The TSN Turning Point

What I want to see:

The Jays continue this drive, quietly vaulting over teams ahead of them in the standings until some media outlet south of the border finally realizes the Wild Card takeover and starts screaming "Colorado Rockies of '08!" over the broadband.

What I don't want to see:

The Jays continue this drive, quietly vaulting over teams ahead of them in the standings until some media outlet south of the border finally realizes the Wild Card takeover and starts screaming "Colorado Rockies of '08!" over the broadband.

Only to finish the season a runway model slim 1.5 games out of a playoff spot.

AJ won his career best 16th tonight and is still climbing. He's got more wins than Roy right now, and Doc is gunning for another Cy Young. The lads are 7.5 out of the WC with plenty of matches left against the squads ahead of them.

My message to them for the rest of the season:

If you're going to win, win. If not, save me a Maniwaki sized heartbreak and go 2- 35 the rest of the way.

Mo' Medals

Two silvers. One in trampoline and one in Equestrian show jumping, so really they should just count as one in total.

What's next?

Bronze in Bocce Ball?

At least the big news is that Chrétien managed to find his way back to the national stage, slamming the PM on his absence from Beijing. JC stated that if he was still Prime Minister, he wouldn't have "hesitated a second" in going to the games.

And who wouldn't want that?

One thing's for sure. He definitely would've deflected attention from Team Canada's slow start.





"Look out guy! Here I go!"

8 G Is Not The New iPhone

How about that Phelps character?

Watching the medley relay last night as 250 drunk, screaming Yanks crowded around the bar was one of those memorable Manwiwaki moments that definitely will enter the Hall. A convention of investment bankers from all over the States packed in, got fuelled up on Grey Goose and roared their heads off as Phelps and company took to the pool.

And what a race. For a while it was looking like Phelps was going to join Tom Brady and the 07/08 Pats in the near miss with history department, as Team USA fell to third around the middle of the race. When Phelps dove in and turned it on, the frenzy that ensued was so maniacal I was certain all his 250 country men were going to disrobe and jump into English Bay to swim around Stanley Park in solidarity.

It was a gong show with the gong made out of Olympic Gold. The mind numbing eight gold in one games for Phelps makes him the greatest Olympian of all time.

Hey, for Phelps (who's a monster hip hop fan), his performance can only be summed up by a titan of hip hop. Namely Dr. Dre. who famously rhymed:

"Aint' nothing but a G-thang..."















"That's some Dick Van Patton shit right there. Eight iz enough bitchezzz!"

Hey We Got One!

Three actually! A silver in rowing and a bronze and gold in women's wrestling. I didn't even know women's wrestling even existed! Good for us that it does!

Day 9.

Missed a bronze in shot put by a mere cm and the gals' soccer team got bounced.

What more can you say?

Nope.

SYM Around The World

Or "Shit Your Mound" to be more precise.

Looks like Team Canada's Softball team has read a page out of the Blue Jays playbook. Up 1-0 in the fifth only to collapse and give up a four spot to the Yanks who now lead 4-1.

The aforementioned Jays (now Scott Richmondless) held the Tigers by a 1-0 tally going into the seventh only to collapse and spot them five runs.

There has been some pretty bad ju-ju swirling around Maniwaki HQ lately. Perhaps I need to read The Secret.

Make Medal For Glorious Nation Of Canada

Fired up the old lappy to and zipped over to TSN where they were trumpeting that Canadian Mike Brown had an actual, legitimate shot at bringing home the nation's first medal.

Surfed back 10 minutes later to find that he narrowly missed the podium, finishing fourth. But who are we kidding? The official result might read fourth, but becuase Phelps wasn't even in the event, Brown really finished fifth.

As Chris Rudge, head of the Canadian Olympic Committee, tries to put out the increasing brush fires that have been springing up across the country, by urging Canadians to relax, I would like to present a list of countries that have more medals than Canada thus far:

GEORGIA
AZERBAIJAN
SLOVAKIA
KAZAKHSTAN
KYRGYZSTAN
ARMENIA
TAJIKSTAN
UZBEKISTAN

Never mind powerhouses China and The US, we are getting demolished on the world stage by Team Borat. And good for them.

Not Maniwaki Mobile - Disaster! The Sequel

Disaster! On set of mega epic blockbuster end of the world flick, Farewell Atlantis again today.

Disaster! My cell phone decided to implode thus making any mobile score checking/blogging as futile as Team Canada landing a medal in Beijing.

Disaster! An incredibly rare move in fantasy team as I decided to sit Papi this week. And of course he responded to being benched by cracking two three run jacks in the first inning against the Rangers in a 19-17 bomb fest.

Disaster!