All good things come to an end. The same maxim applies to Wahoowa’s two year reign as Hoopsball Shempions, provided we don’t have a zombie apocalypse prevent the conclusion of Zags v. Bay-Bay tonight. West Indy against South Indy, in the clash of our lifetimes!
Everton threw away a win against Fucking Palace, because everything sucks and life is shit.
1S Baylor (+4.5) v. 1W Gonzaga (9:20, CBS)
You will be surprised to learn that Hippo doesn’t have money on this one. Nor was I able to find live odds on whether or not I fall asleep during the action (again). I will likely be listening to KMOX in the build-up, which won’t help matters.
As to the game itself, it’s classic “Best Offense” (Zags) against “Best Defense” (Bay-Bay). It’s not just during the sex act where the Bears care not for your consent! Baylor’s 6th man would make a great long, lost uncle (or pimp?) of Randy’s on Trailer Park Boys. Mr. Lahey’s ghost says take Gonzaga and the points, bud.
Discussion item FOAR the class – Does Jim Nantz dream in Pleasantville?
Enjoy the game, or whatever other meaningless distraction(s) y’all have in mind.
Lately I feel like I’m as close to succeeding at work as the GWS Giants this season.
Angels fans just threw an inflatable trashcan on the field. Because the cheating Astros are in town.
Proud of those drunken idiots.
The As fans were clearly heard on the TV broadcast yesterday afternoon, banging something that sounded like trashcans & screaming “FUCKING CHEATERS!”
horatio and span, if you’re still here, i wrote and answer below
also, thanks for reading
Totally with you on “not a top 5 all time player” – but he was damned good.
(My top 5, requested by no one – Kareem, Jordan, LeBron, Magic, Wilt)
mugsey bouges will not stand for this insult
I mean, he might, he’s pretty easy to lose in a crowd
Per inch? Muggsy and Spud are all-timers.
(Also Brett Favre in a way)
This is where Gavrilo Princip shot some fat Austrian dude with a kickass mustache. Too bad he didn’t wait 25 years and kill a skinnier Austrian dude with a shitty mustache.
I don’t know how “fair and balanced” this paper was. Published by divine right? Ummmm….
They should have waited about 55 years and been published by Divine, right?
Lookit that shit-eating grin.
“I think… Art Deco eyebrows tonight”
And then he sang “Take Me Out.” And then Princip did!
Apparently his family HATED Sofia, but it’s possible that they were just upset at him blowing his entire allowance on mustache wax
She had the chance to spell her name like a famous Italian actress, and instead chose the capital of Bulgaria.
Aha!
I’m going to start greeting people with “How fares Europe?”
wasn’t until last year i realized the irony of this song name
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijk4j-r7qPA
About Macedonia. When Yugoslavia broke up and the Balkans went all ethnic Battle Royale, the current country of Macedonia, which is about half of the region of Macedonia, actually split off a bit earlier and gained entry to the UN in 1993. However, Greece (official name the Hellenic Republic), where the other half of the region of Macedonia is, and which claims Alexander of Macedon (aka Alexander the Great) as Greek, along with a bunch of Macedonian symbols, decided to be little bitches and object to Macedonia being called Macedonia. There’s a bunch of confusion about ethnic Greeks who identify as Macedonian because they’re from the region, and ethnic Macedonians who form the majority in the region. ANYHOO, when the Kosovo portion of the Yugoslav wars kicks off in 1999, Kosovo borders Macedonia and the conflict started to leak into Macedonia, where there are a bunch of ethnic Albanians who think a northern chunk of the current country (a chunk which does not overlap with the ancient Macedonian empire) should be Albania. So just like everywhere else in the Balkans, you have a blend of ethnicities and most of them want the historical boundaries of their largest empire, and they moved a bunch of families around waaay back whenever they were the dominant power so everybody is all mixed up. Anyway, while the Albanians probably have a decent case for a chunk of Macedonia, Greece really doesn’t, it’s more like Macedonia has a decent case for a chunk of Greece. And since Greece was easily the most stable nation in the ’90s and early 2000s I think it’s pretty shitty of them to throw a hissy fit and insist on Macedonia being admitted to the UN only provisionally under the name The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (abbreviated as FYROM) and then eventually strong-arming them into changing their name to The Republic of North Macedonia, while still objecting to that and to their demonym of ‘Macedonian’.
