Your “Gonna Get High, Gonna Have Some Fun” Saturday Evening Open Thread

Hope you all had yourselves a lovely day. The rain has finally returned (with a vengeance) to Vancouver. The highlight has been the traffic broadcasts; there was one point this week where the local newsradio reporter just gave up & said, “What’s wrong with people?” For example: we have this bridge called the Port Mann,

which used to have tolls, so cheap people would avoid it like it gave cars herpes. It has 10 lanes, and was designed with the intention of getting people more quickly out of town – to where the cheap real estate is/was. But hardly anyone wanted to pay the $3.50 each way, so they would drive out of the way to free crossings, choking traffic on roads not designed for that volume, usually adding 15-30 minutes to their commute. Well, the new socialist government eliminated the toll on September 1st, and traffic volume across it has increased by 35000 cars/day. GOTTA MAKE UP TIME! Shockingly, there has been a corresponding increase in collisions which has baffled traffic planners. Add in torrential downpours and you’ve got a recipe for quite the disaster. Idiots.

Sunday’s broadcast maps: courtesy the folks at 506sports.com

CBS EARLY

█ Anchorage AK  |  █ Fairbanks AK
█ Honolulu HI

I want to pick all visiting teams for these ones, but I know Baltimore will let me down. Also, seeing how the Truth Biscuit does against a Kuechly-less Panthers defence should be educational.

CBS LATE

█ Anchorage AK  |  █ Fairbanks AK
█ Honolulu HI

Honest opinion: all three sets of announcers for these games are actually tolerable. Romo keeps a leash on Nantz’s more inane tendencies.

FOX SINGLE

█ Anchorage AK  |  █ Fairbanks AK
█ Honolulu HI

Do you think Troy looks forward to the MLB playoffs because it means no jerkwad Joe Buck beside him for a month? Does the time apart help their relationship?

Discuss.

Tonight’s sports:

• MLB: GAME 7 BAY-BAY!
  • Yankees at Astros – 8:00PM | FS1 / Sportsnet

• NCAA: (of note)
  • LSU at Mississippi – 7:15PM | ESPN
  • Michigan at Penn State – 7:30PM | ABC / TSN2
  • Southern California at Notre Dame – 7:30PM | NBC
  • Kansas at TCU – 8:00PM | FOX
  • Wyoming at Boise State – 10:15PM | ESPN2
  • Colorado at Washington State – 10:45PM | ESPN

• CFL:
  • Eskimos at Lions – 10:00PM | TSN

•  NHL:
  • Leafs at Senators – 7:00PM | CBC
  • Panthers at Capitals – 7:30PM | NBCSN
  • Wild at Flames – 10:00PM | CBC

• Futbol:
  • 2017 U-17 World Cup:
    • Quarterfinal – USA vs. England – 12:30AM | TSN2
      • Live Stream: Fox Soccer Match Pass, Telemundo, fuboTV (U.S)

Why are they having the London game the same time as the regular block? Do they want folks to not see it? When I’m up early walking the dogs, I want the comfort of knowing there’s a game amongst the infomercials. THANKS FOR NOTHING, ROGER!