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VIKINGS NEWS – Nothing
NFL News – FTP
Other News – I guess some hockey stuff got interesting, so MT should be happy. I am still boycotting since the NHL moved the Minnesota North Stars. Eff Norm Green
Media Selection
Great game by Pablo, 8 shutout innings with only 2 hits and 14 KOs.
Twins win 3-0 to spit the series in Oakland 2-2.
Climate activists storm the 18th hole at the Travelers.
I guess green grass and trees are bad for the climate. Bunch of wackos.
Climate Activists are among the stupidest people around.
Not only do they believe that climate has only starting changing recently as opposed to always but they also seem to believe that pissing of the rest of the world with their antics will garner support for their views.
Thats Lifer level thinking right there.
Can’t fix stupid, country is full of it, starting with Admin.
These people need to be arrested and charged with being a public nuisance on private property, and also potentially endangering innocent bystanders. We must put our foot down when “activists” violate our rights. They can protest in places they make proper arrangements for, and schedule with public officials. Not trounce all over events that did not invite them. The Travelers should sue them for millions of dollars.
Hope everyone in SW Minnesota, Sioux Falls, etc is on high and dry ground. Hearing from family that Windom is flooded out.
Statewide drought 2 years ago, now getting people off rooftops. Go figure.
Yup, SE MN/SW WI also. Took a drive around yesterday to check things out. River is high, streams and creeks are overflowing.
Last year, Baker Mayfield threw for the most yards (4,044) and touchdowns (28) in his career. He also had his best completion percentage (63.4 percent) and his second-highest quarterback rating of 94.6. People labeled him an outstanding QB and he was named to the Pro-Bowl.
Hate to say it, but those are pedestrian numbers for being the best he’s ever played.
Beat poopeaters, worked for me. Scottie back on top. Finau f’d up.
Yeah, Scottie is hitting the gas… he’ll win it.
Kim on the block and greens almost put me to sleep.
Yeah… he takes forever… very annoying.
Apparently, at 40, Aaron Rodgers is the oldest player in the NFL…
Really.- didn’t know that but probably right. Jets are sure getting a lot of love in the press.
Jets have built a talented team. Last year they only needed “decent” QB play to be really dangerous. With Rodgers going down in the first series of the first game, they struggled.
Well Rickie has played steady if not spectacular golf today, until the 15th hole. He almost aced the par four, leaving his drive about 4 inches from the hole. Tap in eagle, and almost a double eagle. He’s now 6 under for the round, and tied for 13th place with three holes left for him to play.
Rickie Fowler is 4 under for the day through 12 holes, and has only moved up six places on the leaderboard. Currently tied for 18th place. At least he’s not falling apart and falling back though.
Anything interesting going on today?
I am back at the packing/prepping today. Yesterday was like a half day off for us. In the morning got pictures off the walls, cleaned out my desk, made a hardware store run for a float for the toilet as had one that was acting up.
Then SIL, niece and nephew showed up with pizza. We caught up, played a game, sorted thru thru a 100+ games, played another game, visited some more and they left 6pm or so. They took 5 or six boxes of games/misc with them and we are taking about 20 games with us the rest to be donated.
Still have the kitchen, garage and spare bedroom to organize but we have about 12 days to work those. Light at the end of the tunnel? Already have almost full loads for next dump and donation trips.
Go Twinkies (today) and Oilers (Monday) and Olympic Trails in track and field.
Hey SoCal, not much happening today. Watching golf for the most part. Still got 4 weeks before there’s some real football to talk about, even though it’s just gonna be practice.
Happy to see you’re closing in on your escape from California.
Most of my family, friends, neighbors are congratulating us on the move away from Commifornia. Some are asking advice on making their own escape.
Technically we would probably stop with the prep and let the movers take what we want and just leave the rest. But we prefer to downsized, get organized and use this time productively. It all needs to be done either here/now or later when we unpack or set up our Idahome.
Also figuring out that during this dead time we can get this done and be catching our breath when training camp/Olympics/Election get more interesting.
I give the credit to Karma as I sure didn’t plan it that well.
If people can’t see what liberal leadership/control looks like with California as an example, I am very worried about the country.
