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[Sprowl]

Back before global warming, Canada was so cold that the harvest was all gotten in and the Thanksgiving festival celebrated in early October. We get turkey, stuffing, cranberry, and pumpkin pie more than six weeks before you all south of the border. Today is Canadian Thanksgiving, but we’ll be eating the leftovers all the way to Friday.



We’ve got lots to be thankful for, starting with the sweep of the ALDS and the resurgence of Papi, Manny and G38.




Here’s one other moment from Friday night that I’ll remember for a long, long time.



For the next four days, heaven is a place where nothing ever happens.

The band in heaven plays my favorite song.
They play it once again, they play it all night long.

There is a party, everyone is there.
Everyone will leave at exactly the same time.

Its hard to imagine that nothing at all
Could be so exciting, could be so much fun.



On Friday, all hell breaks loose. Until then, thanks.

Edited by Sprowl, 08 October 2007 - 11:49 AM.

[mandurro]

You know, assuming Clemens is DONE, if the MFY pull it out in 5 games vs Cleveland, then you have Mussina and Hughes pitching Games 1 and 2 at Fenway. Meanwhile, if Cleveland wins in 4, we see Sabathia and Carmona twice each.

I'm just sayin...

Edited by mandurro, 07 October 2007 - 11:25 PM.

[Tito's Pullover]

You know, assuming Clemens is DONE, if the MFY pull it out in 5 games vs Cleveland, then you have Mussina and Hughes pitching Games 1 and 2 at Fenway. Meanwhile, if Cleveland wins in 4, we see Sabathia and Carmona twice each.

I'm just sayin...

Followed by Wang and Pettitte in the Toilet. In the other scenario, games 3 & 4 would feature Byrd and Westbrook in Cleveland. I'll take the latter.

[asection8]

I'd rather face Cleveland because it would give me fewer heart attacks. Sox/yanks hype is enough to drive any level-headed Sox fan back to the glue.

[Andrew]

If you guys haven't read Win_It_For... you should pick up a copy. I was just leafing through mine earlier and it still got me misty-eyed.

[rembrat]

It's becoming a theme for me.. I get home tipsy and in full apporval of Sprowl's I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery.

[JayeBrady]

Happy Thanksgiving Sprowl!! Thanks for keeping the threads going, hope you have a great day

[Sprowl]

I've noticed a few more international lurkers in the last few days -- welcome, guys!

SoxFanInPrague
Moscow: JWL
Copenhagen: Jacoby Ellsbury

Just for the sake of passing the offdays, how many countries do we lurk from? Add yourself to the list, or others that you remember...

Brazil
Canada
Czech Republic
Denmark
Germany
Korea
Russia
UK
USA

Is anybody a Google Maps whiz? It would be great to have a global map of RSN.

[LiveAndDieWithTheSox]

I've noticed a few more international lurkers in the last few days -- welcome, guys!

SoxFanInPrague
Moscow: JWL
Copenhagen: Jacoby Ellsbury

Just for the sake of passing the offdays, how many countries do we lurk from? Add yourself to the list, or others that you remember...

Brazil
Canada
Czech Republic
Denmark
Germany
Korea
Russia
UK
USA

Is anybody a Google Maps whiz? It would be great to have a global map of RSN.

This is a great idea.
dkarrick00 set up a Frappr map in the Sept thread "Find a lurker near you".
Here's a link to the MAP.

A quick browse also yielded Austria (JohnnyK)

Happy Thanksgiving Sprowl.

Edited by LiveAndDieWithTheSox, 08 October 2007 - 11:16 AM.

[JohnnyTheBone]

Canada rocks! In honor of our beautiful comrades from the North, some of my favorite Canadians:


Crank this up:

There is a town in north ontario,
With dream comfort memory to spare,
And in my mind I still need a place to go,
All my changes were there.

Blue, blue windows behind the stars,
Yellow moon on the rise,
Big birds flying across the sky,
Throwing shadows on our eyes.
Leave us

Helpless, helpless, helpless
Baby can you hear me now?
The chains are locked and tied across the door,
Baby, sing with me somehow.

Blue, blue windows behind the stars,
Yellow moon on the rise,
Big birds flying across the sky,
Throwing shadows on our eyes.
Leave us

Helpless, helpless, helpless.

Crank this up, too:
Check out the great Rick Danko's message at the 24-second mark. Happy Thanksgiving!

[OrlandoMerced]

Canada rocks! In honor of our beautiful comrades from the North, some of my favorite Canadians:

If you want to rock out with Canadians, you can do much worse than this:



and of course this:





Thank you, Canada, for having a sucky baseball team!

[ColoradoJack]

*snip*

could be wiki-worthy...

[DustyPetra]

On Saturday, I felt good, and now I feel even better! It's not exactly Canadian, but definitely something to give thanks for.

[mandurro]

I've noticed a few more international lurkers in the last few days -- welcome, guys!

SoxFanInPrague
Moscow: JWL
Copenhagen: Jacoby Ellsbury
Mandurro: Puerto Rico (technically a U.S. territory, but throw me a bone... )

Just for the sake of passing the offdays, how many countries do we lurk from? Add yourself to the list, or others that you remember...

