Pens win, Some links and Video Game of the Week...

Well sports fans, first and foremost, congrats are in order for our Pittsburgh Pens who defeated the Senators last night 6-5 in a shootout. Jarko Ruutu scored the deciding goal on an amazing fake-then-thru-the-5-hole move that left Ottawa crying in whatever it is those damn Canadians cry in...

Player of the game goes to Ryan Malone, who scored two goals and was playing every shift like a man with a mission...The fourth line also looked pretty good, flying all over the ice and hitting anything that moved...We also overcame two seperate two goal deficits, which is a good sign for this team that has had it's heart questioned in recent weeks...Maybe this will be the turning point we're all talking about when we win the Cup...Maybe...

YEA!!! Somebody other then me scored a goal!!!

In football news, yesterday's games were about as exciting as a kick in the balls...Indy, Green Bay and Dallas all won, and all won pretty big...At least Brett Favre and the Pack are a feel good story in this era of Spygate, but I still think the AFC's best would eat their children...

In college football news, USC stayed alive in it's bid for another Rose Bowl birth by beating the hell out of Arizona St...JD Booty didn't play as his name would suggest, throwing for 375 yards and 4 TD's...It's kind of a shame Oregon might miss the Rose Bowl because of the injury to Dixon, but that's the way football is I guess...

Today is also Black Friday, aka the day my crazy mother wakes up at 2:30 AM to go shopping...Jesus H is she wild, but not as bad as those jagoffs going to Grove City at midnight last night...That's all we need; a bunch of overfed, overdrunk bastards driving 100 miles to go fight each other for bargains...I also learned from someone who went last year that most of the people who go are Canadian...I swear those bastards are invading our country one shopping outlet at a time...

Blame Canada...

Finally, check out MLB Trade Rumors, as they still believe Ian Snell is on the block...I don't know why anyone in their right mind would trade someone so young and so good, but if it brings us closer to winning (I don't really see how it can) I guess I'm ok with it...

I am going to post a new segment later today called Snack's Video Game of the Week, which will let yinz know what game the big guy is playing on the regular and why it's so sweet...Until lata...

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Snack's News and Notes #1...

I decided to show my boy Diego up and give yinz somethin to chew on this morning...Some are just little tidbits I've picked up here and there and others are links or news I think might interest yinz...I'd also like to thank Mondesi's House for his shout out yesterday. If you haven't checked out his site then you don't know what's up...

First and foremost, our boy over at What Would Tyler Durden Do? got some pics of the cheerleader from Heroes (Hayden Panetierre) running around the beach with her friends. I never would have guessed the girl from Remember the Titans would one day turn into this...

Robert Goulet, the crooner who is probably best known for some of the commercials he has done or for the Will Farrell parody on SNL, has died at the age of 73 while waiting for a lung transplant. He was a great entertainer, and a funny, funny man. Here's a classic Goulet commercial, and if you want to check out the SNL skit it's here.

So it turns out that one of the larger wildfires that recently ravaged California was actually set by a dumbass kid playing with matches. Someone needs to kick this kid's parents in the nuts for not teaching him that matches+brush= bye bye home. I'm just anxious to see how old this jagoff is and if they throw the book at him...I'll keep yinz updated.

Bucco Blog reports a rumor sending Jason Bay to the Brewers for a 19 year old prospect named Jeremy Jeffress, who has electric stuff but a bit of a drug problem has him on thin ice with the Brew Crew. Obviously, this is ridiculous, as the Pirates would never make a trade that could actually help the team. Plus, I don't see the Brewers giving up on a 19 year old kid that early in his career.

Sticking with the Buccos trade rumors, here's another interesting one...Ian Snell to Colorado? That one can't be true; how the hell can we get rid of good young pitching? If we're rebuilding, which we're sure to do, you can't let a 26 year old pitcher with an ERA under 4.00 go. Oh wait, this is the Buccos, if past experience tells us anything we'll probably trade him for Kenny Lofton and a retiree to be named later...

Until later today...

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