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Hello there fellow DFO’er.  Hope your well today.  And thanks for coming back to see last weeks comments of the week as decided by my brain.  There’s no reason as to why some comments make it and others don’t.  

Sorry, not sorry, for all the Leafs jokes this week.  They will never nawt be funny to moi.

I’m missing the footy posts but good news is that there are 2 pools for you to join to follow along with all hot the lessor footy action:

Join the Euro pool

Join the South America pool

Password to both once in is “futbol”.

Bragging rights for our little corner of the interwebs are up for grabs.

And if really, really board, you can also join the lacrosse pool here.  This week’s news on the PLL all revolves around a fight between two healthy scratches fighting in the hotel and one of them getting the end of his middle finger bitten off.  You can’t make this shit up. Both have been suspended indefinitely at this point. As they should be IMO. It’a all a giant ball of WTF were they thinking.

As a reminder, this post will cover comments made up to and through the Saturday Night Open Thread. Sunday comments stand alone and Monday comments will go on the next week’s post. Note that during the offseason, I’ll probably look at the Sunday posts.

Without further ado, here are the comments of the week.

I just updated a Low Commander / Beerguyrob classic to suit the evening’s festivities.

Beerguyrob

The internet is doing a fantastic job with this.

Dunstan

Sharkbait

These Canadiens I call them that one guy you know who lives out in The County because they gathered all these Leafs into a pile and set them on fire.
herodotus450

These Leafs must be from southern hemisphere trees, because they always fall in May or June.
Dunstan

Just know the rest of Canada wants French people to feel joy before Leaf fans.
litre_cola

There are 550 front line healthcare workers at the Leafs game tonight. Not one of them is stopping them from choking.
Sharkbait

Update:

3 cars were parked outside the house that had never been there before. All the lights were out. Seemed suspicious, but the crazy lady in question wasn’t involved this time, as she went back to jail AGAIN, this time due to a bond violation. No word if she is back out again, because Florida likes to have the crazies running around free.
TheRevanchist

Trying to sort out my thoughts on the Naomi Osaka thing. As Peter King would say, here’s what I think I think:

(1) Osaka seems to be genuinely going through some shit. I don’t get any sense that she’s being manipulative or performative about this, or seeking out attention — quite the opposite. I wish her well.
(2) As even her own statement acknowledged, she probably didn’t handle this very well. She apparently rejected efforts by the tournament and tour officials to discuss her situation and why she wasn’t going to attend press conferences. Of course, it’s probably understandable that she didn’t handle everything perfectly given (1).
(3) The tournament organizers were put in a tough spot. The rule is that players attend press conferences (if they’re asked, and top players always are). If you let a player just declare that she’s going to ignore your rule, then you kind of have to do something or else you’re essentially making the rule voluntary. And maybe attending press conferences should be voluntary, but this is not the right way to change that policy. Bear in mind that Osaka’s initial statements were framed more about avoiding negativity and doubt, and not in terms of her dealing with mental health issues.
(4) That said, the immediate escalation to all four Slams issuing a statement threatening expulsion was probably an overreaction. And it was the height of hypocrisy for the French Open director to issue a statement and then refuse to take questions.
(5) I think press conferences and post-match interviews are dumb in all sports, and probably dumber in tennis. There’s also a not-great-tendency in tennis of asking players (especially the women, and especially non-white players) offensive and/or creepy questions. Maybe social media has eroded the argument that press conferences are necessary to let the fans get to know the players. I doubt I would shed a tear if they disappeared or became entirely voluntary.
(6) Still, they may not be entirely useless. Sponsors and broadcasters maybe still want them? (I’m curious how true this is. I watch a lot of Grand Slam coverage, and you rarely see more than a few minutes here or there. I suspect the broadcasters would be fine without them.) And I’ll bet Alexander Zverev would have preferred to avoid questions about the domestic violence accusations against him, so occasionally there is a legitimate aspect of holding players accountable.
Dunstan

Don’t forget, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
Senor Weaselo

“He’s that type of goalie who loves facing 35-40 shots a night”

Ahh, well, you see, the Habs will cleverly frustrate him with their technique of only getting 20-some shots a night, max.
Dunstan

This is important, pay attention

Gumbygirl

Ecuador flies open?

