Imma fixin’ ta dust off mah interweb camera jest fer bubba.

You have got more classy visitors than I have time.

Baroque’s vocabulary is certainly admirable, but her sense of humor is priceless.  Such a great find, why would I not look for more diamonds in your coal mine?

I think the Sailor may have an incentive for you. 

Check back every minute for updates, you see, I need the hits!!!

Or you could check back around 645p-7p ET, at which time “The Incentive” should be posted.

Hay, I haven’t stopped hanging around here, either.

I think my computer is becoming my significant other.

And I’ve decided to name it Hal.

(The sad thing is, intellectually my relationship with my computer is more fulfilling than those with some of the guys I’ve dated.  Does that make me pathetic or them losers?)

There are alot of losers out there, I am hoping you only met a few of them.

Alright, Paul, I’m intrigued. I’ve offered my two-year-old a cookie if she’ll sit here pressing the refresh button for the next 20 minutes.

Now I feel obligated to say something about how her presence is unlikely to lower the level of discourse around here...but that would just be mean.

Chief: are drugs too obvious as a method to spice things up? Andrew and I are already there...wait, where are we man…

Perhaps we can join an opposing live blog and create, you know, a civilized discourse between two invested groups. Perhaps such actions are the everyday practices of world peace through rational communication.

but they should be able to read and write though...damn...this close to perpetual peace and we lost it…

Baroque: Intellectually satisfying relationships are to be had wherever possible, and a computer is as good a place as any. Perhaps a scholar in the humanities should be tried? wink, wink, nudge, nudge…

Nobody believed my New Zealand story,…

Trust, but verify. Well, the sheep ain’t talking. I’m just saying.

Now, what to wear to a liveblog with incentives?!

Chief, thanks for the plug! And I believed the New Zealand story, if it means anything to you.

As for spicing up the live blog? I was going to suggest alcohol, but someone beat me to it. Besides I’m living off ramen noodles these days. Alcohol is a rich man’s luxury. After that, I got no ideas.

since i’m broke and can’t afford cable, i will be watching the game at one of the two Red Wings bars that i know of in SF.  nothing like being in a room full of Wings fans 2500 miles from the Mitten. 

bartender told me last time that she owes me a beer.  hopefully that carries over.

I read everything you write...and more.  There is so much to read in fact that I haven’t written in about a month. There has been no- one to ague with about the team...This whole season to me has been like seeing that perfect Tetris piece appear on the screen...but I have to waite at least 98(?) games for the peice to fall and clear the screen. But I know it’s already there...’cept...you know...something could happen.

Excited
scared shitless
me

Alex, consider yourself lucky.  I can’t find a decent hockey bar - much less a Wings bar - in San Diego.  People around here still think there’s a lockout.

Gabe, I can ask around for you.  Lots of Sailor hockey fans out there.

my folks live in San Diego (North County) and i spent my years age 9-18 there.  as for hockey bars, i can’t think of many off hand.  maybe head to my folks house (i’m slowly talking my father into following the Wings again).  also, i never lived in SD when i was of drinking age.

there are a few in LA if you want to make the trek.

Gabriel...There is a lockout..it’s us!  Since the Gulls flew away hockey is a tough topic here in Amerika’s finest city.  I know one bar in Pt Loma that will put on the games on Versus.  Otherwise I stay home with Direct TV listen to Mick and his sidekick on FSN Deetroit. 

If it’s any consolation under Little Gary’s rules you and I are Duck fans.  That’s why the Wing games are blacked out on Direct when the boys come out west.

Perhaps this is a bit unimaginative, but how about you make a post, you take a shot! No telling how that would wind up, but I bet it wouldn’t be “stale” by the end of the night.

I wasn’t going to drink tonight, but if it’s what I have to do for the team, I’ll make the sacrifice.

Pete, I was a student once, and had to drink nasty Black Label beer for a dollar a 6 pack.You can get a quart of Icehouse for $1.29, 2 of those will put your drivers liscense at risk. It’s not Remy Martin, but it will get the job done.

We’ll all just have to be on the honor system, I suppose

As long as everyone stays away from the infamous Natty Bo (National Bohemian).  ‘Course, I only saw that particular brand around Baltimore.

Perhaps a scholar in the humanities should be tried? wink, wink, nudge, nudge…

Right now, srt, I am quite happily unattached (except for my laptop Hal, of course).  Don’t get any ideas.

Ken Daniels just told a barely literate Terry Crisp that Ken Holland has nearly five million to work with.  I mention that (a) to get out of folding laundry with my wife and (b) because I think the number we’d been hearing was closer to four.  Attribute that--I THINK--to where we are in the season. 

Now, does that mean that when the deadline rolls around it could be closer to 5.5?

That shorthanded goal was a good poke-check and a bad bit of luck.