Is it the Conference Finals already? It seemed like just yesterday, we were on the eve of the first round of playoffs and people were already writing off the Montreal Canadiens in the playoffs against their higher seeded opponent. As we fast forward a month later and two Cinderella upsets by this season's playoff media darlings, those same Habs are once again in tough down 2 games in their series against the Philadelphia Flyers. A team which has faced about the same amount of adversity as the Canadiens considering they needed the 82nd game of the regular season to clinch a playoff spot.
So who is it going to be? If you have been scoring at home, you'll probably have a small guess at who I'm taking in this one but don't let that be the reason why you listen to this week's podcast. We're also looking at the West and 1-2 seeds going at it. The most special part of the Break Even podcast though this time around, is that we have brought out one of our friends, EvK to bring some of his insight to our usual two-man operation.
So please enjoy the sultry sounds of KD, myself ASam and our special guest EvK in our round 3 NHL Playoff predictions.
Break Even - NHL Playoff Round 3
P.S. I probably should have mentioned it earlier but our usual accompanying NBA playoff podcast is unavailable at this time due to some technical difficulties.
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Thursday, May 20, 2010
Monday, May 03, 2010
Playoff Podcast Round #2
KD is finally back home after his little stint in the city of Calgary. He took the time out of his decontamination schedule to do a couple of podcasts featuring the round 2 playoffs of both the NBA and NHL. In the two podcasts, we review our round 1 predictions, look to round 2 and give a shout out to a special someone. We've also added some production value in the form of some intro music. Tell us what you think of the music and/or the rest of the podcast. Remember "Thumper rules" do apply though.
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Break Even - 05 - NHL Playoffs Round #2
Break Even - 06 - NBA Playoffs Round #2
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Break Even - 05 - NHL Playoffs Round #2
Break Even - 06 - NBA Playoffs Round #2
Saturday, May 01, 2010
Let's Get Ready to Rumble: My first live running blog
Here I am coming live from my man cave, full with 2 computers and a plate of half eaten Szechuan chicken and rice. It was a delicious meal and I'm glad to say I'm full. I think I'll need it, as I'm going to try to live blog the Floyd Mayweather and Sugar Shane Mosley fight. I mean I've read a whole bunch of live blogs over the years and have always thought to myself; "how hard could it be?"
9:00 pm - After 3 day of internal debate, I have caved and gave into the 3 to 1 odds Mosley is offering on some sports betting sites. Now if only I had an account...
9:05 pm - They just introduced Muhammad Ali. A legend among legends for sure. I do not have much to say about him, due to my age I was never really able to revel in his aura as one of the most entertaining athletes of any generation. Today's generation of athletes have attempted to jump into that level of being an entertainer ,as well being a dominant athlete with only mixed results. In the world we live in today athletes sit back and try to connect to the masses with their thumbs through twitter or other types of social media. Ali relied simply on the old age mediums of radio and television. Radio and television?!?!?! Radio stopped being relevant to many people about a decade ago and TV is slowly being put up against the ropes right now (hey this is boxing blog right?). With that being said, when Ali used those two mediums you knew it was just Ali and only Ali. Today's athletes who try to transcend their sport by being a celebrity hire themselves a PR agent or something of the sorts. Ali was his own PR agent for the better or the worse, but mostly for the better. So when they talk about him being the G.O.A.T., it was for more than his work in the ring.
9:08 pm - P. Diddy is wearing two huge diamond studded crosses, cause he is obviously twice the Christian you are.
9:20 pm - Chris Brown doing the national anthem? All I can say is "Really?" There were definitely some boos when he was introduced to the ring to sing the American National anthem. I must say they should reserve the national anthem for woman singers only. Not to say I'm much of a singer myself or a top notch judge like Simon Cowell but yeah that was kinda off.
9:24 pm - Sugar Shane Mosley is being introduced to the arena. To tell you the truth I'm more excited for Mayweather's intro just because I'm curious to see if he can out do his intro in the fight against De La Hoya where he came out with 50 cent and wearing red-white-green colourway complete with a sombrero.
9:28 pm - Mayweather is stalling. They cut to a feed of him in his locker room repeating to wait til the circus starts.
