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Gale Sayers, RIP
I heard a commentator today say Gale Sayers was the Sandy Koufax of the NFL. Gale played 7 seasons. For 5 of those seasons, he was the best offensive player in the history of the league. He and Brian Piccolo were the first interracial roommates in the NFL. “Brian’s Song” can still make the room very dusty while watching it.
Back to your regularly scheduled programming
Your responses to my daughter’s birthday broke my heart wide open. Thank you.
We spent the whole day Sunday annoying her with stories of her birth. We had two names picked out for her. Just after she was born, I asked the doctor if the Cubs won that day. He said they lost to the Pirates. So my daughter’s name is not Addison because of that. Losing to the Pirates means you don’t deserve to have my daughter named after you.
When my daughter was born, there were rules that babies can’t leave their grocery cart outside of a hospital room because of stranger danger. There was no room on the maternity floor for us because my wife was in the ICU. I had to hang with my daughter on the couch in the visitors room at the end of the floor. I have a fantastic photograph I took in the visitors room where she looked very pensive and intelligent. Unlike the beautiful, crabby and intelligent teenager she is today.
I know we are all assholes, but I also know that the bond between assholes is stronger than steel. That sounds weirder than it did in my head. Like “Requiem for a Dream” final scene weird. We all suck, but we all suck together.
Thank you my invisible internet friends.
Wrestling Glossary: Luchador
I have been remiss in the definition of this word. Mexico has a very long tradition of professional wrestling. It is known as Lucha Libre, which means “Freestyle Wrestling”. Luchador is the name used by Lucha Libre wrestlers. Female Luchas are referred to as Luchadoras. Long before WWE started putting wrestlers in movies, Mexico had a tradition all the way back to the 50’s with masked wrestlers starring in movies. Famously, “Samson vs the Vampire Women” was featured in an MST3K episode. Two strong themes of Lucha Libre. High flying and masked wrestlers. Every time I went to Tijuana when I lived in Southern California, my wife had to talk me out of buying a Lucha mask. I should have never listened to her. Many of the greatest matches have been mask vs mask, much like hair vs hair matches here in the US. The two most prominent promotions in Mexico today are CMLL and AAA. For the AEW angle, Kenny Omega is currently the AAA Mega Champion.
Will Hobbs for the win! I am very excited to see someone from Dark getting called up to the main show. My guess is Hobbs gets the pin for the push.
Jon! Cheer the fuck up!
I will keep posting these until I see him smile.
I have been waiting for AEW to start bringing wrestlers from Dark into the main events. Will Hobbs getting the spotlight in the PPV match shows good progression.
I think I have more wrestling history with Brodie Lee than Orange Cassidy. He would also break my ass and send my wife a check from my life insurance. Murder me on TV and send my wife a check for $700k. For the win.
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I like how they played this out with Shida and Thunder Rosa last week. Shida came in and rescued Rosa from a beatdown and picked up the NWA title with respect and handed it to Rosa. Also solves the title vs title issue. Set up respect between them and make both titles more important. I wish they would give up and create a women’s tag team division. A win by Ivelisse and Diamante could set up weeks of matches for both titles.
Also, following the fantastic match she had with Thunder Rosa, AEW has officially signed Serena Deeb to a contract. As a wrestler, trainer and producer, a great addition to the company. She got a second match on Dark this week and was fantastic. She was one of the Performance Center trainers cut loose from WWE back in April.
Not to belabor the point, but there is lots of eyeliner in these posters.
Tonight’s Sprots:
- Dodgeball Thunderdome!!!!: 8:00 pm, Discovery Channel
- You know, one of these weeks, there will be a cornhole tournament on this list
- MLS
- Sporting KC vs Orlando City SC: 6:30 pm, FS1
- MLB
- St Louis BFIB vs KC Royals: 7:00 pm, ESPN
- NHL
- Lightning vs Stars: 7:00 pm, NBCSN
- NBA
- Celtics vs Heat: 7:40 pm, ESPN
Let the beatings commence!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CFFHeLKpgYl/?igshid=vux5wxma86wz
At least we still have Crystal Gayle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9lz_yzrGZw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQwtMmzdlhI
This reminds me. I need to get new pillows.
