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# FTB - The Saturday Boy
- URL: https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/ftb-the-saturday-boy/
- Published: 2008-07-05T13:30:06.000Z
- Updated: 2008-07-05T13:30:06.000Z
- Author: Michael Forbes
- Tags: #chorus, #Import 2023-04-05 11:27

I can't believe when PPP asked me to help out with the guest hosting gig, I didn't think to remind him that I don't work Saturdays.

There's a mistake I'll never make again.

When I was a kid back in the 70s, Saturday Mornings were hands down the best time of the week. No guest blogging, no school, no plans, just a big bowl of honeycomb or apple jack cereal and loads of craptastic American kids programming from sun-up until noon(ish).

On Saturday mornings you didn't have to rely on [Commander Tom](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander%5FTom%5FShow?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) (or some other the b-list talent) to host a kids show. It was just four or five hours of product-placement/latest toy tie-in really lame cartoons.

Once the cartoons were over, the neighbourhood kids would gather to play pong or the Atari 2600 Kombat game.

It may have been a simpler time. There weren't hundreds of digital channels offering targeted programming to kids, tweens, teens and everyone else, but at least the Leafs still pretty much sucked (I kid, I kid. They had some rocking teams back then with Sittler, MacDonald, Palmateer, Salming...and then it all went horribly wrong).

FTB/MSM update:

- Jared pens an [open letter to Bryan McCabe](http://diehardblueandwhite.blogspot.com/?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)
- It's official, the Leafs mystery D-man is [Jonas Frogren](http://torontosun.com/Sports/Hockey/2008/07/04/6070276.html?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)
- The Leafs have renewed [RFA Mikhail Grabovski's contract](http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gqsI-77lX7RgwET7NGJ2efYsjfhA?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) \- no word on whether the contract specifies if his last name ends in an "i" or "y"
- [Nieuwendyk should be on the Leafs staff by next week](http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080702.wleafs03/BNStory/GlobeSportsHockey/?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) (see last para)
- [Kevin Lowe claims he's all rubber and Burke is glue](http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=242532&lid=headline&lpos=topStory%5Fnhl&ref=pensionplanpuppets.com), Leafs Nation to begin waivering over Burke's credentials in three minutes or less.../

And since I got stuck working this weekend, here's your assignment Leaf fans:

Could Grabovski's acquisition be a key to the Leafs' future shoot-out success?

I did my darndest to turn up AHL shoot-out stats, but came up blank.

I did find plenty of headlines that suggested Grabovski's had a lot of success with the shoot-out and Lord knows it's a part of the game the Leafs desperately need to improve on...

If anyone can turn up the stats or wants to take a shot at compiling them from game records, please post your findings in the comments here or pop on over to [my blog at bitter leaf ](http://www.bitterleaf.blogspot.com/?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)and send an e-mail/comment to me.

Thanks and have a wonderful weekend...I'm heading off to the land before time (my parents' house) where internet is but a rumour, so I won't be able to update missed links, typos, broken links, breaking news. Hopefully it will be a quiet weekend on all fronts.