Closing Time

San Jose, the line forms to the right for your commemorative T-shirts... thanks for coming out for the playoffs.
I know the attention span for hockey is about the length of a slap shot, but it is unreal how often the Sharks get bounced early. This year, they won the President's Cup (most regular season points)... and still lost in 6 games. If you're looking for a good game to watch, by the way--keep an eye on Devils/Canes game 7 Tuesday night; should be a good one.

Speaking of teams d-u-n done, the Utah Jazz can pull up a chair for the rest of the playoffs. They made a late push, but forgot how to make a lay-up in the last 3 minutes, while the Lakers had enough there to finish the job--especially with Lamar Odom coming to play.
LA isn't unbeatable in the west, but the only team that can bring them down are the Lakers themselves...

As for the East--Celts/Bulls go again Tuesday. In the words of Maximus Decimus Meridius, Are you not entertained? Certainly hope Ben Gordon is healthy, although given the Celts' health woes, I wouldn't expect much sympathy from them if he's a scratch...

Baseball- Red Sox have now won 11 straight games. But it wasn't until Monday night that they pulled even with Toronto. April may be just one month (yes, I know, firm graps of the obvious-- I used both hands) but so far its the only month (see?). You have the Jays at 14-7, KC over 500 (10-9), Seattle atop the AL West, with the Angels in the cellar, (albeit with extenuating circumstances). Hell, even the Pirates are 3 games over 500! Of course, so things are going according to form-- the Nationals are 4-14. Now that's more like it.
The Nationals are the Natty Lite of MLB-- you know they're bad, they know they're bad. But when you want to get the job done quickly and cheaply, there you have it. Matter of fact, I started to get on a role with team/beer analogies-- I'll roll those out tomorrow (needs time to "ferment" if you will)

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Thanks for wasting time with me...