NFL News:
The new Panthers owner is going to be David Tepper, the Appaloosa Management hedge fund creator who is also a minority owner of the Steelers.
- He’s worth $11 billion, and is apparently paying $2.2 billion in cash.
- Higher bids were turned down in favour of a single buyer paying 100% of the purchase both himself & up-front.
- He’s expected to be confirmed at the May owners meetings, once he puts his minority share in the Steelers up for sale.
- The last purchase of a team was the Bills, for $1.4 billion.
- He sounds fun to hang around with:
- “If you look up ‘demented, narcissistic scumbag,’ you’ll see my name calling Trump that,” he reportedly told a student at Carnegie Mellon University last month. “Just Google those three words.”
- Deadspin has all the dirt, if you want it.
- He’s worth $11 billion, and is apparently paying $2.2 billion in cash.
- New Jersey is expected to have its first sportsbook opened by May 28th, in response to yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling.
- It will be at Monmouth Park race track.
- Orrin Hatch of Utah is planning to introduce legislation towards helping create the “integrity fee” that the NFL has talked about needing in order to monitor the effect of legalized gambling on its sport.
Break out the champagne juice boxes – Eli’s memorabilia fraud case has been resolved.
- A settlement was reached between Eli, the Giants, two equipment managers & the contracted sports memorabilia company and the three collectors suing over being sold “game-worn” equipment that may or may not have been actual game-used product.
- At the center of the dispute were messages from Manning to a team equipment manager asking for helmets “that can pass as game used.”
- It would have come down to interpretation:
- “…that can pass (the test/scrutiny) as game used”
- “…that can pass (meaning, faked) as game used”
- It would have come down to interpretation:
- At the center of the dispute were messages from Manning to a team equipment manager asking for helmets “that can pass as game used.”
- No details were announced.
- No word on whether the League will investigate this, with eyes towards possible discipline.
- A settlement was reached between Eli, the Giants, two equipment managers & the contracted sports memorabilia company and the three collectors suing over being sold “game-worn” equipment that may or may not have been actual game-used product.
Tonight’s sports:
- NHL:
- Lightning at Capitals – 8:00PM | NBCSN / Sportsnet
- NBA:
- Cavaliers at Celtics – 8:30PM | ESPN / TSN
- MLB:
- Blue Jays at Mets – 7:00PM | Sportsnet
- Cardinals at Twins – 8:00PM | FS1
- WWE:
- Smackdown Live! – 8:00PM | USA / Sportsnet360
Tonight’s NHL drama – “Will the Caps blow their 2-0 lead?”
RE: Batman Quote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTuyfQ5CR4Q&t=4m24s
The Onion is on fire.
-yeah right
Ben: “Come on, my team’s in that bathroom making their 3rd Round pick! I have to help them!”
Bodyguard: “Just go back to your table and mind your business!”
Allow me to translate to THE BENEEZE:
THE BEN: “THE BEN’S COACHS AND CATCHMANS HAVE NEW THE BEN TO THROW CATCHS TOO. LET THE BEN IN HARF ROOM TO STOP!”
Bodyguard: “Here’s a Chaco Taco. Sit down.”
This killed me.
AH! An ankle’s not supposed to bend that way!
Admit it. Every lawyer here read this and had flashbacks to that goddamn chicken case from Contracts.
My favourite Batman quote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I53HDr0-Qew
One more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDea7laHD4E
starting to think this Ice Footy is fixed by the mob
I wonder how the skateboarding mini game will look in the remake. Because I’m a dork, you faun!
Wait that’s not how the quote goes.
Oh, good. Congress involving itself in gambling policy always works out just fine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6DkVsssnmQ
I was expecting another Last Boy Scout reference.
i got 10 on the House Democrats!
Come on Independents!
Something something Blair Walsh something something
Hillary’s America
“Who are these jabronis playin’ grab-ass?”
-Bills Mafia
So Saturday afternoon I noticed a raccoon-sized hole in my pool’s winter cover and a dead raccoon-sized bubble under my pool’s winter cover. Thankfully there was no dead raccoon but that doesn’t undo a full day’s work I did in less than five hours.
Also, for future reference, a small layer of water (>1/8 inch) of water on the pool cover that looks like three gallons milk jugs is roughly equal to one cow of milk and weighs about as much lifting it out of the water.
I’m going to miss having our own pool this summer. But I don’t miss all the prep-care-and maintenance that goes with having our own pool.
Yeah, I’m currently doing that too. Thankfully its getting less green. Also it better than the person at the store with four containers of Black Algae Killer.
Its probably the same people who decided to winterize their pool by tossing their ladder into the uncovered drained pool and call it done.
Owning a pool is like owning a boat in my opinion. Fantastic in theory…and the best day of your ownership is when you finally get rid of the fucking thing.
Since it is Tuesday; anyone having tacos?
I’ll have a bite of her taco
I have a couple spots available if she needs to keep that taco warm…
Eeeeeeeeeeew. You made it weird.
