Schemes from My Father

Right, but then this amounts to basically “We’re going to have a great wall on our southern border” without even the how-we-get-there buffoonery of “...and Mexico’s going to pay for it.”

Plan looks a little light on the...uh...“plan” part of it. It’s just a list of musts and wants. Optimism is not a strategy, so details of how all of this happens is kind of necessary sooner than later, no?

“So we can sign him today, right?”

That’s one damned expensive sex toy.

He might be the worst team sport athlete and the worst wrestler ever. 

I don’t! But I do remember Pavel. I think the Mavs played him in, like, three games or something.

Georgios Papagiannis?

Maybe this is a better Funbag question: Who’s the best “so big and awkward he can’t possibly play basketball” reach in NBA history? They don’t make as many mistakes in this area as they used to — because above 7'1" or so, what’s the difference in today’s game? — but I think Boban would have to be pretty high on the…

“I’d settle for just two shots going the other way.”

“TODAY was one of the WORST days I’ve had in a VERY long time.”

Bravo!

On the plus side, this saves viewers from the Turkish equivalent of Mark Jackson on commentary. 

Scott Hall had all the potential in the world. Then he had all the drinks in the world. 

They had no idea what to do with anybody, but taking a guy like Bret Hart, who was still at the top of the heap then, and making him debut as a guest referee is sacrilege. 

I was 14 or 15 when the Hart Foundation started. Even then — although, admittedly, I had already watched wrestling for a decade and knew more about the mechanics of it than I should have in the 1980s — it was obvious then that mid-card tag team guy Bret Hart was one of the absolute best workers in the three major…

WWE is so bad at creating in-ring content week-to-week right now, but a lot of their network specials are really quite good. 

I don’t have a good sense of what qualifies as a TV success nowadays. Stark Raving Mad lasted one season on NBC a couple decades ago, with a rating of 10.7. Last year, only The Big Bang Theory had a better number than that. Meanwhile, Conan O’Brien is still on the air with literally 340,000 total viewers a week.

That’s nothing. Mike McCarthy has been an uncredited extra in every episode of Diners, Drive-ins and Dives.

I mean, it could be run more effectively. Just announcing and holding to a schedule for each round might help, and if it didn’t last six weeks — even better!