NHL in 2006?

Yea ... and <b>The Tampa Bay Lightening are Stanley Cup Champs ... </b>


<b>"The Edge - there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over." Hunter S. Thompson, </b><b><i>Hell's Angels, 1965</i></b>

Hip hip hooray!

Now, onto football....

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I just prefer to watch a sport that is actually challenging. I find hockey to be, by far, the hardest sport to compete in.

Basketball? Probably one of the least challenging of the top sports.

No order, but these are the top sports I consider:

Baseball
Hockey
Football
Soccer
Basketball


At least a couple good beers and hockey came out of Canada.. more than we can say for France.

Baseball ... that's like calling pocket billiards difficult ...


<b>"The Edge - there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over." Hunter S. Thompson, </b><b><i>Hell's Angels, 1965</i></b>

Because most hockey players play because they like the game, not as much for the money.

That can be argued, but in a minute.

Most of basketballs players today are playing because that's what they grew up on and for the money. That can really be argued.. but basketball is full of thugs. Listen to them talk after a game.

Besides, before you can even play hockey, you have to be really good at skating. I can already run.. with a little conditioning, I could get under a 5 in the 40m.

It'll take years to learn to skate.

And years on learning how to play hockey too with all the rules. haha.

Now you look at the NHL lockout and stuff.. it was more about reducing the amount of games they played than the money. They wanted their money too and argued that.. but that was for the top players and not so much the younger players. They're accepting a cap of upper 40 million per team? Each team having how many players? 15+? The top player getting I think was 6 million.

For the love of the sport and not the money.

I kinda hope they cancel hockey, football, and baseball. I say they come back with an integrated sport. Just have a bunch of fat guys beat each other with bats on ice.

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Aww, the poor souls. I don't know how I could ever get by on just a 6 million salary.

Really I never understood the attraction to <i>watching</i> sports. Sure I played football and baseball when I was younger. But watching it? I have better things to do. Why would you waste time let alone money supporting people that couldn't care less about you.

I was thinking the same thing, just with a couple different players.

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I didn't say I could hit anybody's fastball (unless the ball hit my bat), but I doubt I'd raise much of a sweat taking 3 cuts and sitting down ...


<b>"The Edge - there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over." Hunter S. Thompson, </b><b><i>Hell's Angels, 1965</i></b>

I play sports more than I watch... the only time I sit down to watch a game is either a play-off game in hockey, superbowl, or Ohio State occasionally..

I like watching hockey once in a while because you can see what they're doing and learn from them. Much like after our football games, we'd watch our game over to learn what we did good and bad. I use it for learning and entertainment.. while others use to it to look back on their glory days and entertain themselves.
I've seen some really cool moves in hockey and I've used them when I've played.. you can only do so much so when you see someone come up with something new that no one else has.. being done on a professional level.. you learn a lot. If that's why you're watching.

Only the best on the team get 6 million.. and they're generally the ones who are integrated into the team and help run it. They're the business. They keep people coming to go the game, they do the promotions, etc.

Do you even realize why the hockey lockout was such a big deal? They kept adding games to the season to the point where the players were not physically able to maintain that pace.. they were playing too many games, too soon, in a physically dominiating game.

Yeah, 6 million is rough living. But when you learn to speak 2-3 languages fluently, can run a business successfully, and be one of the best in hockey.. then someone will pay you 6 million.

A huge amount of hockey players are coming from very poor families.. they play and make the money to help their family out. Especially a lot of the Russia and Eastern European players.

These guys deserve to get paid.. I believe it was Yzerman who spent his own personal money to assemble the players league and the NHL officials together in Toronto for a meeting.. a hefty price for one guy to pay just to get a group to talk for a few days and nothing come out of it.

Hockey and golf - those are two sports that are played for the love of the game and not the money.

Afterall, they all went to Europe to play for far less money.. but they were still playing just as hard as in the NHL.

Breaking bones is the criteria? One could just as easily say, "Let a pass hit ya in the head, and nothing happens, it just bounces off your facemask. But take a high&inside pitch in the face and you'll probably get it busted up." Or a comebacker to the pitcher for that matter.

