Your “It’s Not Free Money” Saturday Evening Open Thread

I moved my music & comedy ramblings to Sunday night, so I could bring this up.

Before it becomes old news, rumours are Kaep settled for between $60-80 million, ostensibly for restraint or loss of trade.

On the direct “insider” front from Friday night, there was nothing but company line from corporate shill Ian Rapoport,

a little more from Albert Breer,

and the usual accuracy we expect from Peter King,

who didn’t tweet a damn thing about the biggest story of the NFL offseason.

Now, Florio – who I goof on occasionally – has the right tack on this, looking at a bigger picture: “Silence becomes a big part of what the league paid for.”

Of course, the thinly-veiled racists in the various comment sections have their own taKKKes on it, but the consensus among the football writers is that if the league got away with paying less than $100 million, they got a hell of a bargain.


Tonight’s sports:

  • AAFL:
    • Arizona Hotshots at Memphis Express – 8:00PM | NFL Network
      • Fun fact: when the Grizzlies were sold & moved to Memphis, Michael Heisley wanted to change their name to the Express, because he had a marketing deal with FedEx for sponsorship. That was too much for David Stern, who didn’t want teams changing names to suit big-spending clients.
  • NHL:
    • Leafs at Coyotes – 7:00PM | CBC
    • Senators at Jets – 7:00PM | Sportsnet1
    • Oilers at Islanders – 7:00PM | Sportsnet
    • Habs at Bolts – 7:00PM | City
    • Canucks at Sharks – 10:00PM | CBC
  • NBA:
    • NBA All-Star Saturday Night – 8:00PM | TNT / TSN
      • the various “skills” competitions
  • NCAA:
    • Basketball:
      • *North Carolina State at Duke – 6:00PM | ESPN
      • Memphis at UCF – 6:00PM | ESPN2
      • Temple at South Florida – 6:00PM | ESPNU
      • Iowa at Rutgers – 6:00PM | FS1
      • Tennessee at Kentucky – 8:00PM | ESPN
      • Washington at Washington State – 8:00PM | ESPNU
      • Gonzaga at San Diego – 10:00PM | ESPN
      • UCLA at Stanford – 10:00PM | ESPN2
      • Arizona State at Utah – 10:00PM | FS1
      • UC (Santa Barbara) at UC (Irvine) – 12:00AM | ESPN2
    • Hockey:
      • Wisconsin at Notre Dame – 6:00PM | NBCSN

I figure that as long as the AAFL are going to give us games, we might as well half-assedly follow them. After all,

IT’S NOT LOVE THAT KEEPS US TOGETHER!

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A Canadian man-child of indeterminate age, he stays young by selling alcohol at sporting events and yelling at the patrons he serves. Their rage nourishes his soul, and their tips pay for his numerous trips to various sporting events.
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Senor Weaselo

Hamidou Diallo just lit up my social media like it was 1999.

Fronkenshteen

Tortorella’s resting face is “you just told me you lost my luggage and I have diarrhea”.

ballsofsteelandfury

Figuring out the route for the DFO Metro Crawl. We’ll meet at Union Station and then head to Hollywood/ Highland on the Red Line. Then, we’ll make our way back to Union Station with several stops along the way. Depending on the level of drunkenness, we may go up the Gold Line.

SonOfSpam

Love it. Love everything about it. Saturdays are better than Sundays. But I am in despite it potentially causing my arrest and/or divorce.

Brick Meathook

No driving should be involved, so unless you get drunk and start picking fights with cops you have no reason to get arrested. Divorce? I can’t say . . .

SonOfSpam

It’s possible I will pick a fight with a cop.

Brick Meathook

Cool! I’ll film it!

Sharkbait

Me reading about this in the Northeast:
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Brick Meathook

It’s not until June! Plan accordingly . . . hobo it on a freight train and you can get right up near Union Station!

Gratliff

Then it can be more like the scene before it where the Doctor helps Captain Jack fuck the alien dude
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Fronkenshteen

Has there been an east coast DFO convention?

Senor Weaselo

There was Nomonkeyfun coming to the Hot Sauce Expo with me?

