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
| █ | Carolina @ Chicago | Ian Eagle, Dan Fouts |
| █ | Baltimore @ Minnesota | Greg Gumbel, Trent Green |
| █ | Jacksonville @ Indianapolis | Tom McCarthy, Steve Beuerlein, Steve Tasker |
| █ | Tennessee @ Cleveland | Spero Dedes, Adam Archuleta |
| █ | NO GAME due to local team at home on FOX | |
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
| █ | Cincinnati @ Pittsburgh | Jim Nantz, Tony Romo |
| █ | Seattle @ NY Giants | Andrew Catalon, James Lofton |
| █ | Denver @ LA Chargers | Kevin Harlan, Rich Gannon |
| █ | NO GAME due to local team at home on FOX | |
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
| █ | New Orleans @ Green Bay | Kenny Albert, Charles Davis |
| █ | NY Jets @ Miami | Dan Hellie, Chris Spielman |
| █ | Arizona vs LA Rams (in London) | Sam Rosen, Ronde Barber |
| █ | Tampa Bay @ Buffalo | Chris Myers, Daryl Johnston |
| █ | Dallas @ San Francisco (LATE) | Thom Brennaman, Troy Aikman |
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)
- Quarterfinal – USA vs. England – 12:30AM | TSN2
- 2017 U-17 World Cup:
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!
Morton should be yanked preemptively.
Leave my sex life out of this.
Evening fellow misanthropes.
Two good sports team contests tonight, this could be either a really good, mediocre, or turrible night for Texas sports team fans.
The Astros are fucking fast, and I kind of hate them right now.
I am enjoying watching Gattis have to chug water and do some deep breathing exercises after literally jogging 360′. He is not fast.
Are you at least glad they beat the Sawx? You have to be glad that they beat the Sawx.
I’m not so glad they beat the sox, but I really hope they beat the fucking Yankees.
I’ll take it.
Very much so. Sox were a thoroughly unlikable bunch this year. My brother and father both root for them and neither was unhappy that they lost.
Sabbathia doesn’t have it tonight.
yeah, he’s gone from “missing his spots” to “throwing meat”
“I thought that was only possible with fish?”
/typical Seattle resident
Evan fucking Gattis?
HR, beer league softball guy!
That’s exactly what he is too.
ie, don’t hang a 77 mph slider up over the plate to him
oh fuckers of cousins…you don’t wanna be the “1” in BayBay’s 1-11
Bite me.
Hey, I’m pulling for yinz. DO BETTER.
TB using no lube against the Pens tonight, eh?
(sorry, just trynna help)
Really enjoying the “Girardi is an idiot” brigade on Yankees twitter. Because everyone saw this team as a WS contender back in April.
Fucking morons.
what exactly is his tactical error?
Other than Game 2 against the Indians, which he did fuck up pretty badly, there’s never a concrete example. It’s always that the Yankees would win every game ever if Girardi would just get out of the way. He leaves the pitcher in too long, he takes the pitcher out too soon, Judge should hit 1st, 2nd, 3rd 9th, etc. All that armchair shit.
You want to really have fun, go find the threads of asshole Rays & Cubs fans trashing Joe Maddon for the last decade. Fucking morons, indeed.
As a fucking moron Cubs fan, Joe has done some stupid shit recently.
Joe Maddon very nearly blew the WS last year. The Cubs won Game 7 in spite of him.
Joe ultimately bases his bullpen decisions on favorites and gets spooked away from using anyone else. It’s burned him a few times.
I lived through that with Joe Torre. Speaking of guys who got waaaaaaaaaaaay too much credit.
I don’t know if it’s favorites as much as it is him relying on his numbers, sometimes to a fault.
Yeah, and I was screaming at the TV when he yanked Hendricks early and brought in that mealymouthed cunt Chapman to shit the bed.
I’m not saying I love every move he makes, but I am saying I’ll have faith in his weirdness because it works. No one remembers all the odd moves that he makes when they work. I’ve been watching him since he took a dumpster fire of a franchise with a 40 million payroll in the AL East and made them contenders year in and year out. He’s got a pretty big leash as far as I’m concerned.
