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About halfway through and enjoying it immensely, but not surprising since their isn't much in life I miss more than the Expos. I'm literally 2 pages away from Blue Monday and I think I need to stop to prepare myself. I was one when it happened, but I've been dreading getting to it. The 94 strike too, that's going to be my Red Wedding. One thing that strikes me as I'm reading it is the feeling of how doomed the Expos always were. It's honestly surprising they made it almost 40 years. Awarded the franchise and then only having a few months to put together a front office, minor league system, get a park and draft and sign players before hitting the field. Jarry Park not even being fit for temporary stadium and having to use it for a decade and then getting stuck with the Owe, when they finally do get a stadium. As much as I'd love the Expos to come back and there's currently a big push for it, it's never going to be feasible unless they have a new stadium plan in place before the team comes back. Playing at the Owe again for an indefinite period of time will just lead to failure. Big recommendation so far, even though it's bumming me the fuck out. The caricatures of important players sprinkled throughout the book are charming as all hell.

Yay Adam Beach, he's a good dude. Although wasn't Ravan East-Indian? Why is Hugo Strange so young? Oh well, still excited.

I read that as an egg assault and was momentarily upset that people would get so riled about some harmless hijinks.

Ew. Equally pertinent.

Oh shit, that's right. I forgot that it's set up for the Pacific team to finish 3rd, even if they're lower in points than Minny. Nvm my previous post. Although I still want the Kings to win, so the Jets have a chance to knock out the Flames on the last day

Jets beat the Avs and the Kings bounce back and beat the Flames, the Jets would clinch the first wild card and likely a match-up with the Blues. Honestly though, Ducks, Blues, Preds, I don't care, just make it in.

Buff should have done a better job of picking his spot and did it during a scrum for the puck. "He's not an asshole, that's a hockey move."

So, I guess we can expect Backes to get 4 games for crosschecking Stuart in the neck twice at the end of the Jets/Blues game?

That game is definitely going to OT. /pessimistic fan ovah here.

Winnipeg gets St. Louis tonight. Calgary and LA get....Arizona and Edmonton. The Jets aren't going to make the playoffs at all.

Was it Pat Tabler? That seems like the kind of thing he'd say.

Because John Ford is the best, you can also add Henry Fonda, his muse before Wayne. Grapes of Wrath, My Darling Clementine, Drums Along the Mohawk, Young Mr. Lincoln and especially Fort Motherfucking Apache (with Wayne as well) were all absolutely fantastic. It helps that he has over 130 credits and worked for 60 years or so, but Ford has lots of fantastic multiple collabs with some great actors. Will Rogers, Victor Mclaglen, George OBrien, Maureen OHara and pretty much the best recurring supporting cast, led by Ward Bond. I'm less familiar with his silent serials, but a lot of what I read praises the heck out of his work with Harry Carey.

That may be, but they haven't made a movie together in 20 years.

It might be low cal, but it's still high in protein.

John Waters was a terrible choice to leave in charge of selling merch, he just took all the photos home.

You're free, horse! Never stop running!

Naw, he's great. Shit play on that last goal though. Oooooooh, you mean the crosscheck? Yeah, sorry about that. Buff's a rough player, but I don't know what he was thinking there. He gets a lot of penalties, but he's usually not a dick with his stick. Of his 41 minor penalties, only 7 are for hooking (4), slashing (1), high sticking (0) and cross checking (2). It was kind of ridiculous that the one on Miller last night wasn't called at all, though.

I have a feeling that the season is going to end with a flash forward to Saul in Omaha, seeing a news report about the Sandpiper case finally being settled after years in litigation and realizing he'll never see that money.

If NHL games ended after 2 periods, the Jets would be the goddamn 78 Canadiens. As it is, they go a full 3 and they're a middle of the road team with a lot of upside. Was at the game tonight and it was a noticeable different team that came out in the 3rd. They spent the first 2 periods keeping the Hawks on the ropes, then in the 3rd they became sloppy and very complacent in their own in. Holy god, does Corey Crawford even know what rebound control is? Every thing came off of him fat and juicy. That's a saying, right?

Let's see what 20 more years in the wrestling business (with those genes added on) does to him.

If I ever have children, I hope they turn out like those Demolition kids.

As does Chris Marcus. Although they'd probably make it Christopher Marcus.

Well, that was likely never going to happen. The main problem is that we should have been in the shitty Norris Division all those years. At least that way, they could have made a couple conference finals before getting beaten by the Oilers.

Calgary and Minny are playing tonight. C'mon tragic stadium collapse.

Canadians don't really care about either of those people, that's why we gave them and Nickelback to you. I'm not sure who the better options would be. Probably The Tragically Hip, The Trailer Park Boys or Peter Mansbridge in some order.