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.
- “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.
- 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.
- Mike McCarthy: quite angry.
- Mike Zimmer: talk to Mr. Winkles.
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!
Serves one.
I didn’t need to see the Sweet Tea to guess that this aid aired somewhere in the South.
They were plenty common in Albuquerque for a while.
How’s the view from that high horse?
Ah to be young again.
Live long and pooper?
Boldly going…
That’s not where the neck pinch goes. Might help with clenching though.
What does the taint pinch stop?
Just trying out the Klingon version of The Shocker.
Better watch it…fek will get ya!
+1 Bigby’s Clenched Fist
Edit: oh, wait I meant to put that elsewhere. You know what? Fits here too.
So?
I just want to feel something. Everywhere.
+1 Bigby’s Clenched Fist
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/more-sports/pole-dancing-could-be-on-track-to-becoming-an-olympic-sport/ar-AAtEImX?OCID=ansmsnnews11
The worst part is that it will fall under the gymnastics umbrella, which…just…ew.
Pole dancing doctor position has already been filled.
Also filled: Pole dancers, with doctor appendages.
Larry Nassar is really pissed that those girls couldn’t keep their mouths shut now.
Goddamn it. I can’t find the Blue Collar TV clip of the 14 year old doing her “cheer” routine or whatever which was basically a lap dance. It was the only thing amusing to ever come out of that show.
“U.S. President Donald Trump told U.S. Army Sgt. La David Johnson’s widow Tuesday that “he knew what he signed up for …but when it happens it hurts anyway,” when he died serving in northwestern Africa, according to Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Miami Gardens.”
Yeah, maybe let’s just have him not call.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-ask-kelly-whether-obama-called-after-his-son-was-killed-in-action/ar-AAtE96m?OCID=ansmsnnews11
I know it’s something I said like 5 minutes ago, but he continues to find new and awful ways to be the worst.
You can say it every five minutes, at least when he is awake.
From the streets of green bay, I give you two very wisconsin stories.
1) drunk male falls three times in front of officers…in front of the pd.
2) 54 year old t-bones car. His 4th Owi. The other car was driven by a 15 year old. Also drunk…with his parents in the car.
All Caucasian? Just curious.
A) Green Bay
b) No one was shot and killed
So…yeah.
That is what I was thinking.
Yup. And mere blocks from my house.
Maybe add some boulders in your front yard.
I’m in an upper. All good.
Not familiar with Midwest lingo…you’re a top?
You pay right and I’ll be whatever you please.
Did his first 3 owi’s heal up ok?
nice! you get a juice box.
Fuck yeah. Capri Sun and Hendricks.
Careful with those fucking straws.
Jeopardy ended awesomely.
Returning champ had a shitty game and entered final with $1000. The other two contestants were tied at about $12,000. So for the final, it was a weird question that all 3 missed. The champ bet $999, ended up with a buck. Since the other two were tied, they (logically) each bet it all, and ended up broke. The returning champ won with a dollar. Sweet.
That is awesome. What was the question?
Asian Geography: This is the only country that touches both the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf.
Weird thing is, I was thinking Iran, then thinking, no because Persia is basically Iran so that can’t be the answer…then it was the answer. Guessing that tripped up the 3 contestants too. Including the answer (in some form) in the question is pretty rare.
I would love to see someone get into a Cliff Clavin style argument about whether the answer “Iran” could qualify as being phrased as a question depending on your inflection when saying it.
Iranians, Caspians, and Persians have never been in my kitchen.
Yeah, yeah, we all know how the Patriot Act works in Orange County.
Actually…THOSE people are welcome in the OC. The only color that really matters is green. (And black, obvs)
What is “Iran”?
(Geography professor)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UqAWhaJEOg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inQiIkz7J5Y
Iran?
(liked coloring in maps during elementary school)
Yeah, shit, me too. Fucking losers.
I learned geography from watching “Carmen Sandiego”.
Tracking the Cubs on this flight is puckering my sphincter
Tapping out tonite, gents. Work today was the switch and I was AP’s son’s scrotum.
Later, Taters!
My work also involved switches and APs. Turns out WPA2 was cracked and your home wifi is free candy for bored teenagers. Stop broadcasting your SSIDs, people.
Watching Jeopardy and trying to determine whether all contestants were born the same as their current genders. Leaning “no” at this point.
A little old but good.
She ain’t wrong. He’s the worst kind of the worst kind of asshole.
Wonder if’in’ she gots blocked.
Blocked? That’s an odd term for “having her home blown up by a Predator drone-launched Hellfire missile.”
Ook-ook!
How drunk are the fans at Wrigley with an 8 pm start?
drunk^3
OOK!
I couldn’t care less about the NBA, but, that Gordan Heywerd injury… yikes.