Sharkbait

No, but there should be! We’ll have our own convention!
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scotchnaut

Guh! How many batteries did he take this time? smh.

Redshirt

Reason I hate Facebook #435, Far Right Political Views showing up when I don’t care for them:

Example:

(NOT ME TALKING NOW – QUOTING FROM FACEBOOK POST)
I’m am proud to say I:

– Believe in the Wall
– Believe in God
– Believe that Abortion is Murder

(NOW ME TALKING AGAIN)
Okay. There are so many issues, I don’t know where to start.
1. Being a Christian doesn’t mean you have to believe in the Wall. You can make an argument its anti-Christian.
2. Yes, Christian beliefs are clearly against Abortion (not in dispute), but how does that relate in here? Why include it? If anything being Pro-Life and Pro-Wall are incompatible, because you’re saying every life is precious, but those huddled masses yearning to breathe free are S.O.L.?
3. Why is God #2?! Why is Wall before God?!

If you need me, I’ll be softly crying to myself in the corner. Yet again.

SonOfSpam

Also, don’t forget that people who are “pro-life” are also pro death penalty and don’t give a flying fuck about the children once they leave the womb. And the whole wall thing is just so fucking stupid when considering the whole immigration discussion (which is WAY too complicated for any Trump voter to even remotely understand).

Fronkenshteen

I’m 47. I don’t even remember what a sensible argument between the right & left looks like.

Redshirt

Its sort of like a stereotypical Irish Bar. We may occasionally have a fight, but it’ll end with the guy standing helping the guy on the ground up and offering him a beer.

Fronkenshteen

That’s actually a perfect comparison.

Fronkenshteen

Blackhawks pull within one with les# than a minute left in the second. Huge goal.

Fronkenshteen

You want my vote in twenty-twenty? Try this: “Vote for me and I will have the military send Russia back to the 19th century with constant and unrelenting hacking and cyberattacks until the country is running on static electricity.”

Fronkenshteen

Brick, what is San Pedro like these days? The area where skateboarding started per that Dogtown Z Boys doc?

Brick Meathook

Z-Boys skateboarding started in Santa Monica & Venice when it was a dump. At the ruins of the old Pacific Ocean Park pier. That was Dogtown. Long gone.

I was just in San Pedro and it is gentrifying fast. There’s still some neat stuff there though.

Fronkenshteen

Imagery in that doc was searing. The burned out pier. The kids surfing through the jagged pilings. Jesus.

Brick Meathook

San Pedro is by the harbor. Venice is farther north on Santa Monica Bay. Two different places.

ballsofsteelandfury

Pedro is Yeah Right’s town. I also know it well for reasons I’d rather not get into. It’s a town full of longshoremen, Croatians, and a social strata dependent on altitude.

Why do you ask?

SonOfSpam

I fucking hate Croatians. Too hard to eat crab and lobster without making a mess.

Fronkenshteen

[fucking dies]

Fronkenshteen

Always interested. I love the Minutemen. Never surfed or skated, but dug that those kids turned asphalt hills into defacto waves. Reminds me of the kids in the Bronx who were denied music education in school hooking their turntables into the wires in th3 streetlights. Making culture and art out of the shit they inherited. American. Brav3. Hope my boys are like that.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Ian Scott McCormick

Caught up on DVR. Joe Harris is the man

Brick Meathook

When I first moved here Hollywood was so gloriously grungy it was like the old Times Square, full of junkies and cool-ass relic bars that weren’t ironic. Now it’s all gentrified and I don’t like it as much. Same with Venice, Santa Monica, and Downtown. In fact, the whole fucking town is down the tubes with hipsters and NFL teams.

Except for Wilmington. Glorious shitty Wilmington:

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Brick Meathook

This is a bar I really want to go into:
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Brick Meathook

I don’t know what this is but they gotta let me in:
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SonOfSpam

It’s mighty mighty.

Fronkenshteen

On the corner there?

Brick Meathook

yep
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Brick Meathook

It’s around the corner from here:
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SonOfSpam

Always wanted to go to a bar full of seamen.

