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[Mike Works]

No way man this is awesome. If the Jays make a miraculous comeback and win the game, then they'll still not make the playoffs yet again!!!

AWESOME

 

[Mike Works]

God I hate the Blue Jays. Is there any chance Stu Jackson has a hand in this team?

 

[calder]

This is unreal. When it got to the top of the 9th my wife asked me how long I'd have to wait for my hockey game, I said it might be 10 minutes it might be an hour. I DIDN'T REALLY THINK IT WOULD BE A FUCKING HOUR.

That said, it looks like we missed two Slovakian goals already. Who's in net? This game on the radio too?



I have 2 yankees in my bball roto team, so I'm a bit conflicted. Does it make me a bad person that, after trading Sheffield earlier this week for Roy Oswalt I actually felt a bit happy that Shef got hurt today?

 

[Mike Works]

The Jays game finally ends. They go back to the sportsnet studio. They go immediately to the Canada game. The players are shown skating off the ice. The first period just ended.

I've honestly never hated baseball so much. It is now, by far, my most hated sport ever.

 

[Mike Works]

Gaming Age Productions Presents

The Mike Works and Shinobi Blue Jays Variety Fun Time Hour

<Mike_Works> Jesus CHRIST
<Mike_Works> bases loaded for the yankees
<Manu_Shinobi> lol
<Mike_Works> and the jays pitcher pitches 4 balls in a row
<Mike_Works> I WANT TO WATCH THE HOCKEY GAME
<Mike_Works> FUCKING BLUE JAYS
<Manu_Shinobi> LOL, rubuen sierra again?
<Manu_Shinobi> hahaha
<Mike_Works> DON'T PITCH 4 BALLS WHEN THE BASES ARE LOADED
<Manu_Shinobi> I think he hit a grand slam off us last time we played here
<Mike_Works> oh great
<Mike_Works> a pitching change
<Mike_Works> this won't eat up more time
<Manu_Shinobi> now the relief pitcher who already threw about 70 warmup pitches in the pen will throw another 30 on the mound
<Manu_Shinobi> and then he'll be tired after a couple batters
<Manu_Shinobi> haha, wonder if mike is seeing this commercial
<Manu_Shinobi> "YOU'VE GOTTA SEE THESE GUYS PLAY!!"
<Mike_Works> oh my GOD
<Manu_Shinobi> LOL mike
<Mike_Works> they've said the hockey game is coming up next THREE TIMES IN TEN MINUTES
<Mike_Works> FUCK YOU SPORTSNET
<Manu_Shinobi> hahaha
<Manu_Shinobi> LOL!!!
<Manu_Shinobi> didn't see that one coming
<Mike_Works> FOR FUCKS SAKE
<Mike_Works> ONE GOD DAMN PITCH
<Mike_Works> at least he didn't walk him
<Mike_Works> (gg with the pitching change jays)
<Manu_Shinobi> guess he was too tired from the 90 warmup pitches
<Manu_Shinobi> Jesus Christ
<Mike_Works> OH FOR FUCKS SAKE
<Manu_Shinobi> hahaha
<Mike_Works> JUST END IT
<Mike_Works> FUCK
<Mike_Works> THERE IS NO WAY THEY CAN WIN
<Nikashi> Mike_Works: Maybe by the time you get here it will be showing the game
<Mike_Works> By the time i get there the game will be OVER
<Mike_Works> well not hte blue jays game
<Nikashi> What is the score, BTW?
<Mike_Works> for fucks sake
<Mike_Works> I HATE THE BLUE JAYS
<Mike_Works> I HATE BASEBALL
<Mike_Works> fuck
<Manu_Shinobi> lol
<Mike_Works> ooh i hope he walks the next four batters
<Mike_Works> and then gives up a home run
<Manu_Shinobi> this is so sad
<Nikashi> Mike_Works: Score?
<Mike_Works> it's 15-6
<Mike_Works> It was 9-5 when i started watching it
<Nikashi> Haha
<Manu_Shinobi> and to think, I was thinking of going to this game
<Manu_Shinobi> though I'd probably be laughing my ass off if I was there
<Mike_Works> Seriously, what the fuck is Sportsnet thinking
<Mike_Works> all Jays fans have
<Manu_Shinobi> oh wow
<Mike_Works> FUCK
<Mike_Works> GOD DAMNIT
<Mike_Works> all Jays fans have turned off the TV
<Mike_Works> There are no Yankees fans in Vancouver
<Mike_Works> SHOW THE HOCKEY GAME
<Manu_Shinobi> another hit
<Manu_Shinobi> seriously, they should just start hockey for the rest of the country if nothing else
<Mike_Works> seriously they should have done that half an hour ag
<Mike_Works> ...
<Mike_Works> i'm going to kill something.
<Mike_Works> ...
<Mike_Works> oh great
<Mike_Works> an injury
<Mike_Works> that's just what we need
<Mike_Works> 17-6
<Mike_Works> this is a joke
<Mike_Works> and it's 2-0 Slovakia
<Mike_Works> with Hossa scoring on a breakaway in the Corel Center
<Mike_Works> what a wonderful Saturday
<Mike_Works> homerun
<Mike_Works> 18-6
<Mike_Works> i don't even know what to say
<Manu_Shinobi> poor mike
<Mike_Works> even though canada's losing
<Manu_Shinobi> I could've watched this slaughter in person
<Mike_Works> i just want to see what the team looks like
<Manu_Shinobi> I almost feel bad for missing it
<Manu_Shinobi> nothing like watching a car wreck
<Mike_Works> The fucking teams have score 10 runs in LESS THAN AN INNING
<Manu_Shinobi> WTS
<Manu_Shinobi> the yankees are STILL up?
<Mike_Works> oh hey
<Mike_Works> a base hit by posada
<Mike_Works> yep!
<Manu_Shinobi> LOL, using an infielder to pitch now
<Mike_Works> i didn't even know they DID this
<Manu_Shinobi> the yankee who gets the final out should fell ashamed
<Mike_Works> WHAT IS HAPPENING
<Mike_Works> IS THIS A JOKE
<Manu_Shinobi> hahaha
<Mike_Works> SERIOUSLY
<Mike_Works> AM I BEING PUNKD
<Manu_Shinobi> saving the bullpen
<WasabiKingOfDrinking> haha
<Mike_Works> They're making an infielder who can't pitch
<Mike_Works> pitch
<Manu_Shinobi> from getting further disgraced
<Mike_Works> I could've hit that pitch
<Mike_Works> YES BUT HE CAN'T FUCKING PITCH
<Manu_Shinobi> haha, yep
<Mike_Works> THEY'RE GOING TO KEEP HITTING
<Mike_Works> WHAT THE FUCK
<Mike_Works> good god and the Jays still get to bat
<Manu_Shinobi> LOL, rubes up to bat again
<Mike_Works> this is ridiculous
<Mike_Works> THIS HAS BEEN AN AWFUL DAY FOR ME
<Mike_Works> oh thank GOD
<Manu_Shinobi> haha
<Mike_Works> HHAHAHAHAAHA
<Mike_Works> The first period of the Canada game JUST ended
<Mike_Works> for FUCKS
<Mike_Works> SAKE

