What I Did On My Summer Vacation

Wednesday AM Champions League Match Day 8 Open Thread

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As many of you know, the UEFA Champions League has a new format this year. The field has been expanded to 36 with each team playing 8 games against 8 different teams in the competition with 4 at home and 4 on the road. The top 8 at the end

Thursday AM EuroFooty Open Thread

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We have several scintillating European football/soccer games on tap for your viewing pleasure today. All times Pacific: Europa League English League One Wrexham v Birmingham As Al Michaels would say, this is a YUUGE game in Wrexham's quest to secure yet another promotion, this time into the English Championship. In their way are the runaway

Sunday Footy Finals Open Thread

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We have TWO scintillating Championship games on tap for your viewing pleasure today. First up: Euro 2024 Spain v England All the English are banging on about Bringing It Home and all that shit but the Scots, Welsh, Irish, and pretty much every country that was conquered or harassed by the English

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: Pre-JPP Edition

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Remember, keep your fingers away from your lit fireworks tomorrow! Not that there's much to celebrate this week. Somewhere, remember, sic semper tyrannis. Granted, the state motto of Virginia was exclaimed by one John Wilkes Booth after shooting Abraham Lincoln, but the words themselves are useful! We hope? Listen, I've got some

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: “So, how was Boston, Senor?”

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It was nice, thanks for asking. As much as one would say that there's nothing like getting dressed up to get drunk (specifically, Hermana Weaselo and one of my coworkers), it's also nice to be at an event that has no alcohol in it altogether, and the roast beef tea

Summer of Soccer Previews: Slovenia in Euro 2024

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Back in the olden times, pre-COVID, I took advantage of BMW's European Delivery program and flew to Munich to pick up my M car and drive it through Central Europe. I went south to Austria and then southeast through Slovenia, Italy, Croatia, Slovenia again, and then back to Germany to

Summer of Soccer 2024

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This summer is going to be a very special summer. We have not just one, not just two, not just three, but FOUR major tournaments happening! In this post, I will break everything down for you and invite you to write team previews. *** The Schedule The above graphic looks best if you

Boots on the Ground: Porto Portugal! Final chapter, Portugal The Food

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I've already shared with you the francesinha from my first day in Porto. Before. With proper gravy application. And the detritus afterwards. For the public record, the beer you see in the photos "Super Bock" is a goddamn keeper. That shit is delicious and always served cold and frosty. Hell a man could drink that

Ballsy’s Cocktail of the Week: Filling in the Mexican Way…

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As y'all may know, Sharky is out in our nation's Island State enjoying the sunshine, ocean, and resort drinks. While he's out there living life right with the Shark Clan, I thought I would step in with a Mexican drink you may or may not have heard of. It's easily

Boots on the Ground, Porto Portugal Part 2. Porto in Pictorial Form.

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This time around it made sense to show you the visuals from this incredible place. And visuals you shall have.The weather was mostly gorgeous with a day or so of rain in the mix but the rain added a nice moody almost goth-like atmosphere. Some of the locations really stood out