TL;DR The Greeks are bullies and I’m gonna call it Macedonia just like the people who live there do
I think it would be easier to just go to Disney and maybe hit Epcot a couple of times.
The acronym TRON-M is definitely a step up, though.
But if they didn’t have the ‘N’ they could go with TROMA and have a gory film partnership! They could partner with the town in Georgia where Stalin was born and make a gory Gori film! With zombie Stalin!
Just saw this on Twitter. If it’s true it says a lot about the stupidity of the tournament seeding.
With the loss to Baylor, Gonzaga is 1-12 vs. teams seeded 3 or better since the 2001 NCAA Tournament.
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Only if Gonzaga was seeded higher than 3 in all those games though, right?
/some of my best friends are Jesuits!
Good point. I don’t know the answer to that question.
Me either, but I has had some scotch and am more argumentative than I ought to be. Game ends too early to go to be on the West Coast so I am still hanging around causing trouble here!
larry bird was overrated as fuck.
I’m from indiana and I’m allowed to say that
I’m genuinely curious as to the basis for that statement.
1) He hates whitey (fair)
2) He has never seen basketball
3) Larry turned him down for a blumpkin in a Stuckey’s restroom 11 years ago
I’m certainly not the biggest pro basketball fan around, but I seem to recall Bird being pretty good.
Only if you pay attention to his skill level as a basketball player. As a bagpipes player he was subpar.
1. i mean whitey does suck. (I’m white)
2. basketball was actually my first love. i loved the bulls in the 90s, played youth basketball up until middle school, I assumed i would play basketball all throughout highschool like my dad, uncle, and my two older brothers. we were definitely more of a basketball family growing up.
3. that Rude gentleman was simply wearing a bird jersey, and he didn’t know what he was missing
i guess my tone is a little harsh.
i just always kinda got an underwhelming feeling when I saw footage of him playing. he was definitely worthy of the hall of fame,
but to see him so consistently regarded as a top 5 PLAYER of all time? over guys like Abdul-Jabbar and Isaiah Thomas? better than julius iriving? Over Kobe Bryant? what about Wilt chamber? magic Johnson?
and to this day there are fuckers on message boards trying to take Jordan and lebron down a peg.
and I’m sorry but his race clearly played a role in his popularity. my grandma didn’t know Jack shit about the NBA but she vividly remembers rooting for him over magic johnson in college, and years later had a preference for the celtics
i also see an annoying parallel between him and tom brady. people fell in love with their “humble origins and knack for late game heroics, and never wanted to hold them accountable for things other players got criticized for or for their professional failings .
in short, I’m tired of hearing how great this dude was.
Better than Dr. J and Isiah fo sho’. Man I watched a lot of NBA in the 80s.
Could’ve used some porn.
https://youtu.be/FoC7fw21_Ps
I prefer Big Bird
But he played the game the right way!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5kaRbokoo8
They got the Waco bombing all wrong, they’re not supposed to be the ones doing it!
I really think Waco is how all church-adjacent activities should end.
As long as they serve coffee and donuts afterward, as the Lord has commanded all Sabbath celebration should end.
“Snacks and coffee and punch and cookies in the basement!”
“Yeah, right next to the gasoline-soaked kindling.”
I think they just ran out of MDMA so the rave the ATF was throwing was revealed as actually lame
Mercury Morris just sent a case of champagne to Quinn Buckner.
/old guy references– man the 70s were great!
(estate for the late Bill Buckner wondering what the fuck’s up with the bubbly)
Hey, Baylor and the under won!
timely reference
and yes I had this image ready for tonight
and before you get shitty about Bobby’s politics, if your school’s biggest sports scandal is an 80 year old white guy being a bigot, you’re probably doing okay.
