All streaks will end eventually.
Now start a new one.
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It’s insane that I am pissed not about the end of the streak, but that we shit away the opportunity to go 2nd. I mean, we’re fucking 5th. 
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We sound like Astros fans
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Today’s game made it painfully clear how much the Thursday-Sunday-Thursday routine is going to crush our too small squad.
Unfun Fact: Coming out of the international break, Palace has 6 games in 18 days, including two Thursday night European games and one Wednesday game (away at Liverpool).
Muñoz was perhaps the most obviously tired and there is no credible back-up for him. He travels to Colombia for international duty so will get even less rest than all of his teammates.
FIFA is charging a 15% commission on both ends of a transaction on its World Cup ticket reselling website.
Palace needs to add a new line to its “Fuck UEFA” song.
That sucks. I had the over on 28,000.
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The blizzard of gambling ads during sports broadcasts - many built- in to the show - is jarring.
Palace is one of the 11 with a gambling shirt sponsor. One season recently it was a non-gambling company, but then we returned to the gambling well. I presume the lure of the money is too good.
I remember when advertising cigarettes on TV was banned, and it took a while before they addressed the fact that F1 cars of the time were named after cigarette brands and painted to match the packet. The doom-saying from teams when that too was banned was loud and obviously turned out to be correct. Eh? Oh.
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It’s gone well beyond “jarring”. Good excuse to repost my favorite pertinent tweet:
…and to your other point, NASCAR’s championship was the Winston Cup
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I cut my teeth in F1 watching the Marlboro McLaren battling the JPS Lotus
…which looked totally badass in its all-black livery, here being driven by Ayrton Senna.
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That is indeed a badass lookin’ racecar
I like horse racing and people racing (Olympics) but for whatever reason car racing has never done anything for me. However, I did tour a great F1 museum in Argentina. Wanted to go to this cheese shop, so we got one of our older retiree friends to drive and make a day trip out of it. Lorenzo was a racing fan so he planned a little side trip to the museum, and it was really, really interesting. They had a couple of dozen cars (not replicas) from all ages of F1 racing, it was great to see how they changed over the years.
The cheese shop was, by the way, out of this world. I still remember the smell of all the cured meats hanging from the walls/ceiling.
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Did it have a bouzouki player?
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After dark, I’m sure, but a charango would be more appropriate
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I love how a discussion of F1 racing can turn into one on cheese. God bless this place.
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It’s cheeses all the way down
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Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh…the cat’s eaten it.
MLB’s most recent fan survey included a question along these lines – “Do sports gambling ads and in-game mentions detract from the quality of the broadcast?”, or something like that. I thought it was interesting that they were asking.
Damn, they didn’t ask me. It would have been a chance to practice some inventive invective.
The fact that we have entire pre-game shows devoted to breaking down bets speaks volumes, and none of it is good.
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I know a fair number of sports fans and no one I know likes the gambling-fication of sports or uses these sports betting sites. Yet, someone must be using them for all the sponsorship money that they are throwing around.
I also have a friend who was an early member of a football analytics venture who (along with many of the original folks) left the company when the company shifted its focus to serve the sportsbetting market. This happened after they took on some venture capital partner.
Perhaps the hype is just because of investors and venture capital?
Because of course.
ETAL. Basically the new rules would still likely have been broken by Palace’s Textor (because he’s a fucking idiot), but would allow what Forlympiacos’ Marinakis did to be compliant.
FTR, Marinakis did not get his blind trust filed until late-April, missing the deadline by two months. It turned out to be moot, because Olympiacos qualified for the Champions League, but UEFA now says that MCO conflicts have to be declared by March 1 (the new deadline last year) but fig leaves do not have to be in place until June 1 (the old deadline).
Icleand is leading 1-0 at the half playing a talented french team. I like a couple of the french players, but would be thrilled to see tiny icleand (or anyone else) beat them. I am not optomistic that Iceland’s luck can hold out for another half…but maybe!!!
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