Your Back To Work Tuesday Open Thread

First of all, don’t give me any of that garbage. Teachers work hard, and we deserve a Spring Break just as much as the kids. Professor Dog up there knows the score. Secondly, traffic was brutal this morning, so we’re totes even.

And I welcomed them back with open arms.

Possessing a death wish, I went through si.com’s site today looking for content. May I just take a moment for all of us to reflect on the ordeal Ape went through every week, breaking down PK’s MMQB column? I went through yesterday’s and now all I want to do is leap out the window behind me. The man was a saint.

Anyway, the Wichita Wonderer must have watched “Moneyball” on repeat over the weekend, because he rambled on about how hiring Paul DePodesta has made the Browns the first team to truly adopt a concept that has (to me) ruined baseball. It’s exciting to know that the Browns are now going to be (re)built using the same formula that has won the Oakland A’s numerous World Series since 2001. Expect Cleveland fourth quarter possessions to last an hour each. From there, he opined on how RGIII to the Factory made the best, desperate sense for all sides.

So much fail, captured in one photograph.

There was a lot more that I refuse to transcribe here. Suffice to say, he talks about Colin Kaepernick and his (limited) options within the Chip Kelly “system”, and then proceeds to fellate The Shield over its response to the New York Times concussion story. I chose sanity over accuracy. However, the nugget about Bruce Arians saying that New Era “is producing a houndstooth cap, in honor of… Bear Bryant at Alabama” interests me as a ‘hat guy’, but induces hatred as a “fucking hipsters” guy.

In a further reminder that the NFL really hates St Louis, nfl.com has a story about the Rams packing their shit up and moving west. I guess plain white cube vans don’t have the “fuck you” effect of the Mayflower Moving Company, but the effect of the video is the same. Apologies to all St Louis Commentists.

Since the video won’t embed, because the League hates its fans, here’s the link.

Player news: Anquan Boldin is possibly going to consider the [*Redacted] s, making him the only WR to consider the FedEx turf an upgrade from his previous employer’s.

Avoid CNN note: apparently, there’s a(nother) Republican Town Hall tonight. I expect someone’s mother is going to be called a whore; the surprise will be whose. The yelling begins at 8:00 ET.

Fun teaching note: In Detroit, 13 school principals were indicted for participating in a kickback scheme involving a school supplies provider. In short, principals would send in an inflated goods request to the supplier, the supplier would bill the district for the full amount, and the two would then split the difference. The principals split $900,000 total; the supplier pocketed $1.8 million over 13 years. My favourite part is that one of the indicted principals was also picked by Ellen and the “Ellen” show to receive donations for her downtrodden school, which the District pumped up in press releases. WHOOPS!

NHL: (9 games total)

  • Bruins @ Devils – 7:00
  • Sabres @ Penguins – 7:00
  • Blackhawks @ Wild – 8:00
  • Predators @ Stars – 8:30

NBA: (6 games total)

  • Thunder @ Pistons – 7:30
  • Rockets @ Cavs – 8:00
  • Wizards @ Warriors – 10:30

CONCACAF World Cup Qualifying:

  • US vs Guatemala – 7:00 – from Columbus, OH
  • Mexico vs Canada – 10:30 – from Azteca Stadium

I bet President Trump would demand document checks for fans of Los Chapines. No harm, NO FOUL!

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A Canadian man-child of indeterminate age, he stays young by selling alcohol at sporting events and yelling at the patrons he serves. Their rage nourishes his soul, and their tips pay for his numerous trips to various sporting events.
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WCS

PHAT PHIL WOOOOOO
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Sill Bimmons

PHUCKIN A

Gratliff

HABS YO

Gratliff

OLE! OLE OLE OLE!

jjfozz

My sons toured a potato chip factory today. Lucky fuckers got fresh Utz chips.

WCS
Sill Bimmons

There are very few good KOTH pics and .gifs out there.

blaxabbath

Union shop?

jjfozz

No idea. Based in pennsyltucky, not sure if those rubes know how to unionize. it’s a family business, so probably not.

Sill Bimmons

I’ve been to Herr’s a few times.

Got fresh hot Sour Cream & Onion chips once.

http://media.phillyvoice.com/media/images/11011752_10153265762045676_47236499.focus-none.width-800.jpg

Sill Bimmons

Ranked:

Sour Cream
Salt & Vinegar
Red Hot
Cheddar & Sour Cream
Texas Pete
Barbecue
Salt & Pepper
Ripples
Honey BBQ
Crisp ‘N Tasty
Heinz Ketchup
Dill Pickle

Haven’t had Ribs or Ranch.