Brick Meathook

Play with some balls here:
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SonOfSpam

I kinda miss sleazy pool halls, but then I kinda don’t.

Senor Weaselo

When I first moved here Hollywood was so gloriously grungy it was like the old Times Square, full of junkies and cool-ass relic bars that weren’t ironic. Now it’s all gentrified and I don’t like it as much.

So like the current Times Square? No, that’s more like Disney.

Fronkenshteen

My burbling cauldron of beef stock has entered day two. Excellent….

Ottawa wins!

Sharkbait

Gentlemen

Fronkenshteen

N’yello!

Fronkenshteen

Who(m?) is it more important to prosecute and incarcerate: Paul Manafort or the Trump family?

SonOfSpam

Both. One leads to the other.

But if I had only one choice? Obvs the Trumps. ALL OF THEM. FUCK YOU BARRON.

Redshirt

Hey! The kid’s an innocent. With intensive psychtherapy and reeducation, he can be made a valued member of society.

But yeah, you get the Grown Up Trump Spawn and then either Daddy will made a deal to resign for immunity for all family or will make an impulsive mistake and obstruct justice to stop it.

SonOfSpam

The kid has no chance to be normal unless mom and dad go to jail immediately and he’s raised by complete strangers.

Redshirt

Actually, I’d be willing to let Melania go if she’s innocent. She’s not only seen Trump naked but had sex with him. She’s suffered enough.

SonOfSpam

She’s a hooker and a birther despite overstaying her own visa. Fuck her with Trump’s desiccated two-incher.

Redshirt

Wow, you feel very strongly on this issue that you reciprocated Trump penis size.

Brick Meathook

Near the Hollywood/Highland station, and near Boardners: Musso & Frank Grill
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Fronkenshteen

Which decade is LA nostalgia focused on?

SonOfSpam

Yesteryear. That is all.

Brick Meathook

This place has never changed and the food is GREAT (the menu is still from the 1940s when men ate STEAKS) but it’s pricey. Very very worth it.

SonOfSpam

Never been but always wanted to check it out. Thanks for the rec!

ballsofsteelandfury

LA in the 40s was probably peak LA for nostalgia.

Fronkenshteen

Ottawa Winnipeg down to the wire.

SonOfSpam

As most forgettable Canadian city?

SonOfSpam

Infinite Net Joe Harris beats Steph in the 3 point contest? This surely makes up for the rest of Ian’s week!

Fronkenshteen

You know who passes the fucking puck? THE ISLANDERS PASS THE FUCKING PUCK!,
Bro, you got a Marlboro light?

Senor Weaselo

Watching the RBG documentary. Unfortunately the Biggie biopic got made first so they couldn’t use “Notorious” for the title.

Wakezilla

Slipping on ice and landing on your wrist and shoulder in your mid 30s?

0/5 fucking stars.

Pass the Vicodin

Edit:

#fuckautocorrect

King Hippo

PILLS WOO

theeWeeBabySeamus

Tennessee will not be #1 next week.
Just saying.

SonOfSpam

Is that Papa John asshole there cheering on his new bandwagon team?

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Injuring Hackenberg should not be a penalty

herodotus450

Is Hack-a-Hack back?

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

What do you mean, “back”? Was there a lack of Hack-a-Hack?

BrettFavresColonoscopy

You can’t unpack a hack-a-hack without a sack, back to back

Senor Weaselo

It isn’t a commendation?

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I am thinking about starting a blog called “Hobo High Life” that chronicles my wife’s and my efforts to keep our costs down while still living large. For example, today we went to the Shake Shack and ordered $15 worth of food, but it only cost us $3 because we had a coupon for 20% off and she gets a $10 credit every month for Shake Shack from her American Express card.

herodotus450

Get a load of Mr. Rockefeller over here, eating something besides rice and beans.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I mean we *have* been eating a lot of garbanzo beans lately. Last night my wife made them with macaroni. Even though she cooked both perfectly, those two textures do NOT belong together.

WCS

In some railyard outside Kansas City, Jim Tomsula sheds a single ear.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Is that Clorox brand anal bleach?

