NFL Notes:
- This sucks – Cam Akers suffered a torn Achilles while training before the start of camp.
- He’s out for the season.
- The Rams are now left with a “backfield by committee” scenario, which they also had last year before Akers emerged as the #1 back.
- In an ironic twist, they could sign former Ram Todd Gurley to join that committee.
- He’s out for the season.
- Well, we have some hints as to Rodgers’ future in Green Bay: he turned down an offseason contract extension.
- It would have been for two extra years, and would have made him the highest-paid QB in the league.
- He’s under contract through the 2023 season, and the team has said they won’t trade him.
- Okay, “No-fucks” Brady might be a good time.
- Meeting with President Biden today as part of the Bucs’ Super Bowl tour, he took shots at the MAGA folks his choice of hats & golf partners would indicate he otherwise supports.
- He also backhandedly laid into people who thought he was washed up when he signed with Tampa.
- To wit:
- “Not a lot of people think that we could have won. In fact I think about 40 percent of the people still don’t think we won.”
- “We had a game in Chicago where I forgot what down it was. I lost track of one down in 21 years of playing. And they started calling me Sleepy Tom. Why would they do that to me?”
- Meeting with President Biden today as part of the Bucs’ Super Bowl tour, he took shots at the MAGA folks his choice of hats & golf partners would indicate he otherwise supports.
Tom Brady jokes at White House: Many people didn't believe the Buccaneers could win the Super Bowl — and 40% "still don't think we won."
Biden responds: "I understand that." https://t.co/DP6Fshfaak pic.twitter.com/yoWvjMRzB9
— Axios (@axios) July 20, 2021
I don’t think I’m prepared for this world.
Tonight’s sports:
- NBA:
- Suns at Bucks – 9:00pm | ABC / Sportsnet
- Game 6 – Bucks lead 3-2.
- I better see Jake on the street lighting cop cars on fire during the post-game melee.
- How else will he fit in to the Wisconsin dynamic? By doing his job?!
- I better see Jake on the street lighting cop cars on fire during the post-game melee.
- Game 6 – Bucks lead 3-2.
- Suns at Bucks – 9:00pm | ABC / Sportsnet
- MLB:
- Red Sox at Blue Jays – 7:00pm | Sportsnet1 / MLBN
- Orioles vs. Rays – 7:00pm | Youtube
- Mets vs. Reds – 7:00pm | TSN2 / MLBN
- Giants vs. Dodgers – 10:00pm | TSN2 / MLBN
- Futbol:
- Gold Cup:
- Group C final matches – 7:00pm | FS1 / FS2 / UNI / TUDN
- Group D final matches – 9:00pm | FS1 / FS2 / UNI / TUDN
- MLS:
- Whitecaps FC vs. Houston – 10:00pm | TSN
- Gold Cup:
- Wrestling:
- NXT – 8:00pm | USA / Sportsnet360
The NHL Expansion Draft is tomorrow night, so here’s hoping the Kraken pick me up. Sure I’ve lost some lateral movement, but I still have a quick glove hand, and the pandemic pounds just mean I can compensate for the lost speed by taking up more of the net. Plus, my negligible cap hit means they’ll have room to snag Ovechkin.
I have such a soft spot for the first part of the movie “Up in the Air.”
The last part gets a little too sentimental but..
It hits home because I’ve fired so many people. More than dozens, were talking scores of people. Last job, other managers would send me their worst people because they knew I could fire them.
It never got easy. The first time I had to fire somebody, he was actually a good friend but he was fucking up.
Just because it makes business sense doesn’t make it easier.
The early vignettes in the movie where people were being let go is so fucking honest and heart felt.
Too bad they turned it into a romantic comedy because the first part of the movie was extremely real.
I honestly hope I never have to do that again.
I’m sorry you had to go through that.
Thank you. I never need to hear a single mother cry that she won’t be able to feed her babies ever again.
Managment is not as easy as it sounds.
I haven’t had to let go of many, but that is a shitty feeling when it happens. Worst part of my job.
I did not watch the game, but I saw the box score. I’m practically an expert. The Suns just don’t know how to rebound. Maybe if Booker rebounded as much as he shot the ball, they might have had a chance.
We need to have another DFO Los Angeles pub crawl, featuring American Legion Posts that only Brick can get you into. You can get hammered for twenty bucks. Think about it.
So why did Cliff Paul play Games 3-6?
I guess this means the Lakers are going to win the next 16 NBA titles.
I am fucking exhausted
On the bright side, a certain stock is up 12% today…
Me too. I’m heading off to Benadryl Land.
Oh man i am fucking tired
I might be biased here, but the Stanley Cup is still the best trophy.
