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Sailing To Philadelphia w/ 2 W's Sweeping To Philadelphia

We could rename the theme park Wilson World. We could also bring back Mularky and have Meathead Moose be the new mascot. "Sorry folks, Wilson World is closed for 16 weeks while we clean and repair America's favorite family fun offensive line. Sorrrrry. Uh huh, uh huh, uh huh."

I kind of miss the AAAAIIIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR-ICKKKK-AAAAAA, AAAAIIIRRRRRRRRRRR-ICKKK-AAAAAA.

Ph*ck Philly. Going, Going, Gagne. (On a Tombstone under R.I.P. with an x where the dot should go in the Flyer logo.) Got Goaltending? Didn't think so Booby. (Use this with a photo of R.Etsche or Sh**ttymaki.)

I'm sure you could find a copy on the web, the photo shows Dom lying on his side making a save with the shaft of the stick about 2 ft above him. Woolley and McAmmond are jostling in front of the net, and 2 flyers fa*s (insert your choice of consonant) in the front row are acting as Assquatch described. The caption to the photo was: Front Row Seats to Flyers Game: $145.00 Replica Hockey Jersey: $250.00 Beers and Hot Dogs: $22.00 Picture of you and your friend acting like a couple of F*GS in Sports Illustrated: PRICELESS

Eastern Conference 1 Ottawa vs 8 Tampa Bay - Otters in 6 2 Carolina vs 7 Montreal - Habs in 6 3 New Jersey vs 6 NY Rangers - Strangers in 7 4 Buffalo vs 5 Philadelphia - Sabres in 5 Western Conference 1 Detroit vs 8 Edmonton - Detroit in 7 2 Dallas vs 7 Colorado - Dallas in 7 3 Calgary vs 6 Anaheim - Calgary in 7 4 Nashville vs 5 San Jose - San Jose in 6

Why in the world would you go to TSN when it was already posted that all the info was at TSR?

Not even close to correct. Ryan is the number 1. Everyone (with the possible exception of Marty's mother) knows it and accepts it. It's not a bad thing though, to have a backup that shutout the 3rd highest scoring team in the league. Is it Saturday yet? Bring on the Cryers!

That site has some funny stuff on it.

WRONG! Rangers and Flyers both won 2 games against the other and 2 in OT/SO, so that is not why the Rangers get the edge over the Flyers. At 100 points, the Rangers have the edge over the Flyers with a better goal differential. At 101 points, the Flyers have the edge over the Rangers with 45 wins to 44. There are 11 scenarios that the Sabres face the Devils, 9 that they face the Rangers, and 7 that they face the Flyers.

There are 27 possible outcomes. Sabres play NJ in 11 of them, Rangers in 9, and Flyers in 7. There's a thread about matchups on TSR. All potential outcomes are discussed in Post #10.

Haven't seen that, but I do have the movie "Duct Tape Forever" which is a true classic. Can't believe I totally forgot to at least honorable mention The Twilight Zone and the original Star Trek. I'm sure I'll think of another 1 or 20 to add there as well. There have been some good shows through the years.

That explains a LOT!

1. Cheers 2. WKRP in Cincinnati 3. Soap 4. Taxi 5. The Dick Van Dyke Show 6. Married with Children 7. The Red Green Show 8. Sports Night 9. St. Elsewhere 10. M*A*S*H Honorable Mentions: Newhart, The Bob Newhart Show, Arrested Development, Hill Street Blues, Law and Order, Hogan's Heroes, The Kids in the Hall, News Radio, Police Squad, The Odd Couple, and the 1st 2 seasons of Northern Exposure (that show DEFINITELY jumped the shark).

I keep checking every 2-3 months, and as of the last time I checked it was not on DVD. Apparently the issue is the licensing fees for the music they played during the shows.

Don't you even think about saying or doing nasty things about/to Bailey. I realize she was fictional, but she IS the perfect woman.

I don't know if that was enough to save Quinn's and Fergusons's jobs, but this is one Sabres fan that definitely hopes it was. Pat Quinn will remain one of my absolute favorite coaches as long as he's the Loaf's bench boss. I have little to no fear that we will see a parade down Yonge St as long as he's there. I also like Ferguson's love of over-the-hill vets such as Bats-in-his-Belfour.

I'd be surprised if this particular law doesn't in a definitions section or introduction specify that "schools" are pre-K - 12 and exempts colleges, universities, post secondary trade schools, etc. The portion of the law attached to the article didn't address the issue, and I am too tired and care far too little about this issue to look up the NC law. It doesn't make the law much less ridiculous, as you could have a 22 year old senior get busy with a 17 or 18 year old prodigy student teacher and the 17 or 18 year old would technically be a felon. I wonder if they were 22 and 17 if the "victim" of the Class G felony would also be charged with being a perpetrator of a statutory felony on the back side? How touching, they could both wait for the other to get out of prison. Isn't young adult love in North Carolina romantic?