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I once got to take a tour of the Clorox factory in Pleasanton! They didn’t bring us into the anal bleaching facility, though.

SonOfSpam

So I just went to the likker store because I’m lower than I thought on beer (and it’s Saturday and I’m alone for the next 3-4 hours). Thought I had like $28 in mah wallet. Turns out some other house occupant helped herself to my twenty. So I got eight bucks, and I want a sixer. Long story already too long: I am drinking a Bud Light Lime.

UP 4 ANYTHING MOTHERFUCKERS.

WCS

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UPROXX APPROVES!

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Why didn’t you just buy a pair of 40’s?

herodotus450

In my experience those are significantly more expensive and require 2-3 weeks of recovery.

SonOfSpam

I would have were I not in my, uh, late late 40s.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Do you not have plastic? Does SoS live off the grid?

SonOfSpam

I feel bad using a credit card at the liquor store (fees and whatnot) and I would’ve felt even worse using a debit card there. It’s the kinda place that should be cash-only even if it’s not.

Mr. Ayo

Do you feel better drinking a Bud Light Lime?

SonOfSpam

It’s never-ending shame, but drinking will at least lead to drunkenness.

herodotus450

Announcer for this Islander game doesn’t even pronounce it “Long Guylan” so yew know he’s fake.

Gratliff

Awesome. HBO GO has the Super Duper Cut of Deadpool 2 available

King Hippo

this Los Tiggers/whoever Los Tiggers is playing match is quite entertaining

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Gratliff

A hackenberg loses a fumble

Gratliff

And they botch the snap on the next play. Memphis is bad

Gratliff

4th & 25. Go for it imo

King Hippo

again, I would watch this slop if the Draft-eligible QBs (Day 2 and 3 guys, at least) were playing. That would be cool as fuck.

SonOfSpam

You East Coast guys gonna stay up and watch 2019 NCAA Champ UC Irvine at midnight?

King Hippo

should I bet on ’em??

SonOfSpam

Eaters are -6; we have a way of making most games close, so I’d probably pass. (Watch as we win by 30)

King Hippo

fine #HAILGAMBLOR advice, if y’all were 2.5-3 then maybe I would pay the extra juice for ML bet. 6 is a tough row to hoe

theeWeeBabySeamus

Oh jeebus, that was close.
Glad I got +17 and not +16.

NC State….you suck.

Mr. Ayo

I was secretly hoping for a push with a buzzer beating three there.

King Hippo

when they got the unnecessary/dickish steal, I imagined the primal scream from tWBS’ corner of Deliverance-land

theeWeeBabySeamus

You did not imagine. I did scream, loudly.

Gratliff

Oh good. WE’re back to a thing called a Hackenberg

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

What would a “Hackenburger” be? Maybe a football-shaped hunk of mystery meat that instead of grilling you just buried under compost for three hours, and then served on two slices of Wonder Bread?

SonOfSpam

It’s not a burger so much as a filled pastry. A turnover, if you will.

King Hippo

State calls timeouts to get its walk-ons in.

Oh shit, that’s right, we ain’t got none.

theeWeeBabySeamus

No honkey line change?

King Hippo

Let the record show that had tWBS listened to Hippo, he’d have doubled up.

Mr. Ayo

He did better standing pat. The record will nae be updated.

King Hippo

nuh-uh, he had Wolves +17, had he bet Dook -13-ish when I said, he wins both ends…

Mr. Ayo

I lost track of which one of your posts you were referring to.

Record will be updated, framed, and placed on the clubhouse wall for posterity.

King Hippo

DAMN SKIPPY

theeWeeBabySeamus

I’m poor. I put $500 on ND and $500 on NCSU ats.
I won both.

NO YOU SHUT UP!!!!!!

Gratliff

Luckily the Flames won, so Flyers only need 7 goddamn points to break into the wild card scene because the East looks like America’s economic distribution

King Hippo

sew u r sayin’ Flyera r takers nawt makers ,, smh

theeWeeBabySeamus

Free thows are gonna take tWBS’ moneh.
*sigh*

theeWeeBabySeamus

Hippo, seriously. Do we have no offensive sets?

theeWeeBabySeamus

And wtf is up with this matchup zone we’re trying to play?

