GuerrillaMonsoon

To nit-pick the nitpicking, you forgot Clinton.

Chicken or the egg, I guess. Do they continue to invest no money into the O line if three consecutive head coaches haven't invested so heavily in "throw it long to Beckham and he catches something stupid or there's a flag". And he's not even that good as a one trick pony. Should have traded.

The constant murdering of cats with razor blades and the Claw were pretty big red herrings though.

Going to be a long couple of weeks. My father hasn't got long left - side effects from a year of chemo starting to really show. I'm not even convinced he's going to last the flight from the UK, but is adamant he wants to see our daughter/only grandchild before he goes. Also wants to bring his camera gear with him (relatively famous photographer) to take some photos of her before he goes. Wife is ecstatic about this. As someone who remembers the uncontrolled physical abuse that came with getting "the perfect shot" every time, I'm a little hesitant to let her near him in that setting. On the other, he's probably not in a position to do much, and a small part of me kind of hopes he does, so I can be the one to end him. Keeps calling me wanting me to sign some paperwork for a trust fund he's setting up for future royalties to be diverted to her when he goes. Again, very conflicted on this, but figure that's 17 years time's problem, and its a conversation topic far more palatable than most. It sounds shit to say, but, I was promised a year to live over a year and a half ago, and he's still here. Closure would be handy.

Surprised this got so many positive reviews. Watched it live and it just felt so ho-hum, so maybe it's me who's over the art-form, rather than the application of it. The pacing of it all just doesn't work for me - the predictable match flow; being able to put a piss break at pretty much any stage of the PPV knowing I'm not going to miss much because the running sheet is so generic and has been for 30 years is a problem. Every guy working the same spots at the same pace. And that's before you get into the long-term payoff being non-existent, and encouraging no emotional investment in any storyline. And that's with a PPV that if I reflect on in hindsight, had nothing inoffensive, solid wall to wall stuff, just....there. Feels like the holding pattern that usually happens from Survivor Series to the Rumble is now Summerslam to Mania; that they're very much aware that the end goal is keeping the machine running for the 365 odd shows a year they churn out without any disruption, rather than making the content memorable in any way. My hope is that this show somehow wins an Emmy in the next few years and deludes itself into thinking it's competition is Game of Thrones rather than UFC or Monday Night Football; or they put some money into some halfway decent writers rather than the 32k pittance they put out at the moment. Let Jim Duggan come out on the stage tomorrow night and cut the mother of all pipebomb promos, slowly rotating on the Dildo Blender that he believes gives him sexual powers, his body temperature up to 400 degrees, literally stewing in his own juices while he tells us where professional wrestling is at.

Three presidents have been in office since Eli Manning was a decent quarterback. If Manfort's evidence is any good, could be four.

I think the wife is hinting at doing a Brie/Bryan couple costume. I look forward to her realizing what Shopzone shipping costs to Australia are like.

Loved Predator. Tenuous pretense that works with a great cast and well timed humour. Biggest bugbear was the constant Home Alone esque guy getting minorly inconvenienced by something that should have killed them, beyond that, thoroughly enjoyable. Dont bother with A Simple Favor. Just watch Gone Girl again, unless you really like an overload of internet referencing humour that will be obsolete in 3-5 years.

The ending to it was fantastic and packaged everything together as it needed to be done. Everything from the Ireland season to then is fucking garbage.

Really struggling with Ballers and Better Call Saul this year. Difference being that while Ballers gets relegated to "show I put on in the background while I'm about to fall asleep 5 minutes into", Better Call Saul has the cast members you give a shit about even if they're not up to anything particularly interesting.

"He said something about playing me a melody, but wasn't really sure how it goes. A melody is defined as a sequence of single notes that is musically satisfying; a tune. Bischoff also mentioned reminiscing about when he wore younger men's clothing, which is also explanatory for why he hasn't been on WWE TV of late. Vince really doesn't want that sort of physique on TV. Why would Bischoff be singing a song anyway? He's not a classically trained pianist either. Not that I know of anyway. And why would a pianist be a vocalist too? That doesn't make any sense. Anyway, Carmella is getting fat."

Roddick also admits that he's openly biased in his commentary towards childhood friend, Serena Williams in the tweet after too, and also said the same thing after the Krygios incident earlier in the tournament.

Aren't the majority of those takes talking about how stupid the rule is to disallow coaching at the grand slams but it's fine at every other major tournament? He enforced the rules that were in place, as shitty as they are.

Yeah, I'd like to dive into that a bit more. I'd say I watched about 80% of the coverage throughout the tournament, and majority that I saw I think were relating to delay of game/the new shot clock for serving. Given that the men are playing best of 5 compared to the women's best of 3 sets, there's also far greater capacity to attract those violations too. It was also probably simultaneously the hottest conditions and the slowest courts the US Open have had in a long time - plenty of added capacity to be called for taking too long at injury time outs, more 5 setters, etc.

Aside from the board being against "lists for the sake of lists with no thought behind why" at the best of times, there's been 21 TakeOvers to date, do we really need a poll on what were your favorite half of them?"

Come on game winning touchdown Rodgers to Jimmy Graham..

Why is H Jon Benjamin coaching the Bears?

Fucking assholes. Had the total points spread at under 45. Was looking OK once they went off the field. Of course there was a 34 point last quarter including a relatively unnecessary field goal with 11 seconds left.

Saw it today. Was hoping the worst part of it would be how they really hammer home the signposting of what super scary thing is about to happen NOW every single time, but it was rough to watch. Final third of the way, they just stopped giving a shit and just took the piss. Also saw Teen Titans beforehand. That was super enjoyable, and at 85 minutes was a very good running time for what it was. Strange that some reviews I"d read had called it DC's version of Deadpool (and not just because of it starring Deathstroke). Perfectly child friendly.

Was fairly classless of ESPN to cut straight to Serena's coach after the match. As well measured as he was, completely inappropriate timing and disrespectful to Osaka.

I felt like it was a) more likely than not she was receiving coaching b) lineball on the basis of what coaching received and likelihood, that it warranted a violation c) completely inappropriate of her to carry on beyond that. Demanding an apology; the bizarre rant about being a mother; the deliberate talking into the mic looking for a moment to go viral in a really tone deaf way. d) game violation was harsh but warranted.

Serena meltdown

https://youtu.be/xGDj6-7hy4Y

Made 50 at 3 last night but Root failed so wonder if they move one up each and play Woakes. Huge gamble

Yeah that was an awful game. Not in the least bit interesting.. Good start for the division though.