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Great series from two really good teams. Man - I have to say that OSU/Texas baseball may be the series I missed the most when y’all go to the SEC. Two really great programs and it always seems practically every game is a close nail-biter.

Yes pretty much. Nan Pierce (and family) are supposed to be representing aristocratic "old money" New Englanders... in that they are rich as fuck but want to pretend like they aren't, throwing around transparent platitudes like "we don't like to talk about money" or "this whole thing is so vulgar".... etc., etc., but meanwhile they are just as relentless in getting what they want and increasing their wealth as the Roys.

Little of column A, little of column B?

"Very heartening.... I'm very heartened..."

Haha touche.

Bullpen does need to be better, but losing the Tech series also felt kind of fluky. We dominated them 2/3 games and just lost that Friday night game because of a handful of ill-timed errors for a team that has been rock-solid in the field all year. To put it in perspective, we gave up 4 unearned runs in that single game and have only given up 17 unearned runs in 24 other games this season. Yes they still won the series and it still counts obviously, but we had that series won save for a few uncharacteristically stupid errors. Texas series this weekend should be a lot of fun. Weekend weather is looking mostly pretty nice so hopefully O’Brate will be packed out.

I'm not sure exactly the criteria, but being in the conversation as one of the all-time great SNL cast members, plus: Airheads Billy Madison Happy Gilmore Big Daddy The Wedding Singer The Waterboy And yeah there were some stinkers and paycheck movies after that, but a lot of those films have been extremely popular... plus he's made some really good dramatic turns in Punch Drunk Love, Funny People and Uncut Gems. All-in-all I'd say he's had a great career, and as has been discussed, he's apparently just a a great guy so I'm happy for him.

I've been listening to the Dana Carvey/David Spade "Fly on the Wall" podcast for a while now... it's been fun listening to all of the guys tell stories about that era of SNL. One thing that comes across universally is everyone's love of Sandler. They all talk about what a good guy he is how he's basically been extremely generous with all of his family and friends over the years. Yeah he may just be cashing paychecks for a lot of his movies over the past 15 years or so, but goddamn his stuff from the 90s is so great. He gets a fee pass for life in my book just because of that.

Sure thing Joe Mayo.

Apparently she doesn’t think much of this George fellow… I recall the word “loser” peppered throughout the conversation…

Fucking fantastic start. Stray thoughts: The Tom/Greg stuff was gold as always. That said, Greg is getting a little too cocky. Something bad’s gonna happen to him, outside of explaining to Logan about finger-banging the bridge-and-tunnel chick in his house. Was fun to see the three sibling working together. Shiv has basically treated Tom like shit since, well, the start of the show. And yet he clearly still loves her. That’s probably going to be Tom’s undoing at the end of the day. The kids over-bidding for Pierce is gonna bite them in the ass, without question. I have no idea what the end game is here, but it’s gonna be fun to find out how it goes.

This is kind of where I'm at. Bo Kotan has mostly been considered "good" within the Mando show, but she certainly wasn't that (at least initially) in Clone Wars. She's always been a gray character who is mostly self-interested.

Yeah I'm loving the Bo Kotan stuff this season. I can't decide if she's *really* buying in to the Children of the Watch stuff, or if she's biding her time and more or less "using" them to get herself back in to a position of "ruling" Mandalore again... although that certainly means something different than it did during the Clone Wars era. Never the less... I'm not 100% certain on her motivations just yet...

I always preferred Rebels over Clone Wars just because of the "OT" feel it had from the get-go. But Clone Wars definitely got way darker than Rebels and damn that finale was so freaking good. But Rebels also has a handful of some of the all-time best Star Wars moments: The reveal of Kanan as a Jedi The Ashoka-Vader duel Mon Mothma's speech and the birth of the Rebel Alliance Kanan's sacrifice The final Obi-Wan/Maul confrontation

TBD but most of the consulting firms (WoodMac, S&P, etc.) have Lake Charles coming online 2028ish or so.

