Your “Hey, At Least The Weekend Still Counts For Something” Saturday Evening Open Thread

I realize it’s cruel to start a post with Canada’s most loathed export, but they did release a new album yesterday. Rather than punish you with that, I at least had the kindness to give you a cover song punctuated with hockey fights. It’s the little things, people.

But if you want to see full Massholes on display, I present to you the Bruins’s statement on Tuukka Rask opting out & heading home:

Dear lord, the certified psycho-medical professionals of Twitter on full display.

Look – we’ve been following the Patriots long enough to know what these people are. My question is: do they know it? I mean, everyone can admit they’re an ass sometimes, but do you think, in their soul, these people realize how truly awful they are & how few people would actually miss them?


Tonight’s sports:

  • NHL:
    • Tampa Bay Lightning vs. Columbus Blue Jackets – 7:30PM | NBCSN / Sportsnet360
    • Vegas Golden Knights vs. Chicago Blackhawks – 8:00PM | NBC / CBC / Sportsnet
  • MLB:
    • Pittsburgh Pirates at Cincinnati Reds – 6:00PM | FS1
    • Tampa Bay Rays at Toronto Blue Jays – 6:30PM | Sportsnet1
      • Look for the famous cutouts, like Geddy Lee 
  • Fútbol:
    • Liga MX:
      • Guadalajara vs. San Luis – 6:00PM | TELMUN
      • Cruz Azul vs. FC Juárez – 7:30PM | UNI
      • Mazatlán vs. Tigres – 9:55PM | UNI
      • Monterrey vs. Necaxa – 10:00PM | FS1
  • Pugilism:
    • UFC 252: Miocic vs. Cormier 3
      • Prelims: – 7:00PM | ESPN / TSN
  • Southern Hemisphere tackle sports:
    • Super Rugby Aotearoa:
      • Blues vs. Crusaders – 11:30 PM | ESPN2 / TSN5
    • Australian Football League:
      • St. Kilda vs. Essendon – 1:30 AM | ESPN2 / TSN

A solid night to be cooped up inside. Enjoy your evenings!

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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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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

I see this Essendon St. Kilda match may not be worth staying up late for.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Brick Meathook

The Rivieras were from the midwest and had never seen the Pacific Ocean:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy57Xdk9u0o

Brick Meathook

Here’s “Starstruck” by The Kinks. I only posted this as #2 for noted Kinks fan beerguyrob, even though I think it’s a great song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaDoVAaqHaE

Brick Meathook

“C’Mon Jesus” by The Firesign Theatre

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZtdxS_UD1Y

Brick Meathook

“Hold Me Tight” by The Treasures. Phil Spector’s production at it finest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce27PZeyOPw

Brick Meathook
Brick Meathook
Brick Meathook

“Eurotrash Girl” by Cracker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K2teeclbR4

Brick Meathook

“Six Days On The Road” by Dave Dudley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHbGhEfnh2E

Brick Meathook

“Border Radio” by The Blasters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmaXdkC0zE4

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

Memo done, so how about a 7.5% ABV sour?

Brick Meathook

I’ll approve that.

herodotus450

They say alcohol is a depressant but here I am 6 hours past my bedtime…

Brick Meathook

Stage 2 at Hollywood Center Studios being built-out for a season of “Wizards of Waverly Place.” Audience bleachers are to picture left; the camera alley is below the guard rail. The sets are under construction and the production lights are not yet hung.

Stage 2 at Hollywood Center is the oldest sound stage in Hollywood (a “sound stage” is insulated from outside noise). Hollywood Center is one of the oldest motion picture production facilities in Los Angeles.

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Brick Meathook

I fucked up and mis-named it (I was doing it from alcohol-soaked memory). The photo above is actually stage 5/6 (it can be one stage or divided into two). Stage 2 is the original “I Love Lucy” sound stage.

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herodotus450

[Charlie Chaplin looks up from fucking his underage cousin-lover*]
“Hey, I remember that!”
*or whatever

Brick Meathook

Chaplin’s studio was at Santa Monica and La Brea. It was Herb Alpert’s A&M Records for years, but now it’s Jim Henson Studios, which is owned by Disney. If Disney wants to fuck your child up the ass, they are above the law. Just take the cash payment they offer and don’t make trouble.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Bah, my eyes are dry and I’m trying to write this memo when I want a third beer.

Horatio Cornblower

It’s like 9:30 on a Saturday for you PST people.

Have that beer.

Horatio Cornblower

10:30.

Fuck, I need to go to bed.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

You’re bad at math sober, so this is about right.

Horatio Cornblower

Yeah, it’s definitely time to call it a night.

This is L.H. Putgrass, signing off and heading for the tub!
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Horatio Cornblower

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There we go.

