- MLB Dream Bracket Roster Challenge is over. The Yankees beat the Reds in 7.
- Olbermann:
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) May 6, 2020
Tuesday, May 5, 2020
Day 55
Monday, May 4, 2020
We are precariously close to losing it all to the Rule of Violence.
One thing I learned in Riker's Island was a sad reality of the lives we live: Violence is the sole law.
We are about to see that in practice as this bullshit by the Covidiots has taken on enough life that it now appears that this country will have the millions of deceased due to the virus that the Branch Covidians, MAGAts, and YOLO Culture desire.
Don't believe me? Here's Assault With A Deadly Weapon by a Branch Covidian MAGAt in Michigan:
Is told the policy, flips off the storekeeper, then wipes himself on her shirt, possibly exposing her to the virus.
You know, if you have that much of a problem with the whole thing, why not just ransack the place and be done with it, you fucking piece of shit?
Of course, you could also be the father and daughter three people who killed a security guard elsewhere in the state. Guy threw the daughter woman out of the store for no mask and the like, she came back with her dad husband and son... and a gun.
EDITS were for more information -- and, as of about noon PDT on Tuesday, she's in custody but the other two are still on the loose...
And then, of course, the incident with the Michigan State Senate last week.
And now, burgeoning protests and violence have finally gotten Gavin Newsom to begin to reopen California later this week -- WEEKS before we even can remotely be ready.
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You're going to get 10,000,000 killed by this virus alone.
And I think it's clear that's what you want.
I've heard all forms of bigotry, racism, up to even eugenics and the talk of that we have prevented those with "defects" dying, etc. and so forth.
You are teetering and toppling toward a hot Civil War in this country with the 70-80-90% of people who understand the situation we are in and cooperating.
If you know me, you know I'm a rebel, an asshole, and a conspiracy theorist. I think it is clear the government is hiding tens of thousands of COVID-19 deaths, one reason or another.
(CDC is reporting all cause deaths are about double, at least, what they are normally this time of year.)
I ask a lot of the pro-Trump types if they want a war.
Sounds like we are about to get it.
We are about to see that in practice as this bullshit by the Covidiots has taken on enough life that it now appears that this country will have the millions of deceased due to the virus that the Branch Covidians, MAGAts, and YOLO Culture desire.
Don't believe me? Here's Assault With A Deadly Weapon by a Branch Covidian MAGAt in Michigan:
Police in Michigan asking for help identifying assault suspect who wiped his nose and face on a Dollar Tree employee's shirt after authorities say she informed him of the store's face-mask policy. https://t.co/SUpzE1UT4C pic.twitter.com/jDHg1miAT9— ABC News (@ABC) May 5, 2020
Is told the policy, flips off the storekeeper, then wipes himself on her shirt, possibly exposing her to the virus.
You know, if you have that much of a problem with the whole thing, why not just ransack the place and be done with it, you fucking piece of shit?
Of course, you could also be the
EDITS were for more information -- and, as of about noon PDT on Tuesday, she's in custody but the other two are still on the loose...
And then, of course, the incident with the Michigan State Senate last week.
And now, burgeoning protests and violence have finally gotten Gavin Newsom to begin to reopen California later this week -- WEEKS before we even can remotely be ready.
---
You're going to get 10,000,000 killed by this virus alone.
And I think it's clear that's what you want.
I've heard all forms of bigotry, racism, up to even eugenics and the talk of that we have prevented those with "defects" dying, etc. and so forth.
You are teetering and toppling toward a hot Civil War in this country with the 70-80-90% of people who understand the situation we are in and cooperating.
If you know me, you know I'm a rebel, an asshole, and a conspiracy theorist. I think it is clear the government is hiding tens of thousands of COVID-19 deaths, one reason or another.
(CDC is reporting all cause deaths are about double, at least, what they are normally this time of year.)
I ask a lot of the pro-Trump types if they want a war.
Sounds like we are about to get it.
We lost Don Shula today.
Don Shula, the coach of the only Super Bowl champion to run the table...
... the winningest coach in NFL history...
passed today at age 90.
It's kinda tough to write about with the virus and the state of football even without it and all that stuff.
But that's one/another of the pillars of the Super Bowl Era now gone...
