Last Call: Closing Time for Pens, Wings
I know who I want to take me home.
This week, Pierre LeBrun decided it would make sense to write a column about the Detroit Red Wings’ chances of winning the Stanley Cup in Pittsburgh and wrap it around Semisonic’s “Closing Time.”
This was a) stupid, and b) the perfect segue to our Last Call for alcohol on this fine Friday that will see the Pens and Wings try to claim that shiny old spitoon.
Of course, Miranda Kerr’s coming along, too.
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I’ve spent the past hour looking up the Space Jam soundtrack after mentioning it in the other thread. Best. Sick day. Ever.
I take it I’m early.
Hola!
/looks around
Ooohhhh, Dagotron!? What are you doing over there in the corner?
Herbed pork tenderloin, hot off the grill. Who’s coming to dinner?
Interesting article about bulldozing parts of declining cities:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/5516536/US-cities-may-have-to-be-bulldozed-in-order-to-survive.html
I feel this plan does not go far enough. We ought to bulldoze the entire state of New Jersey, then using carefully placed explosives, dislodge California and let it drift into the sea. Who’s with me?
I just introduced someone on twitter to KSK’s “Crackers for Fitty” series after she brought up Ritz crackers. Just doing my part.
George H.W. Bush jumped out of an airplane today. But he remembered a parachute. Sigh.
Behold, the dumbest drug in the world: http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Jenkem
Fuck the Wings!
Oh, and hello people.
Well, it’s been short and sweet tonight folks, but I’m outta here.
I’m headed to a double feature of Up! in 3D followed by Star Trek in IMAX. Yeah, we couldn’t decide, so we figured what the hell, we’ll see both. An early anniversary (that’s tomorrow) date .
And remember, the new pub opens tomorrow; catch you peeps there!
Friends and frienemies, I’ll probably be MIA til after the game. But know this- I’ll either be completely unsurprised by the outcome (I am a Bills fan after all) or celebrating like crazy.
Hopefully the latter.
Write it down, In an effort to keep Crosby from murdering homeless people, tonight game will result in a Pens win. 3-1.
@ Dagotron
Space Jam is an underrated SDTK. My favorite is Chris Rock and Barry’s version of “Basketball Jones.”
Oh, and what’s up distinguised ladies and d-bags?
You know what I like about coming to here. I can get drunk,break shit and you can’t even tell the difference.
Fuck Charter Cable. I have the NBC affiliate on, yet all they have is a satellite feed of the NASA channel.
This better be cleaned up in 40mins.
What up Fuck Ligers?
So who’s watching Braves/O’s tonight? CPH? Afino? Anyone but me?
I am goig to AJ’s to eat figs and watch Red Sox/Phillies.
sup folks.
Today i heard a European two-tone siren outside. In Detroit.
Apparently Fiat brought some friends with them for their first day of work.
I need to O’s to napalm Tommy Hanson tonight.
Damn you fantasy league…you ruin my morals.
Can Escobar do anything without bitching about it?
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
Just found out Penn State’s All-U Day game is on September 26th @ 8:00 PM, against the Iowa Hawkeyes!
But that got me thinking…if College Gameday came to your favorite regular season match up and you could hold up a sign in the crowd, what would it say? (I only ask this because the signs are one of the few things I look for during the show).
If they would come to PSU for the Iowa/PSU game, I would make a sign that says “Fried Hawkeye; It’s what’s for dinner”.
And there WILL be fried hawkeye on September 26th, 2009. Revenge can do that to ya.
Alright hockey fans, hit up our Cover it Live right here: http://therookiesblog.com/2009/06/12/live-blog-stanley-cup-game-7-yeeeeaaaahh/
And it will be fun. I bet 310toJoba’s life on it.
Hello lovelies. Yankees have a lead which there’s a good chance they’ll blow. So yes, I’m drinking.
What up good people, sorry for missing out last night but I had the “pleasure” of watching the Laker game at a bar in Los Angeles…in other words I was black out drunk to make it bearable.
Nick Markakis has a motherfucking cannon. Obama’s new foreign policy should be to have him throw baseballs from right field into Afghanistan.
I can’t breathe whenever the Wings get the puck into the Penguins’ zone. I thought I wasn’t going to freak out over this game, but I was clearly wrong.
Hi everyone. That Pierre Maguire/Mike Milbury fake “what I would say if I was the coach tonight” speech just entered my personal Top 10 of worst TV moments ever.
Couldn’t be happier to get out of Pittsburgh this weekend.
Maybe my eyes are shitty, but is the main above ice shot REALLY bright? Seems like everything else is ok, so maybe their white balance is off.
Or maybe I’m retarded. Either way.
I also can’t breathe when the Pens have the puck. If you don’t hear from me for a while, assume that I’ve passed out.