From the late, lamented ‘Bloom County’ strip

Dunstan

+1 neurotic penguin

Brick Meathook

10:30 but yeah I just started drinking

BrettFavresColonoscopy

I’m letting completion of the memo be the demarcation of when I can have the third beer.

Horatio Cornblower

“In conclusion, the subject of this memo is a land/topic of contrasts.”

get that beer

BrettFavresColonoscopy

The industrial revolution is like a story I know ….

Brick Meathook

The Syphilis-Fueled Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower is a topic worthy of discussion . . .

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Beastmode Ate My Baby

Accuracy confirmed.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Only more computer/ internet related “creativity” items, otherwise it holds up.

Horatio Cornblower

I’m 1000% behind afternoon naps, and this quarantine has been amazing for those.

Horatio Cornblower

Mike Trout just struck out looking to end the game, allowing me to bring up my favoUrite pedantic argument: Mike Trout should never be considered for the MVP award because, despite being undeniably great, he has willingly tied himself for years to an absolutely shit organization that sucks with him and would suck without him, thereby completely negating any value his considerable skills would bring to a team with even an ounce of self-respect.

Discuss.

Dunstan

You have bad opinions and you should feel bad.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Horatio Cornblower

Buddy, I’m two high-octane beers and several swigs of shitty moonshine in: I can’t feel my legs, let alone my bad opinions.

ballsofsteelandfury

You’re lucky Son Of Spam is happily sleeping/ drunk.

herodotus450

I remember the season Peyton Manning was hurt and the Colts went 1-15 or whatever. Peyton should have won the MVP that year despite not playing as snap.

Horatio Cornblower

/Pedant rises

No. No he should not have. As soon as you put “most valuable” in the tile you have moved away from an argument as to merely who is the best. Is Trout the best player in MLB? Almost certainly. But does he add value to his team? Well, no. The Angels would undoubtedly be a terrible team without him, but, SPOILER, they’re a terrible team with him as well! If you’e the best player in the league, and your team went 1-15, or finished last, (again), in the AL West, your value is shit.

Change the award to Best Player and I’ll vote for Trout pretty much every year. As long as it’s ‘Most Valuable’, however, I’m voting for a player on a team that either made the play-offs or was in the hunt late into September.

Words have meaning, and WAR isn’t a word, therefore what is it good for? Absolutely nothing; I’ll say it again.

/Pedant steps off soapbox, trips and falls flat on his nose
Oh Gobdabbit

herodotus450

Baseball especially fetishizes the other awards like Cy Young, Golden Glove, Silver Slugger, which are “Best Whatever.” So hopefully the young trout has won some of those.

herodotus450

EXCEPT: those awards, and all sprots awards(?) are voted on by peter king-esque media fuckwads, which is why I denounce them all and look down on anyone who tries to start or participate in discussions about them.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Fuck Peyton Manning with his own filthy assaulting nutsack

Horatio Cornblower

I heard his wife took PEDs.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Have you ever met an Ashley that didn’t suck?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Doktor Zymm

I spent about 10 days in Vilnius, and I really enjoyed it, but maybe not quite this much. Or maybe this much, I did go to a ska show in the locker room of an old Soviet sports center, eat the best beer snack ever (fried bread rolled in garlic and covered with melted cheese and garlic sauce), drink a lot of local brandy, sleep with a Canadian, correct people’s pronunciation of Zloty, ate garlic soup every day, and was able to buy mushrooms (the foraged eating non-hallucinogenic kind) from old women on the sidewalk, so yeah, I should probably move to Vilnius.comment image

Dunstan

sleep with a Canadian”

You know what they say: once you go Canuck, there’s no one else you want to fuck.

herodotus450

Not of a lot of “sleeping” going on when you’re with Scotchy…
Because after all the stabbing there’s soooo much cleanup to do.

Dunstan

Look, the Canadian government has apologized repeatedly for Scotchy.

Horatio Cornblower

and everything else.

Dunstan

Well sure, that’s only polite you know.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Doktor Zymm

They should specify that you need TWO containers in the title, misleading, 2/5

Beastmode Ate My Baby

“I’ve got a plastic bottle and a knife! I’m gonna survive!”

Reads instructions.

“Well, shit.”

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Technically it is correct, which is correct. You could make the title a paragraph and make it graphically useless if you like.

Dunstan

To be fair, one can reasonably assume that used soda cans are everywhere. Yay humans!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

And plastic bottles, and plastic bags, and plastic…….

Beastmode Ate My Baby

Looks at garbage floating in from the ocean.

“I’m saved!”

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

That’s pretty much true.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

The soda can is not required anyway, just better and faster.

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