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I don't like having a player's number retired by an entire league. A team? Sure. But not a league.

Fitting how I start this blogging thing on the most miserable day of the year. Great omen. • So Canada just elected a conservative government. Woo-hoo. Time to oppress some minorities. (Besides those Eskimos that club seals, does Canada have any minorities?) With this new government to be shortly installed, I guess that means in a few years Canada’s public sector will rise exponentially in ways the most wide-eyed liberal could only have dreamed of, yet they will piss and moan the entire time about how not enough money is being spent. I remember when the U.S. Congress turned conservative in ’94 and all the “limited government” that took place then. God only knows what’s going to happen north of the border. Besides, it’s not like I’ve read this new guy is going to “limit” government, only make it "cleaner," whatever the hell that means. I don’t know (or care) much about Canadian politics. From what I gathered, the eastern part is made up of socialists and America-haters (aka French people), while the populace is a little more traditional out west. This election and power change will probably not make much of a difference; I don’t see Canada ditching that universal health care system, reducing taxes or increasing gun ownership freedoms anytime soon. In fact, the only thing that remotely interested me is a story about a certain filmmaker and his opinion of the Canadian elections – and the headline wasn’t even written by the Washington Times or New York Post (Michael Moore weighs in on Canada's election). Good job. Perhaps Mikey should have done a film about how Canadian conservatives suck, and then the election wins would have been greater. You should really punish Canada, Mikey, and outsource the jobs you provide up there and give them to hard-working Americans instead. • Mario Lemieux called it quits from his NHL playing career today, citing an irregular heartbeat, among other things. Having lived in Shittsburgh during the Lemieux Era, I can say firsthand that he is one of the biggest sports icons in the area, next to Roberto Clemente and Steelers like Mean Joe Greene and Jack Lambert. While many say Wayne Gretzky was the greatest NHL player of all time, I always thought Lemieux, if given the supporting cast and health, would have been better. But both players have more money than I’ll ever see, not to mention multiple Stanley Cup titles, so arguing about who was better in situations like this is a waste of time. The one Mario moment that sticks out for me was the year the Pens won their first Cup. At the time they had a fast, exciting team but seemed to miss a piece or two to take that next step. They found those pieces in a mid-season trade which brought over center Ron Francis and defensemen Ulf Samuelsson. Thanks in part to these two acquisitions, the Pens won the Patrick Division (I miss those old division/conference titles) and eventually defeated the Minnesota North Stars, who had a hell of a playoff run themselves by beating the league's top two teams in points for that season in the first two rounds (Chicago/St. Louis) en route to reaching the Cup Finals. When the Pens won that first Cup, Mario truly brought hockey to Shittsburgh. Well, to its suburbs, anyway. Instead of playing backyard football in the mud, we were now running around on asphalt swinging sticks at each other; a much better idea. Sadly I was one of those little punks, although I wasn’t the kid who had the fancy aluminum stick that cost $80+ and still sucked, nor was I the kid who had the "official" goalie pads and would still allow that bright orange ball to trickle through the five-hole. Thanks for the memories, Mario, and for the good times you inspired us to have by playing street hockey when we could have been studying to get into better colleges or volunteering our time in soup kitchens or assisted-living communities. • So the WB and UPN will be merging? I guess it’s better to have one network nobody watches than two. • I was driving home today from work through the commie part of Shittsburgh (or should I say the “more commie” part where all the college students and yuppies live) and saw a bumper sticker which read “Draft Republicans.” Clever. Too bad it’s a volunteer military, jackass. I've always been more partial to the "Mission (nothing) Accomplished" one myself.

I had no idea what the big deal with that chick was, then I read that she was in that show, which I had never watched to begin with. And that Heather Grahm show -- wow. Just one episode. At least that retared chick lawyer show from a few seasons ago got axed after two or three.

Well after hearing about Ford's recent layoffs, it seems you're not the only one who doesn't think so highly of the company that brought us the assembly line.

