RD, great fill-in work.

AMAZING, RD! That cracked me up! You rock!

Burn on Sauerbeck. And yeah...we get to sit back and go: "Hunter would've had that."

Now I'm confused though...was it a double or triple? Cause Hunter's flyout came so quickly after.

I believe it was a double. It took the scoreboard people awhile to correct it on the screen graphic.

it was a double. a beautiful, bases-clearing, heart-swelling, praise-inducing, joyous double. the most beautiful double I have ever seen.

"Jacque's not one to cuss." Classic.

Thanks so much for that one. I just don't get that stuff on the XM Indians radio broadcast.

You have to feel for JJ, though. Our man is in one of his miserable slumps and the ump squeezes him.

"So RD and SnS are willing for now to not worry about Boo's last 2 outings, Little Nicky Punto's rash of strikeouts and some really dreadful at-bats by an assortment of players not named Lew Ford."

Heh. Harsh, yet true.

BRAVO!

Was anyone else mildly surprised that LNP was not tossed from the game for arguing the call at first? He was safe and he got hosed. Perhaps a certain kitty should teach the ump a lesson?

Also, in the 11th when LNP came to bat, my aunt noted that his last name sounds like a swear word. As in "Oh Punto!" When Morneau hit his double, she said, "Now the Indians are saying 'Oh Punto!'"

Like the Twins, Team Batgirl has depth. We all miss Batgirl madly, of course, and also hope fervently that the puntositis has appeared in its more benign form (not the dreaded version that lands one on the DL for months at a time).

And yet, digging into the depth chart, Team Batgirl produces relief pitcher Ron Davis, who totally harshes on Cleveland in most entertaining fashion, and we must say "Well done, RD, and thanks for staying warm in the area of bullshit."

RD-impressive work coming into the game in relief of the substitutes. I hope their illness is short-lived (not that I minded RD; I just want Team Batgirl to be healthy all season!) The recommended daily allowance of sass always comes from Batgirl, whether from the lady herself, her team, or her balings.

Just Beth

Yes, it does suck to be Scott Sauerbeck. From ESPN.com's recap of the game:

"Sauerbeck tormented himself by watching a video replay after the game.

'It was like watching a bad dream in slow motion,' he said."

Teehee.

Nicky was safe by a MILE, wasn't he? Grrr. I yelled at the TV. I yelled at the ump and I also yelled at LNP about sliding into first à la Mark Loretta. One of these days....

I'm just so glad that Nicky didn't let go of that batting helmet when it came off of his head. It's one thing to smack it on the dirt but if he had spiked it, he would have been ejected for sure..

God I love the amusement coming from this community of baseball enthusiasts. There is a tradition of sass to withhold and our RD has upheld that marvelously. Way to Go, RD! That was a homerun hit for sure... (maybe not Stewie in the bottom of the night but we all have to have dreams..)

Did anyone else see this, or just me? Is this where BG has been? Wreaking havok in hotel rooms?

http://tinyurl.com/9uh2u

High marks on the sass-o-meter, RD. Well done!

*It sucks to be Travis Hafner. Not because he's from North Dakota, where RD lived quite happily for a spell, but because Hafner's the ugliest guy on an ugly Cleveland team.

My sister drove through Hafner's hometown of Sykeston a few weeks ago and reported that they are putting up a billboard with his picture on it, similar to the one the city of Jamestown put up for Darin Erstad. For this reason and this reason alone, I will now avoid driving across ND on Highway 200.

Yeah, being stuck with the FSN Ohio feed for this entire series, I've been treated to the mega-excitement and anticipation of the long-awaited "Travis Hafner Bobblehead Day." Gee, I may just travel from New York City for that one. Hold me back.

RD, you shed a great light on last nights game with nothing held back! Kudos! hahahaha, and yes, JustIncredible could use some help in the interviewing area;) Maybe I could give him lessons!
Get well soon team Jeb and Goober, and we miss you Batgirl!

