“Why do they always just remember John?”
- Nicholas Turturro

That’s good intel. Thanks!

...And Rafa just got bounced by David Goffin.

Might be worth it if it were Key Lyme disease.

I’d go, but there’s not much else to do in New York, so it kind of seems like a wasted trip.

This is also Roy Moore’s best/worst pick-up line.

Let’s give him the argument that it all happened within 6,000 years and there was no evolution and all the rest. Even if that were true, why would someone choose to worship a god who is either too unconcerned to stop the Holocaust or too impotent to do so, and yet comes through in the clutch for a sports team or an…

The Knicks are out of their Mindaugas.

Traditionally, Friday is by far the lowest-watched night of the week on TV. That’s probably a big factor. Advertisers wouldn’t pay the same amount they do for Thursday, which is usually in the top two nights of the week along with — not surprisingly, for this conversation — Sunday.

It can’t be this hard to be a damn apparel company, right?

You wouldn’t have those. Maybe I’m oversimplifying (I haven’t given it a whole lot of thought), but Week 1 begins on Thursday with a kickoff game. You could do two teams getting byes every week from Week 2 through Week 17. Or with Thanksgiving getting three games, you could start the byes at Week 4 and it works out.…

Great steak needs nothing but a knife and fork.

I’ve never read any Jonathan Franzen, though I was forced as a critic to watch The Adjustables or whatever the movie adaptation was. (Pauses to check...) The Corrections. OK. Fine.

If they give two teams the week off and make them play on the following Thursday, that’s 16 weeks of Thursday “action.” Then the season kickoff, I guess, gets you 17. So, nobody has a Week 17 bye and you’re good there. Trouble is they’re guaranteed to have some really awful Thursday games that way, plus some poor…

Well said. Counterpoint to your last argument, though: Vince is used to competition, and it has traditionally made his product better. Look at the roster he had when he was going national and NWA and AWA still had pretty good talent, or, in the case of NWA, better top talent. From a wrestling standpoint the top 20…

Still, given everything else we’ve heard about Louis C.K., you have to wonder which comic he stole this routine from.

Well, who subscribes to the network? Is it the passive fan who just watches for the entertainment or is it the hardcore fan who has an interest in what the network carries — the archival footage and the behind-the-scenes look at the business (Table for Three, etc.). I’m sure there are some of the less serious fans who…

I don’t know what to believe any longer. Will we ever unlock the truth here? What a Sypher!