NFL Nuggets:
- Bears linebacker Roquan Smith has got an apparent case of the Everson Griffen’s and is out indefinitely.
- He was taken off the roster 20 minutes before kickoff last Sunday, and is not expected to travel with the Bears to London to play against the Raiders.
- Smith’s absence might not matter, as Khalil Mack has had this game circled on his calendar since the schedule came out.
- “I’ve been looking forward to it. This is one I’ve been looking forward to. I can’t lie to you, man; I’ve got to let you know how it is. It’s going to be a big one.”
- He might be gone but the union’s not forgotten: The NFLPA is considering grievance options concerning Antonio Brown.
- Brown believes he is owed nearly $64 million:
- His overall potential Raiders salary of $54 million, including the $30 million in guaranteed money, and
- $10 million from the Patriots.
- He is poised to file up to nine grievances.
- Let’s see how the back-to-school program is going:
- Brown believes he is owed nearly $64 million:
My English paper do by tonight 12am need a prof reader make sure As and Bs #Eng303
— AB (@AB84) September 29, 2019
Looking good there, Ace.
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Say – can I ruin two memories for you?
Thanks. Well then,
Bill Belichick won his first game with the Patriots. After starting his tenure 0-4, on October 1, 2000 – the Patriots beat the Broncos 28-19 behind four Drew Bledsoe touchdowns that Tom Brady watched from the bench. The Patiots finished 5-11 that season, and have been barely able to turn things around in the years since, only managing 16 division titles and six Super Bowl victories. And to think,
As Gratliff knows, this week is a pretty big week for professional wrestling. The debut of Cody Rhodes’ & Shad Khan’s AEW – All Elite Wrestling – is Wednesday night. Unlike other second-tier wrestling promotions (Impact; ROH), AEW is coming out of the gate with a major network deal – TNT & TSN – and a two-hour prime-time block: Wednesday Night Dynamite.
They promise a new way of presenting “professional wrestling”, as opposed to the “sports entertainment” that the WWE has been providing since it won control of the marketplace. AEW has enough of the old – Cody Rhodes, Chris Jericho, the Young Bucks – to draw in the curious, and the promise of fresh faces or revitalized personas – Kenny Omega, Jon Moxley, their entire women’s division – that is will be able to deliver on the promise of fresh rivalries and “a different product”.
To counter that, they have the usual product on Monday Night Raw (which last night was a wet fart & advertising for AEW). Surprisingly, Vince McMahon has risked taking his niche brand NXT off of the subscription network and put it up against AEW on Wednesday nights, using its partnership with USA to try and get eyes away from the other product. They also have a big premiere this week, with Smackdown moving to FOX on Friday nights, and the first show has “The Return of The Rock” plus Brock Lesnar’s first TV match in 15 years.
Return, the Monday Night Wars have. Starting next week there will be 11 hours of wrestling available across three/two (USA / Canada) networks. How long it lasts I don’t know. But for as long as it does, we live in a new golden age of wrestling on TV.
Tonight’s sports:
- MLB:
- NL Wildcard playoff: Brewers at Nationals – 8:00PM | TBS / Sportsnet
- WNBA Playoff:
- Game 2: Connecticut Sun at Washington Mystics – 8:00PM | ESPN / TSN2
- 2019 Rugby World Cup:
- France vs. USA – 3:45AM | NBCSN / TSN
- New Zealand vs. Canada – 6:15AM | NBCSN / TSN
Don’t forget – hockey season starts tomorrow.
So, I go around the to the left?
To the back. We’re sinister here.
Jesus!
Hey folks!
It’s a rare special edition Friday night mid week style!
Going to the Hollywood Bowl tomorrow – Vampire Weekend – and took the day off afterwards for recovery!
Plus we’re taking the shuttle bus from fucking Torrance to The Bowl and I need to factor in some insanity because of that as well.
Yee-haw! Another fucking bus ride!
But this one allows you to drink. DRINK like alcohol and there’s a convenient pisser in the back.
Beats the shit out of taking a Metro bus through South LA.
One one hand, my jealousy is all:
On the other, my adult side thinks this is awesome and I’m still envious.
Exhibit 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpFEkI_-KNk
Might have to Boots on The Ground this shit.
You should boots on the ground this!
