Still bummed? Yes. Game and series in the bag, and then a 4-point play here, a logo 3 there, and a little heavy on the Brunson heroball. All you had to do was not leave your feet and foul up 6 (Mitchell Robinson). Or hit both free throws up 2 (Josh Hart). Or foul once you get to mid court up 3 (anyone)! You know it’s bad when Awful Coaching actually calls out Thibs (though entirely warranted and shows that nobody is perfect and everyone warrants scoldings.) Okay, win one of two home games, that’s all you gotta do. But it’s a “fuck you but props, you balled out” F you to Tyrese Maxey, and not the “you’re a flopper and cheap shot artist” variety directed at Joel Embiid.
While we’re on the topic of Garden notes, according to the NHL the Vichy Whalers are over -150 to win their series with the Rangers, and the current Cup betting favorites at +400? Even considering the vig, that would have them somewhere around -140 without. Hopefully Sharky makes good on his bet. Okay, news time:
-In probably not news, the Broncos will not be taking Cougar Hunter Zach Wilson’s fifth-year option.
Other cuts were taken care of, but the deadline for 5th year options is tomorrow, so we’ll be hearing more on that front, if we haven’t heard them all at this point, considering there would be 32 of them.
What’s on, so I can not think about the Knicks for a night?
Well, there’s hockey:
Road team advantage: LTIR (Bookie broke a knee) vs. Vichy North Stars (VGK vs. DAL, series tied 2-2, 7:30, ESPN)
FREE KASPAROV vs. Idoneal Numbers (which do not include 29 or 97, but do include 18 and 93) (LAK vs. EDM, Oilers lead 3-1, 10:00, ESPN)
And I guess there’s basketball…
South Florida (Basketball not Hockey) Rats vs. 18 or Die Trying (and they might do that too) (MIA vs. BOS, Celtics lead 3-1, TNT, 7:30)
Luka and… Pals? vs. Waiting for the Rebrand (DAL vs. LAC, 2-2, TNT, 10:00)
And other sports?
Lesser Footy:
Canadian Champiounship: Forge FC Hamilton vs. York United FC (FS2, 7:00)
CONCACAF Cup: Jacks vs. A Cromulent Driving Game Series (but fuck microtransactions) (Monterrey vs. Columbus Crew SC, FS1, 10:15)
It was a rough night between watching the Knicks and how Team Momo got ousted in the Marble Survival 100 (where they got beached on the first part of the course… and so did the ghost marble to prevent freeing them). Fortunately they beat the Speeders, so that’s always some sort of consolation slightly outdoing the longstanding gold, uh, standard.
Closing discussion stuff before I get back from teaching:
- Today’s the 25th anniversary of the first sneak peek of our longtime Wumbo Wednesday banner portrait, SpongeBob SquarePants. What’s your favorite episode, and please note that answers that are not “Band Geeks” or “Chocolate With Nuts” are wrong.
- In absolute money-grab idea, they’re making a Lion King prequel about Mufasa. Apart from this being a terrible idea conceptually built to get Lin-Manuel Miranda his missing Oscar to finish his EGOT—because Bobby Lopez has two of each and is probably insufferable in our high school’s theoretical playwright/songwriter/other creative writer Discord (that I am not a part of if it exists), and the ship’s probably sailed on Sharknado: The Musical: The Movie! but I’d watch the absolute shit out of that—the far more important Lion King franchise-related question is: Which Shakespeare play will this movie be based on? After all, The Lion King was Hamlet, The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride was Romeo & Juliet, and even The Lion King 1 1/2 was Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. Wait, Rafiki is Horatio? I mean I guess, considering it can’t be Timon & Pumbaa, but Rafiki doesn’t seem to fit. And obviously Prince Fortinbras does not exist.
But anyway, I posited this up to Hermana Weaselo, and it’s a good question. My guess is that it would have to be one of the comedies, unless/until it goes into the events of the original movie. Hermana Weaselo recommends Much Ado About Nothing, where he and Sarabi despise each other at first. (Regardless, a Scar movie being based on Macbeth was right there, and they passed it up!)
I look forward to your Shakespearean references tonight, as opposed to Friday nights, where we primarily explore the Low Countries and other huge tracts of land. Except for the Hippo, who travels to North Africa to seek Gibraltar and the Atlas Mountains.
