I don't drink coffee, but I am having a pint whilst watching the match. Up and feeling motivated, I made a soccer open thread for the weekend.
54 thoughts on “9 Nov 2013: Guinness”
Since I went to Sicily in October, I've been tracking on Serie B. Palermo has been steadily gaining steam - playing Trapani, the other Sicilian team in Serie B today.
OMG. For those that don't know, Jerry Zgoda is the Star Tribune beat writer for the T-Wolves. Does he really think that the Blazers wouldn't trade LMA for Love? I mean, LMA is a very good player, but K-Love is flat out better. Not only that, but Portland is Love's home town! OMG.
I had to unfollow Zgoda on twitter.
How about this exchange after Zgoda calls Wes Johnson a "three point making machine".
Game tape doesn't lie? How about years of statistics? Do they lie? Also, there may be some game tape of Wes from his days in Minnesota. Good Lord.
Jerry ain't nothin' but a troll.
I'm going to do the same. I get the same info at the same time from the wolves PR feed without the growing.
I went to see the Kobe-less Lakers get drubed by the Pelicans last night. It was a good game even if the locals didn't look that sharp.
Anytime the Lakers get drubbed it's a good game.
its needs to be a law that once an inch of snow happens, all lawnmowers and leafblowers get put into storage.
apparently the whole neighborhood has gone mad and thinks its the middle of summer today. its 25 mph winds out there people. we got leafs blowing in from North Dakota. put the leafblower away.
There are trees in ND?
Leaves from Montana via NoDak.
I got the leaves in my front yard raked up in record time before the Gophers game today. Of course it was wind-assisted so it's not official.
dw - I couldn't disagree with you more. Weekends are the only way I can keep up with yard work, snow be damned. My new place is awesome, but it comes with 100+ trees and easily .25 acres of lawn. Leaf blower with the wind-assist and it still took me 5 hours. This was the second leaf clearing of the season...hopefully the last.
I need to learn more about your new place.
BREAKING: Mark Duper is the latest exNFL star to test positive for signs of CTE, the former Miami Dolphin confirms to CBS.
Well, that hash tag is going to get some more use.
In a real question, do these guys who test positive now get compensation from the league?
That's a good question. There is the matter of the $760 million settlement. Remember that there's no way to know positively if a player has it right now until after they are dead. But, if I'm a former player and there's a settlement to be had, I'd get myself to a doctor, pronto. With so many players in the league, that $760 million is going to go fast.
Again, the players screwed themselves on this settlement.
Again, the players screwed themselves on this settlement.
And badly. The league couldn't wait to make that settlement and get protection from future action. I have to believe they knew how extensive this problem was going to become.
I don't think the players had much of a choice. By the time that case would have made it all the way through the courts, the players would be dead. And it would have been awfully difficult to prove that the brain damage wasn't from pop warner, high school, college, etc.
I don't know. Are former college football players killing themselves left and right? Do they have the same stories about incapacitation in early middle age?
They certainly are. They're just doing it after their pro career.
Assuming joak.
there are 124 D-I teams. At about 30 players each per year, that's 3,720 players per year finishing their collegiate careers. There are only 1,696 NFL jobs. Only a couple hundred collegiate players get an NFL job each year. More than 90 percent of D-I players (and waaaaay more than 90 percent of D-II and D-III players) never play after college. They are "going pro in something other than sports," as the NCAA likes to brag.
Yeah, it was just a semantics joke. I'm thinking the pro career is really the problem here, what with a greater percentage of one's life being devoted to getting hit in the head compared to playing in school.
In the PBS program, the lawyer for the players said the settlement was accepted primarily because the league had a good defense in shifting blame to the NCAA or high school. In that light, the settlement was more about protecting the sport itself.
Personally, I think there was enough evidence to prove a NFL coverup to warrant a larger award, but the NFL has enough resources to make it a decade or more before anyone collected.
The Gophers won! and they broke the Governor's Bell trophy. lol
That makes one of my all time favorite .GIFs.