I’m sure My Pillow Guy will be happy to help.
Only if those are filled with crack
I hate to break it to you, but espn has indeed been airing cornhole. Add that to the list of horrible things president trump has inflicted on our country.
THE.WHOLE.FUCKING.BAR!!!
It’s important to air cornhole, especially after the morning fallout from Taco Tuesday makes everything tender.
When I was in the fleet, “Cornhole” was a game that involved neither plywood targets nor beanbags.
We know.
To quote George Carlin, “As they say in the U.S. Navy, there is no wrong hole.”
“It’s not gay if you’re underway.”
“Sailors have more fun!
*with each other*”
I thought Gayle Sayers died fifty years ago.
No, that was Sonny Corleone.
I’m a subscriber, so I don’t know if this is behind a firewall; if so, my apologies.
“Machete don’t text.”
https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/how-danny-trejo-built-decades-long-film-career-after-prison/
I have a great hour-long speech he gave to an AA meeting a few years back. He is so passionate and committed to improving the world around him. And I’ve come across that energy in so many others who never got the shot he did or just never found the focus he has. His life could’ve gone a whole different way so easily, as it usually does for so many people because life is fickle. Some the chance and won. Some lost. Some blew it off. And a hell of a lot of people miss it, or never even get close to a chance. I was thinking about it this morning with a claimant how some people just live lives where shit never stops raining down on them. There are others who are perfectly capable of fucking up everything around them on their own.
I also met with some people online, and it never ceases to amaze me how powerless these people can feel even when they have resources, access, skills, and information – let’s call these people “lawyers.” I also think that is intentional that the people most stressed now are people who think they followed all the rules and did everything right and have the reality that this shit does not matter to most people and does not matter when it’s inconvenient to power. I have respect for so many losers in life and hate and disdain my profession.
It’s like Chappelle’s opening joke in his most recent special about Bourdain and his friend working at a grocery store. The punchline to that joke is, SPOILERS, that life is absurd. That’s the whole point of comedy as a genre. Except that I’m also a bastard who has no sympathy for people handed everything in life and then act put upon over anything. Because I am one of those people a d familiarity breeds contempt.
Okay. Enough rambling. Go look for that audio clip. Danny rules.
I posted the TX Monthly link when I was only 1/3 of the way through the writeup, then I went and finished reading it. What a human being. I think I might even convince my cheap ass to pony up the six bucks to rent Inmate #1 on Amazon Prime.
“Everything good that has happened to me has happened as a direct result of helping someone else.
“Everything good that has happened to me has happened as a direct result of helping someone else.
“Everything.”
We solved racism.
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2020/9/23/uncle-bens-rice-gets-rebrand-after-racial-stereotyping-criticism
“Slowpoke.”
—Aunt Jemima
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/aunt-jemima-brand-will-change-name-remove-image-quaker-says-n1231260
It’s shit rice anyway.
All the black logo people got fired, yet the white logo people all got promoted.
I am outraged out, I’ll read The Root’s take tomorrow.
Dat ass, do.
Day 1 of the move. I hope to be more coherent after all is said and done.
Goddamn these stairs.
If I had to move at this point I would throw out/ donate half my shit. I expect you are much more organized.
As a single person living like a BB in a boxcar in a 3300 sq ft house that is pretty much full of stuff I have no further use for as I age, I’m thinking I’ll just call an estate agent to sell everything. Live in a Winnebago or a refrigerator box under the highway overpass on the proceeds of the sale, plus my gov’t retirement, 401, and IRA. Shouldn’t be too bad.
Quick artist’s depiction of first load.
