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I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008

She went to Yale.

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DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Bill Simmons is a gigantic weirdo, episode 48,203

quote:

Simmons: LeBron, I wrote this down for you, I thought he spent all-star weekend acting like a divorced cougar at a wedding hitting on everyone else’s husband. What do you think of that?

Russillo: I like that. Scottsdale. Scottsdale LeBron?

Simmons: Like a 42-year-old, got divorced from her high school sweetheart two years ago, now at a wedding. Some married guys there, but hey who knows, everyone’s fair game. That’s how he was treating AD, Kyrie—

Russillo: Are you talking about what you saw?

Simmons: No, I’m talking about, just he was in the mix with all these other players on other teams, that... it’s... you know there were these pictures of him. Like, here’s him and Anthony Davis shaking hands in the shoot around, and here’s him and Anthony Davis and Ben Simmons with a picture around each other. It’s like, what’s going on here? Is this the league we have now? Just guys basketball-flirting with guys on other teams? That’s just where we are?

Lebron hung out with friends and colleagues!!?!?! WHAT DOES IT MEAN??????

DJExile fucked around with this message at 19:22 on Feb 18, 2019

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK
Sep 11, 2008

Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola

-Cheap Trick

Nap Ghost

EugeneJ posted:

I can't find the whole video, but the bobsled FLIPPED OVER ON ITS SIDE and it looked like the guys might all be dead, but then it FLIPPED BACK UP and they finished their run 5 seconds off the pace

Watched it live, poo poo was nuts

EDIT: FOUND IT!

https://twitter.com/JockCartier/status/1097270934757531648

I guess the guy was expecting them to be skidding upside down so he could get them tethered before they careened into the crash pads with no brakes without realizing they righted themselves and were coming in much faster

effin nuts

BWV
Feb 24, 2005


angry Boston man fan upset that talented black men are friends and not trying to murder each other for his own enjoyment.

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


exploded mummy posted:

I guess the guy was expecting them to be skidding upside down so he could get them tethered before they careened into the crash pads with no brakes without realizing they righted themselves and were coming in much faster

effin nuts

That's what I'm thinking as well.

Niwrad
Jul 1, 2008

There was some race car event in the 70's or 80's where some poor worker was on the track and literally got split in half. One of the most hosed up things I've seen.

Grittybeard
Mar 29, 2010

Bad, very bad!

Niwrad posted:

There was some race car event in the 70's or 80's where some poor worker was on the track and literally got split in half. One of the most hosed up things I've seen.

The Tom Pryce crash.

This video is very :nms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLFcrm2r7ok

e: He's not joking, the guy running across the track just gets bisected. Pryce dies because the fire extinguisher the track worker was holding hit him in the head.

quote:

Jansen van Vuuren's injuries were so extensive that, initially, his body was identified only after the race director had summoned all of the race marshals and he was not among them.

Grittybeard fucked around with this message at 22:44 on Feb 18, 2019

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


NBA ratings are down, especially on the national games

quote:

TNT broadcasts are now down 18 percent year-over-year on average, and NBA TV ones are down 17 percent. However, the ABC and ESPN broadcasts are holding up better; ABC’s down only three percent, and ESPN’s ratings are flat. But still, on average, the NBA is seeing a significant ratings decline on both regional and national fronts. The streaming caveat Payne mentions is a notable one, though, and the NBA isn’t the only place where we’re seeing TV ratings decline while streaming numbers rise.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

TNT production is pretty garbage maybe that has something to do with it. They don’t even have a PBP guy many nights. Never seen anything like it.

Lockback
Sep 3, 2006

All days are nights to see till I see thee; and nights bright days when dreams do show me thee.
NBA's ratings were softly high last year for a few different reasons, so this regression isn't a big surprise. Lebron taking a semi-sabbatical and the fact that NBA is going to be a canary for moving to streaming is going to accelerate the dip.

Basticle
Sep 12, 2011


Grittybeard posted:

The Tom Pryce crash.



thanks for posting i guess?

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK
Sep 11, 2008

Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola

-Cheap Trick

Nap Ghost
https://twitter.com/AlexJamesFitz/status/1097856260098191360?s=19

Basticle
Sep 12, 2011



:stare:

Bird in a Blender
Nov 17, 2005

It's amazing what they can do with computers these days.


Holy gently caress, I don’t even want to think what that would have done to him.

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

Bird in a Blender posted:

Holy gently caress, I don’t even want to think what that would have done to him.

A lot of people feel the same as you but for the opposite reason

DO YALL WANT A BOXC
Jul 20, 2010

HAHA! WOOOOOOO WOOO!
Fun Shoe
that poo poo is scary. when i was a kid in massachusetts i did the scoreboard for my brothers' hockey games. a lot of the old rinks up there have open penalty boxes and the glass for the timekeeper isn't covered on the sides. so one of my brothers' defensemen slapped the puck out on a penalty kill right at my head and it came about that close to whopping me.

my dad got hit with a clear off a wrist shot coaching and it still broke a bunch of his teeth. i'm surprised more folks don't get hurt on it honestly

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

DO YALL WANT A BOXC posted:

that poo poo is scary. when i was a kid in massachusetts i did the scoreboard for my brothers' hockey games. a lot of the old rinks up there have open penalty boxes and the glass for the timekeeper isn't covered on the sides. so one of my brothers' defensemen slapped the puck out on a penalty kill right at my head and it came about that close to whopping me.

my dad got hit with a clear off a wrist shot coaching and it still broke a bunch of his teeth. i'm surprised more folks don't get hurt on it honestly

I feel the same about comebackers, beanballs and foul liners in baseball. The fact that only one guy's ever died from a beanball amazes me, especially with the smoke some pitchers throw.

