JoeyJ0506

Amen, pulled my hamstring in Florida first game of spring training last year, tried to play two days later...next thing I know I miss 15 straight with a severe pull. Rest it and heal it right from the get-go.

Huge thumbs down to the rink I was panning on entering a team in this summer cutting the size of the league by 1/4... Now I'm forced to attempt to switch to another rink with a higher league fee. Also deal with all the administrative crap that goes with it.

Just wait to see what she does when the rest of the goalie gear starts rolling in! Haha, she's going to blow a gasket. I honestly have to take a look at the perspective of selling alot of the extra, I really just do not have the room for it all now. But the goalie gear is a must-have.

Glove collections are easy if you are patient. There's deals left and right. It's the stick collections I see with 10 s-19's and vapor 60's that I wonder about. I keep telling myself I need to stop, better stop, have to stop collecting... But, I've become addicted to Easton Synergy 800 gloves, and anytime I think I can find a pair with a short cuff I have to try to get them. I have two Hossa Pro stick sitting behind my door in the plastic, and I'm working on getting some more if the deal is right... After every piece comes in the mail I say, "that's it, I have enough," but it never ends there's always that one elusive piece of the collection missing. Heaven help me when all the Penguins' gear from this season starts popping up on eBay. Letang's EQ5s, Malkin's Bauer branded Vapor XXXXs, Penguins' colored Reebok gloves, and a pair of Sykora's gloves from the Wild are all on my acquisition list. (Yes, I keep a list of stuff I see that I want.) Also, now that I know and love the Hossa Pro curve, I will forever be in a hunt for good deals on those. I've always had a problem with collecting things: action figures when I was a kid, baseball cards in my early teens, movies in my late teens, now hockey equipment will probably be my habit until I cannot lace them up anymore... Oh, Vise MoneyPak 2.0 has effectively ruined my life. All-in-all, it is a disease and an addiction.

My girlfriend's inability to understand where money comes from is infuriating. I play D-3 college baseball, with the recession people aren't helping me raise funds as much as in the past, I owe my coach $1200 for our spring trip, and necessary new gear. I only work about 4 hours a week at a campus job, so money is not exactly pouring in. Christmas was what, a month ago? Valentine's day is February 14th, and her birthday is February 19th. Every day for the past two weeks I keep getting txt messages with random stuff she wants/wants to do for her birthday and Valentine's day. Honestly, the girl is not getting the fact that I have things I want to buy or have to pay for. I have no problem doing something nice for her, but this expecting $150-$200 gifts plus dinner out for both days is getting me frustrated. "Women, you cant live with them, and they can't pee standing up." -Rube Baker, Major League II

Take good pictures of everything that has an Easton logo on it B)

from what I've seen, my collection is not even close to what some on this board have accumulated. I have two pairs of inline skates, one good, one for outdoor rinks, and two pairs of ice; my 9ks that I use regularly, and the Shift 2s I bought to try out. But, that's besides the point... that was a whole lot of money going to the dump if I hadn't come home in time. most of those people own the house they put that stuff in :P haha, true enough, true enough. I was able to fit everything in the room and closet and still keep it livable. It is a very tight squeeze though.

from what I've seen, my collection is not even close to what some on this board have accumulated. I have two pairs of inline skates, one good, one for outdoor rinks, and two pairs of ice; my 9ks that I use regularly, and the Shift 2s I bought to try out. But, that's besides the point... that was a whole lot of money going to the dump if I hadn't come home in time.

Came home from classes today to find all my hockey equipment at the end of the driveway in 50 gallon garbage bags and sticks in a garbage can. I commute to college from home to save money, and my stuff was all stored on a set of shelves or hung from a bar in the very back corner of our basement. Apparently, while cleaning today my mother decided that my gear was taking up too much space, and that, "she needed those shelves." When I start bringing everything back inside she tells me, "It stays in your room, it gets thrown away, or you find it all a new home." So, right now I am attempting to fit four pairs of skates, five pairs of gloves, two helmets, two sets of shins, two sets of elbows, two pairs of shoulder pads, and seven sticks in my room in such a way that I can still live in it. If not the Buy/Sell section is going to have one massive ad go up in the near future... :(

(Applause) Chadd, I'm an art student, and every once in a while I get a chance to see an amazing exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of Art and Natural History in Pittsburgh. One of which was a traveling exhibition of modern art. One piece was an image that was created with hundreds of layers of laminated plastic one on top of the other. I saw so many people walk up and touch them. I thought it was common knowledge that, unless instructed otherwise, museum pieces are not to be touched. People do not understand that the piece they were putting their grimy hands on probably took an unimaginable amount of time to create... they're ruining it. One of the few times I've yelled at a complete stranger.

For the price I got them ($2 a piece I think) they cannot be beat. They're tanks and preform fairly well.

