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!
Cal might end the Khalil Tate Era early.
Fuck it, put in Betances.
Cougars coughing it up like they haven’t done that sort of thing in 25 years.
Hanging judge > choking Judge
choking Chad > hanging chad.
Feel free to head to the Wrigley bleachers and choke all the Chads you want.
Wait – ARI/RAMMIT is a Ross the pond but they don’t even got the ultraearly AM slot?!
Making it a Sunday nighter for them?
/can’t be bothered to time zone
Really. What’s the fucking point then?
it’s a crock of shite, tis
ok, am watching baseball now. college games were bad this evening. Boise State game should be good
Joe Buck thinks the new Macklemore album is good. Guess I should buy it.
That’s Russell Wilson’s Macklemore album.
I rather listen to la llorona bitch all night.
So didja watch Spurs-Bulls?
yeah, reddit has good streams. LMA is a beast right now.
Guess the come-to-Jesus he had with Pop this summer had a positive effect.
“This crowd’s been on their feet all game”
(cut to shot showing everyone sitting)
The camera angle makes this one.
I thought the primetime slate looked weak, but goddamn
I will never tire of these.
I remember when the Cubs wanted to sign Ibanez and these fuck ups would have fit in so well with those teams.
eh, San Diego would still sign her.
Nice legs.
Hey look….someone made the “Magnolia Bowl” trophy in woodshop.
It would take a lot more than a bowl to make me watch that fucking movie again.
When I was a youth, we called that “bogarting.”
That’s also what you call it when you give a dame a smack for not knowing her place.
Given my health and finance-limited menu of foods I keep in the house, I should invest more in spices or hot sauces or something with few or no calories and lots of taste. I just put enough black pepper on my stir fry to burn my lips, which is sad for its own reasons. I also miss green chile.
Your on the right track, nothing unhealthy about spicy as long as your guts can take it.
One of the early Sunday Gravy posts addressed limiting calories but increasing spice levels. Low fat doesn’t have to be boring.
Yes, dad. I remember. I’m just too lazy to look it up.
Hooking up with a Polish girl is murder for your liver.
I’d make that sacrifice. I know what dying of liver failure looks like, so I’ll just have her kill me during early end-stage.
Couples dialysis is usually a second-date kinda thing for me.
There are far worse ways to call it a life.
Comes a time in every life when it’s better to be a good liver than to have one.
/uses lighter to pop next beer/
I can’t wait until I die at 45 like Ralphie May because I’ll never work hard enough to crack 300.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeYsTmIzjkw
The Dame is currently watching The Librarians on TNT. I generally don’t mind.
I hear The Magicians on Netflix is like Harry Potter with college-aged tits. So maybe investigate that, too.
Amazing how our minds are still stuck in Jr. High sometimes. I know mine is.
It’s a fucking nightmare wrapped in night terrors.
If he lost his balls because of this, became a woman, and changed his name he would be “The Baseball Player Formerly Known as Prince”
It occurs to me that Aaron Judge kinda looks like my avatar. Or maybe it’s just the rum talking.
Goddammit I have to drive home I don’t want to drink MORE.
Ever do the Uber?
I just ubered from Saint Paul to Minneapolis and it was a blast. Especially since someone else paid.
Hey look! They have Knob Creek!
Knob Creek you say?
Truly an idiot for his time and place.
I’ve got dvd’s with audio files of all of the old podcasts and radio shows. Hours upon hours of gold.
“An Idiot Abroad” is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen
I have to teach tomorrow at 11 and I would have to leave my house at 8 to pick up the car in Brooklyn by 10 to get to my lesson at 11. If i’m lucky.
I’m almost positive DUI laws don’t apply during the postseason, but you’d have to check to make certain.
I wouldn’t be surprised in New York.
also out of bowl contention on 21 October – Team Big Love (Original Recipe). Thanks to…EZU?
Better call AAA, we all know hipsters can’t change a flat.
Coincidence that it reminds me of the old Soviet flag?
brings new meaning to “rise for anthem” da, comrade?
