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Open Thread

by John Cole|  April 13, 201210:19 pm| 23 Comments

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So the Pens shit the bed and blew another multiple goal lead and pretty much ruined my night.

Fucking Flyers. At least it wasn’t the Caps.

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  1. 1.

    Desert Rat

    April 13, 2012 at 10:24 pm

    Let’s Go Flyers! 2-0. Fleury stunk tonight.

  2. 2.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    April 13, 2012 at 10:24 pm

    You should do something to calm yerself down, like knit Tunch some booties or something.

  3. 3.

    Narcissus

    April 13, 2012 at 10:26 pm

    yeah this needed another thread

  4. 4.

    lamh35

    April 13, 2012 at 10:29 pm

    Evening guys.

    Wanna know why I really want that job back home in NOLA? This is why.

    So I realized that I hadn’t gotten any new pics of my godbaby Maddie. So I asked my aunt and my cousin to send me pictures. These are the pics they sent:

    http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a330/nellybell28/943e8a45.jpg
    http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a330/nellybell28/c4c1e575.jpg
    http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a330/nellybell28/4271d5b5.jpg
    (that last one is my favorite, that’s exactly how I wear my hair, btw…lol)

    So what do you notice in all the pics??? Maddie appears to be walking right? So I ask my aunt and cousin “is Maddie walking”? And guess what Maddie has been walking FOR A WHOLE MONTH!!!!
    No one told me, but they see her everyday so it didn’t cross their minds.

    So my cousin (her brother) sent me the following videos: MADDIE’S WALKING!!!

    http://s14.photobucket.com/albums/a330/nellybell28/?action=view&current=IMG_0112.mp4

  5. 5.

    Just Sayin

    April 13, 2012 at 10:30 pm

    8-5?

    Mario wept.

    Could you please root for Mittens come November?

  6. 6.

    elmo

    April 13, 2012 at 10:31 pm

    Since it’s an open thread, I’m just going to wax rhapsodic about my dinner. Round Table Pizza, my favorite for almost thirty years, which I have been cruelly denied since moving east in 2003. While I’m in Reno this weekend, I jumped at the chance for yummy nostalgic goodness.

    Just something about the sauce and the crispy bits at the outside edge… GAWD. I’m weeping over here.

  7. 7.

    David Koch

    April 13, 2012 at 10:31 pm

    Well, Pirates got one hit if that’s any consolation.

  8. 8.

    Kathy

    April 13, 2012 at 10:31 pm

    @lamh35: Stunning child!!!
    @John Cole, oops!

  9. 9.

    Kathy

    April 13, 2012 at 10:35 pm

    Briscalov said that Letang “just put it in my glove.” It was a save of beauty.

  10. 10.

    DiTurno

    April 13, 2012 at 10:56 pm

    John, I love this blog, but you have to admit the Pens are a bunch of candy@sses. In two games, they’ve had at least four embellishments, only one of which was called — and that was a matching. That’s pathetic.

    Do the Flyers sweep this? I wouldn’t be surprised.

  11. 11.

    HumboldtBlue

    April 13, 2012 at 11:06 pm

    And here I sit basking in the glow of victory provided by a team (ahem … club) I haven’t seen in person in 30 years and to which I have but the most tenuous physical and emotional tie and from which I receive no monetary or complementary benefit and to a win I assisted in no manner.

    The victory has profited me in no tangible way and yet I gloat, fingers firmly crossed behind my back in a superstitious ritual that would have been well recognized on the deck of HMS Surprise and a quick knock on the cupboard door protects me against hubris and the low chuckle of a 2-0 series lead.

    Fuck Pittsburgh.

  12. 12.

    themann1086

    April 13, 2012 at 11:06 pm

    @Kathy: Bryz is great to listen to. He says the most off-the-wall things sometimes.

    @DiTurno: Seriously, it was like watching the World Cup with all the dives going on.

  13. 13.

    handy

    April 13, 2012 at 11:17 pm

    LOL, first Tebow now this. Sorry Cole. These things happen.

  14. 14.

    J. Michael Neal

    April 13, 2012 at 11:33 pm

    If we’re talking hockey, this never gets old.

  15. 15.

    JenJen

    April 13, 2012 at 11:55 pm

    Thank you, Wings, because without them I am not enjoying the playoffs nearly as much as I should.

    Pens. Sigh. Flyers seem way hungrier.

  16. 16.

    Yutsano

    April 14, 2012 at 12:15 am

    No wonder work Dawg is so cranky.

  17. 17.

    mk3872

    April 14, 2012 at 12:31 am

    Go Fly-guys! Yeah Broad Street Bullies!!

  18. 18.

    DLew On Roids

    April 14, 2012 at 12:32 am

    The Pens can suck it. I bet Marc Savard would like to be playing right now.

  19. 19.

    Polish the Guillotines

    April 14, 2012 at 1:34 am

    Hah! The Canucks drop another to the Kings. Again I say: Hah!

    Can’t wait until the Sharks-Blues game tomorrow. Havlat, FTW!

  20. 20.

    shep

    April 14, 2012 at 3:38 am

    At least it wasn’t the Caps.

    As if. Some actual human people grew up and live in DC. You know, home of the Caps, Redskins and Nationals. Fuck you.

  21. 21.

    burnspbesq

    April 14, 2012 at 10:27 am

    @shep:

    Also home of DC United and the Maryland Twerps, so fuck you right back.

  22. 22.

    smintheus

    April 14, 2012 at 12:13 pm

    @themann1086: Bryz was just telling the truth. He stabbed his arm out in desperation and Letang just put the puck in his glove. Looks like a great save, but actually it was pure luck. I say that as a longtime goaltender.

  23. 23.

    shep

    April 14, 2012 at 1:53 pm

    @burnspbesq:

    Also home of DC United…

    Bocce team?

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