Rule 5 Sunday brought to you by the letter C

And the alphabet just keeps chugging along -- as we celebrate the C girls. Not C-list, at least I don't think they are. I guess that would be your decision.

How's that go? I present . . . you decide. heh

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Wherein I pat myself on the back for my prescience

The Lightning finally acquired a potential number one goalie as GM Steve Yzerman packaged three draft picks and one of our own underperforming goalies and sent them to Nashville for 6ft 6in goalie Anders Lindback.

Lindback had an impressive 2.42 GAA and a .912 save percentage in 16 games last season.  His win/loss totals were not jaw dropping, but he showed flashes of impressive ability that made Stevie Y think he might finally be the guy to get the Bolts back to the playoffs.

Not to be too haughty about all this, but this humble blog previously suggested that the Yzerman was stockpiling first round draft picks for just this reason.  Yzerman was lusting after the Canuck's Cory Schneider but he was pretty much unavailable now.  This looks to be the best deal out there without the Bolts going all Steinbrenner and just shoveling money at someone.

Woot!

Because its Father's Day . . .

I'm watching this thing on cable the other night titled "The other F word" and it is about punk bands that rose up in the late 80s and 90s and how they've hung on through the years.

The documentary, I suppose, focused mostly on a band named Pennywise and their lead singer Jim Lindberg.  Along with other guys from the Vandals, Blink 182, Black Flag and so on.  It was the usual bit about how tough it is to tour constantly and how their lives have changed growing up and having children of their own, etc.

At the end of the show, Lindberg decides he's going to quit the band to spend time with his wife and their three positively adorable daughters.  In the final voice over scene on the beach, we hear Lindberg saying how when he was in his twenties he thought that he could change the world by writing a punk song.  But now he thinks the best way to change the world is ". . . to raise better children."

I almost stood up and clapped!  Finally, a light comes on in at least one person from that self-absorbed nihilistic generation!

Happy Father's Day Jim and all you other fathers out there.

Hey, two in a row! How 'bout that?

The Red Sox beat the Marlins last night 10-2, behind yet another stellar outing from this season's pleasant surprise -- Felix Doubront.  Doubront went 7 innings, striking out 9 to raise his K total to 81 for the season.

The guys are still a game under .500 and 6.5 games out of first and four games behind the Rays who got their asses handed to them two straight games by the Mets to fall out of first and back to third place in the AL East.

Young Felix has a 7-3 record and a 4.17 era this season as a starter.  Very impressive for a second year guy who spent last year in the bullpen.  Doubront's given a series of quality starts and is giving the Sox some muscle at the back end of the rotation.

Very nice :-)

The guys head to Chicago to play a series with the Cubs, where former Sox GM Theo Epstein is now in charge of baseball operations, or some such grandiose title.  Here's hoping the Sox throw a major smackdown on Theo's new team in payback for the mess he left behind in Boston, the team he once couldn't wait to help win a title.

Speaking of the Cubs -- guess who's working his way through the Sox triple A system?  Mark Prior!  The former Cub phenom has been out of baseball for what, like 6 years?!  But the Sox gave him a chance to get back into the bigs, and word is Prior's lighting it up in the minors and could possibly find himself in the Sox bullpen before the year's out.

How cool would that be?

One of those inquiring minds things

I'm not saying there's any photoshop chicanery in this picture, but . . .

. . . considering just how full-figured this young lady is, I wouldn't think those suspenders would be wide enough to keep that image from being nsfw.

You know?

I see Boston is back in the cellar

I've been battling this bronchitis that's knocking everyone off their feet these days.  My office sounds like one of those 1800's era TB wards we always read about.

While coming home from work and just crashing the last few weeks, I see the Red Sox have clawed their way back into the AL East cellar.  Losing 7 of their last 8 games, the guys have dropped to either 6 1/2 or 7 games behind the streaking Rays and Yankees.

sheesh

Not sure what the problem is, but Clay Buccholz is on the mound tonight against the Marlins.  With the lack of offense these guy are generating, it looks like Clay's going to have to toss a shut out to get his team back in the win column.

depressing

Update:
And the Sox win 2-1 behind Buccholz's 7 innings of one run ball. Clay also struck out a season high 9 batters and finally looks to be rounding into form after a wretchedly slow start.
One run does not a streak make, but it's how they get started :-)

Rule 5 Monday -- brought to you by the letter B

This week's Rule 5 posting is just like the last Rule 5 posting except the lovely ladies are from the B directory.

Yeah, I know, this is some really technical stuff I got going on here. What can I say? I've been sick for three weeks, cut me some slack folks.

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