Like many others, I found the continuity issues regarding multiverse/no multiverse to be SUPER annoying. I hope it’s eventually addressed, and I realize there may have been practical reasons that it played out this way, but for now it just feels like the writers are paying less attention than the fans - even if that’s…

Watching the extended version I’m more struck by the fact that they redo the question when neither contestant gets it.  For regular questions they start asking the rest of the teams, but I guess I can’t remember if I’ve ever seen this for sudden death?

Yeah it seems like “change your month/year” money rather than “change your life” money. And that’s making a lot of very generous assumptions that probably don’t hold.

I swear if they “redeem” Lena without serious consequences (ideally for her) I don’t know what I’m going to do. Her story has already been written as tragedy. It’s too late to change that.

The review said we’d spent some time with him, which I don’t think was true. Just a Chekov’s Irishman scene at some point early in this season.

Yeah I’m pretty sure they’ve crossed a line with Lena, I don’t think they can really redeem her at this point, at least not in the sense of going back to the status quo.

I personally hated the one where Elliott went to see Trenton’s family. This was, for me, a better and more interesting (but still not great) version of that.

“Haven’t faced a 2nd-year QB like Mayfield”

Conceded:

I wouldn’t deny that they are trying to hit hard, inflict pain, physically dominate, however you want to put it.

In your own post you said they are “trying to inflict pain” but “most aren’t trying to actually injure anybody.” There’s an old adage about the difference between pain and injury—I’m not sure that idea is completely valid, but I think it has merit and whatever merit it has is applicable here when it comes to intent…

For all the grief football gets I have always believed in the distinction that football is a physical game with a high risk of injury but not intent; the Vontaze Burficts of the world aside, the players aren’t there to injure each other. This just isn’t true of boxing or other combat sports where the fundamental intent…

That was closer to 2004 than 1994.

It’s baseball, so any team has a legitimate shot, just because a best of 7 is a limited sample where the margins between teams are smaller than in other sports.

Two things:

The real irony is this paragraph...

I desperately want a GWB / Michelle Obama buddy cop movie (drama or comedy, I don’t care) in spite of, or perhaps because of, how much it would make heads ‘asplode on both sides of the political aisle.

Considering literally every president, of every party, that’s ever lived is arguably a war criminal (some worse than others, natch), I am wondering what the line is for reintegrating these people back into polite society.

I really hate the “play the right way” stuff like what Martinez said.

What if---and hear me out here---it was a personal issue that he didn’t want to disclose?