KD first to doub figs, now with 12, Steph 10. Klay going Krazy, 13 6/10. Iguodala 10. Beard now back in game, 12 pts, 13'. Rivers running deep with 11. 16 PF's total 1H, 8 apiece.
Sayonara Termites
Sayonara Termites
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Rockets or Rockettes? Cowtown Has a Problem: Zebras Swallow Whistles. GS Up 29-20
Beard 0/3. Dray 7 pts, 6 'bounds.
Male Deer Goring Green Beans
After getting de-antlered on Sunday by 22 “Bucks” are rutting all over Beans 116-88 with 4+ left.
Umm, Adam
Now the refs are a pre-game feature.
Scott Foster, just the worst referee in the NBA, has been assigned the Houston-Golden State game two tonight.
Scott Foster, just the worst referee in the NBA, has been assigned the Houston-Golden State game two tonight.
ASK IRA: Are Heat developing championship-level talent?
The relevant part of the actual question was:
How many players on this current roster would have been key or complementary pieces on any of the Heat's championship rosters? I ask that to say this: If and when the Heat get back to championship status, I predict that maybe only one of our current players would be on that roster....
The relevant part of the actual ANSWER IS!
A: While I'm not going to make comparisons about which players on the current roster are better than Mario Chalmers [starting PG on 2011/12 and 2012/13 championship teams] the point is that the right player at the right time in the right place can carve out a niche...But that also is besides the point, because, ultimately, you may never be on a championship track with anyone on your current roster. The starting point has to be whether you project any of the current players can be factors on a playoff contender. And Justise Winslow and Josh Richardson already showed that on the 2015-16 team that made it within one game of the Eastern Conference finals...
And that is the biggest bullshit answer I’ve ever heard. The question was "key or complementary." Chalmers was a perfect answer. Why Ira didn't want to go there is between him and his editor. There are at least five current players who are clearly as good or better than Chalmers: Winslow, Richardson, Whiteside, Waiters, Olynyk.
Everything after "niche" is complete bullshit.
The relevant part of the actual question was:
How many players on this current roster would have been key or complementary pieces on any of the Heat's championship rosters? I ask that to say this: If and when the Heat get back to championship status, I predict that maybe only one of our current players would be on that roster....
The relevant part of the actual ANSWER IS!
A: While I'm not going to make comparisons about which players on the current roster are better than Mario Chalmers [starting PG on 2011/12 and 2012/13 championship teams] the point is that the right player at the right time in the right place can carve out a niche...But that also is besides the point, because, ultimately, you may never be on a championship track with anyone on your current roster. The starting point has to be whether you project any of the current players can be factors on a playoff contender. And Justise Winslow and Josh Richardson already showed that on the 2015-16 team that made it within one game of the Eastern Conference finals...
And that is the biggest bullshit answer I’ve ever heard. The question was "key or complementary." Chalmers was a perfect answer. Why Ira didn't want to go there is between him and his editor. There are at least five current players who are clearly as good or better than Chalmers: Winslow, Richardson, Whiteside, Waiters, Olynyk.
Everything after "niche" is complete bullshit.
Monday, April 29, 2019
FT Philly 94 Toronto 89
The 7’6”ers even the series 1-1. Toronto will win the series 4-1.
The referees called 41 fouls in this game. Philadelphia made 24 of its 26, Toronto 13 of its 15. Ergo, the game was more than won 24-13 where it should not have been won, with 9 of the world’s best athletes standing around, grabbing their shorts while watching one of the world’s best athletes takenan uncontested free shot.
The referees called 41 fouls in this game. Philadelphia made 24 of its 26, Toronto 13 of its 15. Ergo, the game was more than won 24-13 where it should not have been won, with 9 of the world’s best athletes standing around, grabbing their shorts while watching one of the world’s best athletes takenan uncontested free shot.
Whaddup Kemosabe?
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#sixers up 26-17 after 1. The Raptors have missed some open shots, sure, but the adjustments made by Brown, better ball movement, crisper defensive rotations and some great man-to-man defense from Simmons have made a huge different from Game 1.
5:32 PM - 29 Apr 2019
It is now 51-33 Philly with 1:38 left 2Q
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#sixers up 26-17 after 1. The Raptors have missed some open shots, sure, but the adjustments made by Brown, better ball movement, crisper defensive rotations and some great man-to-man defense from Simmons have made a huge different from Game 1.
5:32 PM - 29 Apr 2019
It is now 51-33 Philly with 1:38 left 2Q
Professional basketball in the United States is a nearly perfect sport. The elevated goal is unique in all of sport. Man has always been entranced by flight and the elevated goal makes the players appear to fly. Their acrobatic moves to get to the basket draw oohs and ahhs. Not for nothing are the players considered the best athletes in the world. The 24 second shot clock keeps the game moving. The three point line adds sharpshooting to hang gliding as sub-sports to the main. The dimensions of the court allow for spectators to be this close to the action and the game is physical without being violent. The architecture of the game is the work of geniuses.
There is a near fatal flaw in this perfection. The rules of play and the enforcers of those rules. The referees have too much power. Twenty or thirty or more times per game the referees stop this otherworldly action to call fouls. The rules interpreting violations for physical contact are subject to interpretation and ever-changing. The penalty for a foul, one or two free throws, is not sufficiently punitive to deter the conduct, nor to deter the referees from calling fouls and results in the mind-numbingly boring spectacle of these remarkable athletes standing around while one of them shoots free throws. By contrast, in soccer, a sport with similarities to professional basketball, there are far fewer interruptions in the flow of play, those that are are extremely brief, fouls that are called are for dangerous conduct and can get a player ejected whereby his team must play a man short for the remainder of the match. The penalties in soccer, in other words, are extremely punitive and as a consequence, fouls are rarely called.
At its worst this grave flaw in professional basketball has jeopardized the integrity of that architecture: the fixing of games (Tom Donaghy); taking out personal vendettas against particular players (Jake O’Donnell on Clyde Drexler). More common is honest refereeing that effects the outcome of a game and which becomes the story. Such was last night. In a marquee playoff match up between two glamour teams, Houston and Golden State, with some of the biggest stars, what the refs did call (56 fouls) and what the refs did not call led to a Golden State win and to today’s storyline of the game. To state the obvious that should not ever be the case but it was, it is, and it has too frequently been thus.
There is a near fatal flaw in this perfection. The rules of play and the enforcers of those rules. The referees have too much power. Twenty or thirty or more times per game the referees stop this otherworldly action to call fouls. The rules interpreting violations for physical contact are subject to interpretation and ever-changing. The penalty for a foul, one or two free throws, is not sufficiently punitive to deter the conduct, nor to deter the referees from calling fouls and results in the mind-numbingly boring spectacle of these remarkable athletes standing around while one of them shoots free throws. By contrast, in soccer, a sport with similarities to professional basketball, there are far fewer interruptions in the flow of play, those that are are extremely brief, fouls that are called are for dangerous conduct and can get a player ejected whereby his team must play a man short for the remainder of the match. The penalties in soccer, in other words, are extremely punitive and as a consequence, fouls are rarely called.
At its worst this grave flaw in professional basketball has jeopardized the integrity of that architecture: the fixing of games (Tom Donaghy); taking out personal vendettas against particular players (Jake O’Donnell on Clyde Drexler). More common is honest refereeing that effects the outcome of a game and which becomes the story. Such was last night. In a marquee playoff match up between two glamour teams, Houston and Golden State, with some of the biggest stars, what the refs did call (56 fouls) and what the refs did not call led to a Golden State win and to today’s storyline of the game. To state the obvious that should not ever be the case but it was, it is, and it has too frequently been thus.