... the winningest coach in NFL history...
passed today at age 90.
It's kinda tough to write about with the virus and the state of football even without it and all that stuff.
But that's one/another of the pillars of the Super Bowl Era now gone...
Day 54 -- yes, there was no post yesterday...
- ESPN will be telecasting Korean baseball to fill the programming for a while. The games begin tonight with the NC Dinos vs. the Samsung Lions.
- For the next eight days, Dallas-based video-game group The Speed Gamers are doing round-the-clock video-game streams from their homes around the country to support St. Jude.
- For the "Good Lord!" file: After breaking the world deadlift record on Saturday, Halfthor Bjornsson challenged former record-holder Eddie "The Beast" Hall to a boxing match. Hall has accepted -- preliminary thought is to make it September in Las Vegas. There's no way the Nevada State Athletic Commission is going to allow that shit. They'd pop for so many steroids... Are you fuckers serious???
- Couple of things on the e-sports front: The good news: Villanova University's last two national championship teams will play on a modified NBA2K build to "settle the score" -- and raise money for a Philadelphia kids hunger-relief charity. Should start at 4 on both YouTube and Twitch.
- The bad news: Five men, four of them 20 years old, have been arrested in Australia for attempting to fix e-sports matches. Hmmm...
- Chris Jericho with Fozzy on his Saturday Night Special last Saturday night:
- Blake Snell of the Tampa Bay Rays won the MLB: The Show Players League championship three games to none over the White Sox' Lucas Giolito (5-1, 3-2, 6-0) Snell won $25,000 for the Tampa Bay Boys and Girls Club.
- Staying in baseball, over the last two to two and a half weeks, MLB Network has had the Dream Bracket series, in which all 30 teams put together their best all-time roster. The other two spots were left to an all-time roster of the Negro Leagues, and a current roster of the best of the best players 25 and under. 7-game series, single elimination. All games simulated on Out of the Park 2020.
- The final two teams? Yankees (4-3 over the Red Sox) vs. Reds (4-2 over the Dodgers). The Grand Final series is 2-2, the rest will air tomorrow.
- After they finish this, it's on to the 64 best single-season teams in a similar tournament.
- Olbermann:
Two great Thurber stories read aloud in tonight’s #Thurbercast No. 38: “The Casebook of James Thurber” and “A Ride With Olympy”https://t.co/FMvG9N9GYW— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) May 5, 2020
- Rory McIlroy, Ricky Fowler, and Dustin Johnson will one-up Tiger, Phil, Peyton, and Tom. May 17, they and Matthew Wolff will play a 2 on 2 skins game for COVID-19 relief charities, $3,000,000 on the line, live on NBC and streamed for free.
Saturday, May 2, 2020
Day 52
- Well (if the weight is correct), The Mountain did it. Hafthor Bjornsson lifted 501 kg (1,104.52 pounds) to break the deadlift world record in his gymnasium in Iceland today. The question is: He made it look EASY!!! The attempt is a subject of much controversy in the powerlifting world. Some do question whether someone might fudge the weight and the like, and even people sympathetic to Bjornsson question whether an out-of-competition lift should be counted. On the other hand, there is the point of whether another such competition might ever feasibly be held!
- The Peachtree Road Race, the largest 10-kilometer race in the world, held in Atlanta, will be run on Thanksgiving instead of the Fourth of July this year. Doubt that VERY seriously.
- Speaking of things I have to doubt VERY seriously... According to Tampa Bay beat write Marc Topkin:
With cautious optimism, MLB's latest plan for a season has most teams playing in home parks with no fans and competing in current divisions https://t.co/UKzeFaUSht— Marc Topkin (@TBTimes_Rays) May 2, 2020
- And the countdown to rioting continues: Guns were pulled on Oklahoma City storekeepers in the last several days, so the city pulled back it's limitation on masks. Word is that less-violent idiots are going to get our county to revoke that on Tuesday night. Somebody wants a lot of people killed this summer, and they're going to get it! Martial. Law. NOW.
- And the eugenicists are out in full force: Antioch (California, right near the Bay Area) City Planning Commission member Ken Turnage has called for the elimination of the unfit through COVID-19 -- both of the aged and of the mentally-ill and homeless to reduce the burden on society. (And just in case you think I'm joking: New York Daily News) Turnage was expelled from the Commission last night.
