Richard Kimball

To really hate a commercial, it can't be just a bad commercial. It has to be a commercial that was horrible the first time, and gets repeated every ten minutes. I was watching Washington-Washington State. Great game, close, last quarter. Then for the 500 billionth time, the same two crappy commercials came on one after the other. Commercial #1. That Capital One commercial parody of the "League of Their Own," with the girl crying. Every Capital One commercial sucks, but that one sucks in particular, because of the whining girl. That was bad enough, but it followed with that fucking AT&T commercial where the morbidly obese bald headed fat fuck with the mustache is sitting on a horse in the dentist's office where his tween daughter with the "look at me, I'm an edgy tween with a semi-bondage choker" is in the chair, and the whole stupid commercial is a pun based off of "being on his high horse" because he got a Samsung Galaxy. That's like being on your high horse because you shopped at Dollar General.

Troof on what thunderlounge said, but also, Cavett's ratings weren't ever that great when he was hosting his talk show opposite Carson, and my guess is a lot of the tv brass thought he was a little too much of an intellectual who wouldn't have broad audience appeal. Letterman's success had the talk shows veering back to more absurdist humor and fewer serious interviews, so a comedy background was going to be more highly valued than good interviewing skills.

I finally beat minesweeper on expert level.

Nobody else is celebrating Jeff Fisher day? 7/9 is almost over.

Dan Marino should die of gonorrhea and rot in hell. Would you like a cookie, son?

Well, that's it. Oregon State to the B12 and this is their new helmet logo.

Maybe relevant or not, but after I lived in New Orleans a couple of years (100% humidity all the time) I started having a horrible time with foot odor. Showered twice a day, changed socks twice a day, scrubbed my feet, every foot powder known to man, threw out my old shoes, bought new ones. Nothing helped. Ten minutes out of the shower and drying my feet, they stunk again, even if I hadn't put on shoes. Buddy of mine, who was in the Viet Nam war, told me same thing happened over there. They used to piss on their feet in the shower to get rid of it, but you could just pour vinegar on your feet and dry them. Worked. Turns out it was a yeast infection from the humidity. No problems with foot odor since then.

True story about Dolly Parton: I think it was 1975, and she had just gone solo as an artist after being with Porter Wagoner. She had a concert scheduled for the Heart O' Texas Colosseum in Waco. It seated several thousand people, but only about sixteen people, including me, showed up. We were all gathered around the stage, and I heard her talking to her road manager. He was telling her to just refund the ticket money and they could pack up and go to the next town. She told him these people paid for a concert, to give the band the night off, leave one guy for security, and she'd take care of it. She got a bar stool and her acoustic guitar, gathered us around in a circle, and did a 1 1/2 hour concert (no microphone, she was close enough we could all hear her perfectly,) then signed autographs for all of us. It was the best concert I ever attended. Couple of notes: in person, she sounded just like on the records. She can REALLY sing and she can REALLY play guitar.

I called the tinnitus hotline, but it just kept ringing.

I know a better word you could have used.

Aranda's a nice guy. Here's the problem: The problem on this is that Aranda has been demonstrating he's incapable of managing even the routine aspects of running a program. Spring games are a pain in the ass for coaches, but they're advertising for the program. But to announce a spring game and then cancel it the week the game's supposed to happen is not good. There are dozens of examples of simple stuff falling through the cracks. (True story) After the 2023 spring game, Aranda said they'd decided on the starting QB, but wanted to talk to them before releasing the name. I asked him how he'd let the press know. He looked at THREE marcom people, turned around and said, "I don't know." That's about as simple as it gets. Send a press release. Announce it on twitter. Whatever. As far as middle aged guys getting an eighteen year old to sign their hat, pretty sure there are some okie lites that regret not getting Barry Sanders autograph after a spring game. From the spring games I've covered, most of the people getting autographs are fifteen and under. Don't know about Bama and who's getting autographs there.

Not that anyone cares, but Baylor isn't having an actual spring game. Aranda announced they will be having a regular practice with no scrimmage, but people can still come and watch. No 11 on 11, just drills. This season is going to be brutal if they aren't even organized enough to have a spring game. I worked with Drake (in the video) some. He's a Baylor alum and is getting really pissed.

Elton's great on piano, but he sucks on the organ.

AI is good, but NYT put their thumb on the scales for this one. In the original post #'s 8 and 9 are listed as real, but I'm pretty sure they've been run through an AI image enhancer that smoothed the skin. #3 is all kindsa fucked up, and it's supposed to be real. The eyes are shifted to the right. Check how much further the eye on the right sticks out over the mouth than the eye on the left. The nose and mouth appear to be from a straight on "mug shot" type photo, but the head and jawline look almost 3/4 "portrait" style. This is not to rag on the capabilities of AI, but if you run a photo through a program like Topaz AI, you are dealing with something that doesn't neatly fall into the category of real or AI. It's a little bit of both.

They did make one change. Put a hole in the top of the cap cause dumbasses kept sucking on the cap and getting down their windpipe.

Apparently, you were right and I was wrong. I didn't think he'd be able to pass up the bucks.

Drew has to take the Kentucky job. It's more pressure, but the NIL money and network contracts with the conferences are too much of an advantage to pass up. He'll probably double his salary, also. Even if Baylor offered to match salary,(doubtful, since the only reason Aranda is still there is because the BMDs didn't want to pay his buyout) the admin sat on their hands and got years behind on NIL. Drew was always a good recruiter, but recruiting is now more transactional than persuasive, he's going to get better players at Kentucky. There are two drawbacks for him. His family has been raised in Waco, and the pressure is intense at Kentucky. He stays at Baylor, he gets a statue when he retires. He'd have to miss the tournament several years straight to look at getting fired. At Kentucky, his last two years of going out in the second game of the tournament would have rumblings going on about him being fired.

That hits a little too close to home. Deep, seriously deep.

Nobody knows for sure, except the people that were in the room. Story I got was that she wanted the new arena on campus between the Ferrell Center and the baseball/softball fields, and I know she made several public statements on that. There was serious money (the Foster Pavilion was over $200 million) from City of Waco & Investment groups to put it on the other side of I-35 for part of downtown renovation. Supposedly, she pissed off some of the money people at the meetings with her antics, & Rhoades figured with Drew winning a national title they could afford to part ways with Mulkey. I never heard that Rhoades was deferring to Drew, but I had heard that Mulkey did stuff like demanding the women's team get first pick at practice times, etc. I could see where that would seem strange to Rhoades, coming from another college. As far as the stuff about her bitchiness goes, yeah, she doesn't get any nicer away from the microphone.

For some reason, your post reminded me of the old sportscaster, Vic "the Brick" Jacobs, who was on KTVV (now KXAN.) You had to have been in Austin quite a few years ago to remember Vic throwing foam rubber bricks at the camera. Anyway, on to something vaguely related to the thread. Baylor folks are still pissed that Rhoades ran Mulkey off. When LSU won the national title, somebody put a billboard up next to campus with her picture, LSU, and "National Champions" on it. Only things I heard on her at Baylor was she was a stone cold bitch, constantly ran over budget, and regularly threw tantrums during meetings.

True story: I went to a McDonald's and bought a meal that was $5.37. Gave the girl a ten and reached into my pocket and pulled out .37 cents. She'd already entered $10 into the register. She looked at me blankly. I said, "Just give me two fives and a ten." She started getting it out of the register. I had to stop her, and explain it was a joke, and to just give me a five.

You sure? They were never the same after what Dino did to them.

The quote was cut off when I replied. The original comment was: I never wear a cowboy hat indoors. Baseball hat indoors, depends.

Formerly, he was named Sneed.