tonytalkssports My Take on Sports, particularly the Yankees, Maple Leafs and Browns

Bruins Champs, Yanks Win & MLB Realignment

Last night the Boston Bruins, led by Conn Smythe Trophy winner Tim Thomas, defeated the Vancouver Canucks 4-0 to capture the Stanley Cup.  The Bruins finally broke through on Roberto Luongo in Vancouver as Patrice Bergeron led the way offensively with 2 goals.  The Canucks vaunted offense and power play shot blanks throughout the series and in fact allowed a back breaking shorthanded goal last night which pretty much sealed the deal before the end of the second period as the Bruins went up 3-0. 

Going into this series, I believed that the Canucks had the better team.  I will admit I don't follow the Western Conference teams that much, particularly the ones on the West Coast so I didn't really have any feelings about the Canucks.  The Bruins, on the other hand, I have plenty of feelings about and most of them are not good.  However, as this series rolled along beginning with the Alex Burrows bite and ending with Roberto Luongo's foolish comments about Tim Thomas, it found me actually wanting the Bruins to win.  I can't believe it to be honest with you but its hard to look favorably on a team that whines, dives and seems like they have their share of cheap shots.  Quite frankly, they deserved to lose.  Well, a Canadian based team once again lost out on the Cup.  Canada will have to wait until the Maple Leafs bring it home!!

By the way, I cannot believe the ridiculous rioting that took place in the city of Vancouver in response to the Canuck loss.  What a joke!!!

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The Yankees continue to roll on with a convincing 12-4 win over the Texas Rangers.  The Yankee bats continue to pound away with Mark Texiera leading the way.  Initial reviews are good for Eduardo Nunez as he is 4 for 8 since replacing Derek Jeter, including a home run last night. 

Today Brian Gordon will take the mound for the Yankees, the replacement for Bartolo Colon.  Can Gordon be this year's Aaron Small???  I guess we will find out.

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There has been some confusion on the proposed Major League Baseball realignment.  The proposal does not include a team to play an equal number of games between the leagues.  In other words, the Yankees would not play the same number of games against the Red Sox as they would against the Mets.  The balanced schedule would be amongst the AL teams, so the Yankees would play the Red Sox the same amount of times as they would against the A's.  That is not the case now and actually penalizes the teams in the AL East.  In fact, the realignment will make it hard to continue interleague play as it currently exists.  You may see actually less interleague games which would be fine by me.  That's one reason why I think the proposal merits serious consideration.

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Over the weekend I may have limited posts as I'm heading to Wrigley Field to watch the Yanks and the Cubs.  Wrigley Field is my favorite place to watch a game and it should be great.  Still smarting over the fact that if Jeter was playing I may have seen the 3,000th hit.  Anyhow, I will try to post and if not check out Twitter.  I will definitely be back for Tuesday's Thoughts.