Your “Making Do With What’s Available” Wednesday Evening Open Thread

NFL News:

  • The NHL reopening strategy has both MLB & the NFL contemplating how they will go forward.
    • Baseball has pretty much planned out nothing to this point, but the “hub city” idea was their initial strategy for Florida & Arizona.
      • Their latest strategy is to start on July 4, and that players would be paid on a sliding scale relative to their full salary.
        • Because it would be an 82-game schedule, they are looking at a minimum 50% cut, with a proposal that that scale jumps to 75% for the top-tier players.
          • Some compensation would be achieved by expanding the playoff format, enabling more players to qualify for postseason bonus clauses & game pay.
        • They need MLBPA agreement by June 6 in order to make the July 4 deadline.
    • The NFL has the advantage of time, but will still look to see how the NHL incorporates fans into the whole playoff experience.
  • Ahead of the Rules Committee meeting on Thursday, final rule proposals have been tweaked or eliminated.
    • The “sky judge” proposal has been eliminated.
    • The onside kick alternative has been adjusted, so now the attempt can just be exercised in regulation, not overtime, and that the down is untimed.
      • To prevent burning time off the clock, Belichick- or Mahomes-style.
      • Also, if a penalty occured on the score, the kicking team can have the yardage applied to the onside attempt, just like a kickoff
        • Meaning that the penalty-adjusted try would take place from the 40-yard line.
      • A team can change its mind about the attempt, but will have to use a timeout to effect the strategy.

Today’s good internet dog is Emmy, a mixed breed that was reunited with its owner after being missing for two years.

The story goes she got spooked during a storm & ran away. Despite months trying to find her she remained at large.

As an aside, today’s stupid humans are the people who went hiking in bear country & brought only their phones.

Because bear spray is for the city, dammit.


Tonight’s … entertainment?:

  • Wrasslin’:
    • AEW Dynamite – 8:00PM | TNT / TSN2
      • They’re PPV on the weekend was bonkers – in a good way. 
        • Including Chris Jericho hitting Jaxson De Ville with a Judas Effect.
    • NXT – 8:00PM | USA
  • NASCAR Cup Series:
    • Alsco Uniforms 500 – 8:00PM | FS1
  • Grant – 9:00PM | HIST
    • Episode 3: Freedom’s Champion
      • Ulysses S. Grant defeats Robert E. Lee and wins the Civil War, only to find that he will be called to duty again to serve as President during one of the most difficult times in American history.
  • Ultimate Tag – 9:00PM | FOX
    • More taggers are introduced and six new contestants fight it out.
  • What We Do in the Shadows – 10:00PM | FX
    • Nandor’s old familiar from the 1970s returns to Staten Island, Guillermo leaves to serve a new master, and Nadja and Lazslo revive their musical act.
  • Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – 10:00PM | ABC / CTV
    • Final season / season premiere:
      • Coulson and the agents are thrust back in time and stranded in 1931 New York City. The team must find out what happened.

Seriously – AEW just takes things as they are & run with it. No fans but access to an empty football stadium? Ok. But add in a horse.

Guy willing to do a finishing spot from 10 feet up? Sure.

It’s a good time.

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Redshirt

The “sky judge” proposal has been eliminated.
BLEERGH is pleased.

The onside kick alternative has been adjusted, so now the attempt can just be exercised in regulation, not overtime, and that the down is untimed.
To prevent burning time off the clock, Belichick- or Mahomes-style.
Also, if a penalty occured on the score, the kicking team can have the yardage applied to the onside attempt, just like a kickoff
Meaning that the penalty-adjusted try would take place from the 40-yard line.
A team can change its mind about the attempt, but will have to use a timeout to effect the strategy.

So all it takes is one BS Illegal Contact penalty to regain possession? Yeah, that’s going to end well.

Also, the timeout is slightly different. They can only call timeout to change their plan up until the referee signals the ball ready for play and starts the play clock. Once that’s done, they can call timeout, but they cannot change their mind…though if they wanted to, they could easily punt.

Personally, I would’ve allowed them to have unlimited 4th & 15 attempts, but only two with your normal offense. Any further attempts must be made with your Kickoff Team (kicker included); the receiving team will be allowed to field their defense.

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Welp, time to watch another season of Cincinnati Bengals football!

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Ahem, you seem to have somehow overlooked the 1988 Strong Man Competition I am watching in a Salt Lake City airport bar during my 4-hours of layover. Watching 30+ year-old Strong Man comps with moody, boozy Mondo Cozmo in the cans is a befitting soundtrack like no other!

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