NFL News:
- Dak Prescott has one-upped the Cowboys & signed his franchise tender.
- Now he’s winning the PR battle, because he’s not holding out of training camp.
- The one-year tender is worth $31.4 million, per league guidelines.
- The holdup to a long-term deal is the length of the contract.
- Dak wants four, so he can hit free agency again at 30.
- The Cowboys want five, to maximize their return on the investment.
- The holdup to a long-term deal is the length of the contract.
- FYI – the franchise tag for QBs in 2021 will be $37.68 million.
- David Tyree is no longer the Giants’ director of player development.
- He had been in the job since 2014.
- He will now be turning his attention to a juice shop he’s opening in New Jersey.
- It’s called “Clean Juice”, and they’ve got franchise opportunities available NEAR YOU!
- The NFL is getting pushback from both teams and players because they are forcing them to identify & codify their “contact tiers”.
- This is important because the agreement to reopen contains specifics about whom & how many people in each tier are allowed to interact.
- Tier 2 are people like general managers, football operations employees, other assistant coaches, video personnel, security and other essential personnel.
- There will be daily testing of all Tier 1 & 2 employees, and there might be “surprise inspections” by the league & union.
- This is important because the agreement to reopen contains specifics about whom & how many people in each tier are allowed to interact.
MXC Monday – Episode 113: “Gambling Industry vs. Medical Professionals”
- This should be near & dear to Hippo.
“The classic battle between care givers and card counters.”
This was the last episode of the first season. Don’t worry – we have four more seasons to go. Hopefully sports will come back by that point.
Tonight’s … entertainment?:
- Ford v Ferrari – 7:25 PM | HBO
- A fantastic car movie. Worth your time.
- Wrasslin’:
- Monday Night RAW – 8:00PM | USA / Sportsnet360
- In case you missed it, or didn’t care at the time, I broke down the madness that’s gone on in wrestling over the last few days. I think it’s worth your time.
- We all had fun in the comments.
- Top Rank Boxing on ESPN – 8:00 PM | ESPN
- Moloney-Franco (super flyweights)
- Andrew Moloney (21-0, 14 KOs) vs. Joshua Franco (16-1-2, 8 KOs) in a super-flyweight title bout in Las Vegas.
- Moloney-Franco (super flyweights)
- Botched – 9:00PM | E! / E! Canada
- Pop-up fun facts from Season 6, Episode 13.
- KBO League:
- Doosan Bears vs. SK Wyverns – 5:25AM | ESPN / TSN3
How desperate are the networks for any real sports? Here’s the highlighted post-midnight offering from “The Deuce”.
- Classic WNBA Basketball: 2018: Phoenix Mercury at Seattle Storm – 2:00 AM | ESPN2
Networks, like blogs, need #content.
Shit’s goin’ sideways in the District.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/watch-protesters-deploy-shields-in-clash-with-police-near-the-white-house-as-trump-warns-beware/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGXM3RWKVUA
It’s an interesting dynamic there: All the outrage over police violence mixing with a president that’s already demonstrated that he has no qualms with shows of force from military police and a people increasingly frustrated with a lack of self-determination. DC doesn’t usually get considered among places most likely to have violent protests, but with ChuckleFuck McShitBag never missing a chance to antagonize the population, it wouldn’t take much to get that spark lit.
I drove through DC with my dad in his ’66 Buick Wildcat right after the riots in April 1968 following MLK’s assassination. At age 8, I was as impressed by the old man’s pistol sitting between us on the bench seat as I was with all the damage that had been done. 50+ years later, I still can’t really get my head around all that shit.
…
Money talks. Everyone else walks.
The District of Columbia is not a state, it is a Federal District. The President doesn’t need to declare martial law to deploy the military there, and there are two infantry regiments permanently garrisoned there just for this purpose, with more at Forts Belvoir and Meade. Read a book sometime.
You spend a lot of time claiming to know the limits of people’s knowledge here. I’m not sure what part of anything I said implies that I didn’t know anything you just mentioned. Rest assured, I’m well aware of the state of things, and the fact of the matter is that state is shit. If I say it’s bad that police don’t get punished for doing shit we all know is wrong, it’s not because I don’t understand what qualified immunity is.