A) Because players get awarded it first
B) Because you can drink out of it
C) It has inspired many a beer league trophy I’ve been able to drink out of
Clearly you haven’t seen my participation trophy for the piano recital I did when I was in the 5th grade. At 4.5 inches tall, it towers above the length of many sticks of gum.
USA up 1-0 in the 5th.
I remember having quite the crush on Cat Osterman back in the day.
[hisses at you, believing that you have encroached upon his territory]
– Jay Cutler
I can picture him hissing.
That MVP trophy has more body fat than Giannis.
I know they are chanting “BUCKS IN SIX” but it sounds kind of like they are chanting “SUCK SOME DICKS!”
There’s one guy in the crowd saying “Boo-urns”
Pictured: someone who does not root for a mikuwakee team
She doesn’t look like she’s from Milwaukee
She does appear to have a Wisconsin-level familiarity with sausage, however.
Sorry sorry sorry
You’re not wrong.
In the immortal words of the prophet, Mick Jagger: “Never apologize, never explain.”
Phoenix does know the team with the most points wins right?
They do play a lot of golf in Arizona, so the confusion is understandable.
That explains trump’s obsession with audits
(Assuming Milwaukee holds on), when’s the last time someone put up 50 in a Finals clincher?
When is the last time the Finals took three weeks to complete?
Seriously, it seems that series has gone on forever.
I once got 50% on my macroeconomics final. Had to take it the next semester
He has put on a show, hasn’t he? I really thought they were toast after the second game, I was wrong!
Without looking, I’m guessing he was the odds-on favorite for Finals MVP before the series began, and he’s definitely lived up to the billing.
They listed who had done it; last one was probably LeBron but I don’t know what year.
Huh, it was in 2018. Game 1, though.
Nice!
Okay, judgement call time. The Suicide Squad: gonna be good, or just another case of a DC movie with a trailer that makes it look waaaaay better than it winds up being?
https://youtu.be/JuDLepNa7hw
I’m still salty about how bad wonder woman 84 was.
The first Wonder Woman was a solid superhero flick. WW84… uhhhh, not so much.
WW84 might be the honest to god worst super hero movie I’ve ever seen. And I saw batman & Robin AND the ghost rider sequel in theaters
I was pretty excited to get home from Christmas with the family to settle in with WW84 and man, was that a disappointing way to end an otherwise great day.
Agreed, it sucked out loud.
I honest to god cancelled HBO max that night. I didn’t want even a chance of me forgetting and letting it roll over into another month
Will this be the 2nd or 3rd failure in the Harley Quinn storyline? I’ve lost track.
How many Suicide Squad movies have there been? I think I lost track…
This is technically the second, but birds of prey was clearly a harley Quinn/suicide squad film with a different name
I had high hopes for the solo movie. Margo Robbie is a good Harley Quinn, but she just hasn’t been given anything good to work with.
The animated series, on the other hand, is excellent.
Yes, the animated series is superb! To think that’s Kaley Cuoco from the Big Bang Theory.
She’s done really well after that show. I really enjoyed The Flight Attendant.
The cast is all-around awesome. Cuoco, Allen Tudyk, Lake Bell, Jason Alexander, Ron Funches, Christopher Meloni, Jim Rash… the greatness goes on and on and on!
Penny was never the problem with TBBT. it honestly wasn’t that bad in its first season.
But once it figured out the “family guy” formula relatively early in its run, its spent the majority of its season with very low effort writing and over reliance on its quirky character
Agreed. It figured out what worked for the audience and didn’t progress beyond that.
It was really the last gasp of the multi-camera/laugh track sitcom. One subtle thing they got right: the main characters’ clothes. As the close friend of a bunch of scientists who are all way smarter than I am, I can confirm that they have a tendency to all wear essentially the same thing every day with the occasional color variation.
I live really close to Caltech.
Can confirm.
Sister in law is a theoretical astrophysicist. Yup.
3rd. Margot robbie has done all she can for one of comic’s most truly overrated characters
Thst being said, Harley was actually one of the few good parts of the first suicide squad.
Harley Quinn and friends though? Barf
Still, though, fuck Tom Brady
I have zero interest in the Snake Eyes movie, but I love the look they came up with for the Baroness.
Was her character always supposed to be sexual?
Like I remember her on the cartoon being this old russian babe, like frau from austin powers, but cosplays and fan art are making her seem like a discount black widow
I remember her action figure as being a She’s All That type – i.e. attractive but made unattractive by the fact that she wears glasses.
In my toy catalogue, she used to get banged by He-Man.
4th quarter!
I fully expected booker to miss that layup
Let’s try this again. My schadenfreude will not be denied!
Bucks in four… after the Suns in four chant. Yeah, that doesn’t ring off the tongue.