Thankfully the circus did start, full with an Elvis with a white face on stilts.....The O'Jays walked down the the way to the ring singing the apprentice theme song, "Money, Money, Money.....Money". Ah, I get it your nickname is money so you get them to sing the song as you come out and will walk away in excess of 35 million for fighting Mosley. It's hard to believe that a Mayweather vs. Pacquaio fight would profit Mayweather more. Where would they fight? Yankee Stadium?
9:32 pm - Buffer time!!!!! Wait did he just do a small plug for Iron Man 2? I must admit I haven't even watched Iron Man 1 yet. I should get on that if Michael Buffer is going to suggest I watch Iron Man 2. Without further ado, "Let's get ready ...". I won't lie I'm still a bit mad he decided to copyright that, but at the same time if that is your only money maker you might as well. Especially when his brother decided to get into the same profession on his success. That's success when other family members join your profession due to your own success. Think of Frank Lucas'(Denzel Washington) in American Gangster.
9:35 pm - Round 1: You know those hairs on the back of your neck? No there are no dead people, that's just 3 to 4 months of hype. After that first round, the one thing that all the analysis we have seen of the two fighters over the last 3 months is the hand speed of Mayweather. His red boxing gloves become red flashes during his 1-2 combinations that solidify that boxing is truly his natural born professional.
9:41 pm - Round 2: Mosley finally catches Mayweather with a right hand. The crowd erupts. No less than a minute later the defense of Mayweather deteriorates further and Mosley caught him an even more impressive blow in which Mayweather's knees buckle to the jubilation of the crowd.
9:48 - Round 3-4: At the start of Round 3, Mayweather realizes he finally has to start boxing or he'll start to get behind on the cards. Also in response to Mosley hitting him harder than anyone has hit Mayweather in close to 2 years.
10:00 pm - Rounds 5-7: After rounds 3 and 4 if you're rooting for Mosley or at least had money on him you expect him to come after Mayweather. Unfortunately Mosley is unable to rally and sustain pressure on the quicker and more agile Mayweather. Mayweather is still getting the majority of the power hits in. One more thing Mayweather must be enjoying is seeing Mosley starting to gasp for air in between their small clashes.
10:04 PM - Now the talking begins, Mayweather will always win.
10:08 PM - Mosley is trying to turn this into a brawl to get Mayweather out of his defensive game but it's hard to say Mosley has enough him to keep up the barrage of attacks on Mayweather's defense.
10:18 pm - Oh Mosley, valiant effort but looks like Mayweather's only competition can't do drug testing.
10:21 pm - Round 12: Mosley is going for broke!!! I think that phrase can't be used when Mosley too is going to receive a nice payday after this fight regardless of the result.
10:22 pm - it's over! Time for some more Buff. Even though it isn't all that necessary at this point, there isn't too much drama as they go to the scorecards. For my unofficial card I'd say Mayweather had about 9 if not 10 of the 12 rounds. The only definitive round Mosley had was the 2nd.
With that, there is only one thing boxing can do to stay afloat with the UFC dominated sports is have a Pac-Man vs. Money fight. It might be the only the fight that maybe able to get me away from home to actually watch a fight.
9:00 pm - After 3 day of internal debate, I have caved and gave into the 3 to 1 odds Mosley is offering on some sports betting sites. Now if only I had an account...
9:05 pm - They just introduced Muhammad Ali. A legend among legends for sure. I do not have much to say about him, due to my age I was never really able to revel in his aura as one of the most entertaining athletes of any generation. Today's generation of athletes have attempted to jump into that level of being an entertainer ,as well being a dominant athlete with only mixed results. In the world we live in today athletes sit back and try to connect to the masses with their thumbs through twitter or other types of social media. Ali relied simply on the old age mediums of radio and television. Radio and television?!?!?! Radio stopped being relevant to many people about a decade ago and TV is slowly being put up against the ropes right now (hey this is boxing blog right?). With that being said, when Ali used those two mediums you knew it was just Ali and only Ali. Today's athletes who try to transcend their sport by being a celebrity hire themselves a PR agent or something of the sorts. Ali was his own PR agent for the better or the worse, but mostly for the better. So when they talk about him being the G.O.A.T., it was for more than his work in the ring.
