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To: buck who wrote (17330)	2/6/2000 3:25:00 PM
From: buck	Respond to of 54805

RE: Very OT - NHL All-Star Game Ya know, you just have to love this hockey stuff, even if you love football or baseball (don't even mention basketball) more. Watching this All-Star game is great, for these reasons: - They've got circa-1990 intros, what today would be called "consumable presentation": smoke, a couple of guys with laser pointers, and crappy "new-wave" music. Thank you for leaving Garth Brooks and Ricky Martin and Puffy Combs in their trailers. - They've got a permanenetly retired number for a Canuck, Wayne Gretzky, who is loved so MUCH, that grown men who could kill a full-grown bull moose with their hands and a leather boot lace are crying. It looks like they forgot to lower the banner for the retirement ceremony before they started said ceremony, because it was all hurky-jurky on the way down, 30 seconds before they RAISED it again. - They've got the funniest-looking man ever to make a Ruffles commercial in Mark Messier. There's only one other guy in the NHL I'd like to drink beer with besides Messier, and that's Eddie Belfour, simply because I bet he's a bitter, bitter but happier-these-days kind of a guy. - They've got KIDS on the ice for the pre-game puck drop. I don't think anyone in the other three of the big four sports even REMEMBER being a kid, much less know in their hearts that kids are what makes games so great. - The "new" articulated goalie masks are the greatest equipment contribution to sport in the previous century. - There is not a game around that combines speed, grace and violence into such a wonderful gumbo of visceral, wish-I-could-do-THAT entertainment. - Jaromir Jagr, a freakin' Czech, scores a goal on a guy known to his colleagues as Cujo. OK, I'll shut up. buck, who loves sports and what it means to all of us