He’s definitely a very good manager but just like some managers get too much blame, I think Joe gets too little when some of his cock-eyed shit goes south on him.
Chris Bosio probably agrees with me.
Joe Buck talking about CC’s alcohol problem at the same time as I accidentally knock over two empty beer cans.
Probably just a coincidence.
Fuck Joe Buck…he’s just screwing with ya.
Good. I was just about to go looking for a Brockmire clip. Buck was great in that.
The “Drinkin’ a beer” episode was some of my favorite TV ever.
The scene where Brockmire attacked that dude for mentioning Buck was the hardest I laughed in a long time. But I have to say, Buck’s work on that show has significantly reduced my hatred towards him.
as long as you’re not going to meetings, you ain’t got no problem! them’s the rules
Starlin Castro’s defense is so bad he could start for the Cowboys’ secondary.
Interesting that Cal would run a td play named after the ultimate symbol of freedom, considering how much people at Berkeley hate our most basic Constitutional rights.
This is good. I want the Irish to be riding high when we roll into South Bend next week.
Oh, I don’t think Brian Kelly is allowed to have anyone lifted high anymore.
That’s fucking outstanding.
Thanks. I rarely miss a chance to take a shot at Brian Kelly. Just a loathsome individual.
If I had to have a rooting interest it would be ND or UF, but I just can’t bring myself to give a shit.
What’s so special about Kelly? Besides his association with ND, he seems like just a regular jerk coach.
Does MLB not have any umpires that have a fucking clue where the strike zone?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0Ce_FQtJkY
Frank calling strike 3 before the ball is halfway to the plate is one of my favorite things in movies ever.
I wouldn’t mind a switch to some sort of scanner or robot with that.
The postseason umpiring, for all the teams, is a very good argument for that. They’ve been all over the place.
Gambling $
Does HOU seriously not have a RH OF they could start for this guy?
I think they’re playing law of average and just hoping he’s due. Because, yeah, Reddick ain’t having a good series.
he could never hit LHP even when he was good
That would’ve been SICK INT
Penn State fans spent more time worrying about that photographer then the molestation victims.
So we’re not going to talk about that photographer being put on a stretcher, ABC?
Aaron Judge is the MVP.
he’s remarkably good
He’s alright I guess.
Incredible catch.
What happened in Penn State?
suicide bombing?
/crosses fingers and toes
What happened in Penn State?
– DA handing anatomically correct doll to witness
A slap, slap, slapping sound?
i know nothing about baseball but i know this, fuck the Yankees.
You’re right.
You know nothing about baseball.
it’s a good sign that the Yankees are smoking the ball off of Morton. It’s not a good sign that they’re smoking them foul or right at people.
Hey, is that Frogurt!?
Arkansas isn’t very good. And there isn’t even a dental hygiene component of this here competition.
So I’m driving down the western boundary of LAX this afternoon when . . . suddenly there are CHP motorcycles everywhere! There setting a traffic break, and I’m the last car through! I’m in the security bubble!
Who can this be who they’re escorting out of the private terminal to some glamorous destination? The Vice President? (probably not) A foreign head of state? Who rates a police escort?
I drive slowly eastbound down Imperial Highway to the 105 freeway and the motorcade catches up. A CHP biker (can’t tell if it’s Ponch or Johnny or the other dude) makes me pull over as a tight formation of five motor coaches passes me heading east. Who can this possibly be? On the door of one of the middle buses is the answer. A taped-on sign has a logo that says: Denver Broncos.
Wow. All that for the Denver Fucking Broncos. Do they really need a police escort? Will they die if their tight formation of motor coaches breaks up a bit on the way to Carson? Do they think that anyone here even cares? Terrorists?
This bus contains one-fifth of the Denver Broncos
Donks WOO?
Aren’t they playing the Football Clippers? I have the over/under at 80% Broncos fans there.
Man Sabbathia does not move well.
Holy shit, GT just threw the ball on first down
I can’t believe they really are letting Morton pitch, even if the plan is just for once through the order.
Hopefully they’ll borrow a page from Sparky “Captain Hook” Anderson and pull him before he loses the game for them.