Gratliff, I don’t challenge the limits of anyone’s knowledge, unless you get in my wheelhouse and state incorrect facts. The only thing I’m against are incorrect facts. If your facts are correct you can take them and form any opinion you want, But get your facts right and don’t learn them from Wikipedia or Twitter and then repeat them here because I will correct you.
You should at least learn a bit more about the District of Columbia before making subjective judgements (or repeating them), that’s all I’m saying. Other than that, I like your posts.
Apparently they tried to take down a statue of Andrew Jackson.
Which leads to the question, why is there a statue of Andrew Jackson?
And why do I have a billfold full of 20’s with his grill on them?
Second most genocide-ie president?
There’s a reason that Trump frequently has the AJ portrait in the background of his WH photo ops.
Because he was a President, a pretty good one, and made important contributions to the U.S. banking system.
I feel like “important contributions” is a bit of an overstatement, considering the Panic of 1837 and how historians have taken Jackson to task for the Bank War exacerbating it.
Also the birth of the spoils system was the first step in the partisan politics we have today.
Somebody thought he did well, because that’s why he’s on the $20.
Bubonic plague says “WTF?”
Yeah, I’m thinking the owner is not a topnotch intellect.
I suggest there’s three possibilities here:
1) This guy is crazy
2) This guy is a committed performance artist of the highest order
3) He’s a prophet, and he’s right. He sees the simple truth so crystal clear in its diamond sharp simplicity yet all of us (you and me also) have been blinded by computers so that we ridicule him because we are unable to see the truth.
My comment is duplicated.
I’d buy that for a dollar!
scotchy’s going to need the heavy artillery
That’s a bargain!
Someone was maybe too fond of Gundam Wing
Okay, before you send Scotchy to murder me I am fairly well armed and have good vantage points from my house.
It’d be fucking easy though, as I’m predictable as hell.
Also, that is definitely a Relena Peacecraft pearl earring variant.
I am trusting you on this one.
Waiting on the lipstick to emerge from it’s sheath.
I saw that “Bill Simmons” is trending on Twitter.
/dis gun be gud!
and if you had “questionable racial comments,” well, don’t expect a big payday because it was the odds-on favorite.
Apparently he dismissed complaints about a lack of diversity at The Ringer with “it’s a business, not open mike night.” This from a guy who gives every family member and Boston douchebag friend a podcast….
It’s a nice roasting, not unjust. Though no one has mentioned that he used to refer to Leslie Visser as “the harlot Leslie Visser” back in AOL. And his “I’m not a sellout, but…” column when leaving forESPN was cringey in its narcissism.
Narcissism has always been his stock in trade.
I liked him in those early years at ESPN’s Page 2. At the time, it was actually somewhat innovative for a sports writer to write like a fan (other than the hacky, yay-for-our-boys sense). But his shtick got old in a hurry. The Karate Kid is not that fucking good a film, you don’t need to reference it every column. It also didn’t help that he was a Boston guy just when Boston sports entered peak annoyingness.
Who’s Bill Simmons?
Just another Boston asshole
I’m getting older and am not up on all the latest hip things, but isn’t that there called “DP”? I am sure Balls can answer that.
Wait until you discover DVDA…
HI-YO! I’m back from Ralphs!
How is he doing? I haven’t seen him in a while. I’m a little worried he’s going to kick me out of his club for missing all the meetings.
He asked about you.
Good lord.
I’m thinking you don’t like the joke, but like Olivia.
I don’t mind at all. It’s just, WTF and why?
—Oscar Meyer
G4;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_of_the_Show!
No wonder AA Rod ghosted his family.
Plenty of room for his brother…….
And the Packers O line
Man, strawberry-basil ice cream is good. Or as Sarah Huckabee Sanders would put it, goOd.
This week’s Dear Prudence column at Slate has a letter about that, and the comments section is EN FUEGO about it.
Sorry I was so late. Should I have added the “I found a funny” preamble?
Have they not heard about vacuums?
You don’t need a helmet.
“I’m arresting you for illegally downloading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica.”
—
“Wait, I can explain everything.”
God damn, still funny.
BIG PHARMA WONT LET US HAVE IT.
Just give us the suicide booth already
Aw, love a spiteful note. I mean, a happy ending.
If he steps on the pedal too hard/fast, he’s going to get a lesson about “having one a cat couldn’t scratch” in the kitchen.