Updating as everything has pretty much changed in the past year. Helmet(s): CCM v08 (One White, One Black) Visor(s): Oakley Pro Straight (Grey Tint), Itech Straight Cut (Smoke Tint) (Tint: My pupils don't dilate properly which makes ice glare cause migraines) Shoulder Pads: Jofa/RBK 8800 Elbow Pad(s): Jofa 8044, Jofa 8066 Shin Pad(s): Jofa 8090 (Ice Only), Vapor XXXX (Inline Only) Skates: RBK 9k (Ice), Kor Shift 2 (Ice), RBK 8k (Inline), Gloves: Sykora Easton Synergy 800 Pro Gloves (3 Pairs), Custom Warrior Franchise, Penguins' E-Pros Sticks: Hossa Pro Stock Mission Titanium Stick (Ice Only), RBK 5k Shaft w/ Tour Crossrip blade (Inline Only) Jersey(s): Random CCM practice jerseys, Easton Reversible Jersey, SubliTwill Custom Fully Subliminated Jersey

They have, "Penguins," embroidered on the cuffs. They're also a pair that at one time belonged to Sykora, but in training camp before he got the batch of new ones like the pair to the left of it. When I bought them I thought I was getting the pair to the left, but those arrived instead; they have, "17," written on the palm in sharpie.

My glove collection as it stands right now: I've found that I enjoy the fit of short cuffed gloves the best, thus the three pairs of Sykora pros. Also, I'm probably an Easton user for life now, so light and comfortable.

Those are so beautiful

Just spent an hour on the phone with my girlfriend trying to explain to her why I don't want to drive 30 miles of back roads to her grandmother's house for her family's Christmas lunch. Apparently the fact that it's been steady freezing rain since three or four in the morning and the roads are a solid sheet of ice doesn't register with her or her parents. This coming from the same girl that rolled her Trail Blazer twice on Thanksgiving-Eve last year due to similar conditions. In the end, being a softie I caved and am driving out to see her family. If I die I leave my fledgling glove collection to TBL to do with as he wishes... But seriously.

Warriors glove customizer has a 'brass' color that looks VERY much like the vintage gloves worn by the Canadiens I have found that the warrior customization process is VERY expensive! am I the only one? Just had a pair quoted at $300+ I'll never get another pair of custom Warriors unless they drop the price, I'm converting to Eagles.

Two finals, basically, canceled. This professor is known for his notoriously hard exams, but due to his own involvement in a doctoral program he has become increasingly lazy towards his teaching duties. Luckily he's a pretty good guy and when we called him on it he decided to give us class evaluation papers as our, "finals." So, instead of taking a 200 point test I'm writing: 7 things I learned in the class, 3 aspects that negatively affected the class, and 4 ways to improve the way the class is run. Just typed the first of two, took me an hour, and the second is to be made available online tomorrow morning... still four traditional tests to be taken this week, but this helps alot.

Those have to smell awful. Awesome elbow pad though.

I'll agree with you on finals, mine do not start until the 14th, but they last the entire week. Hooray for lazy professors that don't want to get out of bed before 11am and schedule their final for 3:30pm on Friday the 18th. I'm sure all 30 of us really want to be on campus until it closes Friday evening... gotta love the extra charges that come for having to stay the extra night on campus too. your professors schedule finals? here at the school i go to there is a set schedule for all the finals. We cant blame a teacher for having a late friday final, its just how the schedule works. im glad i only go to that wed of finals week Yeah, CMU does it the same way. Classes that meat at X time will have a final at X time, based on this grid you can find online. I should clarify, the later in the day your class, the later the final in the day/week. So, professors that schedule all their classes late in the day get finals scheduled by the school at the end of the week and end of the days. The thing being, a lot of parents won't come get their kid at 5:30-6 at night if it means a 6-9 hour drive home that night... So, people stay the night to help their parents out, then find they are charged for an extra night in their billing for the semester. I commute now, but when I went to a different school my freshman year it was a three hour drive for my family to come get me, and my last final was in the final time slot from 8-10:30 pm. campus technically closed at midnight. I stayed the night so I could help my family out by having them pick me up on Saturday morning. Bill comes two weeks later and I get charged $500 for the extra night, there was no disputing the charge because it was in the school handbook, but the position myself and others was in because of the finals schedule was absurd. I don't deal with that now, but other people in my class are.

I'll agree with you on finals, mine do not start until the 14th, but they last the entire week. Hooray for lazy professors that don't want to get out of bed before 11am and schedule their final for 3:30pm on Friday the 18th. I'm sure all 30 of us really want to be on campus until it closes Friday evening... gotta love the extra charges that come for having to stay the extra night on campus too.

I love the Hustler pants I have... I'm so jealous of you for getting pro-stock Habs versions of them

HAHA Dell made Alienware laptop... you don't want the headache that goes along with it... I'm not sure it's worth $40. I'll more than likely put that rant up before too long.

I'd like to gripe about people who have ads with pictures that have things not for sale in them. If you have real pictures you obviously can take new ones and if it's being sold you should stop using it and the pictures should reflect the condition to be sold in. Not to bash on you, but in the future save yourself the headaches and just take fresh pictures that only show the item being sold. I've definitely learned my lesson as far as this goes, and agree 100% with what you're saying. Problem being I listed on here and IW on October 18th. (If no one was buying I had every intention of using the helmet from there on out, "why take off the visor?" I think) I had offers to buy within 2 hours of posting the listing. So, I detached the visor and boxed the thing up. Buyer backed out later that night so the helmet is just sitting in the box, wrapped in packing material, taped and sealed waiting for another one of my potential buyers to send me the payment. Next time I will make sure the item is in the state the people are going to get it... But reading down the page a little bit isn't too much to ask I believe. If my computer was visible in the background of the picture would people be asking to buy that?