Theirs was a good anthem. Ours is a drinking song that’s been butchered and glorifies murdering freedmen.
chuh chuh
Hey look, Sanchez couldn’t catch another throw home!
he’ll be a DH in 3 years, max
I’ll take the under on that one.
never not funny
Pens bound and determined to have each loss be a horrific one
I’m back.
Beer league softball guy giveth, beer league softball guy taketh away.
David Sills is a demi-god.
Can’t wait for the Bears to draft him in the first round, and his stomach spontaneously explodes.
see, my calling out worked. And I don’t get so much as a “thanks, Hippo”
“Fuck off, Hippo.”
Good enough?
In fairness to me it was a good currywurst.
But was it a brave currywurst?
Hey, it’s not 2-0 anymore. Sausage taste better now?
Yay, Leafs lost!
And Montreal stinks! Well that’s always been true… But seven losses in a row. How’s that 12 Million dollar goaliie working out now?
And Edmonton stinks! Or at least underperforming, for now…
Do you have any idea how cool it is to be in a place that’s nothing but Vikings fans?
I’m gonna go downstairs to the hotel bar.
Let’s drink things and have some hijinks!
Skol!
You know you’re not in California anymore when you go to a house party and they start a fire in the middle of their backyard and nobody calls the fire department.
Stay gold Ponyboy.
You gotta get the ball to a high enough Altuvetude for it to be a home run.
Emmett Smiff is in the booth?
methinks tonight’s effort eliminates any chance of our first ever mentally challenged Heisman trophy winner
TIm Tebow would like a word…
First Ever?
– J. Manziel
No comment.
– J. Winston
ok, first “touch of Downs” winner, then
I’m still thinking Winston on that one, but OK.
he seems MOAR “fetal alcohol syndrome” to me
Well, at least I’m drinking. And eating a currywurst which I would be enjoying more if it wasn’t 2-0!
Currywurst? Sounds intriguing.
You’ll have some quality toilet time in the morning. Stream Everton/Arsenal!
Currywurst is good stuff. I mean really, can anyone think of anything the German’s have done that wasn’t great?
Haterz gon’ hate.
He didn’t steal 2nd base, he pillaged it!
Looks like Morton done, at least
Hoo boy. Fuck it. Fuck everything. Goin’ to the beer fridge downstairs…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E7yQ-ciiqk
This just in— Aaron Rodgers to try his hand at baseball.
“Fuck I hope nobody saw it fuck everybody saw it”
NEVAR go ass to mouth ,, smgdh
Would that be a Butt Mumble?
Hey, is anyone other than me old enough to remember Morton Donuts? Microwaveable, one of the first microwaveable things I remember after microwaves became a thing. They weren’t good, as with all of the initial microwaveable things.
Microwave kittens were pretty good.
Still are, just gotta finish em under the broiler to get crisped.
I prefer my pussies poached.
You know, when I got up this morning, I had no idea that I would ever make such a comment.
As long as they’re fresh, raw is the way to go. Just gotta take precautions when they seem to have aged badly.
The only thing I remember about early microwaves was the one my grandparents had eons ago. It weighed like 80 pounds and the lights dimmed whenever it was turned on.
And I think the one my parents bought in 1977 cost about a thousand bucks. It DID have the carousel, though.
If HOU gots any sense, it’s Devenski for 3 then Giles for the 9th
If Houston had any sense, they would be located 300 miles from the coast.
Then they’d be Dallas. Which would be less humid, if nothing else.
Good old Headley Lamar.
Did someone say Hatty Lamarr?
I will say that the Yankees 3rd base coach should probably be fired. There’s “aggresive” base coaching and then there’s “hey the guy at 3rd is slow as shit and coming off a major foot injury fuck everything I’m sending him on a grounder to 3rd” coaching.
I haven’t seen a Castro commit to a pitch like that since Kruschev was in Havana.
Evening lizard people. To quote James May, permission to say “Oh cock”?