Your “What Blessings The Gods Have Bestowed Upon Us” Monday Open Thread

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I didn’t know Holocaust equivalencies were such an integral part of the Massachusetts curriculum.

Really, I could go on. Such unbridled, unrepentant, undiluted yet deluded hate; it really could only come from the world’s most “oppressed” “nation” of sports “fans”. It was what I needed on a Monday morning. I may never have children, so I will take this moment of pure emotion for what it is – proof I can go on, and that there really are worse people than me.

As far as actual effects, Gisele’s disappointment will miss the first four games, forfeit the requisite pay, and the Pats lose their first round pick (plus a 2017 4th rounder). HOW WILL THEY SURVIVE?! It doesn’t seem like much, considering Brady’s reworked contract seems to take the suspension into account, and the Pats have a documented history of trading away their top pick and turning garbage into gold later in the weekend. Still, update your predictions accordingly.

That really livened up Monday’s NFL News Roundup. Until then, the most interesting things were the announcement that JFFs indictment will be filed on Tuesday, and news that Sam Bradford is refusing to attend any more off-season Eagles workouts and demanding a trade. We are all grateful for Manziel’s contributions to this week’s Crimebeat! and look forward to his eventual tearful admission, trivial sentencing, and journey north to play for the Hamilton Tiger Cats. As to Bradford, I guess someone got tired of all the rumours and decided to put on his big boy pants.

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Deadspin has a story that Mike Tirico is leaving tWWL this summer for NBC, to start with Olympics coverage and as their Thursday Night Football play-by-play man. Since Al Michaels’ contract expires in 2017, NBC seems smart to lock down a possible replacement now.

Finally, I tried to read Peter King’s Acela Excreta this morning, but somewhere about his third “I’m a genius who’s an idiot genius, you idiots” allusion, I had to close my laptop before it flew across the room. You’ll have to look elsewhere for his take; I regret nothing.

Just three days to the draft!

Tonight’s sports action!

NHL: both are elimination games

  • Anaheim @ Nashville – 8:00 (Ducks up 3-2)
  • Chicago @ St. Louis – 8:30 – Game 7! Go Blues!!

NBA:

  • Heat @ Hornets – 7:00 – Game 4
  • Mavs @ Thunder – 8:00 – Game 5
  • Clippers @ Portland – 10:30 – Game 4

WWE RAW: there’s a PPV this Sunday, so tonight’s episode will set the table for that. Expect lots of talking.

Really, I’ve never had such fun doing a SFW Google image search.

SO MUCH JOY!

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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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JustStopDude

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Porky Prime

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theeWeeBabySeamus

Gene might the most underrated animated character in evar.

JustStopDude

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Senor Weaselo

Who’s Jusus?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Just us for Jesus Justice.

Doktor Zymm

Storm is finally coming in. We’re getting some impressive thunder this year. Good initial cannon-fire sound, up there on the volume, and a long rumbly follow through!

theeWeeBabySeamus

Rex Ryan’s pre-season pep-speech?

King Hippo

That will haunt my fucking dreams. Asshole.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

You seem like a raccoonist. Raccoons will never get a fair life with people like you.

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King Hippo

I AM from teh South ,, no ofence

Porky Prime

Racoonists? Wasnt that Jack White’s side project from a few years back?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

No, it was Raccoon Tears, Tears for Fears sued their asses, too.

Porky Prime

Marvel really cut back the effects budget for Guardians of the Galaxy 2.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

That is so good.

Gratliff

Oh hey, Chyna is actually getting a video package.
Commence video and/or package jokes.

Porky Prime

Chyna and Prince represent an interesting study in contrast.

Brocky

I know this gif is overused, but this is a recreation of what just happened between my two dogs: a young shih tzu (the penguin) and an old, mostly blind rott mix (the seal)

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You are now all enriched for knowing this

Senor Weaselo

Fuck you Dallas Braden. And also fuck you John Kruk, because you exist. And then a double play after the hit.

