NFL News:
- As expected, Aaron Hernandez’s murder conviction was vacated today, as a result of his suicide prior to the conclusion of his appeal.
- This means his widow will be able to go after the Patriots for the remainder of his 2012 signing bonus.
- but Odin Lloyd’s heirs cannot, because the law now says Aaron Hernandez didn’t kill Odin Lloyd.
- unless they attempt to seek a trial in absentia & prove Hernandez killed Lloyd, and then use that verdict to sue for a percentage of the signing bonus the widow is going for. So, no.
- but Odin Lloyd’s heirs cannot, because the law now says Aaron Hernandez didn’t kill Odin Lloyd.
- Question: Would it be a Patriots move to take this all the way to SCOTUS to avoid paying?
- This means his widow will be able to go after the Patriots for the remainder of his 2012 signing bonus.
- As expected, they will pair Jay Cutler with Kevin Burkhardt on Fox’s “C” team, replacing John Lynch, who went to Santa Clara to beat Jed York into a man.
- A three-over 75 put Tony Romo in 40th place, and out of contention for the US Open.
- the highlight of his round was the 14th hole, where he reached the 600-yard par 5 with a 370-yard drive and a 225-yard 6-iron to within 3 feet; he tapped in the eagle.
- the lowlight was
fumbling the snap on the convertimmediately putting his next drive in the water & triple-bogeying the 15th.
- A construction timeline filed with the city has the Raiders’ Las Vegas stadium completed in June 2020.
- According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, a 30-month construction time frame is ambitious compared with that of other recent stadium projects. Of the last four domed NFL stadiums built, none have been completed within 30 months.
- By December 2017, they are hoping stadium site work begins, and that by January 2018 the stadium construction begins.
- According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, a 30-month construction time frame is ambitious compared with that of other recent stadium projects. Of the last four domed NFL stadiums built, none have been completed within 30 months.
Finally, in Patriots-hate news:
- Vegas not only lists the Pats as 3/1 favourites to repeat as champs (they were 7/2 last week), they are now favoured to go undefeated as well. They are favoured by an average of 6.5 points in each game next season.
- their best odds of defeat are road games in Week 11 (Raiders, in Mexico City) and Week 15 (Steelers), where they are only favoured by 1.5 points.
- the nfl.com “Power Rankings” are out. Their top-5 are:
- Patriots
- Falcons
- Raiders
- Steelers
- Packers
It’s voting day in BC today. As in the rest of Canada, we run on a “first-past-the-post” party system, so the leader of the party that wins the most electoral ridings (out of 85) becomes the first minister of the province, or “Premier”.
We have three main political parties:
- BC Liberal: centre-right to right-wing (foreign equivalent = Democrat)
- BC NDP: centre-left to left-wing (foreign equivalent = UK Labour)
- BC Green: they say centre; policies are left-wing (foreign equivalent = German Green)
There is no equivalent for the Republican Party in Canada. The closest might have been the Wildrose Party in Alberta, and they are in the process of dying due to internecine battles & borderline racial separatism. Federal Canadian Conservatives lack the social conservatism that is a hallmark of American right-wing politics.
Our choices for Premier are
- An entitled, smug lady,
- A barely-controlled rage monster,
- and an affable climatologist whose vote-splitting will hand power to one of the other two.
Polls predict a narrow BC Liberal victory, maybe winning 50 seats. It all depends on how deep the Green-NDP split goes.
I will probably head down to my local MLA’s campaign party for some free cocktails once the polls close at 8:00. I figure she owes me, due to the upcoming summer overpass construction.
Tonight’s sports:
- NHL:
- Senators at Rangers – 7:30PM | NBCSN / CBC
- Game 6; Ottawa leads 3-2
- Senators at Rangers – 7:30PM | NBCSN / CBC
- NBA:
- Rockets at Spurs – 8:00PM | TNT / TSN
- Game 5; series tied 2-2
- Rockets at Spurs – 8:00PM | TNT / TSN
- MLB:
- Yankees at Reds – 7:00PM | FS1
- Cleveland at Blue Jays – 7:00 PM | Sportsnet1
C’mon Sens – DO IT FOR MAESTRO!
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Probot below put me in a lemmy mood.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=uJ7Voy9YK1I
“Is it drafty in here or is it just me?”
Canada still has a large population of beavers.
Eh?
