The Girls need a defibrillator to make it through the next several weeks. The NHL and NBA playoffs are upon us, not to mention the start of baseball, the NFL draft and various other stories filtering around the world of sports. It’s almost (almost) too much. The Girls try to flesh out this juicy offering and come up with Episode 116 - ready for consumption.

Crashing the Net, Cursing the Refs and Assorted Sports Calamities With The Girls!
Episode 116

In this, the latest edition of the Fantoo Girls, we are coming to you from…Heaven. That’s Sports Heaven y’all. How did we achieve such loftiness? Well, we happened upon Game 7 of the Flyers-Capitals showdown. And, because we are Flyers fans, have achieved sports nirvana. Call us homers, call us premature (we know it’s the opening series in the playoffs). But when you’ve suffered through last season’s descent into hockey cellar-dwelling, the post season is gravy…

We take note of Danica Patrick’s graduation from the Anna Kournikova school of hard knocks and give praise where it is due.

We also make an executive decision as to where praise is not due - as in when ONE guy can be atop three ‘leagues’ in your favorite sport.

The NBA has become suddenly riveting. Defense is being played, tempers are flaring and rivalries are developing (and not by some unnatural urging of the higher-ups in the NBA who want to make the sport more interesting). Let the smack-talking commence, just remember what happens if you talk the talk…and lose! Just ask Isaiah “I think we still have a championship team” Thomas. That got him far - far away from the Garden. As in banned. Oh by the way, did we mention that he still has a consultative role with the Knicks? It all makes sense - in the 4th dimension.

The Crosby-Ovechkin show has been canceled for now. Ovechkin may be gone from the playoffs but there is still plenty of stellar hockey to be played. And young O will have plenty of years lead the Capitals out of obscurity. The Ducks, defending champs, got bounced early, but it’s hard out there for water fowl. The Penguins are about to find this out when they face the New York ‘Avery Rule’ Rangers in Round 2. Pick yourself up one of these while supplies still last!

We hope, and not just because they’re playing the Flyers, that the Habs get sent home in the conference semis. It’s for their own good - and the good of the citizens of Montreal. Winning simply does not suit them.

A spin around the MLB shows the DH becoming a disposable breed - one with which Carol wants to identify. She has a long way to go. A-Rod welcomes a new baby, but can barely hold her because of his tender leg. We just hope he doesn’t ask Cynthia for a massage. He’s no John Smoltz, that’s for sure.

And our IT HAS TO BE SAID focuses on making choices that keep you out of the ration lines at the big-box stores. So keep it local, keep it real and keep your cool beverage handy - it’s time to talk sports with The Girls!

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