The Losers Investment Club – Chips

DFOing Good

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly - November 8, 2019November 11, 2019

INT. CONFERENCE ROOM – DAY A group of NFL personalities are seated around a conference table. The intraday chart for the $NIO ticker symbol is displayed via a projector. The gang is clustered behind HUE JACKSON, who sits in front of a laptop with a smug expression on his face. With

Request Line: Welcome!

DFOing Good

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly - November 1, 2019November 1, 2019

INT. RECORDING STUDIO - DAY The camera focuses on the console of a large piece of electronic equipment, all of its lights unlit. A single light flashes on, followed by several more that blink sleepily and eventually resolve into being fully lit. The camera zooms out to reveal the label "DJ

A Bottle of Luck

DFOing Good

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly - October 31, 2019October 31, 2019

INT. DIVE BAR, DECEMBER 1971 - NIGHT A crowd of middle-aged men sit on stools in front of a long mahogany bar. A bartender stands placidly, occasionally moving to refill an empty mug from a series of taps featuring familiar American macrobrews. Behind the bar, a single television broadcasts Monday Night

Welcome Deadspin Refugees!

DFOing Good

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly - October 31, 2019October 31, 2019

Greetings! Much like finding your way to the mythical Ultima in the Choose Your Own Adventure book "Inside UFO 54-40", you don't necessarily remember how you ended up here at doorfliesopen [DFO], but somehow you did. We're glad you're here! Like many of the new folks, many of us were also

The Losers’ Investment Club: Automotive

DFOing Good

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly - October 25, 2019October 25, 2019

INT. CONFERENCE ROOM – DAY Several NFL personalities are sitting in chairs around a conference table. ANDY REID is quietly eating a large bowl of spaghetti. BILL O'BRIEN is staring at a laptop, and with a tremendous sigh presses a button. JOSH ROSEN: So anyways, about this good thing that can happen on

That’s…My Raiders? Our 2019 Oakland Raiders at the Bye

Bye Week Updates

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly - October 11, 2019October 10, 2019

As I mentioned in the Raiders' season preview, I made a pact with myself to not watch football this year. I've actually held to it, which means that the only football I've seen has been the occasional highlight, but I've kept up with things reasonably well via gamecasts and fantasy

The Losers’ Investment Club: Bowels of the Earth

DFOing Good

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly - October 4, 2019October 4, 2019

INT. CONFERENCE ROOM - DAY Several NFL personalities are sitting in chairs around a conference table. JOSH ROSEN, KATIE NOLAN, LAWRENCE TYNES, are gazing listlessly at their cellphones while BILL O'BRIEN sits staring at his laptop, his left eye twitching repeatedly. COLIN COWHERD is pontificating about a sports topic. COLIN COWHERD: ...and so

The Losers’ Investment Club: Transportation

DFOing Good

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly - September 27, 2019September 27, 2019

INT. CONFERENCE ROOM - DAY Several NFL personalities are sitting in chairs around a conference table. BILL O'BRIEN is staring at a laptop, swearing repeatedly. JOSH ROSEN, KATIE NOLAN and HUE JACKSON are gazing listlessly at the cellphones. --- [door flies open] --- COLIN COWHERD: Hi guys. Sorry I'm late, there was...hang on

Your 2019 Rugby World Cup Preview

Lesser Sports

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly - September 20, 2019September 20, 2019

[Editor's Note: With Andy Reid sorting out a thorny issue with U.S. Customs agents at the Canadian border, The Losers' Investment Club will be on hiatus this week and presumably will return next week when $ARA is hopefully out of the toilet. At least it's not ROKU, I guess.] Greetings! Welcome

The Losers’ Investment Club: American Renal Associates

DFOing Good

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly - September 13, 2019June 6, 2020

INT. CONFERENCE ROOM – DAY A group of NFL personalities are seated around a conference table. The intraday chart for the $KR ticker symbol is displayed via a projector as the meeting participants cluster around a telephone conference station, except for ANDY REID, who has a laptop computer terminal in front

The Losers’ Investment Club: Kroger

DFOing Good

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly - September 6, 2019August 30, 2022

INT. CONFERENCE ROOM - DAY A group of NFL personalities are seated around a conference table. Another stands by a whiteboard in the front of the room, angrily poking at a series of items written in a list, using a marker to cross one of them off. BILL O'BRIEN: ...I c-c-can't b-b-believe

Request Line: In Good Hands

DFO radio

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly - August 30, 2019August 30, 2019

INT. RECORDING STUDIO - DAY The PRODUCER is seated at the console, setting things up for the day's show. DJ 3000 relaxes nearby. DJ 3000: So who's the guest for today? PRODUCER: [looks up] Oh, actually it's quite the get. DJ 3000: We're closing out the season in style? PRODUCER: Very much so. RECEPTIONIST: [via intercom]