For Catholics, today is Good Saturday. To get the religious stuff out of the way: “The Young Pope” was hokey, but interesting. And what an intro!
All times Central. Yeah.
Listen, I got a two-day vacation going, so please accept my start-time guesses.
LA LIGA
Athletic Bilbao (13th) vs. Celta Vigo (10th) – 9:15 AM
Athletic Bilbao is one of the emblematic clubs in the history of fútbol.
/golf clap
Moving on, Celta Vigo’s Iago Aspas is inspiring national pride. He entered as a sub in last Tuesday’s international friendly of Spain 6 – 1 Argentina, and Aspas got the staff all tumescent at Spanish paper-of-record El País. Aspas is a humble guy from Galicia, and reporter Rafa Cabelleira called him the prime candidate for starting at center forward for the Spanish National Team—i.e., “the most important post that can be aspired to in [Spain], at least within democracy”. Heh heh; that creeping cloud is SHADE thrown at Spain’s starting center forward, Diego Costa: born and raised in Brazil, Spanish citizen since 2013, and an international head case. A sudaka on the most “important post that can be aspired to” in Ezpaña? Now THAT’S dog whistling.
via quickmeme.com
Let’s not forget that El País covers fútbol as if it were literary criticism. Here’s more of Prof. Cabelleira on Aspas: “His play in the last friendly against Argentina is nothing but the reflection of his many virtues, the logics within a forward with the soul of a midfielder and venom in the boots, an enlightened footballer who understood the first time one of the maxims of the Cruyff Theorem: nobody is as fast as the ball itself.”
All that flowery Social Sci. stuff, NOTHING on Aspas’s 40-yard time. Get a grip, El País.
Las Palmas (18th) vs. Real Madrid (3rd) – 11:30 AM
Cristiano’s not playing, nor Sergio Ramos (asshole). Isco, Marcelo, and Toni Kroos are out. All sights are on Tuesday’s Champions League game at Juventus, so this trip to the Canary Islands seems like a chore. Carvajal is also out for—color me shocked—yellas.
I’d say this is like the Colts hosting the Steelers without Antonio Brown: Real has the players, but can get sleepy and lose. Yeah, and maybe your cellphone can survive a toilet flush. How much should I bet on Real, Nairobi?
From “Money Heist”, the WORST
TITLE TRANSLATION IN HISTORY
via @CasaDePapelARG
Sevilla (6th) vs. Barcelona (1st) – 1:45 PM
Oh! Sorry. FUCK REAL MADRID.
Barcelona plays seven games in the next 22 days, and the Injury Report includes key players listed as “Gimpy”: Iniesta, Piqué, and Ter Stegen. Busquets is out—now there’s a “He’s an asshole, but he’s OUR asshole” player. Very good with the ball and better in defense, understated but adept in the Dark Arts (the hidden elbow, the “Shot in the Leg” dive, the kick in the backheel). He’d be a god in Buenos Aires.
Messi did not play in the internationals last week for Argentina, a National Team run with a disdain for order only seen in the current White House. Anyway, Messi has had a sore right leg for some weeks, Barça hosts Roma on Wednesday in the Champions, AND the World Cup is in 79 days. You can bet UEFA and FIFA are ready to intercede in favor of rest. Eh, give it to him. Another Barcelona player can get more workload. You know, the third top scorer in La Liga this season, guy from Uruguay…
I guess Sevilla is getting the short thrift in this post. BUT, this team deserves some love: they bounced ManUre from the Champions AT MANCHESTER. It was a great day for all right-thinking fans of sports—hey, they exist. In theory, I guess. If any are spotted in real life, remember: they may be replicants.
ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE
Crystal Palace (16th) vs. Liverpool (3rd) – Early AF
By the time you read this, the game will be over. And the story would not change: Roy Hodgson is a sketchy character and Jürgen Klopp is the true Son of God. Amen, hatahs.
Man U (2nd) vs. Swansea City (14th) – 9 AM?
Man U faces a trophy-less season. The cake Manure fans wanna give to Mourinho, once known as The Special One:
Brighton & Hove Albion (12th) vs. Leicester City (8th) – Yeah, 9
I think everyone should watch this game. And let me add another piece of unsolicited, but impeccable, advice:
Newcastle (13th) vs. Huddersfield (15th) – 9:00 AM
This match… I’ve seen more wattage on a Christmas lights shop.
IN PUERTO RICO.
Watford (11th) vs. Bournemouth (10th) – 9:00 AM
Jesus Christ. Does anybody NOT play in the EPL today? Here’s my observation for this game:
/sighs
I’m at a beach apartment ‘til tomorrow dammit! ?
West Brom (?) vs. Goddamn Burnley (7th) – 9:00 AM
Well wadda ya know. After I’ve been busting Burnley’s balls for months, they’ve been on a mini-tear. It sucks when events make your scorn look gratuitous. But Burnley’s been 7th since forever, so I stand by my pettiness.
