Just feast your eyes on that glorious 100th year throwback Giants uniform. It’s got everything-crisp lines, easy-to-see numbers for the older fans, primary colors out the ying yang… Okay fine, they look far more like a Canadiens jersey that Howie Morenz may have worn back in 1924. I will not be spending any money on that travesty. Sheesh, even the 70’s unis that those shitty Giants teams wore look better than that. Hot take, I know.
Obit Time:
Darren Dutchyshen, nicknamed “Dutchy” believe it or not, was a staple on TSN since 1995. He passed away due to prostate cancer yesterday. I’d have bet my last loonie that it would have been complications from long-term steroid use because that guy was incredibly jacked during his entire tenure.
Obit #2:
Alice Munro, Canadian short story writer and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013 also passed away recently. Her concise stories of women’s inner lives were a revelation to me. How she could write with such a deft touch about relationships and then almost take your breath away in the final few sentences is a gift that few have.
Cars: The Sequel:
Chiefs rookie wr Xavier Worthy had his vehicle stolen tudder day. This may come as a shock to you but no member of the Kansas City organization injured a young child, left the scene of an accident or was charged with a crime!
Basketball:
Joker and The Nuglets can close out Minny tonight.
Hockey:
Edmonton and Vancouver are tied at two games apiece and I’ve had to listen to fly-by-night hockey fans say, “why do two Canadian teams have to play each other? That’s one less chance that one of our teams will be in the final!” Stop it with the silly questions/observations.
Hockey Again:
The Stumbling Rangers can end their series but the tide is turning.
This is your abridged version. Good night.
Found a funny:
I came here to sing Air Supply and kick ass, and I’m all out of love.
Well, you can always make love (out of nothing at all).
https://twitter.com/Bobby_Rocco/status/1791284799031648715
Money is like shit. If we spread it around, it functions as fertilizer, enabling incredible ideas to sprout and grow. If instead we just pile it up into mountains, it stinks and all the great stuff that could sprout and flourish is starved of nutrients.
That’s Rocking!
Basketball Update:
Denver laying down just like Houston.
Man, it’s like they saw this coming.
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Wow, that disappeared faster than Carolina’s 3rd period lead.
Hey-O!
I need to see more Carolina fans in tears. Those tears sustain me.
Tears sustain you? Zeke is the Cowboys #1 rb right now. How the turns have tabled!
Did you learn nothing from Canada’s best musicians?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJN3u1wAWIk
Oh dear God I forgot about that We are the World Canadian wannabe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yABFvIJ-w-8
Won $11 on that series. Not sure why the Rangers were underdogs in that series but whatever. I’ll take it
nerds (and therefore vegas) really, really love vichy whalers for their shot volume generation
it is just fucking cotton candy
rangers can only succeed in years oj simpson makes major headlines and i got some real bad news for them after this season
https://ibb.co/sHhLgg9
One time in a handshake line after a soccer game my brother came up on a kid from the other team who’d been cheap-shotting kids all game. Punched him right in the face.
What I’m saying is that the Stanley Cup handshake lines could be a lot more entertaining.
I punched a kid in the stomach once in the handshake line. Not real hard, but enough that he knew it wasn’t an accident.
In a basketball handshake line I bent back the thumb of a dude that intentionally fouled me.
Gotta save that for the deciding game of the Finals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJtiepwpKFw
[activates] – Lowratio’s PTSD
Mrs. Horatio has made certain threats if I play this again.
I’m playing it again.
“WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”
[runs through the clubhouse wearing nothing but a “Whalers 4EVR” bandana wrapped around his wing-wang]
– Horatio Cornblower
maybe wearing the shittiest jersey in your wardrobe for home playoff games is not a good idea
The NFL schedulers have given Leonard Floyd the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever
I’m just so happy right now.
post-game Hee Haw is gonna be so Sad Panda smgdh
Vichy fall apart? That’s UNPOSSIBLE!
THIS CAROLINA COLLAPSE I CALL IT D-DAY BECAUSE…ah shit, you all know where this one’s going.
Carolina’s Maginot Line was scoreless, unsurprisingly.
“They just stood there while the Rangers went right around them!! Who could have seen this coming!?!?”
I blame Belgium.
Ypres!
The Slew-Footing of Shesterkin: The Story of The Ultimate, Desperate Failure of the Carolina Hurricanes in Round Two of the NHL Playoffs.
NOT OVER YET
lol fuck tda
Fuck Chris Kreider.
Counterpoint: I am donating to his kids’ college fund.
oh we will be seeing that crying canes kid on the internet in about 5 minutes, thank you tnt
“Welcome to the pantheon, kid.”
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I just organized my Chicago box o’ cables, very satisfying!
I would be all for renaming the White Sox the Chicago Box O Cables
If this score hold this game might replace USA-USSR in Lake Placid as my favorite hockey game ever.
I presume the change in the score hasn’t affected this sentiment?
It just makes it sweeter, Rikki.
It just makes it sweeter.
“In my mind I’ve left Carolina.”
-James Taylor, Hurricanes fan
Welp, bad news everyone: that goal means I have to join the priesthood.
Which one?
oh what a bedshitting
Holy Rangers!
TRIPLE OT PLEASE AND THANK YOU
Them Rangers have got the resiliency.
Rangers hell, it’s the Chris Kreider show.
Re: Rikki’s sleepy dog
/Wifey insisted on taking one of the doggos to the vet this week because “she’s sleepy a lot of the time even though she has plenty of energy when she goes outside”.
