Molitor

Well, thanks for trying to provide that healthy dose of perspective I suppose, but I don't really get it. People can't be passionate about the sports team they grew up watching as a kid? Isn't that why this board exists and why there are people wanting to post here, because they're passionate about their team?

Uhhhgg, if Toronto ever gets a second team, I am not looking forward to all the bandwagon jumpers who were supposed "Leaf fans" jumping ship and being all aggravating. It'll be like the Ottawa Senators all over again. Every Ottawa fan over the age of 35 was at one time a Leafs or Canadiens fan who jumped ship because they weren't a true fan. Go Leafs Go True Leaf Fans for Life© #TLFFL

Just saw the highlight of the Scherzer-Tabata thing. Not sure if it was intentional, but I would plunk him tomorrow either way. Actually even if he had a nice solid line drive up the middle rather than the HBP: plunk.

You guys mad?

Totally picturing this:

Because he's not beeg and strongg

THAT IS AMAZINGNESS OMG WE ARE THE GREATEST TEAM EVER 20-GAME WINNING STREAK jd

When I looked at the clubhouse schematic, one of my first thoughts was "Holy crap, why does Kevin Pillar have multiple lockers in different places?" Then I realized those circular lockers are just structural pillars.

Is there any reason why we can't analyze the PitchTrax data to measure if umps are actually favouring/screwing any teams? I see some studies on umpires strike zones, but can't find anything measuring it by team. Or measuring all umpires for a single player (i.e. Bautista).

Damn South Americans. So emo all the time.

Congratulations to Paul Peerce and the Washington Wizards!

Fairly convincing article that the field isn't playing outside the norm anyway: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/is-the-new-turf-at-the-rogers-centre-really-a-problem/

I doubt he was truly injured on that play. He just got halfway to second and realized he was already out of gas and wasn't going to make it so just pulled up lame to save face.

Haha, I was at that game. I was so sure he was going to chirp him again just now, especially after that pitch that went behind him. Good on him to keep it professional.

That sounds like a lot of fun actually, I can't believe I never thought of that as a kid.

Off topic, but this got my curiosity and I set out to prove it wrong. It turns out there is a helicopter called the Kamov Ka-50 that does indeed have an ejection seat where the rotors get knocked off by explosives prior to the seat ejecting. Howver, there are a bunch of less obvious reasons for not having ejections seats aside from just chopping up the pilot: 1) Helicopters typically fly too low for parachutes to be practical 2) Skilled pilots can use the concept of autorotation to still land a helicopter safely if something goes wrong 3) It's cost prohibitive to engineer ejection seats into a helicopter because Conclusion: Your analogy is valid. Also the Kamov Ka-50 is like the Randy Johnson of helicopters.

Similar experience here. I was 13 I think, playing in the knockout round of a tournament, Select level. The OT format was something like 10 minutes total, dropping by one player every two minutes. I'd played about 5 or 6 minutes out of the 8 minutes leading up to the final 1 vs 1, including almost the whole 2 vs 2. When the coach asked me if I could go, of course I said yes but I was totally gassed. Lost the face-off but kept him in front of me, he came in 1:1 against me, I forced him to the outside and we circled around the net but he just had a little more and got out in front and chipped it over the goalie. It was one of those unique experiences that you remember. Always regret not giving the ice to one of the fresher guys for even, what, 30 seconds? One skate up and down the ice would have been enough time to recover. It didn't change me in any way though, I still take on too much even when my chances of being successful are small. Might be a fear of letting people down or an overconfidence in my abilities or perhaps just an ego-driven desire to be a hero, I don't know. I usually don't recognize it until afterwards.

It does sound corny, I can't stand it. I can still picture the thugged out teenagers being interviewed at Maple Leaf square during the playoffs last year and getting all up in the cameraman's business with the slogan. Also there are like three other US cities that are further north than Toronto so it's not even accurate.

Racists

Hookers and blow, every night!

I find it surprising that none of our top tier starter prospects are projecting higher than a #3. Probably a noob question but are these prospect rankings always super conservative or is this what we can reasonably expect from the group? I see something in the blurb at the top about the rankings being based on trade value; not sure if that means Norris could be traded for a #3 starter or something.

Sweet, I scored a 77. Like Ray Bourque or Paul Coffey.

Yep, that was an obvious high stick. Joke refereeing.

Awww, I loved Pat Quinn

Projected starting line tonight is Komarov-Kadri-Kessel. Carlyle is clearly a racist.