DoctorAtomic

Like if anyone came charging at me knocking people over, I'd clothesline them.

This isn't really related, but I just love - 'What do you think of your team's execution today?' 'I'm in favor of it.'

I think the lack of stability of most other organizations is that they just don't have the drive to invest long term. You just need to do enough to go 8-8; some years you get some bad luck, and might win 6 or 7, or you catch some breaks and get 10,11. Most coaches are good enough to be 500, but no one is going to take a risk on a longer term investment in staff where you'll probably suck for 3 to 5 years. That's part of the reason you see all the same faces trotted out when there's openings.

The xmas episodes of Futurama are the best. Santa is a robot and no one is good enough for gifts. And they work on Neptune. I like the holidays because we always had great food, and in modern times I sit outside on the deck and watch NBA and drink. It's all the inundation to buy, buy, buy that really turns me off. I just don't do gifts for anything. And most of the music is awful. Two things that drive me up the wall - 1. Commercials that use xmas songs and change the lyrics. 2. Spouses buying their spouse or both of them a new car as a gift. Who makes a major purchasing decision without talking to their partner!

I don't even know what the plot of the Nutcracker is. Muppets yes, but the Blackadder version is the exception to the rule.

I would have thought xmas would have a larger viewing draw.

Amazon's Wheel of Time Will Take a Blended Approach to the Series' Many Stories That's about all there is to the article. I tend to agree though. I have a feeling a massive amount (rightly) is going to be excised from the books to make a coherent television program.

Odd you wouldn't put Lakers/Clippers for the xmas game.

Tis the season - I don't like the Nutcracker.

I don't know that I buy 'resting players make them rusty'. I mean, these people are professionals. Plus, on the other side, if you play the game and someone gets hurt that they're out for the actual meaningful game, then you're roasted in the media too.

Then the airline agent verified it was really Linda's mother because they sounded the same.

I was thinking there were probably some strong ad contracts that made the tree lighting set too. I also don't think the NFL is as essential to the fabric of American society as it thinks it is. I also don't think they should get a break for creating an avoidable problem that literally every other pro sports league worked on anyway of them.

I'm doubtful at the time that they envisioned in 35 years there would be content platforms that would allow for these characters to resurface in new stories with fans who had access to the details of the movies and were just making the movies while karate was hot.

I thought they lived in Delaware?

Did they ever explain why Gayle lives close by to Linda? Or did they grow up there and the parents retire to Florida? I also liked how they kept the location out of it by calling it the Layover Airport.

I think you still could have had football and prevented the mess it is in now with some forward, proactive thinking, especially given the lead in time to when the season starts. The arrogance of the league itself is causing all these avoidable issues. The other sports accepted that they weren't going to have a 'real' season, and still were able to put out a quality product. The league could have done the same.

Why no new episode? The others were new tonight.

Wow grandma's box. Not as great as rusty trombone, but good one. I really loved that this counted as the visit. My parents always always always go to the wrong terminal to pick me up at one particular airport (though to be fair it's an awful airport). Y'all going up love this. I got my wings for my first flight. On Eastern Airlines. I did like how the kids coveted the wings as a status symbol. Regular Size Rudy swooned when he saw them. I did like Bob actually tell Linda he didn't like how she was being treated. Usually he doesn't speak up.

I'll follow that comment so no one else has to.

It's stuff like this that sours me on the NFL. I know it's not the entire league, but they're acting like they're above public health. I know being a private entity means they can't be ordered to shut down, but I'd have a great laugh if the City of Denver sued the NFL or something like that.

I read somewhere back at the end of his career that Kobe basically played 3 or 4 extra seasons' worth with playoffs and Olympics just over his pro career.

I think the runner just ended up finishing Deadwood because he had other projects. There was a movie. Isn't Justified a western? I guess it's a different line between western or frontier story? Oh, Into the West was a miniseries in the early 2000s on TNT. It was good.

I don't have a problem with Namath getting in more because of the football cultural aspect, for lack of a better term. It's not like anyone disputes the impact he created.

Gene was called Dutch Oven too. I meant I did like Louise keeping Tina on message. Bob actually got to cook and people got to eat with no crisis too. Although it was funny Linda got sick of Gayle so fast.

I think that's the one I'm thinking of.