CanadianChris

Time is up, I shall pick. I'm going to finish off my defence right now with my third pairing: J.C. Tremblay, D Five Cups with the Canadiens, and then an Avco World Trophy as the leader of the Nordiques. Charlie Huddy, D Five Cups as one of the anchors of the Oiler D.

Sorry we have yet to research the origin of the surname xxx.

No he wasn't.

Please welcome Bob Bitterman to the stage. I'd say it's time to let it go, but there's probably a few things from my teams' histories I can't let go either.

It wasn't a curveball. The extreme camera angle makes it look like the pitch might have broken away from the batter, but I thought it was pretty straight. The pitcher would know exactly where the umpire would be when the pitch arrived at home plate. He has to be looking over the catcher's shoulder. I didn't see anything in that clip that would make me think hitting the umpire wasn't intentional.

That's so funny. Prospal's now been traded five times, plus left once as a free agent, and yet he's only ever played for four different teams.

I was going to take The Amazing Race here, but since it's gone, I just had to get this: The Price Is Right Just give me the Bob Barker episodes, that'll be enough.

Taxi One of the funniest shows I've ever seen. And it had the best opening credit sequence.

That's just ridiculous.

I want to hit you in the face very hard on multiple occasions.

Not only ACL surgery, but rehab on a double stress fracture in his tibia that was discovered TWO WEEKS BEFORE the Open. Tiger Woods is a bad, bad man.

I'll start off my linebacking corps with: Sam Huff, LB 5x Pro Bowl selection (1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1964) 8x All-Pro selection (1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1965) NFL 1950s All-Decade Team 70 Greatest Redskins Redskins' Ring of Fame Pro Football Hall of Fame (1982) An incredibly physical defender, and a ball hawk to boot (30 interceptions).

its ashame you cant start at 12:01 am 1/1/09 cause dick Clark would be a fine candidate Dick Clark will outlive you and I both combined.

That makes my next decision pretty easy, since it was between Newsradio and another show.

Yup, Lakers are fucked. Or the Celtics are fucked because of the shitty officials. Just because they screwed over one team doesn't mean they won't screw a different one over in the interest of extending the series. There is no goddamned way they are making anything even resembling a critical call that goes against the home team. So, Lakers are fucked.

I'll go retro again, with the one that started it all: The Legend of Zelda (NES, 1987)

How can you not call Tiger the greatest athlete of ou...oh wait, you don't play golf, so you wouldn't understand. I've tired to golf and can apprieciate the skill, but if a guy like John Daley can play at the highest professional level, I don't consider golfers great athletes. Why judge golfers by the worst specimen? Was Gilbert Brown a great athlete? Or John Kruk?

I'm gonna grab me some more Mario...I have only ever played on an SNES console once in my life (a week's rental, where I started and finished Super Mario World). I never touched it again until I discovered zSNES a few years ago, and I became absolutely addicted to this game: Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (SNES, 1995)

SMW would've been my next pick had it made it back. It's almost the equal of SMB3 in my eyes. Probably the fact that I'm nearly 34 and grew up with the NES instead of the SNES skewed it for me.

Shannon Sharpe, TE Receptions: 815 (2nd all-time among TEs) Receiving yards: 10,060 (1st all-time among TEs) Touchdowns: 62 (2nd all-time among TEs) 8x Pro Bowl selection (1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001) 6x All-Pro selection (1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998) 3x Super Bowl champion (XXXII, XXXIII, XXXV) NFL 1990s All-Decade Team My incredibly biased choice for greatest tight end ever. Excelled as a receiver, and a very good blocking tight end as well. And he owns one of my favourite athlete quotes ever: "Mr. President, call in the National Guard! Send as many men as you can spare! Because we are killing the Patriots! They need emergency help!"

And I can't find a good picture of this one: Triple Threat Elimination match for the WWE Tag Team Championship: Edge & Rey Mysterio [c] vs. Los Guerreros vs. Chris Benoit & Kurt Angle, Survivor Series, November 17, 2002

Al has PMed me his next two picks: Ultimate Warrior vs. Rick Rude - Summerslam '89 Ricky Steamboat & Dustin Rhodes vs. Arn Anderson & Larry Zbyszko - Clash of the Champions November '91

My next pick, one of the greatest tag team matches ever: NWA United States Tag Team Championship match: Midnight Express [c] vs. Southern Boys, The Great American Bash, July 7, 1990

Bushwhackers would be OK if they were going to be the violent heel Sheepherders.

I don't think I'd be alone in saying that Giant Gonzalez is the first guy drafted that I didn't think anybody would pick.