How did We Do? Morning Open Thread

ballsofsteelandfury - May 31, 2023May 30, 2023

I like to check back at the end of the EPL season to see how well we did at predicting stuff. Call it an accountability thing or call it a competitive thing. Either way, here is a handy dandy table showing the final results plus how we predicted them: ACTUALHippo LitreBallsMan

Balls Magazine Volume 16 and Saturday Night Open Thread

ballsofsteelandfury - May 27, 2023May 28, 2023

As you may have noticed, I have been lax in publishing new episodes of Balls Magazine. That's not to say that I haven't been playing golf. I have. I've just been playing really shitty golf. To wit, here are my results from my last three rounds: 107 at Santa Anita Golf

Saturday Night Open Thread: My Top Five…. American Idioms or Phrases that use the F word

ballsofsteelandfury - May 20, 2023May 11, 2023

Tonight's post category again comes from my dirty dirty dirty mouth. As I mentioned last weekend, one cannot call oneself an American if one cannot use the word "fuck" in at least 25 different ways. We all have our different and preferred ways of using the word. The defining thing

Saturday Night Open Thread: My Top Five…. American Idioms or Phrases that use the S word

ballsofsteelandfury - May 13, 2023May 3, 2023

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Tonight's post category comes from my dirty dirty dirty mouth. One cannot call oneself an American if one cannot use the word "shit" in at least 25 different ways. This article does a good job of displaying the fun dexterity of the word. We all have our different and preferred

[DFO] Book Club presents: A Tale Of Two Cities

Beerguyrob - May 10, 2023May 10, 2023

Part 8: The Game Made April 26, 2023 - Englewood, CO As George Paton surveyed the Broncos draft landscape, he couldn't help but feel a perverse sense of relief at what to most would seem an untenable situation. It all started back in February, when a sense of desperation led Paton to mortgage

Saturday Night Open Thread: My Top Five…. Bar Orders

ballsofsteelandfury - May 6, 2023April 30, 2023

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Tonight's post category again comes from my stomach. Well, probably closer to my liver. I don't drink like I did when I was younger. Truth be told, I hardly drink at all and I can't really tell you when was the last time I went to a bar. However, that

[DFO] Book Club presents: A Tale Of Two Cities

Beerguyrob - May 3, 2023May 3, 2023

Part 7: A Knock At The Door Englewood, CO - December 27, 2022 The housekeeping was of a very frugal kind, but 5 & 12 will do that to an organization. A franchise that had been swift to remove all traces of the prior previous regime had worked double time to delete

Balls Magazine Volume 15

ballsofsteelandfury - May 3, 2023April 30, 2023

As you may have heard, I'm not a big Tiger Woods fan. To paraphrase The Bard, how much do I hate thee, let me count the ways! He's a dumbass with a shitty personality. He cheated on his beautiful blonde wife with skanks. The golf world covered up his bullshit because it desperately

Saturday Night Open Thread: My Top Five…. Items to Order at Fast Food Places

ballsofsteelandfury - April 29, 2023April 24, 2023

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Tonight's post category comes from my stomach. As a good American, fast food has comprised an unhealthy percentage of my diet since I was young. I have eaten at almost every fast food place you can think of and, over the course of the years, I have developed a list

[DFO] Book Club presents: A Tale Of Two Cities

Beerguyrob - April 26, 2023April 27, 2023

Part 6: The Fellows of Delicacy and No Delicacy October 31, 2022 - Heathrow Airport, London, UK At least it was going to be a pleasant plane ride home, and he was able to get Mother those duty-free chocolates she loved so much. That was what Nathaniel Hackett was thinking as he settled

Saturday Night Open Thread: My Top Five…. Pieces of Advice

ballsofsteelandfury - April 22, 2023April 16, 2023

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Tonight's post category comes from our generous Italian friend, 2Pack. He suggested this category in last week's thread and I think it's a very good one. I have been very lucky to have been given some very good advice that has carried me through difficult patches in my life

[DFO] Book Club presents: A Tale Of Two Cities

Beerguyrob - April 19, 2023April 17, 2023

Part 5: The Best of Times ABC had done the right thing in lobbying for this game to be on Monday Night. They were so confident of their viewership totals that they eschewed their normal opening night doubleheader in favor of building up this game into must-watch TV. Plus, they had