NFL News:
- Today marked the start of the far-less sexy Undrafted Free-Agent signing window.
- Anyone not picked over the weekend can sign with whichever team offers them the most money (Dallas), magic beans (Bengals), or acres & a mule (Carolina).
- Still with the draft, apparently Vegas had a number of bets available on when players would go, and they got wrecked by some of the selections.
- The Westgate and William Hill sports books both lost money on a draft that turned out to be unpredictable, according to ESPN.
- In particular, whether Saquon Barkley or Josh Rosen would go first.
- Vegas bet on Rosen & lost large.
- “I thought there was no way a team with a 37-year-old quarterback (Eli Manning) would be dumb enough to draft a running back,” Ed Salmons, the Westgate Las Vegas Superbook’s head football oddsmaker, told ESPN.
- “We tried to look at eight mock drafts of guys we trust,” Salmons said of posting the betting lines 11 days in advance of draft night. “It’s hard to do your everyday job and then also read up on draft stuff when you have a certain group of bettors that are tracking this nonstop.”
- They’d have been better off asking this question:
- Vegas bet on Rosen & lost large.
- In particular, whether Saquon Barkley or Josh Rosen would go first.
- The Westgate and William Hill sports books both lost money on a draft that turned out to be unpredictable, according to ESPN.
- Oh, and the Vegas win predictions for each team were released today.
- The Patriots are highest at 11, followed by the Eagles & Steelers at 10.5, with the Packers & Vikings rounding out the top-5 at 10 predicted wins.
- They expect each conference’s playoff teams to be:
- AFC: Patriots (1), Steelers (2), Jaguars (3), Chargers (4), Texans (5), Chiefs (6)
- NFC: Eagles (1), Packers (2), Rams (3), Saints (4), Vikings (5), Falcons (6)
Tonight’s sports:
- NHL:
- Bruins at Lightning – 7:00PM | NBCSN / CBC / Sportsnet
- Vegas at Sharks – 10:00PM | NBCSN / CBC / Sportsnet
- NBA:
- 76ers at Celtics – 8:00PM | TNT / TSN
- MLB:
- Rockies at Cubs – 7:00PM | ESPN / TSN2
- Blue Jays at Twins – 8:00PM | Sportsnet1
- WWE:
- Monday Night Raw – 8:00PM | USA / Sportsnet360
A reminder for all the Canadian commentists & lurkers – TAXES ARE DUE AT MIDNIGHT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l62eEJXrBE0&ab_channel=theclarksmusic
Dammit Vegas…don’t fuck this up.
What’s good to do in Minneapolis, considering this will be the only visit there for my entire life?
My cousin lives there. Of course, she’s probably asleep, and that’s about all I know about the entire city. Maybe visit the Minnesota Vikings Hall of Agony?
All you know about the area is that your cousin is asleep?
Bill Cosby…is that you?
http://www.fuddruckers.com/bloomington
I have to plan a bachelor party there so please report back.
Good night everyone!
[waits five minutes for someone to return the sentiment]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aadEYipDw8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXfiNQKAIXo
Look at the suggestions at the end of the video (for me): a bulldozer pushing a boulder, a tractor plowing with gas jets (I think), a Boeing Stratocruiser film from the 50’s, a B-29, a TV factory in the 70’s, and MONSTERS OF MEGAPHONE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Skawrfm0AIM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-6dzBCw9nk&ab_channel=EVERYTHINGTHATROCKS
Such a fun bass line to play.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVE9pc-958M&ab_channel=BeastieBoys-Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_DTyOgeL2g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh67x9iDCjg&ab_channel=Crosby%2CStills%26Nash-Topic
OK knights, don’t fuck up this PP plz, K thx.
The good news is a 2 goal lead is never a problem in hockey games
Totally safe, right?
It’s when you get a 3 goal lead you gotta worry
Especially before the halfway mark of regulation.
If Knights had found a way to score just once in the first, I’d be up $2500 right now. As it is, I’m up $1500.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnTbO26u9bQ
Seriously…Martin Jones should be the name of my CPA.
I think it might be.
tis a PI law firm around these here parts
This roster is made up of players that other teams said “Nah, we’re good”. How’s that for the proverbial chip on yer shoulder.
How’s that work as far as salaries go? Did Vegas have to pick up all the contracts, as is? Or does being an expansion team pick mean you’re a minimum wage guy anyways?
