FanHouse The Price Is Right

Yesterday, members of the Los Angeles Kings were in Burbank, California paying a visit to everyone's favorite game show, the Price is Right. They did a taping of the show that featured Luc Robitaille, Derek Armstrong, Denis Gauthier, Kyle Calder, Dustin Brown and their mascot Bailey. Drew Carey and Lucky Luc on the same stage. That's a sentence I never thought I would be able to say.

The taping was for, as you might have already figured out, a special hockey themed episode of the show. A legion of Kings fans from the website LetsGoKings.com were there and message boarder robm had a nice synopsis of what went down.

We get to the final show case, and finally, Kings. The Kings were in the first showcase. The showcase started off with Denis Gauthier asking the contestant if he wanted a punch in the face. Interesting. Then, they showed the first part of the showcase which was tickets to a game with penalty box seats during practice along with a crap load of Kings memorabilia. We could've split that among all the fans and been happy. In fact, in retrospect, I should've asked if we could've split it amongst the sixteen of us. Crap. The next portion of the prize was a trip to Switzerland for the hockey championships (next year?) and finally there was a boat. The display of the boat started off with someone (Calder?) starting a sentence and then the rest of the guys throwing him into a boat. Eventually, Army with some help was able to pull Dustin's shirt over his head. Basically, Dustin was bare chested for that part of the show case.

Mmm... Half naked hockey players. Now that's what I'm talking about. They were probably just showing off for the Price is Right models. But in all seriousness, from all accounts it sounded like a good time even though it was a long day. Did you know that the folks in the audience have to show up at 8:45 am for a 1 pm taping? Hoo boy. I can't say I could sit through that! Pictures from the day are after the jump courtesy of Getty Images.

Update (9:56 AM): Puck Daddy reports that the episode will air on November 5th.

If Bobby Crosby had his choice in life, he wouldn't be playing baseball. Oh no, he'd be playing Plinko on the Price Is Right.

Crosby grew up a huge fan of the show, and would even fake being sick so he could stay home from school just to watch it. If you're like Bobby, and were watching the show on Thursday morning you may have noticed the Athletics shortstop sitting front and center.

You see, Bobby's brother Blake scored some tickets to the show during the off-season, but Bobby's dreams of being a contestant went unfulfilled. A week later, fate intervened.

Crosby was at a charity event that host Bob Barker also attended, and Barker bought a bat that Crosby had signed, paying $700 during the charity auction.

"Coolest thing ever,'' Crosby said, beaming. "I thought, 'I could die right now.' ''

He ended up talking to Barker for a while, and Barker suggested that Crosby come watch the show as his guest. Crosby, his fiancée and some friends attended, and afterward, Crosby said, he even got to spin the wheel and take some photos with Barker on the set.

First of all, I'm as amazed as all of you are that Crosby was able to spin the wheel without injuring himself. For a player as injury prone as he is, it's a damn miracle, but that brings me to my point. Is Crosby faking his injuries? He's already admitted he did the same things while as a child, so is it not possible Crosby is faking these injuries now so he can stay home and watch the Price Is Right?

This is something Billy Beane may want to look into. He also may want to tell Bobby about the miracle of Tivo.