TheWestWing

April. And Panger doing The Blues.

You'll get Versus and as far as CBC goes, you'll get Saturday HNIC with the CI pkg including pregame, generally both games and the feed stays up for After Hours. I'd personally recommend making a Canuck friendly and sharing a BEV pkg - CI + CBC + TSN (+ 'some' Rogers stuff) = Hockey Utopia. Course an N3 solution 'may' be available, but that's a different story altogether

Well then, in honor of E I also will be on painkillers tonite - beats the beard all to heck!

These are the Colonies and Vegas is the (weekend) home of loons. Prolly anyplace that you can walk into that has the game on will be receptive to your antics.

Well not slow, just old. Its a 20YO DC9 that has a range of 'around' 1650 nautical miles or so. Because I have way too much time on my hands, I track it when its airborne. It always has to stop to refuel on the journey west (generally KS), and 'sometimes' has to stop going east. Guess it depends on tailwinds. Tho when they don't stop going east I get just a tad nervous.

No argument but do keep in mind that there is a list somewhere that has Lil Sleazors as the best pizza in all the land. So in general lists are worthless but hey, don't let me stop you.

Um, if you checked your CI that means you have CI. Since there is no exclusivity and FSD will air the game, the FSD feed will be on CI like always.

Actually they're not scheduled to leave Long Beach till 9:00 AM PDT tho for some reason that flight schedule just disappeared. I do see the scheduled arrival for the refueling stop in KS has been delayed, so who knows when they'll actually get home. At least they spent the night here and hopefully had a good nights sleep on the beach.

IF Babs does decide to throw Downey out there, it MUST be under these conditions: - Dont just drop with the Parrot - take out one of the Whiners (you know who - Wronger, Gestalt, or Baby Perry). As an aside (not that Mr. I needs the revenue), we should all personally pledge to buy one extra Lil Sleazer pizza from a corp owned entity to cover any extracurricular monies that may be required if Babs decides to throw him out there after the 15:00 minute mark of the third Of course, I do not condone fighting.

Do what I do - take it from the trunk when you reach your car (perfectly legal) and just strap it on (again, perfectly legal). From California Penal Code Section 12025 '(f) Firearms carried openly in belt holsters are not concealed within the meaning of this section.'

Here's the latest from my guide on DISH for tonite: 2 feeds for each of the games EXCEPT ours which leads me to believe VS has exclusivity of our game. No FSN listings for our game - 626 shows our game only on VS 151 (tho I get 430 so its all good). Gotta love the LA Times TV listing for VS tonite: 4:00 - US 6:30 - CGY/CHI (joined in progress) 8:00 - SJ/ANH (joined in progress tho will be blacked out due to local Dux feed).

Actually I'd like to try 'my' lot with Clemmenson, tho watching Weeks tonite not sure NJ will part. He may just be finding his mark (may not). Played 40 games last year with the Marlies and another 40 this year with the big club. Identical win % @ .625. At 31YO, could be a nice stopgap for a year or two. I have no other alternatives at this time Kenny, but I'll keep looking. Buli may take CHI past the first or second round, but his best days are behind him, so to speak.

Why in the f*** dont you all go sodomize yourselves. Edit: Go ahead and ban me Matt - these assholes cant keep to a ******* topic w/o bashing someone's opinion. They know little of the game and even less on how to act civilized.

Just depends if any team lower wants him.

Man this is one myopic group here. So Manny said he sucked. He did. Babs sez NoGood sux. He did. But when the coach sez it it's suppose to be 'motivation' huh? Maybe Manny was just being preemptive... This guy went 35-8 for us. Yep, I know - I saw the playoffs too. But the Wings hung him out to dry by not resigning him. Was he his own worst enemy? I dunno. Guess he coulda been more judicious with his comments. I guess NYI may take him - maybe not. We should. Cuz NoGood sez 'I've felt 100% since Christmas' and I see nothing to date that he's anywhere near turning it around. He's not getting worse - just not playing any better. Rotate 3 goalies if that's what it will take cuz right now I have little confidence in this team playing in late May. Sincerely hope I'm wrong. Really.