Nightmare Broken Ankle.
No Ballin’ Anymore.
New Bone Arrangement.
I kept telling myself: “Don’t watch it. Don’t watch it. Don’t watch it…” Naturally I watched it and now I feel nauseous. Worse, you could hear it.
Gee, @TEN_GOP is Russian. My username has rarely been this accurate.
I like that there’s a guy whose name includes the words “jock” and “peter”.
So it’s finally cooled off here and now feels like October finally, and not August.
Don’t worry your president says that climate change is a hoax. Everything is great again.
You’re a bit early – you gotta wait for the first snowy day of the year to start declaring that global warming is nonsense.
Happened 2 weeks ago….. was 20 degrees Celsius today. Everything is fine.
So, Puig with his batflip/admiring the foul ball – they can drill him next at bat, right?
Every at bat sir.
Personally, I liked the heater painting the corner and freezing his ass. Made him look bad with that one.
Holy airplane seatmate BO, Batman
The analysts up here in Canadia include Greg fucking Zaun. The worst asshole in the land. Oh good here is Ron darling with fucking marbles in his mouff. Fuuucckk.
Evening commentists.
Anyone know of any online primers dealing with this “el beisbol” Hippo blathers on about? How many rounds does it go? Are red cards a thing? When do they release the rabid wolverines onto the field?
/not sure I’m gonna like this basedbalk game
I think there’s a bowler and a hurler and some wickets. And something about a candy bar?
I was so stupid to turn this game on.
On second thought, I don’t know why I care.
Wearing a hot little piece?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyNa-ReeZc8
So I’m confused. Some asshole from Georgia State University has somehow forced the University of Cincinnati to accept his invite of Richard Spencer, Alt-Right leader. If UC refused, he would sue. The Ohio State University did refuse and the GSU asshole is suing OSU.
This person doesn’t live in Ohio, so he doesn’t contribute to the taxes that goes to UC and OSU. He doesn’t even live in the nearby state and commonwealth of Indiana and Kentucky so he doesn’t even go over the river/state line and pay any OH Sales Tax. How does he have the right to force UC and OSU to let this dingleberry speak on campus on their dime? Now these two assholes are going to bring hatred and bigotry to my hometown and my alma mater and THEY DON’T EVEN LIVE IN OHIO!
So if you tune around December or January and see Cincinnati burning, that is why. Thankfully, I live up a 400 feet hill from Downtown so the rioters should not be funneled to my house. Also, the rich part of town is closer and on the same level so hopefully the rioters know this and I can listen on the radio for the mansions being picked clean.
I assume he’s suing on a free speech type basis, and the schools want to deny that guy from speaking from a safety standpoint. Everything else (including fires) is just a matter for the courts.
Agreed, but UC and OSU are state schools. To have standing in court, shouldn’t you be a citizen of Ohio?
No idea. State schools might still receive federal funding, or maybe none of it matters and he’s claiming he just wanted to go to the rally and now he can’t.
I want UC to bus in every black person in Ohio to be the audience like the most cruel Def Comedy Jam show. Because I don’t trust any white people to sit through him speaking without at least one or two beginning to side with him.
I had no idea UC was a state school, though.
Didn’t know the Knicks (or Nets? Eh who cares) owner and russian billionaire also plays hockey for the Flyers.
Oooh free hockey game, that’s good.
Oh, it’s the Flyers, that’s bad.
But no commercials? That’s good.
It’s on NBC though…
/gunshot
looooool. Somebody runs Neuvirth and Claude Giroux just casual as fuck goes to the other end of the ice and scores.
[pulls up images of Hurricane Sandy to make myself feel better]
Prediction: walks the bases loaded, gives up grand slam.
Guess he wanted to give up those two runs right away.
Note to Cubs: please hit like the Yankees in the 8th but starting in the 1st
Welp. Celtics are off to a fine start.
I added a spoiler tag. That is Not Safe For Dinnertime
To me, it just looks like a couple feet going their separate ways. Leftie’s had enough of this horse and pony show and he’s ready to go down his own road.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_lYcTxncNg
Umps should punish the Yankees for their dipshit fans reaching into the field of play. Unfortunately, they won’t.
Unacceptable high number of Yankees fans at the Denver airport bar right now
So one?
Some asshole I went to college with pulled some “blue lives matter” shit with regards to the #metoo movement. You’ll never guess what his views on Charlottesville were.
He thought the car needed a bigger engine?
“All the Nazis were doing is sticking up for their Southern Heritage…what’s so wrong about that?”
Okay, one not connected.
Two, Blue Lives do Matter, but not over the Black Lives Mattering.
If you’re an honest cop, you life matters. If you use your Police Powers to discriminate and bring down people because of the color of their skin, then I suddenly care less about you mattering.