Sunday, April 28, 2019
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You alright hun @piersmorgan 😂
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Donald Trump's statement on the Arms Trade Treaty is the final confirmation that he is not the Leader of the Free World, he never has been, and he does not deserve the honour of a State Visit to Britain. He is nothing but a disgrace to his office and a threat to our world order.
2:46 PM - 26 Apr 2019
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Donald Trump's statement on the Arms Trade Treaty is the final confirmation that he is not the Leader of the Free World, he never has been, and he does not deserve the honour of a State Visit to Britain. He is nothing but a disgrace to his office and a threat to our world order.
2:46 PM - 26 Apr 2019
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Saturday, April 27, 2019
To: Erik Spoelstra
From: Benjamin Harris publocc@gmail.com
Subject: Your Head
Hi. Are you familiar with the Mr. Dick character in David Copperfield? You resemble Mr Dick. You have been working on your life's project for 11 years but in the last three years you have been constantly distracted from your work by thoughts of your King Charles, Hassan Whiteside. You cannot stop tinkering with your rotation. You used 29 starting lineups this season past, on average a new one every third game as if you had just been handed this shit collective rather than having had the same shit every day for the past three years. The players don't know what to expect, they cannot get into a rhythm, their play becomes inconsistent, their morale suffers, their effort becomes inconsistent. It is a shit circle.
Spoelstra, this is what you are going to do or your head is going to resemble that of King Charles. You are going to begin 2019/20 with your five best (or least worst) players in your starting lineup and with a set rotation of next least worst players to come into games at predictable times. You will decide this by a date set in stone during training camp once you have a chance to see who is healthy and who has been training at Dunkin' Donuts over the summer and you are going to stick with it! You are not to tinker! This is a tinker-free zone! The moment the tinkering thought enters your brain you are to fly to this email! This will be your starting lineup unless you get advance written permission from Miss Betsey or ME:
PG Goran Dragic
SG Dion Waiters (in case of Dunkin' Donuts attack break glass insert Justise Winslow.)
SF Josh Richardson
PF Bam Adebayo
C Hassan Whiteside
Last out, first in: Winslow, Kelly Olynyk.
If D-Wait is D-Weight banish him to the end of the bench, trade him, or cut him. The rest of the rotation I leave, not without misgivings but with the thought that I have penned you in sufficiently with that ETCHED IN STONE starting lineup, to your discretion.
Your friend,
Benjamin Harris
From: Benjamin Harris publocc@gmail.com
Subject: Your Head
Hi. Are you familiar with the Mr. Dick character in David Copperfield? You resemble Mr Dick. You have been working on your life's project for 11 years but in the last three years you have been constantly distracted from your work by thoughts of your King Charles, Hassan Whiteside. You cannot stop tinkering with your rotation. You used 29 starting lineups this season past, on average a new one every third game as if you had just been handed this shit collective rather than having had the same shit every day for the past three years. The players don't know what to expect, they cannot get into a rhythm, their play becomes inconsistent, their morale suffers, their effort becomes inconsistent. It is a shit circle.
Spoelstra, this is what you are going to do or your head is going to resemble that of King Charles. You are going to begin 2019/20 with your five best (or least worst) players in your starting lineup and with a set rotation of next least worst players to come into games at predictable times. You will decide this by a date set in stone during training camp once you have a chance to see who is healthy and who has been training at Dunkin' Donuts over the summer and you are going to stick with it! You are not to tinker! This is a tinker-free zone! The moment the tinkering thought enters your brain you are to fly to this email! This will be your starting lineup unless you get advance written permission from Miss Betsey or ME:
PG Goran Dragic
SG Dion Waiters (in case of Dunkin' Donuts attack break glass insert Justise Winslow.)
SF Josh Richardson
PF Bam Adebayo
C Hassan Whiteside
Last out, first in: Winslow, Kelly Olynyk.
If D-Wait is D-Weight banish him to the end of the bench, trade him, or cut him. The rest of the rotation I leave, not without misgivings but with the thought that I have penned you in sufficiently with that ETCHED IN STONE starting lineup, to your discretion.
Your friend,
Benjamin Harris
Friday, April 26, 2019
Late in the night of February 20 a telephone message reached me as I sat in my old room at Chartwell (as I often sit now) that Eden had resigned....In a long life I have had many ups and downs. During all the war soon to come and in its darkest times I never had any trouble in sleeping. In the crisis of 1940, when so much responsibility lay upon me, and also at many very anxious, awkward moments in the following five years, I could always flop into bed and go to sleep after the day's work was done--subject of course to any emergency call. I slept sound and awoke refreshed, and had no feelings except appetite to grapple with whatever the morning's boxes might bring. But now on this night of February 20, 1938, and on this occasion only, sleep deserted me. From midnight till dawn I lay in my bed consumed by emotions of sorrow and fear. There seemed one strong young figure standing up against long, dismal, drawling tides of drift and surrender, of wrong measurements and feeble impulses. My conduct of affairs would have been different from his in various ways but he seemed to me at this moment to embody the life-hope of the British nation, the grand old British race that had done so much for men, and had yet some more to give. Now he was gone. I watched the daylight slowly creep in through the windows, and saw before me in mental gaze the vision of Death.
Churchill ibid (202)
I see vividly in my mind's eye Churchill lying awake in bed seeing in his mind's eye at Death at dawn, just as I saw vividly in the words of Churchill's countryman Dickens the scene in A Tale of Two Cities of a blood red dawn washing over the monseigneur's castle, coloring the stone gargoyles crimson, bloodying the water of the fountain, creeping through the open windows of the bedroom, illuminating the monseigneur lying in his bed, eyes eternally asleep, a knife in his chest, stone cold Dead.
What a powerful writer Winston Churchill was. What powerful scenes he saw to write.
Churchill ibid (202)
I see vividly in my mind's eye Churchill lying awake in bed seeing in his mind's eye at Death at dawn, just as I saw vividly in the words of Churchill's countryman Dickens the scene in A Tale of Two Cities of a blood red dawn washing over the monseigneur's castle, coloring the stone gargoyles crimson, bloodying the water of the fountain, creeping through the open windows of the bedroom, illuminating the monseigneur lying in his bed, eyes eternally asleep, a knife in his chest, stone cold Dead.
What a powerful writer Winston Churchill was. What powerful scenes he saw to write.
...President Roosevelt's proposal to use American influence for the purpose of bringing together the leading European Powers to discuss the chances of a general settlement, this of course involving however tentatively the might power of the United States, was rebuffed by Mr. Chamberlain.
...
No one can measure in retrospect its effect upon the course of events in Austria and later at Munich. We must regard its rejection--for such it was--as the loss of the last frail chance to save the world from tyranny otherwise than by war. That Mr. , with his limited outlook and inexperience of the European scene, should have possessed the self-sufficiency to wave away the proffered hand stretched out across the Atlantic leaves one, even at this date, [1948] breathless with amazement. The lack of all sense of proportion, and even of self-preservation, which this episode reveals in an upright, competent, well-meaning man, charged with the destinies of our country and all who depended upon it, is appalling. One cannot to-day even reconstruct the state of mind which would render such gestures possible.
Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War, Volume 1 The Gathering Storm, p200.
...