Kitty!
That made me laugh.
Very popular in Portland
Maine, Oregon, or England?
She switched brands after they took the Nestea plunge
Dat’s fucking funny.
It’s so stupid and yet
Yep really fucking funny
Are we lionizing John Bolton now? Will someone from Florida go cough on that motherfucker?
The enemy of my enemy is still a war criminal cunt and deserves to spend what time he has left on this planet being haunted by the ghosts of Iraqi children
I had seen a comment from a reporter that said something like ‘It is very apparent that all sides hate John Bolton.’
From below.
I once considered saying something positive about John Bolton, but then my sponsor came over and convinced me not to hit the post button
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD BOOOOOOOOOY!!!!!!!!
Fuck no. No one with a brain cares.
It’s fantastic that his book is being pirated now. I’m convinced he didn’t testify because he wanted the tell all book to publish. Fuck him
So, can someone that follows baseball tell me exactly what’s going on?
It’s shooting itself in the dick? Usually that’s the NHL’s job.
My understanding is….. I have no understanding.
Oh crap, that should be “a Vitamin”
“Are you registered?”
“Masks recommended but not required.”
I’m off to Ralphs to buy some stuff
About 15 years ago, I was doing some environmental restoration work for NASA and had a trip out to JPL in Pasadena to look over some shit where they had basically poisoned several of the municipal water supply wells with rocket fuel since the 1950’s or so. As I waited in line at the gate to enter the facility, there was this old guy who practically looked homeless holding up signs about the whole planetary exploration thing, including the moon landings, being a scam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtWl8YTiGmk
They are much more prevalent than I had expected. The internet helps them.
And Buzz Aldrin will punch every last fucking one of them if he has to.
I wish there was some automatic Buzz Punch thing.
Get a brain, moran.
Stopping off to pick up a saber at the sword store?
Effective for tears and other discharges
Pretty sure that if you’re buying the ponch, that you ain’t going to any singles bar, as they are “too expensive “
“Singles bar.”
DAMN! Missed it. These are resistant to stripper tears.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMGVMtnxXEw
Thanks for the back-up.
I LOVE MXC MONDAYS!!
Love Happy Panty Guy.
“Can’t downvote enough”
—Native Americans
You have died of dysentery.
Baseball’s back? What is this, 1947?
Oh, one a them Rorschart pictures. Uhhh, I see… the chair of a woman on her period eating a poppyseed muffin?
No it’s a “P”….punts.
Does anyone here live in areas that are being subjected to unrelenting fireworks?
I have intermittent fireworks.
Senorita Weaselo is a lucky lady.
Apparently that’s also a thing in West LA. Not sure why.
I’ll have to ask the ladies brrrrrrr
Shout-out to the car non-ironically playing Rick Astley while I was walking back from the deli with a Twix bar and a Coke.
At least you are eating healthy. All the groups in one meal.
The pet!
Martini ook.
The map on the left kinda look like Garfield the Cat.
Yeah, the outer boroughs are more of a Dunkin’ hotspot. The nearest Starbucks to me is, I think, right across the Queens-Nassau border. The nearest Dunkin’ is six blocks away, next to the McDonald’s.
So in my state a bunch of public health officials/ workers are quitting and being forced out because of death threats, political pressure, harassment, etc. because masks are apparently now “submission muzzles.”
Feel a little torn about upvoting that.
I wonder if, in the future, there will ever be an author equivalent to Edward Gibbon to write The History of the Decline and Fall of the American Empire?
More likely it’s going to end up being written by some priest like in A Canticle for Leibowitz, the Feral Kid from Road Warrior, or the idiot savant that wrote Riddley Walker.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riddley_Walker
AND THEN THERE WERE BASEDBALL!
https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb-2020-season-mlbpa-votes-against-60-game-proposal-rob-manfred-could-implement-schedule-soon/live/
(very latte and nutmeg coated voice): MAYBE
/cheers from the fans
//approval from the sponsors
///silence from the dead Phillies
Ded Phillies could be a fine FF name, come Septiembre!
Dead Phillies is normally covered up by horse racin folk.
Trigger warning much?? – John E., Dove Valley, CO
I am looking forward to Opening Day 2022. Which is fine with this #BFIB, because Dexter Fowler’s boat anchor contract will be all used up.
