FTB - Happy Thanksgiving Americans
by PPP on Nov 27, 2008 10:01 AM EST
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PrintHey Americans, enjoy your day off and the turkey and being thankful. We'll be up here trying to look busy and avoid getting dinged by the financial meltdown that you guys caused. We're just thankful that 53% of you smartened up. Not that your Thanksgiving date makes sense. The harvest came in weeks ago!
- Junior wrote an opus on Burke and other candidates that could have been hired.
- 11 people voted wrong in this poll so far.
- Hey look, Greg Brady replied to one of TSM's commenters again. Not that he replied to my e-mails after the first time. Jerk.
- There's a Battle of Ontario liveblog going on and I'll be there and here in the intermissions until I have to go play soccer.
- And apparently there's a problem with the most important team in the league getting some media attention when making the most important hire in club history.
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Anybody know what George McPhee’s contract status is with the Caps? I tried to figure that out for my post on the Burke decision, but either my Google skillz weren’t sufficiently well-developed to produce an answer, or the answer to this question is a closely guarded national secret (and, because I am not a 14-year old in a Hollywood movie, I cannot access with six keystrokes from the family Commodore 64).
I emailed JP at Japers Rink, but I’m assuming he’s a little busy with the transition to the new blog and all.
jrwendelman
The Artist Formerly Known as "Junior", who blogs at http://www.heroesinrehab.ca/blog
"But if someone so eager to engage into fist talk, we can always meet after season end in Minsk." (Mikhail Grabovski and a well-meaning but not particularly skillful translator)
According to the Washington Post archives, McPhee signed a deal in 2005, unfortunately the article doesn’t list the term. I would guess, at minimum, it would be a three year deal with a club held option for a fourth.
Bitter Leaf Fan: a life-long Toronto Maple Leafs fan comments on the team, the media and the exasperation...
Thanks for the info...
jrwendelman
The Artist Formerly Known as "Junior", who blogs at heroesinrehab.ca/blog
"But if someone so eager to engage into fist talk, we can always meet after season end in Minsk." (Mikhail Grabovski and a well-meaning but not particularly skillful translator)
This other teams fans bitching about how Toronto getting all the media has returned to being funny in my eyes.
Do they really not know why? Does it really not make sense to them?
Because Taking The Leafs Seriously Is Not An Option
by JaredFromLondon on Nov 27, 2008 10:51 AM EST reply actions
Not that your Thanksgiving date makes sense. The harvest came in weeks ago!
Stupid Purtains
Making stuff up since real Leafs news is far too depressing
As an American
who loves the leafs and checks this Pension Plan Puppets thing daily, can I be the first to say: “America still has a harvest?”
Happy U.S. Thanksgivng, sorry about the financial meltdown, and Go Leafs Go!
I'm too country for Terrelle Pryor.
by NewJackCity on Nov 27, 2008 11:36 AM EST up reply actions
GO LEAFS
American in Canada for colleging
Making stuff up since real Leafs news is far too depressing
Welcome?
I could use another stat holiday between Oct and Christmas
"God's in His heaven. All's right with the world." - Robert Browning (1812-1889)
Thanks
As a Leafs fan who has never lived in Toronto, or Canada, I rely on the internet pretty heavily to follow the team. This site has been great.
I'm too country for Terrelle Pryor.
by NewJackCity on Nov 27, 2008 11:57 AM EST up reply actions
Welcome
Thanks for joining.
Pension Plan Puppets: A Toronto Maple Leafs blog and a group therapy session.
Where is
the Chatty Cathy? It’s gotta be noon EST, and I can’t find it!
by Karina on Nov 27, 2008 12:07 PM EST reply actions
delicious even
Because Taking The Leafs Seriously Is Not An Option
by JaredFromLondon on Nov 27, 2008 12:10 PM EST up reply actions
I did it
and this may be more suited for Chatty Cathy, but it does have to o with Thanksgiving:
Making stuff up since real Leafs news is far too depressing
As one of the 53%
I would like to thank PPP, Chemmy and everyone who makes this site so much fun, interesting and educational. I like our date better because it means I get my birthday off every couple of years. I am not a mortgage broker, stock broker or republican congressman so I feel no responsibility for the economic meltdown, but I will be spending freely this holiday to do what I can to help. Today’s schedule: football, turkey, football, turkey, football, pumpkin pie, LEAFS….what a day!
Proving at least one peson in the South CARES about hockey!
Great Schedule
Time of trouble = Spend!
Pension Plan Puppets: A Toronto Maple Leafs blog and a group therapy session.
