Today was for drinking, and it was a good day for it. WineWife & I first went to a cidery that she enjoys,
followed by a trip to a local distillery out in the farms of the Fraser Valley.
I got to be the hero, because she doesn’t like to drive on drinking adventures, whereas my ability to keep it between the ditches is legendary. (To put your minds at ease, there was time & food between both stops, because I would never put her in danger like my dad did us in the 70s.) And with all the horseshit about the renovations I discussed yesterday, I figure I earned it.
Plus, it took the mind off the fact that, with the Euro done, all we have now on the football/futbol front is the Concacaf Gold Cup, where four semi-competitive divisions eventually get winnowed down to the eventual USA vs. Mexico final. My passing attention has been essentially lost because the greatest Canadian player in 2-3 generations will miss the tournament with an ankle injury.
Alphonso Davies will miss the 2021 Concacaf Gold Cup through injury#CANMNT 🍁 https://t.co/tEQZ46VgKA pic.twitter.com/7wmLILURMj
— Canada Soccer (@CanadaSoccerEN) July 9, 2021
“As long as he’s available for World Cup qualifiers,” a nation plaintively begged.
Since it’s being carried on a non-broadcast subscription service in Canada, fuck that noise & any other attention I might have paid it.
Tonight’s sports:
- NBA:
- Suns at Bucks – 8:00pm | ABC / Sportsnet
- Game 3 – Suns up 2-0
- Suns at Bucks – 8:00pm | ABC / Sportsnet
- WNBA:
- Lynx at Sparks – 6:00pm | Sportsnet360
- MLB: they are on the All-Star break
- 2021 MLB Draft (Day 1) – 7:00pm | ESPN / TSN4
- Futbol:
- Concacaf Golf Cup:
- Canada vs. Martinique – 6:30 pm ET | FS1, TUDN, Univision
- United States vs. Haiti – 8:30 pm ET | FS1, Univision, TUDN
- El Salvador vs. Guatemala – 10:30pm | FS1, TUDN, Univision
- Concacaf Golf Cup:
Now that the weekend’s done, who knows what other surprises lie ahead?
Los Angeles: Home of the body bag and alcohol delivery service.
God bless America.
Kirkland or name brand?
Sav-On “Charcoal Filtered” Vodka, in the convenient plastic jug.
So much better than Ralph’s.
Anyone just watch the rollicking US-Haiti match?
I guess we’re fielding the JV team for Copa Of Oro.
Redlegs took someone who committed to Florida. That will be an interesting negotiation.
“Do you want to spend your next couple of springs playing in Gainesville, one to two hours from the beach, not counting all the young women at the university in varying states of drunkenness? Or do you want to spend your next couple of springs, playing in Arizona, Dayton and Chattanooga, with no guarantee of even making it to the majors?”
Hell, with NIL rights, can probably make more money in NCAA. Not that it takes much to beat minor league baseball wages.
I think I was beating MiLB wages working at McDonalds.
I make more than most minor leaguers just from Mock Draft royalties.
Well, that 5 cents you get every time someone drafts The Blair Witch Project adds up.
The MLB Commissioner isn’t getting booed out of the park?! The NFL Commissioner gets booed for having the audacity to exist. The MLB Commissioner allowed a cheating team to keep their championship and punishes those who try to get even with them.
This is why MLB is a dying sport.
Meanwhile Gary Bettman only gets stronger with all of the boos
They were booing Manfred when I was watching. Not that he cares; Manfred doesn’t care about the fans any more than he cares about baseball.
Manfred is Trump is was a baseball commissioner and more competent.
What a minute, that’s too far. I shouldn’t compare anyone to Manfred.
Hey, it’s just a hunk of metal…
Differences in 1st Round Picks by Sports:
NFL: “Congratulations in being picked last in the 1st Round. You’re going to be playing in front of tens of thousands of people each week that will be shown on National TV.”
NBA: “Congratulations in being picked last in the 1st Round. You’re going to be playing in front of tens of thousands of people each week that will be shown on National TV.”