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Gratliff

As a person who has been rooting for the Montreal Canadiens for…2 hours, how is it that all Montreal fans don’t just kill themselves?

theeWeeBabySeamus

Socialized medicine and all the Prozac/Xanax one can eat.
Oh…and Molson.

Gratliff

Poutine is garbage, and 4th girl in seems like my kind of degenerate.

theeWeeBabySeamus

I’ll take the twins if no one else has dibs.

Gratliff

Boston’s taken the baton from the Isles in the “Playoff lock craters with 12 games to go” category.

Sill Bimmons

Ordinarily the Devils ruin everything.

Not tonight!

http://cdn.meme.am/instances/59305427.jpg

JustStopDude

US Olympic Team doing the instrumental National Anthem.

They may play a foreign, Godless sport…but damn it…they do the Anthem proper!

jjfozz

Hey, does anyone else sometimes feel like bashing millenials in the face with a flaming brick? I mean, because today I wanted to. Repeatedly.

JustStopDude

Try being a 28 year old full time student with 19 year olds. Holy shit…first of all…texting has destroyed a fucking generation. Second, they have zero concept of time. I cannot tell you the number of times I was asked what it was like during WWII, Vietnam, or the Berlin Airlift (these are actual questions I got). Absolutely zero backbone. If I bugged them to turn in group work on time I would either a) get a passive aggressive email or b) get notified by the campus that a complaint had been filed against me for my tone.

We need a long drawn out conflict with a draft to thin out the herd and toughen up the survivors. I think North Korea is game…

jjfozz

I’ve got one who is a good worker, but cannot grasp the concept of chain of command and staying the fuck out of my sandbox. If it starts impacting on how I make a living, the shit is going to go sideways like a motherfucker.

JustStopDude

I got a kid that makes a big deal about agreeing to help out and take on more work for shit…

EVERY. FUCKING. TIME….he either half asses it or just never does anything with it. Even though I am not suppose to travel or do customer training anymore cause…well I can’t pass a psych test…I still get stabbed with it. So I lay out specifically what this kid needs to get done for me.

And when I am gone, I routinely call and email him for status updates. He either ignores me or tells me he is getting shit done…

And every time he has done fuck all.

One time he was bitching about his work computer taking forever to load Cad drawings. I offer to help him out and notice that not only does he fucking have Steam on his work computer, he has over 2300 unread emails. I just walked away in disgust.

WCS

They call that a “Baltimore Suntan.”

Gratliff

Have we discussed Tim Tebow casually mentioning he wants to be in politics yet? I feel that’s the sort of thing we can get on board with.

WCS

Cruz/Tebow 2020

“We’re All Gonna Die”

Sill Bimmons

Won’t happen because Teebs will already be the junior US senator from Florida in 2018 and you can’t be VP if you’re not old enough to be president.

JustStopDude

Honestly?

I really have no hate on the dude at all. I mean unlike most of the Evangelical politicians or the ones pretending to get their vote, I kind of feel like Tebow walks the actual walk.

I mean he would be annoying as fucking to have as a neighbor…but more of a Ned Flanders kind of annoying as oppose to Cruz…which would be more John Wayne Gacy style annoying…

Sill Bimmons

He’s Focus On The Family.

That’s pretty fucking far from benign as far as “actual walks” go.

JustStopDude

I never said he was harmless. I mean that he actually lives out the stupid crap he believes. Its rather refreshing to me to see a public figure that I fully expect proof of being a hypocrite.

I would actually be surprised if say he can only achieve erections through the brutal stomping deaths of homeless people he catches and traps in his basement.

With Cruz…I expect that.

Sill Bimmons

He’s clearly never read the gospel of Matthew:

6:6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

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Gratliff

I’ve basically given up on these types of discussions, and just post George Carlin clips.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE8ooMBIyC8

JustStopDude

TIME FOR MORE US SOCCER!!!

OLYMPIC QUALIFYING BITCHES!!!

Sill Bimmons

Wasted Time, Wasted Talent: The Jokinen Years

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scotchnaut

My theory concerning the greatness of Better Call Saul and its success/popularity is that the big paycheck for Bob Odenkirk is karmic justice for his amazing work on Mr. Show so many years ago.

Sill Bimmons

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JustStopDude

4-0 BITCHES!!!

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Gratliff

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Sill Bimmons
Gratliff

NJ and Carolina are the only teams not disappointing me tonight.