They will still fuck it up. Braves games will be full of Confederate flags protesting the NL bringing in the DH.
As long as it holds off the “put a runner on 2nd at the beginning of extra innings.”
No. There isn’t an expletive for the word to come before “no” in that.
Hippo, place your bets!
https://twitter.com/Covers/status/1275238569460871168/photo/1
During the work day here at the house, I generally listen to the Sirius XM app channel 711, Tom Petty’s Buried Treasure. There’s over 250 different episodes, and they do repeat on occasion, but most of the repetition you might hear is due to his playing his favorites. I’ve been tracking the shows for over a month while I listen, and none of the shows have been repeated more than twice in that time. I like to listen because it makes me feel like he’s still out there.
Today he played a song that I didn’t even know existed. He does/did like to play a lot of obscure late 60s/70s Beach Boys, and this one really split my atoms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwajGL8nI00
Damn. That is unexpected from the Beach Boys. Dunno if I like it really, but I like that they’re stretching here.
The whole album it was released on is pretty quirky.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surf%27s_Up_(album)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpJ-pLYmDHU&list=OLAK5uy_lb1QdqKFMwrZmCal0R8g4ITgQELMpQXfY
The Beach Boys reinvented themselves several times over the years.
this rocking skater dude is rocking
http://www.jenkemmag.com/home/2017/05/30/tracked-epic-streetplant-man/
Big news!
Today I took an inventory of myself and my personal belongings, and decided to effect real change. So I rearranged one area of my kitchen cupboards, the sector dealing in canned goods, dry foodstuffs, and even the spices, those exotic delicacies from The Orient.
It forced me to face reality and ask some tough questions. How did these cans of diced tomatoes expire seven years ago yet go un-noticed? Why do I have three units of packaged breadcrumbs, one three-quarters full and two unopened? How often are breadcrumbs used around here? I’ll tell you how often: not very often. Why do I have a shaker of dried onions, still factory sealed, with no memory of ever having purchased it?
So I acquired some shelf organizers from Amazon, and they arrived ten hours later, Allah be praised. This offered me the chance to rebuild my life and my cupboard departments, making much more effective use of space in a “vertical integration” of various tins and sundry containers. A feeling of peace has descended upon my soul.
Next Weeks Episode: Why do I have forty coffee mugs?
The small things you can control make the big things you can’t a little less scary. I’ve been making my bed every day since this pandemic started, it makes me feel a little bit better.
Great ending at Talladega, if you’re into that kind of thing.
“Damn it! Why did I take off that hood ornament?”
Happy Birthday to the original Blues Brothers movie. While I never thought it was as funny as a lot of folks did, the musical numbers with all those soul and blues legends were fucking awesome.
Too bad they made only one movie.
Yes, thankfully there was never another.
No fucking shit.
—John Goodman
BREAKING NEWS: Current status of the 2020 Major League Baseball season:
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I think this works better.
It’s at least more better accurate.
I stand corrected.
CURSE YOU, INTERNET PICTURE GODS! WHY HAVE THOU FORSAKEN ME?!?!
“So, Low Commander, how is The Last of us Part II going? As good as you were hoping or–”
The complaints I’ve seen are all along the lines of “Too dark” and I don’t think that’s actually a thing.
If someone’s complaint is that it hits them too hard in the feels, I don’t know how they made it to 2020.
I’m not very far along yet but I’ve been loving every second of it, even what’s made me cry.
Every. Last. One of them.
Senorita Weaselo is loving it too, and really getting into certain characters’ emotions.
I’m also dreading her sitting me down to play it, but I’ll ask if I can at least finish stumbling my way shooting through the first one, uh, first (pre-covid quarantine, when I then didn’t see her for two months, I was in Pittsburgh with the hunters).
Stupid PS3 exclusives…
Antionio Cromartie: “Shit.”
Lawrence Taylor: “Crack.”
Art Schlicter: “Odds are I don’t have five.”
Tom Brady: “What if you kiss your kids on the mouth?”
“Yeah! And other stuff.” – J. Sandusky
I’m gonna need another page and some help with all the names
-Antonio
This is just so goddamned beautiful. Brick, you are a fine Imaginary Friend, and a true national treasUre.
Google translates as “That is a pinga dress” so I’m gonna assume pinga means dick or Ricardo.
I need to get drunk.