No one can measure in retrospect its effect upon the course of events in Austria and later at Munich. We must regard its rejection--for such it was--as the loss of the last frail chance to save the world from tyranny otherwise than by war. That Mr. , with his limited outlook and inexperience of the European scene, should have possessed the self-sufficiency to wave away the proffered hand stretched out across the Atlantic leaves one, even at this date, [1948] breathless with amazement. The lack of all sense of proportion, and even of self-preservation, which this episode reveals in an upright, competent, well-meaning man, charged with the destinies of our country and all who depended upon it, is appalling. One cannot to-day even reconstruct the state of mind which would render such gestures possible.
Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War, Volume 1 The Gathering Storm, p200.
Thursday, April 25, 2019
125-126
Those ridiculously, exquisitely mediocre numbers are the Miami "Heat's" record the last three full seasons. Coming up in Year Four: more of the same. "I don't think there is any team in the NBA with as bleak an outlook as the "Heat," said hoop savant Zach Lowe in mid-season.
The Miami Herald's Barry Barry Jackson and Anthony Chiang, are doing a good job of calling a Riley a spade without being insulting. It all comes back to Riles. Stevie Wonder could see that and Barry and Anthony have good eyesight. Barry listed ten things the "Heat" need to do to improve, almost all of them Riley related. For some reason Barry gave Eric Spoelstra a pass. He wrote about Spo's distaste for Hassan Whiteside and put this in bold as a sub-lede:
You can’t have the league’s leading rebounder per 36 minutes –and your highest paid player - averaging just 17.3 minutes over his final 19 games.
Spoelstra can't do that, Barry, not a generic "You," "One" cannot do that, no Spoelstra can't do that. CALL IT BARRY FOR GODSSAKE, CALL SPO A SPADE.
He wrote about the ever changing lineups, how that demoralized and confused the players, led to inconsistency--Duh!--and inconsistent effort. Whose lineups were they, Barry? Anthony wrote that it was either 27 or 29 different lineups that Spoelstra used this season.
The same team is going to be back in 2019-20. The same team...That makes me a little nauseous. The same coach. If Spoelstra starts the 2019-20 season back to his tinkering ways--he just cannot resist, he is obsessive compulsive about his tinkering, I make it odds-on that he does--I am either going to tune out and drop out or turn homicidal, I hope the former.
The Miami Herald's Barry Barry Jackson and Anthony Chiang, are doing a good job of calling a Riley a spade without being insulting. It all comes back to Riles. Stevie Wonder could see that and Barry and Anthony have good eyesight. Barry listed ten things the "Heat" need to do to improve, almost all of them Riley related. For some reason Barry gave Eric Spoelstra a pass. He wrote about Spo's distaste for Hassan Whiteside and put this in bold as a sub-lede:
You can’t have the league’s leading rebounder per 36 minutes –and your highest paid player - averaging just 17.3 minutes over his final 19 games.
Spoelstra can't do that, Barry, not a generic "You," "One" cannot do that, no Spoelstra can't do that. CALL IT BARRY FOR GODSSAKE, CALL SPO A SPADE.
He wrote about the ever changing lineups, how that demoralized and confused the players, led to inconsistency--Duh!--and inconsistent effort. Whose lineups were they, Barry? Anthony wrote that it was either 27 or 29 different lineups that Spoelstra used this season.
The same team is going to be back in 2019-20. The same team...That makes me a little nauseous. The same coach. If Spoelstra starts the 2019-20 season back to his tinkering ways--he just cannot resist, he is obsessive compulsive about his tinkering, I make it odds-on that he does--I am either going to tune out and drop out or turn homicidal, I hope the former.
Man, I just watched 11’ of highlights from the derby. United are just not that good. De Gea did not cover himself in glory in net—on either of the two goals but especially the second—United’s defenders did not cover De Gea; their strikers shots at goal are still circling the earth, Romelu Lukaku was out of shape and slow, like somebody in a beer league, and put two of United’s satellites in orbit. Paul Pogba looks the part of a player, like an actor chosen to play a part but who has no talent. Only Marcus Rashford looked like he could even play for City. United are a collection of massively expensive spare parts.
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
The British are celebrated for their ability to laugh at themselves. Which is good – because we’re not celebrated for much else at the moment. But even our talent for self-mockery is being strained. The cause is understandable: Westminster’s incompetence is so farcical it should be funny. But it’s not. We’re in danger of becoming a nation of dour, po-faced haters (and self-haters). So thank the lord for Manchester City fans. And as a Man United fan I never thought I’d hear myself say that.
In these dark days it is the blue half of Manchester that is showing the rest of the country it is still possible to not take yourself too seriously. City learned the hard way. They endured 35 years of pain – not winning a single trophy while United swept up everything in front of them.
United have had it good for as long as I can remember. But that’s not made us better fans. Along with being renowned as an arrogant bunch we take ourselves far too seriously. During two decades of dominance, City endured prolonged periods of misery in the lower tiers of the Football League and United fans were merciless in skewering their unfortunate local rivals. At Old Trafford a ticker banner was unfurled every other week that catalogued City’s trophy-less spell. If the insults hurt, you couldn’t tell from the cheery choruses being belted out on Maine Road’s terraces. They seemed to revel in their failure: “We always lose at home, and we always lose away, we lost last week and we lost today, we don’t give a fuck cos we’re all pissed up, MCFC OK.” They sang joyously, as if stoicism beat winning trophies hands down.
Guess I better cite the thing since I’m quoting all of it. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/24/manchester-city-fans-football-supporters-brexit-britain
Our old insults are redundant now. Since City have been endowed with Abu Dhabi’s riches it’s become more difficult for United fans to maintain the supercilious grins we’ve been wearing for the past two decades. But we still try. Despite the riches, the new stadium, world class players, record-breaking seasons and being treated to arguably the world’s best manager, City still can’t fill their ground. Every game features empty seats peppered around the Etihad, prompting rival fans to coin “Emptyhad” to encapsulate City’s phantom home support. You’d think that might be a source of embarrassment. But no. If 35 years of hurt could be embraced with humorous self-flagellation then a few empty seats aren’t going to dent the fun. And so, to the tune of the Beautiful South’s Rotterdam, they celebrate their failure: “We’ve been to Rotterdam and Monaco, Napoli and Rome. We’ve still got empty seats! Empty seats at hooooome! Empty seats at home.”
Even if United win the derby on Wednesday night City fans are sure to find something to laugh about. Because they’re made of Teflon, impervious to insults. Their ability to laugh off any well-aimed jibes may have frustrated me over the years, but I think we could all learn from their ability to not take things so seriously.
In these dark days it is the blue half of Manchester that is showing the rest of the country it is still possible to not take yourself too seriously. City learned the hard way. They endured 35 years of pain – not winning a single trophy while United swept up everything in front of them.
United have had it good for as long as I can remember. But that’s not made us better fans. Along with being renowned as an arrogant bunch we take ourselves far too seriously. During two decades of dominance, City endured prolonged periods of misery in the lower tiers of the Football League and United fans were merciless in skewering their unfortunate local rivals. At Old Trafford a ticker banner was unfurled every other week that catalogued City’s trophy-less spell. If the insults hurt, you couldn’t tell from the cheery choruses being belted out on Maine Road’s terraces. They seemed to revel in their failure: “We always lose at home, and we always lose away, we lost last week and we lost today, we don’t give a fuck cos we’re all pissed up, MCFC OK.” They sang joyously, as if stoicism beat winning trophies hands down.
