Did you enjoy Balls last night?
Tik Tok indeed.
There are two weeks to go in my school year and I think I’ve officially run out of gas. It doesn’t much help that it’s more June-uary than June. Seven of the thirteen days so far have been moist. And the baseball season that normally restores my sanity is likely to be officially cancelled by the end of next week, when it was expected to start. So there goes that outlet for my considerable rage.
The year-end meetings have begun in earnest. I’m expected to complete transition plans for kids who worked hard, and for kids attended two classes & project what they should do next year to complete graduation. (Sneak peek: “THE SAME FUCKING THING as this year”!) The fun part is the parents who have no idea how their kid did, because they’ve been lied to all year, and then show up & demand to see the folder of work the kid has completed. I LOVE being accused of hiding or – more fun – throwing away a kid’s work, because such a perfect angel would never pull such a con. But then I pull out the attendance register – a delightfully prepared Excel spreadsheet – and it all comes clear. (Even during COVID, attendance was kept, based on “Did the student contact the instructor this week / submit homework?”)
But at least I still have a job. Given all that has gone on, I’m still pretty fortunate to have survived the apocalypse with my employment intact. The loss of International Students is likely to cost my District over 40 teaching jobs – a combination of declining enrollment & the loss of the $15,000 each of those kids brings the District. (FYI – average Int’l student fees for local private schools runs $25-35,000.) Plus, working in adult education, all the kids who failed as a result of the closed-schools issue now become my students. It’s a shame that there are always kids who fall through the cracks.
Tonight’s … entertainment?:
- NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series:
- Baptist Health 200 – 7:30PM | FS1
- From Miami-Homestead Speedway in Florida.
- Baptist Health 200 – 7:30PM | FS1
- UFC Fight Night: From Las Vegas – Eye vs. Calvillo
- Jessica Eye meets Cynthia Calvillo at flyweight (125 lbs.) in the main event from UFC Apex in Las Vegas.
- Prelims – 7:00PM | ESPN / TSN
- Main Card – 9:00PM | ESPN / TSN
- Jessica Eye meets Cynthia Calvillo at flyweight (125 lbs.) in the main event from UFC Apex in Las Vegas.
- Super Rugby Aotearoa: From New Zealand – with crowds!
- Blues vs. Hurricanes – 11:30 PM | ESPN2 / TSN2
- AFL:
- Sydney vs. Essendon – 1:30AM | TSN4
That is a rock-solid lineup of action. Might as well start pouring doubles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91GIuFbY_F0&t=116s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSwP7v4pYEc
I ordered this shirt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqq6atTEFb0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92FCRmggNqQ
Do yerself a favor and watch this concert of my favorite singer/songwriter of the last 20 years, Sondre Lerche. Only available for a few more hours b/c laws?? Most of the performance is from his new album “Patience”. 67 Minutes of showmanship:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPz7F2xSYZc
That’s My Bombers!
Ah, firstrowsports. Eases the pain.
What the fuck? What channel is Essendon on?
Leave it to ESPN to announce something and then fuck it up.
I’m currently watching this youtube feed that is basically the equivalent of watching scrambled porn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbfW8Y_Faiw
On the bright side, the Bombers are kicking ass!
Sydney-Essendon is streaming on ESPN3!
Welp, I can’t find it. Leave it to ESPN to fuck shit up.
Watch AFL never lets me down!
Ooh – National Rugby League from Australia is also on. This should be a nice sorbet between the rugby & the AFL broadcasts.
Jeremy Cameron’s pornstache is delightful.
So Moose was gone for 2 hours.
Reply with your guess what he was doing offline for 2 hours on a Saturday night.
Don’t act like you don’t edge.
Pretty sure this is a better answer than the rest of us can compose.
Didn’t you see the sandwich graphic below?
Of course. The great thing about a sandwich is it still leaves a free hand.
For a handful of balls, or typing. or whatever your interests are.
If you make a sandwich properly it takes two hands. You can get around the inconvenience by just humping something.
Football Manager.
VAR has infiltrated AFL as well? Fuck me dead.
Ban sports.
At least the call was correct.
So are AFL umps ranked by their bounce? Or their whistle skill?
Yes
Stay on your toes Sunday Gravy.
http://www.ivansknives.com/blogs/06132020.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-E2gm0a_N0
watch Dave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSvtMm3HiMA
Dave’s not here, man.
I was surprised how much I enjoyed it.
am back, I traveled the Trans-Siberian rail when i was young. my girlfriend at the time didnt like the city Vlad something. we flew to Sappiro. I want to rough it and stay with the locals
Very tight game tonight.
Shhhhhhhhh
HTF did he miss that? Did he need another 20 steps?
???
One advantage of SNL re-runs, I get the see the greatest sketch of the last season again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqpak5lFxvs
Watching the first quarter of the GWS game before transitioning to movie/date night. Jeremy Cameron’s moustache looks like Freddie Mercury’s.