Blax here.
Two old ladies bought me my drinks at the hotel bar this evening. Think it’s cuz I was in the army. Now I am having some take out green chili burger/dog/fries.
In Vegas, Mr. Blax?
I miss being able to get green chile on everything.
You still can. In it’s pristine state green chile can be as healthy as any dish on the planet.
Alright Class, pop quiz.
Name the chilies and vegetable items pictured, starting upper left going clockwise.
This is a timed test and it will affect your final grade.
Time. Starts…Now.
Peppers, tomatoes, peppers, peppers.
Tomatoes?
Goddammit, I’ll have to accept that according to the school board.
Look, we accept a LOT of extraneous U’s around here. No harm in letting a few E’s in too.
“L”s Dammit! You forgot the “L”s!!
Dammit! Real answer Anaheim chiles, tomatillos, jalapenos and passila chilies.
Mr. Ayo wins by decision.
Enjoy your appointment to the Supreme Court!
Fuck yeah!
Oh, that’s right. Poblanos are fatter.
And I’ll call those Anaheim when Hell freezes over.
Damnation. I used to have a poster of chiles and all four were on it. Now I’m drawing a blank like an idiot. I think it’s green chile, tomatillo, japaneño, poblano
Oh, I am well aware. I had a shit diet in NM, but green chile never made anything worse.
Speaking of things that could come back to bite Trump in the ass: the Starr inquisition getting to interrogate Secret Service agents.
Refreshing subject earlier discussed re: post apocalypse.
Alas Babylon by Pat Frank
Astronomical apocalypse: Lucifer’s Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Everyone already probably knows this from the Costner movie but it’s a pretty good book although Tom Petty does not do a cameo in the book: The Postman by David Brin.
The first one mentioned I have probably read more than a dozen times over the last 45 years, the second one I haven’t read in decades and am not sure if it has aged well but I liked it enough to read it several times in my youth, and the last one I have only read once but after having seen the film and I remember thinking to myself that it was considerably better than the movie.
Lucifer’s Hammer is excellent. Co-sign!
Station 11 was part of the Summer reading club at the DFO clubhouse. Great apocalyptic shit.
Crowd favorite.
Of course you’ve read The Last Policeman trilogy, yes?
yes I did, and enjoyed them. I believe it was on your recommendation.
Outstanding!
We’ve got the greatest book club ever.
Currently reading Blue Blood by Edward Conlon. A real detective in the NYPD. Lengthy read but it covers his family history, all of the males were cops, and it covers New York Police history. Yeah, the Serpico shit and the police assassinations of the early 70’s. Plus it’s a day-by-day accounting of the process.
In all of it’s agonizing glory
Excellent read but I’ve always been a sucker for cop books.
Ever read any Joseph Wambaugh? Fucking love that shit.
I was practically weaned on it.
I’ve got a diamond cutter for Wambaugh’s stuff. Kinda disappointed he got himself into some skeevy shit a while back, but his Hollywood Station stuff is just as good if not better than the 70s stuff.
Another favorite of mine, most of which are set in Los Angeles, is James Ellroy.
I read the 2nd book – book 5? – of the Hollywood Station reinvention shit and it’s fucking old school Wambaugh.
The real shit is great but it’s not that fucking funny but Lines and Shadows was pretty good too.
My mother gave me The Onion Field to read when I was about 14. She was a reader and I’ve been a reader since birth. I’m the youngest of 4 and she knew that I would appreciate it. She never even suggested it to my older brothers.
Then the Choirboys and The Blue Knight.
I guess I’m saying read Blue Blood.
Not sure if everyone heard that, but the feed I had just had the producer telling Ron Darling what to say, and then him repeating it word-for-word on about a five second delay.
Wasn’t Ron Darling a sportscasting cartoon character who had a strip in the paper that was done by the same guy that did Tank McNamara, Funky Winkerbean, and the one with the curmudgeonly old bus driver Crank (not the Jason Statham Crank)?
You got some crank? I HOPE YOU BROUGHT ENOUGH FOR EVERYONE!!!!!
All gone. Sorry.
This checks out.
Same. I thought it was a sound delay but upon further reflection it was a different voice.
found a funny:
When does it get funny?
