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I AM AN AMERICAN I DON'T WANT TO WATCH A GAME THAT NOBODY WINS

I guess the SkyDome is okay, but I don't like the FieldTurf nor the fact that it looks like a giant concrete bunker. I saw some old Blue Jays games on Classic from Exhibition Stadium, and that place looked pretty neat.

HOLY SHIT

Speaking of Gagne, who is supposed to miss a lot of this season now, Rocco Baldelli is also out for the year.

Drury seems to have voluntarily departed from our happy community, so I guess nobody bothered changing his member group.

"There are three people I know who respect me. They are Drury37, RetroRob215, and nWoScorpion." This is as far as I got.

Yeah, but it's just not the same. The venues that lasted 30-40 years were cookie cutters that nobody would miss anyway. Yankee Stadium is inextricably tied to the rest of the team's illustrious history. If they build a new Yankee Stadium, they become just another team. Just imagine if they played under a retractable roof. Anyway, it just bothers me that the three worst parks in the majors don't seem to be going anywhere any time soon, but one of the best and most historic is going to face the wrecking ball.

Keith is good at theorizing the complex of the show.

Oh that's funny, I thought this was the music folder.

Good to know that with the Metrodome, Tropicana Field, and the Rogers Centre all stinking up the AL, we're finally replacing Yankee Stadium.

...what?

You know, I don't think there's any cost involved in playing the music at the arena, it's only the DVD.

Why would Edge be in this? He has Lita. He is over on his own. His character doesn't work in a stable environment unless he played the outsider. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Edge-Lita-Christian-Tomko could be a stable

First of all, don't ever speak for me.

Drury is a national treasure.

This thread is where you drop the atomic bomb.

See, I don't think a tie is that bad. To me, shootouts are not part of the game. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> There needs to be a winner and loser. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It's true. When you win, you can look back on the game and see what you did right. When you lose, you can look back on the game and see what you did wrong. You can't learn a lot from a tie. As a fan I feel dissatisfied with no definite outcome after devoting so much time to watching a game. As for shootouts, you could do 60 minutes of regulation, 5 minutes overtime, shootout for the regular season, and a shootout win would be counted as a one-goal win. In the Stanley Cup playoffs, of course no shootouts. Gotta be sudden death.

Yeah but if he's still teamed with Tim "strikeouts lower your batting average" McCarver, will it even matter?

I see what you're going for, but this isn't like a three-pointer in basketball where you can make a high-risk attempt worth a little more, because goals are so much fewer and far between in hockey. It's like an event. And I don't know if being shorthanded by just one skater justifies an entire bonus goal. Plus, that's two goals on the goaltender's GAA. That reflects really poorly on him, more than it ought to. Here's an idea: white at home, white at home, white at home. That's what we all grew up with, if we've been watching from any point after the advent of color TV, and it's confusing as hell to get used to the flip-flop. Also, if you're a fan of the Leafs or Wings, now your team has to wear its shitty dark sweater at home. I know it has something to do with packing alternate sweaters on the road or something, but really knock it the fuck off with alternate sweaters too. I think there's finally a backlash against alternates in sports. I read baseball columns by guys who are sick of the Cubs wearing blue every day, the Astros wearing red every day, the Mets and Rockies wearing whatever the fuck they wear they have like nine permutations, and applaud the Cards, Yankees, Dodgers, and Phillies for having two sets and that's IT. And that's baseball. Overused as they are, the Cubs blues aren't THAT offensive. Meanwhile, the 3rd sweaters almost always look like shit. The Blackhawks look acceptable in black, but when the white and red look so perfect, why wear them less? Predators wear ducktailed mustard-colored alternates. The Dallas Stars have a constellation of a uterus or something. The Islanders wear bright orange. They look really bad. Stop making them. Stop wearing them. Nobody buys them.

I don't think calling an Irishman a mick is exactly like calling a black guy a nigger. It's probably the least loaded ethnic slur, behind wop, spic, chink, frog, limey, sand monkey, dothead, redskin, and canuck. Yeah that's right. Canuck. Anyway I wasn't bothered at all by this comment, because professional wrestling has no class. And if that comment made wrestling seem trashy, don't worry! By the end of the show, that was nullified by HHH and Michaels brawling in dress shirts and ties, with nice long hair. When Yuppies Collide.

I'm with you 100% on ties. Lose them. Lose overtime losses too. A loss is a loss. The end. You shouldn't be rewarded with credit for a tie if you lose, just because you dragged your shitty boring trap-laden game through regulation. Standings should not look like 36-32-9-5. Give me 45-37. I don't care if it takes a shootout. I don't mind shootouts. "Well guyz NFL is the best league and they don't have shootouts!" Yeah well their overtime sucks too, but that's another discussion. "It will ruin the sanctity of our great sport!" There's none left. "Nobody likes them!" Everybody likes them. It'd be the smartest overture to casual fans yet, seeing as EVERY FUCKING ONE SO FAR HAS FAILED. Don't cut the season down to 60 games or some bullshit like that. No thanks. I sort of like watching hockey games. Or I did until I forgot what it was like to watch one, thanks Bob & Gary. I don't think having fewer of them makes me want to watch the remaining ones more. If I have to wait too long between games, which are not the weekly events that football games are, I'll just lose interest. 82 games is too much work? The season used to be 84 games! Whoa! Suck it up. You're the toughest fucking bastards in sport. Play 82 games. Plus I can't fathom the ticket prices at the ACC going even higher due to fewer home dates.

I'VE GOT BLISTERS ON MY FINGERS!

Maybe there will be some 11th-hour thing that prevents it.

Austin meant to say "goofs."