I don’t know if it is/was where you are, but today was another free day courtesy the calendar, the union, and a general desire to sit at home & gorge on leftover turkey. I think I’m sweating tryptophan.
Well, it should be a busy time in front offices, so let’s see who’s working today:
NFL Nuggets:
- Giants GM Dave Gettleman thinks he’s been doing a great job has developed thus far in the job.
- “You can’t draft for need. You’ll get screwed every time. You’ll make a mistake…We’re going to fix this. We’re going to put a team out there that everyone is going to be proud of.”
- “I like my resume so far.”
- The Raiders sent their entire scouting staff home on Friday & told them not to bother returning for the Draft.
- Rapoport (see tweets below) added that Gruden and Mayock “don’t know who to trust” among the scouts and “wanted to clear the room.”
- There is a possible Machiavellian twist to the whole ordeal, but not something I’d equate with the current Raiders “braintrust”:
- Rapoport (see tweets below) added that Gruden and Mayock “don’t know who to trust” among the scouts and “wanted to clear the room.”
We never cleared the room but sometimes we'd lay traps for scouts we didn't trust. In 1987 we showed our board to a scout with us taking Mike Junkin, a LB we didn't like. Two days later, Cowboys beat writer Jim Dent wrote story saying we were taking Junkin.
Hook, line, stinker. https://t.co/ETAM1JNZSv
— Gil Brandt (@Gil_Brandt) April 19, 2019
- The NFL is possibly looking to get out of its deal with DirecTV for Sunday Ticket & move the games to another streaming service.
- DirecTV’s parent, AT&T, dropped NFLN from its DirecTV package, raising the ire of the league.
- This might allow ESPN+ to come in & purchase the streaming rights.
- DirecTV’s parent, AT&T, dropped NFLN from its DirecTV package, raising the ire of the league.
Finally, Jim Irsay bought the upright piano John Lennon used to compose songs for The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” album. 
The auction was at a site called GottaHaveRockAndRoll.com According to TMZ Sports, Irsay paid $718,750 for the piano.
- He also owns a George Harrison guitar and a Ringo Starr drum kit.
- He bragged about his purchase & collection on Twitter, using the hashtag #GettingThemBackTogether
I’m elated to now be the steward of John’s “Sgt. Pepper” upright piano. It’s a responsibility I take seriously, with future generations in mind. #GettingThemBackTogether #Beatles
— Jim Irsay (@JimIrsay) April 20, 2019
Tonight’s sports:
- NHL: both are Game 6’s
- Capitals at Hurricanes – 7:00PM | NBCSN / Sportsnet (Caps lead 3-2)
- Predators at Stars – 8:30PM | CNBC / Sportsnet1 (Dallas leads 3-2)
- NBA:
- Bucks at Pistons – 8:00PM | TNT / TSN
- Rockets at Jazz – 10:30PM | TNT / TSN
- MLB:
- Phillies at Mets – 7:00PM | ESPN / TSN2
- WWE:
- Monday Night Raw – 8:00PM | USA / Sportsnet360
ONLY THREE DAYS UNTIL THE DRAFT!
Apparently, I need to stop going to Caps’ playoff games. Two in a row where I watched them give up five goals.
That looks very comfortable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaonucRt898
Just checking in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKqwX_nTy5c
Oh, so this isn’t Erin Andrews’s room?
/puts away camera equipment
//picks up audio surveillance equipment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YvAYIJSSZY
Evening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbG9CNCettk&ab_channel=VideoGremmie
This happened on my 30th birthday, I’m seeing this for the first time, almost seven years later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA74C8hHey4
Bye bye, Smashville.
This is shaping up to be one hell of a second round.
Washington better get through or Gary Bettman’s going to favour the wrong team going forward.
The winner of Leafs-Bruins?
Blaxito is entering separation anxiety phase.
It sucks and is annoying.
Awww, it’s just because he loves you.