I have found that when watching the Twins on TV that things go wrong for the Twins when I muse idly to myself about how ugly the opposing player happens to be. In the case of Hafner, I have mused and he has made me pay. So now I think how wonderful it is that a guy from a small Dakota town is a big league star (and then he makes out). Praise thine enemy and he will succumb!

Truthfully, I've never noticed his looks. Just that he's the enemy, and that's enough. Being nice-looking has certainly not exempted Aaron F'ing Boone from my eternal wrath. You can be cute as the proverbial button or ugly as sin, makes no difference to me if you stand between me and happiness. (There have been a few notable exceptions to this rule, but I've still gotten mad at them for stepping out of line. Just be cute, and don't harm my team. That's all I ask.)

Laurie-
Click my name to see a picture of Hafner. As I said, I will be avoiding Highway 200 through Sykeston from now on.

ack. His nickname is pronk. Sounds like something out of Harry Potter.

Funny, I never even really looked at his face. Aww, he's not that bad. I'm sure he's a nice lad. As long he goes 0-4, I like him just fine. ;-)

Last year before the All-Star game when the Twins had the whole Vote Leeeeew thing going on, Hafner was in the running for it too. The ND Governor held a press conference encouraging all North Dakotans to "Vote Pronk." It was quite possibly the stupidest thing I had ever heard.

Gosh, how sad. Suffice to say that sort of stuff doesn't go on in NYC. Probably because we kind of have more than one semi-famous person in the state...

Laurie-
Famous NoDak Athletes that I can think of right now:
Hafner (Sykeston)
Erstad (Jamestown)
Roger Maris (Fargo)
Rick Helling (kind of) (Fargo)
Phil Jackson (Williston)
Mike Peluso (Bismarck)

My state is better known for its big statues of animals along the highways:
Jamestown's anatomically correct buffalo
New Salem's cow
Steele's sandhill crane
Bottineau's snowmobiling turtle
Dunseith's hubcap turtle
Garrison's walleye
Wahpeton's catfish
The Enchanted Highway from Gladstone to New England.
There might be more, these are just the ones I can think of right now.

Maris I knew was from there. But naturally I'd be interested in seeing the buffalo. Oh, the possibilities!

Man, I spent some quality time with that Jamestown buffalo...

That sounds terrible.

There is a Roger Maris "museum" at West Acres in Fargo, probably the most famous guy to come out of North Dakota, and he gets a glass case at a mall.

Best college prank ever -

A bunch of students from Jamestown College piled a truckload of manure right behind the Jamestown Bison.

Here are pictures of the statues.

http://www.realnd.com/giantsofnd.htm

Actually Teddy Roosevelt spent some time in ND after his wife died, before he became President. He had a cattle ranch and did a lot of hunting. This is why we have Theodore Roosevelt National Park in western ND. It's beautiful scenery, if anyone ever wants to check it out. I would avoid the Medora Musical and Pitchfork Fondue though. It's grossly overpriced and not all that great.

I'm just trying to imagine the horror of NY's governor (who is a horror to begin with) spearheading a "Vote Jeets" campaign. That is foul on so many levels.

Friends,

An updated version of today's post now includes the proposed White Earth White Guys logo.

Thank you SnS!

Laurie-
For better or worse, I don't think a "Vote Jeets" campaign will ever be necessary in NY.

Whoa, that logo will make the other guys run in terror. They won't even need to play to win.

Pranks and Pronks, -- gotta love it.

The manure prank reminds me of a prank involving a statue that some OTHER people (yeah, that's it) played when I was in college... there was a giant statue of a guy riding a horse at the center of campus, and someone took notice that it was hollow. Under the cover of darkness, someone drilled a largeish hole in the top of the statue and poured water treated with yellow food-coloring through the hole, filling the statue to the top. Seconds later, a tiny hole was drilled in the bottom of the statue...