I just got to that Seinfeld episode on DVD Sunday. Never saw the end where the priest thinks Elaine's an angel. Oh, yeah. Spoilers. Hope I didn't ruin this for anyone.

jwpeer, I think that's the way a lot of teams do this. I'm sure Cowher relies heavily on his assistants and he does the motivating stuff. I remember reading a local article back during Super Bowl XXX when they attempted that onsides kick, Cowher didn't say to do it until the O-coordinator (Chan Galley?) gave the thumbs up for it.

Well, might as well try this out. I'll be sure to bring the content soon.

Who says you're my friend? Oh, this is BL, not NL

I live in the county right next to this shithole. I vote with my feet and am an evil suburbanite.

Who said you could post in my thread at the other place, faggot? Oh, yeah. Heart problems. My bad. And while it looks bad now regarding the Pens moving, I think there will be a new Arena built. But then again who the hell knows. Just another reason I love this town. Build a football stadium to be played in 20-30 times/year by pro/college/high school teams? Sure. Build a baseball field to be played in by a minor-league team 85-90 times/year? No problem. Build an arena for hockey 40+ times/year, and for venues such as wrestling, concerts, circus, ice skating, and truck ralleys, among other things? OMG WHAT ARE YOU THINKING? LET'S PUT SOME MORE MONEY INTO THE CONVENTION CENTER!!!!! Gotta love Shittsburgh.

Also figure there was something screwed up with his blood this season (or something like that). It's too bad the Pens are on a 10(?)-game losing streak right now.

Tyler, the local sports radio stations here are saying Lemieux is going to call it quits. It sucks that he career had to end this way, but after all he's gone through, including cancer, at least he has his name etched on the Cup twice and he's still young and (hopefully) healthy enough to enjoy the rest of his life.

I thought he did but you had to pay for it. Oh, yeah. Review WCW Nigger.

I like it, too. And I don't get face-painters, but if that's what makes them happy, then so be it.

I'm not a fan of the stick shift, but you need to learn how to drive one, because a day will come when you need to drive an automobile with manual transmission.

Hope he's doing OK -- I always liked his Web site, assuming that's the Scotsman we're talking about. I AIM'd him one time with a link to a newspaper article about some school that voted this kids with Downs Syndrome their Homecoming (or was it Prom?) King.

Like the Steelers in the NFL, you're going up against all the odds. And believe me, the odds will be stacked against you.

No worse than I usually do. Well if my so-called credibility must take a hit because I refuse to call the Party of Intolerance "Democratic" then so be it. People like me have been questioned in our time. Galileo, Copernicus, they have nothing compared to what I have to shoulder. In fact, the whole calling the Democrat Party "Democratic" I think this is nothing more than a Big Media (with the declining subscriptions and loss of viewership, perhaps I should instead call them Medium-Large Media like I do at the other place) scheme to make their uneducated readers think, "Hey, these guys aren't so bad. They're much better than that GOP. By the way, why are they called "GOP" when they're Republicans? That must be because they don't want me to know what a bunch of racists/sexists/bigots/homophobes they are. Thank you NY Times for setting me straight." You'll listen in on my private conversations, but you won't return my calls.

When it comes to Football, there's no real rivalry (different conferences and all). What pisses me off about Philly is the fact you bastards produced Ed Rendell and will probably re-elect that piece of shit to another term as guv.

Only "some"? Actually, there was a really good site that talked about elections and broke a bunch of elections down into electoral results and stuff. If I can find it I'll post a link to it. EDIT: Here it is. It's interesting to see how states were in the past, some even as recent as '92, and see where they are today.

My vote goes to: A). Bettis playing final game in home-town Also, I just noticed that Shittsburgh has been in Super Bowls 10, 30 and now 40. That's all.

Well maybe if Y2Jerk would shut up I'd gladly end this.

I see your point. I just think it's a better idea to start small and expand rather to just start out big (in this case have many categories) and wait to get them filled. But I don't own the site, nor have any editorial control, so in the end I really don't care. Best of luck in getting the site up and running.

They voted for Truman because of the corrupt Democrat political machine, something I'm sure Big Media at the time took an interest in. And Truman made some rather vicious partisan attacks during his political stops. Well, it's nice to know the Democrat Party may have different ideals now than it did 50 years ago, but they still campaign the same.