Damn.

Pro wrestling, Santa, the tooth fairy now this....................

The races are fake, the burgers, fries and shakes are real.......

If you really think about, a race between those items would not be exciting. None of them would move and the shake would just melt. I can see why they tried to spruce it up with the anthropomorphic representations, but they went too far by always having the item in last place dash ahead for the last second victory.

Priceless.

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Momma was queen of the mambo, Poppa was king of the congo, deep down in the jungle, I start banging my first bongo
Every monkey like to be, in my place instead of me, cause I'm the king of bongo baby, I'm the king of bongo bong
-Manu Chao

What about Santa?

I blame 2004 title team: they set level so high so everything below finals have been unsatisfactory.

W/o title we would be very satisfied with 6 ECF appearances...

I'm thinking Corliss and Memo are to blame.





For everything.

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Momma was queen of the mambo, Poppa was king of the congo, deep down in the jungle, I start banging my first bongo
Every monkey like to be, in my place instead of me, cause I'm the king of bongo baby, I'm the king of bongo bong
-Manu Chao

Raxrets, please stop steering the thread back on topic.

BACK OFF TOPIC

The crowd noise is down compared to the championship year. But that is to be expected. When you make it to 6 straight ECF, then people just don't get as pumped up until you reach that point. Its the Atlanta Braves syndrome.

Also, people won't get as loud because there is no one to hate. When the playoffs consisted of hated rivals New Jersey (with Kidd, Jefferson, and Scalabrine), Indiana (with Artest, O'Neal, and Miller), and LA (with Shaq, Kobe, Mailman, and the Glove), people get excited. More hate equals more noise. This year, the noise didn't get going until we made it to Boston. We hate those guys, and the games mean more. I was at the Boston-Detroit Game 4 this year, and that place was rocking.

But it is definitely better than the crowd noise during the Teal Years (crickets).

BTW ~ I have a hard time living in world in which the words "Brian Scalabrine" and "World Champion" can be used in the same sentence. Can the apocalypse be far behind?