Guess I better cite the thing since I’m quoting all of it. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/24/manchester-city-fans-football-supporters-brexit-britain
Our old insults are redundant now. Since City have been endowed with Abu Dhabi’s riches it’s become more difficult for United fans to maintain the supercilious grins we’ve been wearing for the past two decades. But we still try. Despite the riches, the new stadium, world class players, record-breaking seasons and being treated to arguably the world’s best manager, City still can’t fill their ground. Every game features empty seats peppered around the Etihad, prompting rival fans to coin “Emptyhad” to encapsulate City’s phantom home support. You’d think that might be a source of embarrassment. But no. If 35 years of hurt could be embraced with humorous self-flagellation then a few empty seats aren’t going to dent the fun. And so, to the tune of the Beautiful South’s Rotterdam, they celebrate their failure: “We’ve been to Rotterdam and Monaco, Napoli and Rome. We’ve still got empty seats! Empty seats at hooooome! Empty seats at home.”
Even if United win the derby on Wednesday night City fans are sure to find something to laugh about. Because they’re made of Teflon, impervious to insults. Their ability to laugh off any well-aimed jibes may have frustrated me over the years, but I think we could all learn from their ability to not take things so seriously.
Ah. Thank you Daniel Lavelle. Do you know that other Daniel, the stupid idiot Daniel?
They had won at Old Trafford for the sixth time in eight visits...no other away side in the Premier League era can match City’s haul of seven victories at this ground.
:o
Serious? That's since 1992. For five of those years we weren't even in the Premier League. Dude, we were in Division 2, which, speaking of tricky, is the third tier of English football, in 1998-99. No other club--Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, whoever--has done in twenty-seven seasons what we have done in twenty-two? Guardian, is Daniel correct there?
Every season there is always one game in the title race when the team who are going to win the Premier League know it is going to be their year. One game when everything turns in their favour, all the hard work comes together and the supporters can think it is going to be a season to cherish.
For Manchester City, was this that night?
For Manchester City, was this that night?
-Daniel Taylor, Guardian.
Daniel! If you have to ask the question then they "don't know"! Don't write stupid shit.
It certainly felt that way even if they still have to negotiate a tricky assignment at Burnley on Sunday before closing their season with a home game against Leicester and a trip to Brighton.
Oh those tricky Clarets! Daniel, what is "tricky" about Burnley? Burnley has tricked the league all year into thinking they're a 15th place club? Maybe because they're 15th place. What do they have to play for? Nothing. They can sip claret for another year, they're safe from sipping Coca-Cola. What, are they determined to prove the superiority of claret over Bournemouth's Martini's? What makes Burnley tricky and Leicester not? Leicester has no more to play for but they're a better team, no? Si. Tenth place. And Brighton? Daniel, do you realize that Brighton's future next season in the Premier League may come down to that last match? They're 17th, not quite safe from Coca-Cola. They may well need a point or three in that match, no?
Guardian, Daniel's writing stupid shit.
FULL TIME MANCHESTER UNITED 0 MANCHESTER CITY 2
City now lead Liverpool +1 with an equal three matches to play.
57 min: Panic at the back for City as United threaten to land a blow from nowhere! Kompany made a mess of trying to clear a pass across the face of goal by Rashford, but the defender’s extravagant bungling seemed to distract Lingard, who didn’t react quickly enough to poke the ball into the net from close range!
Missing Fernandinho.
Missing Fernandinho.
More than one commentator said City looked "tight" in the first 45. Except for in the UCL that would be very uncharacteristic for this team who have lived and played through QPR 2013.
The commentary changed near the end of the half. City were getting the better of the play and United was being "penned" back or didn't have the "energy." I think KDB is out for the match but the Arch Angel and Bad Bad Leroy Sane are not out. What say ye, Pep, take Zinchenko out and put in one of those boys and then take somebody else out and put in the other? If United are faltering now, Jesus and Sane will do them in.
The commentary changed near the end of the half. City were getting the better of the play and United was being "penned" back or didn't have the "energy." I think KDB is out for the match but the Arch Angel and Bad Bad Leroy Sane are not out. What say ye, Pep, take Zinchenko out and put in one of those boys and then take somebody else out and put in the other? If United are faltering now, Jesus and Sane will do them in.
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The City analyst has just absolutely flipped his lid over Zinchenko. Was smacking his laptop earlier but now opted for verbals. Absolutely furious. #MUNMCI
12:38 PM - 24 Apr 2019
Is Zinchenko another of Pep's curious starters, like he made with Spurs in the first leg of the UCL? It is said by wiser football observers than here that Pep overthinks sometimes.
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The City analyst has just absolutely flipped his lid over Zinchenko. Was smacking his laptop earlier but now opted for verbals. Absolutely furious. #MUNMCI
12:38 PM - 24 Apr 2019
Is Zinchenko another of Pep's curious starters, like he made with Spurs in the first leg of the UCL? It is said by wiser football observers than here that Pep overthinks sometimes.
36 min: City have got the upper hand now. United’s energy had dwindled a tad, unsurprisingly, and the visitors are hogging the ball and starting to stretch their hosts.
That is a good observation. To press high you have to have energy. To lay back doesn't take as much. I'll tell you though, playing rope-a-dope is exhausting, just standing there in a crouch letting a guy wail on you. I'd rather be punching.
That is a good observation. To press high you have to have energy. To lay back doesn't take as much. I'll tell you though, playing rope-a-dope is exhausting, just standing there in a crouch letting a guy wail on you. I'd rather be punching.
19 min: United counter-attack at great speed and City are seriously stressed. Rashford races through the centre circle and aims a clever low pass between the two centrebacks. Lingard gets to it at the edge of the box same time as Ederson, who emerges with the ball. And Lingard emerges with a sore leg. But he’ll carry on. Which is bad news for City because he and Rashford are troubling them.
Derby Day
It is the Main Event. It is the mainest of events. It is Manchester City at Manchester United. It it Title Time.
Beat the Chevies and City are in the driver's seat. Draw or lose and the Liverpool "Inbred Wife Beaters" take the controls. The Manchester Derby is now.
Beat the Chevies and City are in the driver's seat. Draw or lose and the Liverpool "Inbred Wife Beaters" take the controls. The Manchester Derby is now.
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
I have this recurring day dream, you know how they are, you won the lottery, you unexpectedly got that big promotion, Donald Trump got kidnapped briefly and was videotaped getting anally raped. But it would be virtually impossible with Trump. So, my day dream morphed to conform more to the realistic, to ambush buggery of male Trump supporters.
Oooh! What is THAT in my asshole!
Oooh! What is THAT in my asshole!
C'mon, how much would it take for four strong young men, two for each of these Low Lifes, one to hold him down, the other to violate his anoos. And it would be over in seconds! Just long enough to take some video.
You'd work in teams, slip a bag over his head, one to pacify him, handcuffs would be excellent, one to leave his asshole flapping in the wind.
In think that would take care of the matter of what to do with Trump supporters. I think ambush anal rape would put a damper on their political idealism. I don't see them being too activist after that. "Nah, I'm going to sit 2020 out, painful as that may be for me."
It follows that they must not be severely physically injured, much less killed. I'm a lover not a fighter. And you'd want to leave them alive so that they can watch themselves on video getting fucked in the ass over and over and over again.
Stick a dick in the mouth of that guy. One patriot holds the Low Life's mouth open, the other inserts his penis. Wear gloves.
This project is the responsibility of the white man. It is his burden, his duty. We may learn from Fleece Johnson and other legends in the field but for this project to be successful it is the white man who must do it. The sight of an automobile rocking and two black man buggering a white man would surely lead to multiple calls to 911 and a horde of descending gendarme whereas two white man using the anus of a third as a toilet would be viewed as naughty love making.
Anyway, that's my new day dream and I will put myself to sleep tonight thinking of these pleasant pacification measures. Make Assholes Gape Again! Good night.
