The Pitts At Joe Louis Lose Game 2 In The Finals Against The Red Wings

Ericson scored from practically from the blue line while Helm screened Fleury.
Filppula scoring a magnificent backhand thanks to Holmstrom giving Fleury plenty of problems.
Abdelkader scores a goal while 4 of his teammates are making a change, his second goal of the playoffs.
Heres Zetterberg getting a little crap from Malkin.

2 minutes 8 seconds
Helm looking fantastic stepping up very nicely!
Wings up 2 games in the finals. Here are all the highlights from Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Finals Red Wings Vs. Penguins!



Here is highlights of the Wings and the teams they had to face on their way to the Finals for the cup.

Still no word on Pavel Datsyuk?

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Thought for the day

I was thinking a bit today about how the human mind works. It seems to me that the mind does not like a lot of choices, no more than two if at all possible, and even then the other choice is generally thought to be wrong. Reality is not so simple, I think.

Left and Right, Liberal and Conservative, Right and Wrong, Good and Evil. Oh, we like 31 flavors of ice cream and a hundred brands of toothpaste to choose from, but on the important things we prefer to keep it down to two. Binary thinking; perhaps it comes from our evolution; fight or flight, maybe we are hard-wired that way. I don't know.

We see this in politics all the time, on both sides. It's easy to think of the Right as being rigid and unthinking (perhaps because so many of them are) but it is not so easy to dismiss a Thomas Sowell in that way. How many liberals read Sowell? How many conservatives read Paul Krugman?

I'm not merely saying that there is some truth on both sides, or that both sides have something to offer, although I am sure they do, but that there are more than two sides, or there should be. Many more I would say, but we cannot see them, or even think them.

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37 runs were enough…

Most of you when watching a blowout in any sport usually turn the channel; however you then probably missed the Florida State Seminoles men’s baseball team score thirty-seven runs against the Ohio State Buckeyes in the NCAA Baseball Regional Playoffs. The final in the game was 37-6. (The Buckeyes missed an extra-point.)

Yep, that is correct thirty-seven runs. The Seminoles collected a total of thirty-eight hits and sixty-seven total bases. The score by the fifth inning was in favor of the Seminoles 32-0. Florida State’s Stephen Cardullo set an NCAA tournament record with seven hits and three doubles. Florida State advances to the Super Regionals with the victory.

The total run scored between both teams tied a record set by Miami, Ohio's 35-8 victory over Quinnipiac on June 4, 2005.

If you were an Ohio State pitcher, you were probably not spared any help. To be honest, I think the highlights speak for themselves.

(Some information was used from an ESPN.com article)

(To read more about this story, check out this article from Rumors and Rants)

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The Oral Adventures Of Craven Moorehead 13

We started this blowjob seen on a cold tile floor in the bathroom but April flowers kept complaining about the tile being too hard and too cold. Erik made a deal with her and agreed to move onto the bed as long as he got to fuck both of these whores for free!Free Clips Here

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Fantasy Baseball Sell High Case Study

Also at The FantasyDrafthelp.com Blog.

We first used this analogy two years ago when Jorge Posada was enjoying a ridiculous first half en route to his career season. In the perfect “Sell High” fantasy trade, you not only help your own team by leveraging great value for your departing player, you also hurt the opposing team by passing on to them a rapidly depreciating asset. We half-kiddingly cited the precedent of the Germans sending Lenin to Moscow in a boxcar to destroy the czar’s regime from within during World War I; ideally, the player’s inevitable regression to the mean will hurt the team acquiring the player, thus hurting their chances of blocking your path to the title.

Right now, we’ll tell you why Raul Ibanez represents another such opportunity for his owners.Through games of May 30, he had smacked a flabbergasting 17 HR in 178 AB. A full 9.6% of his AB ended up as round-trippers, signifying the hot streak to end all hot streaks. That is more than 2 ½ times his career pace.

Now, since Ibanez became a full-time player in 2002, he has averaged 576 AB in a season. What’s his career average for HR in a season? 22.

Oops.

OK, what’s his previous career high? 33.

Let’s back up a second. If he only reaches the career average of 22 this year – granted, a correction that seems pretty unlikely right now – he will average a “tidy” 1.3% of his AB resulting in HR, assuming he notches his career average of 576 AB. What if he reaches 33 HR? That would mean 4.0% of his remaining AB ending up in HR.

