Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: I Can’t Stand the Rain

It seems like the annual late-September rainy season now includes late March, where I joked with my student yesterday that just because it’s pouring out, like it’s done the last few Saturdays I’ve taught him, does not mean we have a lesson. Though he has the flu, so it doesn’t matter either.

Listen, I thought it was funny. I also find it funny when people don’t check their initials for  monogrammed wedding brownies so they say “S&M” on them, but that’s genuinely funny, right? I didn’t get to pull off the a full Tribes-fecta so I can’t cash in for a free falafel. Ugh, I guess next year, probably not in the Holy Land on account of, you know, *generally waves at a map of the Middle East*

Anyway, speaking of things getting shot down, Kansas City voted no on new stadium taxes for the Chiefs and Royals, so let’s see what happens next. (Just a reminder that the Chiefs were originally the AFL Dallas Texans, as opposed to the NFL ones, who folded after a year and the assets later became the Colts. And the Royals were there after the A’s left.)

So, ladies, gentlemen, anyone in between, and anyone who deems it not applicable… your Oakland Royals and St. Louis Chiefs? Oh, people would be pissed.

Elsewhere:

-Rashee Rice’s Britt Reid impersonation, though, at the least, to our knowledge he wasn’t inebriated. Just crashing a rental Urus. Unless he wasn’t driving it in which case that breaks the terms of the rental.

-Meanwhile Vikings OC has been suspended for his own careless driving (which was pled down and should have been a DUI). Three week suspension without pay, which does cut into the draft as it starts today and therefore goes until the 23rd.

-Clyde Edwards-Helaire back to the Chiefs on a one-year deal.

-TRADE ALERT: Stefon Diggs to the 500s. Deal sounds like Diggs, a 2025 5th, and 2025 6th, for a 2025 2nd (originally from the Vikings).

What’s on?

Cursed Trophy Scrum:
Penn Station vs. Penn Station (NJD vs. NYR, 7:00, TNT)
Can’t Quite Release vs. 0–0 (SEA vs. LAK, 9:30… just Max?)

Not calling fouls for Jalen Brunson:
Beyond Thunderdome vs. Running for 17 (OKC vs. BOS, 7:40, ESPN)
D’Artagnan, motherfucker vs. Suns Out (CLE vs. PHX, 10:00, ESPN)

CONCACAF is still a joke:
Fightin’ Messis vs. Jack Cheese (Inter Miami vs. Monterrey, FS1, 8:00)
Teams I can’t make puns with: Herediano vs. Pachuca (FS1, 10:00)

Hey, there is baseball:
Straight to Blu-Ray vs. Min-Maxing Hits Allowed (TOR vs. HOU, 8:00, MLBN)
New York vs. Brooklyn… give or take 65 years. (SFG vs. LAD, 10:00, MLBN)

In addition to finding the time to (re-)binge Taskmaster, watch Marble Survival 100. The premise: All 31 JMR Marble League teams (and also the Solar Flares, who still exist but can you really call them a Marble League team? At best you can call them a Showdown fodder and even that seems like a stretch.) compete in a short daily race, with points allotted. After every week, the bottom 2 teams are eliminated. Presumably after 14 weeks, that’ll leave four teams to do a medal round. Though that would be 2 races remaining to get to 100, not 7, according to math. Week 6 is going on now, though I’ve only watched the first three weeks. With minimal spoilers… what in the fuck, Midnight Wisps? Granted, we’ve been able to say that for a few years now, but still. What in the fuck.

Anything else that’s fun and exciting will naturally come up in the comments, as always.