Male Deer Wreck Zollner Pistons
...setting up a Titanic Clash of the Mean Greens with Beans, also a sweeper. T’ain’t gonna be no sweep in that serious. Bawston is good. These are the two best teams to meet in the second round in the Least in I don't know how long. Two excellent teams.
Sunday, April 21, 2019
Beware Beans
Bawston swept Indiana four zip in their first round playoff series. C's had a disappointing, uneven year. They were a four seed and won 49 games, one higher seed and one more win over 82 than their first round opponent. A 5/4 matchup with one game of separation at the finish line are harbingers of a tight, nip and tuck, back and forth series. It was not that. Boston won by 10 and 8 in the Hub and by 8 and 4 in Indianoplace.
But the Male Deer, my God. Although their round is not over, and although they are a one seed playing and eight and although Milwaukee won 19 more games that the Zollner Pistons, still: The first three games margins of victory: 35, 21, and last night in Deetroit 16. That is just complete dominance, a total mismatch. Unless I am very much mistaken Mil will close it out tomorrow night. Giannis Antetokounmpo is a witch and I don't think anybody in the Least has got the magic potion to melt the Greek Witch. Golden State better be careful. This Milwaukee team is real and they are on a mission. Extraordinarily impressive team, Milwaukee.
Boston saves Canada, maybe just temporarily. The Large Cubs marauded North and beat the "Maple Leafs" 4-2 to force game seven back in Beans. I wouldn't bet used toilet paper on Toronto winning that one and that will eliminate (again) the entire country of Canada from their national sport's most prestigious trophy.
But the Male Deer, my God. Although their round is not over, and although they are a one seed playing and eight and although Milwaukee won 19 more games that the Zollner Pistons, still: The first three games margins of victory: 35, 21, and last night in Deetroit 16. That is just complete dominance, a total mismatch. Unless I am very much mistaken Mil will close it out tomorrow night. Giannis Antetokounmpo is a witch and I don't think anybody in the Least has got the magic potion to melt the Greek Witch. Golden State better be careful. This Milwaukee team is real and they are on a mission. Extraordinarily impressive team, Milwaukee.
Boston saves Canada, maybe just temporarily. The Large Cubs marauded North and beat the "Maple Leafs" 4-2 to force game seven back in Beans. I wouldn't bet used toilet paper on Toronto winning that one and that will eliminate (again) the entire country of Canada from their national sport's most prestigious trophy.
That looks like...Wait wait, don’t tell me...Manafort? Manafort on a REALLY good day maybe. MY BROTHER! It could be my brother the klansman! Have you ever noticed how ALL Trump supporters look similar? Can’t you pick them out? Brain damaged, Deliverance, alcohol, old, white, all tatted out, psychopathological. Low Life, that’s the best word for them. Man, that is eerie, it really could be my brother. Or Manafort. It is, he is a Low Life Trump supporter. He is Larry Hopkins, a felon (of course); Larry is the guy who detained immigrants at gunpoint at the Mexican border, you know, “to uphold the Constitution of the United States,” and who got detained his ownself for being whatchacall a felon in possession of firearms and ammo. I wonder if Larry voted...Ooh boy. Larry, keep in touch, K? Let us know how the dialysis is working, K?
Does Liverpool Deserve the Title?
No, the team that has the most points at the end of the season deserves the title, Mo-Ron.
Thank you.
Now, ignoring that twat, it increasingly bothers me that the title is out of Liverpool's hands, that if City win out there is nothing Liverpool can do. And the reasons it bothers me, you TWAT, are:
(1. Liverpool has only lost one match this season and City have lost Fo'.
(A. Liverpool's sole loss was at City (2nd place).
(B. City's four losses have been: at Chelsea (5th), home to Crystal Palace (9th), at Leicester (12th), and at Newcastle (13th).
(2. To me, that means Liverpool has had the better season, and
(3. I am increasingly of the view also that Liverpool are a better team this year, largely because they have Virgil van Dijk and we don't.
Yet, the title is out of Liverpool's hands because they have drawn seven time. City have drawn twice.
A tie is like kissing your sister.
Right! It's half of what you want. It's a girl, not a guy, and it's a kiss, not a handshake. It just happens to be your sister so you can't do anything with that. Isn't a tie half a win and half a loss? Of course it is, how else is there to look at it? So why do you only get one-third the points of a win in soccer? For comparison, in American football (the only one of the four major team sports to have ties) a tie counts half in the standings. If you're not going to go to overtime or a shoot-out or some way of definitively deciding a match, awarding a team half the value of a win is more just and more commonsensical. Getting one-third seems to be like kissing a store mannequin or something.
On equal games played (so before today) if you gave each Premier League team one point for a win and one-half point for a draw Liverpool would have 29.5 points and City 29. Liverpool would be in control of its destiny then. Instead City is. It does not seem right to me.
Thank you.
Now, ignoring that twat, it increasingly bothers me that the title is out of Liverpool's hands, that if City win out there is nothing Liverpool can do. And the reasons it bothers me, you TWAT, are:
(1. Liverpool has only lost one match this season and City have lost Fo'.
(A. Liverpool's sole loss was at City (2nd place).
(B. City's four losses have been: at Chelsea (5th), home to Crystal Palace (9th), at Leicester (12th), and at Newcastle (13th).
(2. To me, that means Liverpool has had the better season, and
(3. I am increasingly of the view also that Liverpool are a better team this year, largely because they have Virgil van Dijk and we don't.
Yet, the title is out of Liverpool's hands because they have drawn seven time. City have drawn twice.
A tie is like kissing your sister.
Right! It's half of what you want. It's a girl, not a guy, and it's a kiss, not a handshake. It just happens to be your sister so you can't do anything with that. Isn't a tie half a win and half a loss? Of course it is, how else is there to look at it? So why do you only get one-third the points of a win in soccer? For comparison, in American football (the only one of the four major team sports to have ties) a tie counts half in the standings. If you're not going to go to overtime or a shoot-out or some way of definitively deciding a match, awarding a team half the value of a win is more just and more commonsensical. Getting one-third seems to be like kissing a store mannequin or something.
On equal games played (so before today) if you gave each Premier League team one point for a win and one-half point for a draw Liverpool would have 29.5 points and City 29. Liverpool would be in control of its destiny then. Instead City is. It does not seem right to me.
Piers Morgan took some stick today.
Piers Morgan
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BOOM! 1-1. Thank you @MesutOzil1088 - my Easter just perked up. 👏
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BOOM-BANG! 2-3. Brilliant goal by @Aubameyang7. Come on Arsenal. 👊
@andy_mulhern
Replying to @piersmorgan @Aubameyang7
Boom! Bang! Your a fat Cunt.
9:42 AM - 21 Apr 2019
lolol. Piersie's lame retort:
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Piers Morgan Retweeted Andy Mulhern
It’s ‘you’re’.
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53m53 minutes ago
BOOM! 1-1. Thank you @MesutOzil1088 - my Easter just perked up. 👏
Piers Morgan
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BOOM-BANG! 2-3. Brilliant goal by @Aubameyang7. Come on Arsenal. 👊
@andy_mulhern
Replying to @piersmorgan @Aubameyang7
Boom! Bang! Your a fat Cunt.
9:42 AM - 21 Apr 2019
lolol. Piersie's lame retort:
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Piers Morgan Retweeted Andy Mulhern
It’s ‘you’re’.
FT Arsenal 2 Crystal Palace 3
Criminy. That is unbelievable. At home.