To put that last number in perspective, the years since 2002 have seen 3.8% of his AB result in HR. So for him to match his career HR high within a typical AB range, he would merely have to approximate the Raul Ibanez of 2002-2008.

If you dangle him right now, do you think that that is the Ibanez that your fellow owners think that they’ll be acquiring? We don’t think so either.

Granted, if this is a true career year for Ibanez, he is likely to continue to surpass his career HR pace, but that is a definite gamble. Are you sure that he’s more likely to continue to produce than somebody due for a PROGRESSION to the mean like BJ Upton? Remember, the long fantasy baseball season is all about surfing the waves that materialize over the course of a year. Take your profit in Raul Ibanez if the opportunity presents itself, benefit from the assets you receive in return and watch your trading counterpart wonder why the Ibanez from ’02-’08 is back.

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Fantasy Baseball: Sell High

Also at The FantasyDrafthelp.com Blog.

^ Kendry Morales: While he had previously been given scant chances in SoCal, there is no indication whatsoever in the time since he has migrated to America that power numbers such as these should be regarded as for real.

^ Joe Mauer: He is absolutely killing the ball, albeit in a small sample size since he wasn’t healthy for the first few weeks of the season. In a sense, he is additionally the mirror image of Holliday, who was vastly underrated this year because of overreactions about ballpark effects. Mauer is perennially overrated because owners always either assume that THIS will be the year that his power materializes or (more likely) the underrate the extent to which power is THE key separator at catcher (not batting average). If you own Mauer, you have an outstanding chance to feed into the false impressions about him.

^ Russell Branyan: He is quite the tease, putting together stretches like this one every few years. If you own him, you should take your profit immediately.

^ Raul Ibanez: He is riding the biggest hot streak of his life and is due for the inevitable regression to the mean. Think about this: he’s in his first year in a new league. He’s not even done with the adjustment period yet.

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Fantasy Baseball: Buy Low

Also at The FantasyDrafthelp.com Blog.

^ Jon Lester: As with any pitcher, it’s important to discern if arm problems lie at the root of a lack of success. There is absolutely no indication that this is the case with Lester, who has had a disproportionate lack of luck thus far. These factors generally even out over time, at least to some extent.

^ Magglio Ordonez: He’s making decent contact, especially as of late. With that being the case, there’s no reason to believe that his power will continue to fall off as dramatically as it has.

^ Matt Holliday: We’ll keep him on our “Buy Low” list until his production increases appreciably, not least of which because his numbers are playing into absurd stereotypes about the extent of the “Coors to Oaktown” difference. When you keep in mind that the As are almost certain to move him in his walk year since they are out of contention – and the good chance that he will be moving to a friendlier park – there is no reason other than superstition not to want a piece of him right now.

^ James Loney: This is another repeat participant on our list. Again, though, since he is almost certain to hit at least 13-15 home runs this year – at the very least – the longer he lingers in the low single digits, the more dramatic his progression to the mean will be.

^ Jimmy Rollins: Already showing some very belated signs of life, there is ample reason to believe that this superstar in his prime is once again ready to live up to his potential.

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Assclown Defined

So, does anyone know who this assclown is?




His name is Kanye West and I guess he supposedly is a singer or something.* I've heard the name and hope to NEVER hear it again. I just was made aware of something he said and I am LIVID that anyone who commands the attention of so many young people would say such an assclowny thing!!!

His quote:

"Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. I am not a fan of books. I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books."

I cannot believe his trainers let him SAY such a thing. How proud his family must be. I certainly hope someone with more credibility comes along and denounces him for the idiot he is.

(At least this gave me something to obsess about besides the game tonight! ;))



*And yes, this is total sarcasm.

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Ichiro Is A Really Weird But Also Awesome Guy

While searching YouTube for Chelsea Dagger by the Fratellis (the da, dadada, dadada, dadadadadadada song they play at sporting events), I came across an old Ichiro quote that I totally love, mostly because it's about Cleveland and I've been an Ohioan the past 5 years, but also because it's simply pure awesome. Anyways, here's the quote, about an upcoming road trip (at the time, it's from 2007) to Cleveland:

"To tell the truth, I'm not excited to go to Cleveland, but we have to. If I ever saw myself saying I'm excited going to Cleveland, I'd punch myself in the face, because I'm lying."