Warthog

THAT’S GOOD HUSTLE!
ballsofsteelandfury

We had Rex Ryan at foot.
Wakezilla

I did make an effort to add Hot Equator Women/Men, but all of the images seem to be related to mail-order brides/grooms and I don’t need the follow-up spam.

No offense, Son of.
Horatio Cornblower

I’d argue that England not playing up to form is their real form.
scotchnaut

I am having trouble keeping my eyes open, for some reason (weed) Good night fellow kids!

Gumbygirl


Don T

You spend your whole life being a robber baron so you can afford a swank private tomb and a hundred years later you have a shitty plywood door:

Brick Meathook

“Sure, I’ve lived in a tomb before. Best roommate I ever had!” – Jim Tomsula
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Who’s going to be the DFO USFL correspondent?
JimU


AND, EVENTUALLY, THEY
WERE COVERED BY, OH…
LET’S SAY MOE.
Beerguyrob

Sure nice of Lebron to encourage his teammates to turn a 35 point deficit into a 24 point deficit. At this rate they might pull this even in the sixth quarter.
Beerguyrob

NO cartoon has spoken to me more in years.

litre_cola

They keep reeling in more and more of those “Antifa/BLM commies” that attempted that coup back on 1/6.
https://www.rawstory.com/oath-keepers-2653229911/

Closing in on 500 now!
https://www.npr.org/2021/02/09/965472049/the-capitol-siege-the-arrested-and-their-stories#database
Viva La Tabula Raza

The asshole who put his feet up on Pelosi’s desk is selling autographed pictures of him on the desk to help pay his legal fees.

Now, I’m not a lawyer. Nor do I play one on TV. But that has to be devastating to any kind of defense right?
Sharkbait

Yeah, and at sentencing it’s not going to look good either. Not much of a demonstration of remorse.
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I hope he puts his feet up in court.
FelonySqwrrl

I hope the judge puts their boot right up his ass.
Viva La Tabula Raza

Self Portrait
Dulles Airport

Brick Meathook

yeah that’s bout the dulles airport i ever seen
SonOfSpam


litre_cola


SonOfSpam

[parks car on the North Side of Edmonton, settles in for the night] – Andy Reid
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Goodnight, sweet princes.
Gumbygirl


Don T

If I could go back in time, I’d go to a few billion years ago and put a big rock on the ground or smash my feet on it somewhere so that the tectonic plates shift slightly differently so that in our time the city of Boston no longer exists.
herodotus450

The gray horse won! This is absolutely a sign of an imminent apocalypse. Stop, drop, and roll!
Gumbygirl

My opinion on mayo, which absolutely none of you asked for, is that it is an excellent bonding agent for things like tuna fish sandwiches, (I just had an excellent one), and the above-referenced chicken salad, but that anyone who uses it as a condiment is probably a serial killer.
Horatio Cornblower

[clicks -1 over and over again]
-my post-Thanksgiving turkey sandwich
scotchnaut

Joe Flacco created an account at DFO just so he could like this post[Sunday gracy with mayo].
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

[waits patiently for yeahright to make Animal Crackers from scratch so that Olivia can make an account for him]
-Eli Manning
scotchnaut

Thanks for all the comments and funny and everything else.

Stay busy and safe out there.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Regarding the Osaka situation, I think any players should have the option of declining press interviews, at the expense of a portion of their prize money, because that press access (audience engagement, build the brand, all that bullshit) is part of what pays for that prize money. The further in the tournament they go, the more it costs. Is that not fair?