It was in the context of “but men get sexually harrassed too!” Followed by a link to a documentary about Men’s Rights.
Ah. I see.
Men do get sexually harassed, but that doesn’t give other men permission to sexually assault women. That’s like saying “My neighbors window that broken by a baseball, so I can burn down someone else’s house.” Also, “Men’s Rights” are code for “Cancel out Woman’s Rights”.
It was more of a “why are all these women talking about sexual assault/harrassment when it happens to men too sometimes?”
In retrospect I suppose it was more of an “all lives matter”.
Oh good, I tuned in just in time to see the Astros piss away a four run lead to the Yankees.
I cannot help but notice the NFL hasn’t fined or suspended Mike Mitchell yet for his late blow to the knees of Alex Smith. To quote the local paper’s sports editorialist if that was Vontaze Burfict “the league would hand him a cigarette and ask him if he had any last words.”
Spoiler: Zeke got his injunction.
“I didn’t know he was sick!”
-E. Smiff
I’m sure he disinterestly sexually assaulted a woman or four during the bye. It’s his way.
Its amazing how good Star Trek: TNG is. The final episode still holds up.
TOS wasn’t a Series Finale and it was William Shatner’s take on the Women’s Liberation Movement circa 1969. So… yeah…
DS9 was the end of a multi-season long story. It was good, but it was more of a final chapter or a boss level. Good, but not transcendent.
VOY was what Voyager had became: a Janeway episode involving time travel and beating the Borg.
Its too bad ENT never had a final episode.
But “All Good Things…” is great! It has Picard as the lead, but it allows everyone else to play a part. It even allowed for Yar and O’Brien to come back and not have it be forced. Its wasn’t a good final episode. It was one of the best episodes of the entire series. Possibly the whole franchise.
I’m guessing you’re not a fan of Discovery
Remind me, do we have any DFOers in Seattle? As opposed to Seattle fans in Canadia. I’m flying there shortly for work and fly right back tomorrow afternoon my meetings, but I could be talked into a late drink and some bitching about the Cubs if anyone was around/inclined to hang out with internet strangers.
I thought Pirate Sloth lives there…
Pretty sure he’s part of the Portland contingent. I don’t think we have any living there that I’m aware of.
Ok. Late drinks in LA next Tuesday?
How late? Sounds like a plan, though.
He’s in Portland. Beastmode lives closer to Seattle, though, doesn’t he?
*Unless you’re not willing to pay for a new stadium**
**And sometimes even if you are!
Also…Are you ready for the sex girls?
/1 in a thousand somebody here knows this.
those are horrible odds. Now I’ve got that song stuck in my brain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku5sdcnQO4I
I love you friend. Also listen to this
http://boogiemonster.libsyn.com
Listener QA 4…about 12 minutes in. Awesome.
OMG, that was hilarious!!
I’m honestly divided on Kaep. One hand, oh yes he’s being properly fucked sans lube. On the other…was/is he still any good anyway? He was already trending downward before this began.
Trending downwards would be like signing Tom Brady to the likes of half these fucking teams this year.
Goddammit, Luongo wants that 9th spot on the all-time list tonight.
I think it would be interesting if one of the army of DFO lawyers did break down Kaep’s legal basis/chances. My assumption is that it’s a really friggin high bar and each of the companies have a convenient BS excuse to get beyond collusion. But we all know they’re dicks.
I think its a very high bar. They have to prove there was a master plan of sorts, instead of them all independently coming to the conclusion that Kaep brings more baggage than benefit. Are all the people on this site who hate the Pats colluding with each other, or did they all just reach the same conclusion?
Whatever it takes to amplify the hate
I studied antitrust law a decade ago, and it’s hard as Hell to prove collusion. It’s not impossible, but there is no clear evidence now nor a likelihood of any being discoverable because the owners may be stupid but they are criminals first of all and know better than to commit anything to paper or other records.
So two people are quitting in my department. Which means in two weeks, I’ll be doing the job of three people.
More like in two weeks you’re demanding a raise.
Ha! I’m lucky if they clean the bathrooms.
If I can keep things running without having a Psychotic Episode, that may buy me a soda.
Ask for a raise NOW. Strike while the iron is hot; payroll funds were just freed up.
Sadly that won’t work. I got a raise earlier this year. Also, we’ve lost money this year due to complete and utter incompetence so I may get laughed out of the office.
The Kaep thing is yet another, in countless daily reminders that brothers in this country are pretty much fucked from day one.
[eating a shit ton of hot wings with my son]
Me: “I’m… I’m good! Really!”
Son: (not good at hot stuff) “OMG! I’m gonna die!”
/you were looking for a punch line?
//there is no punch line
///”FUCK!”
Punch line: “You think its bad going IN…”