Today was the first of two major sport free-agent negotiation windows. The NBA’s started today, and the salary cap for the NBA this year is $109.14 million, up seven million from last year. Negotiations could officially begin as of 6:00PM ET today. Before I left for the ballpark to get people drunk, the big talk was of Kawhi Leonard & Kevin Durant signing on the same team & forming a new superteam.
The NHL’s is tomorrow starting at noon ET. The Penguins unofficially kicked things off by trading Phil Kessel to Arizona, just in time for a Fourth of July hot dog roast. (Not my line; can’t remember whose.) It should be a fun day watching people move around for millions of dollars.
We just have to get through the garbage that is Sunday evening sports. Good thing Canada has a three-day weekend to help us with our misery after losing to fellow soccer minnow Haiti last night. The difference between Canadian & US sports fans is that Canadians expect their team, even if favoured, to lose, which is why we are considered experts at hate-watching events. We love them & want them to win, but we’re never surprised at the opposite result. It’s what makes us so pleasantly sanguine.
Tonight’s sports:
- MLB:
- Atlanta at Mets – 7:00PM | ESPN
- Fútbol:
- Concacaf Copa Oro 2019:
- Cuartos de final IV / Quarterfinal IV: USA vs. Curacao – 8:00PM | UNI / FS1 / TSN3
- Concacaf Copa Oro 2019:
Guaranteed this is more entertaining than either sports event,
Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, with “Hitler” (left) and “Rommel” (right), France 1944
I grew up in Washington D.C. back when it was a hick town. It ain’t a hick town anymore.
If you live in a hick town, then embrace it because you are “the man.” One day it won’t be a hick town.
Here’s a flag that me and my younger brother Jimmy (1964-2002) stole from the Washington Monument.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVEATF7VNTk
. . . and the chick in the middle here is every school teacher I ever had between kindergarten and fourth grade, with the exception of first , second, and third grades.
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Explain this.
Barry Sanders was fucking awesome and I was randomly reminded of that while making myself irrationally angry on Twitter. Sometimes good stuff slips in by happenstance.
Okay you should’ve said this in the first place.
A long, long time ago, Old Jake remembers still; that first night was the worst theater clean-up in memory.
Saw the Jordan Peele film “Us” last night. Anyone pulled that one apart here yet? Odd film.
Rhinos fucking on BBC America. Just a heads up.
This is the kind of information I can only get on DFO.
Thank you for doing the Lord’s Work.
GIRAFFE FIGHT!!!!
Indeed. Also, never realized that was my thing.
DVRed!!
RHINOCEROS!
In shocking CRIMEBEAT! news…
https://www.wfaa.com/amp/article/news/local/josh-brent-arrested-tased-by-coppell-police/287-cfc174a4-d41d-4deb-b766-75f354b34c90
Did this guy ever actually get “tazed?”
Of course not. He respectfully asked not to be while white.
I am realizing that at this time next week, there will be 4 days ahead without even el beisbol or various continental Euros to watch. I wonder if that is peak suicide time, at least after Christmas.
Seriously. The CFL is missing a golden opportunity.
At least there’s a bunch of WNBA games…
I think there are some MLS games
There’s a scene where Owen Wilson and Ben Affleck are talking about how surreal the whole thing is and who’s which movie character. Affleck claims Han Solo over Wilson and I just realized that Ben Affleck is the Han Solo in Armageddon because he comes out of nowhere at the end to help save the day.
Also, he has sex with the woman the star is related to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpMfZPAc1kg
I don’t entirely feel comfortable with Amazon sending me an email of my front door while I was sitting right next to it and had no indication of anything. I guess there’s no need for the slightest whiff of “confrontation” but that’s not right.
This sounds like the first two minutes of a Black Mirror episode.
I think it is how that VR Star Trek episode begins, but that also includes the dude being a dick to his Amazon/Postmates guy. So that’s probably what they want to avoid.
Oh, that was a fun one. Jimmi Simpson is good in everything.
Wait, whut?
Since Amazon now lets any random person deliver packages for them and not just USPS or UPS, to prove they actually delivered packages they now send you a photo of the package in front of the door or wherever you have it delivered in the delivery confirmation email. It’s only really useful when you want to complain about the delivery person leaving them out for porch pirates to steal your shit.
Huh, interesting. I haven’t gotten one of those. Just had an amazon delivery a coupla days ago.
I think it was Fedex who delivered it, actually.