You can be a coaching genius and an asshole. I mean look at his protege Mikey K.!
And Bobby’s 1987 championship was more impressive — if you can name another player on that team besides Keith Smart (he of the shot), you are a true Hoosier fan
Wasn’t Steve Cocksucking Alford on that team?
Indeed — Mr. Basketball hisself. I don’t have any used fleshlights so you’ll need to be satisfied with the knowledge of a job well done.
I’m just happy knowing Alford is nowhere near the UCLA coaching offices.
Cronin was a good hire — a guy who built up a smaller program and has some fire still
Bobby Knight’s politics are almost as shitty as Bobby Knight.
Not just a bigot, but a horrific piece of shit all around.
Evening lizard people, looks like the mobile site kinda works now. (Do polls work yet?)
Considering everything we should have known Baylor would be masters of back door cuts.
The Dr. Mrs. has commandeered the TV to watch Downton Abbey. She was right to do it.
But you’re going to miss One Shining Moment!
Ok, maybe “miss” isn’t the correct word there.
I just turned it to Hoarders.
Lifted the program from what, Jim? Tell the people what Scott Drew has lifted the Baylor program from!
Somewhere, Ken Starr is smiling*
*he sees a dead puppy
I guess Baptists are just better than Catholics in every way.
i try to tell Notre dame fans this and noone listens
What a shitty, shitty game.
-the guy who said “Let’s play whatever Najeh wants to”
“get the lingerie on the deck; call the janitor.”
I like Bill Raftery a lot, but what the fuck?
lingerie?
She seems nice. Possibly a mannequin, but nice.
Second Life maybe?
she just borders on uncanny valley.
but she doesn’t cross it
“Pick up the buttplugs and wipe up the santorum”
I’ve seen more convincing effort in games that were being thrown.
I think UCLA deserves a 30% share or so of this national championship for how much energy they sucked out of Gonzaga.
Gonzaga looks like they’ve quit.
Oh did you tape the game and are just watching the first ten minutes now?
Don’t tell me how it ends.
yoda dies!
GODDAMMIT!
Add in the L and they’ll have a quilt!
I think Gonzaga’s main problem here is that Baylor is much better at basketball than Gonzaga is.
honestly I think Gonzaga is exhausted after Saturday’s game,
Love listening to Nantz praise Baylor’s coach for rebuilding a program into a cohesive unit that has gone an entire season without murdering one of their teammates.
Did they sexually assault anyone this year?
No*
*Year is not over yet
You know they did. Everyone knows they did, but Baybay don’t care!
It was an effort this year, what with campus restrictions and all, but they pulled together, pulled through, and in an inspiring came-from-behind story, STILL managed some sexual assault!
I just googled “baylor player killing”
i didn’t know that was a thing. huh
It’s really an amazing(ly horrifying) story. Baylor* not getting the death penalty after a bunch of murder and rape tells you all you need to know about the NCAA.
*And Penn State. Never forget Penn State.
In aviation nerd news, there was a major outage of (probably) ITS today, which is a Google system that pretty much all major airlines use for their scheduling/booking systems. For 1-2 hours today you couldn’t search the schedules or book American, United, Delta, Alaska, and a bunch of other non-US airlines. It was weirdly exciting.
Next two years are going to be so strange as we rebuild our supply chains.
Prolly cuz Delta said that thing and is woke and spirit doesn’t see color
But I’m sure playing six important contests a season (no more than two after New Years) will bring Gonzaga another undeserved one seed and out next year.
Last night both my men’s and women’s pool brackets were confirmed second place.
$0
So, MLB All Star game to Coors Field.
Ah, the Coors family, never once have they failed to come through for a progressive cause.
Well, c’mon, whaddaya expect? Their founder’s name is Adolph, fer chrissakes.
Adolph Coors, putting the ‘National’ in National Socialism since (whenever Coors started brewing their watery piss)
Boebert gonna attack it.