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Friendly reminder that the NFL Regular Season is only 121 days away:
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The National Disgrace fined James Harrison $25000 for this hit.
Karllssonn iss theee besstt ppplayerr in theeee the league rrrighttt nnnoww.
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At a Rockies game a guy did something similar in front of me; skinned up his knuckles diving to get there before some 11 year old kid; CLASSY MLB fans.
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I can’t imagine how that team’s name became a nickname for Americans.
Welcome to America, where the rights of a dead guy mean more than the survivors of the people he murdered.
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Sploosh?
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I need to do research into her when I get home. Only because I don’t want to do something at Starbucks that would put me on a sex offender registry. Plenty of us are on that already.
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“Son, this is why I told you to bring your shiv with you.”
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“Welcome to the Harvard-sponsored CEO beginners program!”
That does seem to be the main criterion to get into Harvard.
I’ve never been emotionally invested in the well-being of your country until these last few months. As a dumb-ass from the outside looking in…it just doesn’t seem right.
You see it too?! Whew…thought I was tripping balls again.
The rhetoric from the Right is taken at face value by a large number of your countrymen-that’s something that you must address in some way. I just don’t think the “left”/Democrats have an answer to that right now or have for the last dozen or so years. Everyone on the left seems to think that what’s good for everyone is completely obvious to everyone but it clearly isn’t.
It seems obvious because they think Americans are decent people. We are not. This is why we’re a fascist plutocracy.
HEY! Christina Hendricks seems pretty decent!
Agreed, I wish it was just a tv series as it appears from up here but sadly it is not.
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Posey is the best catcher in baseball (come at me), the rest of the Gigantes this year are utter garbage.
Not easy hitting a stationary glove from that distance from your knees.
Well, that’s what SHE SAID anyway.
Currently playing?: Agreed. No question. He’s the best.
All time?: YOU WANNA TAKE THIS OUTSIDE?!
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I served him when I was the sommelier at the Westin Turnberry in Scotland (now the Trump Turnberry smh) he was one of the nicest guys to chat with.
Wasn’t “sommelier in Scotland” one of Alanis Morissette’s lines in Ironic?
Trump: “Thank God all these losers that I fired signed Non Disclosure Agreements.”
PA: “Ah. It’s not. Uhh. The thing is…” [calls his lawyer]
Hrm. Need to catch the last few eps of Veep.
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All the metaphors for the things. Take your pick.
Goddamn Verstappen. Talented kid, but drives like a dickhead.
What is up my Comey??!?
“My book deal advance and speaking engagements fees muthafucka!”
Waa?
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fbi-director-james-comey-fired/story?id=47309009&utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark
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Need to delay Russia collusion investigation. ….. or maybe because things.
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Most Glorious el beisbol Cardinals are starting LF called up from AAA and CF called up from high-A, thanks to injuries. But they are kicking ass, natch.
#CardinalWayWOO!!
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So…an OTT/Smash final is humanity’s best hope?
Well for all of us who dislike Bettman a Ottawa/Edmonton would give him a heart attack. I believe that he would see a Nashville victory as a win for him putting teams in the South.
I do not want Edmonton to win, I would be happy with an ICE REDBLACKS win tho.
Pulling for EDM (not v. OTT) but they’ll blow G7 @ Disney.
The Rangers think they’re going to pull a Senators, aren’t they. They’re not, I hope they know that.
Sens woo! How is Cuse lookin?
Still got 3 spots to fill schollie-wise and one of the guys (Tucker) is most certainly headed to Duke. I’m generally hopeful.
Just break the Dookie’s kneecaps and we good.
Hippo, how are the basket-balling Wolfpack looking?
Also a flaming bag of shit. Almost every player from last year’s team is leaving.
I would pay triple the price for an MLB.tv that wasn’t a flaming bag of shit.
How is this worse than fucking free ESPN3 streaming?
“I respect your goalie.”
-Sens fan
/facking hell of a save
Yes, here in Albertastan (recently renamed due to a lefty protest vote win) the Wild Rose Party is the equivalent to Le Pen’s party in France, and also your current president. They try as hard as they might not to say or do something homophobic/racist/elitist but some of them older white folks just say what they think. Fortunately they are vote splitting with the Conservative party hence our lefty provincial government. I guarantee it will not happen next election, we will get back to the earth raping, no taxes, no social services (in comparison to to other provinces) haven that Alberta has been the past 50 years.