To be fair I’m willing to pay for an electrified moat filled with alligators and snakes, just because it sounds cool as hell.
Electric eels would save on the electric bill.
Unfortunately, it’s never going to get funnier than it is at this very moment in time. It will only continue to get worse, so enjoy it while we’re still alive and not in camps.
Every day I say to myself, “Well, surely we’ve bottomed out now.” And every next day, I am proven wrong.
So the US is going to be an RPG boss’s compound?
I’m envisioning Trump drawing this in a spiral notebook, like Flounder drawing the F-86 during class in one of the early Animal House scenes.
Shooting in the legs would be easy, because those people have calves the size of cantaloupes.
—Steven King, (R-Iow)
But Israel gets to!
“Suzuki? Can’t say I like that play.”
Parcells, B.
Sad thing is I like the Brewers. But fuck Hader.
Same. Proud Boy wears the goat horns.
And fuck Ryan Braun, who got an arbitrator fired.
I’ve only been to three MLB games in my life, the first at the Astrodome where we had a skybox for a bachelor party, about 1995, with the Killer B’s at the helm. I can’t even remember who they played or who won, we had spent the afternoon before the game down at the dog track on IH 45 on the way to Galveston and were already properly lit by the time we got to the Stro’s game. Next two were for some reason both during the 2011 season. My second game ever attended was at Busch Stadium where they don’t sell Busch Beer (“If you like her mountains, you’ll love her Busch”) where I watched the Phillies blast through the Cards’ entire pitching staff in the 6th inning to turn a 1-1 tie into a 10 or 12 to 1 blowout. Every one left the game and me and my pals went and sat 1st row on the 3rd base line for the last three innings.
Other game was also the Phillies, but at Miller Stadium in Milwaukee, decent seats along 1st base line about 4 rows up provided by a well to do friend of mine, and if I recall the Brewers prevailed on that day. But that’s enough of a connection for me to pull for Brewers, even if it’s just tangentially.
Hader’s gonna hate!
This just occurred to me (now on my second scotch and second bowl).
Your “Is There Always Something To Watch?” Tuesday Evening Open Thread
I’ll never get tired of watching Hader blow games.
Karma’s a bitch.
Oh no. The Dirt Packers Buckner moment.
who is the Dirt Packers’ backup 9th inning plan?
Buddy seems like he’d be the ultimate Dirt Packer closer
Did someone say “Buddy”?
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Just got back from a trivia contest where I nearly started a brawl over whether or not Foxboro is part of metropolitan Boston. It’s not, but try telling that to the Masshole running the contest.
We’re coming back next week, and the team name is going to be Foxboro Is Closer To Providence.
But is it closer than Santa Clara is to SF?
As a native of Mansfield (town directly east of Foxboro), this always pisses me off. They always show shots of the Boston skyline when they come back from commercial break, but Providence is a pretty cool place too, and it’s town center is 22 miles from Foxboro, while Boston’s is 30. There’s a reason that the Patriots plane is parked on the ramp at TF Greene and not at Logan.
That would have been great to know: “Dude they pahk the fahckin’ plane in Prahvadence, nawt Bahstan!”
I see it every time I fly into Greene, unless they are at an away game.
I’m sure ramp parking fees are a lot lower in Warwick RI than at Logan. Billionaires are usually tightwads.
Hell, they don’t even park it in a hangar.
Now that I think of it, it’s probably a lease.
“Billionaires are usually tightwads.”
Exhibit A being $50 hand-jobs at a shopping mall ‘massage parlor’
I thought that exhibit got suppressed!
“That’s about the only thing that didn’t come out!”
-Kraft, R. (somewhere near Providence, RI)
Banner!
Dudes probably from fahking Quincey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Boston#Combined_statistical_area
I was up in Quincy during my visit to the ancestral homeland back in August. Driving through the business district, it looks like Korea- & Chinatown combined.
No wonder Parcells never won a game in NE*
*citation needed
Very disappointed you couldn’t get the brawl started
To be fair I was wrong about the Phoenix area still having a hockey team. Could’ve sworn Arizona moved there but he was right about Atlanta. Also I thought Papua New Guinea had the most languages* but my team insisted on China, so if I were going to start a brawl** I would have hard to fight them first and I already know my son could drop me like a bad habit.