*scribbles game over in notebook*
Thanks for coming out Suns.
Hmm, Google is on to me
“Not interested in Societal collapse”
That’s quitter talk.
USA softball in a half hour against Italy!
On NBCSN.
THIS DEVIN BOOKER I CALL HIM CLARK GRISWOLD CAUSE HE IS BEING ABUSED BY A HOLIDAY.
Holy crap, they’re actually keeping him in custody like some kind of commoner?
“Mr. President, Barrack has been arrested.”
“FINALLY! I’ve been saying he should be locked up. Are they getting Hillary, too?”
“Uh, Mr. President, this would be Tom Barrack, not Barack Obama.”
He looks like a dollar store Rupert Murdoch
https://twitter.com/USWNT/status/1417627885096079362
4:30 kickoff is a little too early for me
That’s breakfast time!
Not since baby shark was newly home.
Baby shark nappy cleaning time?
Shes a sleeping champ. She sleeps til about 6-630 regularly.
That’s actually really good. Lucky you and her!
Yeah. about 12 hours straight too. We got really lucky.
This just in: washed-up Hercules cosplayer got his fee-fees hurt when someone told him to wear a mask, then went on Twitter to cry about it.
He got owned pretty bad by Xena back in january
God bless Lucy Lawless.
Hell yeah, brother.
I had a lot of trouble finding a more recent picture of her with her clothes on
I have always appreciated her dedication to our study of her physical form.
I loved her in Eurotrip:
Oh damn, I completely forgot she was in that!
This is the second time in 2 days I’ve been reminded of Eurotrip on this site. Looks like the universe is telling me it’s time to revisit that movie.
That’s a good idea.
I haven’t seen the Bucks blow a lead this badly since the U.S. withdrew from the Bretton Woods agreement.
I know who she is!
And no, I didn’t recognize her by her butt.
Although I could have…
I still laugh at the fact that I recognized sasha grey’s ass just from getting slapped in that one gif
I mean, Brocky: what’s not to love.
Oof, you’re not gonna like what I just wrote
You know what I don’t like? Pickled herring. What you wrote is fine. It’s no where near as terrible and vomit inducing as pickled herring. Or scat porn. Both are gross.
I mean, Brady: what’s not to love.
I’ve never had an issue with the guy, it’s the way he’s treated.
I have an uncle living in Manchester NH, he was one of the first people to say that it was absurd how hard and how quickly people fell in love with the guy.
For years football was the fourth most popular sport in Boston, but the football team gets good and a million pieces on this “underdog” who was actually from an upper middle class family in California and went to a high profile school.
He was pretty blatantly carried by an very good defense and a very good offensive line, but people didn’t want to hear it. He won three titles in four years and ESPN, uncoincidently located very close to Boston, was ready to coronate his as early as 2004.
As he matured as a quarterback and the team changed to reflect his talent, he had several playoff losses and cheating scandals, and while none of them were particularly damaging in the long term, its impossible to imagine a different quarterback on a different team not getting all the shit in the world for choking a perfect season.
Also, it never gets brought up, but Joe montana won four titles in 16 years. Brady took 16 years to tie him, and his titles are in the years he played longer than montana.
He’s the lebron James of the nfl, obviously he’s one of the best ever, but we’ve seen others excel in an era where they weren’t favored by the rules.
Tonight I saw an ad promoting tourism in California. Which aired in California. It was basically saying “fuck all the other shithole states; spend your money here.”
They’re not wrong.
Even Lompoc was nice! While stepping over those heroin addicts on the sidewalk, I couldn’t help but think “what perfect weather for being strung out”.
It makes me happier to believe that Brady considered Trump to be a personal friend (because Mango is and has always been an unrepentant starfucker and would have spared no expense to get on Tom’s good side) and showed “support” for him with the cap thinking it was all just some kind of game. But Brady didn’t go to the White House during the previous administration.
Maybe Brady just doesn’t like to associate with losers, and hanging out with people who won on a technicality reminds him too much of the Tuck Rule game, which he’d have lost if not for the NFL’s equivalent of the 2000 Supreme Court roster.
Just gonna post these here
https://doorfliesopen.com/2021/07/08/your-gettin-those-letters-on-thursday-evening-open-thread/comment-page-1/#comment-899160
So this didn’t work out like I hoped….
I thought I was linking the comment, and then I posted the picture not realizing it looks like crap
Sure, Mr. Favre, sure.