If he starts the 4th I’ll be stunned.
I see FC Cincinnati is following the example the Reds and Bengals have set for playoff performance.
Yankees-Astros. Game 7. My hyperventilating and drinking has commenced.
It’s not a pretty combination
Oh, you’re going to win five of the next seven World Series. Let Houston have one.
yeah, putting Machado and Harper onto this side and it ain’t gon’ be purty
Machado yes, Harper doesn’t fit. Barring a blockbuster trade for a starter the Yankees OF is going to be Frazier-Hicks-Judge for years, or until a massive ‘roid scandal.
if you had told me that the Yankees season was going to end in Game 7 of the ALCS at the beginning of the year I’d have signed up in a cocaine heartbeat. But now that it’s here I AM GETTING VERY FUCKING GREEDY!!!
Who can keep Notre Dame out of the playoffs?
NC State, next week. That’s who. Don’t worry, we gots this shit covered.
But can’t they get destroyed in the first playoff game, completely exposed as an undeserving team?
It worked for Ohio State in 2016 [spoiler title=”and 2017″]
Let that happen to Paedo State
Beer or mix drinks? I’m thinking mixed drinks.
Why not both?
saved by the BLEERGH?
NOPE
Gentlemen
How is Boomer Sooner’s kicker?
Welp, this game is over. i guess it’s my Catholic duty to watch the USC/ND game.
Go USC Song Girls!
#SweaterPuppies
Man, what a pitch and catch! Gus got a proper match this week.
White Power! – Penn State
/Richard Spencer cums from his two-inch dick
You misspelled “centimeter”.
Shit, maybe I’ll just watch Deacs/Bees.
Okay, I’m going out for a bit.
It’s not nice to play smear the re…special young man, Notre Dame.
That could have gone better.
– The sign in the bedroom Kommentists see every morning before venturing out
Title of my autobiography: “My Intensions Were Good – My Execution Not So Much”
Mine: “Why Did I Bother?”
Hi
Haldo.
James Franklin is a tool.
As a person who tapped out permanently on PSU football following the whole Joe Pa’s Happy Kiddy Rape Kingdom thing, it boggles my mind how anyone can be passionate watching Penn State these days.
You’re obviously not Catholic
I was until I was 16. I have this crazy thing where massive child sex cover-ups affect my opinion of things.
Yeah.
A guy I went to high school with, I won’t call him a “friend.” In fact, we really don’t like each other, but, we run with the same group of another four or five, is a Penn State grad. I have to give him credit for taking down the Nittany Lion flag he had on his lawn after all that happened.
I’m a scarlet blooded Ohio State graduate. If that was my school that let that happened, I would’ve burned all of my OSU clothes and flag in a bonfire with “Hail the Victors” blaring on my BOSE.
Let’s see, do I root for a school that allowed a sexual predator to prey on innocent children or do I root for Michigan?
Hmmm….
I’m a native Pennsyltuckian, I live in Yinzburgh, and I love this Commonwealth. Even I’m rooting for the meteor.
This is your version of my ND/U*NC. I rooted for murder, but it was only one dude like I said before. Not kid-diddling.
I suggest just not watching entirely. After Boomer Sooner/Undead Bill Snyders, I am solely watching Troi Boiz and (blech) el beisbol
I’m really confused with that London game crap.
MAJOR DERPAGE IN LITTLE APPLE
there is always a SUDDEN CHANGE whenever I pee or have to parent a few minutes
Come on Michigan Men punch these Penn State mouth breathers in their dicks.
Folks.
yo diggity!
Guess you liek this 2nd half better, huh?
Did I rage quit on Thursday? Yes.
Watching Boomer Sooner and Zombie Bill Snyders shows that WVU certainly is talented enough to beat both, perhaps easily. KSU runs a very similar offense to us Cousinfuckers, but, we have better overall athletes. Sooners aren’t much, outside of Mayfield. WVU could do this, but, they won’t, because WVU is the Cincinnati Bengals of the Power Five. We’re always good to find new and creative ways to fuck ourselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGK00Q7xx-s
No. Just no. FUCK NO.