Phightins

You didn't laugh at that at all? I miss Andy Martino . Wish he was still in Philly.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e81aX54NO90&feature=youtu.be This is pretty funny/cool.

Got a nice sunburn to show for it, but today turned out to be a solid day at the park. Always amazes me to see the elite pitchers when they don't have their best stuff. Cliff Lee was fighting it today, but was still better than most pitchers are with their best stuff. Kept us within striking distance.

WOW what an insane game in LA. Sharks crazy comeback, Kings crazy collapse, however you'd like to look at it.

Pronger still out for game 4. Zherdev will stay in for Nodl.

I am pretty pissed I have missed most of this series. Thanks to a combo of work/the Flyers always being at the same time. If I did see more than 30 seconds of this entire series, I'd be more than happy to chat about it with you. I don't see how calling you out for being a hypocrite makes me a "retard", but whatever.

The Angels DFA'd Brandon Wood today. Amazing how far a one-time elite prospect has fallen. Just shows how unpredictable baseball is. Also, I know he is 25 and time may be running out, but I would absolutely love to see the Phillies take a flier on him. Just sayin'.

Kind of like that time you made a generalization about American hockey fans?

Hard to put a 9-0 loss all on the manager (impossible actually), but I am just really pissed that he took Doc out with McGehee coming up and brought in Herndon. You don't take him out in the middle of the inning unless he asks to come out, especially in that situation.

Charlie Manuel having an absolutely brutal season thus far managing the bullpen/bench.

What? You must have missed my point.

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They need to get other big time sporting events on Versus (or w/e the new name will be). Otherwise, it will still just be some random network buried among other random channels. The issue is attracting other American sports fans who are impartial to hockey. They won't go out of their way to see a game on Versus. A new name should help, but I am not sure how much.

It was on ESPN pre-lockout. I wasn't really into sports business back then so I don't remember all of the specifics. But when they came back from the lockout, they got the new deal with NBC and Versus. The biggest issue was that the lockout did a ton of damage to the league's popularity in many parts of the country, and the lack of a deal with a mainstream sports network didn't help rebuild it. A deal with ESPN would be great mostly because of the extra commercials and spots on SportsCenter. As of now, all the NHL gets is a 5 second spot for "highlights" at the end of the show. And obviously, the games would be available to more people.

Lou Williams and Thad Young each finish in the top 6 for sixth man of the year (Thad was 3rd, Lou 6th). Not bad.

I like the new format Taylor! Very pretty.

Well, apparently Versus will be rebranded this summer. It will get a new name (something NBC related). So I guess that's a bit better than what they have now, but the league could really use the ESPN exposure.

NBC/Versus has a new contract with the NHL for 10 years. This kind of sucks.

But apparently he is worth $2 million. Yet we couldn't afford to give Chad Durbin $700K. Huh.

I need to hear one good reason as to why Kyle Kendrick is on a Major League roster.

You can have Spencer Hawes for him.

Nice, three Philadelphia games on at the exact same time (two playoff games). So I will see very little of this. Unfortunate scheduling..

The no-goal outrage was because NBC's clock was off by like, 2 tenths of a second. The Canadian viewers (and the war room in Toronto) saw the correct clock the entire time.

The Cavaliers being high doesn't really surprise me. They obviously had a bunch of season ticket accounts from the LeBron era that carried over. Don't see it lasting, though.