//I imagine this is how the exchange went
Vet: “Well, Ruby is in perfect health.”
Wifey: “But she’s been sleeping more than usual!”
Vet: “How old is she?”
Wifey: “Going on twelve.”
Vet: “Well there you go.”
This game makes me remember the Whalers.
Not because the fat fuck Karmanos moved the Whalers to Carolina, but because the Ranger’s power play is just as incompetent as what I used to pay good money to see in that shopping mall in Hartford.
YES, FUCKING NAILED IT!!!
YOU SUCK RNAGERS, NO WAY YOU CAN DO THAT AGAIN!!! BOOOOOOOO TEAM IN RED-WHITE-AND-BLUE!!!! BOOOO I SAY!!!
This commercial where the guy criticizes the other because he doesn’t have his 6-week-old on skates yet is one of the most accurate depictions of hockey parents I’ve ever seen.
The most psychotic group of people this side of the Hell’s Angels, and at least the Hell’s Angels might help you change a tire.
The Hell’s Angels have better jackets too
A friend of mine has become a big time Hockey Dad. Regularly texts me and another friend with the results of each game. “1 goal, 1 assist, and held the other team’s best forward to two shot attempts.” I’m waiting for him to break out the advanced stats. Damnit I want to know zone entry percentage!
Already one of his twins has quit hockey. Gee, I wonder why.
I could always tell you what my son had done in his baseball games.
I just didn’t.* Because who wants to be that guy?
*Unless it was really funny.
The Dr. Mrs.’ cousin tried to get her to come watch one of her kids’ hockey games. She conjured a scheduling conflict to avoid it, and the cousing got the hint and didn’t ask again.
You know what’s worse than a Hockey Dad? A dad that showed up to, say, five of the 250+ games that you played.
/things got serious all of a sudden
Those cigarettes weren’t going to get themselves, son.
I should insult the Rangers’ efforts more often.
Try harder you fucking pigs!
Is there anything more relaxing than sipping a bourbon and coke and watching your dog struggle to stay awake and fail?
Drinking a beer and watching my cat go through catnip withdrawal?
I dunno, if I were the Rangers I might have tried showing up for this game.
Timely!
They’re biding their time until Game 8.
THEY’RE THAT FUCKING STOOPID ENOUGH GOD DAMN IT I HATE THESE ASSHOLES
Ah, the ol’ Maple Leafs strategy!
That puck might have broken through the atmosphere.
Vichy Whale playing a game of three-bar. Left post remaining.
Oh, Canada, smh
Everything’s a comin’ up VICHY!*
*until they very predictably lose Game 7 in Noo Yawk
late capitalism really a bizarre, lawless wasteland
https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/new-sunday-network-assignments-shift-49-games-between-cbs-and-fox
If that bizarre, lawless wasteland had four or more games every week in the 4 o’clock window I’ll shoot the first cop myself.
Banner this. ACAB!
Phil Collins: [rolls eyes] “How many times do I have to spell it out for you Americans…IT’S ABACAB!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suCNZe3Gwkw&ab_channel=Genesis
At 7 year Olds futbol. The parents small talk around me makes me want to throat punch a dozen people
Must be difficult to see the action, being 500 feet away.
I’m curious how this impacts the Leafs’ coaching search.
If he goes undefeated in soccer, he’ll be on the short list
*TSN does 4 hour panel on how this is a good thing
the leafs should be fine making a list of possible coaches this summer as long as they have a steady supply of crayons
the blue ones taste better to them
Noise cancelling headphones are your friend
kid turns 4 next week and oh man i do not look forward to such bullshit in the future
Make up horrifying medical problems and just casually drop them in to the conversation
Keeping mumbling something about “brain lesions/demons.”
There’s no getting around the fact that the vast majority of people lead stupid, dull lives.
The most dull pratter. I had always heard about suburb types who talk about ABSOLUTELY NOTHING for long stretches of time.
THESE STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS LEMME TELL YA I CALL THEM UNDERAGE HIGH SCHOOL KIDS DRINKING BECAUSE IT SEEMS NOBODY CAN MAKE IT PAST THE SECOND ROUND
I vividly (almost) remember myself and two of my friends chugging an entire 26’er bottle of whiskey while walking the length of a football field.* How I got home in one piece is a miracle for the ages.
*it was a CFL-length field so maybe not that impressive
How many bald eagles is that
I despise these ice squadrons so very, very much. The Vichy Whalers are an affront to The Force. Ice Giants are quite literally the Dallas Non Gendered Cowpersons of Gary Bettman’s fiefdom. Both are so, utterly, frustratingly inane.
I discovered the BilliardTV channel and now I’m totally into watching billiards on TV.
https://ibb.co/pXYzbHt
everybody, spring 2024: why didnt uconn recruit caitlin clark, wonder what her and paige bueckers on the same squad would have been like
wnba, spring 2025: guess what
the smol numbers of the gints jerseys make it look like they shrunk in the wash and look like a kids uniform
if only eli was still around
They look like USFL uniforms.
I just read Munro’s ‘Dance of the Happy Shades’ a month or so ago. She could write the shit out of a short story.
Arsenal pipped me to the 2246-47 title. 2247-48? Suffice to say Gilkey’s men are giving him the desired reaction. 21 points clear after 26 rounds.
https://ibb.co/P52FMrN
A friend of mine is going to Munich. Any tips on what to see/visit?
I heard they have a fest celebrating Oktober.
https://ibb.co/njjF17d