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I’m surprised they even know this show exists.

Mystery solved. I could not figure out how anyone could think Melanie Hutsell was good in anything. Now I know. They don’t. You’re confusing her with Wendi McLendon-Covey. She was funny in Bridesmaids. She’s pretty good in most things she’s in. Melanie Hutsell is utter garbage in everything she’s every been in. Her Jan Brady wasn’t really that good. They do look kind of similar though.

Has anyone watched Aquarius? Is it worth watching? Dochovney. Manson. 1969.

If you haven't seen Palm Springs yet, might as well skip this. If you don't like bending your brain around time travel theories and shit, might as well skip this. And there will be spoilers.

I took it as the 50,000 acres is only part of the ranch.

Casey sold 300 horses for $16,000? Isn’t that $55 per horse? Is that how cheap horses are?

RR was an accomplished coach, but that was just an awful fit. I’d say based on what a mismatch it was, he would qualify. Weiss at ND is pretty good. He was pretty “accomplished” (thanks Bill), but a total fraud. This really highlights just how awful the Blake hire was. Those are damn good examples, especially Weiss, and they really don’t even come close to Blake. So far, you can kind of justify the hires (he was a successful HC before, he was a successful coordinator), but there is just nothing I can think of to justify a guy who hadn’t even been a coordinator getting the OU job. I think it can be blamed on hubris by the ou AD. He probably figured “we’re OU. He can recruit. We’ll be great”. With Switzer as your standard bearer, I guess I don’t blame him.

At least Charlie had a track record of success prior to coming here. For me, that's the tie breaker. Blake was a DL coach for 3 years with the Cowboys after being an assistant coach in college for 6 years. Never a coordinator before he got the job and never was a coordinator after getting fired. He had no business getting that job and he lived up to it. So I'm not basing the question on results, though to be in this discussion, the results are going to need to be pretty awful. I'm talking head scratchingly odd hire that went down in flames. That's why Gerry Faust comes to mind, but at least he had an amazing track record as a head coach in high school. Blake had zero track record of success doing anything except recruiting and he was woefully unprepared. Since blue bloods rarely have to think outside the box to hire a head coach, I think we may have to bring college basketball into the mix just to find someone that even comes close to Blake's level of weird hire and terrible performance. This question has been bouncing around in my head for 20 years and I've never actually brought it up to anyone. Just in case anyone is wondering why I seem so interested in the subject. Oh, the cherry on top is that they only hired him because Switzer basically talked them into it. I imagine they stopped taking hiring recs from him after this one.

Has a major blue blood program ever made a worse hire than John Blake? This guy stirred up a racial controversy on his own team when he was with the Cowboys. His practices apparently were a disorganized mess. Won 35% of his games at OU. I'm having a hard time coming up with one worse. Gerry Faust comes to mind. Oh, and RIP.

No kidding on Jenny. I wonder if someone close to her had a little talk with her. She actually looked pretty damn good last night.

What’s the deal with the druggie, Jimmy? Why did they pluck him from a crack hours and give him a brand?

Why? This is from April right after her said that complimentary shit about OAN. They heard what he said, asked him if he wanted some free stuff, and he took it. Of course, at the time he had no idea OAN was a network for right wing conspiracy theory nut jobs. Or so he says. Either way, it's old news and until he says the next dumbass thing, it's behind us.

I had no idea Kaycee isn't able to do basic math. She could have easily won this thing if she could

I watched it last night and was really hoping this was based on some series of novels like GOT. That sounds like some shit I could get into with all the century hopping. A little bummed to have just learned the source material is a comic book. I'd like to know if anyone has read the comic yet too. I got through a lot of the Walking Dead comic, but comics pale in comparison to a series of novels.

I think Suzi is by far the hottest of all these girls, not that that's saying much. You and I have a serious disconnect on this subject. We might need some other people to weigh in just to figure out which one of us is wrong.

Maybe? I feel almost certain Bananas is making a concerted effort to change his game play and his image. He's getting older and the way he used to play the game doesn't work anymore. He can't just strongarm people into doing what he wants because he rarely has the numbers on his side. Hell, the fact that he rarely has the numbers on his side makes it essential that he does change it up. Ever since he screwed Sara over, he's been a marked man with a huge target on his back. And he was such an asshole that nobody was going to jeopardize their game to save him and not many fans were going to give a shit if he got screwed. He was fast becoming an irrelevant dinosaur. So he had to change everything about how he plays. And he's done a masterful job of it. Teaming up with Wes was brilliant for both of them. Just for the image makeover more than the game play reasons. Instead of stirring up shit just for the fun of it, he now picks his spots and there's a little more strategy to the shit stirring he does. Last night with Melissa he was the one actually calmly explaining it to her after Kyle ripped her a new one. I said to my wife last night "how weird is it to be rooting for Bananas?" If this was a real sport that ESPN covered, the Bananas late career shift and image change would be 30 for 30 material. I've come to the conclusion that this guy knows how to make good television.

She was 7 when Vancouver got their NBA franchise. She loved basketball. Big Country was the first draft choice in their history. Big Country is an awesome nickname. Big Country is a unique looking individual who was hopefully going to be the cornerstone of the franchise. I can see how all that would be attractive to a 7 year old.

If you haven't watched this video yet, do yourself a favor and watch it. That kick is ....amazing.

I think Kaycee can beat her. Strength probably won't be a big part of the final. It's all about stamina so she should have a shot. Melissa and Bayleigh have close to zero chance.

Bananas and Kyle are pretty good friends off the show. I don't think he just wants an easy guy in the final but it does work out in his favor that his best friend left in the game kind of sucks at it. You prefer Dee over Bayleigh? Just for the editing distraction alone I'm glad the Dee era has ended. I think B may surprise us in the final. Probably not though.

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Well, it's hard to argue with that. Makes perfect sense.

This may have been discussed, but it's been bugging me for a long time. Why the fuck is that guy calling Jake from State Farm at 3:00 in the morning?

Oh it’s clear and you hit the nail on the head.

Made the wife watch a few oldies the past week or so. All The President's Men - She was into it and not playing on her phone the entire movie. I was proud and impressed. Barefoot in the Park - I was thinking of The Out-of-towners when I suggested this one, but I figured what the hell. I don't think I'd ever actually seen it. It kind of sucked. Would not recommend. The Odd Couple - Lemmon & Mathau are so great in this. I let her pick the late night getting too drunk for something deep movie on Saturday. She picked St Elmo's Fire and since I hadn't seen it in a long time, I figured what the hell. What the hell? That movies sucks donkey balls hard. It probably hit Stillwater OK when I was about 6 months away from graduating college, so I see why I related to it 35 years ago. Now, I wanted to punch almost every lead character in the face. A raging asshole, a man child who is intent on destroying his life and anyone in his life, a coke head who's about a month away from turning tricks to support her habit, and an obsessed stalker who seems a bit unstable. Fucking hell.