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Are those other guys any good?

To summarize: Tarp is talking shit to his readers about aggy’s terrible OL and thin secondary. And Looch won’t give them practice reports because the Elko Administration asked him not to.

I’m mildly surprised ESPN didn’t drop the game on ACCN as a yet another screw you to Florida State. I’m thankful for a quality game a week early, but Norvell should be pissed he has to play a conference game on August 24th for TV.

Any trade value at all for Pierce? Maybe like a 6th or a 7th?

Remind me again why insist to 1) continue to play Chas 2) place him RF when he has the worst arm in the majors

Does anybody the strength of schedule rankings? There’s no way in hell our schedule is easier than that piece of shit.

What’s the cheapest Buffalo Trace/Sazerac or Heaven Hill glass handle? Handles of Benchmark and Quality House are both plastic.

Florida seems to be the only state where Hooters is doing well.

Tarp is 1000% trying to catch on somewhere else.

I forgot to mention another fascinating tidbit from the Wendt interview. George said he recommended Woody to a producer for White Men Can’t Jump. George said Woody was good enough to play DII ball. Woody said he had no idea George did that. I found it difficult to believe. It basically made Woody a star.

I’m astonished they filmed a network show on location.

A couple episodes in to Season 1. Belzer and Clark Johnson stand out to me. They just dissolve into their roles. Clark Johnson was the lone bright spot in The Wire’s Baltimore Sun scenes. He has chops. He should have gotten more chances. Belzer has probably made a fortune via his work on Law & Order.

I remember liking A Feast for Crows the best of the 5 finished books. A Dance with Dragons is a mess, and set up GRRM for failure in The Winds of Winter. I believe he’s previously stated that Winter is twice as long as Dragons. So north of 2000 pages. I don’t think there’s any way to unfuck it without a time machine. Bantam Books should have given him 3 years to finish Winter and then forced an editor on him. Hindsight is 20/20 of course. I’ve already resigned myself to the series getting “finished” posthumously. I hope he punts on Winter and A Dream of Spring and writes a comprehensive history of The Starks as his final gift to the world.

Stole it, but I’ll take. Sox radio going to be fun tomorrow morning.’

Who would we want on their current roster? Scourton and Anderson jump out. Probably Regis. Maybe Chappell? Not a single player on offense. Yikes.

Is there a backstory between Colt and NBC? I assume they were hiring, while ESPN is not.

So let’s dissect the body now that it’s dead. - How the fuck did Headland get a Star Wars show? She got her start in the business with Harvey Fucking Weinstein. Disney decided to not hold that against her, and gives her a $180 million Star Wars vehicle after 1, one modest success in Russian Dolla. Many accomplished directors and showrunners are also Star Wars super fans. - The Acolyte, Ahsoka, Kenobi, and Obi Wan can all be described as unsuccessful. Does this cause a chilling effect on future Star Wars shows on Disney +? I would say yes, unless Skeleton Crew is a mega hit. I think they’ll focus on movies because they’ve all made money except for Solo. I doubt Mando ever comes back as a TV show. If the film does well, they’ll just make another one. It’s very plausible we get one last season of Andor and that’s it for Star Wars TV for a stretch. - I think a non-Jedi show set outside of established canon would do well. It’s a big ass universe. There’s plenty of room for new stories without trying to retcon everything.

Fan reached over my balls Kalas. Thats a full row into the Crawford Boxes.

Ted Dansen and Woody started a podcast to zero fanfare. George Wendt was their guest last week. George’s back story is pretty interesting, namely his time as a street actor in Europe and at Second City. It’s worth a listen. The highlight was of course a Coach story told primarily by Ted: Unbeknownst to Nicholas Colasanto he was dying of heart disease during the filming of Season 3. He passed with about 4 episodes left to film in S3. Nick was struggling to remember his lines, so he wrote them on the bar. Between wrapping S3 and starting to film S4, the props crew refinished the bar and painted over Nick’s writing. We as a cast were just heartbroken. We all loved Nick and we took his passing hard. So we took the picture of Geronimo from Nick’s dressing room and insisted it be hung in the bar as a tribute to Nick.

Karma is a beautiful thing.

Uh Jesus trying to get Yordan killed.

That’s what rock bottom looks like. Don’t worry TexAgs subscribers, we’ll get Jonah is the portal in a couple years.

Yeah, Simmons tried to make a horrible business case for why Bezos should do it. Amazon kiosks are already in every stadium in the country, and naming rights could be had relatively cheaply. Basically, Bezos would have to just want to do it. I understand why Simmons is pining for it. The Celtics are in cap hell for next 5 years. A frugal new owner would almost certainly trade pieces away to get out of the apron. They need an owner that DGAF about money. Simmons was adamant that the league was setting the Celtics price at $6 billion so they can get that much for expansion franchises in Seattle and Vegas. He also mentioned Mexico City as a possible expansion destination, that would be pretty wild. Normally, I’d say grain of salt, it’s Simmons, but he nailed TNT losing the NBA months before anyone else.

Nansen will be worth every penny if he publicly pants Jackson Arnold again.

Slightly disappointing given Simon’s ear for scoring in The Wire. But I’m still happy to have it. Almost certainly my chosen binge watch before football.