You know the type-baseball over,football on weekends and no Devils.
On March 19th 2006,we went to a AHL game in Hershey Pa with the home Bears playing the visiting Albany River Rats.
The Rats were in their last season as the Devils top affiliate before the Devils bought the Lowell franchise,so that is why we were there.
Anyway without knowing it,it was Penn State night at the Giant Center.
And one of the two Penn State players there was Paul Posluszny.
Posluszny was coming off an excellent junior season that won him the Butkus award for best linebacker in the country.
My problem was this-as good as he was,he wasn't even the best linebacker in the CONFERENCE!
That honor belonged to the Buckeyes A.J. Hawk and Ryan,who rarely agrees with me on Big Ten football, was even in agreement.
And this night was before Hawk was a Packer draftee!
So after this PSU night was announced,Ryan,Rachel (love that girl) and I booed loudly just for Penn State.
That of course got some dirty looks from the many Lion fans in the crowd,but we didn't expect that was coming up during intermission.
Posluszny and another Lion came to center ice for an award,so naturally that led to yelling at him with gems such as "you didn't deserve it","A.J's better"etc.
The fans were getting a little upset,but then each player moved to the end of the ice for a contest of shooting the puck from the end into the center circle.
Kind of a shuffleboard on ice,LOL!
So,on his first try,he "tops " the puck and it goes far short of the circle.
So of course,I yelled "A.J. would have put it right in the center"!
That at least got a few laughs from our section,as Posluszny prepped for his second shot.
This was better and was on the outside fringe and drew cheers from most and light hearted boos from us.
Later in the game,they were introduced from their seats and we booed again and the best part was watching Paul point to us across the rink and laugh with his teammate about it.
Nice to see that he took it all in good fun and as a result,I don't even mind the guy,despite him being from Penn State!
BTW-The Bears won the game 2-1 and the pic is from that game.
Bullpen Notes
Here is an interesting column by Jim Litke on the mercenary aspect of the Boston Red Sox or as we know them here-New York Lite.
And we agree completely.
The Baltimore Blast ( an indoor soccer team) will televise four games on Maryland Public Television this season.
We aren't soccer fans and likely would not be a viewer,but kudos to MPT for adding something different to their station.
Now,for the next step,lets add an occasional baseball game from Bowie,Frederick or Hagerstown.
And finally,Pirates top prospect Andrew McCutchen is doing a blog from the Arizona Fall League,as is former Hagerstown Sun Justin Maxwell.
Their blogs and other players doing them can be reached here.
Photo Credit
Hockey-Harrisburg Patriot-News
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