Good evening. I spent the weekend away and then a couple of hours today at the beach doing nothing, just getting some sun and letting the breeze do its thing. It was exactly what I needed. On to business,

NFL NEWS

Here are the verbs in the headlines for the “News” page of National Football Lee dot com: looking forward, envisions, chasing needs, stumps for, add elite players…

I may like Andy Richter too much. DOOOOOOOOONTTT CAAAAAAAARRRRRRRe.

Draft’s on Thursday yay.

SPROTS TO MIGHT

All times Central. Note to self: 7 is 6.

STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS

Round 1

Ottawa @ Tirana (0-0) : 6:00

Minnesota @ Las Vegas (0-0)  : 9:00

GRANDES LIGAS

Yesterday, while hanging with my cousins (die-hard baseball fans), I watched the Y*nk*s choke at Tampa Bay, and the Twines @ Bravos that followed was pretty entertaining too. It was very gratifying to see the Majors full of Hispanics thriving after making it through the farm system, unlike in agricultural farms because, you know…

I saw the current extra innings, 2d Baseman Gimmick in the NYY @ TB bullpen dam breaks yesterday. My take: Not disgusted. It helped that I had already seen World Baseball Classic games use those for extra innings, so no shock this time around. In fact, my first concern was about extra inning pitching stats getting screwy with an automatic man on second, and sent me into a delightful daydream about another gasket blowing for baseball purists and stat extremists.

I’ll take the promise of action over contemplation every time muchesgracias. I’m cool with the free base runner in extras. And AND: love the pitching clock. It’s even a nice cue to tie a really long story in case anything happens. “Ball, that’s outside. Batter twitched tho. Anyway, one of the cops had my underwear…”

Viva el béisbol.  Especially if you can talk shit all through a game with fun folks or josh serious fans with constant annoying, Spongebob-style.

El docket:

Padres (Cease) @ Fokin Astros (Valdez) – 6:00

Nacionales (Lord) @ Rockys (Senzatela) – 7:10

NBA ALMOST REAL SEASON

Heat @ Cavaliers (0-0) : 6:00

Warriors @ Rockets (0-0) : 8:30

TOP FLIGHT FÚTBOL

Calendar from espen deportes, home team first (per blood pact), streaming suggestion: séance.

Argentina

Rosario Centrral v. Instituto (Córdoba) – 6:30

Bolivia

Jorge Wilstermann v. ABB – 6:30

Who? To the Wiki P!

Jorge Wilstermann was formed in 1949 by workers from Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano, a German-Bolivian air transport consortium planes thing. In 1953 the club was renamed Jorge Wilstermann, to honor the first Bolivian commercial pilot. His name was Gualberto Cerrillos–JK jk. The first Bolivian commercial pilot was Capt. Wilstermann, from the Cochabamba Wilstermanns, no doubt.

ABB is the Academia del Balompié Boliviano founded in 1985 and have a whiff of [inhales, gets into trance] wet leather and carpetbaggin’ about them. This is ABB’s first stint in the Bolivian top league. And, from experience, the only folks in LATAM who say balompié instead of fútbol are those who know nothing of fútbol. Plus ABB’s Wiki entry, en español, treads the fine line between sparse and cursory.

Brasil

 Red Bull Bragantino v. Cruzeiro – 6:30

 Chile

 Ñublense v. Coquimbo Unido – 7:00

 Colombia

 Deportivo Cali v. Atlético Nacional – 6:20

 Costa Rica

 Sporting San José v. Pérez Zeledón – 7:00

Ecuador

Delfín v. Macará – 6:00

Guatemala

Comunicaciones v. Municipal – 6:00

Marquense v. Xelaju – 8:00

Honduras

Olimpia v. FC Motagua – 6:!5

Victoria v. Real España – 8:30

Paraguay

Cerro Porteño v. Trinidense – 6:15

Secsi Mexi

Santos v. Tijuana – 6:00

Atlético de San Luis v. Pachuca – 8:00

León v. Monterrey – 8:05

FC Juárez v. Querétaro – 10:00

FINALLY,

I did get a chance to commit some heresy this weekend. Here’s some falafel fried in LARD.

It was delicious, obviously.