9:08 pm - P. Diddy is wearing two huge diamond studded crosses, cause he is obviously twice the Christian you are.
9:20 pm - Chris Brown doing the national anthem? All I can say is "Really?" There were definitely some boos when he was introduced to the ring to sing the American National anthem. I must say they should reserve the national anthem for woman singers only. Not to say I'm much of a singer myself or a top notch judge like Simon Cowell but yeah that was kinda off.
9:24 pm - Sugar Shane Mosley is being introduced to the arena. To tell you the truth I'm more excited for Mayweather's intro just because I'm curious to see if he can out do his intro in the fight against De La Hoya where he came out with 50 cent and wearing red-white-green colourway complete with a sombrero.
9:28 pm - Mayweather is stalling. They cut to a feed of him in his locker room repeating to wait til the circus starts.
Thankfully the circus did start, full with an Elvis with a white face on stilts.....The O'Jays walked down the the way to the ring singing the apprentice theme song, "Money, Money, Money.....Money". Ah, I get it your nickname is money so you get them to sing the song as you come out and will walk away in excess of 35 million for fighting Mosley. It's hard to believe that a Mayweather vs. Pacquaio fight would profit Mayweather more. Where would they fight? Yankee Stadium?
9:32 pm - Buffer time!!!!! Wait did he just do a small plug for Iron Man 2? I must admit I haven't even watched Iron Man 1 yet. I should get on that if Michael Buffer is going to suggest I watch Iron Man 2. Without further ado, "Let's get ready ...". I won't lie I'm still a bit mad he decided to copyright that, but at the same time if that is your only money maker you might as well. Especially when his brother decided to get into the same profession on his success. That's success when other family members join your profession due to your own success. Think of Frank Lucas'(Denzel Washington) in American Gangster.
9:35 pm - Round 1: You know those hairs on the back of your neck? No there are no dead people, that's just 3 to 4 months of hype. After that first round, the one thing that all the analysis we have seen of the two fighters over the last 3 months is the hand speed of Mayweather. His red boxing gloves become red flashes during his 1-2 combinations that solidify that boxing is truly his natural born professional.
9:41 pm - Round 2: Mosley finally catches Mayweather with a right hand. The crowd erupts. No less than a minute later the defense of Mayweather deteriorates further and Mosley caught him an even more impressive blow in which Mayweather's knees buckle to the jubilation of the crowd.
9:48 - Round 3-4: At the start of Round 3, Mayweather realizes he finally has to start boxing or he'll start to get behind on the cards. Also in response to Mosley hitting him harder than anyone has hit Mayweather in close to 2 years.
10:00 pm - Rounds 5-7: After rounds 3 and 4 if you're rooting for Mosley or at least had money on him you expect him to come after Mayweather. Unfortunately Mosley is unable to rally and sustain pressure on the quicker and more agile Mayweather. Mayweather is still getting the majority of the power hits in. One more thing Mayweather must be enjoying is seeing Mosley starting to gasp for air in between their small clashes.
10:04 PM - Now the talking begins, Mayweather will always win.
10:08 PM - Mosley is trying to turn this into a brawl to get Mayweather out of his defensive game but it's hard to say Mosley has enough him to keep up the barrage of attacks on Mayweather's defense.
10:18 pm - Oh Mosley, valiant effort but looks like Mayweather's only competition can't do drug testing.
10:21 pm - Round 12: Mosley is going for broke!!! I think that phrase can't be used when Mosley too is going to receive a nice payday after this fight regardless of the result.
10:22 pm - it's over! Time for some more Buff. Even though it isn't all that necessary at this point, there isn't too much drama as they go to the scorecards. For my unofficial card I'd say Mayweather had about 9 if not 10 of the 12 rounds. The only definitive round Mosley had was the 2nd.
With that, there is only one thing boxing can do to stay afloat with the UFC dominated sports is have a Pac-Man vs. Money fight. It might be the only the fight that maybe able to get me away from home to actually watch a fight.
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