Amazing, no? Well then I found the website linked above, called Slate, and their article called "Parsing the Incredibly Bizarre Sayings of Ichiro Suzuki." And let me tell you, apparently some of the stuff he's said is so much weirder. Including, but not limited to:

(About Tiger Woods) "Tiger is a great golfer, but … when you say athlete, I think of Carl Lewis. When you talk about (golfers or race-car drivers), I don't want to see them run. It's the same if you were to meet a beautiful girl and go bowling. If she's an ugly bowler, you are going to be disappointed."

(After starting the season with a few multi hit games and being asked if that was surprising) "It's not surprising. At the same time, it's not that usual. It's somewhere between usual and surprising."

I never realized that Ichiro was such a strange guy. Regardless, I kept the Ichiro search up. The two videos I found aren't quite as awesome as the quotes, but they're still pretty good.

1. Ichiro's Favorite American Expression
2. A Mariner Commercial Entitled "Epidemic"

Hope you learned a little something about Ichiro today. I know I did.

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Juhlaa juhlan perään

Mo!

Tänä viikonloppuna on tullut lihottua ainakin kymmenen kiloa, kun olin eilen kahden eri serkkuni ylioppilasjuhlissa.
Kummatkin serkut ovat äidin puolelta, joten juhlissa oli osaksi samaa porukkaa. Ensin oli ihanaisen Hanna-serkkuni isoveljen juhlat, jotka olivat jossain pitopalvelun tapaisessa tilassa. Oli mukavaa!
Seuraavissa kuvissa onkin Hanna lisäkseni. :P ♥ En kyllä tajua miten se voi olla jo noin ruskea! Oli kuulemma "vähän" lenkkeillyt.. Muuten vaan viime viikonloppuna oli juossut puolimaratonin.. Hannallakin oli kyllä juhlan aihetta kun pääsi ysiltä. :)

Hanna joutui tietysti myös kuvauspuuhiin! Tässä näkyykin asuni. :)
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Haha, löytyihän sieltä trampoliinikin. XD

Huom! Huomaa trampoliinin takaa kurkkiva pieni serkkuni! =DD
Suunnilleen kolmen tunnin jälkeen jätimme ensimmäiset juhlat, ja suuntasimme toisiin juhliin, joihin olikin yli puolentoistatunnin ajomatka. Se menikin lukiessa GG:n tokaa kirjaa ja kuunnellessa musaa. Ei kyllä hajuakaan miksi luen jotain Gossip Girl -kirjoja, oli vain pakko lainata joku kun kävin kirjastossa, enkä tiennyt yhtään että minkä. :D

Lopulta perillekin päästiin, ja kyseiset sukulaiset asuvat kunnon kartanossa maalla, ja heillä on ihan sairaasti metsiä, peltoja ja muutenkin pihaa. Ei loppunut ainakaan tila kesken!


Hihii kahden serkkuni eli Katjan ja Riikan kanssa löydettiin myös kiikku. :D Tein myös ennen tuonne tuloa kenkävaihdoksen, koska perjantaiset kengät aiheuttivat jalkoihini ihan mukavat rakot, niin umpinaisissa kengissä kävely oli ihan tuskaa! Nuo korkkarit ovat muistaakseni Anttilasta.

Löytyipä tuolta myös omenapuu, joten oli pakko päästä sen alle ottamaan kuvia kun kerrankin oli kuvaajia ihan kaksin kappalein! (En muuten jaksanut muokata yhtäkään tämän postauksen kuvaa, vaikka enpä kyllä useasti kuvia muokkailekaan)
Oli kyllä niiin mahtavat säät koko viikonlopun, että ei olisi parempaa voinut toivoa! Ei tullut ainakaan kylmä kertaakaan, tai no silloin kyllä kun käytiin uimassa. :D

Ai niin ja katsokaas millaisen veijarin kummini olivat ottaneet!
Sen nimi on Nöpö, ja se on ihan kamalan villi! =D Juuri kun oli aina painamassa kameran nappulaa niin se oli jo pinkonut muualle. Onneksi kuitenkin osa kuvista edes onnistui.