I swear, I said that a full five minutes before the commentators did
Welp, Atlanta is burning to the ground. Again.
Yeah, shooting a Black man in a drive thru lane today is going to have consequences.
“It’s one thing to dispose of evidence at a food restaurant. But to actually commit the murder there? That’s amateur hour.” – Ray Lewis
Banner!
I just saw the video. Those officers should be fired even without the murder.
Two officers can’t control him. One loses the taser, which should be fastened to the belt when not in use to avoid it behind taken from you. If its unfastened, its only because it to be used on the suspect, so that way if they do get it, the charge is already discharged, and cannot be used against you.
Also, if they do get away from use with the taser, CALL FOR BACKUP! You have footage of his face. You can pick him up later.
Finally, I hate to be a Conservative Asshole, but are cops not allowed to shoot to wound and aim at feet and legs? Its hurt like hell, but at least they’ll still be able to feel. Its seems like every time I hear a cop shooting, its like 30 bullets at center mass. Unless the suspect is a T-850, that seems excessive.
Sorry for the rant. I’m just pissed off. Its hard to support the police when idiot cops do shit like this.
To address just one point, when shooting they are trained to aim at center mass.
Aiming a pistol is far more difficult than most realize.
I’ve never had a problem with that, or when they fill a person up with 50 bullets. In my estimation if you are going to start shooting, you should be shooting to kill, so fifty bullets as ethically the same as just one or two. Unfortunately modern cops seem to resort to shooting in every fucking conceivable situation.
De-escalation doesn’t seem to be used/ trained for. It is used in almost every other industrialized country.
How close are we to a phaser or maybe a simplified Lawgiver from Judge Dredd? If we can figure out how to get the cops to fire a projectile but only at a debilitating stun setting, problem solved!*
*2% solved
Absolutely. Aiming to wound is only in Hollywood or TV, especially with a pistol to a moving target. It doesn’t even happen at the range.
Actually, Sherman disassembled all the transportation and war-making infrastructure of Atlanta, then the engineers moved the debris into piles to be burned controllably, so as not to spread. Sections of the city were burned down by arson committed by Union troops, and the Engineers were angry about it because it was so unprofessional, but no soldiers were ever caught despite large rewards.
Sherman did burn the shit out of Columbia, South Carolina.
Just finished watching ‘JoJo Rabbit’; that was a goddamn good, and original, movie. Rare thing these days.
I did nazi that coming
1994 MLBPA and MLB Owners: “Wow. We’ve really pissed off the fans and risked killing our sport based purely on greed and selfishness.”
2020 MLBPA and MLB Owners: “Hold our beers…”
I’m really curious why you baseball fans still like the sport…
Its a sport you can play in the background or turn the radio on. Also, you don’t need to worry about time running out. You can be down 10 runs in the bottom of the ninth with two outs and you still have a chance to win. Football games are a 100-yard sprint or an obstacle course. Baseball games are a marathon. Its also a sport that can you go to the game with your entire family for $50. A football game for the same upper deck seats would cost you $500.
Also, its a sport that you can sit down with your father and casually watch the game.
Ticket prices must be really cheap in Cincinnati. No way you get out of Dodger Stadium spending less than $50 for one person, let alone 4.
Within reason. Field level infield seats will run you $50-$100, and if you have a few hundred dollars or a thousand I think, you can get the Diamond Seats behind home plate that includes a buffet. Outfield field level seats are about $25-$50.
But upper deck seats cost $20 or so, depending on who is playing. If its a good team or the demand is high, they increase the prices a bit. If its a bad team or the demand is low, they decrease the prices a bit.
They also have bleachers in the upper deck outfield. Those are usually the cheapest.
Angel Stadium is pretty affordable (in comparison), and the train drops you right there. On weeknights, there’s a special Metrolink that’ll get you to/from for $7.
Anyway, I still love the game and play in roto leagues (which helps keep attention).
We did a day game last spring for like $30 for the two of us.
I make good money off people’s boredom at the games.
Owners: “We’ll pay you for 50 games, full pro-rated?.”
Players: “Can we play 110?”
Owners: “We’ll pay you for 50 games.”
Players: “80?”
Owners: “We’ll pay you for 50 games.”
AFL on FS1 in less than 30 minutes! North Melbourne Kangaroos v GWS Giants!
Everyone has GWS except Maestro. HE AIN’T NO SHEEPLE.
He’s a hater!
I’ll one #29 please and thank you.
I haven’t had a 39 in a long time. I’m now craving it thanks to this.
That would be my least favorite, but still if made right they are delicious. Just bologna is boring, but with topping is good. I guess I’m saying sammichez are gud.
Lets see…1, 2, 5, 10, 12, 14, 24, 26, 35 and a Diet Coke.
It’ll be a minute. I assume a small Diet Coke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=uJ2cEc_TCH8&feature=emb_logo
Kamikaze Kitty!
In Soviet Russia, pussy pounds you!
[Balls starts typing….]