Maybe the folks in North Cackalacky can’t afford cameras.
I order from Amazon all the time and it’s mostly USPS or FedEx delivering, but one time (on a “same day” delivery) I got an emailed photo of the package at my door. This is in Playa del Rey California which of course is more sophisticated than the rest of North America and there’s a lot of granny porn here plus we’re all coke addicts.
Don’t hate the Playa del Rey, hate the… something.
Hate the Rey
just NAE Lana Del Rey
Not this Rey
or porch pirates, I am glad they leave my nonsense on the landing, I am too weird and half-deaf to be answering the door and shit
Yeah, you’re getting Green Day.
It’s been that kind of day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjuUMA6W9Zs
Wait a sec, I need to scratch my nut sack.
/scratches nut sack
Okay I’m done. Carry on, men.
Need a hand? Figuratively speaking, of course.
I said carry on.
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Shue in.
So I only just found out about this.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/irs-satanic-temple-church-tax-exempt-826931/
I think it would be pretty cool if one day a Congressperson was sworn in using the Necronomicon.
With all the swearing that goes on here, DFO should be a Church by now.
…We could make it ok to marry our attractive cousins?
We have attractive cousins?
*takes pants off.
**pants were already off, just needed the phrase for the joke.
Someone around here is bound to have one. Maybe a woman cousin even. Then we can all marry her.
I have at least four first cousins who I would fuck the shit out of (I never have nor have ever brought it up). I think all four of them know it too, in a charming way.
Maybe I should introduce them to you.
Wooo boy, someone get the rag-on-a-stick and get scrubbin, I got me a date.
But remember, they really love me. You’re just a surrogate.
Report the details. Include photographs.
And step sisters!
Don’t even need the stop, brother.
We already have the Commentarianist Church. Technically, we don’t have any Articles of Faith regarding consenting adult cousins, attractive or otherwise.
This is a movie I’ve never seen that I most want to see (The Wicker Man (1973) (not the remake with Nic Cage (2006) (“The bees! Not the bees!”)))
The one with Nic is not a tenth as good IMO.
No, but it’s still kinda entertaining in that Nic Cage May be legitimately batshit insane kinda way.
I mean we already do have our own pantheon.
If you will it, Dude, it is no dream. Just a matter of time and interest.
Man, this dry skin….
https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mets-apologize-after-including-two-living-players-in-memorial-montage-during-1969-world-series-reunion/
And the Mets keep on Metting.
You’d think they would include Bobby Bonilla as wishful thinking.
The next time a Christian gets all Holier Than Thou and starts judging those that “live in sin”, remind them that “truth with grace is love, truth without grace is mean and grace without truth is meaningless” and say your quoting a Christian pastor in response to the LGBTQ Pride celebrations.
I prefer to go straight to the gospel and go with “it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.”
Or how about the “only god can judge life and death, unless it’s a black guy on death row because of a coerced confession” part.
Hold on just a minute!
We can get coerced confession from Messicans toos.
I’d rather go with logic, facts, and ethics, but those usually have no affect.
Muppets are (almost) always the answer
You sick freak!
#muppetporndotcom
Time to wipe the pitch with los Licores Azules
Damn. I mean DAMN I wish you folks could smell what Sunday Gravy is cooking.
I’m going to work with my work engineers to bring smell-o- vision to real life.
After today’s recipe, I don’t think I want to eat or smell food for quite a while.
I’m coming back with my A game.
All you SHOULD be able to smell what I just dealt.
I was wondering what that was.
Jesus.
Even he couldn’t let one go like that.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Once you get outside the usual Padres bullpen, that’ll happen.
I am sure Rev. will agree…that 11th inning closer combo of Webb and Leone made us more than a bit itchy. And no clue who would have pitched after the 12th.
But fuck, I am just glad we at least fought back and competed. Jeebus.
I wasn’t watching/monitoring in real time. I will admit to a great deal of puzzlement looking at the pitching portion of the box score.
they wuz all that wuz left, went a little matchup-heavy in the 7th and 8th
Alright Padres, how about a walk off?
come onnnnnn team…
or how about the #BFIB hold onto a teeny scintilla of non-despair??
WIETERS!
Someday, the Canadians amongst us will have to explain the Canadian Cottage thing…
I always assumed a “Canadian Cottage” was an extremely perverted (yet polite) sexual position involving two men, a woman and a moose.
Wat?