CanadianGuitarist

Awful. Unbelievable.

My EXACT words to my roomate who just got in. This is god damned ridiculous. Can you imagine telling somehone six or eight months ago how this would play out tonight?

Double checked. Turns out it wasn't my only afternoon (or evening, the way things are going) loss, but I'm a Raiders fan, so, whammy.

I need to run the table in the afternoon; I wasn't even close in the tiebreak score.

Unfair. There's a parade of ignorance associated with HDTV.

We gotta get Eddie Winslow back.

Breakfast: A pear and Carnation instant breakfast Lunch: Two sandwiches from the little deli near my place. One with oven-roasted turkey and Black Forest ham, the other with smoked ham and BBQ chicken. Both had lots of cheese, mayo, butter, mustard and pickles. I bought two hot pepperettes from them as well, but I'm always disappointed with them. (I've actually been on a city-wide "Best Pepperette" search for about 2.5 years). Dinner: Whole-wheat spaghetti, with some sauce I made up: Diced green pepper, onion, red pepper, and sausage, smothered in chipotle sauce and fried up. It's been a while since I'd strayed from my typical spaghetti and meatballs, covered in red sauce, and a retarded amount of crushed chiles and parmesean, cut as small as possible, eaten with a fork and knife.

Yeah, that's better than me self-fault re: Marvin. (Story? Kinda sounds like Czech was involved.)

Also, drove by a corner restaurant/deli in a fairly rural area yesterday. Don't remember the name, Country something-or-other. I do, however, remember the phone number: 1-877-SAUSAGE.

Atlanta @ Carolina (4.5) (3.5) Buffalo @ Miami Cleveland @ Pittsburgh (9.5) Denver @ Kansas City (3.5) Jacksonville @ Tennessee (4.5) Minnesota @ Green Bay (6.5) Philadelphia @ Washington (3.5) St. Louis @ New Orleans (11.5) Cincinnati @ Baltimore (4.5) (3.5) Chicago @ Oakland - It'll be my "yeah, why not" selection. I think every one of those has been Oakland, anyway. (1.5) Dallas @ N.Y. Giants Detroit @ Arizona (1.5) - Is anyone not on the Lions bandwagon yet? (Outside of the oddsmakers). I certainly am. (3.5) Indianapolis @ San Diego - Bump in the road. San Francisco @ Seattle (10.5) St. Louis scores 13. Good luck, all.

While I don't get the hate for him, I defended Marvin about an hour ago.

I went to bat for him a few times during the poster tournament in the spring. There's no one here I have a problem with, including Marvin. His love for HD is absolutely unrivalled, and while I can't speak for others who mentioned him, I'm genuinely surprised he hadn't sad anything yet. I didn't mean it as a shot.

I hate to do this, but I'm gonna bump this. Anyone have anything to offer?

The B's were getting booed a little during that 5-on-3, which wasn't right. The B's weren't undisciplined or playing poorly, Carey Price and the Habs D were just, well, as Miller put it, unflappable. I didn't see it (and nor did the Habs Michael Ryder, who asked Pierre McGuire at ice level), but a returning-to-the-ice Francis Bouillon knocked Aaron Ward out. He's being stretchered out. Edit: Replay. Can't really be blamed on anyone. Ward circled back as Bouillon skated back into his zone. Ward's actually up and skating off, with assistance, instead of on a gurney.

Czech, I remember you saying speculating this, but I don't recall anything more than that: Sunday's Hawks game, when they host the Red Wings, will be televised locally. Just announced on TSN. Said Dave Hodge "It will feature colour. It will feature instant replay. We think high definition will be a work in progress."

I think for HD to be really appreciated, you need to watch a fair amount of it, then go back to watching standard definiton stuff. This came up in the NHL thread a few weeks ago, how spoiled we've become. It really is miles better, though I do appreciate the point of not wanting to pay for it. Like Mik said, I spend four figures on my new tv, and I don't regret it even a little. It's really akin to VHS being replaced by DVD as far as the sound and picture quality. And yeah, where's Marvin?

I guess this could also go in the "Old school" discussion here, but last night I had a dream that my licence was taken away, because I was speeding to my grandmother's for a bowl of Cruncheroos.

Don't get me wrong, Bettman hasn't been all bad. Columbus has been successful for the most part, Denver's one of the best markets in the league (not that the end justifies the means), and he did get new ownership in place awfully quickly in Ottawa and Buffalo when they were in trouble. But, like the Lindros argument, no matter what, he's going to be remembered for something that he didn't do. Nightwing's quote above is absolute truth.

Bang on. I've been mocked a fair amount for it, but under the same criteria you mentioned, I'm pretty stoked as well.

I don't directly have a problem with Bettman's vision of the league, especially since it was being implemented around the time of cable television taking off, and to a lesser extent, the Internet becoming commonplace. What I do have a problem with is his stubbornness about things. I can't count how many times I've said this, but teams failed before in Atlanta and Kansas City. (And let's put an asterisk beside Minnesota). Why would his vision include rebuilding a team there? I can see the idea of getting teams in as many major markets as possible, but (and I've certainly said this before), why not a Columbus, which doesn't have any other big teams root for? Two analogies I'm going to use here to illustrate his reign: 1) If a student is struggling in class, the teacher should make more of an effort to help that student succeed. This should not occur to the point of neglect towards the better students of the class. 2) If I want to open up a restaurant in St. Catharines, yeah, I'd look for the busiest section. I would not, however, look solely for the cheapest rent, or go into the same location as other restaurants have failed.

So, Lindros for the HOF? I say yes, even though I don't like that I find myself on the same page as Bobby Clarke. Hart, Pearson, All-Star, Gold medal, Cup finalist in 97. It's kind of unfortunate that he'll be remembered for the Quebec thing, as his parents were probably more responsible for that than he was. Even so, I think he has the credentials to be accepted.

I did 30 hours in 2006. I didn't realize how much I was eating out of boredom. Six days and change though? I wish you freakin luck.

If I fucked it up, the answer is yes. I have said it inverse more than once. Honestly, nearly everything I know about products in my department, I've learned from hands-on experience, here, howstuffworks.com, or Wikipedia.

I've watched three Leafs games on Sportsnet Ontario now. Never once have they displayed the score along the top. Only the time remaining. This baffles me. Even before it was commonplace to have the score displayed on screen at all times (97ish?), I only remember the time being on screen during the final minute of the game.

Kudos. My grandfather, dad, brother, co-workers...ok, every Leaf fan I know (even if they fully understand your last statement) was merciless Sunday morning. Part of me wanted you to say something, so we could revert back to the Holiday Inn guy and I could respond with "What did you just say to me?"