Voting suppression bad, legal weed good.
Today I learned that “kaiser” and “czar” are derivatives of “Caesar”.
It’s way more obvious when you learn that Latin didn’t have a soft c, we should have been saying Kaesar salad this whole damn time
Wait until you hear about ‘Tsar’!
I am now at the phase of the game where I am not watching, but checking out the score updates. Therefore, I have some generalities to spread:
The refs are giving it to [Team].
They need to put pressure on the ball.
This team is playing stiff and really needs to get some quick penetration in there.
Also the Raiders have committed some really terrible defensive penalties.
/sure it’s six months early but always a safe bet.
I got no idea what they’re trying to build with this roster. It’s aimless. Reminds me of UA’s program — but no one expects them to be seriously thinking they’re going to succeed.
I think I’m going to visit Macedonia in July
Don’t you have to say ‘Republic of North Macedonia’ or something like that? I recall Greece getting all snippy about the name a few months back and thre being some deal worked out.
My thoughts as well. Saw the changed name in international futbol.
That’s how we know Zymm has been hacked. She definitely woulda said North Macedonia.
Whatever, the Hellenic Republicans can go γαμώ themselves
Question #2 FOAR the Class – Who’s MOAR Trestman-y – Few or Drew?
2 states south or 1 province north and Few would have 5 wives and many, many children.
And a truck with truck nuts for sure
Well that was a competitive (checks notes) 13 seconds of a championship game.
As someone with Baylor ML and under 160.5 it is bound to change.
Well the under will fuck me. I figured there would be defense.
Nah, Americans can’t agree on funding for de fense
Do Q-tards believe the only Powerade that isn’t contaminated with chemtrails and 5G nanobots is #17?
Google tugging the heartstrings there.
These Bay-Bay kids!
They don’t die, they MULTIPLY!
Evenin. After a 4 day weekend of drinking wine I seem to have the shakes. Can’t understand why.
You stopped drankin, silly goose
Caldas is up 1 Hippo, bulleee dat.
“Nothing wrong with washing some wine down with a couple of shakes.” – Andy Reid
THIS GUY LITRE_COLA I CALL HIM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EARLY THIS MORNING CAUSE HE HAS THE SHAKES.
Baylor seems to have unlocked the strength of the Pedo-Bear.
(3.2 seconds after Gonzaga’s game winning shot)
CBSSports Expert: “Baylor & Gonzaga: What We All Wanted!”
I’ve never been gladder to be a loner. Have fun watching the game tonight!
Well it’s been a long, busy day, too bad I missed the game, let’s just check the score…hasn’t even started yet… Who are the ad wizards who came up with that one?
The time the “Add Wizard” came to his classroom was a day that Eli will never forget.
What about the long division wizard?
If Gonzaga wins, would they become the only undefeated National Champions? I remember UNLV came close one year, but no other team.
The Uconn women have done it.
More than once, and I think at least one other women’s squad did it, possibly Baylor.
7 times before on the men’s side, last time in 1976 when we were all much younger (or before many of y’all were born:
1975-76 Indiana
1972-73 UCLA
1971-72 UCLA
1966-67 UCLA
1963-64 UCLA
1956-57 North Carolina
1955-56 San Francisco
Per the John Cena rule, its not a valid championship until they face Duke.
Darnold traded for the draft pick equivalent of a pile of wet socks, to the Panthors.
“Don’t underestimate wet socks, they have a tremendous amount of value.”
-Dobby McDobberson, ESPN sports reporter
I still ain’t touching them.
-Any parent of a teenaged boy.
…and I still think Carolina got fleeced.
Last place in the small NCAA pool. Nature is healing
All the excitement of the game yesterday has me worn out. I might have to nap through this game and, if Zags win, then get out of bed to go eat.
Many commends to The Hippo for guiding us all the way thru the tourney despite the fact that his heart wasn’t really in it.*
*reminds me quite a bit of the last four years of my professional career
15 for me.