Sedentary Lifestyle: leads to poor circulation
Alcohol in the bloodstream: dilates blood vessels, increasing circulation
Problem solved.
Based on what I did to a good pan while looking for GIFs I should be watching the stove.
Tonight on Svengoolie: Curse of the Werewolf. The Hammer one, with Oliver Reed.
That is good stuff. There is a series on YouTube about the history of Hammer Films that is pretty good. It’s not even called Hammer Time.
Tonight in Hippo – away to Hoffenheim
You are excused. I was worried about you without any sports!
It’ll be fine.
I need a fuzzy pony unicorn. Instead, I have a demanding cat, and an even more demanding husband. But there’s good news, I took two gummies and I just pulled a spectacular looking pie out of the oven. Things have a way of evening out.
” I took two gummies and I just pulled a spectacular looking pie out of the oven. ”
Mr. Gumby really did well for himself, didn’t he?
Oh. garsh!
So mlb just keeps shooting themselves in the dick eh? When people get an appetite for a 40 game season it will be interesting.
I’d watch one giant 360 inning game. Maybe. For an hour.
I can’t sleep either.
I really do miss falling asleep to (streamed) KMOX. There was one match last season (I think) that went like 18 innings and I kept drifting in and out of listening v sleep. Was pleasant.
That’s weird.
[puts on headphones]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDFx_qW7eL8&list=PL6VT00WQu6idYPvDtbA6uPn0bgFhHmhIr&index=95&t=0s
Dilbert used to have a character Phil the Prince of Insufficient Light and Ruler of Heck, who wielded a pitchspoon and caused minor mayhem but nothing like the hellfires of Satan — Rob Manfred is essentially the “Phil” of sports commissioners.
*ur
I think that is part of the joke…… but not s ure.
The ‘s ure’ was the worst part of trying to extend the joke.
MLB has the worst ownership AND the worst players’ association (of any sportsball I follow anyhow). As I told a fellow #BFIB last week, they could screw up free ice cream.
I mean, lots of evil in NFL ownership, but at least all the key players have the goddamned sense to realize they basically have a money printing enterprise, and should try not to fuck it up.
Why doesn’t the nfl, and whatever other second rate sprots leagues are out there, just show a still image of the flag for 2 minutes while the anthem plays. No one would even fucking know about the kneeling, because obviously it’s illegal to take pictures during the anthem.
That would be just the chickenshit NFL thing to do. So great idea.
No, the NFL thing to do would be to show a still image of a M-16 and collect millions of dollars from the U.S. Army.
They’ve already done that. They can move on and still get a nice government check.
AFL IS ON ESPN TOO!
https://espnpressroom.com/us/press-releases/2020/06/australian-rules-football-returns-to-espn/
FUCK YEAH AND THEY HAVE TONIGHT’S BOMBER’S GAME!
[runs through Brick’s wall]
[apologizes profusely to Brick and his stewardess “visitor”]
and ESPN 2.
ESPN to what?
F Is for Family is back!
There’s a lot to unpack in this picture…
That’s spectacular
That’s a trap for sure.
Money.
Anyone ever visited the Russian Far East? Thinking about planning out a trip once the Covid-19 wraps up.
Just the far east or are you thinking of doing the Trans Siberian Railway?
https://www.seat61.com/Trans-Siberian.htm
Going to Eastern Russia? What are you, a dissenting member of the Communist Party?
There’s a new network I’ve discovered called Tastemade that has some really good food shows. I’m watching one right now featuring Asian specialties that’s half travel show and half recipe. Very nice!
My mother in law worked summers at an old and very beautiful amusement park. Up a steep flight of outdoor stairs above the ice cream stand was an air conditioned room that people who wore hot costumes could go to and cool down. The Koolaid Man fell down the stairs one day, and couldn’t get up because of his round costume. He was rolling around swearing in front of all the kiddoes in line for cones. She had to call the park police and have him removed because he was so belligerent!
Apparently, I only have 259 hours in, or roughly one Battle of Williamsport
But you are on a campaign, not just a battle. You have strategic initiative.
Lot of talk recently about a 2000s music act resuming relevance in light of all this police brutality and protests and public gatherings. I’m of course talking about the music video of Avril Lavigne’s “Skagt8er Boyy”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIy3n2b7V9k
Apparently Lavigne wrote the song with “The Matrix,” a group of some kind created by a guy named “Scott Spock,” who happened to be born in Waterloo, IL. Break out the bulletin board and a fresh case of yarn, boys, cracking this case is gonna take a while.
She’s from Belleville ONT. Not much going on there
Folks
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I have a great business opportunity for you all today. Don’t you hate it when you eat too much food and get fat? Well I’ve developed a special elixir uses enzyme action to dissolve calories from food, even after you’ve eaten it! That’s right Billy, just take 4-6 servings of this drink I call “gin” after every meal, and you’ll be fighting fit.
Wait. I thought it was vodka. What a waste of 30 years.
You spelled cocaine wrong.
Exercise helps.