Um… do people outside of Toronto not realize that they’re all hicks? Maybe I’m insulated having not ventured north of Bloor in like a decade but the reason TSN and CBC and everyone else pays so much attention to Toronto and the Leafs is because Toronto is the only important part of the country and the rest of Canada just exists to provide us with oil for our cars, hops for our beer, french strippers for our gentlemen’s clubs, and farmboys for our blueline. They should be kissing our asses for letting them call themselves citizens of the country that contains the awesomeness that is Toronto. Wake up everyone who is not a Leafs fan and has an area code other than 416 and a postal code that doesn’t start with M – you suck, we rule, and TSN exists to provide us with news about our teams. If we ever get an NFL team they’ll finally be able to stop using highlights from out of town games as filler… we can only dream!
by Wendel's Moustache on Nov 27, 2008 12:19 PM EST reply actions
Yeah!
Stupid new area code…
Pension Plan Puppets: A Toronto Maple Leafs blog and a group therapy session.
519
REPRESENT!
Because Taking The Leafs Seriously Is Not An Option
by JaredFromLondon on Nov 27, 2008 12:22 PM EST up reply actions
Yes Mable, Yes
Because Taking The Leafs Seriously Is Not An Option
by JaredFromLondon on Nov 27, 2008 12:28 PM EST up reply actions
NEVER! I shall not renounce my bushman status. The wilds of London are my home, now I’m off to trap some beavers and fight off some Injuns!
Because Taking The Leafs Seriously Is Not An Option
by JaredFromLondon on Nov 27, 2008 12:36 PM EST up reply actions
for the record
I did say anyone who is NOT a Leafs fan and doesn’t have a 416 (and I suppose 647) area code is lame and/or of weak character and questionable parentage. So yeah, still okay…
by Wendel's Moustache on Nov 27, 2008 12:38 PM EST up reply actions
I'm 905
But my cellphone is 647.
"God's in His heaven. All's right with the world." - Robert Browning (1812-1889)
It's like we're TWINS!
Won’t you be my, won’t you be my, won’t you be my neighbour?
Leaf, the universe and everything.
519 like whoa
Big Smoke Sports - We Burn The Buds, Roll The Raps, and Smoke The Jays
by Archimedies on Nov 27, 2008 12:48 PM EST up reply actions
Yo, Yo
/flashes secret 519 gang-style sign to Jared
jrwendelman
The Artist Formerly Known as "Junior", who blogs at http://www.heroesinrehab.ca/blog
"But if someone so eager to engage into fist talk, we can always meet after season end in Minsk." (Mikhail Grabovski and a well-meaning but not particularly skillful translator)
Thug life playa!
Because Taking The Leafs Seriously Is Not An Option
by JaredFromLondon on Nov 27, 2008 1:03 PM EST up reply actions
word
Because Taking The Leafs Seriously Is Not An Option
by JaredFromLondon on Nov 27, 2008 1:06 PM EST up reply actions
yes, yes, by all means
“word”
jrwendelman
The Artist Formerly Known as "Junior", who blogs at http://www.heroesinrehab.ca/blog
"But if someone so eager to engage into fist talk, we can always meet after season end in Minsk." (Mikhail Grabovski and a well-meaning but not particularly skillful translator)
hmmmm… well I suppose… but that’s as far as I’m willing to bend
by Wendel's Moustache on Nov 27, 2008 12:22 PM EST up reply actions
I am thankful for Ron Wilson, Luke Schenn, Mikky Grabs, Nikky Hagman, Doug Gilmour, Felix Potvin, Thomas Kaberle, and of course Wendel Clark
Because Taking The Leafs Seriously Is Not An Option
by JaredFromLondon on Nov 27, 2008 12:20 PM EST reply actions
No off-topic
Chitty-Chatty Gang Bang today?
Big Smoke Sports - We Burn The Buds, Roll The Raps, and Smoke The Jays
see the fanpost, thar she be
Because Taking The Leafs Seriously Is Not An Option
by JaredFromLondon on Nov 27, 2008 12:53 PM EST up reply actions
dominous
Big Smoke Sports - We Burn The Buds, Roll The Raps, and Smoke The Jays
by Archimedies on Nov 27, 2008 12:54 PM EST up reply actions
People are so full of fail
"God's in His heaven. All's right with the world." - Robert Browning (1812-1889)
Pimping my own status;
I was Puck Daddy’d and a few of you might enjoy what I wrote http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_daddy/post/Turkey-Day-celebration-What-we-re-thankful-for-?urn=nhl,125227
Ain't nothing but puck drops and poke checks, babydoll.
by Wrap Around Curl on Nov 27, 2008 1:04 PM EST reply actions
Nice Thought
I liked the Pensblog and Leahy’s too.
Pension Plan Puppets: A Toronto Maple Leafs blog and a group therapy session.
Today I am thankful that the coffee at work is free, because I have it on IV….
Leaf, the universe and everything.
Stand up straight like letter 'I'..
head held back and shoulders high…
if you stand like letter ‘C’,
Curly-wurly you will be…
Big Smoke Sports - We Burn The Buds, Roll The Raps, and Smoke The Jays
Looks like Burke is in
Sportsnet reports a 6-year deal as President and GM. Let the new era begin. Go!
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