A Li’l Bit of Everything – Tuesday Open Thread

Very good Tuesday evening to alla youse. Imma be subbin’ for the Reverend, Gamblor bless his spleen, and I apologize in advance for the drop in sanctity.

/Checks to see if fishing for compliments worked

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NFL NEWS

-The Steelers get right of first refusal over A Aron Rodgers, which means that Steelers brass and coaches all get a pinch of whatever hallucinogens are involved in the current retirement meditation. If you pardon an old man moment, now that the tower of Medallas in the banner has come down of late… Being in a job where you’re hit constantly, I can only guess it gets difficult eventually. Won’t go “Flaaaaake” on Qaron, is all.

-UDFA Vanderbilt QB Diego Pavía’s signed a 3-year deal with the Ravens. It was either Baltimore or Winnipeg for the undrafted Heisman runner up, which is a sentence I typed artisanally after reading the link. The Ratbird QB Room at present is: Lamar!, Tyler Huntley, Pavía and Joe Pagnano (Conn.).

-From the House Organ, all UDFA signings.

-And the Jets are considering signing DangeRuss

Do yar thang Jest. We all need mirth.

STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS

In Progress

Boston @ Buffalo (leads 3-1)

MinnesoUta @ Dallas (2-2)

9 Central

Anaheim @ Edmonton (trails 3-1)

TRAVELIN’ 3s

In Progress

76ers @ Celtics (lead 3-1)

Hawks @ Knicks (2-2)

8:30 Central

Trailblazers @ Spurs (lead 3-1)

FINALLY,

I’m getting in the fútbol spirit and we fans got rewarded by an insane PSG 5 – 4 Bayern. Uf. First, those are the top two clubs in the world right now. And they just put on 90+ minutes of mostly attacking berserker ball. Unbeatable spectacle; this Shempiens semi first leg might have been the best lesser we get all this calendar year. PSG coach Luis Enrique called it the  “best match of my coaching career”, which is no chopped liver for someone who, before today, had won every club trophy he could’ve won as a coach.

The Mundial will be different. There will be mismatches galore, and minnows resorting to antifútbol, bus parking, and even more overt acceptance of being overmatched and just hack everybody and pray for a miracle free kick / corner or autogol. Still, watching that dreck and delusionally waiting for an upset during an ugly game beats working by a pharmaceutical 600%

Incidentally, today Iran confirmed that it will compete in the World Cup in the USA. MomentuoUs shit, peeps. Here’s the background, briefly: Iran sweeps through Asian qualifiers, the US bombs Iran last summer, Iran fell to Group G,  the scheduled Mundial group match against Egypt is marked as the FIFA LGBTQ+ Pride Game, the US and Israel bomb Iran and it’s war, 47 farts a truthpost to extort Iran into skipping the World Cup, Iran requests FIFA to change their World Cup games to México because DUH, FIFA rejects the request, Trump proposes substituting Iran for Italy at the World Cup and Italy refuses #Obvio 🤌🏼

Once upon a time, back in the tranquil era known as January, Trump kidnapped the President of Venezuela and, two months later, Venezuela won the World Baseball Classic in the U.S.A. against the U.S.A. Bears noting, in front of the most fervent Republicans alive: Florida Cubans from the Miami area. Can’t help taking that as a portent.

I don’t know how many times I have said, in every classroom and school hallway and social occasion, that I can’t support totalitarian states and never ever ever theocracies. But it has been every time. The Iran fútbol team is called Team Melli, which has mote zing than La República Islámica de Irán. Melli Melli; bproofreadiongaby steps, baby steps.