Jäätiinpä tuonne "kartanoon" yöksikin, ja illalla oli mm. saunomista ja soutelua. Juuri sellaiset hetket ovat juuri niitä joita talvella eniten kaipaa! Yritin siis nauttia.



Ylioppilas sai ihan mukavasti kukkia, ja ainakin miljoona euroa.

Mukava viikonloppu kokonaisuudessaan! Ja tulipahan taas nähtyä lukuisia sukulaisia. Ja syötyä...

Äsken kaverini Vilu kävi tuomassa kaksi marsuaan minulle hoitoon, koska hän on lähdössä kahdeksi viikoksi Thaimaaseen. Aika reilua taas kerran.. Nyt on siispä luvassa kaksi viikkoa marsujen hoitoa, ja huomenna alkaa myös työt varsinaisesti, vaikka olenkin töissä nyt jo käynytkin. Harmittaa kyllä vietävästi että ensiviikolla tulee jo kamalan kylmät kelit. :( Ei ole kovin mukavaa olla ulkotöissä jossain kahdeksassa asteessa ja sateessa...

No mutta, se on sitten sen ajan murhe, pitäisi kyllä hommata joku sadetakki. :D

Np: Placebo - Julien (uutta tuotantoa!)

Olitkos itse juhlistamassa koulujen loppua?

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Sometimes Marathons Need to End: The Texas Longhorns win in 25 innings

I'll be honest and admit that I do not follow the NCAA College Baseball Tournament (AKA The College World Series) as closely as some other people but a boxscore caught my eye over the night between the #1 seeded Texas Longhorns and the Boston College Eagles, who needed twenty-five innings to decide their contest.

Texas ended up winning in the top of the 25th off of an RBI single by Travis Tucker which gave the Longhorns a 3-2 win. This ended up being the longest game in NCAA Baseball history, eclipsing the record 23 innings done by Louisiana-Lafayette and McNeese State back in 1971.

The game itself had a start time of 7:02 pm EDT on Saturday and did not end till Sunday at 2:05am est. To put this in perspective, Game One of the Stanley Cup and the Eastern Conference Finals game six were already completed and had finished their postgame wrap-up shows.

The real star of this game was Texas pitcher Austin Wood (pictured above) who pitched 13 innings of work including 12 1/3 of those innings being no-hit baseball. Wood's arm is probably ready to fall off any minute now.

Texas stays alive and moves on to play in the regional championship game and Boston College ends up being a footnote in one of the strangest and longest college baseball games ever played.

(Some information used from an ESPN.com article and My San Antonio.com Article)

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CV DE Jezabel. Antonela. Goñi

Nombre: Jezabel. Antonela. Goñi
Edad: 19 años
Fecha de nacimiento: 17/5/89
Numero de documento: 34500859
Cuil: 23-34500859-4
Telefono: (0223) 4754843
Celular: (0223) 154498672
Direccion: Roca 4571
Localidad: Mar Del Plata

Cabello: Castaño claro
Color de ojos: Pardos
Altura: 1,65
Peso:52kg
Medidas:95-62-90


Estudios primarios y secundarios: Completos, egresada 2007
Cursos de pasteleria y panaderia: Completo
Cursos de maquillaje artistico y social: Completo
Estudios de teatro y expresión corporal


Trabajo: "Decor Wall" ( Colon 2829 , Telefono 0223 4355583)
Casa de cuadros y decoración de interiores
*Atención al publico
*Manejo de mercaderia
*Asesoramiento en decoración
*Administración de mercaderia y proveedores

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The End has Come!, To Those Nike Muppet Commercials

Well, the Orlando Magic have moved onto the NBA Finals which means most likely we will not have to see anymore of those MVP Muppet Commercials. (For those of you who don't know the reason why I dislike them, check this link)

Here were some of the more recent ones to come out. I will say that these two were pretty funny, but in general the commercials were pretty bad.





(Courtesy of NESW Sports and Sports with Mr. Factoid)

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Game 2

31 May 2009

Joe Louis Arena
Detroit Red Wings vs Pittsburgh Penguins
8:00 PM (EDT)
NBC, CBC





GO WINGS!!!

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Sign Of The Times?

