Welcome to the Dart Ages: Tuesday Open Thread

Busy time here at The House The Blergh Built. Let’s dive straight in.

NFL NEWS:

-Let Russ Be Cooked. Brian Daboll’s increasingly frantic flailing has lead him to accelerate Operation Protect Our Phoney Baloney Jobs.

The idea was to nurse some combination of Russell Wilson and Jameis Winston along until the Week 14 bye, then give Dart four starts to show Upward Momentum. Sure, you’d have another losing season, but old-line owners like the Maras might be patient if Dart showed any spark.

Now the die is cast, and unless Dart comes out swinging in a way wholly inconsistent with all rational expectations, Daboll is going to have to spend three years in the Coach Back to Coordinator Rehabilitation pipeline.

-We’re Gonna Hafta Break Ya Kneecaps: Nick Bosa is done for the season with an ACL tear. Finally, the Niners’ injury curse takes a deserving victim. Well, as discussed last week, it’s not a “curse” if it’s the foreseeable consequence of prior decisions. Like hiring this guy as your team physician:

-Professional pain in the ass C.J. Gardner-Johnson has been bootedby the 0-3 Houston Texans. Normally I would mock the Texans for trading a former first-rounder for a guy who has arguably cost them all three close games due to coverage blunders. But given that the Iggles have waived that former first-rounder (Kenyon Green) THREE TIMES SINCE TRAINING CAMP ENDED, it looks like neither team emerged on top here.

-Bad Day at Black Rock for older wide receivers. Mike Evans will be out 3-4 weeks with a hamstring injury, while Terry McLaurin has a mystery quad injury that may keep him out for one or more games. Least they both got paid.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I hope that everyone I played tennis with tonight feels as good about how they played as I do. Most points tonight were won, not lost. And for players of our level that’s always an accomplishment.

Mr. Ayo

🔱🔱🔱 in the playoffs? Did the rest of MLB get raptured?

WOOOOOOOO!!!!

SonOfSpam

Congrats! Hope you get to go to at least one playoff game.

And (taking good news where I can get it), the Angels remain the only MLB team to never lose 100 games in a season. That makes them the best team ever!

Mr. Ayo

Yeah, I’m going to go to at least one game. Waiting for the email.

SonOfSpam

Been to about 4-5 playoff games and 1 World Series game (it was game 7 as I’ve mentioned too many or not enough times). There’s nothing like that energy.

Mr. Ayo

Presale is tomorrow. CAN’T WAIT!

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“I don’t remember you mentioning you’ve been to a Game 7.” – Trent Green but also me please refresh my memory

Mr. Ayo

I’m with Trent, I do not remember this WS game 7 story.

SonOfSpam

Story – I got to go to game 7 of the Angels-Giants series in 2002.

Friend and I tried to get tix on Ticketmaster, back when “online ticket sales” was still newish. Failed at game 1, failed at game 2, I was trying for game 6 and my friend called to say he got 2 for game 7. We were kinda bummed, thinking the odds of getting to game 7 were pretty small. Stupid us! Anyway, Angels won, Bonds and his huge head lost, all was right in the world.

And the Angels have sucked all the nads ever since. The end.

Sharkbait

Younghoe Koo was signed by the VEP (sorry Mrs. Sharkbait) today. I guess Graham Gano is a victim of…

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a Koo d’etat

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Brick Meathook

Tragedy was averted today.

I ran some important errands, and when I returned and was placing the drugs groceries on the counter, I noticed my wristwatch hanging by one spring bar.

https://ibb.co/RkFc3ZBM

This is a G-Shock GW-2310FB, a great everyday beat around timepiece. Its only flaw is that the numbers are invisible except backlit or in direct sun, but other than that it’s great. $100 price point, which is all you should ever pay for a G-Shock. My astronaut Speedmaster is my glamorous “fuck you” watch.

But I always replace the cheap Casio strap with an aftermarket nylon
“NATO strap” with Velcro closures. The difference is that a regular strap terminates at the springbars, while a NATO wraps underneath them. If a springbar fails on regular strap the watch falls off; a failed springbar in a NATO strap leaves the other springbar connection intact.

And that’s what happened today. People, the system works.

My ass may not have been raptured but my watch strap is good enough for fuckin’ Jehovah.

WCS

FUN FACT: No Falcons receiver or tight end have a touchdown reception through three weeks.

If the Falcons had fans, we’d laugh at them. This just feels like punching the kid with crutches and spinal column.

Sharkbait

This is totally the week Kyle Pitts breaks out right??