...the horse was peeing for 2 days.

Cheers,
YankeeFan

NDTF... my original point exactly. ;-)

But it does make for disgusting mental images. Ewwww.

"In fact, he's so ugly that the noted Ojibwe baseball powerhouse -- the White Earth White Guys -- is considering using Hafner's face as its logo."

Man, that got me good! Thanks RD, I had to turn off the game after the 4th in order to spend some "quality time" with people who don't watch baseball...fascinating creatures, I must study them further and become more familiar with their unorthodox social structure.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

*sobbing*

Toronto is not to be.

buddy passes take two weeks to procure, and my friend is allowed only 6 per year, and she has only one left. (but I may be able to snag that one to come to NY at the end of July.) there are other complications, but I won't detail them unless you want to know.

and I looked at regular airfare... and was frightened... $1300.

*sobbing*

I WANT TO GO TO TORONTO!!!

anyone want to DRIVE?!

As long as we're talking local heroes, we can't forget Dave Goltz, the pride of Rothsay, MN (home of the world's largest prairie chicken)

rowlandweb.com/adventure/eachick.asp

Kafumbly - 15 hours to Toronto.

Leave Saturday morning?

Spend Sunday in Toronto?

Return Monday?

The world's... largest... prairie chicken...

Well, OK!!!

Kafumbly, sorry to hear about Toronto. :-( I myself have been scouting for Yankee tickets for July. There are some available, but only in the worst upper reaches of the place. I'm still trying other sources, though. We have to be on the Twins' side of the ballpark AND get circled. Tall order, I know.

ndtf...how does our World's Largest Badger in Wishek not make the list of giants at the realnd.com website? I think I'm gonna e-mail the webmaster. I am miffed. (not really) And that's even despite the fact the owner of the Lone Steer in Steele (home of the world's largest sandhill crane) is a Wishek native.

As for famous ND athletes...you don't have to go all the way down to Mike Peluso so soon. You forgot Jimmy Kleinsasser. Kleinsasser, Erstad and Hafner are all from the greater Jamestown metro area. And Virgil Hill from Williston. And that we are the cradle of basketball coaches. In addition to Phil Jax, there's Dale Brown, Bill Fitch, Lute Olson. The list goes on.

Come on everybody, sing along: RD has a girlfriend! RD has a girlfriend!

Welcome back, RD. We've missed your unique perspective.

The world's largest Prairie Chicken. Awesome. Right up there with the world's largest pair of Buffalo nuts.

I hope you all can make it to Toronto. I would love to see pictures. I think I'd be up for 30 hours round-trip in the car, but when I tack on the extra 16 to get to Minneapolis, well, that's a lot of time in the car. And I have my doubts about my car's ability to get me to Minneapolis, so I will (hopefully) watch Bert circle you from the couch in my parents' basement.

Thanks Fran-
I know I forgot a lot of people, I can't believe I didn't think of Jimmy Kleinsasser! And I even watched him play basketball in the state tournaments. And cussed him when he played football for UND. It's funny how you can suddenly love a guy when he goes from playing for your sworn college enemy to your favorite NFL team!

damn my having to work Saturday Morning!

Kleinsasser played basketball against the high school here when he was a sophomore. He set a pick against our rail-thin 6-4 senior center and sent him to the hospital with pieces of spleen in his blood. That same team later got to face Hafner and Bowdon-Hurdsfleld-Sykeston in Jamestown. Those two, Kleinsasser and Hafner, could fill a basketball lane without much problem.

The Legion baseball team here used to have the Jamestown Blues "B" team in their league. Erstad played on that team briefly as a 15-year-old. They swept a doubleheader and he was five-for-six--two homers, a triple, a double and a single. The sixth AB was a strikeout, courtesy of a friend of mine. He still talks about how he K'd Erstad.