I have a TOASTER OVEN and A MICROWAVE!
Jeeze, what were YOU thinking?
So I’m reading an article about how a group is suing the group building Obama’s everyone-thinks-it’s-a-presidential-library-even-though-it’s-actually-not presidential library on public parkland and hoooooboy are the comments some primo shit.
I can’t pass up a chance to post the 2nd best Batman quote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efub89RMgvQ
Out of curiosity, what’s your top quote?
“I am Vengeance. I am the Night! I! AM! BATMAN!”
“Batman does not eat nachos!” gets an Honorable Mention.
Also Justice League’s League Batman and Lord Batman arguments because they both made good points:
“And with that power, we’ve made a world where no eight-year-old boy will ever lose his parents…because of some punk with a gun!”
“They’d love it here, don’t you think?” “Who?” “Mom and Dad. They’d be so proud of you.”
Anyone think to tell the Caps that they don’t have to let the other team win at least one game in the series?
MOOSE YOURE ALIVE!!!!
http://archiecomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Moose_Button.jpg
More of her. Thanks, Moose.
Seriously. Who is this and where can I find the full video?
Alright, balls, trying this el tarasco place. You haven’t steered me wrong yet.
Lucky you’re not in Thailand, or it’d be a different story…
One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble, ppl forget that.
Let us know what you think. Yeah Right will be VERY happy you went there. It’s his favourite Mexican place.
One of the best tamales I’ve ever had. Guac was meh but tacos were solid.
Sweeeeet
Good night, my sweet monkey-fondlers. Tomorrow beckons…
/runs to lock self in Horatio’s empty locker.
/Chrysler showing an ad about how cool the Pacifica-owning parents are
Man, that SUV sailed a long time ago…
White robes make it harder to engage in street fights according to a neo-Nazi in a book reviewed in the Sunday Times.
So I found this yesterday, after not tasting it in over 2 decades, and after a legtimate year long effort to find it. I called local ice cream shops, and no one had it, and my friends told me I was completely making the flavor up. Behold:
I remember that flavor. Loved it when I was younger then it started to taste like falling off a horse.
My favorite ice cream growing up was High’s peanut butter ripple.
Man that place had great ice cream.
What flavoUr is it? By that I mean what makes it Superman?
its mix. always flavors that coordiante to red white and yellow. a combination of strawberry, blueberry, and lemon. Sometimes they substitute cherry, or blue moon.
its so good.
At one of OrangeJello’s summer jobs, they had this flavor – I’ve never tried it.
More power to you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkM1pTmlhYI
WOULD BANG!!!!!!!!
-Fredo Corleone, possibly
He may have been dumb, but I have to give him credit for banging everything that moved.
Caps look really slow and struggle clearing the puck.
Ben Mcadoo looks like the kind of guy who would ask for extra breadsticks at Fazoli’s, wouold check in the drive through lane if he got them, and in the rare instance he didn’t get them, he could make it apoint to go inside the restaurant, not because he wants to talk to a manager, but because he wants the server to know he made a mistake, so he can learn from it
Someone who moved in my building has two cats named Korben and Dallas and I’m pissed I didn’t think of using those names first.
Oof.
The Lightning are looking pretty good. Exceptional movement of the puck during the power play.
So my customers are from Vancouver.
One of them asked me what housing costs in Roanoke….I told them I didn’t want to say but they kept pestering me.
When I told them what I got for a house and how much I paid, one of the guys looked like he was going to cry.
I mean, I don’t want to laugh at this but I actually do want to laugh at this.
It is very true. It is ridiculous here, but in the Lower Mainland BC it is downright absurd.
All of them are electrical engineers, who have a lot of industrial experience. The young kid was telling me that even with 7 years of experience, he can’t justify living on his own because of the cost involved.
I cannot fucking imagine being seven years out of college, as an engineer, and still having to deal with roommates.
It’s really a shame that some of the most livable places have become unaffordable due to the wealthy just dumping their excess wealth into real estate.
Oh yeah. I also think that Americans tend not to realize how cheap and easy it is for the US to expand its cities compared to Canada. Pretty much you need to be near a warm water port or have ready access to transportation networks.
So moving further north is pretty much not an easy thing to do.
I do not want to live in the burbs here so we have 2 condos uptown, one was mine the other hers, we can’t afford a house near downtown so we refuse to add to the urban sprawl, and we can’t afford it.
I wouldn’t argue Chicago is the best city to live in, but it’s only large North American city I can imagine living in and owning property at a not insane price.
I’m sure that’ll change soon enough. The big west coast cities have infill city plans and so they can only build so many condo towers. I mean, even Los Angeles is being ruined by these fucking monstrosities. And I know it’s always been a joke that L.A. grows out and not up because it could, but it also afforded some of the most incredible views in the continental U.S. You can’t drive down Sunset Boulevard and actually see the sunset anymore because it’s hidden behind some cheaply made nondescript piece of shit tower that will be torn down and replaced by something worse in ten years.