That's a crappy trophy. They need an axe or a jug or a pig.
perhaps a Nittany Gopher.
at 8 wins, I think that pretty much seals up a New Years bowl game (Gator.)
I like how they try to put it back together after they break it. Oops, somebody get the glue.
It's pretty awesome watching them try to put it back together.
LOL.
Maybe that's why they don't get the jug. Too difficult to fix.
NDSU game on Fox Sport North.
Got my Costco membership started today (thanks mom). I was a little bummed i couldn't find any of the Kirkland's signature beer, though. Ah well, the bourbon will do just fine for now.
The single barrel Kirkland? Yeah, that's some pretty good stuff right there. I consumed a fair bit over the black pot fest weekend.
That's the one. $20 for 1L is an a ok price in my book.
what what? I don't think I've seen this.
the Kirkland mixed-case beer is palatable and inexpensive. Ah, you were talking single-barrel bourbon? Yea, not bad. that's one of the big producers contract-distilling, right? Knob Creek or summat?
I know, i really wanted an inexpensive, palatable mixer for next weekend.
What's next weekend?
Saturday and Sunday. I just expect that I'll be in the mood for inexpensive beer next weekend.
Heh. Got it. Serendipitously, we don't have a Costco membership but my SiL does. She took my wife there today and my beautiful bride came home with this - but with this instead of the Chocolate Indulgence. I'll be sampling the 3 Philo's tonight.
A plasma TV 2-pack!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDAz09zsj14
Seems I can't hear those Reusse Recyclers around here crowing about Kill/Claeys/etc. being in over their heads any more.
You guys will have to find a new turkey this year.
I interpreted Pirate's comment as related to Kill's epilepsy.
Apologies to him if so, I guess, but anytime I find someone use the "Country Jer" name I take them as being condescending.
I was in a bad place when I wrote that.
Detroit?
O.k. That made me laugh.
Well, everything looks bad if you remember it.
Jerry Kill got some moves!
httpv://youtu.be/bk30OMXjFIA
The wife and I celebrated my re-employment by going out for dinner to the Texas Roadhouse tonight. It's the first time we've eaten out in six months. Caesar salad, sirloin steak, baked potato, Sam Adams winter ale for me and a Bloody Mary for the lady. It's good to feel human again.
Since I went to Sicily in October, I've been tracking on Serie B. Palermo has been steadily gaining steam - playing Trapani, the other Sicilian team in Serie B today.
OMG. For those that don't know, Jerry Zgoda is the Star Tribune beat writer for the T-Wolves. Does he really think that the Blazers wouldn't trade LMA for Love? I mean, LMA is a very good player, but K-Love is flat out better. Not only that, but Portland is Love's home town! OMG.
I had to unfollow Zgoda on twitter.
How about this exchange after Zgoda calls Wes Johnson a "three point making machine".
Game tape doesn't lie? How about years of statistics? Do they lie? Also, there may be some game tape of Wes from his days in Minnesota. Good Lord.
Jerry ain't nothin' but a troll.
I'm going to do the same. I get the same info at the same time from the wolves PR feed without the growing.
I went to see the Kobe-less Lakers get drubed by the Pelicans last night. It was a good game even if the locals didn't look that sharp.
Anytime the Lakers get drubbed it's a good game.
its needs to be a law that once an inch of snow happens, all lawnmowers and leafblowers get put into storage.
apparently the whole neighborhood has gone mad and thinks its the middle of summer today. its 25 mph winds out there people. we got leafs blowing in from North Dakota. put the leafblower away.
There are trees in ND?
Leaves from Montana via NoDak.
I got the leaves in my front yard raked up in record time before the Gophers game today. Of course it was wind-assisted so it's not official.
dw - I couldn't disagree with you more. Weekends are the only way I can keep up with yard work, snow be damned. My new place is awesome, but it comes with 100+ trees and easily .25 acres of lawn. Leaf blower with the wind-assist and it still took me 5 hours. This was the second leaf clearing of the season...hopefully the last.
I need to learn more about your new place.
They all have it.
Well, that hash tag is going to get some more use.
In a real question, do these guys who test positive now get compensation from the league?