Cross posted this in my horseracing forum Only two sports that matter in the this mixed-up world are this one and horseracing. Tho I have maligned Mr CashMaul incessantly for his shyster rates that would make a loanshark green with envy, I didn't realize he is a Red Wings fan. J Paul Reddam was born in Windsor so I guess it kinda makes sense. He's been running a horse named Zetterberg for awhile (w/o a lot of success) and ran a MDN the other day named Hudler. I'll keep an eye out for Babcock and Mule.

Strats and Panger are the absolute best out there currently. Keep in mind their team has only been in PHX like 10 years or summin and they still are doing their best to build a fanbase. Which at times means a lil too much enthusiasm perhaps. But the Holy Jumpin drinking game cannot be beat. Drunk by midway thru the game. Always. But at least they live in the present. Gluten Boy cannot find his way out of the 80s. Plz go back Mick - your hair is waiting.....

Sheesh man, where do you get your news? Why not just post in the Panic thread???? 'According to NHL Facilities Operations Manager Dan Craig, the unlikely weather that hit Chicago Saturday has had little to no effect at all on the build-up for the Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic on New Year's Day. Maybe it set the crew back 12-18 hours, forcing them to wait to shave the ice with a Zamboni and paint it white until Sunday morning instead of doing it Saturday afternoon, but the rain helped and the 60-degree temperature had no affect at all. "We were ahead of schedule and we could even slide one more day if we had to," Craig told NHL.com. "We can go into a normal facility and build a sheet of ice in 48 hours. We are at our base right now. We just have to clean it up and get ready to paint. As soon as Mother Nature gives us the window, we're going to paint." ...When the members of the crew that did arrive Friday got to Wrigley Field in the evening, they didn't like what they saw. Due to the snow, then sleet, then rain and warm weather, there were scattered air pockets just below the ice surface. "What has happened is you have a layer of solid, then your snow and now your sleet, so it's like an Oreo cookie," Craig said. "Wherever there is snow, there is air trapped in there and we need to get water down into there to get rid of that." Craig said the crew was even thinking about melting the entire ice surface and starting from scratch. "There was a choice to be made and if we would have drawn straws (Friday) night the bet would have been we were pulling the sheet (Saturday) and starting over from scratch, which is not that big of a deal," he said. "It happens in other facilities, but it would have been a matter of timing and being able to dispose of it. The way it rained last night, the equipment kept up with it and we're ready to get right at this thing." So, instead of starting over Saturday the crew went onto the ice with drills and started making quarter-inch holes where the air pockets had formed. The base of the ice sheet is still solid, so there was no concern on Craig's end about that. "Where the white spots are there is air, so we drill down about a quarter of an inch and that allows the water to seep down and fill that up," Moffatt said. "It will turn from white to gray and it will be a nice solid sheet." ..."If you look at our schedule, last year at this time we were just laying down the mat and putting sand on the rink and I think we started to build the boards today," Renzulli said. "If you look outside, you can see we're well beyond that. The boards are up and the ice is down. Our network booths are up. The video boards are going up as we speak. We're well beyond where we were last year. Outside of Mother Nature taking a little turn on us we're doing pretty well." The weather forecast for Sunday is promising, with temperatures predicted to be in the high 20s or low 30s and only a 20 percent chance of precipitation. It could be windy, which can have an adverse affect on ice making, but then again, this is Chicago. Craig said it would take roughly 10 hours total to paint the ice white, seal it up "so it doesn't run away from us," and get the lines, circles, dots, trapezoids and logos painted. That's the goal for Sunday. "It all depends on how Mother Nature handles us," he said. "Our guys are prepared to work 24 hours a day. I have the best crew on the continent put together here so I have no worries about it whatsoever."

Yo Miss Missy you do know that picture is just 1 of 12 - the controls are on the left and there are quite a few shots with background....

ergo the problem.....

We missed you bud. The Fairest of All Fair maidens wonders what you're doing during your off season...... We should hook up for the next game. We were up over your left shoulder and for one brief moment (w/o my glasses), thought you were Kid Rock....

A penalty hat-trick last night! Even the rink announcer couldn't believe he got a roughing call as he called him Flippa twice! He's Langer reincarnate (enter catchy moniker here ----> ________________________ ).

That just sux on so many levels with one of them being we were really, really really looking forward to seeing him here on Monday.

They'll hear us all the way back in Detroit - we're literally right next to you in PR10. Guess this is as close as us all sitting together huh?

Somewhere behind the net where we shoot twice. Our favorite spot.