JustStopDude

Eh there eh….don’t be a hoser..

JustStopDude

Apparently the side judge doesn’t know how to tell the onside rule as well.

FIFA needs to really use some of the bribery money on training their fucking officials.

scotchnaut

Takeout Shellfish dishes for me because super allergic wife is many hours away. Whoot!

King Hippo

Valpo fucks up the open dunk play because NIT, bitches!!

JustStopDude

Its amazing how the US team can at ties, appear to have never met each other, let alone played together, prior to getting on the field.

Duchess

Catching up on Better Call Saul… how is this show this damn good?

Sill Bimmons

Because Vince Gilligan is the master of creating characters and building tension.

Duchess

If you give this premise to anyone else and the show falls flat.

JustStopDude

What I loved about Breaking Bad was that you knew where it was heading…but at no time did you have characters doing out of character or just plan stupid shit to fulfill the story line.

Like everyone’s motivation made sense to their character. Completely opposite for most TV and even series that start doing it right, end up fucking it up overtime. Like Sons of Anarchy, Oz…basically shows that stay on the air too fucking long.

King Hippo

And let’s face it, playing by the rules just gets you fucked in the ass.

As does eschewing the rules and going the way of the outlaw.

This is the beautiful Gospel as told by Vince Gilligan, twice now.

laserguru

The writing and characterization is just fucking amazing.

JustStopDude

Okay this official they have for this US-GUA match is fucking terrible…like NFL scab ref terrible.

He has managed to completely miss his own side judge calling offside, allowing the play to continue, he has allowed the US and GUA to get insaney chippy with each other, and for the life of me, he somehow cannot figure out who touched the ball before it goes out of bounds.

And in typical US fashion, they are winning this game, which they should, but are going to start racking up yellow cards in a game they already have won.

Gratliff
Gratliff

Dylan Larkin gets hurt by Alexei Emelin. Justin Abdelkader spends the next 60 seconds punching the top of Emelin’s helmet. Hockey, folks.

Redshirt

So I have a Viral Sore Throat, which means that medicine can’t get rid of it. I can take stuff for the symptoms, but for the main cause, I have to wait until its out of my system.

I spent the whole day having non-productive coughing fits that irritate my throat but don’t produce bacteria-containing septum. I’ve listen to Ted Cruz speak for an hour and I’ve hacked out about 10 pounds of phlegm.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I saw Viral Sore Throat open up for Non-Productive Coughing in ’04 at the Knitting Factory. They were good but something must have been wrong with the sound board cause the mix was terrible.

JustStopDude
JustStopDude

I giggle like a school girl when Tom Servo starts humming the USSR anthem…

EVERY FUCKING TIME!

WCS

Gratliff

Fucking useless Sabres.

WCS

Gratliff

I…don’t know what they’re trying to promote.

WCS

The dangers of prolonged cocaine abuse?

Sill Bimmons

Remember when Jack Edwards was a likable guy on SportsCenter and NHL2Night…

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…and not a horrible caricature of everything that sucks about Boston?

http://cdn1.thecomeback.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/94/2015/12/Jack-Edwards.jpg

Good times.

Gratliff

I have no memory of Jack Edwards that doesn’t make me want to garrote him.

WCS

THE CURSE LIVES

WCS

Now it’s your turn!

Sill Bimmons

???

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Gratliff

Zemgus Girgensons is my new favorite hockey name.

Sill Bimmons

¿Los Chapitas?

MÁS COMO LOS CHALUPAS ESTOYENLOCIERTO

JustStopDude

3-0 in about 20 seconds into the second half.

Redshirt

Cooper: “What about my question?”
Cruz: “I’m answering your question.”
Cooper: “No, you’re bullshiting.”

JustStopDude

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view3/4827472/ussr-tanks-o.gif

Is it too late to surrender to the Ruskies? I am starting to really hate my freedom…

The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem

Then just vote Trump

JustStopDude

I hate my freedom…not my sanity…

Gratliff

There’s only 5 PPG players this season. What a bag of shit.

Sill Bimmons

Bigger ice, bigger nets.

Nothing will change until that happens.

Gratliff

Smaller sweaters would be nice, too. I want to say it was Garth Snow who started it, but goalies basically wear tarps in net at this point.

WCS

I didn’t know David Byrne played lacrosse.

WhyEaglesWhy

I love goalies. I have no problem with this.

Sill Bimmons

That’s because you’re a Flyers fan who is unfamiliar with the concept of fluid offensive hockey.

Gratliff

Or goalies.