From what I can see some are ‘true believers’ but the liberal majority are not ‘into’ the whole political issues.
They go along with what fake news and politicians tell them and don’t examine the details too much + virtue signaling.
Of course The Coast controls Calif since they have the most population and simply outvote the 2/3rd of the counties that are more conservative.
Kern County were I live is pretty conservative which helps but state policies bleed in and effect us all.
Cameron Young shot a 59 yesterday at the Traveler’s in Cromwell, Connecticut. 11 under par. The course has had a lot of rain, so the greens are soft. Players are starting to throw darts at the flags now. Might see several scores in the low 60’s today.
27 days till “Back together weekend” for the Vikings. I think the Ravens are starting their training camp on 13 July, so 20 days for them.
Twinkies won today 10-2.
They can salvage a split vs the A’s if they win tomorrow.
I guess acceptable for a road team.
Back into the #2 wildcard spot I believe
Hmmm…
Former NY Gov. Cuomo says Trump’s hush money case should not have been brought forward.
“When you have this country believing you’re … trying to put people in jail or convict them for political reasons, then we have a real problem,” said Cuomo.
Dems know that’s exactly what they are doing, but they don’t care. They want to retain power at any cost.
And to keep the Orange Devil out.
Yep.
Or any Repub.
Hmmm…
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is suing the state of New York over Donald Trump’s hush money trial case.
Bailey posted on social media that he would be filing a lawsuit “against the State of New York for their direct attack on our democratic process through unconstitutional lawfare against President Trump.”
I really like this…Go Navy!!
Navy Women’s Lacrosse Team Belting Toby Keith Has Fans “Ready To Run through a Brick Wall and/or Drink a Million Beers” – American Songwriter
Just saw that too.
Awesome media selection today!
Golfed a couple days ago. Had shot a 54 on the front.
I was moping a bit on the back nine feeling sorry for myself and the undeniable fact that the severe arthritis in my lower back really negatively impacts my golf game.
Then, I saw a man on the neighboring green with his buddy. He could not stand or walk. He had a 3 wheel golf cart that allowed him to swivel the seat and place it in a position where he could be semi standing to hit his golf ball. His buddy had to pick it up after he was done putting and place his ball on a tee for him. But he was obviously enjoying the round.
Jewish Proverb “I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes until a met a man with no feet”
This concludes todays sermon.
Yeah, there is always someone who has it worse than you. Hard to see that sometimes.
Great reminder – thanks!
by the way, shot a 90 yesterday…..played much better…really want to be in the mid – 80s though…I just have a few too many “throw away shots” or “head up my ass shots” shots where I just put a terrible swing on the ball and are worthless. Probably 2 or 3 of those a round.
90 to mid 80’s is close. Everyone hits bad shots. Cleaning up your game around the green is usually the fastest way to lower scores.
JR has it right. Not much of a reach from 90 to 85. I think you know, a couple loose shots here and there, can add 5 or 6 shots to your score, very quickly. I also appreciate the story about the disabled guy, who is playing golf, despite his limitations. Always enjoy the day, regardless of how you play.
Slick Rick thinks the Vikings should start JJ week 7, after the Bye against Detroit.
Proving the point that opinions are like A-holes, everyone has one.
https://thevikingage.com/posts/former-minnesota-vikings-gm-predicts-jj-mccarthy-start-2024
Slick Rick has never steered us wrong before, I think the Vikes should take his advice.
Especially with QBs….
Which means JJ should start week #1 or week #12. At least Slick lets us know the wrong plan after he chimes in.
Someone from S.I. thought Darnold would be traded before Nov deadline to a contending team who lost their #1 qb. The speculations are rampant.
I guess if we sucked and Mullins was ‘good enough’ or JJ was tearing things up and they were willing to chance Mullins as his back up I guess I could see it.
If they offered us enough and they were not the FTP.
Would be nice to get a haul… One thing wrong with this thinking is if Darnold is doing well… Then I think the Vikings record would be good and they’d be in playoff contention in which case they wouldn’t trade their starting QB that is doing well…. Right?
