It's Thursday!

It's Thursday. Here's what's happening....

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Hockey Playoff Roundup ----

NHL:

Eastern Conference

Last night --

Western Conference Semifinals

Chicago 5, Vancouver 2 (Chicago leads series 2-1)

Eastern Conference Semifinals

Boston 4, Philadelphia 1 (Boston leads series 3-0)

Tonight --

Eastern Conference

Pittsburgh at Montreal 7:00pm EDT (Pittsburgh leads series 2-1)

Western Conference

San Jose at Detroit 7:30pm EDT (San Jose leads series 3-0)

WHL:

WHL Championship Finals

Last Night --

Tri-City 4, Calgary 2 (Calgary leads series 3-1)

Tonight --

No games

OHL Championship Finals:

Windsor beats Barrie 4-0

(Note: Windsor, defending Memorial Cup Champions, open play at 2010 Mastercard Memorial Cup in Brandon, Manitoba against the host Brandon Wheat Kings on Friday, May 14th)

QMJHL Championship Finals:

Last night --

No games

Tonight --

No games

(Note: Moncton leads Saint John 2-1)

USHL Clark Cup Championship Finals:

Last night --

No games

Tonight --

No games

(Note: Fargo leads best-of-five series 2-0)

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The Tampa Bay Rays became the first major league team to 20 wins this season, beating the Seattle Mariners last night 8-3.

Seattle broke on top with 2 runs in the fourth, but the Rays tied it with 2 of their own in the 5th. A pair of 3 spots, in the eighth and ninth innings, propelled Tampa Bay to their big league-best 20th win of the season and 11th win in 12 road games this season.

Evan Longoria drove in two for the Rays, who got an 8 inning, 5 strike out performance from Matt Garza, who improves to 5-1 on the season.

Tampa Bay, 20-7 and 1 game ahead of the Yankees in the A.L. East, wrap up their three-game set in Seattle tonight. First pitch is at 10:10pm EDT on 620AM WDAE.

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Those of you who use MSN Hotmail, did you get one of these today:

Dear Account User,

This Email is from MSN Customer Care and we are sending it to every MSN Email User Accounts Owner for safety. We are having congestion due to the anonymous registration of MSN Accounts, so we are shutting down some MSN Accounts and your account was among those to be deleted. We are sending this email to you so that you can verify and let us know if you still want to use this account. If you are still interested please confirm your account by filling the space below.Your User Name, Password, Date of Birth and your Country information would be needed to verify your account.

Due to the congestion Your MSN Account would be shutting down If you did not fill out the form orderly below, You will have to confirm your E-mail by filling out your Login Information below after clicking the reply button, or your account will be suspended within 24 hours for security reasons.

* Username: .............................
* Password: ................................
* Date of Birth: ............................
* Country Or Territory: ................
* Occupation: .......................

After following the instructions in the sheet, your account will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. Thanks for your attention to this request. We apologize for any inconveniences.

Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his/her account after two weeks of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently.

Sincerely,
The MSN Team.

Apparently, they think people are really stupid. First of all, if anyone from MSN was sending out emails, they wouldn't wind up in your junk folder. And if it was from MSN, why does the sender use a yahoo mail box address that ends with yahoo.com.mx?

If you read closely, you'll see sentences that are worded in poor english, poorly punctuated, words capitalized when they shopuldn't be, and at least one instance of a sentence ending and the next beginning, with no space in between. Plus, asking for the personal information that they do, should set off all kinds of very loud alarms.

It's amazing these people (How's the weather in Nigeria these days anyway?) actually think anyone is stupid enough to fall for this scam. Sadly, there will be some who do.

To quote comedian Bill Engvall: "Here's your sign."

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Jimmy loves his stories, at the library, or at home with Mommy.

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Mommy has a job "pre" interview (say what?) this morning and I have to grab some sleep, so I can be up with Jimmy while she's out. Have a good day everybody!