WCS

Going up 3-0 in the first is the hockey equivelent of going ass-to-mouth. Never go up 3-0 in the first period.

Gratliff

Pens score as soon as I turn it on. That’ll teach me to be curious.

scotchnaut

I’m reduced to watching the Teletoon Network. I don’t even know what this cartoon is. #STOPTHEMADNESS

American Pie Story

How trippy does it look?

WCS

Eastern Europe’s favorite cat-and-mouse cartoon!

Sill Bimmons

HOCH HECH!

JustStopDude

If the women were playing…the score would be 23-0 at this point…and I would not feel so weird watching this game with an erection.

Gratliff

Oh nice. Petr Mrazek already pulled. That’ll do it for the WIngs.

Sill Bimmons

Ice Stillers currently defining “trap game” down 3-0 to Ice Bills after 1.

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view1/1657090/night-trap-o.gif

WCS

Curse of the 3-0 First Period Lead

If Ice Stillers score the next goal, they’ll win 6-4.

WCS

IT BEGINS

Sill Bimmons

AND BEGINS MOAR

Gratliff

Night Trap gif? Well played.

JustStopDude

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2-0 USA! Maybe…do you believe in Miracles?!?!…well at least trying to achieve the bare minimum?

ThePirateSloth

Also: Come to Portland in April to “not celebrate” Whiteness History Month! https://www.pcc.edu/about/diversity/cascade/whiteness-history-month/

WCS

Chip Kelly really doesn’t know what to make of this.

Sill Bimmons

/offers whiteness to Titans in exchange for Marcus Mariota

ThePirateSloth

I’m really giving serious thought to attending some of the planned events/lectures/get togethers/potential riots just to see how much of a shitstorm is created.

JustStopDude

Jesus…the USMNT…which by the way is the worst fucking acronym in sports..looks like hot garbage.

Croooow

The United States Mutant Ninja Turtles were awesome.

ThePirateSloth

>new guy hired at job
>first time interacting on conf call today
>constantly uses literally…. wrongly
>urge to kill…. rising

The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem

Do it. Will save time later

Sill Bimmons

“Hello, Fran? It’s Melissa. I’m going to be late for book club. Yeah, I got a little hung up.”

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s–qeLC229K–/18xmkvyx9t3wajpg.jpg

WCS

That’s actually quite impressive.

Spanky Datass

I know, right? Strongest phone lines I’ve ever seen!

Sill Bimmons

It does make you wonder how mere tree branches bring down the lines in one’s own neighborhood.

Spanky Datass

Yep. I’m just trying to guess what Melissa drove over to launch her vehicle to such lofty heights. I MUST KNOW!

scotchnaut

If ever you’re in Toronto at the Westin Harbour Castle Hotel and happen to be in room **16, be advised-the TV doesn’t receive certain channels. HOW MUCH LONGER MUST I BE SUBJECTED TO REPEATS OF “STORAGE WARS”?

#whitepeopleattendingbuyingshowsproblems,

JustStopDude

Ain’t no corruption like the Dirty D Corruption!

Seriously…it goes back nearly a century, well before Blacks actually had a say in the city, involving both political parties. The depressing thing about Detroit is that these scumbags are literally ripping off a school district hemorrhaging students which means dropping tax dollars and funds.

The latest move is to basically split the Detroit school system into two entities, one of which will try to continue to function while the other entity will just collect tax dollars to try and pay off debt.
http://www.theseekerbooks.com/detroit/ThomSchl-DSC_0197.JPG

King Hippo

Speaking of the NIT, does anyone else think the kids started trying harder once the NCAAT expanded (making this the battle to be #69)?

Horatio Cornblower

I, for one, welcome our new Guatemalan overlords.

King Hippo

Go Valpo, SDSU, and Guate-fuckin-mala!!!

Sill Bimmons

Of all the countries that the US has fucked with in Central America, Guatemala is the all-time champ by far.

¡Va Los Chapines!

http://cache1.asset-cache.net/gc/455412810-guatemala-fans-support-their-team-before-gettyimages.jpg

King Hippo

Maybe The Donald will get his The Ass kicked badly enough that we will have enough political capital to actually start apologizing for all the fucked up shit we done.

Sill Bimmons

It wasn’t even over anything meaningful.

it was over fruit.

We ruined their entire country over fruit

FUCKING FRUIT

scotchnaut

The 1910 FruitGum Company maintains that everyone should do exactly as Simple Simon (American business interests) says…

https://youtu.be/gvzHGYSv8kw