From Darkness Retreat to Bright Lights: Your 2023 Jets Preview

Senor Weaselo - August 23, 2023August 23, 2023

"The Jets do not play football. Football just sort of happens to them." -Jon Bois It's one of the great ironies that the team responsible for arguably the most influential game in NFL history has followed it up by being among the class of the NFL—wait, sorry, there was a smudge—among

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: Severed Links

Senor Weaselo - August 9, 2023August 9, 2023

I didn't think I'd have to do this again, so soon. But I do, and… I won't be able to again, and I have the space and the airtime. For those not in the loop, my remaining grandmother, on my mother's side, passed away early Tuesday morning (just after midnight). I'd

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: “This is a Woodlawn-bound 4 Train.”

Senor Weaselo - August 2, 2023August 2, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwZdDyH9LLc Ah, yes, summer in the big city. The subway stations are oppressively hot (dear god, Herald Square in summer), the Mister Softee trucks have been pushed out by bootlegs (like New York Soft Serve), and the Canada wildfire smoke has (mostly) subsided! We hope. It's that time, because they don't yearly

Wumbo Wednesday: We Has Camp Notes!

Senor Weaselo - July 26, 2023July 26, 2023

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Ah yes, summer camp, the wonderful fun of doing… whatever arts and crafts shit, I don't know what goes on at most sleepaway camps. The only sleepaway camp I went to was music camp, and though we had a good time it's not nearly as fun as the "one time

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: We Kinda Made It!

Senor Weaselo - July 19, 2023July 19, 2023

Yesterday nine teams' rookies reported to training camp. And today the Jets have fully opened up camp, as they're playing in the Hall of Fame Game. There's football actually on the horizon! The important stuff: -Steelers, Alex Highsmith agree to 4 year, $68M extension. -He ain't cause he's not: Denzel Mims no

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: The True Nadir

Senor Weaselo - July 12, 2023July 12, 2023

Well, for anyone who watched, that was a bit of an eh game at least in the middle innings. The 8th and 9th were interesting though. For anyone who didn't, the NL beat the AL 3-2 in the All-Star Game in Seattle last night on the strength of an 8th

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: The Looming Nadir

Senor Weaselo - July 5, 2023July 5, 2023

I was gonna do something like rate the Sousa marches, but there are a lot of Sousa marches. So I'm gonna not do that, considering it would have ended in some sort of joke about the piccolo solo in the last time of "The Stars and Stripes Forever" after the

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: Subtitle Goes Here

Senor Weaselo - June 28, 2023June 28, 2023

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(Wow, nicely done, me.) Well, I didn't finish any gigs after midnight this past week, so I'll take it. That took me almost a week to fully recover, even while I had other gigs that week. Or actually that's part of why. So, let's scramble here! -There's one race left in this

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: The Endless Setlist

Senor Weaselo - June 21, 2023June 21, 2023

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One of the stories in the writers' backroom this past week has been my Sunday night. I am still recovering from it, because, well, it's nothing short of the longest gig any of us have ever had. Including the contractor. Who had played something in the morning. In short, call time

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: Well, Now What?

Senor Weaselo - June 14, 2023June 14, 2023

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDhLjTQMHk4 It's that time of year again, where all that's left in terms is baseball. The Euro footy's over (and who cares about MLS, even with Messi), and we have the relief that Florida Man will not win championships this year. Or championship, thanks to the Nuggets and Golden Knights winning their

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: Pray for Maestro

Senor Weaselo - June 7, 2023June 7, 2023

If you don't live on the East Coast, Hank Scorpio hasn't started slowly and methodically vaporizing you yet. Imagine playing sports in this? Oh, wait, we have that. Image via The Sporting News. But for real, if you haven't heard, Ontario and Quebec are currently suffering from wildfires, and it's so widespread

BattleBots Beat: Seven Fights for WC VII.

Senor Weaselo - June 1, 2023June 1, 2023

This is it. Eight bots, seven fights, three rounds of competition, and at the end, someone walks away with the Giant Nut for the first time in their career. Who will it be? Well, we have seven teams that everyone would be happy to see, and also Riptide, who at