All contracts had to be honoured.
Well, hello Knights.
I have to get up at 245 AM to try to buy Iggle tickets in London. I am sure everything will go smoothly.
There…that’s better.
Stupid Sexy David Perron with your assists and your cuteness.
Dammit Vegas.
It’s okay, because, and I quote, “They score… on the back door!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFUFw1GH6ic
GOOOO SHARKS!!!!!
I need it to be Winnipeg v Sharks. I should buy futures in white track suits sold in Winnipeg for the return of Kane. You would make a mint.
Los Dodgeros are, like, totes boned, eh?
It is delicioso.
The curse of parking lot magnate Frank McCourt continues.
Good. Fuck them for firing Donnie and fuck Dave Roberts for eternity.
/2004 never happened, an anomaly in the calendar made everything go from 2003 to 2005
Damn Vegas…how’d you fuck up that 2 on 1?
Fine. I’m still profitable if you don’t complete fuck up.
Martin Jones is not the name of a goalie.
Well, it shouldn’t be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS5p4M08jJs&ab_channel=H.JonBenjamin-Topic
Hmm. LinkedIn notified me about this job: Government Affairs Coordinator (3521)
… With the San Francisco 49ers.
I wonder if Doc Zymm wants a roommate because my guess is that it pays just enough to let me live in a tent like I was a Tesla factory worker (several of whom are actually living in a park because rent is so fucking expensive and Elon Musk is a cheap-ass anti-labor shithead).
I really had no idea who this fuckface was before y’all started discussing him here, but I knew he was a fuckface because his name was Elon Fucking Musk.
Dick won’t return my calls.
I wanna go to Mars dammit.
Good call.
Beware of Scorpio?
Hank Scorpio was a genius who got shit done.
Bloomberg speculated they’ll burn their cash funds before the end of this year! Yikes!
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-burns-cash/
Plus their credit rating is now rated as junk by Moody’s. They’re in serious trouble IMO.
Haven’t they yet to turn a profit?
Not even remotely.
Dammit Vegas. Score a fucking goal.
THIS ISN’T SOCCER!!!!!!
Yes, I’ve got dough on Vegas for 1st period win, regulation win, and overall win.
Lesser. Footy.
Man it’s nice out. I’ve just been laying on my back porch for like two hours.
I was in Palm Springs this morning. The weather east of LA was gorgeous.
Fuck that place.
I got dates for the office at Shields… pretty tasty
You know what movie is really creepy in hindsight?
Ghost Dad…
Actually everything Bill Cosby has ever done is creepy now…
This just in: The Dirt 500s have a really good pitching staff. Charlie Morton’s one-hitting the Yanks through 7.
(Obviously I mean STILL have a really good pitching staff.)
I traded for Morton in my replay-based sim League this past off-season. Very pleased.
I have Cole and Devenski on one team.
That same team also has Devenski, but traded Cole (not so smart on that’un, but was a larger deal to get the #1 rookie pick which turned into Correa, so can’t really complain).
Every once in a while, I wonder if I should have just done 20 years in the navy and gotten my pension. Then I run into someone that did that through work and I realize I would have gone nuts dealing with the lifers full time.
I had a customer in for a project. He was an electrician. I was doing training and he asked me to explain my tats. When he found out I did six years, he started talking about doing 20.
The next 30 minutes was him talking about shit that is pretty much blanket hazing, like all the negative shit people have about being in the military, and him whining that the “kids” can’t be hazed anymore, because they are snowflakes and shit, and now the gays are allowed in.
Completely lost on him was how homoerotic his hazing was back in the day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRqBfnGmAeo
https://vimeo.com/207212097
So yeah, for “someone” who “doesn’t bet on baseball or hockey”….
Ahem….
I might have put a buttload down on various bets in favour of Vegas tonight.
“Might Have”.
No, you shut up.
As long as there’s not a music festival scheduled in San Jose tonight, you should be good!
When are the 2nd legs of the Champions League semifinals?
ICE BUCS!
Tomorrow and Wednesday!
Thank God. What would I do without talking about 90 minutes of running around in the grass and not scoring ? (probably).
I don’t think anyone here wants to hear about your sex life.
Tough shit.
Again, enough about your sex life… ??
😛
I’m not making the backchannel joke again, no matter how good it was!
