TheSloth

You can tell the season is over, we're being nice to each other.

Agreed. He'll be needed desperately to shank a penalty as England gets eliminated in a shootout. You know its coming. (jokes!, kind of)

If he's hurt, unlike Ollie, I hope he can make the worlds.

Looks like you may just get your wish Ollie. Who knows.

I emailed Booche yesterday with a 3-2 Habs victory followed by getting crushed in Pittsburg prediction but we shall see, this Habs team has been surprising to say the least.

Aaaaah well, gratz on the league title (Drogba is scum though). I can honestly say despite the fact Arsenal got within sniffing distance of first place before injuries took hold I can live with third. I was a little worried at the start of season with both ManCity and Aston Villa potentially coming on and I assumed Liverpool was going to tougher as well. (I didn't see Tottenham coming but good for them). Young team, looking forward to next year, would like to see the back line improved.

I got to see the Habs destroy the Capitals during the 1974-1975 season, can barely remember it but they got crushed and I think I was given a novelty hockey stick. (I actually got to see the Caps get crushed by lots of teams)

Don't get me wrong, I'm not coming close to putting him down, I've got nothing but time and I'd go see him spin. Really the fact we're disucssing dubstep at all is pretty amusing.

It's all coming up Booche. First the Habs then this..... (cut and pasted from espn because it's blocked at Booche's work) ALAMEDA, Calif. -- The Oakland Raiders released former No. 1 overall pick JaMarcus Russell on Thursday, ending a three-year tenure marked by his high salary and unproductive play on the field. Senior executive John Herrera told The Associated Press about the move and said that "we wish him well." The decision came less than two weeks after Oakland acquired Jason Campbell from Washington to take over at quarterback and signifies that owner Al Davis finally lost patience with the immensely talented but unproductive player he drafted first overall in 2007 against the wishes of former coach Lane Kiffin. Russell will now likely be considered one of the biggest draft busts in NFL history, joining Ryan Leaf, Ki-Jana Carter, Akili Smith and others on that list. He will have been paid more than $39 million by the Raiders, while producing only seven wins as a starter. Russell showed up at last week's minicamp, saying he would keep coming to work until told otherwise. He looked decent in the first of five practices last weekend but got less work as the weekend went on and the decision to cut ties was finally made. The Raiders paid Russell more than $36 million through last season. They still owe him $3 million more but saved $6.45 million by not having him on the roster in 2010. "Sometimes certain expectations aren't met, and certainly there's an opportunity for a young athlete to continue to get better," Les Miles, Russell's coach at LSU, told the New Orleans Times-Picayune for Friday's editions. "It's only my hope the opportunity for JaMarcus to land with a team that will invest in him and give him the opportunity to continue to develop. "I don't know the situation at Oakland. I would have expected him to have success early and late. Sometimes that doesn't work. Sometimes a guy needs more time to develop." Since the start of the common draft in 1967, only one other No. 1 pick was released this quickly in his NFL career. Indianapolis cut 1992 top pick Steve Emtman after three seasons but that was more because of injuries than production. Emtman played three more seasons for Miami and Washington. It remains to be seen whether any team will give Russell another shot. Davis believed Russell could turn the fortunes of his struggling franchise when he drafted him. He stood by him during his struggles, revealing when he fired Kiffin in 2008 that the coach did not want him. "He is a great player. Get over it and coach this team on the field," Davis read from a letter he sent Kiffin before the firing. "That is what you were hired to do. We can win with this team." But the Raiders were unable to win with Russell at the helm and Davis allowed Cable to bench Russell midway through last season. The move was popular in the locker room and gave the team a spark on the field as Bruce Gradkowski led comeback wins over Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. Davis was not satisfied with Gradkowski as his standard bearer and the Raiders were linked to possible offseason deals for Donovan McNabb and Ben Roethlisberger. While the Raiders downplayed how serious those talks ever got, they did make the move for another quarterback when they acquired Campbell from Washington for a 2012 fourth-round draft pick. The team showed confidence in Campbell by extending his contract through 2011, giving him a $4.5 million deal that season on top of the $3.14 million he is owed this season. Russell won only seven of his 25 starts as the Raiders extended an NFL-worst streak to seven straight seasons with at least 11 losses. He completed just 52.1 percent of his passes in his career with 18 touchdowns, 23 interceptions, 15 lost fumbles and a passer rating of 65.2. That means Russell has been paid more than $5 million per win, more than $2 million per touchdown pass and more than $100,000 per completion. While Russell's numbers are superior to Leaf's, he was paid considerably more money to do it and was picked first instead of second. Leaf's rookie contract guaranteed him only $11.25 million. Russell's tenure in Oakland got off to a rough start and never got much better. He held out his first season, not signing a contract until after the first game of the regular season. That made his rookie season almost a complete loss, as he started only one game. He showed some signs of progress in his second season, especially in winning the final two games of the year against Houston and Tampa Bay. But the problems of work ethic and his weight never disappeared and his third season was an utter disaster. He was fined for being overweight when he showed up at training camp. He then put together one of the worst seasons in recent memory for an NFL quarterback. He completed 48.8 percent of his passes, with three touchdowns, 11 interceptions and a 50.0 passer rating that was the lowest since Leaf, Bobby Hoying and Craig Whelihan all finished below 50 in 1998.

What a ref protecting himself when Booche isn't around may look like......

Badams, I think the last thing we need around here on a Friday is a voice of reason. Way to go.

Yeah but why would a whale take the bus when it could just spend a little more and ride the train and enjoy the bar cart.

Thankfully I was shit faced and sitting in booth at a bar with no clear view of the television for the third period when the Habs decided to play though really it's a winning formula, get outplayed for two but win one period and have Halak keep it close. The fans looked crazed. The amount of Habs jersey I've already had to deal with today is disturbing.

I'm going with Tungsten on this one. Not saying he's not talented (haven't seen him) but for me that isn't even close to the correct clip to carry a headline "Dubstep overlord" , that was pretty tame stuff and I kind had to push through it (though I agree with you on the fact Stash is a great track). Rather listen to Rusko and DZ is better than Rusko in my opinion but that's just my opinion. DZ - Old Timers (Tungsten I remember I promised you some DZ, I'll try to get that done)

Gotcha.

I think Lawrence Taylor changed how the game was played much more than Joe Green. Lawrence Taylor redefined the position as well as offensive and defensive mentalities. Joe Green was an amazing linemen in a long series of amazing linemen.

Oh no I hear you, celebrity is a strange thing. Almost as strange as you addressing comments from other people on other message board on this board. (just fucking with you, I totally agree with you)

Sturgeon fetish?

I don't think anyone even remotely implied that he was.

I used to sit back and watch him crush people and just couldn't understand why he couldn't be stopped and that's what it was all about, he just couldnt be stopped.

I just explained to my girlfriend for the second time in couple weeks what a legend LT was when we were watching some sort of celebrity intervention (the first time was when she forced me to watch "The Blind Side" (god awful movie) so I forced her to listen to me talk about Joe Theismann). Really too fucking bad, I know it's alleged but still awful stuff.

A Compton no less? Matty? Lol.

Jesus, slow news day in Rustico? I guess every day is a slow news day in Rustico. (just kidding, that's pretty cool, that stick is great)

Shouldn't be that hard, Alfie wants a ring pretty badly and I think he'd be up for anything that would help. I'm pretty sure we could get Tom Brady as well.

Potentially, you may be on to something. At least we've laid down the parameters to find out how far the curse reaches, maybe it's local.