madinmaryland
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Tue Jun-09-09 09:30 PM
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Hey all! Why isn't there any commentary about tonight's NHL championship |
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Tue Jun-09-09 09:32 PM
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1. I would watch but my wife is hogging the TV |
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Torturing me with Daisey of Love. I got to watch the Mets vs Phillies earlier on the PC (though no streams tonight).
Such is life when you cede the TV to your spouse.
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Tue Jun-09-09 09:33 PM
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2. Game isn't over yet Mr. hockey fan |
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Edited on Tue Jun-09-09 09:34 PM by Upton
about 2 minutes left...Pens up by 1. and it's the Stanley Cup Finals...not the "NHL championship"
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madinmaryland
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Tue Jun-09-09 09:36 PM
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5. It's a championship series. |
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Tue Jun-09-09 09:43 PM
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you claim to empathize with the city of Pittsburgh but the only Penguins you know about are in Antarctica.
Go watch some NASCAR...that's more your style.
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Tue Jun-09-09 09:55 PM
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10. Your "alter-ego" and you spend all day trashing Pittsburgh, yet you two LOSERS |
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have the nerve to root for them. Sounds like you two LOSERS are either Bandwagon jumpers or Fairweather fans!
LOSERS!
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Tue Jun-09-09 09:57 PM
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12. It's real simple to understand |
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even for someone like you....I hate the Red Wings so much, I want them to lose no matter who they are playing.
Got that Mr hockey fan?
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Tue Jun-09-09 10:03 PM
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13. Actually, simplifying it for you, a REAL SPORTS FAN supports the teams |
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within their own conference when it comes to championship series. Petty grievances are ALWAYS left behind!
The Conference ALWAYS takes preference over petty grievances.
LOSER.
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Tue Jun-09-09 10:09 PM
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15. Yea, I'm sure the Yankees fans always root for the Red Sox and vice |
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versa.
And Giants fans always pull for the Dodgers in the playoffs. :eyes:
You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
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madinmaryland
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Tue Jun-09-09 10:14 PM
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16. Wow! You really are clueless. |
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You really do not understand the rules of REAL SPORTS FANS and who and why they root for certain teams.
:wow:
LOSER!
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Wed Jun-10-09 12:46 PM
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30. That's absolute bull shit. |
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You don't root for your biggest rival to win a championship. That's just stupid.
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Wed Jun-10-09 01:47 PM
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31. You've never answered the question on why you hate the Wings |
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It can't be because they win too much, because that's all that matters to you. So, why the hate?
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madinmaryland
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Wed Jun-10-09 05:38 PM
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33. Rabid idiocy is what I call it. |
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Tue Jun-09-09 09:33 PM
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3. You don't even know what's going on |
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But it's a thrilling finish.
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madinmaryland
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Tue Jun-09-09 09:37 PM
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6. Hey LOSER, you got the back-handed compliment backwards! |
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Tue Jun-09-09 09:35 PM
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Pete and Re-Pete post milliseconds apart!
LOSERS!
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Tue Jun-09-09 09:39 PM
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Edited on Tue Jun-09-09 09:40 PM by cboy4
:bounce: Greeat stop at the end
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Tue Jun-09-09 09:52 PM
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9. After spending all day trashing Pittsburgh, you are now rooting for their team?? |
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Tue Jun-09-09 09:57 PM
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11. You're beyond ridiculous |
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If you knew anything about hockey, which you don't -- the "NHL Championship" :eyes: --, you'd understand there's no possible way I could be pulling for Detroit.
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Tue Jun-09-09 10:04 PM
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14. See my response to your twin. You apparently don't understand. |
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Tue Jun-09-09 10:18 PM
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Edited on Tue Jun-09-09 10:19 PM by Dyedinthewoolliberal
See all the Pens fans at Hockeytown :) Where I predict my hometown Red Wings will triumph!