MLB: “Congratulations in being picked last in the 1st Round. You’re going to be playing in front of tens of people each week that will sporadically be shown in the 2nd to last page of the sports newspaper.”
NHL: “Good luck in Buffalo.”
“Oh, like we ever pick at the END of the 1st round….” — Buffalo
I feel like I should send a transcript of this thread (where people are talking vastly more about the MLB draft than Game 3 of the NBA playoffs) to Adam Silver and tell him to put all his shit in a backpack and take it down to the shit store and sell it.
NBA is a tough watch, unless you like endless 3-point bombs.
I wait for the last three minutes of an NBA game, then settle in for 45 minutes of non-stop time-outs.
I’m just kidding.
I don’t watch the NBA.
Dont send the graveyard of a thread that was the last game of the NHL finals to Bettman, it might make him sad. And definitely don’t follow it up with the following night’s thread which had 100x as many comments about the Spelling Bee.
Spelling Bee was tits!
Naked College (or higher) Spelling Bee, now you’re talking…
Speaking of baseball prospects, the Yanquis apparently debuted a one Kumar Rocker, presumably the son of all around good guy John Rocker.
Ok apparently he was only drafted, not debuting, and not by hte Yanks but some other NY team. We regret these errors.
Hope he has to ride the subway.
Kumar Rocker:
Kumar Rocker’s dad, Tracy Rocker:
I see everything is too enthused with the MLB Draft’s 1st Round to comment upon it.
The Yankees just drafted a SS. In 4-5 years we’ll know if that was a good move or not.
That makes sense, they need help in the secondary.
Agreed. With all that money they throw around, you’d think we see them play in January every once in a while.
I’d just be happy seeing them play the 9th inning in July.
The Reds drafted a SS, with an “enough arm to stick to short[stop], but may have to go to center” and “below average power that will lower his hitting stats”.
You can change the team name, but Cincinnati making a draft selection is still Cincinnati making a draft selection.
If the Reds are enamored of weak-armed shortstops who can’t hit for power I’m sort of confused as to why they didn’t draft me right out of Little League.
Not sure if the basebdall season is so boring they have to put the draft in the middle to spice it up, or if the draft is so boring that it can’t be it’s own thing like every other sport.
Sorry, too busy checking to see how my mock draft did to comment.
I’m hoping to become the Mel Kiper of baseball. In that I will annoy the fuck out of everyone yet somehow get paid a lot of money.
I’m halfway there.
You know, there was a time in my life when I <i>enjoyed</i> Seven Nation Army. Now, it’s about as palatable to me as the sound of a puppy being mistreated.
“Ball and Biscuit” is still good.
There are only a few ways you can fuck up something as delicious as a grilling session and my neighbors just did it.
“These coals didn’t catch, let’s add more lighter fluid!”
We had salmon tacos, cooked on my nice, reliable propane grill.
That sounds delicious.
They were quite good. Accessories to the tacos included avocado, vinegared green cabbage, and red salsa.
I, too, enjoy my steak well done and marinated in kerosene
“What’s the conversation in the Haitian locker room?”
It’s ‘how can we defect?’, same as always.
Need two unanswered this half from the yanks to keep the dream alive.
Was just prompted to update so-called “security questions” for an “account” of mine, and one of the pre-made questions was “What is your greatest fear?”
Slow down,
pornhubBank of America, I don’t think our relationship is there yes.Fabienne:
Whose motorcycle is this?
Butch:
It’s a chopper, baby.
Fabienne:
Whose chopper is this?
Butch:
It’s Zed’s.
Fabienne:
Who’s Zed?
Butch:
Zed’s dead, baby. Zed’s dead.
Esmerelda Villa Lobos: “What is your name?”
Butch Coolidge: “Butch.”
Esmerelda Villa Lobos: “What does it mean?”
Butch Coolidge: “I’m an American, baby. Our names don’t mean shit.”
“This has been without a doubt the single weirdest day of my life.”
What are the odds that QT made this movie just so he could say the n word 4 times?
FOUR times? You must have missed Django Unchained.