True. No idea what Sam brings to the table. I’m sure he’ll need good line play and above average run. And protection. Should be kinda fun, lots of new faces.
It seems these guys make these prognostications in isolation. Might it matter how well Darnold is playing, the team as a whole, JJ’s progress in practice, etc. These people are silly.
Thursday I did an early dump run and then shredded a ton of old paperwork. Then we ran into town for a couple of donations stops, dentist appointment, and errands. Once we got home we put a few more hours into sorting/organizing.
Friday I finished the shredding (go me!) then started on closets and junk drawers. I found a box of old pictures/misc that took a few more hours to go thru.
Today a niece and nephew are in town and want to stop by. We are drafting them into going thru the 100s of board and card games that we have. They can take what they want and we will donate the bulk of the rest (lots not even opened).
@Moving is so much fun in case I haven’t mentioned it before.@ Two weeks to go and then the unpacking fun can begin.
In theory, unpacking will be easier because you only brought what you need or want. In theory.
Hope that works for real life as well.
He have 4 or 5 big storage shelfs coming and they will be put in the garage. Misc stuff can be put on those until we can work our way thru unpacking/sorting them. I figure half the garage will be storage, hopefully neatly with the shelfs.
Any takers on Jim Harbaugh winning coach of the year this year?
I’m thinking O’Connell (only a little sarcasm).
Actually, KOC could be in the running. The Vikings ended up 7-10 last year, and the award is supposed to go to the coach who “does the most with the talent he has”. With the QB room the Vikings have, if they win the Division and a playoff game or two, I could see KOC winning the award.
” If they win the division and a playoff game or two ” – they should rename the Lombardi Trophy after. him.
Laughing… any given Sunday… isn’t that what they say?
Yes – but that would take a hell of a lot of Sundays.
Hey you guys!
it all comes down to one. From a shit series to a real duel. Damn proud of the resiliency coached into this team, from 32nd place and 15 points out of the playoffs, new coach brought in…they lose 3 in a row, they win 8…lose 3 in a row win 16…lose 3 in a row win ?
just a special time. Thanks all for the support. Can’t wait for the final game.
This will be the most important game of the McDavid Oilers era and may well be the most important game in the last 30 years of the NHL. Thousands of new fans tuning in to this storyline with the NBA season over. Fact is that if they can get a game 7 win (and it will be a tough tough win to get in Floridas barn) this series will be talked about for the next 30 years. If anyone has even casual interest you should tune in. A lot of intersecting storylines.
Go Oilers Go! We want the Cup!
I will tune in and watch my first NHL game since the North Stars left.
I would be more fired up for this if the girl flashing her bewbies was going to be there and the network promised to show her, and feed her Truly’s.
Hope they win
Go Oilers!!
I remember watching him one game make a run like that, limp back to the huddle, they gave him the ball again, makes another big run, staggers back to the huddle, stands in the huddle with his hands on his knee like he’s on his last breath, they give him the ball again, all the way down the field.
Impressive.
He was famous for that. It seems like anytime I watched him play after he was tackled, he got up like he was an 80 year old man. But the next play, he ran like a bulldozer. Good stuff.
Like Kellen Winslow Sr in that San Diego playoff game ’82.
I thought he was going to need to rest up after every play the way he looked but he went back to the huddle and did it again.
Game was aptly named ‘The Epic in Miami’, 5 TDs for Winslow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_in_Miami
5.12.37 – 6.22.08
RIP
No idea who that is.
Kind of reminds me of my dad.
If my dad a had a personality.
I’dsay a young George Carlin.
Correct
“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups”. America today. (Carlin quote)
FTP
Thanks for getting threads up Surly.
I haven’t been much of a hockey fun either since the North Stars left.
I will say that when a compelling story happens, I jump on the bandwagon.
The Oilers, (take that Greta), coming back from an 0-3 hole is an amazing story, so go Oilers!
Not much football going on, so the bashing of Darnold and Kwesi will continue I suppose.
95-100 today and tomorrow out here.
FIRST!!
FTP!
FT*!
GBR!
SKOL!
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Good morning and I think you pretty much covered it all.
Good morning, SKOL!
FTP!