Your “Catch Your Dreams Before They Slip Away” Tuesday Evening Open Thread

NFL News:

  • The Giants have ended Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie’s suspension after one game.
    • With the Seahawks coming to town, that makes sense, given the differences between Trevor Siemian & Russell Wilson.
  • Roger Goodell & the Seahawks Doug Baldwin sent a joint letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2017.
    • the Act “seeks reforms and targets enhanced mandatory minimums for prior drug felons, increases judicial discretion for sentencing, and reforms enhanced mandatory minimums and sentences”.
    • The letter highlights player & team initiatives to work with law enforcement over the last two years, and emphasizes that “football and community are the twin pillars of the NFL”.
  • In an act sure to anger most Jets fans, the League stated it chose not to review the game-ending touchdown by Derrick Henry last night.
    • “According to a league spokesman, it was determined that a closer look wasn’t necessary.” Discretion exists where the play “will have no significant impact” on the outcome of the game.
      • I’m sure Vegas loved that explanation, as the TD helped beat the +7.5 spread.
  • NaVorro Bowman has signed with the Raiders, days after being cut by the 49ers.
    • One-year, $3 million; given the Raiders injuries, he’s expected to start their next game.
  • The sniping continues between the Packers & Vikings over the legality of the hit that ended Aaron Rodgers’ season.

I tried to break down the Colin Kaepernick collusion case for discussion, but it flummoxes me.

Not the argument itself. I understand the allegation – that the owners have colluded together to prevent his employment. I’m old enough to remember the famous baseball collusion case back in the 80s – it eventually resulted in a $102 million payout for the wronged players. And I get the circumstantial evidence – that everyone but Danny Wuerffel has been signed to a backup contract this year; that’s owners have stated they fear public backlash; that Ray Lewis will sell a brother out. I giggled at tying the president into the whole thing, what with his tweets about influencing owners on things like the anthem and “sons of bitches” who kneel.

But, at this point, I’m just bored by all the noise. I hope he gets all his money, and I look forward to seeing him in an Alouettes uniform in the near future. But I’m giving the NFL the win here, because I just can’t be bothered to keep interest in a topic with complex legal intricacies, racial overtones and armchair patriots on Twitter who really enjoy using the N-word. I get enough of that with “Hope Clicks”.

Am I exercising “white privilege” because I can afford to choose to ignore this? Maybe. Am I a bad person because I’m lazy and/or refuse to be “woke”? No. I’m a bad person because I’m just a bad person; that I can live with.

I couldn’t think of anything else to include today after all that reading & self-loathing, so here’s a Tuesday kind of song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUKz2fvb6jY


Tonight’s sports:

  • MLB:
    • Game 3: Dodgers at Cubs – 9:00PM | TBS / Sportsnet
  • NHL:
    • Lightning at Devils – 7:30PM | NBCSN
    • Buffalo at Vegas – 10:00PM | Sportsnet360
  • NBA:
    • Celtics at Cavaliers – 8:00PM | TNT / TSN
    • Rockets at Warriors – 10:30PM | TNT / TSN

NBA season opens tonight. No word on if league officials agree with Charles Barkley about “faking it” for seven months until the inevitable Cavs-Warriors finals. It’s better than buying into the fallacy that the Patriots might not  win the AFC East. PROVE ME WRONG, JAY CUTLER!

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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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Wakezilla

Part of me still is surprised he didn’t run with this to condone black on black violence. NFL should run with this?

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Unsurprised

Why do we have soldiers in Niger anyway?

Brick Meathook

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Unsurprised

How does LeBron look older than me? I have at least five years on him.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Hey I think these Dodgers might be pretty ok

Brick Meathook

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Senor Weaselo

So, he raised his hand to signal stuck in the ivy and played it? Well, worth a try.

Mr. Ayo

YEAH! More instant replay!

Brick Meathook

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Mr. Ayo

For all you bagging on Puig, now you have to bag on Baez doing that while down 5 runs.

Wakezilla

Can’t blame Puig. He’s gonna get paid…then suck for 7 years

BrettFavresColonoscopy

We’ve all been bagging on Baez for hitting like shit all October

Brick Meathook

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WCS

Did Walter stand in front of a nuclear reactor for too long? Guess the lung cancer didn’t get him, after all.

Mr. Ayo

Drawing Bad

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Unsurprised

Scuba Steve, yes!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I will play you the song of my people.

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Wakezilla

Put a fucking pitch clock in baseball games. If I can see two basketball teams run up and down the court, each taking a shot after running a play in between pitches, or I can see a fan in the middle of an aisle go to the stairs and get death stares from 20 people they step over, then your game is taking too damn long.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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The dark side of GIECO.

Brick Meathook

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

This Cubs game is rough but I can’t believe people at Wrigley were booing. What a bunch of assclowns

Unsurprised

Yeah, a real shocker that Chicago baseball fans can be assholes.

WCS

As a Yinzer, I deserve all the scorn and torment I get. I try to be decent, especially around you lot, but, my family is just at bad as every story you’ve heard or read about. I get it. Again, I try not to be that Yinzer. It’s all just supposed to be entertainment, anyway.

All that said, FUCK THE SMALL BEARS.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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No phobias or nightmares later in life, nope.

Senor Weaselo

Evening lizard people. So, did anyone watch the giant robot fight? Because I’m gonna watch it now.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Unsurprised

Wrong ethnicity

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Brick Meathook

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Chimney is clean now.

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Unsurprised

This LeBron costume was a bad idea.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

“underwater afghan hound”

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Bullshit that’s Cousin It.

Unsurprised

The new Patton Oswalt special is pretty damn good.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Unsurprised

I wonder what they hoped to accomplish with this. It’s too clever and overt, like whoever made it wanted to get fired.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Brick Meathook

Snoop Dog is a game show host?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Brick Meathook

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I use similar cases for my field work. Never found a Christina Hendricks in of ’em, though. Closest I ever came was a Christina-Hendricks equivalent biomass of ants.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Jesus Christ. Dodgers pitcher batting with the bases loaded and the Cubs pitcher walks him on four pitches.

Croooow

Nothing like a pitcher getting an RBI off a bases loaded four-pitch walk.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Booooooooooo

WCS

Yaaaaaaaaayyyyyy

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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herodotus450

Well that was a fun week where we thought the Oilers were good again.