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Bands playing themselves in Guitar Hero / Rock Band

Well this completes the turdriffic tri-fecta of this week.

1.)  One of my top three bars in the universe is closing. Rock Bottom Braintree - For a chain restaurant you were beyond words. And the 200+ pints I consumed over the past 3 years (thanks for keeping track by the way) were all amazing. I know I’ll be able to go to the one Downtown (which is definitely a lot closer to me) but the non-staple beers just are not in the same league.

2.)  Gil Santos is retiring from WBZ. At least we’ll still have him for play-by-play on ‘BCN. Still it’s sad to lose the coolest voice on radio.

3.)  And this is definitely the worst of all; my perpetual TV crush Ms. Pam Beesly - in a Yankees hat.

How to make even the hottest things look like shit.

I really don’t want to talk about it.

Okay I know that each team has to be represented by one player - even if that player is Mark Streit, and that the same group of fans who produced this pile of dog crap were able to get Komisarek, Markov, Kovalev, and Price in as starters meant that there wasn’t a lot of space left for #46. 

But as hockeybuzz.com mentions, we’re talking about a player who’s 11th in the league in points (7th in his conference) and 4th in the league in +/- (The other 3 players ahead of him are all on the B’s).

So while I completely agree with Eklund that its a complete outrage that he’s not at least playing in the young stars game (He reportedly wasn’t even asked), I think its even still outrageous that he’s not playing on Sunday either.

File this under: “Reasons I hate everything about the Montreal Canadiens.”

 Take a look at how the mighty David Ortiz has slipped in the past years. Pay especially close attention to the OPS+

Oh wait. He’s somehow got better every year for 5 years.

Hogwash you say. Last year his numbers were atrociously bad! We’re watching the fading glow of the star that is David Ortiz right before our eyes!

Its been a long time since my days of slugging homers in tee-ball, but I would assume it would pretty freaking hard to hit the ball well when your wrist is in a ton of pain, and making some weird clicking noise. So call me crazy, but I won’t hold Ortiz’s April with a gimpy wrist against him.

In the remaining months Mr. “Over the hill hit” .297 /.394/.559

Which when you look at it means he went from being the best and most well rounded hitter in 2007 - to - a .953 OPS (again after taking out April) which would have ranked him 1st amongst all left handed hitters in MLB.

My apologies to Callahan.