World Gawne Mad – Tuesday Night Play-In Game Open Thread

Oh yes, the real thing starts tonight, peoples of DFO.  The Chase FOAR #1 begins with those much closer to #68 tonight.  But it’s still funner ‘n’ hayull, if ya know whut I mean.  Also, there are NIT matches one can flip to at commercials, and even bet on if you are some kind of really depraved degenerate.  Cough.

#16(E) LIU-Brooklyn (+5.5, +200) v. Radford (6:40, truTV)

I hereby officially declare this the 2018 Nickname Bowl.  Blackbirds v. Highlanders.  Alas, you already see Radford’s cock-up – there can only be ONE.  LIU-Brooklyn brings honor and glory to Da Zoo, and advances to the Nova Fodder round.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlRV2N8s_IQ

#11(E) St. Bonaventure (+3.5, +140) v. UCLA (9:10, truTV)

One can enthusiastically thank the Bruins for having the only, um, photogenic cheer/dance squad in this opening Day-Day session.  That said, they had a pretty grueling run in the PAC-12 tourney, and face the most difficult travel of any of tonight’s participants.  Advantage, Bonnies.  I like the winner to make the Sweet Sixteen, FWIW.  One thing to note – St. Bonaventure is absolutely brutal from the foul line, and can cough up a late lead like nobody’s business.  This one ain’t over until the horse is all the way in the barn.  UCLA could be worth one of those high-odds live “come from behind to win” bets.  Just sayin’…

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Reclusive, vulgar Broncos fan. Also a proud fookin' Evertonian. Likely dropped on my head repeatedly as a small child. [Insert George Carlin quote followed by thoughtful nod.]
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Unsurprised

I need to go out. I volunteered this morning and took a nap this afternoon. I haven’t done jack shit all day except eat somehow.

Croooow

They should adapt the four quarters format in all of college basketball. Feels like the game moves quicker.

herodotus450

And no bonus until the 4th quarter

theeWeeBabySeamus

The Bruins should be ashamed. This Bonnie zone is soft and they should be shredding it.
Holy shit.

Gratliff

Goddamn. They are doubling down with the fucking Fabulous Moolah honoring thing like the entire Internet doesn’t realize that she was a piece of shit who used her school as a way to pimp out young talent, and in some cases, set them up to be raped, all so she could keep her spot at the top of the show.

LemonJello

Moolah ran the Sparrow School?

Gratliff
JustStopDude
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JustStopDude

I did a massive job for Severstal. They had a steel mill, brand fucking new, in Mississippi.

When Putin did his crazy shit in the Crimea, the company had to pull out of the US immediately. SDI got it for $1.625 billion in cash. That may sound like a lot…but not really.

It increased SDI’s capacity by almost 50% and it had some the most advanced and latest technology. This was the crown jewel of Severstal. The plant covers more than one million square feet and features state-of-the-art steel manufacturing capabilities – two electric arc furnaces (EAFs), two ladle metallurgy furnaces, two vacuum degassers, two thin slab casters, a hot strip mill, pickle lines, an annealing line, temper mill, two hot-dipped galvanizing lines and a rewind/inspection line.

Imagine if Ford had its biggest, most profitable facility in China, and Trump effectively made him sell it for pennies on the dollar.

Unsurprised

Sweet.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Marginally.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

THIS GUY RIKKI-TIKKI-DEADLY LOOKING AT THE WESTMORELAND RETURNS I CALL HIM MELANIA TRUMP ON HER WEDDING NIGHT CAUSE CAN WE JUST GET THIS OVER WITH PLEASE?

WCS

For the record: Westmoreland and Greene Counties are utter shit. Pennsyltucky at its worst.

Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

I don’t consider these play-in games the first round.

“Round of 64” go fuck yourself.

theeWeeBabySeamus

This guy gets it.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Same here. Until a 16 beats a 1 there is no justifiable reason to make the field larger than 64.

Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

Penn is pretty good for a 16 seed, so if it’s going to happen it may be them this year.

But, 16 seeds are almost always shitty teams ranked in the lower third of the 351 teams. You’ll never see it happen unless the committee severely underestimates one of these random auto bid teams.

WCS

FIGHT ON!

358 dot com gave them a 5% chance to win; easily the best of the 16s.

theeWeeBabySeamus

For Informational Purposes Only:

Rednecks don’t seem to like when you tell them…and I quote…

SHUT YOUR FUCKING DOG UP YOU ASSHOLE!!!!!

