28 thoughts on “DECEMBER 17, 2016: THE RETURN”

1. I can't decide whether this AP lede is making me laugh or throw up in my mouth:

   MINNEAPOLIS (AP) The University of Minnesota football team is threatening to boycott one of the nation’s top second-tier bowl games

   oooh, a TOP second-tier bowl game!!!111one111!!!

   1. way up there on top of turd mountain...

      1. They can have the crown.

2. The jalapeño would like a Timberwolves Dieng jersey for Christmas. I went on the website and I'm astounded by the prices. To get a Dieng jersey, it would have to be a "custom" design (because they don't make jerseys with his name), which can be had for the low price of $84.99. For a 6-year-old. The Kevin Love youth jerseys are on sale, though . . .

   1. The Citizens were (are?) big fans of K-Lub while he pounded the parquet floors for the local squad. You could do worse!

      1. I used to buy myself jerseys, but I hated getting them as gifts because they are just so pricey. I usually but rugby jerseys two+years out of current just to save on them. Nowadays, I don't even buy that much team apparel unless it's at TJ Maxx.

         1. I bought my Ross Barkley jersey for about 70% off once Everton unveiled the new ones for this season.

   2. After he and I looked together at the various options and prices, he decided he'd be happy with a KAT t-shirt. I'll wait on buying him any jerseys until they're guaranteed to fit for more than 6 minutes months.

3. wait, what's this about a return?

4. OMG the tomato soup at the Botanical Gardens is outstanding. Got a few minutes before the low brass performance

5. Unsurprisingly, Reusse's take on the boycott is cat poop-worthy garbage.

   1. I don't know why I read that. It was barely even coherent.

6. this will make you choke up.

   1. (I can type this out if you'd like me to, Phil)

      1. Ciao.

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7. The quarterback for the University of Texas-San Antonio is named Dalton Sturm. It's too bad they don't have a receiver named Drang.

8. Farewell to a true American hero. I cannot imagine having the courage to do what he did at age 18.

   1. 'A Vietnamese Bidding Farewell to the Remains of an American'

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      Was your plane on fire, or did you die of bullet wounds, or fall down exhausted? Just so you died in the forest, alone. Only the two of us, a woodcutter and his wife, dug this grave for you, burned joss sticks, prayed for you to rest in peace. How could we know there’d be such a meeting, you and I, once separated by an ocean, by the color of our skin, by language? But destiny bound our lives together. And today, by destiny’s grace, you are finally going home. I believe your American sky is as blue as the sky above this country where you’ve rested twenty years. Is it too late to love each other? Between us now, the ocean seems so small. How close are our two continents. I wish a tranquil heaven for your soul, gemmed with twinkling stars and shining moon. May you rest forever in the soil of your home. From the original Vietnamese poem by Tran Thi My Nhung, translated by Phan Thao Chi and adapted by W. D. Ehrhart.

9. NDSU"s loss was not foremost on my mind last night.

   1. Jeebus.

10. the full-court press campaign is in swing.

11. These Wolves... man.

    1. right?

       1. blech.

          1. yeesh, get everyone's hopes up again, then dash them with stupidity.

             1. This is is the 2016 Twins. Young, full of promise, and disappoint every day.

                1. Except Buxton would have be playing all year like he did in September to be like KAT. Sano would be Wiggins, a talented but too one-dimensional player, and Kepler would be LaVine, the young, talented player that has been surprisingly good.

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