Short post before the Jays and White Sox get underway:
- Game 5 goes between the Sabres and Hurricanes tonight. Apparently it's been rougher off the ice than on. Incidentally, it's probably much worse at NFL games, but you never hear anything about that in the U.S. media -- but hockey's foreign, so it's open to attack.
- Jays-White Sox: Toronto hasn't swept a series all season and now it's taken two of the defending World Series champs. Yours truly is on the record with an optimistic prediction that Ty Taubenheim will get his first big-league win, and will stick to that.
- With Curt Schilling getting his 200th career win last night, it's a good time to ask: Is he worthy of the Baseball Hall of Fame, even though he campaigned for George W. Bush in 2004? I'm half-kidding, but it's worth noting that of the 10 most similiar pitchers to Schilling (according to Baseball-Reference.com), only one, 1920s star Dazzy Vance, is in the HOF. The rest are guys who had a few Hall of Fame-level seasons but didn't or may not survive the test of time: Kevin Brown, former Blue Jays David Cone and Jimmy Key, Mike Cuellar, Mike Mussina, and most interestingly, Doc Gooden. Somehow Schilling and Gooden are deemed similar, although the former has had his greatest success after turning 30 and the latter was a shell of his younger self by the time he hit the big Three-Oh.
- Leafs fans take note: Saviour-in-waiting Justin Pogge received Canadian Hockey League goalie of the year honours yesterday. He's going to look good in blue and white next season -- albeit it with the Marlies.
- The Indianapolis 500 is today. Time was, people actually cared.
That's all for now. My time is up. Here's Chilliwack.
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