Flippant

Finally Getting that 22nd Major must have been like lifting the world off her shoulders. Hope Serena can exhale a bit now. Never thought it was possible, but if she stays healthy, who knows if she could possibly reach Martina's 9 W titles, another seemingly unmatchable record.

So Andy plays his first Major final where his opponent is not Roger or Novak, and where he is the favorite. It will be interesting how he handles it.

I have no rationale basis for "hating" Roger as much as I do. As players go he's certainly not among the most boorish or poor sportsman like so many are, but it's more the cognitive dissonance I get with how he's perceived as the Golden Boy sportsman nonpareil and what I pick up. (It's just me, obviously because he's been awarded the Stefan Edgerg award beaucoup times from his fellow players.) Roger seems not to get it so many times almost to the point of passive aggressive obliviousness. For example, when he beat Andy Roddick for his 14th Major title at 2009 Wimbledon with an epically long 5th set, Roger said tried to say he knew how Andy felt. Don’t be too sad,” Federer told Roddick, referencing his loss to Nadal in 2008 final. “I went through the rough ones as well, even one on this court last year, but I came back and won.” WTF?? Roger had won 13 titles to Andy's 1 at that point, had just won his FIFTH Wimbledon (to Andy's ZERO) and the smug, tone deaf reply by Roger, who no doubt was actually sincere, had me throwing things at the screen.

I don't subscribe to the notion that Season One was "overrated" and looks dated now. It was WTF whacky, inconsistent but entertainment wise it delivered the goods. Technically most shows look dated the second time around, but I think what Season One had going was that along with the dollops of black comedy and a subversive streak, the young actors connected as characters and as a group. By Season Two, the WTF story lines didn't seem to build on the characterizations started in Season One. So the problems from Season One were never addressed, and the runaway success of Glee made the show runners think that those problems were irrelevant. By TV averages, Glee beat the odds by surviving (presumably) to a season 6. However, there are shows that had as much buzz/acclaim/ratings and mojo as Glee did out of the gate and were able to sustain decent ratings throughout their run better than Glee has. So the decline to current .9 or 1.0 ratings as "inevitable", no matter what Glee did, is more than open to debate. A decline like Glee's in not the template for all shows that started with similar acclaim and popularity.

Chord is the only white, straight able bodied male character left on the show . That is apprently more than anything, worth it's weight in RIB Gold. It doesn't matter he's dumb as shit, he's a "leader".

I think the Chord "fanbase" is highly overrated in some quarters. This year Chord still holds "the record" as the only solo single not to crack in the 1500 in ITUNES for the Beatles "Something." His songs usually are the worst sellers in an episode, not that that ultimately matters but in the vein of why RIB gives him so much screen time to an actor who receives neither critical acclaim nor seems to have a sizable following it's head scratcher, or maybe a bone scratcher..

Jon Groff worked with Murphy on that "Pretty Handsome" Pilot, on "Glee" for seasons 1, 2 and 3 and also has a small role in the upcoming "Normal Heart".