West Ham (17th) vs. Soton (? All Aboard the Championship Train Choo Choo! ? 18th) – 9:00 AM
Both teams are beyond screwed. West Ham fans wanna kill their team’s owners while the club is fighting relegation under the management of failing upwards Golden Boy David Moyes. This is my dream elevator for both teams:
Everton (9th) vs. Man City (1st) – 11:30 AM
Win it for teh Hippo!
Welcome to “Hangin’ With Brick Meathook!”
Today’s episode: Brick Gets a Package
BRICK: La di da di dah . . . gosh what a swell day! What’s this? It’s a package!
BRICK: And it’s from Amazon Prime! What could it be? Is it Christmas? No . . . Is it my birthday? No . . . I better open it and see!
BRICK: Look at that padding! It must be pretty good! I’ll just remove these air bags like so . . .
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BRICK: This is the worst day ever!
THE END
Next week’s episode: Brick buys a postage stamp
Hehe.
That’s fucking hilarious.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic is unreal. He should be the official DFO Patron Saint.
Looks too much like Frank Zappa.
fookin’ ‘ell, he really does
El Trafico exceeded expectations. Who knew???
still on tape delay – I hate the scores, but LOVE the SNY Mets crew. Just said “the Mets are 4 runs to the good.”
Lesser Footy vernacular shall conquer the world imo godbless
The thing I don’t like about Easter is the blatant stat-padding by the Catholics who keep the record books. Three days? He was dead for LESS THAN 48 HOURS!
I was just having this conversation last night. Died at 3 pm Friday, took Saturday off, (as one does), then got up late Sunday morning and got back at it.
If you go by Jewish days, it makes sense. Sort of. But yeah, I always had that same though.
“Oy, that Yeshua walked out of his tomb, after, what, twelve hours?”
“Three days”
“Right, Bartholomew, three days. And that wound in his side – oy gevalt!”
“Should get some bactine on that.”
“Yes, bactine.”
technically, His book do say “ON the 3rd day” not after the 3rd day, but just add to the pile of shit His followers get wildly wrong FOAR reasons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLG8Xs84uZM
ZLATAN!!!
Me: “Hey, wet sticky snow! Whatta you up to these days?”
WSS: “I’m definitely not covering your satellite dish so that you can’t get a feed.”
Me: “Oh, WSS! Am I going to have to scrape your snow off my dish with a hockey stick yet again?”
WSS: [shrugs]
Me: “I hate you.”
I took out a gallon of very hot water the last time. It worked pretty well.
The last person I knew who thought the snow was talking to him was Jim Irsay.
explaining why Hippo will remain the world’s last cable customer
/along with last Blackberry user
//git off-a mah lawn, filthy hippie
I bet you still got an 8-track in your El Camino too, huh?
don’t be looking in mah 202K mile minivan
/have lifetime XM in it, and I plan to gets my Confederate Script money’s worth
Just got back home from 8 days split between my parents & the in-laws. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’M GOING TO SMOKE ALL TEH WEEDS NOW.
Most of ’em sucked.
But occasionally I get lucky and get one that doesn’t suck quite as much.
Nobody liked my flower.
Fuck you guys.
We’re more into deflowering around here
OK, Imma go get drunk and go through the flower photos I took earlier today until the baxsetballing begins.
IT IS NOT GAY!!!!!!!!
(not that there’s anything wrong with that)
“You just might be your own huckleberry.”
-Doc Holliday
“Have been for longer than I’d care to admit, my friend.”
– tWBS
Well, time to put the Yankee game on and see if they can continue their march towards 162-0.
No matter their record, they’ll be goose-stepping the entire way.
Good doggy.
Well lookit Matty Carpenter going yard while the NY Lottery folks say “fuck you it wasn’t Met what hit dat shit we ain’t payin’.
Holy shit family is exhausting and I’ve barely spent any time with them.
FUN FACT! Fat Sam’s inspired team selection led to 16% possession – which is a new record low for a home side in the Premiership era.
Take a bow, you gravy-swilling shyster fuck.
WORST COACH YOUR FAV TEAM HAS EVER SEEN. GO!
Ray Handley. He was elevated from running backs coach to head coach. Giants fans know the rest.
Josh McDaniels. Jesus Tapdancing Christ, the Tebow pick/trade-up fer.
/this was the easy answer, in that NC State has its own “Mount Rushmore” of idiot coaches (Chuck Amato, Tom Reed, Les Robinson, Sidney Lowe).
That’s a good start.
But we’re gonna need a bigger mountain.
Anyone (seriously, anyone) before Chuck Noll.
Believe it or not, Pierre McGuire once coached the Whalers.
It went exactly as well as you think it would have.
http://articles.courant.com/1994-05-21/sports/9405210429_1_pierre-mcguire-whalers-general-manager-paul-holmgren
he wasn’t lucky??