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Dunstan

I don’t know, maybe. The main objection I can think of offhand is that it creates a two-tier structure. It’s great for the Naomi Osaka of 2021, who won’t miss the money and could just do another personal appearance somewhere to make up for it. But it does very little for, say, some 17-year-old phenom who is having her first good run at a Slam and has to endure creepy questions about her body and sex life because she can’t afford to pass on the money.

But it’s not like I have a great solution to that latter problem, either. You could screen out offensive questions, but who do you trust to do that, and won’t it pretty easily lead to accusations of favoritism, or shielding big name players from legitimate tough-but-fair questions.

Same problem happens if you allow players to opt out for mental health reasons. Top players will have no problem getting a doctor’s note that says whatever they need it to say, just like how mysteriously children of rich parents get doctor’s notes saying they need extra time on the SATs.

Of course, your solution is pretty close to what exists now, the only difference is that currently there is at least the hypothetical possibility of a player being defaulted (though whether any Slam would have the stones to do that to a big name player is doubtful). It may be the best of a lot of bad options.

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BallsofLacrosseAndMapleSyrup

I’m just here so I don’t get fined

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

[fines GTD anyways] – Roger Goodell

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Gumbygirl

Mike Tyson plays lacrosse now? I would have thought he was too, erm, TALL for that!

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

I’m having a weird morning and read this closer as “Thanks for all the comments and funny and nothing else.”

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BallsofLacrosseAndMapleSyrup

note that the closing has been like that for these posts of mine since almost the beginning…lol

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ArmedandHammered

Is there any picking sheet to determine the winners of the fights between the fans. Really looking to the hooligan fight between the Scots and the Croats. I have a feeling the Scots are better at throwing rocks but the Croats are probably better at using hidden weapons.

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Senor Weaselo

Croats and Scots are like brothers and sisters. Or Englishmen and Scots. Or Welshmen and Scots. Or Japanese and Scots. Or Scots and other Scots.

Damn Scots. They ruined Scotland!

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BallsofLacrosseAndMapleSyrup

would join that pool, but not sure how the scoring would work.

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ArmedandHammered

number of deaths/injuries requiring medical attention/non-medically attended bleeding wounds and concussions per faction divided by the number of participants per faction, the faction with the lowest number wins

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Dunstan

Ah, so Standard Glasgow Scoring, then.

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ArmedandHammered

Yep, instead of the Russian which only counts deaths/disappearances

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BallsofLacrosseAndMapleSyrup

doesn’t that give the Scot’s an advantage then?

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ArmedandHammered

The Scot’s would probably under report to look tougher, the Croats will probably play up the severity so they look tougher.

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Dunstan

Advanced analytics bears this out. I know that ticks off the traditionalists who insist that anything other than using your eyes to see the blood flow is fancy-pants mumbo-jumbo, but moneyhooliganism is here to stay.

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Gumbygirl

The Scots will bust a bottle and cut a cunt. Believe me, I have seen it. We knew a guy over there who was lovely until he had too much to drink, and then … he was not. Kind of like a Gremlin, don’t give them a drink after midnight. He ended up in Barlinnie prison for GBH. With a broken bottle. All over some dude’s face. It was bad.

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ArmedandHammered

Stayed at a hostel in Dublin, shared a room with a bunch of Scots. It took forever to understand them to figure out they were Scots. Anyway, one morning one of the guys jumped down from his top bunk and had to grab the side to keep from falling. He looks down, then up and says, “Shite, when did I break my leg?” and yes, his leg was broken and at an odd angle. His buddies tell him it was probably when he fell under the bus, drunk of course. They then argued for awhile about going to the hospital and if he needed to go. They finally went because someone mentioned how pissed his mom would be if he didn’t.

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Gumbygirl

We flew from Glasgow to Dublin once, early morning flight, like 8 am. The plane was packed with Scots going over for a rugby match. They were to a man unbelievably shitfaced. The flight took half an hour. Aer Lingus is awesome, they served “breakfast” which was oj and cookies. The Scots sang the whole time. They are the fun bunch!

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