*Did I mention that question was multiple choice? Seems like I should, as otherwise I would have said India.
**Don’t start brawls at $30 trivia nights kids; it’s just a bad look.
The Coyotes left? When I visited Glendale, it was just that arena, the Online U stadium site, the interstate, and what seemed like miles of farmland. This is somehow more depressing.
They didn’t. Cost me a $20 side bet to learn just how much I haven’t been paying attention to hockey since the Whalers moved to Carolina.
Phoenix, however, remains a desert waste land despite having professional teams in all four sports in the greater metropolitan area. Frankly I’d argue that being 9 miles from Phoenix, (as Glendale is), is not the “greater metropolitan area”, but distances in Arizona are different than distances in CT.
There is single county in west Texas that is larger than the entire state of Connecticut.
There’s a basically a beltway around the metro area/Maricopa, and the stadium and arena are right inside that. But along the southern highway there was sprawl on both sides, so technically you’re right. It’s all just worthless sprawl.
You know what’s even worse than NFL instant replay? MLB instant replay.
Evening lizard people. Nice to know the Nats are still NBC’s Saturday Night, with or without Bryce.
Have you ever been completely drunk and walking through Notting Hill in the rain at 2 AM and there’s nothing open and you have to jump the brick wall of a public library in order to take a piss against some old tree and then the tree falls over?
No, of course you don’t, no one does. That never happens. That’s a dumb question, skip that.
I’m just a boy, standing in front of a tree, asking it to shield me from charges of public indecency.
Nicely played.
Good luck, we’re all counting on you.
So the IG called an Urgent Meeting with Congress tomorrow, during a recess (which basically isn’t done)…and the scuttlebutt is that Pompeo has been threatening employees at State so they don’t testify.
Oprah’s gonna be giving out impeachment for everybody!
Looks like the slow-motion coup d’etat is going to be exposed to the daylight earlier than the administration planned.
It feels good to be a lefty at present. Playing the cards correctly so far.
Pence isn’t going to be a goddamned picnic
At least he’s an evangelical-type of crazy, and therefore somewhat more predictable than the current narcissistic psycho/sociopath.
But he is the smartest, probably, in history, I don’t know, someone said that. Smartest in history, not his words. Guy came up to him said “Sir, are you the smartest in history?” I don’t, know, I mean yeah, I mean yes I am. OK.
Actually, it was Albert Einstein that told me I was the smartest. You might have heard of him? Pretty smart fella himself, to be sure, came up with that Theory of Lust for Relatives. Yeah, he told me that, back during an earlier marriage; wife at the time was, uh, oh, yeah, Victoria Principal!
Didn’t Trump try to throw him under the bus by implicating him in this Ukraine shit? It seems totally possible for him to have gotten involved because he thought he was the adult in the room and not, you know, a traitorous piece of shit.
He did, and there’s probably a dozen other things that Trump roped Pence into so that he’d have some leverage to drag him down with him in situations like this. If it actually plays out the way I hope and dream it does, I’d expect someone pretty well-removed from Trump’s orbit to take over – a Gerald Ford equivalent. Mitt Romney is who comes to mind for me.
Wow, a double impeachment. President Pelosi!
Fuck
if it ever got far enough along that the Senate was WILLING to convict, there would be some sort of staggered resignation deal to a caretaker government each party would sign off on.
NOTE – 99.999999% Senate will never convict, it’s more about grinding their shit to a halt and into the sunlight. Make the whole party OWN this shitburger.
“Oh sweet, we tried to blackmail some commies? If I wasn’t under house arrest I’d actually vote in the next election for trump”
Yeah, that’s the thing. This all rests on the majority of the country somehow getting off its ass and giving a shit for once.
public opinion has moved, and significantly so. Question is how much farther it can move.
There’s no one at permanent at Defense, Mnuchin should be in prison already (Thanks, Kamala!), Barr, no one at DHS (also, fuck DHS), so I guess whatever big ag lobbyist is at Agriculture? It’s not going to be Ross, who is behind this whole trade war with China and tried to poison the fucking census.
no, like they convict Trump, to AVOID a Pelosi, they allow Pence to nominate a VP that would be a caretaker (a Chuck Hagel or Lee Hamilton type) then allow Pence to resign.
