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Monday Morning Mock Draft: Let’s Coach ‘Em Up!

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(this fucking guy shouldn't even be an undrafted free agent) This week we're drafting coaches.  I got the idea while watching the Red Sox steal 9(!) bases on the Yankees while Aaron Boone did nothing about it, other than keep pulling receivers out of his overworked bullpen and seeming surprised when

Saturday Night Off-season Open Thread 16: The Euro Has Started!!

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Germany scored 6 goals in their opening match against Scotland on Friday. Charitably, one counted for Scotland, so that was a 5-1 thrashing, giving Germany its biggest ever victory in the European Championships and Scotland its biggest loss Today's games were Hungary v Switzerland, Spain v Croatia, and Italy v

Request Line: My face! My valuable face!

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INT. RECORDING STUDIO - DAY The PRODUCER sits at the soundboard, looking relaxed but somewhat distant.  DJ 3000 remains in his usual location. DJ 3000: SO, HEY. PRODUCER: [glances at him] What's up? DJ 3000: I WAS WONDERING...EVER SINCE THE SUPER BOWL, HAVE YOU NOTICED ANYTHING DIFFERENT ABOUT ME? PRODUCER: The software updates? Yeah, I

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: Romania Euro ’24 Edition

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Reminders of stuff from 2020: Country: RomaniaFooty team colloquials: Tricolorii (The Tricolors)DFO (probable) colloquials: Draculs, Impalers, please not the Ceausescus because fuck that guy, and the Securitate, and Gheorgiu-Dej.Kits: Home and awayFIFA Ranking: 46 (23rd in UEFA)Best World Cup result: Quarterfinals (1994) (including a win in the Round of 16 over

AFL Beat 2024 – Round 13

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We got a LOT of surprises AGAIN this week! I don't remember doing so badly on the Footy Tips. Let's see what happened. *** The Ladder *** The Results *** The Highlights https://youtu.be/yAN-IFisYL4?si=uAs491YrQgjEtK64 https://youtu.be/5FvmtKaFi0s?si=JZpcmDl3q8Sg3bao https://youtu.be/1ZXPgoPaYkA?si=3uUUTzGN-1kbP9ZR https://youtu.be/_9l-BnBrp50?si=tbjR2C078AvxJCh7 https://youtu.be/YlkMKGvTa7I?si=wwb_yoJIa-beJzsg https://youtu.be/NKDpcGxn7xw?si=NEA0aYrCaSdouR5C https://youtu.be/uymtCFgmChE?si=r--AGkcLXjAv2JTF https://youtu.be/PXSu5Pp8LDc?si=S45L2YdN1yu2izhW *** Next Round's Schedule *** Footy Tipping Contest *** Notes and Comments Rikki's Bombers fell to Hippo's Blues, who have seemed to turn around their season. Both teams are on the

Elaborate Ways of Getting Kicked In The Dick – England at the 2024 Euros (A Tuesday Night Open Thread)

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I am ready to get hurt again. I mean it. There's nothing this team can do to me anymore to make me feel pain. I have seen absolutely everything go wrong for England's national football team in increasingly more aggravating, painful, and confounding ways over these last several decades. I have no

Subsequent GTD reflections

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Hello there fellow DFO'er.  Hope you're well today.  And thanks for coming back to see last weeks tl;dr of last week as decided by my brain.  There's no reason as to why some comments make it and others don't. Seriously. There isn't. A big thanks to Don T and BRC[BFC] for

Monday Morning Mock Draft: Hey, Not So Loud!!

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(I can't think of a decent featured image for this one; someone hit with me some little people!) Greetings, folks.  I write this after having gone out to dinner with some friends who know the owners of the restaurant, (and who I suspect bankrolled at least some of it), and let