Crapola, no road trip for me. Thanks for trying to make it work though Kafumbly!

aurora, can't you be "sick"?

heraldguy, you'd really be willing to drive?! I am the World's Greatest Roadtrip Planner!

woohoo! Toronto!

I can't, I'm "sick" today. And I'm working for someone else.

I have a plan! Tonight I'll go buy a bunch of Powerball tickets. After I win the jackpot, I can afford to go to Toronto! Now all I need to do is pick some winning numbers....

If you win the jackpot, you can BUY the Twins.

Nicely done. What a fun game this was to watch, and it *does* suck to be Scott Sauerbeck!

hey, I wanna buy the Twins! I WANT TO!!!

ha, a couple months ago when the jackpot was $147M, I thought, "if I win that, maybe I could buy the Twins..." and for the first time ever, I bought a Powerball ticket. and I didn't even win a dollar. bastards.

ndtf... 42 37 53 11 24 6 18

of course, I have rotten luck, so you may not want to use those. ;)

This is not the worst idea I've ever had. I mean, I could actually OWN Michael Cuddyer...

Speaking of North Dakota pranks:

A friend of mine is from Park River, ND, which has a sign at the entrance to town that says: "PARK RIVER, A TOWN WITH A HEART". "Somebody" painted over the "H" and part of the "E" to make it say: "PARK RIVER, A TOWN WITH A FART".

It stayed that way for a few weeks before it was noticed and changed.

Tell you one thing, if I owned the Twins, we wouldn't have to wave bye-bye to our favorite players year after year for the sake of a VERY few bucks.

ndtf,

Use your lottery winnings to put a roof on the stadium. Please.

Thank you,
aurora

If I won the Powerball, I wouldn't buy the Twins (after taxes it wouldn't be possible). Instead, I would get my own promotion night. So rather than Dairy Queen Cap Night, I'd have E's Reversible Bucket Hat Day.

I wonder how much sponsorship of those things costs anyway?

RD -
Excellent job stepping up for BG and delivering in the clutch. More like L-Rod on Sunday and less like you when you were the Twins closer. Speaking of ugly b-ball players, who misses my old pal Corky "Corky" Miller. He's tearing up the International League with a .133 average.

Corky (Corky) got a hit! Good for him.

Gee, I always thought Casey Blake had a certain rugged manly charm.

Last night I was musing again about what I would do if I were a major league player and found myself in Cleveland required to wear that logo on my person. I'm just not sure I could do it.

Yikes. Young Grady Sizemore is 9 for 10 lifetime against The Jackal.

It's always fun when you post a comment and then leave for lunch. I actually have thought about this. First I would pay off my student loans. Then I would buy a new car. I would make a sizable donation to some charities and give my parents enough to pay off their farming debts and retire comfortably. After all that, I would gladly put a roof on the new stadium if they let me have the naming rights so I could name it LegoVision Park.

In general, ESPN's page 2 is a good one today with the all-time short baseball team (or as I think of it, LNP's heroes)and Jim Caple is showing some love for the Jackal too. Click my name for the link.

Sorry, wrong link there. Try this one.

Caple rocks. Have you read his book, "The Devil Wears Pinstripes"? It's a wonderful ode to the evil that resides in the Bronx.

Nice to see His Royal Thickness made the cut...

ESPn has a poll going for people to vote on which players should start for the US team in the BaseBall World Cup. A few of the twins are on the list, but they aren't getting much support. I did vote for Hunter to be the CF. I am kind of surprised at how many votes Bonds has.

"Caple rocks. Have you read his book, "The Devil Wears Pinstripes"? It's a wonderful ode to the evil that resides in the Bronx."

Isn't the evil Yankees thing getting a little old ?

How could Bonds start...he can't even PLAY right now.

*sigh*

Mike, you're absolutely right. Mea culpa. I'm just so used to Yankee fans behaving as if they're still the defending world champions even though they haven't won in five years, that it's still a bit of a habit I find it hard to shake. I'll do my best to keep it in check if you guys will. Deal?

blah blah blah Barry Bonds!!!