Liverpool won 2-0 at Cardiff to go back on top by two points with an extra game played over Manchester City.
Cannot believe Arsenal lost at home to Palace.
Liverpool won 2-0 at Cardiff to go back on top by two points with an extra game played over Manchester City.
Cannot believe Arsenal lost at home to Palace.
200 Slaughtered in Sri Lankan Bombings Targeting Catholics on Easter
Swine Muslims. Imagine on Easter Sunday. Cock sucking Muslims.
"Let's All Hate Toronto"
(?) I didn't know they did. All of the rest of Canada, that is. But that is the title of a 2007 Borat-like parody film. (Note: If there wasn't some truth in it, they wouldn't have named the film "Let's All Hate Tornoto." Duh.) And there is some truth in it, some really substantial truth in it according to a Macleans article (caveat emptor: I read about the Maclean's article by somebody who posted on Reddit.). 75% of Canadians name Toronto as their most hated city and Ontario most hated province. 75%. You can stereotype based on 75% hoo doggie.
In the film the Canadian Borat guy goes across the country faux promoting "Toronto Appreciation Day."
This was not appreciated. They spit on the banner in the Maritime Provinces. O-Borat risked his life wearing Wayne Gretzky's name on the back of a "Maple Leaf's" sweater. This was during 'Ton's 2006 Stanley Cup run. I could see that moving Ed to violence. Jesus Christ O-Borat, death wish?
So what explains this? And particularly, which is how I found out about this, why do they hate the "Maple Leafs"? A CBC article today rhetorically asked if, with Calgary and Winnipeg out of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, might Canadians pull for their fellow countrymen in Toronto. "Probably not," was CBC's deadpan answer. Now, on that, lemme learn y'all somethin' about why I was really surprised to hear that. One, of course, Canadians desperately want a Canadian team to win the Cup. Two, the "Maple Leafs" have been a fucking JOKE for about 50 years. A complete fucking joke. Cannot grab their ass with both hands. Having a wet dream? Think of the "Leafs," they'll ruin it for you. So this is not like the hatred of the New York "Yankees" or Dallas "Cowboys". Those teams are good, almost always have been. They do not SUCK. The "Leafs" SUCK! Therefore, ergo, other Canadians hate the "Leafs"...you got it, just because they are based in Toronto.
So then what is the answer to the first question? It seems it's similar to the hatred of Washington, D.C. or New York City (But I don't know if the rest of Amerika 2.0 hates NYC, do they?). Ontario is DEFINITELY the power center in every way of Canada, economically, population, wealth, political and so there is the garden variety resentment of elites, snobs, power, the wealthy, envy in short. That is one, and a very important one component of the Toronto hate. And there are not the same countervailing forces at work in Canada as in Amerika 2.0. There are so many competing power centers down south. L.A. California. Talk about a competing power center huh? Jeezus. Chicago. Atlanta. "From CNN Center in Atlanta." Texas. I guarantee you there is NO ONE in the State of Texas who "envies" New York City or the East Coast. Canada does not have those competing power loci. Canada is a BIG ass country and there's a lot of nowhere between Toronto and the third largest city, Vancouver. It is 41 hours (2,700 miles) from Toronto to Vancouver. It's a very manageable 5+ hours from Toronto to second largest Montreal but Montreal is in a different country (practically). It's more like Europe than the States. You drive five hours in Europe you can cross six national borders. Of course, Montreal hates Toronto; Montreal hates Toronto the most. They're French, Toronto is English; they're Quebecois first, Canadians a distant second (Or third. Could be they are Montrealers first or second.) I read that Vancouver does not hate Toronto too, too much. Why would that be when they're 41 hours away from the Center? Because Canada does not have a strong federal system like the U.S. does. Canadian federalism does not create the feeling of One Nation that American federalism does. Shouldn't that make the distant large cities hate the Center even more? It doesn't. I read that Vancouverites don't hate Toronto so much because they claim they seldom think of it. They are self-contained in Starbucks Nation and the government to them is their provincial government. Too indifferent to hate.
There is also, as there is here, an urban-rural divide and Canada has lots of rural. The fourth biggest city is Calgary, 32 hours away; the fifth largest, Edmonton, 33 hours distant. Winnipeg is seven, 20.5 hours. Alberta is Canada's oil patch, like Texas. There is economic power there. Manitoba (Winnipeg) is Canada's breadbasket. (True story: an official of Team Canada during the '70's hockey wars with the Soviet Union said Canada better win those series because Canada leads the world in only two things, hockey and wheat.). So there is rural power in Manitoba and the other wide open spaces in those 20.5 hours from Toronto. But five of the other top fifteen largest cities in Canada are in Ontario or the East. Thirty-eight percent of all Canadians reside in Ontario. 38%! Quebec (foreign country) is second at 22+%. The only other provinces in double digits in percentage of Canadian population are B.C., 13.4% and Alberta, 11.6%. Combined the two next largest English provinces are -13% to Ontario. No competing population or power loci.
So, let's all hate Toronto and "Leafs," you come with who brought you so we hate you too.
In the film the Canadian Borat guy goes across the country faux promoting "Toronto Appreciation Day."
This was not appreciated. They spit on the banner in the Maritime Provinces. O-Borat risked his life wearing Wayne Gretzky's name on the back of a "Maple Leaf's" sweater. This was during 'Ton's 2006 Stanley Cup run. I could see that moving Ed to violence. Jesus Christ O-Borat, death wish?
So what explains this? And particularly, which is how I found out about this, why do they hate the "Maple Leafs"? A CBC article today rhetorically asked if, with Calgary and Winnipeg out of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, might Canadians pull for their fellow countrymen in Toronto. "Probably not," was CBC's deadpan answer. Now, on that, lemme learn y'all somethin' about why I was really surprised to hear that. One, of course, Canadians desperately want a Canadian team to win the Cup. Two, the "Maple Leafs" have been a fucking JOKE for about 50 years. A complete fucking joke. Cannot grab their ass with both hands. Having a wet dream? Think of the "Leafs," they'll ruin it for you. So this is not like the hatred of the New York "Yankees" or Dallas "Cowboys". Those teams are good, almost always have been. They do not SUCK. The "Leafs" SUCK! Therefore, ergo, other Canadians hate the "Leafs"...you got it, just because they are based in Toronto.
So then what is the answer to the first question? It seems it's similar to the hatred of Washington, D.C. or New York City (But I don't know if the rest of Amerika 2.0 hates NYC, do they?). Ontario is DEFINITELY the power center in every way of Canada, economically, population, wealth, political and so there is the garden variety resentment of elites, snobs, power, the wealthy, envy in short. That is one, and a very important one component of the Toronto hate. And there are not the same countervailing forces at work in Canada as in Amerika 2.0. There are so many competing power centers down south. L.A. California. Talk about a competing power center huh? Jeezus. Chicago. Atlanta. "From CNN Center in Atlanta." Texas. I guarantee you there is NO ONE in the State of Texas who "envies" New York City or the East Coast. Canada does not have those competing power loci. Canada is a BIG ass country and there's a lot of nowhere between Toronto and the third largest city, Vancouver. It is 41 hours (2,700 miles) from Toronto to Vancouver. It's a very manageable 5+ hours from Toronto to second largest Montreal but Montreal is in a different country (practically). It's more like Europe than the States. You drive five hours in Europe you can cross six national borders. Of course, Montreal hates Toronto; Montreal hates Toronto the most. They're French, Toronto is English; they're Quebecois first, Canadians a distant second (Or third. Could be they are Montrealers first or second.) I read that Vancouver does not hate Toronto too, too much. Why would that be when they're 41 hours away from the Center? Because Canada does not have a strong federal system like the U.S. does. Canadian federalism does not create the feeling of One Nation that American federalism does. Shouldn't that make the distant large cities hate the Center even more? It doesn't. I read that Vancouverites don't hate Toronto so much because they claim they seldom think of it. They are self-contained in Starbucks Nation and the government to them is their provincial government. Too indifferent to hate.