I’m curious to what would happen to the Raiders if Mark Davis kicked the bucket and it lead me down an internet rabbit hole. Rabbit hole is probably stretching it since there’s so little information about him online. There was the ESPN profile on him by Tim Keown in 2014 that lead to the delightful tidbits about his bitching van and his love of PF Chang’s. I’m even getting conflicting reports on if he’s married or not. I’ve seen two pictures of him and a woman. In one of the pictures the caption says it’s his wife, but it doesn’t provide her name and I couldn’t further corroborate it. If he didn’t own the Raiders, he would be one of those guys that works 7-8 months a year as a drywaller/painter and then spends the rest of the year hunting and fishing.
I’ve actually went down my own Mark Davis rabbit hole recently. Truth be told, there’s very little information available about him online because he wants it that way.
https://doorfliesopen.com/tag/hi-im-mark-davis/
Japan and Australia are playing an Olympic softball game on NBC Sports, if that’s more y’all’s speed.
The Olympics have started!! WOOOOOOOO!!!@
I love the Olympics. Gowing up my father worked for NBC so he would have to go to these places for 3-4 months. That part sucked but it was kinda cool knowing my dad was there helping broadcast the Olympics. Plus, that is how I got to spend a month in Sydney on NBC’s dime in 2000
I have a friend there now working in the control center for NBC. He works the sound boards and he recently won two Emmy awards for his work on Sunday night football and NCAA basketball.
I think most of the guys I met through my dad & my old boss (who also was an NBC Olympics vet) have moved on from there. I still can name a few in the credits who I know though.
That’s really cool! The best thing that happened to me as a kid was probably getting within 25 feet of Mr. T.
Awesome!!
My American Legion cap.
The upper image shows my submarine patrol pin (six patrols) plus my 15 year Legion membership pin. I’m almost due to get my 20 year Legion pin.
In all those years I haven’t attended a single meeting.
I can always get in free at a Canadian Legion.
Reciprocal privileges..
If anybody ever wants to, I’ll take you to Hollywood Legion Post #43. It’s worth the trip. I can get you in.
Done. After this pandemic bullshit ends
You’re there. Done and done.
I’m there.
You’re in, just so I can yell at you.
Culver City Post #46 is pretty good as well. A beer or a drink only costs a buck.
What is up with Indiana?
I’m more curious about the Puerto Rican-Irish connection…
Do you think they’re buying the same stuff? Apparently Ireland’s top export is blood which is kinda creepy, https://oec.world/en/profile/country/irl
Can’t even remember seeing a bottle of Bushmills down here. In conclusion,
Louisiana is baffling too.
I think that has to do with the oil and gas industry since most of our refineries are located there.
Don’t they have their own? Seems like that’s not really cost effective, to ship it over and back. I know nothing about the oil and gas industries, other than that Port Arthur Texas smells like the deepest pits of hell.
I was thinking equipment.
Well maybe they aren’t speaking to Idaho and need to get their potatoes from somewhere.
“What is up with Indiana?”
Buddy, we’ve been trying to answer that question since the KSK-Fat-Humps-Monkey-what’shisname days.
My friend, you only know the half of it
What the hell does Minnesota sell China? Boat cruises?
The chart is imports, not exports, right? So Indiana is importing stuff from Ireland and Minnesota is importing from China.
Doesn’t tell you anything about who states are exporting to.
I think this is the export map:
Hotdish? Metric shit-tons of hotdish?
Just ordered a couch off the internet. I’m going to make a fort out of the giant box its gonna arrive in
Or get a tiger. I hear cats like to play in boxes.
Nerf guns are mandatory
Party at Zymm’s!
Neil Armstrong
July 20 1969
Photo: Edwin Aldrin
But hey, some rich dudes are replicating what Alan Shepard did 60 years ago with 1961 technology, so…
The escape tower on top of the Apollo was more powerful than the entire Redstone rocket that Alan Shepard rode in 1961.
“It is a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one’s safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.”
Alan Shepard.
Also, I love his sand wedge shot on the moon
Brady then a Trumper and now a Biden supporter? He must be a great sailor because he always knows which way the wind is blowing.
We’re not doing the Rolldown this year, but here’s your Rolldown update: Marble League: THE GAME.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9Bs2IxLbMo
Balls of Chaos did not make Marble League this year. I’m disappointed.
How about the Wisps going from potentially winning ML20 early in the marathon to missing the podium entirely and the AQ that goes with it, to missing out in ML21.
found a funny:
https://twitter.com/alex_shephard/status/1417475727398735874
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Feel very Robert Sarver for the Suns to pull a win in MIL tonight just to come home for Game 7 where they lose in blowout fashion.
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I will never understand our comment section with gifs.
The link has to end in .gif in order to embed.
. PNG and. Jpg work too
And has to start with https
And you have to chant “BRING BACK MATT, BRING BACK MATT, BRING BACK MATT” when you post it.
See, I’ve been chanting “Daulerio ruined Deadspin!” the whole time. I think that’s been the problem.