Home inspection report seems fine. Let’s just say, as of 5/23….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kclrRTgXfrY
Also my bet against the Vichy Whalers is only for $5 for a return of $12. If it doesn’t pan out, no big deal. I’m no Ohtani over here losing multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Ok NOW the Kings are done. That 6 on 5 was atrocious. A defender was even missing a stick and they never really got any shots on goal.
Bye bye Kings. It was short while it lasted.
Or not? lol, jk.
They just scored! 2:13 left to go…
I missed the earlier hot dog bombardment article. Here in Columbus, the AAA team is going to have multiple dime-a-dog nights.
https://www.dispatch.com/story/entertainment/dining/2024/04/01/columbus-clippers-dime-a-dog-nights-return-for-2024-baseball-season/73142745007/
What an age that we live in that a farm animal can be raised and slaughtered such that its innards can be nonchalantly hucked onto a baseball diamond.
Many years ago I was stationed in Charleston South Carolina and the minor league baseball team there (Single-A I believe) were the Charleston Rainbows of the San Diego Padres organization. Every player except for the pitchers and the catcher was a wiry (and fast) short stop from the Dominican Republic. You can’t believe how fast these games would go. But they would have 25¢ beer night in the stands, and you could buy a whole rack of beer for like two dollars.
The Birmingham Barons always had Thirsty Thursdays. It was always a mistake!
Many years ago I was being raised in Billings home of the Pioneer League Mustangs. Back then, they were affiliated with the Cincinnati Reds as their Rookie league affiliate.
Anyway, they had a promotion called a Homer Foamer. Anytime a Mustang hit a homer, everyone could get four (4) free beers until the end of the inning.
That promotion died before I was old enough to enjoy it.
Pretty sure it was Single-A.
When South Carolinans see AA, they just start shooting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTqpgVuEErU
Kings trying to avoid a quick exit. 1-1 after the first is not bad for being on the road.
They could be up 2-0, both goals have been weird (bad puck bounce off the boards right to Kane, then just now save but the angle brought the glove over the line).
THIS KINGS PLAYOFF GAME I CALL IT THE TACO BELL I ATE IN MY CAR WHILE DRIVING TO BUELLTON BECAUSE IT WAS ON THE ROAD AND ONE HOPES THAT A QUICK EXIT CAN BE AVOIDED.
It might be a good idea to stop taking penalties.
It looks like I’m about to witness a women’s prison movie communal shower scene. There are worse ways to start a day. Surprisingly the ladies are all attractive too.
Please tell me Stella Stevens is in it.
Sadly no. It’s so bad I had to look it up. Nice B rated ladies though.
Bad women’s prison movies are the only kind. That’s the gold standard.
I totally agree. They simply give a guy what he’s looking for with little drama.
There has to be the sexy prisoner and her best friend, the bull dyke prisoner, the sadistic guard, plus the evil warden.
Check
It’s “Plot #9” as they used to say
Miss the good old days when you could find quality flicks like this.
Sometimes living in this time warp has its advantages.
Here’s my old dog Frankie (2000-2012) back when he was in the submarine service. Be careful, his glowing eyes could jump start a car in no time whatsoever. Also he could stare at a public parking meter and put an extra hour on it.
https://ibb.co/GspCrZN
The battery is dead in my pcar. Could sure use that good puppy right now.
I just paid the California Auto Club $258 bucks for a new battery. I could have gotten one a lot cheaper at Pep Boys or Walmart, but the Auto Club also comes to your house and installs the battery.
I have a 3 year warranty and it’s only 1 year old, so I’ll get a free replacement. Just have to do it myself.
Also have AAA who will do it, but then I’d have to pay to replace it when it died next time.
Auto Club also has 3 year battery warranties. I had a previous battery that died and they came out with a new one, and the technician looked at his paperwork and said to me “this battery is still under warranty” and they didn’t charge me a dime. That was 5 years ago and that’s the battery that just got replaced.
ALSO: Everywhere else it’s called “AAA” or “Triple A” but in California it’s called “The Auto Club” and I believe it originated out here. They have a beautiful building near USC on Figueroa; it looks like a cathedral.
I’ve been inside that building. It is indeed gorgeous.
I didn’t think they let UCLA guys near there.
The essential LA skill is knowing what colours
to wear where.