Having said that, the dog is no longer barking.

JustStopDude

I know I am going to piss people off when I say this…but I generally detest the majority of dog owners.

The shear amount of dog shit I pick up in my yard feed my seething hate.

theeWeeBabySeamus

You won’t piss me off.
Irresponsible dog owners are the bane of society.

Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

Just don’t let “ron mexico” adopt from a kill shelter

Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

Cause they shot it

theeWeeBabySeamus

Nah. Sad part is it’s not the dog’s fault.

But I’m getting pretty fucking tired of getting barked at every time I go outside.

Unsurprised

I managed to make a shitty “lap dance” scene into a couple of decent gifs for the love of the game. I don’t like seeing people just slap videos into these HTML5 videos (.webm, .mp4, .gifv, etc.) without bothering to edit them. I guess I’m just an artist.

* https://gfycat.com/EmptySaneBats

* https://gfycat.com/AppropriatePeskyArieltoucan

* https://gfycat.com/NaiveFittingEmu

* https://gfycat.com/OfficialShockingGentoopenguin

* https://gfycat.com/WillingPastelBeardeddragon

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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theeWeeBabySeamus

Anybody got one of them there Varidesks?

I’m considering one, just curious if they’re as easy to install as they claim, I guess.

WCS
Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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LemonJello

A bunch of coworkers got a version of these stand-up/adjustable desks – they came pretty much fully assembled just had to mount the monitors and adjust them to the individual’s preference.

WCS

I’m not in this PA district, but, I’ve still been exposed to incessant ads for months now. It’s finally fucking over.

Gratliff

Driving through Ohio in June 2016 really opened my eyes to the sheer insanity of battleground states. Why do they not simply revolt and eat the candidates?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Unsurprised

Americans’s spirits have been broken.

Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

Honestly just make the tournament 128 teams already.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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...

I will accept a tournament with NO FEWER than 1,024 teams.

Unsurprised

Caroline Vreeland is a nice girl.

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Mr. Ayo

She’s not using those boots correctly.

...

Tits on the asphalt seem… uncomfortable.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

So this is kind of pathetic but instead of watching basketball I’m watching the PA-18 returns come in.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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litre_cola

Ice Titans and Ice Bombers has turned in to a brawl.

JustStopDude
Unsurprised

What the fuck

JustStopDude

I suspect that the dude was trying to ride the bike off the ramp and then deploy a parachute, but the drop is not large enough so the chute never opened.

Not enough red bull….

JustStopDude

Good old Dayton Ohio…

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Its the perfect cliche Ohio city. Completely rotted out because of the lack of jobs caused because of white flight to the suburbs. A couple of city blocks now have hipsters, coffee bars, and super expensive condos so everything is fixed…just ignore the 23% poverty rate…because well everyone does.

herodotus450

But they do have Bockscar there

nomonkeyfun

That’s a glowing endorsement.

LemonJello

Who wants to live in Dayton?

theeWeeBabySeamus

Alright, I’m going to the store.
Radford looks like they’ll pull in the win and get the dough for the Women’s Soccer team.

Title IX, you rock.

scotchnaut

Time for beddy-bye. I love you rat bastards quite a bit.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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theeWeeBabySeamus

Got him hard….hehehehhe.

LemonJello

Later, Tater!
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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON.

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theeWeeBabySeamus

Moar Duke defensivings.
(that’s a foul on NC State, btw)
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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

this-day-in-baseball:

March 23, 1915
“Help me, Lads, I’m covered with my own blood!” – Wilbert Robinson’s reaction before quickly realizing the fluid dripping down from his chest is grapefruit juice.

Dodger manager Wilbert Robinson, thinking he is going to catch a baseball dropped from a plane, is surprised and splattered when the sphere turns out to be a grapefruit. Although legend has it that Casey Stengel is behind the prank, the pilot, Ruth Law, a pioneer in American aviation, substituted part of her lunch when she realized she forgot to bring a baseball.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

At least you have the penis of a new born Dachshund.

theeWeeBabySeamus

It really is awful.

And I’m sitting here watching, delaying a quick trip to the store for this????

I’m pitiful.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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theeWeeBabySeamus

Mom? Is that you?

theeWeeBabySeamus

WTF? Your kid wants to go to Target? Slap her.

Ok, not really. Like srsly, don’t slap her. But why Target???