Four times in less than a minute though, in his own stupid monologue
The Euros ended just in time to start the new job tomorrow. I wont be distracted by lesser footy
Mock draft is tomorrow morning.
Get your priorities straight, mister.
They fucked up my email address. Im sure I can sneak a pick in or two before I’m fully operational
No Pulisic? Huh. Probably should’ve looked that up before I picked the US to win by 3. I’m sure it’ll be fine.
3 seems low, given that the Haitian team will likely be destructed by little things like their homeland’s imminent descent into lawless anarchy.
Well, more so that usual.
Ah, Pulp Fiction and the hilarious confusion between white powders
The Bonnie Situation is easily the best part of that movie, and the whole thing is amazing
Tim Roth has a massively important and completely underestimated role in that movie.
It was a teenage wedding and the old folks wished them well!
Blaxito turns three on Saturday. Looking for solid white sangria recipe.
Something that takes more than a shot to go down.
Unlike pathetic Ashley Babbit.
Banner this.
“Honey, I don’t even need the shot.” — Buddy Cole
The 70s were a golden age for drunk driving and jokes about it. Them old timers knew how to swerve..
Wearing only lap seatbelts!
If they remembered to put them on…
We had a bunch of drives through the desert with various drunken uncles back then. Anybody familiar with Slaughter Alley? It’s the highway 58 between 4 corners and Barstow and it’s known for its dips in the road. We called them whoop de doos. One of my Grandmothers drunken offspring, 2nd husband, twice removed aggressively from the bar, tried to get air between each dip and land on the downside.
Mixed results.
He once said, while completely tanked, ” Hey kids, know what a yellow light means?”
Various answers of “Slow down” and “Use caution” ensued.
He said “”It means drive like shit before the light turns red!”
My grandmother Gladys tossed her empties into the back seat where we were riding, without seatbelts always, and would say “You little shit asses better hold on back there.”
Manual transmissions were the original BAC interlock devices.
So I ran some errands with Senorita Weaselo so I missed the two main relevant sports bits of the day. With that…
THIS YANKEES-ASTROS GAME, I CALL IT EASTERN EUROPE’S ANSWER TO ITCHY & SCRATCHY, WORKER & PARASITE, BECAUSE WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?
Indeed.
https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1414346269024264201?s=19
Hehe. Oh Andy Capp, you wife-beating drunk
ppl forget that domestic abuse goes up 3800% in Italy when they lose, so this was really the best outcome
/Stereotypes are fun!
I’m taking that claim with a grain of salt. Can’t help but think of how there a similar statistic that used to get passed around about Super Bowl weekend, before it was debunked enough that media outlets finally got too ashamed to print it.
Several links deep from that twot I found this,
https://www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-news-from-LSE/2021/f-June-21/Alcohol-not-emotions-responsible-for-domestic-abuse-rise-after-football-matches
that says it’s actually alcohol’s fault.
That’s because the women say things like “Well, they had a good run” or “Hey you can’t expect to win em all” and it’s kinda understandable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8TqhBIEbWA
What were Ron Goldman’s last words?
“Hey, you’re OJ Simpson!”
From Norm Coleman shitting on OJ while on SNL, to the point that it got him fired.
I don’t recall Senator Norm Coleman saying that but i do recall Norm McDonald doing so.
McDonald stole it from Coleman.
Or I’m an idiot. I leave it to you guys to unravel the paradox.
Look, when the Yankees blow a 5 run lead in the 9th and my wife says “so, hey, pizza for dinner tonight” I can hardly be blamed for throwing an iron at her face!
Also the pizza was very good.
Everyone on these broadcasts pretending MLS is a real league are delusional.
I am hoping the US team shits the bed, as they have in the past. I’m a traditionalist.
I enjoyed learning that England lost from the DFO Twitter account
That flight is awesome and super cheap!!
20 bucks is crazy cheap, for full sized drinks too. I would be under the table.
They are half size. Still, they were pretty good. And the places were empty because they didn’t have TV.
They don’t look half sized and that’s still 8 ounces of hard alcohol. Nothing to sneeze at.