The Czech Republic

A pennant is winning the league. A pennant race is the effort getting there, which includes the regular season. It used to be one of the primary events, but its been watered down thanks to the wild card. If such is the case, Seattle has no pennant. Indians won in '95.

You read Dave Barry much? He proposed that as well.

I don't understand how a more conservative system leads to more high-risk play. I'd be more complacent if I was guaranteed a point than if I had to win to get the points. And yeah just do the shootout. The NHL is dead, might as well play around with the corpse a little bit before rigor mortis sets in.

Expert on WHAT?

Well done, Staravenger. A hearty laugh was enjoyed by all. You think you've got it bad, I know a guy who wrote an essay about how African-Americans enjoy raping along to their favorite songs.

Unless RAW got scatalogical and I missed that week's installment, I think this is the funniest unintentional thing in the thread, moreso than any reference.

I heard this has to do with going to digital signals so that higher (or lower?) UHF signals, 60 and up, can be sold to cell phone companies. And hasn't Britain been doing high definition forever? I know they have more frames per second or something.

yeah 21 under .500 will do that

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO We'll miss you, Craiggers. It was a mediocre six years.

Orioles and Blue Jays...the Bird Shit Series

You've gone from MaxPower27 to Max Power to Max. Are you even going to exist by Christmas?

I want my Republic back.

is Some Girl the kid sister of Some Guy?

Overtime loss is stupid, if you lose, in overtime, it's a loss! It discourages playing to win because you're guaranteed the equivalent of a tie. Just go with a freaking shootout after ten minutes of overtime and do something for the fans, for a change.

I heard he really kissed a guy!

Going by similar trends, an anchor as universally reviled as Stuart Scott must be liked by MrZsasz. So you're in really good company there, you spoony bard.

With college coming up, it's time to start doing what college kids do best. No, not getting wasted and contracting STDs. That comes later. I'm talking, of course, about hating my country. Europeans don't like us much. In fact, NOBODY likes us much anymore. Even the Canadians are poking fun at us. It's probably because, we, as Americans, say really ignorant things. Just boorish, uneducated, stupid things that just make you think, "what a dumb American." For good measure, to be a Dumb American if you're not already, head down to snopes.com and take every urban legend clearly marked as fale, AND BELIEVE IT TO BE TRUE IN YOUR HEART OF HEARTS. Talking about how you saw the episode of Donahue when the CEO of Proctor & Gamble announced he was a Satanist always makes the winners stick out in a crowd. As always, I've got the concept in mind, "post ignorant crap you hear from well-meaning housewives and other middling folk." For starters: Dumb Americans on the Gregorian calendar: "Friday the 13th is a lucky day if you're not superstitious." Stupid 8th grade teacher: "You shouldn't do anything bad today, it's March 15th." Me: "So?" Teacher: "Well, you'll get caught doing whatever it is that you weren't supposed to do, 'beware the eyes of March' or something like that, I don't remember." Take it away, board

Shut yer mouth, TSN boy EDIT: Shut your yap

Things to consider: A tie is like kissing your sister. Kissing Tie Domi is even worse. Tie games result in no redeeming outcome for the fans. Tie Domi's games also result in no redeeming outcome for the fans. Ties (and overtime losses) make the standings more confusing than they should be. Tie Domi makes Toronto kill stupid penalties more than they should be. The alternative to a tie is a shootout. The alternative to Tie Domi is not having everybody hate your guts. When tell people to watch this big game coming up, and its neither a win NOR a loss, you sorta look dumb. Tie Domi sorta looks dumb. Also consider: I said "which should the NHL abolish first." That dioesn't mean they can't get around to both.

Dodgers-Cubs, eh? Interesting pitching battle: the L.A. bullpen vs. the Chicago rotation. As long as Sammy pulls out of the slump and Prior stops doing Kyle Farnsworth impressions, we can do well.

Bob Ley and Charley Steiner owned the entire current Sportscenter team on Monday night. I'm going to miss Old School Sportscenter...makes me realize that I should've watched more ESPN in the 90s when it didn't suck.

This whole time, I thought it was "George Gron-day."

The sexual ones are good for a laugh.

The famous Brecker Brothers are on whichever recording has the song "Titties and Beer." Having met Randy Brecker before, this amuses me. EDIT: Agent, you gotta pick up Overnite Sensation. It's a pretty good one, I feel.

I love Snopes.