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:puke: King of the Hill :puke: Family Guy is funny, but crosses the line of indecency too often. The Simpsons has run its course. 12 years was more than enough, the last few years haven't been very good.

Comedy Central recently purchased the rights to air Futurama reruns, and as part of the deal, they have announced at least 13 new episodes will be created. Katey Sagal (Leela), Billy West (Philip J. Fry, Professor Hubert Farnsworth, Dr. John Zoidberg, Zapp Brannigan), and John DiMaggio (Bender) have signed on for the job already. The only bad news, the new episodes are not scheduled to air until 2008. Futurama Returns

While I am no Zhog fan, he's not a wimpy skilled Russian skater. From what I saw in the playoffs, he's a pretty good hitter and aggressive on his own end. The guy potentially ended Keith Primeau's career. If he stays in the organization, I'd like to see what he could do on the 3rd line with Bonk and Plekanec. I want to see the more offensively gifted Kostitsyn get 2nd line duty. With that said, I'd be fine with trading 16 OA and Zhog for one of the top picks.

While I am no Zhog fan, he's not the typical skilled Russian skater. From what I saw in the playoffs, he's a pretty good hitter and aggressive on his own end. The guy potentially ended Keith Primeau's career. If he stays in the organization, I'd like to see what he could do on the 3rd line with Bonk and Plekanec. I want to see the more offensively gifted Kostitsyn get 2nd line duty. With that said, I'd be fine with trading 16 OA and Zhog for one of the top picks.

I agree they were overrated, but they were still a solid enough team that they should have been able to get out of the group. Then again, who ever thought the Czechs wouldn't advance?

I won't be surprised if Bruce Arena is ousted after his team's poor performance in this World Cup. He's done a lot for USA soccer, but his managerial decisions were awful in this tournament. He didn't get his team ready to play against the Czech Republic. How difficult can it be to motivated a team in the World Cup? Against Italy, he had to fight the officiating, but he never brought Eddie Johnson onto the field. Johnson provided the team's only spark against the Czechs, and despite the fact that McBride was tired and they needed more speed with only 9 men, Johnson never even got onto the pitch. Against Ghana, he didn't bring in more offense at half-time. Down 2-1 and needing 2 goals to advance, how do you not go all out for the entire half. Idiotic to wait until the 60th minute, especially with how little scoring they had all tournament. And after struggling against the Czechs so much, why did they stick with the 4-5-1 formation? Johnson had been one of their most consistent scorers in qualifying and hardly saw the pitch. They had so few chances with such a defenisve formation. As for players, Landon Donovan showed why he saw nothing but the bench while playing in Europe. He was invisible for all three games. Beasley was invidible. Most of the team was invisible.

Seems like the US gets the uptight refs all the time. Their last two games have been called tighter than the other games I have seen. Bad calls both ways in this game and the last. I was unclear about the PK, but the announcers seemed pretty adamant that there was no foul. Reyna's an idiot.

First news I saw about him and Paris was out of Toronto.

Haha, it's only been the offseason for 1 day! The real offseason doesn't begin till the UFA period, with the entry draft as a preseason game.

Wow, what a blow to England. Michael Owen tore his ACL.

I don't think you have to worry about her becoming a fan. My bet is she only knows what a hockey puck is because it rhymes with something she does a lot....

I never thought my pet peave about homonyms would turn into such a heated debate.

We need a drooling smiley! If Perezhogin is needed to draft a guy like Brassard, I'm all for it. I like Kosty better than Zhog, so I'd be happy if Kosty takes Zhog's spot in the lineup.

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Just a note letting people know the silly grammar discussion we were having has been split and moved to the Lounge. We were getting just a bit off topic.

I'm not trying to insult anyone or make fun of anyone who has English as a second language. Most people on here do a superb job. It was not my intent to hurt any feelings. I was just standing up for the guy encouraging grammer, while other people were putting him down for it. Like I said, it's just one of my pet peaves. Homonyms are taught in like 3rd grade, and far too many people with English as a first langauge make themselves sound stupid by mixing up things such as: it's and its their and there your and you're to and too Call me irrational for those little things driving me crazy, but aren't most pet peaves at least somewhat irrational? Another one of my pet peaves is how people on TV always have apes on a show, but everyone calls the animal a monkey. A monkey have a freaking tail!

After Roloson went down in game one, I thought this series was going to be a real sleeper. Edmonton hung tough and showed a lot of heart, pushing it to an exciting game 7. If you went to bed after the 1st period, then that's just silly. The game was in question right up until Williams' empty netter. Bodies were flying and there were lots of good scoring opportunities. I agree the season ended too late, but that's because of the Olympic break. Next year it will be back to normal, and I'm sure they'll try to figure something better out next Olympics. And I'm still laughing at the conspiracy theories that Bettman is rigging the playoffs in an attempt to cement hockey in the southern US. You might have been able to get away with such silliness if Tampa and Carolina had been 7 or 8 seeds who just happened to make runs in the playoffs. Instead, both teams were among the best in the league all season and deserved to win.

Yes, but learning some basic grammar like this helps people take you seriously on a board. When I see someone trying to make a point and they have a silly error like that, it makes me wonder about the validity of the whole post if the person can't even distinguish betwee "your" and "you're." It's a very simple thing and just adds respectability if you use them correctly.

Thank goodness he is no longer with the Habs.

3,000!

Stanley Cup Winners: Carolina Hurricanes! Conn Smythe Winner: Cam Ward My 3000th post!

I admit, it ran through my head also that I wished someone else had scored the clincher. But at least it wasn't anything like McLaren's hit on Zednik back in 2002. To this day I can't stand McLaren.

At least it wasn't an intentional penalty. To me, all it did was show that the Habs lack team leadership and are not strong enough to overcome an injury to a single player. And if you think about it, Montreal really was outplayed in the two games they won. Carolina was the better team in Game 1, Montreal just happened to get all the best bounces. In my opinion, Ward won the series for them, Williams didn't lose it for us. And I gotta say, I agree with the Cane who was overheard yelling "F*** the refs!" as he lifted the Cup. The officiating in the 3rd period was brutal. They totally put the whistles away. The most obvious missed call was when Pronger hauled down Cole, which led directly to Edmonton coming down the ice and scoring their goal.

I was reading the other day that the league estimated revenues of 1.8 billion for the season. After everything is tallied, the figure looks to be around 2.1 billion. Looks like the lockout is working great for the owners. Too bad the players were so stinking greedy that they lost a whole season.

6-7 million in savings doesn't relate to having more money to spend on players anymore. Before the cap, the difference of the Canadian dollar would have had a significant impact, but not that there is a cap, it doesn't really mean anything. Now it just means they owners can make more profit on their team.