Questions regarding the Baseball World Cup:
Who decides who's on the US team? Or any other nation's team for that matter? Who will the managers be and how is this decided? I'm looking forward to the event, but I'm just curious about how the players and managers will be chosen.

RD, you were right on about the Doctor's interview by Marney Gellner. First, they really should have found a chair for her to stand on. Once JustIncredible opened his mouth, I quickly realized that someone needs to help him with his public speaking. As a past representative of one of the great livestock industries in our state, I believe I have the experience to help out the young Doctor with his media skills. You know, since the call for a volunteer has already been made.

Baseball USA, and the respective counterparts for the other countries will decide. I'm sure it work much like hockey and basketball have. A gm will be named, then a coach, then the players.

This could be some of the best baseball we will ever see. US, DR, Venz, & PR will all have awesome teams. The funny thing is Pedro has 101% of the vote for pitcher on DR.

Figure this one out...the MLB.com highlights labeled the Top Play of that game the single that scored the tying run for Cleveland.

The one that made it 3-3. That's the top play...

*sigh*

Even worse...the OHIO feed is the source of the plays. So instead of the excitement of a big play, you get the indifference of a bad play for the other team.

I could help with the Doc's public speaking, I work in advertising and I know baseball lingo fairly well. We'll get him in tip top shape before he knows it.

Kirby probably does qualify in the Short category but I just don't think I could ever call him "mini-mite" with a straight face - even when he was playing, he wasn't SMALL, just short.

and sadly.. it makes you wonder how many got left off the list because they were a little "creative" with recording their height.. you know that they do...

Lew Ford is just not 6'... I love you Lew but.. you aren't fooling anyone.

Mike - "Isn't the evil Yankees thing getting a little old ?"
No. As long as Steinbrenner continues to spend excessively and Yankee fans continue to be smug and obnoxious, the Yankees will continue to be evil. In other words, they will always be evil - just as the Cowboys and the Lakers will always be evil.

This article was brilliant - wondering if RD has seen the Tony Award Winning Musical, Avenue Q? There is an absolutely fabulous song entitled "It sucks to be me." Including the following lyrics:
It sucks to be me!
It sucks to be me!
s there anybody here
It doesn't suck to be?
It sucks to be me!
And now that song will be in my head all day - with a visual of Scott Sauerbeck.

mike-

i'm cool with being bitter, but i would take offense to being called small-minded. hypothetically, of course, if you were calling ME those things.

Dear Say-Rah

It was not directed at you. However saying that Steinbrenner is evil because he follows the rules of game is not looking at the real issue.

What do you want him to do ? Not spend the money and not try to win ? . With as many cheap owners as there are in sports here is one that actually doesn't care about the money and everyone gives him crap for it.

All of the owners except for Steinbrenner voted for these rules and if you even think of mentioning a salery cap to the players they scream STRIKE !. The game has rules and George is doing what he can to win by those rules.

Ask Mr.Pohlad if he liked his cut of George's revenue sharing this year. It's not the Yankees fault they have more money and it's not their fault that the players refuse to allow a cap.

Just be fair and put the blame where it belongs.

With Respect and Love
Mike.

Mike -

You're not related to Sid Hartman, are you?

Sorry, uncalled for.

Back to the sass

Yankee talk=boring
More sass.

There's heraldguy, bringing in the sass right on time.

Not related to Sid, and I have never read any of his articles either. Does he say the same thing ?

RD is thrilled with all the North Dakota talk he's inspired. I have been replaying my experience pitching in the North Dakota State Softball Tournament in Harvey for my company team from Grand Forks. Needless to say, because we were tournament champions of our "big city" league, everyone was gunning for us. I don't remember the scores, but I remember the disco in "downtown Harvey" and the double I hit off the left-field wall. I still have an occassional Chipperz craving. North Dakota ties don't come undone.