Last few moves I’ve been involved with, it’s looked like the fucking Beverly Hillbillies.
My only suggestion is this: Fire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mV_HHL-h6g
Seen them live twice. One of the better hard rock bands out there right now.
My cousin lives in Louisville Here in Yinzburgh, the grand jury let the cop who shot an unarmed black kid off. I see people who I’m “friends” with on Bookface saying this this why that BLUE,LIVES MATTER HASHTAG SUPPORT THE POLICE HASHTAG WHITE LIVES MATTER TOO
(that last one is a real thing around here)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03gauuHIgME&ab_channel=remhq
If only the kid had been the wall to a white person’s apartment they might have actually gotten justice!
It’s sad that I can make this joke.
No worries, my laughter was sardonic. Actually nearly all my laughter is sardonic these days.
It seems impossible to make a snarky comment that isn’t just doom and gloom, but I can’t think of any realistic method of change that would outpace the influence and protections being dumped on law enforcement at this point. They do what they want regardless of who’s in power and if the local govt bops them on the nose, they run screaming to daddy in Washington. The prestige and respect for law enforcement in America is too deeply entrenched. They even use the worst incidents to create a narrative of them being mostly good, like Biden did with the George Floyd discussion during the DNC last month. Almost at the point where we prop police up higher than veterans.
I agree with everything but, “room and gloom” but even there it depends on the room. Well said.
One thing is that these same build up veterans to a fetishistic worship as far as anything other than an actual effort to help any of them. It is all a ‘thoughts and prayers’ exercise that accomplishes nothing.
I think an interesting exercise would be to walk around a parking lot with a fistful of “Honor the Troops” stickers with the worst stickym paint damaging gum, and replace any removable “Honor the Troops” magnetic “stickers” with them.
The summer of BLM gave us a fucking cop as the VP nominee. Democrats can eat shit.
I have a lovely Model 70 Colt Arms 1911 and 150 rounds of .45 ACP. I’m probably just going to shoot myself on November 4th, Don’t want to live in Trumpworld anymore.
Don’t do that. He is not worth it.
Worry not, drunk me some times gets a little histrionic. I did say “probably.” Let’s see how the Pats are doing, and whether the new Top Gear episode has been scheduled for release, before I do anything rash. Besides, doing such a thing would greatly inconvenience a lot of people dear to me. And I have become a physical coward as I’ve aged, so it’s really going to have to be endgame Mad Max World in order for me to really contemplate such an action.
Is it possible to smoke-weed-yourself-to-death?
I posted this earlier, but it would seem to be far to difficult, but I’m thinking that black licorice would still taste “fresh” after being left in a dystopian world.
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/nation-world/story/2020-09-23/too-much-candy-man-dies-from-eating-bags-of-black-licorice
I wonder if all anise-flavored liquors are as shitty as those I’ve tasted in my life: absinthe, sambuca, ouzo, raki. To this day, I can’t look a licorice whip in the eye, unless it’s red licorice.
Don’t do that please.
[Mr. Hippo judges furiously]
You’ve Got Mail is on again tonight. I am quite happy about this turn of events. It really is a fantastic movie for anyone who is a fan of the Hungarian play it’s based on.
Sometimes oral sex can be bad.
Teeth and/or the pubes/braces combo.
Especially if it’s an ant which was exposed to radiation and grew to thousands of times its natural size……with braces.
Better than smoking clowns.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2VArg4Kz6k
Wasn’t one of the Cali fires The Clown Fire?
I mean, it kinda worked for Peter Parker. So, maybe it won’t be so bad?
True that; “With great dick powers, cums great responsibility.”
Richard Powers does not appreciate this joke.
https://www.richardpowers.net/
Erik Kratz pitched his second inning in the last week. Good to have an extra arm out of the pen in addition to your third-string catcher. Plus he’s a knuckleballer!
I would assume they put Jake Roberts (Lance’s manager) on quarantine when Lance tested positive.