There is also, as there is here, an urban-rural divide and Canada has lots of rural. The fourth biggest city is Calgary, 32 hours away; the fifth largest, Edmonton, 33 hours distant. Winnipeg is seven, 20.5 hours. Alberta is Canada's oil patch, like Texas. There is economic power there. Manitoba (Winnipeg) is Canada's breadbasket. (True story: an official of Team Canada during the '70's hockey wars with the Soviet Union said Canada better win those series because Canada leads the world in only two things, hockey and wheat.). So there is rural power in Manitoba and the other wide open spaces in those 20.5 hours from Toronto. But five of the other top fifteen largest cities in Canada are in Ontario or the East. Thirty-eight percent of all Canadians reside in Ontario. 38%! Quebec (foreign country) is second at 22+%. The only other provinces in double digits in percentage of Canadian population are B.C., 13.4% and Alberta, 11.6%. Combined the two next largest English provinces are -13% to Ontario. No competing population or power loci.
So, let's all hate Toronto and "Leafs," you come with who brought you so we hate you too.
Saturday, April 20, 2019
Bluie Louie in Mizzoui, Yets, Fast Planes Lose 3-2
Saint Lou advances Fo’ games to To. One Canadian team left in Canada’s sport, the Toronto “Maple Loafs.”
Speaking of AOC, a Bad Person Party congressguy in Kentucky disinvited AOC to come to that commonwealth to address his coal miner constituents who, congressguy said, would be put out of work by AOC's Green New Deal. AOC's going anyway. "Luckily, we still have open borders with Kentucky," said her spokesman. Love that congresslady.
WHEREAS, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has an asteroid named after her.
WHEREAS, a black hole was photographed for the first time ever on April 10, 2019.
WHEREAS, said black hole appropriately is rimmed in orange.
THEREFORE, it is ordered and adjudged that the first photographed black hole is hereby named The Donald Trump.
God
The talent in the Democratic Party...sheesh. The star of CNN's "town hall" was a frigging MAYOR. Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana is running for president in 2020. Mayor Guttigieg is 37 years old, a graduate of Harvard, a Rhodes Scholar--first-class honors in philosophy, politics and economics at Pembroke College, Oxford. He is a veteran of the war in Afghanistan. Speaks seven languages. I don't know what else, it's just ridiculous. But it is not just Mayor Pete. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has a fucking asteroid named after her for crissakes. Beto O'Rourke. Elizabeth Warren. Seth Moulton.
Remember the Monster's Ball, the Republican debates in 2016? There was not a plausible president in that gang of fifteen or whatever it was. They were like Broadway Danny Rose's clients: no talent, no experience, dumb, defective. The difference is that Danny Rose's clients were good people. Republicans are no talent, dumb, defective, bad human beings.
Remember the Monster's Ball, the Republican debates in 2016? There was not a plausible president in that gang of fifteen or whatever it was. They were like Broadway Danny Rose's clients: no talent, no experience, dumb, defective. The difference is that Danny Rose's clients were good people. Republicans are no talent, dumb, defective, bad human beings.
FT Manchester City 1 Tottenham 0
Young Phil Foden scored his first ever Premier League goal in the 5’ and the Angels made it hold up in the city. City have control of the league. Win out and there is nothing Liverpool can do.
A Guide to Our Notre-Dame Fire Coverage
(NYT)
Friday, April 19, 2019
The Perils of Memory of Things Past: "The Dad Note"
Today, I found this.
It beats the airline ticket alternative. A few months ago I was again referencing Benson's book (I need to throw that mother fucker away.) when I found an old airline ticket between the pages. So old that the ink on the coated fax machine-like paper had faded into illegibility. The airline ticket also was of a size that it fit between the pages of Benson's book without sticking out and it went unnoticed by me, and by my son, in multiple leafings through and exasperated shakings of Benson's book to see if the Dad Note of my memory, of God, of the toilet, would fall out; the airline ticket was so thin that it went undiscovered for years of leafings and shakings but the airline ticket did not implore me to pray to God. But nor does this one, the one discovered today, although it does invoke MIT and Pitt which I could be said, of a fashion, to worship as godlike, so it beats the airline ticket is all. Is there a second note from dad, one that does not apotheosize MIT or Pitt but invokes the real thing and implores me to pray to Him when I am "down"? I think it highly unlikely that there are, or were, two dad notes. Therefore, to a standard of more likely than not I believe that this is the Dad Note of my memory misremembered.
Thursday, April 18, 2019
Louie got its twoie...Andthenthegamewinnerwith15”left. FINAL from the MTS Center in Winnipeg: St Louis 3 Winnipeg 2. “Blows” scored all three goals in the 3P and lead the series 3-2. “Fast Planes” sixth straight loss at home.
To some, this wackiness makes the Stanley Cup playoffs more interesting than the NBA playoffs. To them Columbus’ 🧹 sweep of the best team in the league is thrilling. Expansion Vegas’ near miss with the Cup last season put lead in their pencils. To others (Here!) all of the above is embarrassing and means that the National Hockey League has a legitimacy problem.
To some, this wackiness makes the Stanley Cup playoffs more interesting than the NBA playoffs. To them Columbus’ 🧹 sweep of the best team in the league is thrilling. Expansion Vegas’ near miss with the Cup last season put lead in their pencils. To others (Here!) all of the above is embarrassing and means that the National Hockey League has a legitimacy problem.
MLS to expand to 30 teams; St. Louis, Sacramento to make formal bids
(ESPN)
Major League Soccer’s finances are, to me, similar to the Mueller Report. That MLS is, and continues to be, a pyramid scheme because of a business model that obviously is fatally flawed and unsustainable is plain as day. But they won’t say that. And here they go again. Ownership in St Louis and Sacramento will pay $200 million each to lose money and become the 28th and 29th teams and number 30 will follow. That is classic Bernie Madoff. Last in keeps the early suckers afloat. Pretty soon Don Garber is going to run out of cities with billionaire suckers. Then what, Johnstown? They are already planting the flag in some cities that one has to strain one’s eyes to call major league. I mean, Austin? Salt Lake City? “Real” Salt Lake, are you kidding me, “ROYAL” Salt Lake City? Columbus? Meanwhile teams in bona fide big cities are drawing flies: New England “Revolution,” Colorado “Rapids,” Chicago “Fire,” FC Dallas, Philadelphia “Union,” Houston “Dynamo.” Inter Miami is a disaster in waiting. The only thing keeping those old, older, oldest teams afloat are the expansion fees paid and attendances of the newbies. MLS has unearthed a half dozen or so tremendous markets for minor league quality soccer: Seattle, Portland, Atlanta, Los Angeles, maybe Orlando, maybe New York City, maybe Minnesota, maybe Toronto. You can get at least six out of that group. That’s what MLS has got: at least six strong markets for second division soccer with absolutely no chance of becoming major league. One hand clapping.
My goodness the NHL is whacked. Winnipeg-St Louis series. Louie wins first twoie in Peg. “Fast Planes” blow out “Blows” in game three in Mizzouie; win game four there in a tighty whitey. Nice home ice advantage, NHL. We’re back at Portage and Main for game five and damn if the homeboys aren’t holding on—barely—to a 2-1 lead with 13’ left. I’ll betcha Louis gets its twois before this ends.
