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[PedroSpecialK]

This has been a good week.

Edited by PedroSpecialK, 16 August 2011 - 10:23 PM.

[jsinger121]

Fucking right it has

[Salem's Lot]

This is the first time since Wednesday night that I haven't been either sleeping or drinking. The reality is finally starting to sink in. This is really fucking awesome.

[TheStoryofYourRedRightAnkle]

Yup. Still giddy as a schoolgirl on Justin Bieber Day.

[Manzivino]

Spent most of the weekend whooping and fist-pumping at random intervals and watching the playoff replay on NHLN. Told my wife last night that I'm looking forward to the draft on Friday, it will be nice for it to be hockey season again. She was amused.

[The Four Peters]

Ahh yes, the offseason gamethread. Never before have I been so happy to see you.

[PedroSpecialK]

Hahahaha some dude 30 feet away just did a high-pitched rendition of "It's gonna be Subaru SUM-MERRR"

[Spaulding Smails]

Will this be another FRAN-tastic offseason game thread?

[TheStoryofYourRedRightAnkle]

It better be. She's like a fat, irritating leprechaun for RMPS.

[Titoschew]

Good to see we FINALLY moved on from winning the Cup to the off season

[BoSoxFink]

I will never move on, I want that game thread to stay open forever

[fenwaypaul]

Will Marchand be sober in time for the season opener?

[Terras]

I realized about midday today that for the foreseeable future, I have only baseball to keep me entertained. Summer is awesome and sucks at the same time.

[PedroSpecialK]

What about the Revs?

or is their season over?

[Haunted]

What about the Revs?

or is their season over?

what sport is that, competitive dancing?

[FL4WL3SS]

what sport is that, competitive dancing?

Synchronized diving.

[The Napkin]

Will Marchand be sober in time for the season opener?

He should just be about getting over his hangover by then.

[PedroSpecialK]

God damn, how I've missed Fresca.

[Haunted]

Synchronized diving.

Ahh yes, the Montreal way.

[NickEsasky]

I ordered the Wire complete series on Amazon yesterday. Gonna do a re-watch this summer.

[PedroSpecialK]

I was on a conference call with a guy whose last name is Marcus. Someone called him Mr. Marcus.

I'm glad I had my microphone on mute.

[Mystic Merlin]

I was on a conference call with a guy whose last name is Marcus. Someone called him Mr. Marcus.

I'm glad I had my microphone on mute.

Oh wow.

[Over Guapo Grande]

Does anyone know if GLOSS survived his fall from the wagon this weekend?

[PedroSpecialK]

I wish I could unsee this dude's eyebrows

[kenneycb]

I have like an 8-hour layover in Mexico City on Thursday. I don't think I'm going to do much exploring of that city.

[slidingsideways]

Now that hockey season is over, I have to get ready for hip surgery. Again. Same goal as last year: make it to Opening Night. Except this year, surgery is later (by about two weeks) and home opening night is probably earlier. Can't believe there's no schedule yet. Slackers.

[Terras]

I wish I could unsee this dude's eyebrows

Glad to see you're back in prime form again this off-season.

Best of luck to you, sliding.

[The Napkin]

Penguins have announced their preseason schedule

The full preseason schedule (all times Eastern):
Sept. 21, at home vs. Detroit, 7 p.m.
Sept. 22, at home vs. Chicago, 7 p.m.
Sept. 24, at home vs. Minnesota, 3 p.m.
Sept. 27, vs. Los Angeles in Kansas City, 8 p.m.
Sept. 30, at Chicago, 8 p.m.
Oct. 2 at Detroit, 4 p.m.

Last year's schedule came out the day before the awards show so I would think we can expect news any time now...

[cshea]

Opening Night had better be the Habs. They make us sit through all their ceremony's, so they can sit through ours. Christ, we must've sat through atleast 4 100th anniversary ceremonies. I'm pretty sure we did Patrick Roy night too.

Edited by cshea, 20 June 2011 - 05:45 PM.

[PedroSpecialK]

Glad to see you're back in prime form again this off-season.

Best of luck to you, sliding.

See them in action!



Good luck, sliding - may your recovery go as well as Timmy's did.

Oh yeah and it's not advisable to walk from Boylston/Arlington to Cleveland Circle in dress shoes. Both of my feet are blisters.

Edited by PedroSpecialK, 20 June 2011 - 06:28 PM.

[GLOSS]

Does anyone know if GLOSS survived his fall from the wagon this weekend?

Surprisingly yes. I didn't sleep for pretty much a good 36 hour period covering the Game 7 win and the postgame celebration/riots/merchandise selling. The weekend was a helluva time, my turncoat friend kept asking me if he could borrow a parade for Buffalo one of these years. Weekend was kinda a blur overall but was thouroughly enjoyable. Now to get myself back into proper drinking shape over the next few months for opening night. Can't wait to see what they're scalping tickets to the banner ceremony for...

[slidingsideways]

Thanks, folks. Last year's offseason surgery went great. I spent five hours on my feet at the parade and my right hip was fine. Next year at this time I should have two good hips. And you will all know someone who had her pelvis broken twice.

[kenneycb]

Oh yeah and it's not advisable to walk from Boylston/Arlington to Cleveland Circle in dress shoes. Both of my feet are blisters.

That big of a Mary Ann's fan?

[Haunted]

Thanks, folks. Last year's offseason surgery went great. I spent five hours on my feet at the parade and my right hip was fine. Next year at this time I should have two good hips. And you will all know someone who had her pelvis broken twice.

I hesitate to ask how someone could break their hip twice, but... how the hell did you break your hip twice?

Best of luck to you. My poor old mother has had both hips replaced... twice each, and I wouldn't even wish a single hip surgery on you or anyone else.



Well, maybe Matt Cooke. But only if it also gave him AIDS.