Mr. Ayo

The wolven cover is all but over. No way they blow this now.

King Hippo

NAILED IT!!

King Hippo

We are playing a de facto NBA side, and we have no bigs left. There Will Be Blood.

King Hippo

Balls, you like Los Tiggers tonight? Flipping to Univision as soon as Shitty Wolves are out of they misery.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Holy shit they actually called a foul on Duke.

King Hippo

this is actually one of the more fairly-officiated State/Dook games in the last 20+ years

theeWeeBabySeamus

Which is kinda sad in and of itself.

King Hippo

I bet the current “live” line is down to 12.5-13.5. Bet Dook to cover that, and you’ll only lose the juice. Unless we lose by exactly 14-16, in which case you can ride to upscale courtesan town!

theeWeeBabySeamus

That 3 gives me 8 to play with.
Standing pat.

King Hippo

Alison Williams and the production crew at ESPN can eat shit and die.

King Hippo

Shitty Wolves to within 7. I strongly urge tWBS to place a contra-bet on Dook now, and break even.

theeWeeBabySeamus

I’m checking ML’s as we speak.

King Hippo

it’s 12, will end around 20. TOO LATE

theeWeeBabySeamus

Yup, more or less.

ballsofsteelandfury

I’m on the LA Metro once again and this time I’m headed for the newish bar at Union Station to bid a friend goodbye.

For someone that doesn’t ride the Metro often, i’m greatly enjoying the experience.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Try not to get raped.

King Hippo

don’t kink shame ,, smgdh

Brick Meathook

The L.A. Metro is pretty awesome. Here’s the Hollywood/Vine station. The entire ceiling throughout (only) this station is covered with actual 1000′ metal film reels:
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The only drawbacks are that it’s built in a seismically active zone and the tunnels tend to fill with natural gas.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Having those things hanging down from the roof seems dangerous.

Looks cool, though.

King Hippo

This friend on a Mafia hit list, huh?

SonOfSpam

Last time I rode the Metro, I remember a soldier sleeping next to me.

Brick Meathook

HI-YOHHHHHH

btw, i hated you for loving me

herodotus450

Is it too soon to consider Edmonton to have officially bungled (R) Connor McDavid and ruined his career? I say no, it’s not too son.

litre_cola

He is too good. He will put them on his back next year now that Chia is gone it HAS to get better for them.

herodotus450

Instead of Messier and Kurri they got Lucic and Kassian
/I guess Draisatl is ok

theeWeeBabySeamus

I made $500 on ND only losing by six earlier.
I’m about to lose it on NC State playing like big dumb stupid heads @Duke.

theeWeeBabySeamus

lol

theeWeeBabySeamus

I would hope for the backdoor cover, but Duke doesn’t generally allow that to happen. And we suck tonight again. Oh well, breaking even for the day isn’t the worst I’ve ever done.

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King Hippo

why in the name of all that is holy would you bet ON the Shitty Wolves?

theeWeeBabySeamus

I thought we could hang in +17

litre_cola

Why is the AAF on the NFL network? Aren’t they “competitors”?

Gratliff

Because they can make >$1 more than they would have running the same offseason garbage

King Hippo

yeah, to the extent the weird 14-year old in his garage online 16 hours a day is a “competitor” to Bill Gates.

I was thinking earlier, I’d probably actually watch this garbage if the Day 2/3 Draft prospects (at least the QBs) played, so I could scout for my uninformed Draft taeks.

But seriously, the hardest non-playing job in the NFL is evaluating QB brain cavities, to see if processor speed is fast enough to handle next-level competition. I’d like to see Will Grier, Ryan Finley, Daniel Jones, et al show what they can do.

ballsofsteelandfury

They’re not competitors. They are trying to set up the AAFL as the defacto farm system for the NFL once the NCAA dies.

Gratliff

Slick of HBO to run Logan right before Deadpool 2

King Hippo

Christ, we get Dookie V. Engage mute button.