Welp, better he learns that lesson now than after he moves to Tucson and asks you when you’ll visit.
Nothing better than a Game Seven… as long as your team isn’t in it.
Free hockey?
#BFIB 13-5 WOO!!!
Ovechkin thrown out of the for punching someone in the face and knocking them out— wait no, it’s for hitting someone from behind into the boards and serously— no wait, it’s for sarcastically clapping at a ref. Sounds abooot right.
The officiating in this round has been atrocious at best.
Where’s Mick Magoo when you need him smh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBQHrZvi_ZQ
Ovie might have just gotten himself suspended for Game 7.
SMRT!
They won’t suspend him. It’s just like when Malkin should have been suspended in the Final vs. Detroit the second time around but wasn’t.
If we’re keeping with the funnys, I found this:
“Your passive aggressive behavior is making me want to punch you in the face.”
There’s no way Jim Irsay hasn’t already used each of the keys to do a line of coke and then tried to coin the term “Crazy 88’s”, only to be sued by Tarantino.
found a funny:
Nothing says I thought of you at the departures gift shop like Welcome to Las Vegas toe nail clippers.
When I’m elected Dictator 2 Strong 4 Lyfe, snipers will be placed in every arena and any hockey ref who calls hooking and diving on the same play will be immediately shot dead, his body left on the ice as a warning to his replacement for the rest of the game.
Hockey has truly embraced the culture of “BOTH SIDES!”
I would object to the use of the numbers as adverbs and prepositions and the wrong vowel, but I don’t want to get my name scratched from the Protected Rolls.
Y is sometimes a vowel as we all know, and as they’ve always taught, vowels operate under Freebird rules.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nvHzwyzpoM
“Sir, we can’t track down Redshirt nor any of your other political enemies. I think they are using only letters to communicate and our sensors can’t get a lock on them!”
You’re never find me, even if I am only eighty-four and three hundred seventy-five one-thousandths feet away! Hahahahaha!
“Sir, we finally got a whiff of Redshirt and his dastardly band of centrists. They finally slipped up and used numbers, but we haven’d decoded the signal yet.”
[Aide types in some numbers and lays a calculator down on the desk]
“But what could 580008 possibly mean?”
Thank you. If they embellished, it wasn’t a penalty in the first place.
Good evening people.
Ah, I see Elizabeth Warren is playing the “Out Socialist Democrat the Socialist Democrat” card on Bernie Sanders.
Sen. Warren has some actual political talent (and ability to play with others), but so long as she takes down that old asshole…she’s earned whatever cabinet post she wants in the ultimate nominee’s administration.
Agreed. She’s got some egg on her face with the whole DNA test thing, but that’s like swinging awkwardly at a pitch in the dirt. We may be laughing now, but no one will remember it after she hits a screaming liner to the wall and clears the bases.
“Same pitch, I assume?” -Vlad Guerrero (Sr. for now)
I’ve wanted it to be Warren since the major players all presented themselves. There is also a fear in me that a reality exists where Donald Trump spends an entire debate just doing a mocking rain dance thing on stage, then just says “Socialist Injun” a bunch of times and wins again, and I’m really hoping CERN opens that black hole in the earth’s core before that time comes
that timeline keeps her #2 on my list, but I’d be completely fine with her or any nominee not named Sanders or Gabbard (dictator-hugging lunatic).
I also really don’t care for Klobuchar once she got closer scrutiny. Might also be an unhinged asshole.
She’s a bully. Fuck her.
fortunately, also running an inept campaign then
Tulsi’s never going to be overcome the anti-LGBT shit during the dem primary. She can take that shit across the aisle when Pence needs a VP candidate, though.
she’s apparently part of some weird cult, which is likely the genesis of the gay-baiting
When she was 20 and in her dad’s cult like 15-20 years ago? Which she’s renounced and atoned for since?
Bring it on.
Let’s have a great real discussion about just how much Democrats don’t actually care about minorities like LGBTQ.
