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Beerguyrob

A Canadian man-child of indeterminate age, he stays young by selling alcohol at sporting events and yelling at the patrons he serves. Their rage nourishes his soul, and their tips pay for his numerous trips to various sporting events.

Latest posts by Beerguyrob (see all)

• Your “Later Gators!” Tuesday Evening Open Thread - November 24, 2020
• Your “Welcome To Texas!” Saturday Evening Open Thread - November 21, 2020
• “Even Sherman Thinks That’s Enough” – The Falcons Off Their Bye - November 18, 2020

NFL Nuggets:

• It’s a quiet day inside the NFL bubble.
  • Today was the deadline for players to voluntarily opt out of the 2020 season & have their contracts roll over to 2021.
    • A total of 66 players officially took the offer prior to the 4:00PM ET deadline.
    • Under the arrangement worked out between the NFL and the NFLPA, a player can still opt out later if one of the following applies:
      • if that player gets a new diagnosis that he has a high-risk condition; or
      • if a player’s family member dies, is hospitalized or otherwise moves to a medical facility because of COVID-19 or related condition.
  • PFT notes that there are economic incentives for some to opt out.
    • For example, if a player has a $10 million fully-guaranteed salary in 2020, a $10 million non-guaranteed salary in 2021, and half of the 2020 season is lost, the player would receive $5 million in 2020, and $5 million of his $10 million base salary in 2021 would become fully guaranteed.
      • He will actually make more guaranteed money in a year that would have been otherwise non-guaranteed.

• Someone has finally worked out an approximation of how much money the NFL stands to lose from lost ticket sales.
  • The total amount is estimated to be $7.0 billion.
    • The sum comes from an estimation of the four hottest ticket markets, with an extrapolation for the other 28 teams.
      • In 2020, the hottest tickets were expected to be the Giants & Jets, the Eagles, and the Raiders.
        • These four teams were expected to reap $1.3 billion in initial sales & percentages off of resales.
    • TicketiQ then used each team’s resale markups from 2019 to extrapolate where those prices would have gone in 2020.
      • The loss is estimated at $218 million per team.

Hey look – it’s Beerguyrob, fresh back from a week of… a week. Here’s the Coles’ notes:

• Riga had to have the dog ACL surgery. 
  • She’s on the shelf until November, at which point both she & Antonio Brown will be eligible to play.
  • Called a Tibial Plateau Leveling Osteotomy, or TPLO, they remove the remnants of the torn Cranial Cruciate Ligament & realign the tibia using a steel plate.
    • In two weeks she can have her cone removed.
    • In four weeks she can go for walks outside the yard for 15-minute walks.
    • In six weeks I return to school, so my summer is now resigned to monitoring her recovery.
• I suffered a partially dislocated shoulder, which is actually worse than a full dislocation.
  • I was riding my bike, when a jaywalker on her phone walked into the lane in front of me. I hit a wall with my shoulder & heard three distinct pops.
    • Went to a clinic instead of the hospital, because of the COVID. If I still have restricted motion after this week, I have to go in & get a CT Scan.
• Chores!
  • Instead of just drinking, I got two days of drinking & three days of scraping & removing loose paint from the garage before repainting.

Best laid plans…

Tonight’s sports:

• NHL:
  • Vegas vs. St. Louis – 6:30PM | NBCSN / Sportsnet360
  • Toronto vs. Columbus – 8:00PM | NBCSN / Sportsnet
  • Calgary vs. Winnipeg – 10:30PM | CNBC / Sportsnet
• NBA:
  • Los Angeles Clippers vs. Dallas Mavericks – 6:30PM | TNT / TSN2
  • Los Angeles Lakers vs. Houston Rockets – 9:00PM | TNT / TSN2
• MLS is Back Tournament:
  • Orlando City SC vs. Minnesota United – 8:00PM | ESPN2 / TSN
• MLB:
  • Toronto at Atlanta – 7:00PM | Sportsnet1
  • Cheatstros at Arizona or Cubs at Royals – 7:00PM | FOX
• Southern Hemisphere tackle sports:
  • Super Rugby Australia:
    • Rebels vs. Brumbies – 5:00AM | TSN
  • Australian Rules Football:
    • Essendon vs. GWS – 5:30AM | TSN5 / ESPN+

And just like that, I’m done for the week. Balls has something special for you tomorrow, and I’ll be back on the weekend with my usual pre-taped goodness.