January 14th, 2007

Jersey: 2005-06 Bakersfield Condors GW

How was your Christmas? Mine was Jersey-tastic!!! Welcome to the newest arrival: 2005-06 Bakersfield Condors Steve Howard Game Worn Jersey

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Steve Howard is a career minor leaguer, who played in six different leagues. This year he is playing fin Columbus, GA for the Columbus Cottonmouths. Other than that, I know nothing about him.

I’ve [...]

January 13th, 2007

Hockey Day Works Out

Hockey Day in Colorado went pretty well, overall. Even though the Ducks haven’t figured out that you can zoom in on a game once in a while, they sure put up a hell of a fight. But the Avs pulled it out in a shootout, and Peter Budaj is making out goaltender questions less worrisome, [...]

January 13th, 2007

Hockey Day in Colorado

If you haven’t been bludgeoned to death with it so far, today is Hockey Day in Canada, another day for Canada to sell itself more hockey. I don’t have the Center Ice package (sorry, but I have my reasons), so I can’t join all of the northern fans (that includes upstate NY, MI and various [...]

January 12th, 2007

Refs

In the style of Clerks, by Kevin Smith, I bring you…

Refs

INT. HOCKEY RINKWe are in a commercial time out, and the two refs skate over to the penalty box to get a drink of water.

JOHNCan you believe that? Talk about obvious.

PETERYeah, good call there.

JOHNWell, it was pretty [...]

January 10th, 2007

Good Blogs on Small Islands

James Mirtle put out a list of blogs on his Globe and Mail “blog” of 10 blogs “of note.” It points out the big guns, the blogs who get a lot of attention, but don’t need the help. Just like a hockey game, someone needs the two points more then the other guy. The big [...]

January 10th, 2007

2nd (?) Best Game if the Year

There are things that don’t happen at the Pepsi Center. There are things that die off into the thin air we have up here that you expect in other places. The chants flashed on the scoreboard are picked up for a moment, the music is left to play without any reaction. Goals by opponents are [...]

January 8th, 2007

Finally, the Wings

It’s been way to long. Halfway through the season, and just now, we are getting to the Wings. There was a time when you couldn’t walk down the streets in Denver wearing a Wings jersey. The rivalry, which used to be spelled with a capital R, has cooled off considerably. It’s hard to take it [...]

January 7th, 2007

What To Do About Jose

The Avs hit the halfway mark last night, playing game 41 last night against the Wild. It was a great game, for both teams, ending 2-1 in a shootout. Manny Fernandez was great, as was Jose Theodore Peter Budaj, who had to stand on his head a couple of times. Theodore Budaj looked really good [...]

January 6th, 2007

Hockey Night Part 2

Hockey Night is a take off on Sports Night, which was written by Aaron Sorkin (West Wing, Studio 60) . Sorkin has a very distinct style. After the first post, I thought about what else I would do with another scene. It’s pretty fun to write, and so I share.
INT. HALLWAY OUTSIDE OF VISITORS DRESSING [...]

January 5th, 2007

Moving the Feed

So, I am trying to move my RSS feed over to Feedburner.  I don’t think that means anything to anyone, unless things don’t work the way they are supposed to.  But such as it is, the new feed is listed in the lower right sidebar, or here.  Just copy that link into your feedreader or [...]