Your “Now Just The Waiting” Wednesday Evening Open Thread

NFL News: the Draft is tomorrow!

It’s pretty slow, as most teams are preparing for the circus & power outages that come with this year’s remote draft.

• The [Redacteds] are spending their day trying to trade Trent Williams for any form of measurable compensation.
  • They seem to want a high draft pick in 2020 or 2021.
    • Although Mike Brown’s offer of magic beans & three tins of Skyline chili has Dan Snyder’s interest.

• Percy Harvin has resurfaced & wants to play again.
  • He’s been out of the league for three years, having walked away from the Bills after just two games in 2016.
    • According to ESPN, he underwent hip surgery in August in Gainesville, Florida. Doctors found a blockage he said may have been there since high school.

• Proving hubris & humility are separate words, Roger Goodell pumped up the positives the NFL Draft will have on society.
  • “People look to us for optimism,” Goodell said. “They look to us for bringing communities together. I think the draft is a great example of that, with restoring hope. It’s hope for our fans. It’s hope for our teams. It’s hope for our players, for these young men who are about to start their careers as prospects and players in the NFL. That’s what this is all about, and I think we need those diversions.

Today is Earth Day,

so in honour of that, today’s good internet dog is Mandy Patinkin’s golden retriever Becky, who interrupted his social media blowing of the shofar to commemorate the date.

Agreed, Becky. But since I’m not Jewish only you can drop the Shanda fur di goyim on the whole exercise. I’ll leave the anti-Semitism to the Trump supporters who chafe at Ivanka’s marriage to Jared.

Tonight’s … entertainment?:

• Wrasslin’:
  • AEW Dynamite – 8:00PM | TNT / TSN2
  • NXT – 8:00PM | USA
• Electronic Left Turns:
  • Wednesday Night iRacing – 7:00PM | FS1
    • Coverage of iRacing eSports across multiple disciplines.
• 2014 NFL Draft – 8:00 PM | ESPN2
  • Round 1 of the 2014 event in New York City.
    • The Blake Bortles / Johnny Fucking Football draft
• NFL’s Greatest Games – 9:00 PM | FS1
  • From 1999: Denver Broncos vs. Atlanta Falcons in Super Bowl XXXIII in Miami.
    • Against all odds, a Shanahan not losing a Super Bowl.

• Olympic Classics – 9:00 PM | NBCSN
  • Men’s Basketball: 1992: U.S. vs. Croatia
    • The first U.S. Dream Team vs. Croatia in the men’s basketball gold-medal game in Barcelona.
• What We Do in the Shadows – 10:00 PM | FX / FX Canada
  • The vampires attend their first human Super Bowl party, while Guillermo’s search for virgins uncovers a deadly threat.
    • Hint – they think it’s a Superb Owl party.
    • It’s perfect [DFO] programming!

Use tonight to concoct your wildest draft scenario fuckups. For example, Pete Carroll is going to be bored pretty quickly, so he’ll ask John Schneider for a CD.

Schneider will mishear Carroll, and somehow the Seahawks will have traded up to draft CeeDee Lamb out of Oklahoma.

I grant that was a reach, but we can remember Jimmy Haslam’s decision to draft JFF. So get at it, Commentists.