Brazil
Canada
Czech Republic
Denmark
Germany
Korea
Russia
UK
USA

Is anybody a Google Maps whiz? It would be great to have a global map of RSN.

[FoulketoMinky]

I'm recovering from Thangsgiving dinner #1 yesterday, hopefully in time for Thanksgiving dinner #2 later today.

Today I will be thankful for a 5 game extra innings finish to the Indians Yankees series, and the way the Red Sox are executing I'm not particularly worried about who comes out on top.

Edited by FoulketoMinky, 08 October 2007 - 12:04 PM.

[LiveAndDieWithTheSox]

A song I used to play in high school:

Saw them on Moving Pictures and Signals Tours. Hated GUP, never liked anything after. They we my gods for a while though.

One of the bands I was in did a few shows with Triumph/Rik Emmett in Ontario while touring around '92-93. As I remember he was a very cool guy.
We did a bunch of shows with Kim Mitchell, colleges mostly.

I don't play bass anymore but this used to be me:

[TeddyBallgame9]

Kim Mitchell rocks. Max Webster rocked!

[hittery]

If you guys haven't read Win_It_For... you should pick up a copy. I was just leafing through mine earlier and it still got me misty-eyed.

I'm just finishing up "Now I Can Die in Peace" (I know, I know, it's about time), and I love it. I wish I could write like he does.

I like Canadian I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery, and in honor of it, I will attempt to post a picture of my all-time favorite, now-deceased, never-forgotten Canadian:

Edited by hittery, 08 October 2007 - 02:07 PM.

[hittery]

Forgot to add that I found myself relieved that the MFYs won last night. If Cleveland had swept, they would have been just as rested as we were. What fun is that? I am personally hoping for a five game series, where the fifth game goes 18 innings, and the Indians win, and come limping to us on Friday ready for a beating.

[TeddyBallgame9]

I'm just finishing up "Now I Can Die in Peace" (I know, I know, it's about time), and I love it. I wish I could write like he does.

I like Canadian I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery, and in honor of it, I will attempt to post a picture of my all-time favorite, now-deceased, never-forgotten Canadian:

Send lawyers, guns and Manny?

[hittery]

Send lawyers, guns and Manny?

Beautiful.

[Muzzy Fielder]

Canadian 80s
No one can stop us now, tonight we're on the loose... And he looks like he's wearing a Matsuzaka/Red Sox style outift.



October Wine?



Heavenly voice, Sarah McLachlan

[LiveAndDieWithTheSox]

Damn! Muzzy beat me to the Saga post! This was the one I remembered most:

Edited by LiveAndDieWithTheSox, 08 October 2007 - 03:51 PM.

[Muzzy Fielder]

Another angelic-voiced Canadian
Loreena McKennitt-



This one with a World of Warcraft video montage-


Sweet Jane, Cowboy Junkies... (Lou Reed cover)

Edited by Muzzy Fielder, 08 October 2007 - 04:13 PM.

[Rudi Fingers]

More Canadian '80s I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery -

Here's an answer to those on the main board wondering if we were breaking out the champagne and dancing too early in Anaheim with the ALDS win:

Yes, it's safe to dance

We can dance if we want to
We've got all your life and mine
As long as we abuse it
Never gonna lose it
Everything'll work out right

[Al Zarilla]

Old, old, old Canadian themed song:

[Sprowl]

Great videos, guys! You're all much more Canadian than I am: my cultural memory only goes back to 1993, when PM Jean "Roads and Bridges" Chretien booted the Tories out.

Canadians are crazy about landscape painting: it's part of nationalist culture here.

Mount Thule, Bylot Island, by Lawren Harris



The West Wind, by Tom Thompson

Edited by Sprowl, 09 October 2007 - 01:42 PM.

[LiveAndDieWithTheSox]

Believe it or not, the original video of Loverboy's "Working for the Weekend" does not exist on Youtube.


Here's a light parody by a guy who actually learned all the parts:


btw - I like that Harris a lot.

Edited by LiveAndDieWithTheSox, 08 October 2007 - 06:43 PM.

[DustyPetra]

The West Wind, by Tom Thompson

That's amazing, and chilling. I googled Tom Thompson. This came up. I like it.

[Muzzy Fielder]

SCTV, eh? 50 hot dogs?



Ice Road Truckers!

Edited by Muzzy Fielder, 08 October 2007 - 07:41 PM.

[Imgran]

In keeping with the Canadian theme I wanted to personally thank Canada for the loan of their soldiers to assist in the defeat of the Yankees during Game 2. Their aid was indispensable.

[Sprowl]

btw - I like that Harris a lot.

Glad you did Lawren Harris -- lots more where that came from... Lake Superior

In keeping with the Canadian theme I wanted to personally thank Canada for the loan of their soldiers to assist in the defeat of the Yankees during Game 2. Their aid was indispensable.

That was our air force, actually. Insect warfare is a Canadian specialty. We spent years breeding those midges in top-secret Manitoba marshes. Real Canadians are too modest to acknowledge your thanks (but you can be sure the gesture is appreciated).