Ted Cruz is sooooo jelly of teh muthaland
Oh he would lead those xenophobes for certain.
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Oooooooooh
4 minute penalty?
/may as well bang the missus and come back for the last 2 minutes of the power play…
It’s okay, take your time, you won’t miss anything.
An extra 30 seconds to “warm her up”?
/I don’t think that now is the time to try new things
Well done scotchy, legit laugh.
Shit like that at your advanced stage of matrimony will get yo’ ass accused of having an affair, , ppl forget that.
WHAT ARE YOU??!!? SOME KIND OF MARATHON MAN!?!?!?
I see it’ll be a race between CC Sabathia and the Ice Giants about who can piss me off more today, that’s always fun.
Have you considered a nice opiate habit? It’s fun and mostly legal!
HOFFMAN!!!
That diarrhea smoothie is in the blender…
Hiring Gus Bradley has already seen to that…
Also, how the hell is it that the only team to lose to the Browns last year is at 24? It’s almost like power rankings are just speculative word vomit disguised as #content…
If anybody knows about getting over the hump and in the playoffs, it’s Gus Bradley.
And at the mere mention of “hump” Lady Laserface is preggers again.
That election slate would make a good sit-com:
The barely-controlled rage monster dad and his entitled smug lady wife have hilarious adventures in their daily lives along with their son the affable climatologist. And their other son, the gay state trooper. And their daughter the nun.
Now here’s the twist: they’re all practicing snake handlers!
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So after the dinged windshield a week ago, I got a flat today. So let’s see if the Rangers either mitigate or extend my contempt with the world! Yanks are up 2-0 though, so that’s not awful.
FUN FACT! My racist, Sens fan ex-gf was a Yuuuuuuge NDP booster. Go figure, eh?
Figures
That is a bit odd, as the NDP are not racist.
“Do it for Maestro”
Jeez Rob, I’m right here.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=T09hBGGpSjk
What did I just watch?
Dave Grohls superstar jam band of course! With the late Lemmy.
/reads nfl.com Power Rankings
Grrrr!!! The Giants weren’t going to draft a starting O-lineman in the 3rd fucking round! Jesus Banana Christ! Can people get that through their heads?
Then how did Stephen Harper happen?
The conservatism of Harper was nothing like today’s Republicanism is what I think he was getting at.
Fuck. Yes.
Additionally, Roger Goodell’s boner already filed an amicus brief at the mere mention of denying a player or his estate their rightfully-earned money.
If BC liberal is centre right to right wing, wouldn’t that make the equivalent the republicans? This is the first time I’ve heard “democrats” and “Right” in the same boat.
We don’t spend enough time off DFO then.
The civilized world considers the U.S. rightfully so to be batshit-fucking-crazy conservative to the point of always teetering right on the fringes of classical fascism. Socially, the Democrats talk a good game about liberal social policies but don’t actually work towards them or even really try. Sure, they throw a token “everyone should be equal” schtick, but equality ≠ equity and even the standard-bearer for liberal intellectualism, the New Republic, is still racist as fuck towards African-Americans. The soft bigotry of liberals in America – from low expectations to outright NIMBYism (equality and desegregation is great, just not if they actually have to do anything that would put them in contact with darker people) – is pervasive and insidious and is only overlooked because the right-wing literally treats minorities like they are not human.
That said, European social liberals are also just as big a bunch of fucking scumbag racists and idiots. It’s easier for them to have liberal state programs because of their, until recently, hyper-homogenization. It’s the same reason why the most liberal cities in the U.S. are also the whitest and most segregated – because people will protect and support their neighbors, just so long as their neighbors look and act and believe the same things they do.
Anyway, we’re all scum and I hope humanity goes extinct soon. This is exhausting.
USA: Slighty Less Crazy Than Iran Weather Permitting
In reality, America is center-right. We’re a puritan nation that makes long-delayed, half-steps towards progress, before getting even that drastically reduced to the smallest fractions by conservative pushback. Hillary, touted as being dangerously liberal during the election, is a bank-friendly centrist who believes in a strong military and whose husband signed off on one of the most harmful criminal justice bills of all time. Bernie Sanders would be middle-of-the-road in most non-theologies.
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I would never say center right. We are an extremely right-wing country.
How do I bet all my money against the Patriots going undefeated?
Bovada?