"With Marty, though, he might be that guy sober."

"On the other end of the scale are people who are allergic to water."

Is this a thing that people in Ireland care about?

Except that they wrote his wife out of the show after a while because she had nothing to do. Barney got divorced.

Oh. Well, I started skipping the Tyrion parts too after he left King's Landing and joined the ever-increasing "characters who are farting around aimlessly" list.

Conference realignment in general has taken a wrecking ball to college sports tradition, which is the only reason to watch college sports in the first place. Texas and Texas A&M don't play football anymore. That's shameful.

Penn State was the key to that conference in football, though, wasn't it? If the Big East doesn't let Penn State slip away, do they have to get all stupid and invite Miami?

The NBA is doing just fine. No team is "forced" to draft projects. And the NBA does not have an intrinsic right to a free minor-league system.

Nowadays, college basketball from November through February is basically just a way for ESPN to fill airtime before the tournament starts.

"the corporeal manifestation of a statewide inferiority complex"

Well, they have. They will now play five ACC teams per year. As a consequence the Notre Dame-Michigan rivalry has been destroyed.

Do they fix that "what is thy bidding, master?" line? Because "thy" was the familiar and "you" was how you'd address the Emperor.

Oy, I missed that. That's not so much nerd rage as basic irritation over careless writing. Middle English and Old English are hardly the same—ME is comprehensible and OE isn't. (In fact you could make a pretty good case for dating "English" as we know it to ME and calling Old English a different language.)

"“Days Of Wine And Roses” was eventually remade as a very good movie"

God, reality TV is the fucking worst.

"Just a scared kid in a man's body."

Yep, I've read all the books and I don't know what this is a reference to.

I don't recall Marty ever being portrayed as an alcoholic. He made some epically bad life choices, but what marked him as an alcoholic?

A while back I read that Bill Wilson, the dude who founded AA, was asking his nurses for liquor as he was dying of emphysema.

Sam Malone fell off the wagon once, at the beginning of Season 3 after his breakup with Diane. Taken in isolation it was a pretty good episode but it arguably is a problem in reminding viewers of the premise that an alcoholic runs a bar.