Also, I’m watching my new favorite movie ever. Five minutes in and its pure awesomeness. Ninja Cheerleaders, starring Trishelle. (playing a high school girl)
After a few days of reflection, I’ve decided I desperately need new friends, as most of mine are degenerate alcoholic perverts.
And when a girl tells you she’s grown a playoff beard, you don’t ask any questions.
Good evening, all.
And that’s a TERRIBLE slash. What the fuck, Stuart?
Evening folks.
So I have some training for work tomorrow and my boss emails me at 6 pm tonight to mention she forgot to tell me about a few things I should have prepared tomorrow….and then drops about 4 hours of work on me. I was planning on working during the hockey game but am now watching the game, checking here, work is all out in my car, and a few buddies are on their way over with beer and whiskey. Tomorrow will be interesting.
It’s so kind of the orioles to hand runs to a team that can’t score them on it’s own. Thank you Matt Albers. Don’t fuck this up Hanson.
Anyone else having trouble with seeing posts?
Big fucking goal right there
Detroit’s going to get a call at some point, right?
Talbot
Great save by Fleury a minute or so later as well.
Wow…apparently Crosby just got fucked up. No word or clip yet of what might have happened. But he’s heading straight into the locker room after limping over to the bench. Penalty on the Pens.
This could change things quickly.
If y’all are talking about the Stanley Cup game, come to our Liveblog!
http://www.coveritlive.com/index.php?option=com_altcaster&task=siteviewaltcast&altcast_code=0c83a87ab0&height=550&width=470
Is Pittsburgh actually going to win this series? Jesus christ.
I thought this game was starting at 9 ET for some reason – and now I’ve missed half of it. Nice one, GE&F.
Go Pens. I’m really pissing off the dead wings fan next to me @ the bar
Detroit is like a fightwer throwing a flurry of punches that last minite.
What in the wide world of sports is going on out here?
Dead wing fan nwext to me:”do you know what detroit is most famous for?”
Me: “burning their city to the ground again and again?”
He leaves the bar in a huff.
I hate the dead wings.
Grrrrrr
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Detroit was going to burn anyway.
Marian Hossa chose… poorly
Hey all, Congrats to the Penguins.
(I don’t think they like Bettman in Detroit.)
I’m going to echo a comment from the liveblog: the fuck did Pittsburgh do to earn two sports championships in a year?
Damn… Fleury is Batman.
The Mother Corp. really needs to let Ron McLean wear his skates when interviewing guys on the ice. That extra two inches of lost height is embarrassing.
Hey! It’s-a him, Mario!
FUCKING STUPIS METS. I AM NOT EVEN A FAN AND I HATE YOU. COULDN”T GET ONE MORE FUCKING OUT HUH.
I loved the F bombs dropped by the Pittsburgh players on live tv hoisting the Cup.
Thank Jebus for Luis Castillo. Wow. Just Wow.
Just got back from The Heartless Bastards and Wilco concert. Face melted. My bachelor party is tomorrow. Leave some ideas for me to read when I wake up in the morning. Peace and love to all.
zip it up and zip it out.
If I posted my thought’s about Luis Castillo on DUAN now the Ninja’s would smoke me like pot.
i like tacos
Nothing.
/wipes tears of loneliness from eyes
Awww. I’m here now. Oh, wait, that probably just made it worse.
You’re not alone. The Rookies are always here…watching you…from a tree branch outside your window…
Wow, it’s dead in here. Just the two of us? What is this, Deadspin?
You’re a Macaque?
Yeah, I was going to say something about that. It’s broad daylight outside.
Do you cook any other beast besides hog? Just wondering?
Chicken and turkey, occasionally. We don’t eat cows.
HEY. I live in the part of Jersey with trees. No bulldozers, please. Feel free to raze anything north of exit 9 on the Turnpike though.
Hey, he’s not the one we should be hoping for. Unless we’re using some Kyle Reese-John Connor logic here, in which case here let me help you build a time machine.
True. Pass me that wrench, would ya?
Huh. The more you know.
Probably a good call. Up! is tremendous, and even though I’m not a Trekkie, I’d like to see it.
*distinguished.
Not much. Enjoying your avatar.
Holy fuck. Great call on Basketball Jones.
I’m watching on the Braves affiliate. Don Sutton is about as racist as you can be for a sports channel.
Yeah, no way to watch it here.
I am.. That and BBC America.
Yeah i have mlb.tv and i watch on there. So it’s Boog and Joe Simpson, their pretty good. I listened to Sutton yesterday because they were playing the Pirates (it was blacked out), Sutton’s certainly different.
Hanson’s getting it down tonight thankfully.
I’ve got it w/o sound, so Simpson and Boog it is.