WCS

Doktor Zymm

Tennis started again today, and while my hand-eye coordination is rusty, I’m not totally out of tennis shape and managed not to die from sprinting back and forth during drills! It was also warmer tonight than it was for most of last summer, and I got to see some kick-ass lightning that conveniently stayed a few miles out over the lake or Evanston or somewhere far enough away. I should be a good Chicagoan and stay up watching the hockeys, but this is the Blackhawks in the playoffs, so there will probably be quintiple overtime and the game will end tomorrow around lunch time.

JustStopDude

I dated a rich pre-med student that was getting tennis lessons from the time she could walk.

Fucking christ it was irritating as fuck to play her in tennis. She didn’t have a lot of power, but she could drop it in the worst place possible for you every….fucking…time.

Tennis is right up there with golf where its so fucking goddamn frustrating to me…and the sport requires me to have a device just perfect for rage chucking…

Doktor Zymm

I enjoy watching tennis a lot more now that I play, precisely because of shit like that. I appreciate the skill it takes to run your opponent up and down the court, and the effort it takes to keep running for that goddamn annoying shot that just HAD to go all the fucking way over there.

King Hippo

Also why a really evenly played women’s pro match is such a work of art.

Porky Prime

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King Hippo

I lost my first tennising of the season in straight sets, and was suitably angry at myself.

Porky Prime

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Doktor Zymm

That shit never works when I try it. I also haven’t mastered the backwards over the head shot, or the through the legs backwards jump shot.

King Hippo

Only trick shot I can do is where it’s too far to reach on a backhand and I flip the racket into my left hand. Oddly enough, despite being a klutzy fuck of the highest order, I get this to go back into play about 1 time out of 3 or 4.

JustStopDude

Local news up here in the mountains is showing the local PD raiding trailers for weed, meth, and prescription pills.

Fucking shit is really depressing when you think about it because these folks have next to nothing. Most likely their personal history is a living nightmare and its a self medicating behavior that is feeding the drug usage. Don’t get me wrong, I can’t stand the property crime here…but locking these folks up doesn’t solve shit.

If I were made US Emperor…one of my first acts would be require mandatory and fully federal funded therapist sessions for every person in the US. Methinks that would cut down the mass shooting rate ten fold within a year.

King Hippo

End the drug war, let people choose their poison (literally). Use the excise taxes to fund real treatment programs for addiction and mental health. Pretty simple.

Oh, and allow the police and prisons and court system to focus on actual goddamned crime.

theeWeeBabySeamus

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JustStopDude

One of the things that annoy me most about weed advocates is how some of them pretend its not addictive. Everything is fucking addictive. Any repeatable human behavior can become a destructive coping mechanism.

In the US, we actually have people that get addicted to water intoxication. Basically they drink enough to get high by fucking up their electrolyte levels. Its very dangerous. Treatment centers that specialize in it have to have chemical toilets to prevent addicts from literally drinking from the toilet bowl.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Pretty sure most of them mean it is not a physical dependency like opiates for instance.

JustStopDude

The head game is what really defeats you. The physical withdraw from opiates is terrible, but the way your mind works against you is just fucking cruel.

I think I ran into the same problem most addicts do…you imagine if you just stop your drug of choice, shit gets fixed and everything turns out okay. Instead, you start recognizing all the terrible shit you did, get depressed, so you want to get fucked up…you get fucked up…and feel depressed for failing…so you get fucked up again…

Fucking human brain is a cruel thing to fight against on a daily basis.

King Hippo

Sure, everything FUN is addictive. I get blinding headaches if I don’t put caffeine in my system by 11am.

We just don’t give a shit. Substances make our lives more entertaining. And trying to shut off basic supply and demand is folly. Where there is demand, there will be supply, just underground, violent gang-driven supply.

Spend money on the “demand” side, that’s all government can really do.