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theeWeeBabySeamus

She’s a teenager. She shouldn’t be worried about that shit.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

We just had a write-up about Staples Center.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Aw crap.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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LemonJello

So sad to see the Lone Ranger fall off the wagon after Tonto left him to join the Village People.

Gratliff

Is it sad that I recognized him immediately?
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LemonJello

I guess not.
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scotchnaut

[trying to stay up late to catch the Cuse play-in game]

[just realized the game is tomorrow night]

Just try to catch up to my level of stupid, losers!

Unsurprised

I heartily endorse this.

LemonJello

Oh, you’re far too stupid for us to catch up.
/I keed, I keed
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theeWeeBabySeamus

(yay for ucla cheerleaders)
((carry on))

scotchnaut

I’m guilty of skimming your posts and thinking that UCLA cheerleaders are small-breasted, blonde clones of one another. Give me a thick-thighed, quality birthing-hipped 19 year-old West Virginny supporter. I’d knock that girlie up and leave her to raise that autistic kid 8 days a week!

theeWeeBabySeamus

Small breasted blonde clones….?
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rockingdog

Found a funny:
Donny from Queens your on the radio. What you got to say?

“We should have a new force called the Space Force. It’s like the Army and the Navy, but for space, because we’re spending a lot of money on space.”

Unsurprised

Makes sense.

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theeWeeBabySeamus

You had me at “Donny from Queens”.

Senor Weaselo

Out of the whole world, why the hell does he have to be from Queens?

Unsurprised

I love how the workers come into my apartment just long enough to make shit weird and then leave.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Next time, ask for a blowjob.

They won’t come back.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Well, they probably won’t come back.

But if they do, it’ll be an interesting night.

scotchnaut

If you ever get audited, a shit ton of scotch, some pasta salad and leftover chicken wings really take the edge off.

Unsurprised

How would I afford that?

theeWeeBabySeamus

Send IRS teh bill?

scotchnaut

It’s painfully obvious that you’ve never lived in a dumpster.

Unsurprised

This ass may be a lot of things, but it ain’t little.

theeWeeBabySeamus

You talking flop???? Because I’ll talk flop!!!!
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Unsurprised

This tickles me.

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herodotus450

Radford plays today, but when does Tubularford play?

theeWeeBabySeamus

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herodotus450

I said Tubularford not Tunsilford

theeWeeBabySeamus

Wanna see a Hippo head explode?
Go to to about the 6 minute mark…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghJRQoTv4to

theeWeeBabySeamus

For those who don’t remember, that official later admitted he blew that call badly and cost us that game.

Unsurprised

Kill all refs.

scotchnaut

Balliest three I’ve ever seen taken-head over to about 1:20 in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzUFz-58PPA

scotchnaut

I couldn’t believe it. It was the classic “WTF? OMG!”

theeWeeBabySeamus

She’s no Allie LaForce, but that curly haired sort of black girl is kinda cute.

Senor Weaselo

Just a guess, neither of these teams are beating Nova on Thursday.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Hopefully Hippo is listening.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Hee hee.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Let’s not be too hasty.
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scotchnaut

/cool basketball story bro continued

I was bartending in a very large dining room that had one tv on that was playing this game. The tension was building and it soon became unbearable. When Laettner hit the shot I screamed out, “Oh My Fucking God!” to all the folks eating their dinners. The upstairs bartender (a fellow hard-core hoops fan) ran behind the bar and tackled me. It was such an unbelievable ending to an extraordinary game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo3G2MfOYeA

scotchnaut

You were cheering for Kentucky?

theeWeeBabySeamus

Against Laettner.
As was I.

scotchnaut

How anyone outside Kentucky can cheer for Kentucky boggles my mind.

scotchnaut

This may have been the first time you came across a certain Steph Curry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJBgFvbod2I

theeWeeBabySeamus

Let’s Make Virginia Polytechnic Institute great again.

– Dell Curry

Hey we remember the old Metro Conference too!!!!!!

– Florida State

Wow, I’m old.

– tWBS

Unsurprised

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theeWeeBabySeamus

Any post with an Early Cuyler reference is always a good thing.

Semi-related…I’m still waiting on my gambling moneycheck to arrive.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Elian Gonzalez has a new jorb?

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

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Senor Weaselo

I don’t understand why the LIU Brooklyn campus is the one with the D-I school while the big campus on the Nassau side is the D-II school, but hey, what do I know?

nomonkeyfun

Because you can get Juniors in Brooklyn.