I know I am repeating myself (Carpenter pun alert), but Hippo is very glad that a long ago New Year’s Resolution (to stop ever making New Year’s Resoliutions) has held for yet another year. Everything will just fall to shit regardless, remember.
So..to the JV playoffs. 5 matches, 5 “so boring it might as well be the NBA” snoozers, after last night’s Paedo State romp. Three chances to break that turgid streak, today, or complete a perversely impressive 8-for-8. Arsenal also play Praise Beesus today at 12:30, bizarrely the only Prem action we gets.
Steerfuckers South (-13) v. Arizona State (1:00, ESPN)
I don’t give a tin shit where these “bowls” are being played, nor about their sponsors. Annoying this game isn’t played in the desert, in from of thousands of semi-literate Sparky co-eds. Anyway, 13 is a pretty damned big spread, given how Steerfuckers South (i) don’t forward pass very well; and (ii) have a season-long tendency to let any and all comers hang around. But a trend is a trend, and nobody believes an upset is even remotely possible.
THEEEEEEE Ohio State (-2.5) v. Oregon (5:00, ESPN)
This is really the only “must see” of the day, if you need to sleep off your DTs in one or both other windows. Michigan’s ass-blasting of Roll Damn Tide yesterday puts Coach Samsquanch and his Tree Nutz in a whole new light. They just ran into a buzzsaw, that nobody really saw coming. Shit happens. I said I backed the tOSU/Vols winner to win it all, and I stand by it. I am expecting a 10-ish point win for the “lower” seed – Quack Attack needed everything to break right in order to barely beat tOSU in their first matchup. In Eugene. At night. I am not a Dillon Gabriel believer, and the team with superior strength in the trenches will win.
Notre Dame (+1) v. Georgia (8:45, ESPN)
In the “Indiana Klan” book scotchy recommended (I finished in like a week, was REALLY good), I learned that the “Fighting Irish” moniker only really took/cemented thanks to the student body rising up to stop a 1920s Klucker parade in South Bend. Their footed ball squadron can still get fucked, though. Much like tOSU, I will back UGA to ride its advantages in the trenches and at wideout to win the day. Would set up an all PAAAAWWWWWLLLLL/B1G raging semis, which is better than having same contain Notre Dame. Christ, can you imagine how unwatchable a semi ND v. Paedo State would be? UGH. Caveat emptor – my disgust might be overstating the Bulldogs’ chances here, but Kirby Smart is legitimately the best coach in the field.
First we dance together
Then we puke on each other
Watched Challengers and napoleon dynamite instead of watching the game.
No regrets.
How was Challengers, on a scale of 1 to I didn’t know you were gay?
Gay tennis players? Pfft. Have you seen Taylor Fritz’s girlfriend?
Or what about Martina Navratilova’s wife?
A solid 7. Had to commit to the cause a couple of times early but a pretty solid film.
Why so many coasters?
His bottles are as wet as his ladies
(he pees on both)
I’m an artist, daddy-o
Also came to say, THIS OREGON DUCKS TEAM, I CALL THEM REVELERS IN THE FRENCH QUARTER, BECAUSE THEY GOT TRU. . .TOO SOON?
/thoughts and prayers
They were destroyed by someone carrying a flag that the rest of America hates?
Not too soon for another driveby, I guess. Damn, Spam!
That’s wonderful.
Came here to say that first half was the best half of Buckeyes footbalI have ever seen in well over 50 years of watching (note that I am a bit older than Redshirt)
Why is Hundreds of Beavers two hours long? That seems excessive.
I don’t know what you expected, that’s still more than one beaver per minute.
Yay! We won!
Oh, great. Now we’re stuck with Ryan Day for several more years!
Michigan couldn’t be happier right now
Ohio State Fandom confuses me to no end.
Is just an Ohio thing? You’re just not allowed to be fully happy?
Well, happiness does confuse us Ohioans. As for Ryan Day, he is a poor coach whose questionable decisions has cost us several winnable games.
Oh, yeah, I see.
This is one of the *bad* Final Four runs I’ve heard no such thing about.
lol yeah whenever the Angels make but don’t win the World Series I shake my head and say “I knew it” because joy is stupid and wrong
The Angels have played in a World Series?
Let me tell you all about magical 2002…
I don’t remember being terribly disappointed when the Raiders got wrecked by Tampa Bay in the Super Bowl in 2003. “They’ll be back soon enough,” I told myself.
Even the guy at the mall knows the answer is, “never again.”
It sure was nice of that mall guy to spare my feelings.
Ryan Day dyes his beard. He also forces his beard to dye her hair.
Let’s see his coffee mug.
So you’re stuck with Day another season?
– a colleague to Lorne Michaels, summer 2024
(I actually have nothing against Mikey Day, he’s fine)
Well that was a wet fart. Now what? Wine?
Check your drawers
I guess it’s good that it only occurred to me five minutes ago that I could’ve asked any of the many Ducks alumni I know about watching the game with them. Or at a bar. Or at all, considering it was, practically, long over when I got home.
I spent about $3k less on credit cards in 2024 than in 2023, although I had a whopping 29% increase in the amount I spent on booze, mostly attributable to my two Kentucky trips.
I spent less on travel than I have since 2020, and less as a % of my overall spending than I have since 2016, although it’s still my largest category.
Prepandemic I used to spend over $1k/year on tolls but it’s more like $200/year now even though the tolls have been increasing. I’m really happy about this because the money from those tolls mostly funds transit perks for people living in SF and the Peninsula even though the people mostly paying them live in the East Bay or are commuting in from super far off places like Stockton because they can’t afford to live in SF or the Peninsula. It’s a regressive tax and I resent every cent they pry out of me.
How much on wine?
I haven’t traditionally done sub-categories on booze, although it might be interesting. It’s probably pretty consistent year over year for wine, at least for the last few since I started doing wine clubs
Ooh, I’m doing year-end finances too!
[high fives Doktor Zymm] – Mike Brown
Where’s he game warden to stop this? These Ohioans have reached their bag limit on ducks.