Mike -
Perhaps I am small minded and I have been called bitter at times.
I get that George is playing by the rules and doing what he can to win. I get that other owners can be cheap. I get that the playing field is not equal. The Yankees have always been - and always will be - the team to beat. They are the proverbial 800 pound gorilla. When you have history on your side and the biggest payroll in MLB - you have a target on your back. As such, the Yankees will be looked at by non-Yankee fans as the evil empire - like it or not.
Respectfully,
Hegs

More on the ND talk: Will anyone be coming to Bismarck in June for the McQuade Softball Tournament? If so, let me know...

Hegs

Thats unfortunate, because the true evil empire in baseball is the players union.

McQuade Softball Tournament...is that where Matty LeCroy played his minor league ball?

OK - I'm done with NYY talk.
Jeb - Do I have your permission to sass back at heraldguy? During my formative years, sassing at heraldguy usually got me trouble.
[It's good to sass heraldguy. --Jeb]

I doubt it. It's difficult to find crawdads in Bismarck.

Mike - absolutely true - not just in baseball, but all major sports.

and hockey, too!

Hegs -

Bring it on, li'l bro...

So are you saying hockey isn't a major sport? Almost heresy up here in the (near) Great White North

Sad but true.
As you know, in my eyes hockey is major but - based on the fact that the NHL has been out of business this season and most people haven't noticed.

do not speak of hockey here! you are making me weep.

Loved the article about the shorties. Made me feel right at home. I'm shorter than everyone except the Scooter(I think he still outweighs me) and Freddie Patek.

These guys saying that they're 6' is really funny. But men do that all the time. When else do you see us lie about size, ladies?

oh NEVER metsfan.. you boys wouldn't do that! At least a proper Batling wouldn't...

Afterall, any game involving running the bases is a game of inches don't you know...

Hegs,

I noticed over the winter whenever I drove by a darkened RBC Center in Raleigh on my way home from work.

MK

"There is a Roger Maris "museum" at West Acres in Fargo, probably the most famous guy to come out of North Dakota, and he gets a glass case at a mall."
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Has Lawrence Welk already been forgotten by the peeples?

In defense of Bert's "He's not one to cuss" comment: I think he was trying to say that Jacque is not normally the type to blow his top over any little thing; he's not Milton Bradley. So for him to get angry enough to jump into an umpire's face like that, he must've felt like he really got screwed over. A few moments later, when they showed the slo-mo replay of Jacque's reaction to the Strike 3 call, Bert added, "You may not want to lip-read here."

In defense of Jacque's alleged potty mouth, I couldn't tell from the slo-mo whether he was dropping F-bombs or protesting, "That was a FOOT inside!" Jacque, if you need any representation to visit Bob Watson for you, let me know. Plausible deniability, Jacque. Plausible deniability....

-BABS

A proper Batling never lies. However not all men are Batlings.

I have not forgotten Lawrence Welk. However, his fame has been eclipsed by the *other* Strasburg Superstar, Mylo Hatzenbuhler. Click my name for the link.

In consecutive posts, RD mentions Harvey, ND and Hegs describes the Yankees as the "800 lb. Gorilla"

If I remember my North Dakota trivia correctly, Harvey High School's nickname is the "Gorillas".

Is there a connection?

Methinks I have heard of this game you call "hockey." A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, I recall there being Rangers hailing from the small town of New York. They skated on ice in the middle of summer back in the day. How was that possible you ask? They played in the Garden of Eden at Madison Square... only an evil overcame the land and wiped the minds of those below the 54th parallel, at least as far as the minds knew about "hockey." As such, the heathens stampeded and took the sacriligious Mark Messier and hung him from a cross.

Legend has it that some day the Messier will come to salvage us all of the hockeyless world. It may not have been this year, or not next, but someday soon and for the rest of our lives, our minds shall be restored to the good graces of "hockey."