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


El Gallinero Gros posted:

I feel the same about comebackers, beanballs and foul liners in baseball. The fact that only one guy's ever died from a beanball amazes me, especially with the smoke some pitchers throw.

Most players these days use the extended ear flap over their cheeks. Amazingly it's proactive, but I think Keon Broxton having one and it saving him from a concussion got a lot of people to realize it's good.

Timby
Dec 23, 2006

Your mother!

iospace posted:

Most players these days use the extended ear flap over their cheeks. Amazingly it's proactive, but I think Keon Broxton having one and it saving him from a concussion got a lot of people to realize it's good.

The Looney Tunes way Kris Bryant's helmet spun around his head after getting beaned will never stop being ridiculous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACrl7ICCoPg

DO YALL WANT A BOXC
Jul 20, 2010

HAHA! WOOOOOOO WOOO!
Fun Shoe

El Gallinero Gros posted:

I feel the same about comebackers, beanballs and foul liners in baseball. The fact that only one guy's ever died from a beanball amazes me, especially with the smoke some pitchers throw.

i got my finger smashed as a sophomore in high school by playing up at third base against a 6'5" 290lb kid who hit a screamer. tried to catch it with two hands and mistimed it. my ring finger is still hosed up

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

I went to a Brewers game a couple years ago when I was in Milwaukee for work. We were about 20-25 rows up right at third base. Someone cracked a foul ball at us and before I could even get my hand all the way up to protect my face I could hear it hit the back of an empty seat two rows behind us, breaking the thick plastic seat backing. The girl sitting one row behind us had the ball graze her ear, ripping a bit of skin off. If that ball was another inch or two to the left, it would've shattered that girls face.

It hosed with me the whole rest of the game.

Ramadu
Aug 25, 2004

2015 NFL MVP


Yet another reason the home viewing experience is superior

Crazy Ted
Jul 29, 2003

I watched a Kirby Puckett foul ball line drive hit a baby in the jaw when I was about ten.

Ten-year-old me learned a lesson: Don't loving get front-row (or close to it) seats down the first base line and expect a fun family outing with your toddler.

Edward Mass
Sep 14, 2011

𝅘𝅥𝅮 I wanna go home with the armadillo
Good country music from Amarillo and Abilene
Friendliest people and the prettiest women you've ever seen
𝅘𝅥𝅮
Holy poo poo, AT&T SportsNet Southwest picked up another distributer! It’s fubo, but still!

RC and Moon Pie
May 5, 2011

There was a high school junior varsity player killed by an errant throw that went into the dugout a few years ago. The throw was during warm-ups between innings, making it even more freak. It didn't take long for all the high schools in these parts to add netting/chain-link fence to the dugouts.

chunkles
Aug 14, 2005

i am completely immersed in darkness
as i turn my body away from the sun

Edward Mass posted:

Holy poo poo, AT&T SportsNet Southwest picked up another distributer! It’s fubo, but still!

I tried the trial but man gently caress paying $44 a month to watch basketball games and nothing else. I will stick with grainy illegal streams that have a twitch chat full of racism and ads for casinos

algebra testes
Mar 5, 2011


Lipstick Apathy
That Cardinals player that copped a Pujols foul ball to the eye never played again either right?

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


oh man :smith:

https://twitter.com/CBBonFOX/status/1098383087405158400

gettin' really dusty in here

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


https://twitter.com/ChrisVernonShow/status/1098763731654361091

periodic reminder that Kevin Harlan is a treasure

chunkles
Aug 14, 2005

i am completely immersed in darkness
as i turn my body away from the sun
meanwhile, classless reggie miller leaves him hanging and refuses to complete the call.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


God drat, Charles!

https://twitter.com/gifdsports/status/1098809760407785472?s=19


https://twitter.com/TheNBACentral/status/1098808868254171136?s=19

Troy Queef
Jan 12, 2013




algebra testes posted:

That Cardinals player that copped a Pujols foul ball to the eye never played again either right?

yeah, Juan Encarnacion.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


https://twitter.com/berrisforce/status/1099401151840223233

all mics are hot mics, but drat do I feel this

ElwoodCuse
Jan 11, 2004

we're puttin' the band back together
"you can't say goddamn on the air"
"it's OK, no one's listening"

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


ElwoodCuse posted:

"you can't say goddamn on the air"
"it's OK, no one's listening"

lol :discourse:

wandler20
Nov 13, 2002

How many Championships?
https://twitter.com/NBCSportsPR/status/1100106549727502337

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
Nothing will top the muppets position

https://twitter.com/deadspin/status/1007692142750437379?lang=en

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


https://twitter.com/Deadspin/status/1100607073673531392

oh god this is basically my nightmare

psyer
Mar 26, 2013
Looks like MNF will have commentator changes again for next season as Jason Witten is unretiring from football.

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2019/02/28/jason-witten-quits-espn-returns-to-cowboys/

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MourningView
Sep 2, 2006


Is this Heaven?
They should dump Booger too and grab Kurt Warner as the sole color guy. He's been doing MNF on the radio and is really good at it. He was also the best part of that one NFL Network game that had like 12 people in the booth for some reason.

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