Again, this is just like a 0.00001% likelihood, the GOP Senate won’t put themselves in the crosshairs of Trump’s “New civil War!!!111” yahoos, no matter what. But they will wear the hair shirt.
I wonder if Pompeo was dumb enough to do it in writing.
Of course. You can’t spell “Witness Tampering Dope” without POMPEO.
He seems pretty dim. One of those Christian Dominionists, so it checks out.
Guy’s got a West Point degree. He’s not dumb. He may be corrupt, evil, willing to do anything to advance his career no matter the cost to the country, and obese, but he is not dumb.
It’s not about being dumb. It’s about being arrogant.
The three Dem chairs just wrote to Pompeo’s deputy, pointing out (1) Pompeo’s got a conflict here and has to recuse; (2) Pompeo’s letter refusing to allow employees to appear for deposition is bullshit; and (3) that it’s a criminal offense to interfere with a committee investigation.
Your move, Pompeo.
“Move? I think nourmph”
Pompeo, M. while shoving another cheeseburger into his gaping maw.
Dude! You’re all missing the point!
There’s a recording!
Always!
“Tell me about it.” – R. Nixon 9th Level of Hell.
Tricky Dick will eventually move to a lesser circle in order to make room in the 9th circle for the Trump administration.
Checking out the newest season of American Horror Story about nuclear apocalypse. Great opening followed immediately by goofy shit. I don’t think there’s ever been a show that takes an interesting concept and races to wackiness the way AHS does.
crap, I’d love a well-made nuclear apocalypse show/series
AHS has always had like a 70-30 watchable to embarrassing ratio. Asylum was 100% good except for the alien bits which were just fucking awful, dragging it back to the mean.
yeah, that’s a general problem with genres of sci-fi/alternative history that I almost really like. There will be spaceships or some other weird shit that throws off the narrative.
A Canticle For Liebowitz was almost perfect, though.
Not nuclear-caused, but one of my favorite post-ap books ever was/is Earth Abides by George R. Stewart. I read somewhere once that this was also one of Jimi Hendrix’s favorite books.
will look that up. ANYTHING apocalypse tends to cheer me up.
It was written way back in 1949. I have been reading it on average every 6 or 7 years since the first time I dragged it home from the base library at a place called Karamursel in Turkey in about 1971.
ordered both books just now, mercy buckets!
I look forward to hearing your opinion. Just keep in mind that the Warday book was written at the height of the Reagantime, when it seemed pretty much in the realm of possibility.
oh yes, I lived through that time (born 1973). On my OPTIMISTIC days, I reckoned we had a 50/50 shot at avoid nuclear catasrophe
I was on a warship in the Western Pacific, Indian Ocean, and North Arabian Sea from 1982-1985. The technology wasn’t available for us to keep a real tab on things, and the US Navy wasn’t all that eager to enlighten we enlisted second class citizens, so I missed out on a lot of current events that did not directly affect fleet activities during that time frame. (for instance, we all knew about the Rooskies shooting down that Korean airliner, because initially we were going to have to go up to the Sea of Japan to support some aircraft carrier that was headed there, and that would have fucked us out of a liberty call in Phuket Thailand. And we know about Grenada, and the Marine barracks in Lebanon getting bombed. But not much about what was going on in DC.)
I just looked up A Canticle For Liebowitz, as I hadn’t heard of it, and now it’s next on my list!
Skip the posthumously released sequel. The original is magnificent though.
If things continue on their current trajectory, you (and everyone else on the planet) may very well end up as involuntary cast members in a post-apocalyptic reality show. Hope you like it!
I have long said that Wake County should market itself as a “no slow death” zone. All the high-tech here, plus military bases in the state, plus I like like 8 miles from a very large nuclear power plant. I’ll be incinerated before I even have time to shit my pants.
Book called Warday by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka, written as if by two journalists trekking across the country some time after a limited nuclear exchange, described the incineration of San Antonio with it’s 4 AF bases, one army base, and two nuclear & chemical weapons storage facilities, with some frightening accuracy (Strieber grew up in Alamo Heights when he wasn’t getting abducted by aliens).