Other Americans made up their minds long ago, and it is unclear what the effect will be of the release of hundreds of pages of investigative conclusions by a team of seasoned prosecutors. Those already convinced that the investigation was a witch hunt, and those already convinced that Mr. Trump conspired with Russia to win the presidency, are unlikely to be moved by the conclusions of Mr. Mueller and his team.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/us/politics/mueller-report-russian-interference-donald-trump.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage
Sheepishly, puzzled but adamantine I confess I can be counted in that latter group.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/us/politics/mueller-report-russian-interference-donald-trump.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage
Sheepishly, puzzled but adamantine I confess I can be counted in that latter group.
The report laid bare that Mr. Trump was elected with the help of a foreign power, and cataloged numerous meetings between Mr. Trump’s advisers and Russians seeking to influence the campaign and the presidential transition team — encounters set up in pursuit of business deals, policy initiatives and political dirt about Hillary Clinton, the Democratic candidate for president.
The special counsel concluded that there was “insufficient evidence” to determine that the president or his aides had engaged in a criminal conspiracy with the Russians, even though the Trump campaign welcomed the Kremlin sabotage effort and “expected it would benefit electorally” from the hacks and leaks of Democratic emails.
“Oh, my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my presidency. I’m fucked.”
Trump’s reaction when Mueller was appointed to investigate his and his campaign’s conspiracy with Russia.
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
The Dream Dies
Manchester City's dreams of European glory ended once again today. The Angels prevailed over Tottenham Hotspur 4-3 for an aggregate 4-4 goal tally but the tie breaker is away goals and City scored none in London last week and Spurs scored three today in the city. To have advanced to the Champions League semi finals City needed to win by two or more goals.
How excruciating:
How excruciating:
GOAL! Manchester City 5-3 Spurs (Sterling 90+3)
"Man is the sum of the things he has done..."
Wise words. True?
"Professor Smith you look so down, is anything wrong?"
"Oh, Professor Jones. I am the author of numerous scholarly articles and books..."
"Yes!"
"Renowned and revered in my field..."
"Yes..."
"A Nobel Prize winner...
"YES..."
"I suck one dick..."
There are some things you do that are extra-arithmetical to a life, that are alone so bad--or so good-- that they define you no matter what else you do. The sum of Lenny Skutnik's life, excising January 13, 1982, is pretty modest. But Lenny's dive into the Potomac River at peril to his own life to save the life of Priscilla Tirado, whose death appeared imminent, is outside the calculus of Lenny's life. Immortal hero, then, now, forever.
Cotton Mather's involvement in the Salem Witch Trials was "a tin can tied to Mather's tail. The faster he ran the louder it rattled and banged behind him." Dr Samuel Mudd treated John Wilkes Booth for a broken leg after Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln. "Your name is mud!" sullied generations of Mudd's.
The National Hockey League franchise based on the west coast of Florida has been in existence for 27 years. It won a Stanley Cup in 2004. It does not matter. That franchise will be forever defined by what happened last night and, borrowing the words of the executioner of Lincoln's assassins when the deed was done, "We shall utter it's name no more."
Wise words. True?
"Professor Smith you look so down, is anything wrong?"
"Oh, Professor Jones. I am the author of numerous scholarly articles and books..."
"Yes!"
"Renowned and revered in my field..."
"Yes..."
"A Nobel Prize winner...
"YES..."
"I suck one dick..."
There are some things you do that are extra-arithmetical to a life, that are alone so bad--or so good-- that they define you no matter what else you do. The sum of Lenny Skutnik's life, excising January 13, 1982, is pretty modest. But Lenny's dive into the Potomac River at peril to his own life to save the life of Priscilla Tirado, whose death appeared imminent, is outside the calculus of Lenny's life. Immortal hero, then, now, forever.
Cotton Mather's involvement in the Salem Witch Trials was "a tin can tied to Mather's tail. The faster he ran the louder it rattled and banged behind him." Dr Samuel Mudd treated John Wilkes Booth for a broken leg after Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln. "Your name is mud!" sullied generations of Mudd's.
The National Hockey League franchise based on the west coast of Florida has been in existence for 27 years. It won a Stanley Cup in 2004. It does not matter. That franchise will be forever defined by what happened last night and, borrowing the words of the executioner of Lincoln's assassins when the deed was done, "We shall utter it's name no more."
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
“No one in Tampa Bay will ever want to hear the number 62 again.”
Some good sentences from “Lightning” beat writers at the Tampa Bay Times. “They will wear this forever” was the first sentence in Jim Romano’s article on game three. “No one in Tampa Bay will ever want to hear the number 62 again” was the last sentence in Diana C. Nearhos’ piece on the sweep tonight. Most Americans don’t pay attention to hockey unless it slaps us right in the forehead. The number 62 does not mean anything to us. What we don’t want to hear ever again are the words “Tampa Bay Lightning.”
Turn Out the Lightning, the Party's Over
It's gonna be four and out for Tampa Bay. They're in the last minute of play in 'Umbus, by the time you read this it will be ovah, and the "Blue Jackets" have a 6-3 lead. First team in NHL history to finish with most points in a season and get swept in the first round. "They will wear this forever." And let's hope they have to. I don't want this ever to happen to another team again. This is Devon Loch human and wearing skates.
It is sui generis embarrassing. Tampa Bay, just go away.
It is sui generis embarrassing. Tampa Bay, just go away.
FT Barcelona 3 Manchester United 0
I texted the Goats after watching these highlights, "Guys, City cannot beat this team. Not on our best day, not on any day." And I have not changed my mind in the last several hours. Honestly, I don't know how a team playing like that ever loses a match. Watch Messi on the first goal. Look at how perfectly placed the shot is. Any other spot and De Gea would have saved it. On Messi's second goal, not so much. I think De Gea was trying to avoid the handball. Now on the third Barca sequence on this clip, look and marvel, go "Ahhh" with the crowd, at Messi's footwork. I take it "nutmeg" is the Queen's English for "ankle breaker?" "Faked him out of his jock?" And then on the fourth and last segment, Philippe Coutinho (ex-Liverpool, imagine if they had him hooo doggie) saw Messi's first goal and said, "Leo, I can do that too!" and shot a laser just out of De Gea's reach in the upper left corner. I mean, you see that shit, you just tip your hat to them. You rank me.
Monday, April 15, 2019
Ok, I get it, I get it. They are trying, and they succeeded, in saving the structure, the real marvel of Notre-Dame. They are spraying water on the masonry to prevent it from baking, cracking and falling. And they succeeded, to repeat.
Which means they gave up on the interior, and here again, you can see why in this drone footage.
Oh yeah! Got a good chance of putting that baby out. I get it, I get it.
But query me this. You just going to let it burn out in there? Not even try to douse that inferno? The inferno that endangered the super-structure which you saved by cooling the stone and ignoring what was dangerously heating the stone. I take your word for it! Honestly I do. But. However. Query me this. The roof has collapsed there, I mean I can see right into the fucking navel of the knave there. The roof is gone! It’s like Jerry’s World now. God can watch services His services now. So, explain to me how flying a plane with a lot, or as little as you think appropriate, of water right over the middle of the apse or nave, whatever, away from the walls, if you drop a big bucket of water down on the flames where I put the water droplets, how would that endanger the super-structure of the cathedral? I take your word for it. You just tell me I don’t know my apse from a hole in the roof and I get it, just somebody susplain a leetle why that is a fail?
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