A Great Day for Pittsburgh

The Pirates today landed former Boston College catcher Tony Sanchez with the fourth overall pick in yesterdays MLB draft, the highest a BC player has ever been selected. Another BC player, Mike Belfiore, went 41 picks later to the D-Backs while my New York Mets took a kid from my former High School in left-hander Steve Matz. Belfiore could hit the majors first, as college relievers are often fast tracked, but Pittsburgh got the top catcher in the draft and someone who could hold his own defensively if called up tomorrow.

Oh and then there's that whole Stanley Cup thing.

In a series dominated by the team on home ice, the Penguins came up big. The goals came from the third line as both Crosby and Malkin were held scoreless (casual hockey fans can stop reading here) and the much maligned Marc Andre Fleury came up huge. Fleury, a younger and apparently more well toothed (though with the mask you really never know) Fleury compared to former Ranger Theoren, made a breakaway save on Dan Cleary with under two minutes remaining which kept the Pens up one and immediately was noted not just for the great save but for its utter importance from everyone who I watched the game with, even those who preferred the simulcast offering of Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay to the Stanley Cup. While Fleury was saving the season of his team and an entire city doomed to watch the Pirates for the next three months, I'm pretty certain Harold and Kumar were leaning in to the crotch area of man named "Big Bob" with the intent to fellate, but really who's keeping track of such things?

Rob Scuderi cemented the win for the Pens by helping his buddy Fleury out and breaking out the padless-butterfly to defend the net with his goaltender laying sprawled on the side of the crease. At this point Harold and Kumar were getting urinated on by a Klansman or doing mushrooms with Barney Stinson or something.

The NHL. Where Ruslan Fedotenko being more important than Doogie Howser happens.