SonOfSpam

Pyle Kitts

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

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Buddy Cole's Halftime Show

Damn usually when Detroit blows 10.5 in a month, there’s a very happy midget on Woodward Avenue.

WCS

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46356355/former-auburn-star-bengals-pro-bowl-rb-rudi-johnson-dies-45

Well, this sucks. Rudi was maybe the only good thing the Bungles had in the early 2000s.

fleshwound_NPG

in the last hour the rapture has taken both the detroit tigers and the minnesota lynx

two historic bedshittings at once

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

So apparently the plot of Major League is happening in real life?

https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/1noz0sd/the_guardians_have_come_back_from_155_gb_to_tie/

ballsofsteelandfury

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fleshwound_NPG

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Maybe having Quotables come back is the real Rapture.

Jimbo

Or maybe the real Rapture is the friends we made along the way.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly
SonOfSpam

This right here? Good song.

Gumbygirl

It appears we’ve all been Left Behind

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“Left behind? That’s one my favorite parts of the behind!” – Balls

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Were they friends or something? I mean if so, yuck, but it’s understandable. With that said…

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Jimbo

Cubs/Mets on TNT it’s 6-6 in the 6th, that’s a sign. A sign that I should turn this off or change the channel.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Cubs lost again. It’s Matt Shaw’s fault.

blaxabbath

For absolutely no reason whatsoever, I hate Mike Evans. Always have. Don’t know why. No reason to not like him. Great player. Stuck with a team and got a ring. Still giving it. But yeah — just really do not like Mike Evans for no reason and that’s a me issue.

But damn if I don’t respect the man and that’s too bad he’s owee.

Brick Meathook
King Hippo

The Irish Canal!

ballsofsteelandfury

I love her so much…

https://youtu.be/KFqJzDBV7UQ?si=ZeTYzvlSbSpJaFMX

Cowboys: Cover Zero is when you cover 0 people!

BallsofLacrosseAndMapleSyrup

She’s very funny

Horatio Cornblower

Her T-shirt/jersey budget rivals the US defense budget.

fleshwound_NPG

buying pirated ones for $30 would help, and have better quality than fanatics

Horatio Cornblower

I will never buy anything from that company again. Absolute trash.

Horatio Cornblower

I made that joke during the game.

Someone get me Dershowitz on Line 1! I’ve got a lawsuit with no chance of prevailing and he’s just the guy to file it. And I’ll pay in pierogis, too.

Doktor Zymm

I could go for a pierogi right about now, I’ll post something on Truth Social supporting your case in exchange for a mushroom and saurkraut

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Wait, don’t you know people on The Vineyard now? Just promise to put in a good word for him and you’re golden.

Gumbygirl

I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday ( not this one) for a pierog today!

King Hippo

When you think about it, MOAR ppl should be conventionally attractive, hilarious sportsball fans.

Gumbygirl

Like us!

scotchnaut

Daboll waiting until WK 14 to unleash the Dart? How could he do that if he didn’t have a job at that point? He’s been waiting for Andrew Thomas to get well.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“Unleashing the dart” is what Tyler Robinson thought he was doing when that guy from the CIA handed him a rifle and told him “it’s just a tranquilizer, there’s no danger to Charlie, we just want to do a Reichstag thing.”

Horatio Cornblower

Sounds like the CFL is moving to become more like the NFL.

https://theprovince.com/sports/football/cfl/rule-changes-cfl-truth-tsn-tv-deal

This both sucks and is potentially awesome, because it by god improves the admittedly slim chances of NFL relegation becoming a thing.

fleshwound_NPG

something very canadian becoming much more american

it works sometimes

sakic-que-col
ballsofsteelandfury

NO IT DOESN’T!

The Avalanche is an abomination that should have never happened.

WCS

Quebec finally, finally gets a legit Cup contender..

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fleshwound_NPG

robbed florida man of multiple cups thus far (’96, ’22) and it looks like they might have to do it yet again

BallsofLacrosseAndMapleSyrup

Filing in for the CFL beat this week is Horatio

Horatio Cornblower

Who better than the guy second-from-the-bottom in the picks?

BallsofLacrosseAndMapleSyrup

That should be part of the punishment for being last in one of the FFL
At least one post

ballsofsteelandfury

The guy who loves the bottom and lives there…

fleshwound_NPG
Gumbygirl

Is that anywhere Big Bonelick State Park?

WCS

GTD Reflections and the return of Quotables?

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Unsurprised

I just noticed those two Bears end-zone interceptions agains the Cowboys – the score is the same on both plays. Christ, these assholes are awful.