That's a good question. There is the matter of the $760 million settlement. Remember that there's no way to know positively if a player has it right now until after they are dead. But, if I'm a former player and there's a settlement to be had, I'd get myself to a doctor, pronto. With so many players in the league, that $760 million is going to go fast.
Again, the players screwed themselves on this settlement.
And badly. The league couldn't wait to make that settlement and get protection from future action. I have to believe they knew how extensive this problem was going to become.
I don't think the players had much of a choice. By the time that case would have made it all the way through the courts, the players would be dead. And it would have been awfully difficult to prove that the brain damage wasn't from pop warner, high school, college, etc.
I don't know. Are former college football players killing themselves left and right? Do they have the same stories about incapacitation in early middle age?
They certainly are. They're just doing it after their pro career.
Assuming joak.
there are 124 D-I teams. At about 30 players each per year, that's 3,720 players per year finishing their collegiate careers. There are only 1,696 NFL jobs. Only a couple hundred collegiate players get an NFL job each year. More than 90 percent of D-I players (and waaaaay more than 90 percent of D-II and D-III players) never play after college. They are "going pro in something other than sports," as the NCAA likes to brag.
Yeah, it was just a semantics joke. I'm thinking the pro career is really the problem here, what with a greater percentage of one's life being devoted to getting hit in the head compared to playing in school.
In the PBS program, the lawyer for the players said the settlement was accepted primarily because the league had a good defense in shifting blame to the NCAA or high school. In that light, the settlement was more about protecting the sport itself.
Personally, I think there was enough evidence to prove a NFL coverup to warrant a larger award, but the NFL has enough resources to make it a decade or more before anyone collected.
The Gophers won! and they broke the Governor's Bell trophy. lol
That makes one of my all time favorite .GIFs.
That's a crappy trophy. They need an axe or a jug or a pig.
perhaps a Nittany Gopher.
at 8 wins, I think that pretty much seals up a New Years bowl game (Gator.)
I like how they try to put it back together after they break it. Oops, somebody get the glue.
It's pretty awesome watching them try to put it back together.
LOL.
Maybe that's why they don't get the jug. Too difficult to fix.
NDSU game on Fox Sport North.
Got my Costco membership started today (thanks mom). I was a little bummed i couldn't find any of the Kirkland's signature beer, though. Ah well, the bourbon will do just fine for now.
The single barrel Kirkland? Yeah, that's some pretty good stuff right there. I consumed a fair bit over the black pot fest weekend.
That's the one. $20 for 1L is an a ok price in my book.
what what? I don't think I've seen this.
the Kirkland mixed-case beer is palatable and inexpensive. Ah, you were talking single-barrel bourbon? Yea, not bad. that's one of the big producers contract-distilling, right? Knob Creek or summat?
I know, i really wanted an inexpensive, palatable mixer for next weekend.
What's next weekend?
Saturday and Sunday. I just expect that I'll be in the mood for inexpensive beer next weekend.
Heh. Got it. Serendipitously, we don't have a Costco membership but my SiL does. She took my wife there today and my beautiful bride came home with this - but with this instead of the Chocolate Indulgence. I'll be sampling the 3 Philo's tonight.
A plasma TV 2-pack!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDAz09zsj14
Seems I can't hear those Reusse Recyclers around here crowing about Kill/Claeys/etc. being in over their heads any more.
Examples, see here and here.
You guys will have to find a new turkey this year.
I interpreted Pirate's comment as related to Kill's epilepsy.
Apologies to him if so, I guess, but anytime I find someone use the "Country Jer" name I take them as being condescending.
I was in a bad place when I wrote that.
Detroit?
O.k. That made me laugh.
Well, everything looks bad if you remember it.
Jerry Kill got some moves!
httpv://youtu.be/bk30OMXjFIA
The wife and I celebrated my re-employment by going out for dinner to the Texas Roadhouse tonight. It's the first time we've eaten out in six months. Caesar salad, sirloin steak, baked potato, Sam Adams winter ale for me and a Bloody Mary for the lady. It's good to feel human again.
Congrats!