Actually, it sounds an awful lot like you are justifying Bonds, which is essentially the same thing as defending him. There are a few reasons WHY Bonds gets raked over the coals and "people don't ride the others the same way". 1st off, most of the guys you mention aren't in baseball anymore. It isn't a case of people actively defending cheaters like McGuire and Sosa, it's they aren't in the game anymore. 2nd off, I think the signs of what was going on were there when McGuire and Sosa had their homerun derby season, but the guys covering baseball loved it so much that they let themselves believe McGuire's andro story. ("I'm only doing legal stuff.") Remember, that season "saved" baseball and I don't think there were many baseball writers that really wanted to "kill" baseball. Although several did make major mention of McGuire's training program using andro. This was pre-Balco and writers that wanted to keep their head in the sand had an easy time of it. 3rd off, if Canseco's book hadn't come out and the Balco trial hadn't happened, he probably would be getting the same free pass he had gotten the 1st few years he took steriods. Unfortunately for him, the steriods lab that got busted was HIS supplier and HE HAS ADMITTED to using the steriods. He just claims he didn't know they were steriods. Give me a friggin' break. If Bonds didn't treat people like they were dumber than rocks, maybe he could get past this. (Note, I didn't say he would, I just said he might.) 4th, and very importantly, Bonds has had a very bad relationship with the media throughout his entire career and with many of the individuals he comes into contact with on a daily basis. If you treat people like dirt for a long time, when they get a chance to kick some of it back onto you, there is a very good chance that they will. What goes around comes around and it usually comes back a lot stronger than it left. 5th, Bonds is heading towards "baseball's most sacred records". Ruth and Aaron's HR records are the holy grail of baseball records. There are a lot of people that don't want to see either passed legitimately. They definitely don't want to see them broken by a "cheater". The single season HR record was a slightly different beast because of the asterisk that Maris' record always got. Then when Bonds passed McGuire and Sosa, well he was passing people doing the same things he was doing, so it wasn't quite so big of a deal. He didn't get railed on this badly when he set that record. Also, as much as you protest his poor treatment, there isn't an asterisk next to his single season record (yet). Maris had an asterisk next to his for over 40 years. Finally, you've got a herd mentality in the media, sports media is no different than the rest of the versions. It's an easy story to cover and it seems to drive ratings. That's why they hammer it every single day. Me, I don't give Bonds any harder time than I give the other cheaters. I simply don't follow baseball anymore. In the last 11 years, I would guess that I have watched fewer than 20 games on TV (definitely fewer than 5 complete games) and have been to exactly 1 major league game (and that was because it was part of a friend's bachelor party, and I left the game early to go to a bar across the street). I still go to the occasional Bisons or Red Wings game, but really don't care much about the Bigs. I will agree with you that people that purjured themselves in front of Congress should also be tried. I just don't agree with you that Barry is getting anything worse than he deserves. It's a shame too, because if he'd have left baseball after '97 (which was theoretically before he took steroids) or just continued to play to his natural ability, he'd have most likely been a HoF lock.

The Rangers are playing for their postseason lives right now? Might you care to explain that one? There are only 3 teams that can end up in the 5th slot. All have clinched the playoffs already and 2 are playing basically 0.500 hockey the last couple of weeks.

I'd probably prefer to see Philly and would least like to see Jersey. Philly's goaltending is the most suspect of the bunch and their D are slow for the most part. If you keep the Forsberg line in check, you should be in very good shape. While the next 2 lines can do damage, they aren't nearly as scary as Forsberg and Gagne. The Rangers were a huge surprise to me this season. I didn't know much, at all, about Lundquist and expected them to be older and slower than they were this year. I like the fact that the Rangers couldn't beat Buffalo in regulation this season. Jagr is extremely scary, especially come playoff time, but he can be taken off his game if you play him physically. Stay on Jagr, stay out of the box, and outskate the Rangers; and you should win. Their D still doesn't impress me as much as their forwards, even though they were very good on the penalty kill this year. The Devils have been playing great lately and have Brodeur, but you wonder just how long they can sustain the level they are currently at. They've been playing at playoff intensity for over 3 weeks now. That is not an easy pace to maintain with 2 more months to go. With the possibility that the refs will swallow their whistles come playoff time, these guys are the most dangerous IMO. I actually don't think the refs will stop calling obstruction, but the Devils did a very good job of getting in the way of people without getting called for it all season. How much of that is skill, and how much of it is Lou Lamoriello being arguably the 4th most powerful man in the game today standing behind the bench, is debatable (personally, I think it's a lot of the former and a little of the latter). The Devils have good speed for the most part and play a style of game the Sabres have had difficulty playing against. I would prefer getting the Devils in a later round, after the Sabres have gotten a feel for playoff hockey and hopefully after the Devils have run out of gas; but if they end up 5th, they end up 5th.

You got it. Rangers can end up anywhere from 6th - 3rd, Flyers can end up anywhere from 7th - 3rd, and Joisey can end up anywhere from 6th - 3rd. The only spot locked up in the East is #4. The only spots locked up in the West are #1 and #2.

With Joisey's win over Philly tonight and the Otters tying their game w/ 2 seconds left, the Sabres locked themselves into the 4th spot in the conference.

I thought one quote in the article was kind of ironic: So basically, humans can destroy any species that they don't want to (thus the large number of endangered species), but can't do squat about species they do want to eradicate. Maybe the better way to protect endangered species is to move them to new territory where they have no natural predators, and then in a few years we can worry about how we are going to cull the formerly endangered species.

45, wow. Happy Birthday! Maybe if you are lucky the wife will make you a special rettata cake! Oh, wait, she'd probably have to have started it on Tuesday. Oh, well, maybe next year. Hope the day goes well.