Guns, Balls and Pucks

Okay, so we can now start paying attention to hockey. With Boston's loss to Montreal we have the Habs playing Tampa Bay and the winner of tonight's Ottawa-Toronto game playing Philly. (Seriously, how did Tampa Bay get the #1 seed?) On the other side, Detroit gets to take on the Calgary Flames while San Jose dukes it out with Colorado. Despite my own personal hatred of them, I think we would save ourselves a lot of time by just giving the cup to Detroit right now. Then we could proceed with the lock out and start speculating on which teams will be erased.

Basketball playoffs are also starting and again, I'm not going to look at them until the first round is over. I really wish they would go back to the best of 5 first round series. We could go back to the possibility of upsets in the first round. My hope is for a San Antonio-Indiana match up in the finals. I'd love to see Reggie go out on top but if he can't than at least lose to a class team like the Spurs. Minnesota would be an acceptable alternative.

A group of us were talking today about sports and someone brought up something rather cool. Here in Cincinnati, GE used to be a major employer and manufacturer. Since they've outsourced a lot of the manufacturing to Wilmington and China, there are several large warehouses that are just standing empty. Our thought was to clear them out of heavy machinery and disinfect them. Then we set up a large scale paintball or laser tag facility in them. There's all kinds of natural obstacles and out of the way offices to plant booby traps and other games. It would be the perfect area of competition. Its even big enough that you could put multiple groups in different buildings or areas of buildings and not worry about them running into each other. You could even have a "night area" where all the paint is glow in the dark and the players would wear night goggles. Give them a real combat experience. Unfortunately it would take a bit of start up capital which we are all lacking, but it would be so interesting to try and do.