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Pens Win!

by John Cole|  May 26, 201712:29 am| 23 Comments

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Off to the Stanley Cup final. Damned stressful.

And I wasn’t even allowed to sit in my chair for the game.

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  1. 1.

    Barbara

    May 26, 2017 at 12:34 am

    It was too stressful for me to watch the whole thing. Lily always looks so dainty. A great picture of both of them.

  2. 2.

    Mary G

    May 26, 2017 at 12:38 am

    @Barbara: You’re right, that is a great picture. Lily is “Daddy! I love you so much,” and Steve’s “Whatever, dude.”

  3. 3.

    Bonnie

    May 26, 2017 at 12:38 am

    Looks like you didn’t even get to use your computer either.

  4. 4.

    CaseyL

    May 26, 2017 at 12:42 am

    I thought only cats liked to sit on computers.

  5. 5.

    AnotherBruce

    May 26, 2017 at 12:43 am

    I can see the Hockey intensity in the critters eyes.

  6. 6.

    seaboogie

    May 26, 2017 at 12:44 am

    @Mary G: Agreed – Lily and Steve are opposite sides of the Cole coin.

  7. 7.

    efgoldman

    May 26, 2017 at 12:47 am

    Series shouldn’t have been that close. Anderson saved Ottawa’s ass multiple times.
    I wondered if the Senators weren’t doing a bit of a rope-a-dope: let Pittsburgh stay in their zone, buzz around, take a bazillion shots, Anderson makes the saves, tired Penguins can’t play D, Ottawa comes down for a couple of great chances.

  8. 8.

    rikyrah

    May 26, 2017 at 12:48 am

    That picture is priceless?
    Congratulations to the Pens

  9. 9.

    John Weiss

    May 26, 2017 at 12:49 am

    I have had dogs and cats. They will direct your life. Not sayin’ that that’s a bad thing.

  10. 10.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    May 26, 2017 at 12:50 am

    @CaseyL: only nerd cats

  11. 11.

    SiubhanDuinne

    May 26, 2017 at 12:53 am

    Congratulations to the Pens, although I am sorry for my Canadian friends. They have now gone 24 years without a Stanley Cup for a Canadian team. Would have been nice for them to advance and maybe take it in this 150th anniversary year, but life doesn’t generally go along in such a tidy way.

  12. 12.

    Steve in the ATL

    May 26, 2017 at 1:09 am

    I was enjoying a deep sleep until my dog started barking his head off loud enough to wake @SiubhanDuinne a couple of miles away.

    House on fire? Burglar coming through the window? Karen Handel dropping off a flyer?

    No, just a herd of deer in the yard. Just like every night, Jasper, now go the fuck to sleep!

  13. 13.

    efgoldman

    May 26, 2017 at 1:11 am

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    I am sorry for my Canadian friends. They have now gone 24 years without a Stanley Cup for a Canadian team. Would have been nice for them to advance

    As i said in the last thread, an Ottawa-Nashville final would have had NBC sports execs jumping out upper floor windows at 30Rock. Few enough people watch hockey as is.

  14. 14.

    guachi

    May 26, 2017 at 1:13 am

    Gianforte won by seven points. That’s a pathetic showing by Democrats. Gianforte LOST by four just last November.

    The previous open seat margins

    Zinke (R) by 15.0 in 2014
    Daines (R) by 10.6 in 2012
    Rehberg (R) by 5.2 in 2000
    Hill (R) by 11 in 1996

    That’s an average R win of 10.5 in the last 4 open seat elections.

    Gianforte is currently leading by 7.2. That’s a meager 3.3 point swing.

  15. 15.

    liberal

    May 26, 2017 at 1:30 am

    @guachi: supposedly the Dem candidate was far from perfect.

  16. 16.

    SiubhanDuinne

    May 26, 2017 at 1:37 am

    @efgoldman:

    NBC sports execs jumping out upper floor windows at 30Rock.

    You say that like it’s a bad thing.

  17. 17.

    SiubhanDuinne

    May 26, 2017 at 1:39 am

    @Steve in the ATL:

    I was enjoying a deep sleep until my dog started barking his head off loud enough to wake @SiubhanDuinne a couple of miles away.

    Is that what that was?!?

  18. 18.

    Major Major Major Major

    May 26, 2017 at 1:41 am

    Key Republicans Are Encouraging Hillbilly Elegy Author J.D. Vance To Run For Senate In Ohio
    Some GOP leaders in Ohio are worried about State Treasurer Josh Mandel’s chances against Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown in 2018. And they’re tantalized by the thought of running a young best-selling author with a compelling story to tell.

  19. 19.

    efgoldman

    May 26, 2017 at 1:53 am

    @Major Major Major Major:

    they’re tantalized by the thought of running a young best-selling author

    Hell of an assumption, that the mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging flying monkeys “read” anything except comic books, skin mags, and gun-fondler catalogs.

  20. 20.

    Elizabelle

    May 26, 2017 at 1:53 am

    Lily: not only on your chair, on your laptop too.

    But any day with a Lily (and Steve) sighting is a good one.

  21. 21.

    Major Major Major Major

    May 26, 2017 at 1:57 am

    @efgoldman: Or would care for an academic or whatever the guy is. But he’d be a media darling.

  22. 22.

    NotMax

    May 26, 2017 at 2:13 am

    Unsure who is the house alpha but whomever it may be he is not named John.

    ;)

  23. 23.

    Walker

    May 26, 2017 at 8:47 am

    Pens got bailed out by a Kessel dive, Cole. Nashville is a superior version of this Ottawa team, so it should be a tough battle.

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