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Tue Jun-09-09 10:36 PM
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18. Pens will take Game 7 and hoist The Cup in Detroit. |
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This series has been intense and clearly there's been a huge home ice advantage. Friday night breaks the cycle. Hossa will regret changing teams. ;)
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Tue Jun-09-09 10:37 PM
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Tue Jun-09-09 10:40 PM
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20. I don't bet but if I did my money would be on the Penguins. |
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Joe Louis Arena better get ready for an ass whuppin. :D
Seriously though, I'm not nearly that confident but if Fleury plays like he did tonite, we win. And the Pens need to wear their black jerseys.
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Tue Jun-09-09 10:45 PM
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Sorry, Avalux. I may be a bit conservative on the score.
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Tue Jun-09-09 10:47 PM
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22. We'll see. Anything can happen. |
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3-2 Pens in OT. Meet you back here Friday night. :hi:
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Tue Jun-09-09 10:49 PM
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23. If you welch on the bet (or it is perceived that you did), cboy will spend the next |
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four years badgering you about it.
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Tue Jun-09-09 10:50 PM
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24. I wouldn't count on it |
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I'd like to see the Pens win but there hasn't been a road win in this series...no reason to assume game 7 will be any different.
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Tue Jun-09-09 10:53 PM
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Goalies win games and if he's 'on' Friday night, Pens win.
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Wed Jun-10-09 02:26 AM
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26. If the Red Wings don't pull it off in Game 7 the image of Cleary |
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missing the breakaway shot against Fleury will be forever etched in my mind. I'm a Flyers fan but I have a lot of respect for the Wings and I absolutely hate the Penguins. I'm a little worried about Game 7 but so far Detroit has played better in Pittsburgh than the Pens have in Detroit, so hopefully that will continue.
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Wed Jun-10-09 08:37 AM
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27. That or the post that Zetterberg hit |
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that went under Fleury instead of off his ass like last year.
Friday is going to be great.
I sure hope my wife's daughter decides to screw us over and not give us tickets to her HS graduation.
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Wed Jun-10-09 12:25 PM
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28. Hate Detroit and hate Pittsburgh. |
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Wed Jun-10-09 12:41 PM
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You got something against working-class lunch bucket cities in blue states?
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Wed Jun-10-09 08:27 PM
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34. Cleveland isn't lunch bucket? We're the only "blue" part of this state. No, this just reminds |
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the people of Cleveland that our "ugly sisters" (Pittsburgh and Detroit) get invited to the prom and we never do.
For a matter of future clarification: I gave up the Browns years ago, I don't care if they fall into Lake Erie, I don't follow the Cavs, but I don't hate them, I just don't give a damn about the whole of the NBA, and I currently don't like the management and most of the players on the Indians.
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Thu Jun-11-09 08:14 AM
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35. I think you need to hate your own teams' management |
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Not those teams that do succeed. We lunch bucket cities need to stick together.
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Thu Jun-11-09 11:54 AM
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Thu Jun-11-09 12:05 PM
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37. Don't forget Buffalo in that group. nt |
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Thu Jun-11-09 12:56 PM
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38. I changed my mind, I'm going to start rooting for teams in "lunchbucket" |
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cities.
What was I thinking?
:rofl:
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Thu Jun-11-09 12:58 PM
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39. Was that after your conference call with upton? |
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Thu Jun-11-09 02:25 PM
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40. I always thought that would be a better division for Football |
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Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati
Let the AFC East have Baltimore and the AFC North will take Buffalo.
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Thu Jun-11-09 02:31 PM
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41. Actually, the rivalry between Pittsburgh and Baltimore is pretty intense and |
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in many ways their territories do overlap.
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Thu Jun-11-09 02:37 PM
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42. The Baltimore rivaly has become very intense. |
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also, that wouldn't work.
Can't give NE too many good teams to play twice a year.
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Thu Jun-11-09 02:59 PM
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I always felt the Baltimore rivalry was forced on us from the Cleveland move. Like "oh here! Be rivals with us!".
Fuck you Art Model. You tried to destroy the Steelers Browns rivalry and replace it with Baltimore you greedy son of a bitch? No thanks.
Sure I get into the games, but I'd be just as happy not playing them and playing Buffalo who always felt like they should be more of a regional rival but always for some reason got lopped into the New England region even though they are more of a rust belt team.
