The Stanley Cup as scripted by David Chase of "The Sopranos"
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The Stanley Cup as scripted by David Chase of "The Sopranos"
The end of the Stanley Cup finals was one of the weirdest things I've seen in 40 years of watching sports. You have these butterflies -- overtime in Game 6 will do that -- and then there's a routine looking shot by the Blackhawks' Patrick Kane and then... No red light, no memorable call by NBC's Doc Emrick, no eruption from the Chicago players but instead a celebration that snowballs slowly over the eternity that it took the world to realize the puck was hiding in plain net. The worst was just the stunned silence of 20,000 people at the Wachovia Center, who stood there like maybe they'd all just watched a fatal car crash, but were still praying that somehow the driver of the crushed car would somehow be alright.
I had the weird sense that this bizarre moment was something I'd seen before, but I couldn't place it. Until this morning, when there was a brief mention on TV that this was the third anniversary of the end of "The Sopranos." That was it! The players were all skating around like normal, and every was a tad anxious that something big was about to happen...and suddenly one of the greatest NHL seasons just faded to black, and the audience stood there scratching their heads, refusing to accept that it ended like that, thinking that maybe just something had malfunctioned. Was that Patrick Kane in the Members Only jacket?
And the strangest thing was that every Flyers fan was hearing that same song coming from Tony Sporano's jukebox.
oooh manny, your rapier wit is just so cutting...hahaha— Les Ismore
Les- you failed to mention the Oil Spill? The economy? Iran, Israel, all the Democrats losing races when Obama shows up to "help", I couls go on and on.....— Manny Trillo- "And if you look at composite polls (composite means comprised of many) and you take Rasmussen out, he is very popular." So if a) you cherry pick the data or b) if popular=successful then Obama's awesome. Got it.— RG
- "what is important that HCR has passed and is the biggest deficit reduction bill in American history." This won't be true. Even if it were to be true, it doesn't matter. Passing one deficit reducing bill, while passing five deficit increasing bills is not a recipe for overall deficit reduction. The CBO sees the deficit rising, not shrinking over the next decade plus.— RG
///General Turd - Sorry, but apparently that comment went way, way over your head./// Right, you saying something that is completely, factually untrue -- that went WAY over my head. Lol. Bwack. Keep trying, didderbops.- Uh oh, Les. Japan's PM is sounding warning bells about the debt they accumulated from borrowing for stimulus during the lost decades. As an expert on Japan and stimulus, care to comment? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/10290933.stm— RG
- Seeing as how they've already revised the cost estimate of ObamaCare upwards another $105 billion, before the bill's services are even provided, I would say that the "deficit reduction" power of that bill are as much a fantasy as Superman flying.
- ///As an expert on Japan and stimulus, care to comment? /// Les is only an expert on SELF stimulus, RG. Go ahead, ask him about his times on the App Trail in South Carolina, he'll be glad to talk all about it.
- "Les is only an expert on SELF stimulus, RG." Ouch. All those cries for more stimulus must lead to awful blisters.— RG
- Les' mother: "What are you doing all that time you spend in your room?" Les: "Economics"— RG
Funny not long ago les posted decrying the lack of manners in politics and life in general.. then he posts insult after insult, and like everything else the irony goes over his head. He actually almost had an original thought once but sadly it turned out to be just the wind whistling in the void between his ears.— PAEnglish
In defense of Les..the South Carolina Appalacian Trail comment was a jab at Mark Sanford. To Les: How can you go to accusing someone of 3rd grade name calling to using the name "General Turd" in less than an hour???— bird11- Want to know about how a true leader runs his government? This is how it's done. http://weeklystandard.com/articles/ride-along-mitch
- "Want to know about how a true leader runs his government?" Dude, I don't want Obama sleeping in my kids bed. Progressivism is contagious.— RG
- "Never take a dollar from a free citizen through the coercion of taxation without a very legitimate purpose,” he said in an interview last year. “We have a solemn duty to spend that dollar as carefully as possible, because when we took it we diminished that person’s freedom.”— RG
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