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I was talking with one of my neighbors the other day. We like to shoot the breeze once and a while. Not about anything specific, just chewing the fat. Anyway. Out of the blue, he asked if I was a sports fan.

Heh. What?

“I thought so. A few weeks ago I heard you screaming at the top of your lungs, yelling YEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH.”

Whoops. I’m sure he has heard far worse then “YEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH” considering the Flyers were wiped out of the playoffs. Oh well, they are just words…

I understand that the Nintendo Wii has been out for some time, but I still have to admit it. I am an addict. Wii is really what I have been looking for. These days (wow that makes me sound old, but) a lot of games are becoming more and more and more complex. More realistic. More involved. More buttons to do things. And on and on. Well some of the games that I enjoyed the most on my new Wii are very simple games. The graphics aren’t all that stellar, heck, none of the games are in HD at all. However, they have a much higher fun level then most games I have purchased and played before.

Please. Don’t buy Super Mario Galaxy. I am telling you now. It will suck you in and you won’t know what to do with yourself. Run, run, run away!

Best. Purchase. Ever. Well, of 2008 anyway.

That’s right, it’s day 1 of central air conditioning for 2008. It is 84 degrees out and I just couldn’t take it anymore.

I should move to Alaska or Siberia (a cold part. Thanks eric) or something.

The Stanley Cup Finals are off to a great start this year. To be honest, I really hate both teams. I’ve always hated the Detroit Red Wings. I hate the Pittsburgh Penguins even worse, mainly because of their star kid Sidney Crosby. Let me get some stuff out of the way first. I think Sid The Kid is extremely talented. I think he is one of the best players in the league and will be for a long, long time.

However. The kid needs to grow up and learn to be a man. By default, I am required to hate him. That’s how us Flyers fans are. But us fans can only take the diving and complaining and crying so long. This only continued in last nights game 2. If you saw the game, you saw Sid pull a ref over to the Pen’s bench and whine and complain about god knows what. You would think that the Pen’s coach Therrien would be used to complaining. He apparently wasn’t used to it, because he took the time to do some whining of his own:

It’s really tough to generate offense with that team. They’re good at obstruction. It’s going to be real tough. If the rules don’t change, they’re just good at obstruction.

He then had the nerve to call Detroit’s goalie Chris Osgood “a good actor and diver.” That really is too funny…

Well you have all read my rant about Mike Wise’s Washington Post article regarding the Flyers. Well we now have some more information. In case you forgot, Mike likes to make wild accusations based on no factual evidence whatsoever. Basically, he is a jackass know-nothing. Just one more quote from Mike:

It’s almost impossible to fathom, but the Capitals took the ice in front of a building as loud as Verizon Center last Friday. The fans wore orange instead of the Capitals’ red, and many of the women and children looked as if they could work security for Megadeth.

Hey Mikey, metal god Dave Mustaine had a response for you:

“Hey Flyer fans, we’re Megadeth, and I read what they said in the Washington Post about you, and you can work security for us anytime! Now kick ass! It’s time to crush ‘em!

That’s right, Megadeth in Flyers jerseys. After that, Mike then went on Washington Post Live and stated that he just reserected Megadeth’s career and boosted record sales, and that they now may finally sell more albums then Journey.

Heh. Mike is a real toolbag. Someone needs to play “Symphony Of Destruction” or “Sweating Bullets” for Mike’s candy ass…

Come on A-Rod, don’t be such a wuss! For those of you whom only read headlines, here it is:

Wife: Rodriguez fainted during first daughter’s birth.

Too funny.

Yeah yeah I am a bit slow to respond, but time is not really something I have a whole lot of these days. Anyway. The Flyers did beat “Canada’s Team,” the Montreal Canadiens in only 5 games. Really, it should have been 4, but I won’t complain. I never thought the Orange And Black would ever get this far. It has to be one of the greatest seasonal turnarounds in NHL history. Remember, the Flyers finished DEAD LAST last season by a very large margin. Anyway, I think everyone needs to give the Flyguys a bit of respect.

So when things don’t go your way and you lose to the Philadelphia Flyers in five games, you’re probably going to blame yourself more than you’re going to lionize the other squad. Which is basically what Montreal Canadiens Coach Guy Carbonneau did when he said, “The Flyers seemed to take advantage of every bounce and break they got.”

Heh. Figures. Carbonneau can bite me. I think Flyers center (not centre you crazy Canadians) says it best:

“I was a little disappointed with the quotes I saw” from the Canadiens after the series victory over Montreal, Flyers center Danny Briere said yesterday. “When you win a series in five games, at some point you had to do something well. But that’s the way it has been for us all year.”

Sure we (I do mean we, us hard core fans do bleed orange) did get some lucky bounces to go our way. But really, did we get 4 straight wins (2 on the road mind you) lucky? Come on, give them a little credit. Such is life when you are called the Broad Street Bullies.

Keep your eyes glued to the TV folks. This Eastern Conference Championship series has for the first time turned into the battle of Pennsylvania. To say “it will be good” has to be the understatement of the year.

11:01am on Friday morning, Emily Grace came into the world. She was 8 pounds, 12 ounces and was 22 inches long. You can check out the pictures here.

I never liked sleep anyway!

Thank you Joffrey Lupul!
At least I finally found out what a heart attack feels like. This game 7 was seriously brutal on my nerves and blood pressure. That was ten fold when the game went into overtime.

Glad to see the Flyers pull it out with 13 minutes left in the first OT. I would have never bet that they were win, mostly because they were getting physically manhandled the entire 3rd period. Oh well, all that matters is the score at the end, and we are on to the next round.

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on WWE. Read that again, the democrats fighting for votes on the WWE. John McCain talks about keeping up with the war and showing “Osama Bin Laden who the Undertaker is.” Can you smell what the Mac is cooking? This wonderful war is killing our kids, our brothers and sisters, our mothers and fathers, and these people are appearing on FRIGGING WRESTING.

Current President George W. Bush on Deal Or No Deal.

Seriously. This is the end of the country as we know it. The apocalypse is upon us. We are so screwed and I don’t see a way out.