BRH

I cry just watching Miracle. I'm getting chills just thinking about that game right now.

Aloha, Mr. Hand!

I wish they would build in southwest Connecticut. I don't live there but my wife is from there and every time we go down for a visit I'm stuck going to Pathmark and Stop n Shop and Shaws. God those places suck -- although I do wish Wegmans would take a cue from Stop n Shop and set up some self-serve checkout lines.

Drew gets officially released.

The Pirates finally let Jason Kendall go?

Well... yeah... Still, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and presume he was facing a terminal illness or Alzheimer's, and that he was perfectly lucid when he made the decision to do what he did. Unless you mean that the use of such substances eventually led to the terminal condition, in which case I'll grant you that it didn't work for him as well as he thought. 'Course, there's always the possibility he meant it as a JOKE.

It's a moot point because the midget isn't coming back, but when he came here in 1998 he wanted #2 (his previous NFL number) and Steve Christie already had it, so he asked for #11 (1+1=2, and 11 is half of 22 which was his college number, which can't be issued to QBs in the NFL). They gave him #11 and then traded for RJ, who asked for #11 (his Jax and USC number). Since RJ was slated to be the starter and Flutie hadn't taken a snap in Buffalo yet, they gave RJ #11 and told the midget to pick another number. The midget took #7, presumably because it sort of looked like a 2. If the midget came back, which he won't, he would probably take #2 since it's available now.

RIP, Duke. I've got a new tagline in your honor.

Fug that. Let's see them do right by the Stanley Cup and award it THIS YEAR to the best team in North America the way it's supposed to be done. The Rochester Americans, 2004-05 Stanley Cup champions. Has a nice ring to it.

I went to the game yesterday and to the win over Cleveland on Friday night. (I also went to the K'Hawks' terrible loss to the Bandits last night, but I digress.) Great hockey. When an AHL team can send out Derek Roy, Milan Bartovic, Thomas Vanek, Chris Taylor, Norm Milley, Jason Pominville and Paul Gaustad plus have Jeff Jillson, Nathan Paetsch and Doug Janik on the blueline AND Ryan Miller between the pipes, they've got something special the likes of which we haven't seen in Rochester since '82-'83 and may never see again.

He would have only done it to me once, especially if I had a bat in my hands.

I'm surprised no one has brought up the time Dave Pallone got nailed in the jewels with a Nolan Ryan one-hop fastball. This happened sometime in the mid-'80s and the Astros were playing the Mets. Pallone set up outside Alan Ashby, I think it was, and peered over Ashby's left shoulder. Ryan threw a low and outside fastball that bounced once (it may have even just caught the corner of the plate itself and kicked up at an odd angle) and nailed Pallone square in the jewels. Oh my god. Pallone was able to get up after about 10 minutes or so, and actually finished the game. (!) A couple of innings later, Tim McCarver and Steve Zabriskie were discussing a bad ball-strike call and McCarver said, "In fairness, Dave Pallone is operating under considerable duress at the moment."

Yikes. Were you wearing a cup? Never took a shot in the nuts, but I have taken one in that spot just below the shinguard and just above the top of your foot. Christ that hurts. But that's nothing compared to THIS!

Not to infringe on any copyrights but who's Marc Weiler?

Seems to be the Boss's pattern. Do a hard-rocking album with the E Streeters, then do an introspective acoustic solo record, then head back to E Street. I like him either way, but the live shows are much much better with the band.

All I know is that he will no longer play for the Buffalo Bills. I could give a sh-- what he does now!

Says the guy with Kramer as his avatar.

True. I just hope he changes his number and gets rid of the mullet is all.

There is way too much overreacting going on here. Let it go already.

JP will be the next whipping boy. And I'm not saying that because I'm upset about the move (I am all about "my team, right or wrong" and will support JP 100%). I'm saying it because the backup QB is ALWAYS the most popular guy on the team. The minute JP !@#$s up next season -- and you know he will have his moments -- some of the same people who were calling for DB's head are going to be screaming that JP isn't ready and either (1) MM should play the backup or (2) TD should have found a better backup.

Now now. Far be it from me to make fun of a fellow tribesman. I was trying to stick with non-ethnic characteristics.

Man. Could you imagine someone with Fiedler's ears, Kordell's growth, and Koy Detmer's furry neck? The backup quarterback from hell.

If anything good came out of this whole thing it is that Peca the douchebag has now lost two whole seasons of his career.

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