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Thu Jun-11-09 02:55 PM
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Pitt Baltimore has been intense as of late, but it doesn't have a ton of history behind it if you dissasociate them from Cleveland. Even after they became Baltimore it took a bit to have it build up. I'm sure that could easily be replaced back to Cleveland and Cinncinati....and add in Buffalo.
And yeah their terriroties overlap but so does Pittsburgh and Buffalo. Ask anyone up in Erie whether they think Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Buffalo make natural regional rivals. Baltimore is the other side of the mountains. It belongs with New York and Boston, not with the real cities out here on the Frontier... ;)
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Thu Jun-11-09 03:13 PM
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46. Geographically, Buffalo and Pittsburgh could be considered rivals. |
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Edited on Thu Jun-11-09 03:14 PM by madinmaryland
But they really have not had a consistent rivalry over the last 40 years. I suppose it could become that way, but they have never been in the same division together, and Buffalo also has the rivalries with the AFC-East, ironically alot with Miami. And why is Miami in the east.....
Well we could go on and on with this one.
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Thu Jun-11-09 06:51 PM
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48. Yeah neither have Baltimore and Pittsburgh |
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Rivalries build easily when you play each other twice a year. Give it 10 years and people would barely remember the Baltimore Pittsburgh games and woudl get fired up over a Buffalo Pittsburgh one...
But yeah it's not gonna happen.
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Thu Jun-11-09 03:38 PM
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47. Agree completely. And for Dog's sake, move the Dolphins to anywhere but where they are! |
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They have no business being in that division, geographically speaking.
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Thu Jun-11-09 06:57 PM
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49. Interestingly, the Dallas Cowboys are in the NFC East. |
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Thu Jun-11-09 08:06 PM
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50. That doesn't make much sense either. But the networks love it. |
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But the tremendous weather differences between Miami, waaaaay down there, and the rest of their division, waaaaay up there, isn't really fair to the Fins. And all those LOOONG flights.
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Thu Jun-11-09 08:10 PM
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51. OTOH, when all those snow-bird teams come down to play the Phins |
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in late December and have to deal with the heat and humidity...
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Thu Jun-11-09 08:23 PM
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52. Late season it's not that bad and most folks have indoor practice facilities, but yes, |
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there have been games where that's a factor. Most certainly.
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Thu Jun-11-09 08:58 PM
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54. Not often, but it's the humidity that really drains the teams from the North. |
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Thu Jun-11-09 08:42 PM
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53. I suppose you could make a geographic argument for Indy? By the way, I think the AFC North, |
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hell, the whole AFC, would be better off if they scratched the Browns from existence and either played the Buckeyes or the reanimated corpse of the Canton Bulldogs.
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Thu Jun-11-09 08:59 PM
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55. Forget the Browns, get rid of the Bungles. |
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What a disgrace of an organization!
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Fri Jun-12-09 07:03 AM
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56. Bungles = 2 Superbowl appearances; Browns = 0 Superbowl appearances |
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Fri Jun-12-09 02:36 PM
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57. I didn't say I disliked Cleveland |
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you made that up. I generally root for them in playoffs, etc.
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Sat Jun-13-09 11:32 PM
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58. Perhaps my word "hate" was too strong. I had a soft spot in my heart for Detroit since Pittsburgh |
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already had its champion Steelers this year. Also, since Sparty didn't do it for Detroit in the Final Four, I thought Detroit could use a pick-me-up given the Lions and GM/Chrysler.
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Tue Jun-16-09 04:46 PM
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59. Cleveland doesn't have a pro hockey team - how would they get "invited"? |
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Wed Jun-10-09 05:15 PM
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32. I don't care for either team but that was a hell of a game. |
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Hopefully game 7 goes to OT. The ultimate sports drama.
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Thu Jun-11-09 03:04 PM
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45. Zetterberg and crew better be on their game right away |
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The Pens will be on their game right away, and it could end up ugly like game 7 of the Caps series.
I still have the Wings winning though.
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Wed Jun-17-09 10:40 AM
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60. I'm getting me a new hat - and that's all that matters. Go Pens! |
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