BobbyWhioux

I'm actually more optimistic about the Raiders this season than the 49ers, and I can't even remember the last time I felt that way.

Eh, I'm old enough to remember more than half the super bowls. I've always got Living In The Past as an option (which I've pretty much been doing since 2003 anyway) My memories and Dolfan's animal .gifs, I can make do with that.

Madison Bumgarner pinch hits (!) with 2 outs and singles, coming around to score after 2 consecutive walks and an RBI HBP. The Giants have the most bizarre rallies.

They even traded away the punter, man. THE PUNTER.

"In WWE Universe, cheating is babyface move! What a Country!"

Nah, see, you gotta go Monkey's Paw with this. His knees are blessed and they are 100% healthy and fine for his entire stint with the Eagles. The day after the knee blessing he breaks his arm.

The bar owner has at least a couple financial motivations to make that claim, however accurate or inaccurate it may actually be.

Whoever loses, we win. Then again, whoever wins, we lose.

Said collapse seems at least partially attributable to the front office making it clear (to the players if not to the audience) that Harbaugh was a lame duck and would not be retained past 2014. Remember there was attempt to trade him to Cleveland for draft picks after 2013 that Jed York tried to play off as a silly and unfounded rumor/false report. While I have no doubt that the aspects of Jim Harbaugh's personality that make him a highly successful football coach also make him personally unpleasant to deal with on a day to day basis, part of being professional is learning to coexist with people you don't personally like when its profitable to do so. Sure, get rid of him when the results no longer warrant putting up with his attitude, but that's not what happened here. They didn't start trying to get rid of him after 8-8 [which by the way STILL constitutes him leaving the team in better shape than he found it]; they started trying to get rid of him -- and showing that they didn't want him back -- after 3 straight NFC championship game appearances. Or, if you'll indulge the tinfoil theory I've been insinuating , after they were safely moved out of Candlestick and their shiny new corporate cathedral was built. The rash of sudden retirements makes a lot of sense to me. Given how dangerous (albeit lucrative) playing professional football is, why would any of these guys trust this organization enough to put their brains on the line for it? It's the guys who are staying on that confuse me.

Meanwhile, we almost had a Fred Merkle Double Play yesterday. http://m.mlb.com/news/article/142241418/reds-lose-after-confusing-walk-off-ending I think if they'd started with 3rd and gone all the way around the horn they might have gotten it. At least no one will learn their lesson from this since it didn't actually blow up in the D-Backs face, so some alert fielder/oblivious runner can still make this happen. In a big game where it becomes instantly (in)famous, with any luck.

Should've made that 49er-specific "offseason stupidity/dumpster fire" thread, after all. Of course, we're the real dumb ones, for forgetting what the owners were really like during 3 winning seasons. "A New Stadium is not a means, Winston. It is an end."

Giants vs Dodgers for the West shall be settled head to head, as the baseball gods intended. The true pennant race is dead (and year-round interleague play dances on the grave like a mascot on a dugout roof) but at least this way we can squint our eyes and pretend. It's high time the Yanksox got pushed out of the rivalry limelight anyway.

They'd need a kick ass Latin motto. too.. At first I thought up "Sic Semper Jabronius" as simple obvious parody. But then I wanted to wander into Listamania, so I started looking up Latin Mottos that might work "Qvae nocent docent" And started riffing on them "Pulchritudo Est Potentia" "Melius Te" And then I had way too much fun with Google Translate and went off the deep end: "Qui est omnibus melior nos? Nemo!" "Heja, id effodiamus!" "patet responsio a te putas, quaestiones mutamus" "Quid acturo? Cum mania effusior licentia tui?" "Noli credere Anguis" "Regnabit, oportet vincere regem" I had to fudge a little to accommodate modern slang but these have me giggling way too much. I'm sure you can figure them out.

Hogan singing along to the Rougeau's theme and waving a tiny American flag would be amazing. Jacques starts wearing bandanas. Everywhere.

Tempted to crosspost that Gregg Zaun clip in the "how to cut a promo" thread we've got going.

Not sure what the umpire expects to happen when he issues a warning to both benches but only upholds it against one team (and it's not the team that threw at a guy's head). Granted I only saw the highlights of this game and didn't see the rest of the series, so there's quite possibly context I'm missing, but it sure seems like the umpire escalated the situation and made it much more likely the benches would clear (as they eventually did). Of course, Manfred taking an umpire to task for screwing up and/or baiting players/coaches/teams is even more of a pipe dream than your proposal

I don't ever really give Piper enough credit for making/keeping me a wrestling fan that he warrants. His passing drives home how much his presence has actually been missed. If I were ever going to change the link in my sig before, I'm certainly not going to now.

One would assume allusions to a python "running wild" are involved at some point. Perhaps rhetorical inquiries as to what his partner will do once coitus (and the aforementioned) initiates are involved as well. The joke writes itself, really.

#HULKAMANIA is DEAD #humanoids #what have I been saying all these years, dummies?

Yes. And folks wanna talk about having their childhood ruined...

Sorry, Mr. Bean has a long established history of murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and treason, documented here, here, and .

Their target audience was born after Hogan/Rock, let alone Wrestlemanias 1-7. As distant and irrelevant to them as Stan Stasiak is to me, if not more so. Nope....not even close. Vince Jr. built his empire on Hogan's back. Video and images of Hogan are EVERYWHERE in the VKM empire. past and present. Stasiak? Try Bruno for an actual approximation. Yeah, Bruno's the way better comparison (Stasiak was just the first most "WHO?" person that came to mind). And yet I had to learn who Bruno was from other wrestling fans (i.e. from here). WWF/E sure wasn't quick to remind me of his existence. Here's one to make us all feel old: A 12 year old kid, right in the middle of the target audience, buying Cena merch now and hopefully Reigns merch tomorrow? Born after Austin's last match. What is Austin to him, let alone Hogan or Bruno. Of course these guys seem unscrubbable to us. And they should be unscrubbable. And yet...

Their target audience was born after Hogan/Rock, let alone Wrestlemanias 1-7. As distant and irrelevant to them as Stan Stasiak is to me, if not more so. Even Bruno doesn't really resonate with me (and he's the obvious "how do you possibly erase this guy" parallel to Hogan). Wrestling is well-practiced at disregarding its history in hopes that its audience will do the same.

I've been up for less than an hour and I'm already almost out of likes for the day again just from page 19. Still haven't even cracked my like backlog from yesterday... just for this thread.

Good to see the NFL rulebook is still dedicated to honoring the memory of Dusty Rhodes.