In which Milan Lucic makes another appearance...

The Red Sox may be done for the year, but the Bruins are just beginning. Second year winger, Milan Lucic, is fast becoming a fan favorite here. Here's yet another reason why...(and once again, more intelligent, and less violent, blogging will resume shortly)

UPDATE: As if on cue, Lucic scored his first career hat trick in a win over Atlanta this weekend just hours after I mentioned to my brothers that it would be great if he could combine his hard hits (and fists) with more goals, a la Cam Neely.

Friday Dial Stopper - ALCS edition

In honor of that improbable Game 5 win...

(see here for the background on this song)

Damn West Coast

I need a nap.

While I'm blogging about sports...

Please, oh, please, let Brett Favre be traded to the Chicago Bears...

...it would so much fun to see Gibbon Jockey's reaction...

Manny Be Gone

Warning: non-Boston sports-fans and those who haven't been following the Manny Ramirez soap opera may want to skip this post.

Thankfully, Manny Ramirez is leaving Boston. I wish it hadn't come to this, but he has become a major pain in the ass over the past few weeks - getting into fights with teammates, knocking down elderly club assistants, refusing to play, making up injuries, saying that Boston doesn't deserve a player like him, etc, etc. All because he really didn't want the Sox to pick up a $20 million option for next year (don't you hate it when someone wants to pay you $20 million a year?). Manny being Manny just went too far.

I always kinda liked the guy - a big goofball who could hit the crap out of a baseball - but with the way he's been acting lately (like one of my kids when they were 2 and were told they couldn't have ice cream) I'm happy to see him go. Looks like the Sox are getting a decent player in Jason Bay in return, but we'll see (and really, at this point, I don't really care). Everyone on the team has to feel better right now - especially Tito (Terry Francona, the team manager).

The only downside to this whole thing is that my 4-year old son, Jack, lost it when he heard the news (we were listening to the radio waiting for Emma to get home from camp). Tears, sobbing, pure uncontrollable (and inconsolable) emotion. I didn't know he was so attached to Manny. I don't even want to think about how he is going to react when the same fate befalls his favorite player, Jason Varitek. He's going to be absolutely crushed. But maybe Manny's departure will help soften the blow - Jack won't be so blindsided by the fact that this happens.

Anyways, I am 100% ready for the Manny-less era to begin. Good luck, LA! Repeat after me, it's just Manny being Manny...

We're baaaaack

and we will not be denied...

Hey Montreal, whatcha gonna do when Lucic runs wild on you? Oooh yeah!

Advance apologies for the violence of this post, but it's Stanley Cup playoff time in the Hub once again and left winger Milan Lucic is bringing some toughness back to the B's. For those of you who don't like fighting, hockey or other atavistic displays of testosterone, just ignore this post. Intelligent posting will resume shortly.

(BTW Boston is the #8 seed; the Habs are the #1; the B's lost all 8 regular season games against Montreal this year; Lucic beating someone up may be all that I can hope for in this series)

painful, yet funny

Can't believe I'm drawing attention to this, but I figured I better do it before Gibbon Jockey does - it'll take some of the sting out of it.