Boog wearing a satin polo in spring training still gives me nightmares.
I forgot to start him in my fantasy league, so OF COURSE, he’s going to pitch a gem. If he gets shelled, then I made the correct/lucky call.
Yeah i have him in 2 leagues and also forgot to start him in both meaning he’ll give up 1 run in 7 and k 11.
Get his hair colored “Gay”.
/really, what the fuck’s up with that?
Yeah i have no idea what exactly he says considering he barely speaks English. Maybe something like “Que, Senor azul.” I would love to know.
I have done this (KU/MU, Thanksgiving weekend 2007). I had three signs, none of which competed with others’ in the crowd, so we just got drunk off Wild Turkey Cappucinos. At 8am. It was 17 degrees out and snowing.
It was one of the most fun days of my life.
HAHAHAHA. I hear there is a football team in PA that CAN beat Iowa, it’s obviously not PSU though.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/boxscore?gameId=282640221
I was at Camerohead as well. GREATNESS.
It’s funny, I remember all the businesses and such bitching about it being moved there. I actually kind of like it. It gives the game the kind of respect and profile it should. It makes it somewhat easier for people in KC to see it while they’re in town for the holiday, and it actually gives KC some legit traffic jams, at least for a day.
Don’t know how it was last year, but that year we were stuck, unmoving, on 435 for 3.5 hours. An eight lane highway became a football field, urinal, and beer marketplace.
I know the feeling. I had like 6 drinks (open bar) in like the first 30 minutes at the bar last saturday. I had to so i didn’t go crazy with having to put up with hundreds of bandwagon pens “fans” and nothing but that on the tv’s.
McCann was safe…the ump had an awful angle. great throw, he just wasn’t out.
I feel that way every time Im forced to go there.
I know we killed our other neutral field contract with Illannoy. I never want to go back to Lawrence for a Mizzou/kU game. Camerohead was perfect.
For a good laugh, Iowa State and K-State are playing there this year (I believe).
If that’s what you’re looking to get away from, I believe you’ve come to the wrong place.
Try having people ask you daily about why you don’t like hockey.
IT’S FUCKING BORING.
leave me alone.
You make a good point, sir. I suppose if anything in here tonight tops what I was told Wednesday night, we’re all in trouble.
Oh, and Sidney Crosby is a perfect example of why the NHL has died on the vine in the US.
Welcome! You made the right choice.
WITCH! There’s a witch!!!
why? (not that I like him, I’m just curious)
Just seems like there aren’t many of us here tonight. I’ll be out of here soon, finally seeing the hangover.
I don’t dispute his skill, as he’s obviously one of those once or twice in a lifetime kind of players, and he has the potential to be one of the all time greats when it’s all said and done. What bothers me is the sense of entitlement he projects with the way he seems to expect that every whistle should go his way and that he shouldn’t be touched. Punching a guy in the ballbag from behind in a scrum is low class, too.
The worst part is that he doesn’t have the personality or charisma of a guy like Ovechkin, who just gives the impression of being a big goofy kid, and also a ridiculously talented athlete. Ovie seems like he’d be a license to print money for the NHL because of that charisma, while Crosby seems to be lacking something in that area. I guess in a perfect world, both of them would be at the forefront of the marketing campaign for the league, with guys like Phaneuf, Iginla, etc up there with them, but with Bettman sinking the ship, it’s not surprising.
Naturally, I missed it. Who got it?
I’d like to go out on a limb here and say that the Wings will tie this up before the period is over.
Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit.
go shit in a crisper
Will do, if you get blown in a port-a-john.
How goes it, you magnificent bastard?
goes well, mailboxwrecker. i switched over to the liveblog, btw. come on over….
@CW – Can we refrain from talking about Castillo right now. I’m not mentally prepared to do that.
Evening Last Call.
19 minutes till ThePhoenixPub.com opens.
That was fast – at least to me, it was. Good work!
/hasn’t seen it yet
You’re going to make me choose between the Pub and grabbing a Facebook vanity URL, aren’t you? Heartless bastard.
@Green Eggs First post goes live at midnite. Thanks, I’m really really happy how it turned out.
Marry a stripper and get knocked out by Mike Tyson?
Do a line of coke off a stripper’s ass. This will most likely be your last chance to do so.
So maybe Hossa should have taken the rumored $100M that some teams were prepared to offer?
Bettman needs it worse. He looked like Bilbo Baggins next to Malkin.
The Fucks a facebook vanity URL
Sadly no NCAA title. Thank You to Jermaine Dixon and Bill Stull for not letting that happen. fuck the pens and their front-running fans.
Eh, you’re a little too dry and leafy for their tastes.
I’m writing tomorrows wake up post and I’m linking to the video and getting angrier and angrier
I’ll drink to that!
/lives right off Exit 9