CanadianGuitarist

Did you say law forbids sale of booze until 8? That's awesome. It's 11 in Ontario. Yeah, I'll be up. There's only so much spring training you can watch before it salts the wound.

Thanks. You could be the best new poster we've had in a while!

This seems like fun, but I'm not sure there's five things interesting about me that I haven't mentioned at one time; I had a similar fear when I took the Jeopardy contestant exam - Nearly all my good me stories have no place on a G-rated tv show. I'll give it a shot.

No, not at all. This just means that baseball season starts earlier for me than last year. Six hours. I might wake up that early tomorrow morning. And tell me this isn't the story of the Sens' year between the pipes: Gerber gets the hook in the first after allowing three, but Emery does no better, allowing four. The Habs take a 7-1 lead into the third, where the Sens score four times - giving Emery the loss.

I'd say 500 hockey in the four against the Sabres and Leafs gets the B's in. I've said this before, but Washington is too green (no pun intended) to hang on for another two weeks, and Florida can't be this good.

How much bigger was Bret's contract? He said he was making 2.8 mil a year - is that really that much further ahead than what Hogan or the Outsiders got? I don't think them making 2mil a year was a stretch.

I haven't accepted that he's white yet.

I've noticed that with CBC as well. It seems like they have a higher quality HD feed they use for national broadcasts and a lesser quality one for the other games (including the 10 PM game sometimes). I don't know the technical details well enough to explain why but there is a definite difference. My assumption is every camera isn't HD, but they stretch them out. That's certainly the case with the netcams. Isn't it awful? Speaking of awful, I'm glad I didn't bet anything tonight. I would have bet my house on Pittsburgh and Ottawa, but they're losing 3-1 and 4-1 at the moment.

SaveOnFoods Centre in Victoria. I've often wondered if most corporate named venues are bad by design, and we just got used to them...would someone from Vancouver groan upon hearing Air Canada Centre? Also, Great American Ballpark and Nationwide Tour are exceptions to this rule.

Similarly, my Itunes won't convert WMA's I got off Bearshare into AAC if they're protected. Anyway I can bypass that, or convert WMA into MP3?

I hate to do this here since it involves HD, and I hate even more to agree with Nick Kypreos, who just said this on whatever show is being simulcast on the FAN 590: "After the Leafs-Sens Saturday, in high-def, CBC switched to Boston-Montreal, not in high-def (it was though). I've gotta say, I could hardly watch. It's like my daughter took off my eyeglasses, licked them, then put them back on." Four games on tap tonight. Pittsburgh should take care of Long Island, but three big ones for playoff positioning: Ottawa-Montreal, Calgary-Colorado, Minnesota-Edmonton.

Geoff Ogilvy closes with eight straight pars for a one-under 71 and a -17 total; good enough to win by one over Singh, Furyk, and Goosen, who all finished one back at -16. Tiger finishes fifth at -15. All players mentioned not named Ogilvy fired 68 in the final round. So Ogilvy, along with his win at the 2006 Match Play becomes one of three players to have double WGC wins.

Good to know, also. I'm not buying a house out west, just going out there to work for a while. I just assume there's a lot of Mikes in Calgary - invariably my discussions with the locals would get heated, since I'm a hippie (as you could obviously tell me, KKK). After playing around with the mortgage calculator a little further, I found a rate of 5.5 percent, which given the house I looked at, meant 575 a month over 40 years, but only 31.7 if I do the accelerared bi-weekly. That did include the CMHC insurance, but not homeowner's and property taxes (estimated by the realtor's website to be around 775 a year). That means slightly more than a third of my income in a month would go to mortgage/taxes, which doesn't seem outrageous. Also, I decided to save up a little more money off my Calgary budget towards a down payment, and moreso, buying appliances and furniture (or even financing them from wherever I buy). The difference in rates from a regular to cashback mortgage was more than 3%. Incidentally, I had actually been renting a house, not an apartment, for the last 2.5 years, so my utilities estimates would be about right.

I still can't believe he's white. Imagine how many kids who were affected looking for pictures of Squirt from Finding Nemo

Oof. I still think I'm the only person alive who won't eat those, but it's easy to explain - I've never liked food that was really rich or gooey. Mentioning my dislike of cheesecake often gets me the same look of shock that most of you probably got reading this.

And the Isles are officially finished, losing their 200th straight game by a score of 4-1 to Philly.

And we wait till tomorrow with the rain. Ogilvy still leads by two, but a good field on his tail, including three major winners two strokes back in Jim Furyk, Vijay Singh, and Retief Goosen.

Hack. Actually, I take that back. Run with that in Graphics. I had meant to, but it seemed attention-whory of me to start such a thread after bringing it up in here, plus I didn't know what to do outside of the thread title. I suppose it could have been a photoshop of her with darker skin or something, but that's an awful lot of work for really no reason. At least Paint Marvin was funnier than shit.

Where the fuck is the Chris Hansen pic? For chrissakes, we're 30 posts in! THIRTY!

I haven't been back since the JayMac Dontcha incident. I don't miss it.

Want yet another reason to hate Johnny Miller? (I might have this slightly off, but the quote by Miller is letter perfect). Earlier today, Adam Scott and Geoff Ogilvy, paired with Tiger in the last group, are keeping ahead, as Tiger pars along. With Ogilvy in the lead, Scott lines up a birdie putt, which would tie him for the lead with his fellow Aussie. Set the scene for us, Johnny: Fucking idiot. He could have shot four straight rounds of 63 at Oakmont and I'd still hate his commentary.

When did the Vince McMahon of Hockey say that? For someone who's as intelligent as Burke is hockey-wise, I really hope it wasn't recently. Come to think of it, saying it in October or November only means more egg on his face anyway; Good on him. You can underline that with Edmonton's win today, in which they played about 53-1/2 minutes of top-notch hockey. Baron was spot on: Iginla's hat trick, two guys named Pouliot getting their first of the year against Alberta-based teams, a shootout in Montreal, a blowout in Steel City, the aforementioned Oilers win, and an phenomenally entertaining Leafs win? What a day for hockey, indeed. I'm sorry, Max.

Given my lifelong hatred for HBK, I'm not sure how fairly I can answer this. But no. I know he can still work and all that, but any title he gets, it could be argued, would be a nostalgia run. They don't work.

Good gamer of pickup hockey at Rexall. The Oilers started the third with a 4-1 lead, routinely capitalizing on lazy defence by the Avs. Colorado stormed back to tie it by the four-minute mark of the third, and Edmonton just took it again. Marc Pouliot with his first of the year.

Why learn anything else? That's fuckin awesome that you can play that.