Down up

Forgot to check the Champions League score, and now I’m glad I forgot, because I’d probably have missed the local angle.

I’m looking for a link that makes clear what exactly happened — there are probably lots, but I can’t read German, and Babelfish is making even less sense (with less humor) than usual, and plus it’s really late — but Blaine Down played Wednesday for Zurich in Game 1 of the two-game Champions League final. The teams tied, 2-2. There’s a link at that link to watch the game online. Best I can tell, Down was playing for the farm team and got called up. It doesn’t appear that he had played a game for the, um, big club yet this year (though he got his contract extended).

But he played Wednesday. He appears a few times early in the video (which I’ve stopped watching after one period: it’s like 4:45 a.m. and I really wasn’t planning on this). And he’s in the box score on the Lions’ site. Ah, here’s a good Obligatory Fun With Babelfish moment: “Blaine down fought himself after 44 minutes to a 1:1 situation with the Goalie, on which he remained hanging however. And as Monnet seven minutes later a Penalty the ZSC sensation took out, seemed to become perfect. When clay/tone slipped the disk however in the stupidest moment of the stick, so that it did not even come to the conclusion.”

OK, I feel better. Game 2 is next Wednesday, 1:30 p.m. Eastern in Switzerland. That’s the last day of the all-star break. I smell liveblog.*

One thing I forgot to put in the postgamer: Capuano said again that he wanted to make sure Jeremy Colliton was absolutely 100 percent before he’d put him in this weekend. Again, with the week off after Saturday, there’s no sense.

*-Oh, no, that’s just the heat going on. (Three degrees coming through Winsted tonight.)

Michael Fornabaio