Like there was this one time in Banff

Said no doubt in the voice of Alyson Hannigan from American Pie. "This one time, at band camp ..."

It's as we always suspected - economic forecasts are prepared by a dozen monkeys sitting at a computer, playing with a spreadsheet. When something interesting happens....

You just know someone will post this after the monkey comment, so I'll do it anyway: "'It was the best of times, it was the...BLURST of times'?! You stupid monkey!"

Or we could discuss this all over again.

Or, for Limp Bizkit fans (and really, who isn't?), it was the best of times, it was the Durst of times ...

Totally unrelated but it's a cool story from yesterday's game...

Got to the game a little later than had hoped so we missed the Ernie Witt bobbleheads. Feeling a little bummed out and already pretty sweaty from the humid afternoon, we did the lazy thing and waited for the elevators up to the 500-level.

So the doors of the elevator open and the people in front of us crowd in. Thinking that we'll just wait for the next elevator I take a step back. Then I look up and Cito Gaston and Rance Mullinicks are right there. So I turn to the friend I'm with and ask her if she wants to get on the elevator with Cito "I'm wearing my World Series Ring" Gaston. So we take a deep breath and cram in. Then just as the doors are about to close Richard Griffin forces his way in.

Gaston was a real personable guy who was happy to chat with everyone on the way up, shake hands and give us an up-close of the 1992 ring. But the tension between Griffin and Gaston was apparent.

So I think missing the bobblehead was worth the elevator ride.

So many stories come from that elevator that it's almost eerie. Everybody seems to have seen some important folk in that thing, except me of course.

On a semi-related note - any cheer clubbers catching the game tomorrow?

Just overheard on the FAN:

"They're almost completely ready to turn the corner...people talk about hockey too much when this is a good team...don't just judge them on W's, you have to look at the big picture here..."

The $6.40 question is, which team is this man talking about?

I've gotta guess Raptors, because you wouldn't be mentioning it otherwise. The question is, who said it?

The answer is in the question. Resident basketball loudmouth Chuck Swirsky.