 

[Socreges]

Lecavalier!

Usually I relish in the BJs sucking. But that was excruciating. Good thing The Negotiator is on.

 

[Mike Works]

GOOD:

Sakic and Iginla cycling down low

BAD:

Defense

 

[yodathesoda]

Someone please send Jovonovski to the Press Box. kthx

 

[dem]

I am not impressed...

Special Ed is even worse than Eric Brewtal

 

[dem]

Thank you god...

 

[dem]

Iggy.. ROBBED

Canada probably should have won that game but oh well. They started to look pretty damn good at the end. But.....

PUT SMYTH IN THERE YOU DUMB SHIT QUINN. Why the fuck is MALTBY or even GAGNE in ahead of Smyth?? You want someone on front of the net?? HEY HEY I GOT AN IDEA!! RYAN FUCKING SMYTH YOU FAT PIG!!!

 

[Mike Works]

Man, it pains me to say this, but save for maybe 5 players tops in the entire league, I can't see anyone being worth what Iginla's worth (save for goaltenders).

 

[Socreges]

PUT SMYTH IN THERE YOU DUMB SHIT QUINN. Why the fuck is MALTBY or even GAGNE in ahead of Smyth?? You want someone on front of the net?? HEY HEY I GOT AN IDEA!! RYAN FUCKING SMYTH YOU FAT PIG!!!

What the hell? You MUST be from Edmonton.

[edit] bigd, is that you??

 

[dem]

bigd, is that you??

I cannot confirm or deny this accusation

 

[Socreges]

Fair enough. If I was bigd, I wouldn't want anyone knowing either..

 

[dem]

Fair enough. If I was bigd, I wouldn't want anyone knowing either..

Yeah.. you know how it is with obsessed fans and stuff...

 

[Mike Works]

bigd or not, gagne should not be ahead of smyth

 

[Socreges]

Yeah.. you know how it is with obsessed fans and stuff...

