Your Scattered Thursday Night Open Thread

Hey, it’s the weekend come a day early! (for most readers I hope) Let’s do some drinking and watching and say pithy/funny things to one another.

Book Report:

So I was somewhat intrigued by the description of Beat The Devils-it’s an alt-history noir-ish mystery thingy whereby Joe McCarthy is elected president and his hatred of Jews, gays and Commies is given free rein. It is so close to being a good book, you can feel it as you read it that the plot needs to be in the hands of a more experienced writer-one that doesn’t feature outlandish plot twists, Humphrey Bogart as an intelligence officer and a silly, incomprehensible ending. Ah well, they can’t all be winners.

There’s an ESPN headline out there- “Jayden Daniels honors teammate with cancer on Pro Day”. A few observations…

-That particular ability was never mentioned by scouts as a part of his skillset.

-I hope it was one of those slow-growth ones.

-Did he like or hate this guy?

-Reminds me of the time I tried to gift an ex with a severe allergic reaction.

Covid Years, Covid. Whop, whop, whop:

The average age of the UNC Tar Heels starting five is 22.2. The average age of the starting five of the Okie Thunder is 22.6.

Speaking of, there’s Sweet Sixteen ball on-To The Games!

Clemson/Arizona:

The Cats are favored by 6.5 which seems about right. The Tigers finished just two games over .500 in conference play and had a fortuitous draw.

SDSU/UConn: 

No one is playing better than the Trust Fundamentals, led by the fiery passion of Hurley’s Throbbing Temple Vein. San Diego’s D might befuddle their opponent for a little while but UConn is so flexible in the way that they can attack teams that it’ll just take a bit of time.

BAMA/UNC:

There’s almost nothing to like about either of these squadoos but at least the Tide hasn’t had a scandal since that hiding a gun kerfuffle two years ago.

Illinois/ISU:

This one’s for all the corn and Truck Nutz! The only thing I know about either team is that the Cyclones look to create havoc on D and when they win the turnover battle they are 28-3.

Do your thing.