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An improbable win! If I recall correctly, the Blues had a breakaway stopped when they were already up 4-0. Then 6 straight Red Wing goals.

ENG! Wings are, remarkably, set to win this.

Bad timing for an over the glass penalty.

You there?! I flew into Toronto Pearson this afternoon and thought of driving right to Detroit for the game, because they’ll be on the road the whole week I’m home. An hour ago I was glad I hadn’t. Now I think it would have been awesome.

Edvinsson gives the Wings the lead. Wow.

DeBrincat ties it! Wasn’t expecting this an hour ago

Comeback! Only down 4-3 now.

4-0. Geez, are the Wings always just one missing player away from collapse? In this case, since Kane left.

Not a good 1st period. 2-0 Blues.

Catching a train from Toronto’s Union Station to Sarnia today, so getting there a bit early I milled around outside the two stadiums which are both a few blocks away from the station. But it’s not as much fun to mock Leafs fan when their very effective rebuttal is that the city is also hosting the World Series tonight! 😞

The 1994 death of Kurt Cobain is halfway between the JFK assassination and today. The 1976 year of Mark the Bird Fidrych is halfway between the '27 Yankees and today.

When the Wings won their first Cup of what I call the modern, post-Original Six era, it felt like they hadn't won the Cup in forever. It was 1955-1997, 42 years. It now has been 41 years for the Tigers. One difference is that the Tigers have won two American League pennants in the past 18 years, and I do give value to that, whereas the Wings had gone 29 years (1966-1995) between Stanley Cup Final appearances. When the ground ball went between Buckner's legs in Game 6 in 1986, the Red Sox had gone 68 years without winning the World Series. It has now been 68 years since the Lions last won the NFL championship, in 1957.

Last night’s Carolina at Colorado game. Looking good!

Did I sleep through Christmas and winter and it’s already March?

4-0. Back down to earth with a thud.

Different story on the road, so far at least. 2-0 NYI approaching midway of 2nd period.

When did the Mariners become one of the "big boys"?

This video clip was posted 5 years ago but has popped onto my socials feed a couple of times this week.

Boo! 4-2.

Wings trail again after a Rasmussen penalty.

After Bisonnette was talking him up on the pre-game.

Compher? Wings take the lead, not exactly deserved based on the game so far.

Heretics sometimes get a bum rap. One of the most famous events in Church history was the Arian controversy of the 4th century, resolution of which led to among other things the Nicene Creed. On the one hand, the priest Arius and like-minded bishops such as Eusebius of Nicomedia perceived Jesus as a highly moral person created and then adopted by God as his Son, with Jesus being raised from the dead and granted a divine yet subordinate status. To future saint Athanasius and his mentor Alexander of Alexandria, the Arian position was destructive since their view was that Jesus was fully and equally God, which not only upheld the principle of monotheism but was necessary if one were to believe that Christ was capable of offering mankind moral and physical salvation. It was a genuinely undecided issue, with support for the respective positions ebbing and flowing practically year by year, city by city, council by council, emperor by emperor. It deeply involved the urban, Greek-speaking Christian laity, who were no country bumpkins. Cities at the heart of the Roman world in late antiquity – Alexandria, Antioch and then Constantinople – were sophisticated metropolises where trade, commerce, art, and learning flourished. Gregory of Nyssa later in the century quipped about Constantinople that “in this city if you ask a shopkeeper for change, he will argue with you about whether the Son is begotten or unbegotten”. Not one, not two, but at least four councils deemed Arian’s views to be orthodox prior to his death although that position eventually lost out. Meanwhile Athanasius repeatedly was hit with charges of financial extortion and incitement of violence, all of which resulted in Athanasius being exiled on five different occasions totalling almost 20 years by multiple emperors. But the Athanasius position eventually won out.

The full original broadcast is on YouTube and I think I will watch some of it tonight. One of my early baseball memories. Remember that winter ordering with my parents' help the black and white 20 minute silent highlight film of the '75 Series which we played on a projector in our basement.