We could go on all day with comparisons like how like how that sleepy right fielder could crash into the wall at Wrigley <i>without pads</i> chasing a fly and bust up his shoulder. Sweat? Ever seen John Smoltz pitch? Dude goes through 2 or 3 jerseys a game, soaking em.

Football, baseball, hockey, I like em all. But implying that playing any of them at the pro level is easy or not challenging just looks absurd.

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Of course.

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"Baseball ... that's like calling pocket billiards difficult ... "

OK, just looks like you're pretty much saying it's easy. Anyway.

But...extreme examples? Wanna see the disabled list residents on some of my fantasy baseball teams rosters?

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you got barry bonds dont you?

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Granted that most of the american stars are very selfish. But I think that on every sport you have both type of players, a lot of the NBA players go and play in their national teams, and that's for FREE, they go risking an injury, just because they love the game and the honor of representing their country. Michael Jordan played his last 2 years for the league minimum.

I agree, specially the young ones. The old school guys were pretty good though. When the original Dream Team went to Barcelona, none of those guys needed money, fame or recognition. Even though they beat everybody by a big margin, they didn't humilliate any team.

I'm not saying that hockey is easy, not even golf. In fact if it was easy to play any sport professionally I wouldn't be an engineer.



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Do Ko Kim died in the boxing ring also....

NASCAR is just balls to the wall, I guess.....



Dazzle them with Brilliance, or Baffle them with BS!

Don't forget that devastating football injury known as turf toe. LMAO*

But, I mean, if you refuse to watch baseball, how many injuries do you see? None?

But, whatever. I don't know how injuries got to be some big point.

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Me?! "I've got two guns, one for each of ya." --Doc

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Don't get me wrong.. I agree with what you're saying. Though there is a huge amount of American hockey players who aren't selfish.. but there are always some. A lot of them host hockey training leagues for little kids and stuff in the off season.. they're all over.. they even have some local to me, but they're up in Detroit.

The old.. and when I say that.. 5 years.. 7 years ago? Basketball people were true sportmen.. Larry Bird, Michael Jordan.. There will be no better memory in basketball than Michael Jordan.. the guy brought the league to the nation.. He wasn't selfish.

What's his name college kid from Cleveland. Only work Reeboks.. Nike offers him like 2 million a year more than Reebok to wear the shoes in the game and he switches.. I think it was like 68 million to 70 million endorsement.

All for the money.. So easily sold out. I personally don't buy Nike.. haven't in the last 8-10 years.

I was really mad when they ventured into Hockey equipment and purchased Bauer.

Their hockey equipment is just as good as some other medium to high brands, but their pricing is insane.

I use the 20-100 dollar sticks.. their sticks can easy reach 300 and be all wooden, meaning if it breaks, you're SOL.

I don't care for how expensive their equipment is.. the quality isn't as better than any other brand name.

I've been meaning to ask you, where are you at in Mexico??? I worked in Toluka for GM for 6 months, 5 years ago.... I was just wondering is all.....



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What's up RC.
I live in Juarez, It's a border city. I'm just a bridge away from El Paso TX.
How do you like my country?

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As I told you I live in Juarez, and what I like from here is that I have the best of 2 worlds, I have Mexico's flavor in Juarez, and when I need some shopping or I ordered something from the internet I cross to El Paso.

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Would you be interested in a lurid description of my 'equipment'?

Sex is great but it's no substitute for the real thing

I doubt even the entire form could contain the enormity of my nightmarish man-proboscis.

Sex is great but it's no substitute for the real thing

I didn't catch the name on it.. apparently it's something that all the weightlifters you see on tv have..

It's a very tight knit plastic type texture.. it's very tight so it compresses the muscles and causes a 'spring' when you move.. I thought it was stupid when I saw it.. but its also designed to keep your muscles warm like most other workout shirts.

I thought it was a load of crap.. and gave her crap about it since she had to rely on a shirt to help her out..

Next time I see her I'll have to get the name of it.