Thoughts from someone that went to a recent Rams Thursday night game. It was super fucking fun. The Coliseum is shitty in the best way, like a great dive bar, and there was an extremely diverse and excited cross-section of real-people in attendance. Everyone had two beers in hand, was wearing a jersey (probably 50-50…

The problem is that if Ackbar had been the one to clash with Poe we would have sided with him from the get-go because he’s, well, Admiral Ackbar. The point of the Holdo subplot is to make the audience support Poe initially and then realize he’s actually wrong.

I’ve definitely seen them, but yeah I do think they’re really just an amplified minority. Speaking as someone who loved the movie actually, most of the people I’ve seen criticizing it don’t fall into that category. It seems to just be a thing that sites like this get good clickbait out of, which in itself just serves…

I went to Journalismism school at the same time that Seth Wickersham and Wright Thompson were there. And I say “with” purely in the sense that we were all enrolled in J-school at the same time and they wouldn’t know me from Adam, given that the most important thing I learned at J-school is that I wasn’t going to make…

Simmons hit a chord with a certain age/era of fans. For a while his work was extremely worthwhile.

Once upon a time, Simmons really was a unique voice. He was funny and insightful and unlike anything else on ESPN or elsewhere. But he’s been lapped by people who are better, edgier, and funnier.

TLJ: Hey, remember all those cool plot threads from TFA? LOL, they go nowhere.

Luke wasn’t a soldier or a Jedi Knight, he was just the last guy standing who happened to be Force-skilled. And he failed in trying to replicate what he had never been a part of, and he overreacted to failure in a way that an emotionally-stunted teen boy might.

When I revisited The Force Awakens, what struck me is that it almost had to be followed by a film with the tragic tone of The Last Jedi. The plot moves quickly enough that the characters do not have the leisure to mourn the republic. And Kylo Ren’s history does not come into focus until late in the film, so that the…

I agree with this. I thought The Force Awakens was the worst of the Star Wars films (worse than the prequels), but The Last Jedi made it a lot better for me. I’m no longer embarrassed to wear the free BB-8 T-shirt I got two years ago.

Can we talk about how in the hell the Miami Marlins were sold for $1.2 billion? The new stadium is nice but that means little if they can’t fill it, and that includes luxury boxes. The main source of income is local TV and Miami’s deal is easily the worst in the league. It comes up for renewal in 2020 and they…

He deserves a second chance guys. NFL is known for giving second chances, think of Michael Vick, Adrian Peterson, Colin Kae...::checks earpiece:: ...Ezekiel Elliott...

That’s a solid “Daniel Kicks Johnny in the Face” on Simmons’ list of 14 80s Movies that Explain Celtics Playoff Losses (and Why Magic Actually Committed an Offensive Foul on the Baby Sky Hook).

Props to him for both graduating and being woke enough to be self-deprecating. The latter is sorely lacking in pro sports, in the long run it may even get him farther than his degree.

My stars and garters, the Eastern Conference became a putrid slagpile with only one decent team so gradually that nobody even noticed

“you think Eddie Money has to put up with this shit?!”

“Hey maybe you haven’t been keepin’ up on current events but we JUST GOT OUR ASSES KICKED PAL!”

My first exposure to Bill Paxton as a kid was Apollo 13. And even there, playing a goddamn ASTRONAUT, he’s a doofus. He blows chunks 3 minutes into space, dicks around with the camera while broadcasting to Houston, and generally gives off a “why is he here but I’m glad he is” vibe. RIP.

“Game over, man!” is his most famous line/delivery from Aliens (and deservedly so), but my favorite Paxton line from that movie is when Ripley is yelling at him about how “this little girl survived longer than that by herself!” and he just goes “Well why don’t you put her in charge?!”

RIP. 61 is way too fucking young…