[TheStoryofYourRedRightAnkle]

Now that hockey season is over, I have to get ready for hip surgery. Again. Same goal as last year: make it to Opening Night. Except this year, surgery is later (by about two weeks) and home opening night is probably earlier. Can't believe there's no schedule yet. Slackers.

I'm sure that, much like Timmy Thomas, you'll come back stronger than ever, SS.

[PedroSpecialK]

That big of a Mary Ann's fan?

That little of a Red Sox/general clusterfuck green line fan.

[slidingsideways]

I hesitate to ask how someone could break their hip twice, but... how the hell did you break your hip twice?

This is where I need a good story. The boring truth is that I have hip dysplasia, like an Irish setter. My hip joint is less ball-and-socket than ball-and-weird open shape. The ball part comes partially out of the socket and damages the cartilage. It explains, partially, my ability to do the splits, but also means my hip hurts.

As for the breaking, the doctor does that part. They cut the hip socket off the pelvis, rotate it outward, and fix it in place with screws and bone grafts (x-ray). The idea is to build a better hip socket without replacing anything. It sounds completely insane, and maybe it is, but my right hip hurt a lot before surgery last year and now it's fine. Call me high-maintenance, but I want two good hips and I'd rather put off a replacement for now.

And thanks for the good wishes. RMPS is good people.

/end overshare

Edited by slidingsideways, 20 June 2011 - 11:18 PM.

[Haunted]

That all just sounds awful. It's truly amazing the things we can do to our bodies and then recover fully.


Anyway, I'm sure that God Krejci's countenance will shine down upon thee and return thine glory forthwith.

Edited by Haunted, 20 June 2011 - 11:10 PM.

[PedroSpecialK]

I walk into Au Bon Pain and what's on the radio?

The piano interlude of "Layla" - booyah.

[Jed Zeppelin]

I just woke up from a dream in which the Bruins lost the ECF and somehow that meant the Canucks immediately won the SCF. In the dream (at least I think it was only in the dream) I fell to the my knees, looked to the heavens and screamed in that annoying dream voice where hardly anything comes out and you keep trying to force your dream self to be louder "NOOOOOOOOOOOO, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, NOOOOOOOO, NOOOOOOOOOOO" over and over again until even my real throat became vicariously sore (or I was actually yelling - this is a possibility). I woke up terrified and my first thought was nervous relief because I remembered right away that the Bruins won the ECF but I was still under the impression that the SCF hadn't been played yet and I couldn't remember when the first game would be. Finally I looked around the room and saw my new Boston Bruins 2011 Stanley Cup Champions shirt and the evil spell was broken.

What a relief. Canucks fans must feel like shit.

Edited by Jed Zeppelin, 21 June 2011 - 08:53 AM.

[Smiling Joe Hesketh]

This is where I need a good story. The boring truth is that I have hip dysplasia, like an Irish setter. My hip joint is less ball-and-socket than ball-and-weird open shape. The ball part comes partially out of the socket and damages the cartilage. It explains, partially, my ability to do the splits, but also means my hip hurts.

As for the breaking, the doctor does that part. They cut the hip socket off the pelvis, rotate it outward, and fix it in place with screws and bone grafts (x-ray). The idea is to build a better hip socket without replacing anything. It sounds completely insane, and maybe it is, but my right hip hurt a lot before surgery last year and now it's fine. Call me high-maintenance, but I want two good hips and I'd rather put off a replacement for now.

And thanks for the good wishes. RMPS is good people.

/end overshare

If, God forbid, you ever need a hip replacement, let me know and I'll get the name of the doctor who did both my father in-law's hips. My FIL went from a man who limped badly for years to a spry one in a matter of weeks. The guy's a miracle worker.

[kenneycb]

That little of a Red Sox/general clusterfuck green line fan.

Does it get significantly less clusterfucked after the Res stop? I think the only time I've taken it past there was midday.

[PedroSpecialK]

I thought it would, then it took 35 minutes from Reservoir to Riverside, so I don't know what to believe anymore.

[kenneycb]

Lesson as always: Try to get on the train at Government Center so you can get a seat and read and listen to music in peace while making that kind old lady stand and struggle with the madness that is the outbound commute during a Sox game.

[PedroSpecialK]

What you lack in education, you make up for in wisdom. Plus it lets me get a pint in at Biddy Early's.

[kenneycb]

How is that bar? It's right across from my office but I've never been, partially because I'm never actually in my office. I think my storage box thing currently holds a ruler and my box of business cards. That doesn't explain why I have another ruler at home and another ruler in my computer bag.

[PedroSpecialK]

The monks have instilled the pennance in you well, young Eagle.

The bar itself is a dive, but it's awesome in that the food isn't half bad, they have a dart board and a cigarette maching (very fresh), they take fakes, and they have $7 pitchers of PBR.

Signed,
William Simmons

Edited by PedroSpecialK, 21 June 2011 - 09:45 AM.

[The Four Peters]

The monks have instilled the pennance in you well, young Eagle.

The bar itself is a dive, but it's awesome in that the food isn't half bad, they have a dart board and a cigarette maching (very fresh), they take fakes, and they have $7 pitchers of PBR.

You should start writing for Grantland.

[PedroSpecialK]

Oh right you work in the Gulag. I faaacked aaaap.

Edited by PedroSpecialK, 21 June 2011 - 09:47 AM.

[The Napkin]

Lesson as always: Try to get on the train at Government Center so you can get a seat and read and listen to music in peace while making that kind old lady stand and struggle with the madness that is the outbound commute during a Sox game.

This is always a wise course of action. Many a time I've walked a stop the opposite way I'm planning on going to beat a bit of T crowd. Esp downtown where stops are like 25 feet away. Plus I can use the exercise.
(I know, great story!)