- As widely expected, Secretariat won the virtual Kentucky Derby (called The Triple Crown Showdown) between all 13 Triple Crown winners. Secretariat won by a head over Citation, and largely because Secretariat got boxed in for most of the race, including a bump between two horses in front of him which could've caused an inquiry.
- Chris Jericho brings members of his band Fozzy to the Saturday Night Special on his Facebook at 6 PM PDT tonight.
- The quarterfinals and semifinals of the month-long MLB: The Show Players League were held today.
- (1) Blake Snell (Tampa Bay) defeated (8) Gavin Lux (LA Dodgers) two games to none. (3-2, 5-4)
- (4) Jeff McNeil (NY Mets) defeated (5) Dwight Smith Jr. (Baltimore) two games to none. (3-2. 3-1)
- (7) Ian Happ (Chicago Cubs) defeated (2) Joey Gallo (Texas) two games to one. (2-3, 4-3, 7-0)
- (6) Lucas Giolito (Chicago White Sox) defeated (3) Bo Bichette (Toronto) two games to one. (3-2, 0-1, 5-3)
- Semifinal One: Snell defeated McNeil two games to one (1-4, 8-0, 7-0)
- Semifinal Two: Giolito defeated Happ two games to one (8-4, 0-1, 3-1)
- The Grand Final: Blake Snell vs. Lucas Giolito, will take place tomorrow on ESPN at 2:30 Eastern. It is best of 5, the winner gets $25,000 for the Boys and Girls Club of either Tampa, FL if Snell wins or Chicago if Giolito wins. Every player in the 30-man league got a $5,000 donation for their city's Boys and Girls Club.
Friday, May 1, 2020
And you can add English football to the list.
One major English footballer has been banned from soccer for four months and another faces the same ban. Both for providing inside information about impending transfers to people betting on such markets.
Daniel Sturridge provided inside information regarding a potential 2018 transfer and has been banned for four months of soccer, and now Kieran Trippier faces the same ban after transferring to Atletico Madrid.
So what ELSE are these people talking about?
Daniel Sturridge provided inside information regarding a potential 2018 transfer and has been banned for four months of soccer, and now Kieran Trippier faces the same ban after transferring to Atletico Madrid.
So what ELSE are these people talking about?
Day 51
- The Kentucky Derby will take place tomorrow on NBC... kinda.
"Bets" on the winners will be donations to COVID-19 relief charities, with all donators put into a drawing for a VIP experience the next time the real Derby is actually held. Churchill Downs is matching all donations to $1,000,000, according to the official Kentucky Derby website.
A full list of the day's social-media activities and broadcasts is on Lifehacker.
Odds have been placed, and, to what should be no one's surprise, Secretariat is the favorite.
- English Premier League will probably decide how to complete the 2019-20 season on May 8 (next Friday), but all remaining games will probably be played at neutral grounds to prevent fan congregation.
- ESPN is doing "The Ocho" again tomorrow. This time, it has a twist! There will be one live event! "The Mountain" from Game of Thrones, World's Strongest Man Thor Bjornsson, will attempt a world-record deadlift of 1,104 pounds (500.68 kg). Ouch, that is not a misprint.
He's going to try to become the first human being in history to deadlift 500 kilograms.Oops, I stand corrected. The current record, held by Eddie "The Beast" Hall, is 1,102.31 pounds (An exact 500 kg), set in July of 2016. - To give you an idea of how much a beast Bjornsson is, he posted on Tuesday to his social media a video in which he successfully deadlifted for 3 reps 440 kilograms. NINE HUNDRED SEVENTY POUNDS -- for three reps!
- This is NOT his first attempt at this weight. He failed at last year's Arnold Classic.
- Large-scale streaming comedy event to benefit Americares tonight:
This looks awesome 💙💙 pic.twitter.com/refBTVpnJy— tara strong (@tarastrong) May 1, 2020
- Evo 2020, the largest fighting-game tournament in the world, will be held online. No Las Vegas this year.
- Olbermann taking a couple days off. He, like many of the rest of us, are now seeing one day blend into the next. We feel you, Keith. Rest well.
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