Damn Yankees! Here's hoping that they have a long, miserable off-season, bereft of Joe Torre and full of George Steinbrenner. I'll enjoy every PR-filtered, overspun, blame-spreading, back-stabbing moment of it.


From the Canadian 80s to the Canadian 60s: Ian & Sylvia Tyson C C Rider

[JayeBrady]

Here's a little more Canadian I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery for the off days....

[LiveAndDieWithTheSox]

Glad you did Lawren Harris -- lots more where that came from... Lake Superior

I Love this one. One word, smooth:

Mount Thule, Bylot Island, 1930

The Wife and I love the 20's-30's period, Art Deco, and are furnishing our apt. in this style. I think a print of this one is going on the wall!

[DustyPetra]

That was our air force, actually. Insect warfare is a Canadian specialty. We spent years breeding those midges in top-secret Manitoba marshes. Real Canadians are too modest to acknowledge your thanks (but you can be sure the gesture is appreciated).

Cleveland sure looked like hell on earth. How long do the midges last in this season, and should the Sox be chewing garlic and bathing in DEET?

Anybody up for a little mosquito I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery? This is my favorite public health message of all time (more tropical than Canadian).

[Rudi Fingers]

Keeping the Canadian Thanksgiving theme moving:

Thanksgiving Dinner (ok, an American one) gave us Curt Schilling, who started game 3 of the ALDS.

Canada gave us Eric Gagne, who finished game 3 of the ALDS. Yes, with a touch of the heartburn that ends any special Thanksgiving feast.

and Canada gave us Sprowl, who, I hope, will be blessed with continuing this long streak of starting Lurker game threads.


OK, now that you are feeling a little moist (though a lot less moist than Suzyn Waldman's Kleenex), you are now in the proper mood to see the Boston Children's Chorus (with Adam Stern) singing the Canadian national anthem on opening day at Fenway in 2006:








I am thankful for the current Sox ownership, who seem to get the little things right.

--
edit: fixed first picture link

Edited by Rudi Fingers, 09 October 2007 - 01:03 PM.

[Sprowl]

and Canada gave us Sprowl, who, I hope, will be blessed with continuing this long streak of starting Lurker game threads.

11 in a row sounds just fine to me!

Still lamented by Canuck fans as the one that got away.

Cleveland sure looked like hell on earth. How long do the midges last in this season, and should the Sox be chewing garlic and bathing in DEET?
Anybody up for a little mosquito I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery? This is my favorite public health message of all time (more tropical than Canadian).

I don't know the midges that swarmed Cleveland. They must be a Great Lakes phenomenon. Coastal southwest BC doesn't have a bad bug season (although I have gotten a mosquito bite in January -- winter is very mild).

I see your horny tropical mosquitoes, and raise you the Mosquitoes Visit Gilligan's Island.

[LiveAndDieWithTheSox]

Here's another nice Harris (imho):


Maligne Lake, Jasper Park, 1924

[Savin Hillbilly]

Canada rocks! In honor of our beautiful comrades from the North, some of my favorite Canadians:

If we're invoking Brown Album I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery, then this quote is obligatory:

Look Out, Cleveland, the storm is comin' through,

And it's runnin' right up on you.

[Sprowl]

Look Out, Cleveland, the storm swarm is comin' through,

And it's runnin' right up on you.

I think the alternate version works pretty well too.

Here's another nice Harris (imho):

imhotoo. Harris's Canadian Rockies are spectacular (like the real things). I tried a google image search. It's a hard choice, but I settled on this

[DustyPetra]

I see your horny tropical mosquitoes, and raise you the Mosquitoes Visit Gilligan's Island.

I see your Gilligan's Island Mosquitoes, and raise you a Russian swarm

[Barbara]

Canadian I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery is poweful I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery!






I approve of this country.

[JohnnyTheBone]

Look Out, Cleveland, the storm is comin' through,

And it's runnin' right up on you.

Beautifully executed, my friend.

Bravo!

[Was (Not Wasdin)]

Some more Canadian (and Canadiens) I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery:

Roger Doucette, who used to do the anthem at the Montreal Forum. It seemed like he would crank it up a notch whenever the Bruins were in town.

Best...anthems....ever.

Roger Doucette-O Canada

[WalletTrack]

And you can't have Canadian I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery without....


sorry, you just can't.
Allen Thick on the other hand...need him ...not so much.

[CoRP]

For no particular reason...



Its all in the choreography.

[Sprowl]

A little Canadian icebreaker I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery, with Stan Rogers soundtrack


The Northwest Passage opens up. If anybody still has doubts about global warming, check out this animation of Arctic Sea Ice 1979-2007.

Why? Because it's not there.

And, as Rosie says, for no particular reason

[LiveAndDieWithTheSox]

For no particular reason...



Its all in the choreography.

And being a full half step sharp! She was really blowin' outside, cat!

[hittery]

Just read that Kielty may get the start over J.D. Drew, as he is pretty effective against Sabathia. They are having a meeting right now and may decide.