Can I get an A-men?

YankeeFan

NIH-
If I remember correctly, they are the Harvey Hornets. But there was once a gorilla statue named Og in Harvey. I don't think it's there anymore though.

My soon-to-be-former roommate is from Harvey, and I can confirm that they are indeed the Harvey Hornets.

The running joke for me whenever we've played Cleveland, since there are only like 17 people in all of North Dakota, is that he probably had to babysit Travis Hafner at some point while the rest of the state went into town to get groceries and send telegrams.

Skorch-
When all 17 of us aren't busy buying groceries and sending telegrams, we are building giant statues of animals and celebrating our one tree.

ndtf-

I'm sure I probably have my facts messed up. I had a friend who was from Harvey. I remember that we were at a bar and met someone from another town near Harvey. This person called my friend a "Harvey Gorilla", and my friend just shook his head. Looking back on it now, this person must have been just poking a little fun at my friend. I do know that there used to be a huge gorilla statue in Harvey, I'm just not sure why.

Anyways, sorry. My mistake. Go Hornets.

Y-Fan -
Amen!

Hegs, kafumbly, Yankeefan,

This hockey talk has given me an idea. I'm going to be at the game on the 5th (against the Yankees, oddly enough) and I was thinking about how I could meet up with other Batlings at the game and, more specifically, how I could be recognized as I've been...slow to purchase any Bat-merchandise.

Now I know...I own a replica road-white Carolina Hurricanes sweater (with no numbers). That would be the absolute *last* thing anyone would be wearing at a Twins game. I wonder how many odd looks I'll get walking through the plaza?

blah blah blah Mark Messier!!!

mike -
sorry, i was just being my own brand of sass-y (well, it starts with an 's' and ends with 'ass', there might be a few more letters in the middle). i hate the yankees because it's fun, but i don't blame anyone for anything, except maybe pohlad... no offense taken here & i knew you weren't talking to me. i was just tryin' to 'cause problems because my work day was so boring. i actually have a yankee-lovin' friend. just one, though.

mk, I've seen lots of people in hockey jerseys at Twins games, but never a Carolina Hurricanes sweater. Sharks, yes. Wild, yes. HNIC, yes.

I have an issue with people clothed in sports' apparel other than that which matches the sport they are attending. (wow, sorry about that sentence.) I will not give you a lecture; however, I will tell this story:

I attended a Gopher hockey game one lovely evening in December 2004, and there was an obnoxious guy, clad in a Timberwolves jersey, behind the opposing players' bench. in the second period, Kellen Briggs deflected a shot, and the puck sailed over the glass, directly at this Puppy fan. while he had plenty of time to get out of the way, as it was a soft deflection, he simply watched the puck as it flew at his face and struck him in the nose. and the best part: he laughed as he held a towel to his lightly bleeding face. but I'm sure that will teach him a lesson about wearing a basketball jersey to a hockey game.

(no, I'm not happy that the man was injured. but he was fine, so it's funny.)

kafumbly,

I still not wear my Faux-Whalers gear. But I hope you understand the reasoning behind the thought, and not be offended if I do go through with it.

MK

If you're at a hockey game and get struck in the nose by a puck, does everyone else still boo if you don't give the puck to a little kid?

Kellen Briggs stopped a shot?
It must have been by accident...

"I have not forgotten Lawrence Welk. However, his fame has been eclipsed by the *other* Strasburg Superstar, Mylo Hatzenbuhler."
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My God, that's frightening. I'm listening to the samples of "Plow Man" and "In the Coop"; it's hilarious and torturous at the same time. I'm not sure how much more I can take.

ha, mk, no... go ahead. perhaps I'll wear my Sami Kapanen Flyers sweater, and we can mourn hockey together. I can be a rebel once. ;)

Sorry frightwig...

completely unrealted question-
i was looking back at the archives...
what ever happened to She-Ra? she used to post alot! Anyone know?