Just a quick post, since it’s Masters week.

Ten years ago this week, Jack Nicklaus finished tied for sixth at The Masters. Big whoop, you say? Well consider: He finished only four shots back. His last three rounds were under par, for a total of five under for the tournament. He finished higher than Tiger Woods. He was 58 years old. I’ll repeat: fifty-freakin’-eight! He had only one hip. Seriously.

Anyway, just throwing that out there as one of the more underrated sports performances in recent history. Thought it deserved its own note.

Show of hands: who knows that the NHL playoffs are starting tonight? Monkey, you don’t count.

Anyway. For the first time since the 1991 season (Norm sucks!), I’ve watched a lot of Minnesota hockey this year. As such, I will offer up a few talking points before tonight’s series opener against the Colorado Avalanche.

Talking Point #1: The Wild are pretty good.

The won the Northwest division title for the first time ever, in a year where all five division teams were in the race for the playoffs down to the season’s final weekend. Essentially, the Wild have been playing playoff-type games for a month now. Of course, since Colorado is also in the NW, so have the Avs. Whatever, the talking point still stands.

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From the “Help me, I’m becoming a Republican!!!” department…

N.J. may OK paid leave for family care
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As reported by Glenn Greenwald, and followed up on by Keith Olbermann (video embedded at the end of this post):

Either Attorney General Mukasey is lying about 9/11 in order to fear monger (yes, I’m using that as a verb) up a stronger FISA/Telecom Immunity/Protect America Act. Or the Administration was completely inept in the run-up to 9/11.

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i return from my daily morning coffee trip to find a voicemail waiting from sara. not unusual. i check it, and nearly spill my beverage– KARE 11 apparently just broke into the Today show, with coverage of the metrodome roof having caved in due to last night’s heavy snow. my mind raced– was anyone doing batting practice? would future games be rescheduled– most importantly saturday’s? (a bunch of us are going.) knowing the roof collapsed due to heavy snow in 1983 made the story seem completely plausible, and i checked a bunch of local news websites in an effort to get more detail. nobody had anything yet, so i asked several co-workers if they’d heard anything. again, nothing. i finally call sara back to see if there is any more news, and get this response:

“april fool’s!”

i certainly am one.