Boston dropping threes all over the place tonight as a tribute to Tom Brady dropping things all over the place in Super Bowl LII, a game he lost to the Philadelphia Eagles, I’ve been told.
*Sound of Silence in Masshole*
/Cums. HARD.
— All of America except for some shitty mutants in Massachusetts and Connecticut.
Is today tax day? I’m a dual citizen of the United States and Canada, and I get an occasional letter from Revenue Canada asking me to file missing tax returns. So occasionally I send back the requested returns filled in with all zeroes, which is correct and accurate and then everyone is happy for a while.
Thank you for your service.
What a save! Rask is on point tonight.
Folks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfAxC-B5o6o&ab_channel=Teashade
They don’t even see Bearistocrats! in the playoffs? Heresy.
You really believe, huh? How was their draft? What’s the WR corp looking like this year?
A lot of it depends on Allen Robinson’s health. But it sounds like they plan to use folk singer Leonard Cohen in the slot quite a bit, and I LOVE that idea.
Their draft was an A-, I’d say.
Sleeper fantasy picks (linebackers included)?
crikey, ain’t thought that through yet. Think there will be lots of volume value in the Bearistocrats! pass catchers, Cohen and whoever emerges as the pass-catching TE.
Man, I gotta cook dinner. Pregnant Mrs still not feeling much in the meat department and I just want this to be quick and easy.
Really? I heard different. Cause of all the hormones and stuff, I thought.
Isn’t that an ongoing complaint of hers?
Pasta alfredo?
Who actually gets the 40 acres and the mule?
Can you pay your taxes entirely in loonies?
But none of us DFOers want to go to Ottawa.
But it’s easy! Just follow the only road…
Beaver pelts and maple syrup, eh?
Famous last words.
Penishaed Magee, immediately after saying how he won every faceoff on the pk:
“Callahan so tough out there; there’s no analytic for ‘heart’.”
Sabermetgritians?
Meanwhile Marchand with the illegal stick touching, no call of course.
THAT was a penalty on Johnson?
Somebody was up at 5, did a 6 mile jog, made a meal, did a crossword, got some sun and is now ready for bed.
/Well done yeah right, well done [smiley face]
This might not be what BeerBongRon meant, but still…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqhRK_g7WJc
/”Today, On The Cooking Channel
400 lb. Man with heart disease: “I make the best ribs!”
Woman With Stage 2 Diabetes: “You kidding me? Yer goin’ down!”
What’s Left of ObamaCare: “It’s a Tie!”
Here’s my non spoiler review for Infinity War:
It was a decent movie that could have been great had they made it 30-45 minutes shorter. The movie itself should only be one film long, not two or three. But that’s an another argument for another day.
The stones’ powers were inconsistent, as were the Hench villains. Luckily, that’ll likely slip by you because you’ll be too busy thinking why Thanos doesn’t just create more homes, food and planets to accomodate the overpopulated cosmos.
TL/DR: They’re going to have to bring in a lot of incredible cameos from popular characters to redeem themselves.
They’ve got an uncanny resistance to drugs and the ability to mine their aging fanbase for decades on the merits of old work. What’s so inconsistent about that?
Hasn’t that been the question they’ve asked of Thanos and the Infinity Gems since whenever though?
This is true. Honestly, Thanos should have had a love interest (death) who motivated him to do the killings
These dipshits had Killmonger be 99% more heroic than T’Challa but then made him a megalomaniacal idiot at the end in order to justify maintaining the status quo.
Yeah, that’s also where this movie isn’t going to age well. The status quo ain’t changing, which is why this movie should only be one film in length
No. Because Thanos doesn’t give a shit about anyone but himself and Death.
I got a sneaky suspicion that 2018 is going to be like 2015 where parity was basically non-existent.
Then again, 2017 didn’t offer much in that department anyways so maybe that isn’t such a HOT TAEK.
“DFO turned into a gambling site so slowly that everyone should shut the fuck up if they know what’s good for them.”
-Big Vinnie
Come on, we just got a new banner, can we space it out a bit?
Is it me or does it seem like everyone says “Who’s brought stripes…” etc. DICTION, PEOPLE!
“‘Over the land of Dupree’, but whos Dupree?”
-E. Smith
(Also, Ima let you finish, but I think that’s elocution or enunciation. Use your diction, person!)