Sure, that's the typical fanboy reaction. Now that we have almost 50 years of Star Wars, the pattern is abundantly clear: Fanboys adore and will look past the flaws of the movies they saw when they were kids and then absolutely brutalize and pick to death any new Star Wars content they see as adults. You've seen this with the prequel trilogy... the OG Fanboys hated them ("George Lucas ruined my childhood...blah, blah, blah...) but all of the little millennial kids who were watching them at the same age that the OG Fanboys were watching the OT loved them.... and now those kids are grown up and writing stuff and posting YouTube videos about why the prequels were actually great... and oh guess what they hate? The sequel trilogy! But guess what will happen about 10ish years from now? All of those little kids who grew up watching the sequel trilogy will be writing think pieces and posting TikToks (or whatever the fuck is the thing then) about how the sequel trilogy is actually brilliant and on and on it will go.

I mean... shitting on Star Wars has been part and parcel to the Internet since its inception. And I've always gotten a kick out of the completely binary reactions fans seem to have online about Star Wars (which has translated to everything at this point)... everything is either AMAZING! or SUCKS! Mando was AMAZING and now it apparently SUCKS. Boba Fett SUCKED; Obi-wan SUCKED.... Andor was AMAZING but the second they do something that doesn't line up 100% with Fanboy expectations -- mark my words -- it will also SUCK. Star Wars fans online are just exhausting AF

Denver is a top 20 MSA and growing. Getting carriage fees there adds value. And heck, who knows... if Deion can get Colorado football going again they would add even more value in terms of program prestige. Utah is a very good program and an obvious natural rival to BYU. Oh and by taking those four you would nuke the PAC and solidify your position as the #3 conference in CFB.

Yeah being "OK" with 50% of your football inventory being on streaming services is pretty fucking stupid, IMO.

From the article -- talking about % of the new deal that would be streaming... "Over 50%? No, I don't think so. I think that's too much. It's OK if it's 50-50. … You have to remember, guys our age, people that I went to high school with aren't going to want to deal with streaming. "I don't think it will be more than 50%, but if it ended up 50%, I think it would be OK." If it's anywhere near 50% they are fucked. 50% of your entire football inventory would be streaming? Not only does that reduce your overall visibility, but it exposes you to the PAC fans' well known apathy when it comes to football, because while random CFB fans may flip on to a PAC after dark game or any other broadcast PAC game on linear TV they sure as shit aren't seeking out a random PAC game on a random streaming service, so it's up to the PAC fans to provide the audience numbers for that and well... good luck with that...

LOL no doubt. He was so great. Most of his best lines have been quoted already, but I have to say the line, "...ass like a 10-year-old boy.." is simultaneously absolutely repulsive and hysterical at the same time. Also I think my favorite line reading of his was after Arnold and Tom are fucking with him and they pull off his mask... "Hey! It's you! You still interested in that 'Vette at all...?"

Yeah and the user experience is like 1000000% better than any cable or satellite company I've ever used. When you log in to your account is super easy to understand exactly what you're subscribing to, toggle packages on and off, etc., as opposed to cable operators where you would have to call in and haggle with some jagoff in a call center 4x a year just keep your bill from slowly escalating.

Thank Christ. They suck. I haven't been able to watch Cardinals games on YTTV since I got it because shitty-ass Bally has only been available on DirecTV/ATT.

At the same time they cut their 4K package from $19.99 to $9.99.... so if you subscribe to 4K, the base price increase is a wash.

That's not surprising to me. I'm guessing there are pretty big differences between MLB and NFL scouting... primarily just based on the sheer number of players that have to be evaluated in the former vs. the latter. I mean, there are like 1,200 players taken in the MLB draft every year vs. 259 in the NFL. The hit rate on MLB prospects is just crazy low. Less than 20% of all those players drafted in the MLB draft on a given year will even make it to the Show, let alone end up being even a very good player. So given the super low "hit rate" I can see how guys would coast for a while if they had a big "hit" at some point.