Or did you just say “Cal State LA! Cal State LA!”
It’s been 12 years since you’ve had a dog? You are way overdue. There are many good boys out there who need a Brick to call their own.
Here’s my old dog Frankie (2000-2012) back when he was in the submarine service. Be careful, his glowing eyes could do silver soldering on copper plumbing pipes and could cut through sheet metal of thinner thicknesses. He couldn’t weld though, he was an even worse welder than I was.
https://ibb.co/GspCrZN
Here’s my old dog Frankie (2000-2012) back when he was in the submarine service. Be careful, his glowing eyes could stare at a pot of ordinary tap water and quickly heat it to a temperature of approximately 200ºF, which is good for making a cup of tea. He could also heat up a can of soup with his eyes alone. He was a good doggie.
https://ibb.co/GspCrZN
Things I’d like to hear coaches and/or commentators say one day:
“Not really that important to get off to a good start here. The game’s sixty minutes long.”
“The next goal isn’t particularly important here.”
“We just need to do that hockey.”
It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish.
That’s what she said.
Here’s my old dog Frankie (2000-2012) back when he was in the submarine service. Be careful, his glowing eyes can scan your on-line banking account and credit cards, and completely wreck your credit score. He’ll do it too. He was a good doggie.
https://ibb.co/GspCrZN
I had a horrible nightmare last night, worst one in many years. Gumby woke me up, because I was kicking him really hard, and I knocked his cpap off his face. Sorry babe! All I remember about the dream was I was lying in bed and there was a staircase that some man was creeping down. When he got to me is when I must have started fighting. I guess it’s good to know I would fight? Beware creepers!
Gumby waking you up while wearing a CPAP mask couldn’t have helped, it seems like it’d be like being woken up by Darth Vader.
https://youtu.be/IxXtAgz6vN0?si=C4pMPaq9kpkNboi5&t=35
Well shit.
That cpap saved our marriage! Well, not that one, he’s had a bunch. The first one was the marriage saver.
Poor Gumby gotta start sleeping in a hockey helmet probably.
Eh, he was due for an ass whoopin’.
“Shanghaied” is the funniest Songebob episode according to me and my younger sons. “Leedle, leedle”, escaping thru the department store perfume section, stealing the Flying Dutchman’s favorite sock, “those guys are dorks”-on and on it goes. And then years later when youngest is backing up to his snowmobile trailer and I get to say, “You’re good, you’re good, you’re good”, fuck that was funny as hell for both of us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aFqZ9P9TNQ&ab_channel=TheBestofTVShows
“Stankoven” feels like it’s a nickname that kids taunted him with, not a real name.
Love the FREE KASPAROV!
And I still can’t believe the Pat Riley Knicks were the best the franchise has offered in the last 40+ years.
SerioUs question: is John Stark seen in NYC as Donovan McNabb in Philly?
I grew up a Knicks fan as everyone were on the Jordan bandwagon. I loooved Starks. The years with him, Oak, Mason, Allan Houston, Ewing were the best. I did NOT like Greg Anthony.
I liked Mason. Each night he gave you the promise 6 hard fouls.
* of six hard fouls. Stupid Russian accent spellchecker.
Those were PEAK Knicks years. Oh to have gone to The Garden and watch them play those days….
Starks was so fearless. I was in the Dominican watching him for the first time against Jordan and remember the announcer saying, “Riley calls him Feast or Famine because you never know what you’re going going to get”. And sure enough he went toe-to-toe with MJ and wasn’t intimidated one bit. He made one hell of a first impression.
Fave Spongebob episode: when Spongebob is trying to get into a tough guy bar, the bouncer won’t let him in, and Pongebob always winds up in a weenie bar with a sassy robot bartender and two super geeks.
https://youtu.be/sPAbFLghfnI?feature=shared
Mufasa is clearly the Earl of Richmond (Henry VII) in Richard III. So we get to watch a hunchbacked lion descend into murderous paranoia before Mufasa shows up in an epic catfight at the end
Lion King prequel is A Midsummer Night’s Dream because it will be annoying fairies and nothing else of note.
Two be or nawt to be, that is the question
NAWT FACKIN FAHHH NO ONE DENIES THIS
TWO BEES
Give me 5 bees for a quarter!
BEEEEEE333EEEEEEEEZ
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