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In case you haven’t heard Super-Cena is returning full time, again in record time after a serious shoulder injury.

Naturally it’s time for John to rep some new merch and boost sales in I imagine has taken a hit during the Roman Reign.

My first thought here was John Cena was pimping Pabst and trying to get his mug on the can like he did with his Fruity Pebbles T Shirts

The marketing genius in me saw WWE recognizing their biggest demographic was Pabst drinking middle-Americans and tried to boost sales with some subliminal messaging.

Apparently the folks at Pabst Blue Ribbon were not too pleased.

Two ways WWE spins this on Monday. John either comes out and respects Pabst in complete regalia or they set up a once in a lifetime match for Mania 33 10 months ahead of the event.

Someone call 911 there has been a murder. 

The Bucco bats stayed hot today and Gerrit helped his cause showing off his light tower power in his first at bat. Then around the bases he showed off that 5 tool speed and he raced around the pillows. 

I’d imagine with the night off he slips into game 7 to raise some hell on the glass again. 

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The Big Lead Chris Berman, the longtime ESPN sportscaster who has been with the company since 1979, is leaving the network after next football season, multiple sources tell The Big Lead. Berman is in the final year of his contract, which ends sometime after next football season. He is expected to retire, rather than leave for another network.

ESPN’s mass exodus continues with Boomer’s end in sight. 

While he hasn’t brought much to the table in years his absence will be noticeable especially if Suzy Kolber takes over his NFL Countdown Seat. 

So let us raise our pill bottles and throw back a handful of dew dew dews, Canadian asprin with Codeine. 

Here we go folks.  Hours away from the puck dropping up at Consol and its time to get the blood pumping.  Sure Benstonium is great at what he does but sometimes you need to bust out the big guns.

Those big guns come by way of our friends at “Hockey Night Punjabi” and we go to game 6 when the Penguins laid the smackdown and forced game 7.

HBK line got it strong on the stick of everyone’s favorite Pen, Phil Kessel

The call of the night came here when Kris Letang banged it in and the boys channeled another WWE Hall of Famer, Cactus Jack.

“Where’s Sidney Crosby!?” they said. Found him.

And Bryan Rust clinches it undressing Andrei Vasilevskiy.

Here’s to more of these calls and celebrating tonight. Like I said before its a shame this all comes at the Lightning’s expense because these guys are ELECTRIC.

Dick shots are all the rage these days it’s nice to see Geno staying topical. 

Over in the NBA Confeence Finals Draymond Green slid himself into the headlines with a well placed kick to former Pitt forward Steven Adams gonads   

Now we just need a Joey Bats tantrum to escalate to a stiff kick to get all 3 major sports right now against eachother.

Wow what an effort by Pens nation. Even Primantis got in on the action.

That all but does it for Tampa. You guys had a nice run this year have fun on the greens.

Now everyone run over to Center Field Smoke and get fitted with the best Tshirt out there.

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Update Shawn mentioned Brett Keisel in the video and it certainly looks like will in fact sit together. How can we get NBC to dedicate a camera on these two all game. 

Playoff hockey excitement ramped up to 11 when I discovered the Punjabi telecast of Hockey Night in Canada.  While I was unable to find the channel on Fios that doesn’t mean we can’t rehash the calls on an off day right?

Hagelin in the first

The ‘Bad Breath Bandit’ Phil Kessel’s snipe in the third

The undisputed best call of the night came on Sid’s third period goal… “Yaar tera SUPERSTAR!

And finally, here’s Kunitz’s goal to seal the deal

It’s unfortunate the Lightning will only have 2 more games announced by these guys because they are ELECTRIC.  It’s no shocker their Twitter game is also on point.

Great grab by ESPN going after the latest wrestler turned actor who hit the ground running in Trainwreck.  This could be a decent watch on the only day of the year with no other sports but that’s going to rely on Edgy John Cena coming through the curtain and not the campy Super Hero most people are used to on Mondays.

This announcement does however spark the question “is John Cena turning into The Rock?” Going into their first Wrestlemania match Cena ripped The Rock for becoming a movie star. ESPN.com interviewed Cena about his new gig and future with WWE. 

“I’m going to be wrestling for as long as I can,” Cena said. “It’s something I’m very passionate about and something that I love.”

But wait. Doesn’t that just sound like some BS PR line, no way he’d burn that bridge with at least a few years left?  au contraire, Cena has an answer to that. 

“I’ve worked my entire career to try to broaden the perception of the WWE.”

That… I buy.  It coincides with remarks he gave TMZ last year explaining while he might hang up his boots he wants to stay in the business perhaps at the announcers both or in a back stage role. 

Never forget…

Side note: I legit jumped out of my seat and fist pumped when Cena showed up in “Daddy’s Home.” #spoileralert

I love Phil Kessel. From day one his hot dog game day ritual connected us in ways Malkin or Crosby never could.  Kessel lived up to the hype quickly  becoming “All Pittsburgh” material as the Pens ride his line hopefully to another cup.  And while the HBK line continues to go viral, Mr K capped the night off with some content of his own.

I need to hang out with the guy.  Sure our interests are identical and associating myself with his similar physique could lead to the ladies thinking I too am an NHL All Star but I’m positive that he is quite simply terrific company.  He’s the kind of friend you could do almost nothing with and have the time of your life just waiting to crack that perfect joke to unleash his uber-contagious laugh.

If after watching that video you’re saying to yourself, “I need more funny” here’s a GIF for ya….

In game 2 the original HBK, Shawn Michaels tweeted his interest in the Pens after fans continued to tweet him about the HBK line and Center Field Smoke’s epic T Shirt. 

Well fast forward 48 hours and the HBK line continues to light the lamp and fans continue to fire tweets at Shawn Michaels.

Even the official Penguins twitter officially invited Shawn Michaels to game 5.

Was HBK warming up to a trip to the 412?

Center Field Smoke even jumped into the action releasing a new yellow version of the T Shirt for Shawn Michaels should he make the trip.

But it was one certain Pens fan whos offer simply could not be refused…

And with that Shawn’s latest tweet is a hint that him showing up at Consol isnt as far fetched as we thought during game 2.

Business is about to pick up….