And yeah, psychological dependence is still a far cry from physical dependence (alcohol, caffeine, opiates – the latter being Hippo’s 2 faves).

theeWeeBabySeamus

There’s a vast difference between weak people being unable to break from habitual comforts, regardless of society’s opinions of said habits….and true addiction.

But by all means, I’ll stop drinking water immediately.

Porky Prime

Fuckin’ peanut donuts, man. Abominable.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Porky…you a nut monkey on your back or what?
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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I think he’s got a nut monkey. I think he is a nuttist.

theeWeeBabySeamus

To be clear, I don’t take addiction lightly. It has adversely affected many of my friends and family. But please don’t throw out the straw man of weed being addictive (it isn’t) because some dumb cunts somewhere drink too much water to get a buzz.

Porky Prime

Weed can be addictive, just only in the habitual sense like eating or gambling or DFO.

Porky Prime

According to the mailers I have to deliver, Obama is one step ahead of you with the Emperor thing. As soon as he gives Iran all our nukes and betrays Israel.

theeWeeBabySeamus

It’s Ten O’Clock…at least for us normal humans on the east coast.
Who’s ready to get this party started?????????
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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
theeWeeBabySeamus

Show Off

Porky Prime

“Man, I could CRUSH some animal crackers right now…and soup.”

Brocky

I click expecting a nicely worded bit of patriots bashing, then I see this:

“Chicago @ St. Louis – 8:30 – Game 7! Go Blues!!”

Seriously Rob?

Remember, a blues victory makes St. Louis Cardinals fans feel validated. Surely that’s the greater of two evils?

theeWeeBabySeamus

Looks too much like Martha Westerfeld.
Who will hopefully die this week.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Sorry, I guess she didn’t take Clark’s fake name.
Martha Hanson.
She still needs to see the inside of a Soviet 50 gallon drum.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

But you make her fart smile! Can’t you put away the hate and just smell it for once?

Brocky

Commitment to hate, I can respect that

And I honestly wouldn’t be devastated if the hawks don’t win the cup, I really can’t say I’m expecting them to.

Just don’t lose in the first round, and not to St. Louis.

JustStopDude

Everyone is officially sick of Ricky Gervais or whatever the fuck his name is now…right?

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The Verizon shilling is a bit much, yes.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I was fine until that, but it seems to be the way of the modern comic.

JustStopDude

I’ve never been a fan of his humor. I find his shilling is just pretty much an extension of his shtick.

Gratliff

Between the Office and Derek, he’s earned my love, but his stand up does nothing for me. He’s far better as a character than he is a stand up act.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Weird how a lot of comics are like that or visa versa. I really like @Midnight, but his stand-up is meh to me, some of it is funny, but….

JustStopDude

I know I am in the small minority here, but I really did not like “Extras”. It had its moments, but especially the final episode, it reminded me every time some little tool bag is giving me shit about religion, economics, or history based on what they read on wikipedia.

That pious “I am so much smarter than everyone and that makes me a miserable prick” shtick…

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Minority sminority; if it doesn’t make you laugh it just doesn’t. No need to rationalize. Comedy is just as subjective as any other entertainment.

King Hippo

He gave the world Karl Pilkington, I will always give him credit for that if nothing else.

King Hippo

Matt Holliday triple? OH YEAH, #DevilMagic

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

NSFW for poorly drawn cartoon nudity!

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Shannon Whirry IS a god damn national treasure.

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Porky Prime

Shannon Whirry’s career highlight.

Spur

Will the NFL Draft have Prince music playing going into commercial breaks?

theeWeeBabySeamus

Only if we’re lucky….only….if we’re lucky.

Porky Prime

Assuming they didn’t already cut a deal with Beyonce. Lemonade! Now on Tidal!