Chicago is getting a decent number of Pied-à-terre buildings, but those are mostly concentrated downtown and in a handful of trendy neighborhoods leaving many nice neighborhoods affordable. The other benefit is there’s a lot of of potential for infill in Chicago (Rezkoville, the Michael Reese site, the Finkl steel site) so it’s not pressuring existing real estate that much.
Plus, people hate the fucking winter here.
Doncic is fucked. No player can develop in that SAC team. Stay in Europe young man.
I’m drinking a dill-flavored Berliner Weisse because I’ve always wanted someone to dump a jar of pickles in my beer.
“A dill-flavoured beer, huh? How much did it cost? Where I come from, it’s 130,000 for a guy to dip his gherkin into something strange.”
-Michael Cohen
You get a plus for effort.
my cold is in full retreat but i have lost my voice.
More whisky!
Evening
Hi there!
“Finally! Someone that understands me!”
-Bubble Level
Evening.
Is this for the Nintendo Switch?
I hope not. Because I sure as hell can’t afford one
Zelda>Peach, and it’s not even close.
This guy gets it.
Holy fuck spina bifida is a bitch. I’m doing training this week. So I basically stand there and talk to a group of customers for about 9 hours straight until they call uncle.
I think I could break my right leg right now and not even notice it.
“Me, too!”
–Ryan Shazier, probably
Is 6 pm too early to go to bed for the night?
I done it last night. Huzzah, booze whilst old!
the real problem is waking up too early. I hate that shit
The airline Aer Lingus will never not sound like an Irish sex act to me.
Is their Chief Pilot one Colonel Angus?
/pre-game speech
Coach Trotz: “And remember guys, we work as a unit-THERE’S NO ‘i’ IN CAPITALS!”
Ovechkin: “YEAH, LET’S DO THIS!”
Rest Of Team:: “Actually…”
Hey, yeahright, where should I eat in El Segundo?
/ prepares for long list.
You may want to be more specific. You want Mexican, American, Indian, Asian, etc.?
“Yes.”
-A. Reid
I’m just hungry, man, don’t make me make decisions.
For Mexican, El Tarasco
210 Main St, El Segundo, CA 90245
I hear they make good Instant Pot Texas Chili in “The Gundo”
Standard Station Sports Bar and Grill had amazing Tater Tot Poutine.
Don’t forget your wallet.
But if you see Phife’s, well, he isn’t going to need it anymore.
Just drop by his place.
LA traffic is a phenomenal patience test.
Woosah.
Serves you right for being in a car at this time. You should be at a nearby bar watching hockey until traffic dies down.
I’m shuttling around looking at apartments. So fuck hockey.
Oof. At this time? You’ll get maybe two in, unless they’re close together…
It took me an hour forty-five to go from North County San Diego just to get to Long Beach on Saturday because of 4 accidents. The rage was palpable.
According to some movie previews from the ’40’s, Mickey Rooney threw his junk into a shit-ton of actresses that he had no business being with.
It turns out little man only had one leg.
So he started at Goldman in junk bonds, keeps a pair of brass balls on his desk, and likes to berate people. How long, 6 months until, #himtoo?
Loggit the optimist over here!
Quarterly check in.
HTFYDB???
Can’t complain. Hippo and Seamus have become gambling addicts.
How you doing?
Became?
Hey, it’s Porky!
Vengeful, as usual. Otherwise, pretty good.
New phone who dis?
Ok, Porky needs to know which of you guys has a rash on your ass
PORKY!!! GOOD TO SEE YA!
Living the dream. Ok, not exactly, but other than the occasional bout of crippling loneliness, the kids are healthy and the bills are getting paid on time.
Don’t forget we love you, bud!
Citizen Kane: “Rosebud.” [dies]
Sled: “Me? Really? I’m a fucking sled!”
Narrator: “Rosebud was more than ‘a fucking sled’ apparently.”
Sled: “I’M JUST A FUCKING SLED! i SLIDE DOWN HILLS! JESUS!”
So, the second-in-command of wifey’s department was arrested and charged with over-prescribing Suboxone . He’s 39, and was being groomed to be one of the top people at UPMC. That’s a quick way to ruin your career.
Well, there goes one of Hippo’s supply lines…guess he won’t be getting that thing he sent him.
Getting that thing Hippo sent him in what got him in trouble.
/watching the last 45 minutes of Citizen Kane
I wonder, was the younger Orson Welles good in bed?
If you could get him a jury and show him how you can say “in July” he’d go down on you, just saying…
Porky!
Oh my! [blushes]
Mistuh Richardson forced to sell to a liberal – short of an uppity negro woman, this was as ironic a come-uppance as he was gonna get.
But I want hockey nowwwwwwwwwwwwwww, not later! If my adult years have taught me anything at all, it’s that instant gratification is real.
A Steelers minority owner buying a team? Well, we all know how well that worked out last time.
I think I know where Hue Jackson is going to end up next!
/hits pipe again
/Hits wall
Ow.
//Hits pipe