CanadianChris

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/B09140TOR1987.htm Blue Jays set a major-league record with 10 home runs in an 18-3 pasting of the Orioles. http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/B05070SEA1992.htm First real sign that 1992 was going to be a special year. Jays trailed Seattle 7-1 after five innings, but scored 2 in the 7th and took the lead for good in the 9th on a Dave Winfield grand slam. http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/B09240CLE1988.htm http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/B09300TOR1988.htm As close as you'll ever see someone get to Johnny Vander Meer's record of consecutive no-hitters. Dave Stieb lost BOTH of these no-hitters with two out in the ninth inning. I wanted to post one of my personal favourites from history, the double no-hitter thrown by Fred Toney and Hippo Vaughn in 1917, but Retrosheet doesn't have it.

They retired Serge Savard's number before the game.

Probably because it wasn't even on the slate.

17-0 Bearcats. Somewhere cabbageboy is dancing.

As much as I enjoyed this game, I really don't want to see it again.

Ball game.

Oy. Barring a miracle in Lawrence, I'm losing by tiebreak. I'd need another miracle to make the championship game, although not making it could be a good thing. Fortunately, iggy and Edwin lost as well, so it could be really close for second.

The Buckeyes are making the Michigan D look silly. Yeah, I don't think Michigan has a prayer unless Carr makes some amazing adjustments. So, yeah, they don't have a prayer.

DEFINITELY not over yet. This could be a shootout, which doesn't help me at all in Bored's contest.

Don't say that yet. They're not even finished the first half. Two touchdowns isn't a crippling deficit with that much time left.

Oof. Now THAT was a play fake.

Well, there was some shoddy tackling.

That was a really good drive by Ohio State coming back. Not as precise, but they showed a lot of tenacity converting all those third downs.

I had thought the Ohio State secondary was better than that.

Your team is down 10 with about 4:30 left in the game. You're facing 4th and 3 on the opposing team's 26. Do you go for it or kick the field goal? Iowa went for it and failed, and that's why they're going to lose to Minnesota. I don't see how you can do anything but kick the FG unless your kicker is absolutely horrible, or you have no confidence whatsoever in your defence.

I'm trying to convince people that I like gift cards more than actual gifts. It seems to be working -- for my birthday this year, I got $170 in Best Buy gift cards and $100 in Chapters gift cards.

Looks like I only need a Kansas State win or under 49 for a third straight conference title game.

I might agree with you if they weren't about to pass the quarter-season mark. A quarter of a season isn't just a slump anymore. They're in trouble, and I can only hope it's not already too late to get out of it. The division they're in doesn't help at all -- they've still got, what, 20-25 games left against the Northeast? That's going to be really tough. There's not a single guaranteed win in that entire group. I wonder if it's time to split Spezza and Heatley up. Neither of them is particularly able (or willing) to play defence -- that's on the coach, by the way -- and having them both out there at the same time seems to hurt their defence more than it helps their offence. Or maybe I'm just panicking and grasping at straws.

Same here. Steamboat's overselling pushed it right over the top.

Thanks, but I'd rather have my shopping done early than wade through the hordes of idiots populating the malls in December. Wal-Mart is open 24/7, mon ami. No idiots in there at 3 in the morning... Not here, it isn't. We don't have any big stores open 24/7 besides some grocery stores.

Thanks, but I'd rather have my shopping done early than wade through the hordes of idiots populating the malls in December.

Another loss for the Sens, but they came back from a 3-0 deficit to pull within a goal of New Jersey in the third, which was encouraging. What's not so encouraging is that the Sens are now 14th in the East. Even though it's early, that's a lot of teams to have to leapfrog to get to a playoff spot.

He's got a point, but if you keep Hossa, who do you get rid of? Heatley's making about half as much as Hossa is. That's another thing about the cap -- you can't keep everyone you'd like to have, unless they're willing to take less money for the sake of keeping a winning team together. Hossa was NOT willing to do that.

One thing that sucks about the cap is that the days of the blockbuster deal are all but over. We've seen that in the NFL and NBA as well. It does make following the league a little less fun.

The third year on Thomas' contract becomes guaranteed if he makes 1000 plate appearances the next two seasons combined, or 525 PAs in 2008. I can live with that, I guess.