Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Mailing it in today.





Here's a link to a cool NY Times article on the evolution of baseball strategy from 1911. All of this stuff a baseball fan should know about (although some of it has been debunked by more advanced sabermetric number crunching (batters having the "ability" to decide where the ball goes upon striking it with their bat? C'mon...)), unless you're the kind of person who has trouble wrapping their minds around such Herculean ideas as 'circle block goes in circle hole'. So there's that...

Monday, May 2, 2011

Obama making like David Krejci and breaking the door down

OK. Some pretty important news came out late last night. Obama acquired intel on the whereabouts of one Enemy # 1 Osama bin Laden and had him brought to justice at some point during the day yesterday. His speech on the matter was direct from the 'Don't F*ck With Me!' file:



Just as Obama made America a little happier today with his announcement late last night, so did David Krejci. Well...a smaller segment of America, anyway, as the Bruins first line ran rampant over the Flyers on Saturday afternoon and lead the Bruins charge of 7 goals. Krejci contributed 2 of them along with 2 assists as well as a +3 rating. Just as Obama broke down the door, Krejci did as well, by exacting a small amount of revenge on the same Flyers team that ended his season prematurely in last year's 2nd round choke job. Message: America. Hell Yeah. and also don't count out the Bruins.




Sunday, May 1, 2011

Happy May Day Everybody

In honour of a pseudo-holiday that nobody even recognizes anymore here for your enjoyment is Dale Hawerchuk's Game 3 winner and Brad May's series clinching OT goal in Game 4 vs. the Bruins in the 1993 Adams Division Semi's. Rick Jeanneret on the call as always.