The Pens Can Smell the Cup; Bucco's On A Roll

3 in a row, 1 to go

The Penguins continue to impress. God gave me a call during the game to tell me he wanted his mistake back. I think he was referring to the Flyers. I just want to point out, that after watching these first 3 games that I want to let all the Flyers fans know...they were right. We didn't want to face them in the first round. We wanted to save the easiest chance of making it to the Cup for last. What is there really to say about last night? The defense was the best I have seen it in the playoffs thus far. Besides a garbage rebounder for RJ Umberger, it's a shut out. I think I looked at the screen at one point and saw the Pen's out shooting the Cryers 17-6. My my my. It was domination part III at the Wachovia Center. Ryan Whitney got things started off by taking a sick cross ice pass right on the tape from Crosby. Whitney held the puck for about a day and a half before cracking one off to make it 1-0. Less than 3 minutes later, Crosby then found Hossa who made the Flyers defense look like they had lost the draw strings in there shorts before firing a wrist shot that even Jesus would of been impressed by. 2-Love Penguins. RJ Umberger got the Flyers hopes alive with a garbage rebounder to make it 2-1. We played a pointless 2nd period to find no goals scored and to see the Flyers manage 2 shots on net. In the 3rd, with 10:02 left in the game, Ryan Malone punched home a rebounder himself to make it 3-1 Pittsburgh. The silent crowd behind Mike Lange's voice never sounded so sweet. That was until Marian Hossa buried an empty netter with all 75 Flyers fans left in attendance to moan one more time. Philadelphia's Stanley Cup Playoff slogan is "Why not us?". Um, well there's a reason...it's called offense, defense, and goal tending. You don't have it. Hey make sure you check out the picture of the jag off holding up the sign that says "Your Not That Good". Can someone please forward to him via face punch that the Penguins did just take a commanding 3-0 series lead and that they also shut down the entire Wachovia

Center for about 3 hours. Thanks.

The Bucco's are making a fun game out of this winning streak. The Pirates were leading 2-0 going into the 6th, via a Nate McClouth 2 run homer. Troy Glaus decided that the Pirates had been winning enough so he thought he should just go ahead and poke a 3 run home run himself. 2-3. The Buc's however took the lead again in the 7th from a Ronny Paulino double and Jose Bautista single himself. 4-3. Note: Ronny Paulino entered the game due to Ryan Doumit injuring his thumb while trying to handle a muffed pitch in the 2nd. The Cards' tied the ball game up with Albert Pujols 8th homer of the season. 4-4. Then came the 10th inning. Ronny Paulino again stepped up to the plate to drive in another crucial run. This time singling to center allowing Freddy Sanchez to score. 5-4. By the way, Freddy Sanchez is LOVING the lead off position, another 2-5 night with 2 runs scored. Meanwhile, with Jason Bay on 2nd, the Cardinals and ADD ridden coach Tony LaRussa managed to load the bases. That's when Adam LaRoche thought that then was a good time to send a telegram to the base of the center field wall. Rick Ankiel just seemed like he was running forever. LaRoche clears the bases full of Bucs and the Pirates win 8-4. The Pirates have now won 7 of their last 8 and are now 19-20. They were 4.5 back at the start of today. The ride to .500 is almost official. Now what do we gotta do to stay there?