There are 1-1/2 less Air Force bases here since BRAC, but I’m pretty sure that SA remains pretty high on the targets of interest list of China and Russia. I now live 25 miles north of the city, which probably means slow death if the targeting telemetry works for them commies/ex-commies. I can only hope that it happens during the day when I’m at work down at Lackland AFB.
I had a bit of a nuclear apocalypse obsession as a teenager and I LOVED that book.
His descriptions of the shadows of the nuclear-obliterated B-52s sitting on the ramp at Kelly AFB still resonate with me, since where I work I sit less than a quarter mile from where they used to park those planes.
For me it was the perfect mirror-like smoothness of the bomb craters in San Antonio. Also, the relative normalcy of California.
No.
So which of you is now making $1,000/hr off AB as his “reader?”
Had my 5 week appointment this morning. Dr. is pleased with the recovery. 1 more week left in the sling.
0/10. Would not recommend dislocating a shoulder
Coulda been worse. Coulda been the wee wee.
you get MOAR PILLZ, at least?
Nope. No more pills. I do have some leftovers though
Left…o…ver PILLZ?? – King H., Apex, NC
Bears twitter has absolutely sucked all week. “TRUBINSKEY SHOULD’VE GONE BACK IN! WE DON’T NEED SAWFT GUYS ON THIS TEAM!”
They really think he could take snaps with one hand.
which is especially weird, given how perfectly adequate Chase Daniel was
As a gracious fan of the #BFIB, I will humbly accept thanks from the Dirt Packers for having their mettle sharpened by the rigours of sharing a division with us.
#PlayoffsTehRightWay
I just ate a shit-ton of leftover prime rib and will now enjoy a few hours of meatsleep. See you on the other sides.
Left…o…ver PRIME RIB?? – Andy R., Kansas City, MO
Cocktail of the week update. Fucked up and made an original, not a test version. Oh well. Looks like im having multiple drinks tonight
Andy hammers the Ol’ 96-er….
https://www.thescore.com/news/1846280?fbclid=IwAR20pv6_-qEpikEjbCtpIy9P1LcGtW3OwpbPTh8GX-yF-oh_l0bBBQB1dIw
“Look, ha ha. The reason why Coach Reid’s name is on the wall of the giraffe enclosure is because of his generous donation to the Kansas City Zoo. The rumor of him eating an entire baby giraffe over the course of an afternoon is a complete falsehood.”
-Kansas City Zoo Official
I wonder if he’s ever made the trip to Amarillo to take the Big Texan Challenge.
https://www.bigtexan.com/72-oz-steak/
https://www.bigtexan.com/72oz-steak-rules/
There’s a listing of all the people who have done it; it’s pretty lengthy so I am not even going to try and search his name.
https://www.bigtexan.com/72oz-hall-fame/
1) That is a goddamn ROAST, not a steak.
2) The old man I have become can only think of how lengthy and painful shitting that out would be.
On one of my cross country drives, I unexpectedly stopped in Amarillo and only after passing the Big Texan did I realize the Big Texan was in Amarillo. Unfortunately, the Big Texan closes at 10pm and I passed it at 10:05. On the bright side, I might be alive today only because I arrived five minutes late.
Not sports related, but was pleasantly shocked to see justice done in that trial of the Dallas cop that shot that black guy in his own apartment. IN TEXAS, no less. But probably will get turned over on appeal, because Texas.
Also, it’s hard to believe that it’s been over 70 years since Sgt Pepper taught the band to play, over 50 years since the Beatles released their album, and around 43 years since I bought my 8-track recording of that album. Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
It’s been about 35 years since my brother borrowed the Sgt Pepper LP from the library and never returned it.
I hope he still breaks it out for a spin on the turntable on occasion.
It’s probably appeal-proof. From what I read, (a smidge, which is a legal term meaning “not a lot”), the judge gave the defense nearly everything they asked for, including a charge on the ‘Castle defense’, which allows you to shoot someone coming into your house, (which is odd, since the cop was in someone else’s house), which gives the defense very little to cry about.
No, the real atrocity will be when the cop convicted of murder gets the 5-year minimum.
Well, she cleaned up pretty well for court compared to the mugshot, so at least we can bask in the thought of her getting strap-on-ed for 5 years by some tattooed crew-cut 275 pound bull dagger.
Or maybe she’ll dig it.