Gratliff

Jesus Christ, Lana

theeWeeBabySeamus

You forgot this….
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Gratliff

Oh boy, Broncos want Bradford. I guess they’re done with super bowls now.

bourb0nblues

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Did you watch any of the “quarterbacking” last year?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Also; where the hell did you hear this? Was there a shed near by?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Asking about what they would want is obviously full out pursuit. Too much to trade and about $14 mil too much; but they are right on the verge! 24 hour news cycle and idle sports hands are a bad mix.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

The last part is great:

“Conflicting reports Monday morning suggested both that Bradford, demanding a trade, wouldn’t show up to the Eagles’ voluntary workouts and that he hadn’t asked to be dealt and didn’t plan to make such a request.”

King Hippo

Typical Elway – he will take him off of Philly’s hands for a mid-range draft pick if’n Philly eats half the money. Otherwise…get bent.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

That plus sandwiches. You buy your own drink.

King Hippo

I mean, if water straight from the trough is good enough for the Team President ,, smh

bourb0nblues

Blues have mastered the knucklepuck! Hot damn!

Spur

Carlisle is a wizard… somehow Mavs only down 2

Spur

Compression sports apparel is a big thing apparently. Random observation.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Crotchless.

What will happen first Half Life 3 comes out or George Martin finishes the series?

Spur

Half Life 3 which will also ship with Team Fortress 3.

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Ice BFIBs scored in the first minute against the Ice Cubbies. This may be quite a good game.

King Hippo

And just scored again! They gon have to work really hard to fuck this one up.

Spur

Could Jon Snow’s blood frozen on the ground be used for magic? Does it need to be fresh?

Unsurprised

NEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRD

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Sansa’s blood attracts bears; FACT.

Spur

So can talk about Game of Thrones last night? Those old saggy tittes really scared me.

theeWeeBabySeamus

And yet it’s ME who’s afraid of women.
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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
bourb0nblues
Unsurprised

Uh …

That’s really sad.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

AT&T has taken goddamned forever to fix my internet and it’s been incredibly frustrating, but I’ve got to give some credit to the guy who’s on my roof as a thunderstorm seems to be bearing down, wind and all. Big set of balls on that guy.

Spur
Spur

Evening folks. Fuck OKC!

Unsurprised

But which sports team are you rooting for (or against)?

bourb0nblues

Good evening! And a happy Game 7 to all.

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Today, PFTCommenter tweeted the question: “Does Peter King wear boxers or briefs?”

I replied: “Boxers. Peter King is never brief.”

I got a like from PFTCommenter.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLL, GUESS WHO’S THE BIG DAMN CELEBRITY AT DFO NOW-A-DAYS?!?!?

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I’d be sooo much worse if he had retweeted me.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

You need to take your brush with fame and run with it! RUN WILD!!

Duchess

/Patriots redo Brady’s contract so he got a 20MM signing bonus and 1 million to play for the single year meaning he loses about only $250,000.

“This is an outrage we had no idea this was coming! This power trip is egregious.”

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This actually makes me wish there was a rule that forbade restructuring a contract to avoid losing money via unpaid suspension.

Duchess

I guess Mike Tirico had enough of staring longingly into Jon Gruden eyes knowing his love was unrequited.

Duchess

You cannot say he doesn’t look like the type of guy writing “Mike T. Gruden” in a heart on all his notebooks.

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theeWeeBabySeamus

Jaworski just wants to watch from a dark corner.

Duchess

The Eagles trade away their future to jump up in the draft to get a QB and they are shocked… SHOCKED by the fact that Sam Bradford is pissed and wants a trade.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I know how the Eagles feel; it’s the same thing I went through when my wife discovered my online dating profile.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Restrained jubilance?

theeWeeBabySeamus

Oh wait…sorry. I thought you said what SHE went thru.
Sorry people…my bad.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

You should check out her profile.

Duchess

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Nice tractor…. big boy.

