Your “Ugh – Just That?!” Tuesday Evening Open Thread

Hey look – a Tuesday without football!

Damn – I was getting used to that.

NFL Nuggets:

• The Dolphins have had enough of Ryan Fitzpatrick, so they have decided to move Tua up to first-team and named him the starter for their next game.

  

  • They are taking advantage of their bye week to get him ready for their game in two weeks against the Rams.
    • One has to think that he’ll be on a short leash, and that if it starts to go the wrong way they’ll put Fitzpatrick back in.
  • The end-quote is just the best:
    • “Regardless of Fitzpatrick’s play, the future is most important for a franchise still emerging from the rubble of the Adam Gase years.”
• On the topic of pissed-off players, the Cowboys are getting the Aaron Rodgers experience when it comes to Mike McCarthy.
  • One player told an NFL Network reporter that Mike McCarthy’s staff is “totally unprepared. They don’t teach. They don’t have any sense of adjusting on the fly.”
    • It makes sense, since the Cowboys’ defense alone is on pace to give up an all-time worst 581 points, and their offense is mostly the ghost of Dak Prescott and Ezekiel Elliott giving away footballs like he was working a turkey drive.
  • Tellingly, another reporter was told that McCarthy told Jerry Jones in his interview he’d watched all of the Cowboys’ tape, and after he was hired, McCarthy admitted he’d made up such statements.

• It looks like the NFL is just going to fine the Titans for their COVID maladies rather than take away draft picks or take action against specific individuals.
  • One thing it comes down to was “insufficient communication” regarding outside activities.
    • Stupid shit like practicing at a high school field in east Nashville.

• The Saints are allowed to let fans into the building.
  • They get to start with 3000 fans for their next home game versus the Panthers.
    • After that, they can increase to 6000 & ultimately top out at 15,000 in December if no clusters emerge from the previous games.
  • The mayor’s office said that health & police officials will monitor traditional tail-gating locations to ensure compliance with local ordinances.

It’s a slow day, but imagine my delight when I (re)discovered a song that fits in perfectly with the day.

I haven’t listened to them in a while, mostly because I got older & the stations I listen to in the car (again – old) don’t play them all that often. But then I thought to myself, “Would tWBS have listened to them?” I concluded the answer would be “no”, since Seamus had terrible taste in music. (There’s even a tag saying so on this site, at the bottom of this post.) So I listened, and I liked it.

For those of you in need of something more traditional, vis-à-vis “getting away” music, I offer up a modern version of the standard,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH4cJhZcsbQ

My other choice for discussing “ugh” was just to make fun of Dreamboat.

But then, who needs more of that?

Tonight’s sports:

• MLB: World Series Game 1
  • Rays vs. Dodgers – 8:00PM | FOX / Sportsnet
    • No one cares much, but Beerguy predicts Dodgers in six.
• MLS Soccer:
  • Nashville SC vs. FC Dallas – 8:30PM | FS1 / TSN3

I’ve never been happier to have wrestling back than I will tomorrow night, for it will be the clear alternative to baseball. Plus, Joliet Jake should have another fantastic buffet of topics to discuss. So your mission for tonight is to go participate in the Quotables post, get through tonight whilst commenting with your [DFO] comrades, and the bounty of tomorrow awaits.