterisk?

For <b>second</b> place?

Naw, don't think so.

Outa the fryin' pan
 

Whew !
Just avoided a sweep by the Yankees, and here comes the Red Sox.

Where's Kansas City when you need 'em?

Not playing the Cubs.

Yea, where's Kansas City when you need 'em?

Couldn't believe the Yankees led 6 to 5 and had the bases loaded in the 7th(?) with 2 outs and didn't get a couple of runs out of that.

First it was Matsui's gruesome writst injury, then Mariano injures his back while putting on his shoes, then Sheffield goes on the DL with a muscle strain, and now Jeter gets plunked on the hand (although I heard the x-rays were negative). I'm not sure I've ever seen a stretch where 4 of a team's 5 or 6 most important players get injured in such close succession. Very tough stretch.

On the upside, Moyer pitched a 2-hit gem for Seattle the other night. I heard he's the oldest guy to throw a complete game shutout since Charlie Hough in '90 or something like that.

On the downside, Atlanta gets swept by Arizona in a 4-game series (in Atlanta) for the first time ever. The party may be over for the Braves, I think.

In Seattle beating the Mariners! :mad:

And Chuck, Moyer is flat out fun to watch...84 mph fast ball and then throws about a 62 mph change-up and the guy swings when the ball's about half-way to the plate! It's a hoot watching him pitch!!

Yes, Moyer sureasheck <b>is</b> fun to watch. He's just a consumate professional.

And an ex-Cub, too. Man, he's been around forever; I think he was on the same teams with Williams, Santo, Banks, and Jenkins. <font size = -2>Or maybe not.</font size>

(grumpy old guy = on)
Anyway, what's the scoop with giving Milledge from the Mets such a hard time about his giving some fans high-fives after hitting his first home run? He's getting it from both the Giants players and his own manager for not following baseball's "unwritten rules". What I heard, after the inning was over, he high-fived some fans on his way out to the field. He didn't hold up the game, he didn't do it on camera, and he didn't make it all that obvious. But yet there's talk about him getting thrown at if he would continue to do it. Geeze, how is that worse than the players who stand at the plate and watch it go, or take 5 minutes to walk around the bases. That <B>isn't</B> showing up anyone? (grumpy old guy = off)

That's what a weekend in Cleveland will do for you. :D

Did you survive all that culture shock?

Life in dat der big city was just soooo different, eh Martha? :eek:

I will say one thing - Jacobs Field is one nice place to watch a game. We sat in the left field bleachers, but we were able to get around to the rest of the areas pretty easily. Everything was clean, well laid-out, plenty of good sight-lines from what we saw. Surprisingly, they were a long way from sold out, even for a Friday night game. Maybe Cleveland is more of a football town.

Or maybe they were just at the library.

I haven't heard this story yet. I wonder when the Giant pitchers are gonna start taking a hard line with this grand-standing, supersized-hot-dog egomaniac?

http://graphics.jsonline.com/graphic...4/bonds412.jpg

That's just "Barry being Barry".....thanking the Big Pharmacist In The Sky.:D

MLB is doing their share......

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/48904

Mets rookie hits the first home run of his career, with 2 outs in the bottom of the 10th, to tie the game and send the game further into extra innings. Here's one story:
http://www.sportsline.com/mlb/gamece...0060604_SF@NYM

Steve Kline (Giants pitcher) says, "I think he genuinely knows he did wrong." What?! How the he!! is that different than someone (like, say, the guy in the picture, or others for that matter) who do the pose and the trot even if the home run doesn't mean anything in the game?

I'm gettin' grumpy again...

So I was watching this baseball game tonight...home team kid on first steals second & ends up scoring on the play. Somehow defense is beyond what these kids are able to do. Next inning the visitors go up 2-1, but now I have to walk the dog. So I do, just a short walk, once around the block, when I get back the home team is leading 8-2! And it's *only* the bottom of the 2nd!!

Man I LOVE these little league games!

Whatd'ya expect with little league teams?

Moose vs. Beckett; sounds like a picher's duel to me. What do I know? I'm watching one of the little league teams playing in Houston.

13-2 now. We missed the convert.

Don't worry - George already fired the kicker and is trying to hire Pele.

Ok, I'm a little biased, but what are the odds that SportsCenter will lead with Yanks/Sox, when the performance of the night is Carlos Zambrano - 8 innings, 1 hit, 8K's, and 2 BB's. Oh yea, I almost forgot, he hit a 3-run HR, and also had a sac fly for 4 RBI's for the night.

Ok, I was right - they led with hockey.

Hockey?

Does anyone outside of Canada really care? Was there a visit by a Canadian diplomat to the ESPN complex, and they were just being considerate?

Aw geeze, M, that's the Cubbies. Nobody gives a sh!t about them anymore- not even their own mothers.

You won't see anybody lead with them until they sign Sosa, and that's gonna be real soon from what I've read.

Of course!! Why Tony is practically bursting with pride over his local Hurricanes, I'm sure. North Carolina is a hotbed of hockey fanaticism. Right, Tony? Tony?

BTW, Edmonton scored on a penalty shot last night. According to ESPN, it was the very first successful penalty shot in Stanley Cup Finals history. Whether you like hockey or not, that's pretty amazing.

Of course, Edmonton also coughed up a 3-0 lead and lost on a horrible turnover behind their own goal with 31 seconds left in regulation. That goalie has to feel sick about it, but he hadn't played at all in the playoffs before last night.

There's been like 37* successful penalty shots in all of NHL hockey since the invention of ice. Why are you amazed that none of them ocurred in the NHL finals?

*Guaranteed 118% actual made up statistic

So, are you 118% sure?

Mmmmm...I have my doubts. More like only 106% sure.

Make that 107% sure.

Wait...did you hear that?

It sounded like Chuck's head exploding. :D

I do have to admit I'm with Chuck on this one. All the years hockey has been around, and all the Stanley Cup Finals games that have been played, and the first penalty shot doesn't happen until 2006?

Kinda makes you think that it you wait long enough, just about anything can happen... <font size = -2>Cubs win World Series!</font size>