I was thinking more along the lines of terrible shame.

bigd or not, gagne should not be ahead of smyth

Nor Maltby. But this was an exhibition game. And:

"PUT SMYTH IN THERE YOU DUMB SHIT QUINN. Why the fuck is MALTBY or even GAGNE in ahead of Smyth?? You want someone on front of the net?? HEY HEY I GOT AN IDEA!! RYAN FUCKING SMYTH YOU FAT PIG!!!"

..isn't just indicative of a fan, but a crazed one. ie...

 

[calder]

Slovakia's Bondra suffers broken wrist

TSN.ca Staff


8/28/2004

The Slovaks will likely be without the services of Peter Bondra for the World Cup of Hockey, as the veteran winger suffered a broken wrist in the second period of Saturday's exhibition game against Canada.

Bondra played his entire 14-year NHL career in Washington before being traded to the Ottawa Senators this past February. He has scored 30 or more goals nine times, including a career-high 52 goals in 1995-96. He had 26 goals and 23 assists last season.


Prusek withdraws from World Cup
8/28/2004

PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) - Ottawa Senators goaltender Martin Prusek withdrew from the Czech national team for the World Cup of Hockey starting next week due to a hip injury, an official said Saturday.

Prusek will be replaced by Dusan Salficky, who plays for CSKA Moscow in Russia's first division, Czech national team spokesman Pavel Barta said.

Damn, lots of guys getting hurt before the tourney even starts. Luckily there is pretty much a 0% chance of the season starting on time so most of them probably won't miss any games.


After the second period I was thinking Iggy was still looking tired and that other than Heatley and a few other guys the team looked pretty ordinary. I was saying Thornton should be centering the line up in the pressbox, but then in the 3rd and OT more of the team started looking a lot better. Iggy came on, Gagne had a few good shifts and even Thornton was dangerous. On offense though the team is still passing too much and not quite familiar with their linemates - more of those guys need to just shoot and stop looking for a perfect pass. When Maltby and Draper are the only ones acting like goal scorers and everyone else is over passing I get a little nervous, but it's partly due to it being an exhibition and the end of the game looked much better.

 

[Mike Works]

Yeah, when you compare Chara and Lemieux joking and tapping each other's helmets at the end of a period compared to the intensity that was the Canada / USA olympic final, you tend not to get too worried about how certain things go in exhibition games. But watching Iginla and Sakic play off each other was really, really fun. And just hearing the sequential announcement of the players on the PP as they passed to each other... Richards... to St Louis... to Lemieux... to Lecavlier... to Sakic.... man.

 

[Socreges]

Yeah, when you compare Chara and Lemieux joking and tapping each other's helmets at the end of a period compared to the intensity that was the Canada / USA olympic final, you tend not to get too worried about how certain things go in exhibition games. But watching Iginla and Sakic play off each other was really, really fun. And just hearing the sequential announcement of the players on the PP as they passed to each other... Richards... to St Louis... to Lemieux... to Lecavlier... to Sakic.... man.

The most heart-warming moment for me was having the first PP unit go off and Heatley, Iginla, and Thornton come on.

Yet, like Calder said, they're still not feeling each other all that well. Though when they do click, always a sight.

 

[calder]

I made an Official thread, so we can let this one die.

But again, the more I think about the game the more nervous I get. Sure it was an exhibition, but so many times I've seen super-talented Canadian teams struggle to score in part because the lines never quite jelled. All throughout the second and third period you'd see Canada get great pressure only to have the puck bounce just pass an open guy or a last pass just out of reach of a winger standing at the empty net. In the Olys it took to the gold medal game (and the third period at that) until the Sakic line started really just burying their chances.

 

[Mike Works]

This thread will remain unlocked for CBA and free agent signing talk (and any other off season stuff). All World Cup talk can go to the thread Calder linked which is now stickied.

 

[Joe]

the new york islanders are planning to renovate the nassau coliseum (second oldest building in the nhl) and they have some REALLY great plans...

The first phase would center on renovating the existing Coliseum, adding a band of ice-level luxury suites to the area, which would be the lowest such boxes in the league; sinking the ice to raise the hockey capacity to 17,500 seats (20,000 for concerts and 18,000 for basketball); constructing a two-sheet practice facility for the team and a 50,000-square foot athletic complex and health club. Suspended from the roof, directly over center ice, would be a bar and grill restaurant.

Phase II, "The Lighthouse," includes construction of a 60-story vintage Long Island lighthouse, which would be the tallest in the world and would house a five-star hotel, offices, condominiums and an observatory. In addition to the lighthouse, which Picker called the "iconographic image of Long Island," the project calls for a 500-seat amphitheater, village and plaza with shops and cafes.