The youngest daughter texted me the other day. As she was driving to work, she spotted the following sign in front of a hair salon:

FREE MULLET REMOVAL

:D

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Police Log

--11:13 PM, suspicious males with buckets


--9:42 AM, small white dog at large chasing people


--11:24 AM, found items in back yard


--1:05 AM, male subject on porch, subject looking for his dog at the wrong house


--11:51 AM, snow blower found in front of residence, returned to proper house


--6:10 PM, suspicious situation involving suspicious package containing pictures and letters


--10:50 AM, suspicious man drinking from container in paper bag


--3:44 PM, animal in chimney


--8:24 PM, report of a drunken male in an alley with his pants down


--11 PM, loud bang heard at the north end of the building


--3 AM, semi running with lights on, unloading sod for new condos


(As usual, all of these happened over a period of several days.)

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Wings Win Game 1 Vs. The Pens

The Penguins came out strong, but Ozzie was solid as hell and Fluery helped us out by putting in two of our three goals. Ala Game 6 he let one in right out of his you know where. Great game by the Wings, hopefully Datsyuk plays in game 2 tomorrow. Go Wings!!!! Here are the highlights from Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals Pittsburgh Penguins Vs. Detroit Red Wings...

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MLS Soccer 5/30/09: Revolution 2, DC United 1

Seems like I've been to ten trillion sporting events since I've been home, especially at Gillette stadium. Today's was a doozy, as a heated game between the Revs and United ended in a 2-1 victory, but only after a questionable penalty kick goal for the Revolution in the 90th minute.

The game started pretty slow, with DC showing a slight advantage but a lot of heading and few chances. Eventually Revolution Matt Reis made an incredible save on a diving header in front, and the crowd went nuts. However, several minutes later Fred (that's his whole name, how cool is that) put in a beautiful goal of a sweet gimme pass from Luciano Emilio Estevez (who my brother thought looked like Ronnie Turiaf, but only thanks to the braids he now sports.

Anyways, 1-0 DC at half even after Taylor Twellman (who had been injured lately) enters and the crowd goes wild. After half however, Chris Tierney (who is terrible) was taken out for Kenny Mansally (an unfortunate name but an okay player) . Mansally made an almost immediate impact, as very quickly into the new half he made a sweet cross that Shalrie Joseph (pictured above) headed in for the tying goal.

So that was awesome, the crowd erupted. Then there were a lot of penalties back and forth and few good chances. A few times it seemed like the Revs should have gotten a penalty kick on bad fouls by DC. However, the ref (who was so huge and the kids behind us kept saying must be on steroids) kept making terrible calls (like giving a card for a tackle in the box but no penalty, or calling the game over when the ball was nowhere near midfield and confusing the entire DC team) and so he didn't give the Revs any penalties.

Until the 87th minute that is. On a nonfoul. So that's awkward.

Steve Ralston nailed it home, the Revs were up in the 90th minute, and they held on for all of injury time to pull out the win. Ra ra siss boom bah, yay Revs!

Final Thoughts:

Best Hawker Ever: Same guy from the NCAA Lax Tourney (it is after all the same stadium). His beauty tonight? He signed this weird guy's shirt after the guy asked him to, and then peddled his diet pepsi with this gem: "Diet Pepsi will add ten years to your life. That's vitality that even viagra can't do. Unbelievable."

Worst fans of the Night: Those kids from Framingham who sat near us. One claimed his high school team could take the Revolution because "they make a lot of dumb mistakes" and then later claimed that soccer was rigged. They were sort of annoying when they called the refs zebras (soccer reds wear yellow and no stripes so it doesn't really work) and kept talking about smoking blunts, but it got real bad when some crazy guy sat near us and they just kept antagonizing him and it got reaaal awkward for the families around us. No question the guy was nuts, but these kids were douches, and I'd really like to see them take on the Revs now to see them get destroyed. Guess I can dream.

Best fans of the Night: The kids next to us. One of them said "I think the refs afraid of yellow," which was adorable.

Man of the Match: Kevin Alston (Ok, not really, but no one was particuarly awesome, and just look at Alston's picture). Plus he shares a last name with Skip to my Lou and Corey Alston, so that's ill.

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Detroit 3-Pittsburgh 1

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