JustStopDude

Honest question for the Commentariate…

Let’s say Tom Brady and Johnny Football enter the league at the same time. Also, Tawmy Boy goes to Cleveland and The Booze Cruiser goes to New England…

Who has the longer, more successful career?

theeWeeBabySeamus

Trick question…
The answer is still Pey Pey.
ALWAYS answer Pey Pey.
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Duchess

both would be busts

JustStopDude

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ballsofsteelandfury

Is it me or does Gisele have a bit of a Gronk smirk going on in that picture?

theeWeeBabySeamus

She’s very handsome.

theeWeeBabySeamus

I’d also presume her penis is attractive.

ballsofsteelandfury

And girthy

theeWeeBabySeamus

All the better to peg Tawmmy with, my dear.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Are you that afraid of women?

theeWeeBabySeamus

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

We just need to know so we don’t accidently scare you. Nobody needs to be jumpin’ out of their jammies in fright.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Just for you, I’ll do my best to curb my “vagophobia” in the future if it will make you feel better.
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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I’m not sayin’ you have to get a boner, also not sayin’ an afraid boner is bad either. We just don’t want you gettin’ an innie because you perceive someone looks a little tough.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

No off fence, not here to judge.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

She was on the Bangin’ Gronk website, but said it was for research.

JustStopDude

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Unsurprised

And Randall Slavin took a portrait photo of my brother, putting him among the likes of Bill Clinton and my dear Emily Ratajkowski. Plus, I lost seven pounds since last week and am in good health for anyone my age let alone someone as fat as me.

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Croooow

Tottenham drew today. Leicester City is just thee points/one win away from the title. Incredible.

JustStopDude
JustStopDude

Damn it…

In all seriousness though, it is amazing how far Leicester City has come. It was like 2 years ago, they had players getting caught on a sex tour in Thailand saying racist shit.

Add in a manager that everyone thought was a joke hire…a team of castoffs and unknowns…the fuckers keep winning.

I am especially enjoying the conspiracy theories that some Hotspur fans are trying to spread.

Unsurprised

Who let Cam Newton drive the team bus again?

ballsofsteelandfury

That Goodell-Hitler poster is fabulous. I wonder if that’s for sale and if any of our Chicagoland brothers and sister could take it to the Draft…

The Maestro

As shitty and ridiculous as the DeflateGate news is for me, our DFO pariah, I did at least just buy $30 worth of Girl Guide cookies at my front door right now, so at least I can mope while eating sugary goodness.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“Girl Guide” sounds like something Rob Ryan would be perusing at the Vegas airport while waiting for the shuttle over to the strip.

Horatio Cornblower

That adult Patriots in the “cheating Patriots” photo is clearly measuring the flatness of his son’s head for beer coaster suitability.

Speaking of sons my son just faced down the reigning state baseball player of the year while pitching for his high school team. Fucker blasted a 2 run homer off of him. HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO LIVE VICARIOUSLY THROUGH THAT!?

Senor Weaselo

Did you tell him to hit the bull?

Unsurprised

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“This is maybe one of the greatest injustices in the history of sports.”

Jim Thorpe just rolled over in his unmarked grave.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“I meant to punch the wall. I didn’t see my mom was standing in the way.”

– Dez Bryant, practicing his story for the cops

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

[checks calendar to see how many more days until his Hall of Fame induction]

– Charles Woodson

Horatio Cornblower

If Beau McDowell isn’t on an FBI watch list he should be.

Horatio Cornblower

“This is maybe one of the greatest injustices in the history of sports.”

The Negro Leagues would like a word.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I understand injustices to them are only valued at 3/5 of more “traditional” injustices.

JustStopDude

I personally love how most of the historic Negro League ballparks are continued to be allowed to rot with zero attempt to acknowledge the history that took place.

My favorite is Old Busch Stadium in Indianapolis which was turned into

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during the “Cash for Clunkers” fiasco…

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“With great regret, we must take issue with this assessment. Again, we apologize, but we feel the injustice done to us was considerably more significant. Sorry.”

– Jamie Salé and David Pelletier