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Jays get the run after all. 4-3.

Ovie eliminated last night. The Capitals have only made it past the 2nd round once in Ovechkin's 20 year career, that being the Cup year of 2018.

My dream for tonight is that the Tigers pound the Jays and as dejected Jays fans leave the stadium they rub shoulders in Maple Leaf Square with wailing Leafs fans distraught that the Leafs are being knocked out of the playoffs in Florida.

I've also heard rumours of a stomach bug or food poisoning - that's the theory of my daughter's boyfriend too - but that may just be wishful thinking from fans who can't accept their team is collapsing again for no good reason.

Red Sox announcers have the sads.

Two higher ranked teams - Washington and Winnipeg - down 3-1 in their series will try to stay alive tonight. This is my favorite time of year on HFBoards because invariably a fan of a team facing a big deficit will pull out the “Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor” line. And then without a fail a bunch of Swedes or Finns will jump in to say how stupid are Americans and Canadians for not knowing it was the Japanese. Europeans really need to become better educated in classic film history.

The Wings’ years of playoff disappointments were shorter though. Playoff streak started in 1992 and they won a series. By 1995 they were in the SCF, another conference final in 1996 then the Cup in 1997. And those regular seasons were great - #1 overall in 1995 and 1996. In contrast, this is the Leafs’ 9th straight year in the playoffs starting in 2017 and only have two first-round series wins to show for it. Their regular seasons have been good or very good but not great - two division titles, started on the road in the 1st round five of those nine years, never higher than #4 overall in the t regular season. I agree though about keeping Matthews and that they need to be less soft - Marchand would have helped.

Matthews has 3 goals in past 21 playoff games.

And of course Skinner then goes out and posts back to back shutouts to close out a 5-game series win. Just like everyone would have predicted.

Last night was beautiful. Leafs fans were too stunned and beaten down to even boo much, they just walked out midway through the 3rd.

Or Week 8, Bye (October 26) could have shown inside of Comerica Park to represent all of us taking a Lions break to watch the Tigers in the World Series.

If the Tigers simply play .500 the rest of the ball they still win 88 games.

Dan D's call of the walkoff hit. malloy walkoff over bosox.mp3

If the season ended right now, the AL Central would have two wildcard spots with the Twins and A’s tied for the third wildcard.

So who is going to be the Wings’ Javy Baez, lol. Compher? Tarasenko?

This is superb. Only thing I might have put in there for a bit to add to the TWIB vibe would have been making part of Javy’s trot in slow motion. But that many have wrecked the timing.

I won’t be happy until the jovial bullpen cop from 2013 is crying.

Tigers are 7-1 against the AL East.

The comeback player of the year for one of the best walk off comebacks of the year!

It’s great and I just listened to it but unfortunately can’t upload it at moment as I am out

So what's the early betting line on voters inducting Rose at the first opportunity? Or the over-under on how many votes he'll get? Was getting hard for MLB to resist re-instatement now that they've gone full hog into sports betting.

I thought sure taking the Oilers to Game 7 of the SCF would have been riding off into the sunset moment. How much desire can the guy still have for a new challenge at the age of 69.

A woman, who happens to be an alum of my daughter's former high school, made a documentary Finding Big Country to see what Reeves is up to these days. Sounds like a pretty good guy, even if he was dismal as the franchise's first ever pick. He's retired to a farm somewhere in Oklahoma I believe. The real subject of Vancouver fans' ire to this day is Steve Francis who slagged the city and refused to play here when drafted #2 overall, and Michael Heisley who moved them to Memphis. Vancouver wasn't really meant to have an NBA team though anyways, it seemed to have happened by accident in the first place. https://findingbigcountry.com/ https://findingbigcountry.com/we-the-west/

Dirks just said Baez had a little dink.

Dan Dickerson’s call of the Greene play. Greene Circles Bases.m4a