I’m way too cynical to believe Democrats, at least of the establishment variety, have a real concern for basically anyone. Their constituents do, though, and they benefit from it by default given the GOP’s relentless leaning in to being shitty about such things, and minority groups can benefit from it when there’s enough public pressure from their base to make the leadership actually do something despite how much they want to absolutely not do something.
I am as cynical as anyone alive, but I think at least most of our folks generally give a shit. Maybe not as much as they SHOULD, but still give a shit. Hell, even LBJ gave a shit (to his money men’s surprise).
If they didn’t, they’d be Republicans.
Dude. Do we really want to start listing Democrats who’ve hugged dictators? Her position on Assad is clear and unassailable: he’s a bastard, but he’s better than every alternative.
I still dislike that she’s too friendly with BJP on the other hand and she’s still in favor of limited imperialism, but she’s better than everyone but Bernie as far as I’m concerned. And I don’t particularly like Bernie, but he’s all I can stomach until he dies or we find someone better.
I’m pretty certain, in that debate scenario, if Warren scalps Donald Trump on the debate stage, no prosecutor will be able to find 12 jurors all willing to convict.
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ok, if she promises to do that, she 100% has my primary vote
I want to keep reminding people that she’s not Indian but neither is scalping. The British introduced it to North America. So, proceed.
just give the ppl BLOOD
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD
SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE
this guy gets it!
That would be the greatest gif of all time
She will always be a Reagan Republican at heart. You can have her.
One of the most uniquely stupid things I’ve done as an adult is learned how to cook really good shit during the same period that I finally established an effective daily exercise routine. The daily workouts are incentivized by whatever good ass food I’m about to eat. Tonight’s dinner was new york strip with chimichurri butter and cheddar sour cream mashed potatoes, followed by a carrot cake/cheesecake layered monstrosity that was so good. Not wanting to die will motivate me to workout hard enough to push the calorie count back down to human levels, so tonight’s exercise will consist of *checks notes* jogging the entire length of the Oregon Trail. This is a sane, sustainable way to live imo.
Yeah man — treat yo’self
Dear Experts,
Stop trying to say the Bengals should draft Dwayne Haskins. You’ll give Mike Brown ideas. Just be quiet and let him pick one of the Devin linebackers in peace.
Love,
Redshirt
Fixed that for you
CBS Sports is the Bengals Scouting Department?!
Its all coming together now…
From this morning’s comments, there’s a porn series called ThatSitcomShow that parodies classic and recent sitcoms. My favorite punchline (and they have laugh tracks but thankfully not overly used) is at the end of a Leave It To Beaver (…) episode where the Beav walks in on June getting blasted by the milkman and then replies when he sees her “I thought milk came from cows!”
Also, Sofie Marie looks hot af in that last shot.
Leave it in the Beaver?
*on my
Fixed it for you.
Both are acceptable in my opinion.
It’s a facial, but this and Redshirt’s are great parody titles.
“Blowing snow on the goaltender will get you knocked down”
well not if you’re Mike Richards.
“Did somebody say Mike Richards?”
Me: Hey, don’t eat all that candy in one day, you’ll get sick.
Idiot son, violently throwing up: Yeah, right, whatever you *hurrr* say. 15,000 calories of sugar will just magically *hgurk* make me vomit.
Gotta build up a tolerance.
Allergies are kicking in. I’m so congested, I’m considering just going ahead and cementing my nostrils shut. If my nose is going to be stuffed up, it may as well be by my own hands.
Didn’t get shit done all day? Must be a day ending in Y
Amy Klobuchar is just full of great ideas
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DISCLAIMER – that Hippo ain’t me 😀
Shame. He’s a good hippo.
that should have been your first clue right there!
As much as I love Sgt. Pepper’s, if that piano fell on and crushed Jim Irsay, that would be its greatest contribution to the world.
This would help future generations.