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Anybody speculating that a mother would clear the Warped Wall, and that it could be Rose Weitzel? I have bad news for you . . . Tonight: Meagan Martin, Lance Pekus, Sean Bryan, Jessie Graff . . . and the return of Geoff Britten.

They move to Montreal, opening MLB up to a better market once the Rays are coerced out of Tampa Bay? Yeah, I dunno. Speaking of which . . . yeah, splitting games between Tampa and Montreal is dumb as hell. Just get the Rays and Marlins to markets that would appreciate them.

I reckon the Mets will reach out to Terry Collins, but he successfully faked his death. Twice. He faked his death, lived in comfort for about six months . . . then faked another death in case the Mets were still looking for him. I know, probably not, but the world the Mets put themselves in would be that ridiculous.

Column from Rick Reilly in Sports Illustrated on the fatal tourism of Mt. Everest . . . published in 2006. I’m not sure why some of the words are stuck together, but you get the point. There was also an episode of Family Guy where the Griffiths wound up eating a guy to survive, but I’m guessing that’s beneath the attention of the trophy hunters.

Really? The way the anime is framed and the subsequent food shortages after every wall penetration, I thought the area was much smaller. I still can't imagine baseball being a thing in that world. Or any sport we'd recognized. Maybe the most popular game would be called "Beat the Orphan" or something. It's like a mashup of the more exciting themes, with no trace of "Red Swan." I have no clue how to delete the spoiler bars,and I have to go to bed now.

I didn't see this posted. I am not going back for the extended version. It just seems like a greed move to me. Also, I've never seen Avatar. This is basically what I know about it.

Checking up . . . the Yankees had their annual Old-Timers Game, with lots of emotion. Over in Chicago, Mickey Callaway makes the wrong move again, and he curses out a reporter. Also, Juan Vargas threatened the guy. Yaaaaaaay. On the bright side, Pete Alonso broke Daryl Strawberry's team home run record for rookies. So, yeah, ol' Pete is gonna have an anvil drop on him soon. Maybe before the All-Star Game, maybe at the All-Star Game.

Haven't seen the episode yet. Obvious question: does Kakashi inflict One Thousand Years Of Death upon Boruto? Or did he think the kid wasn't worth it?

The exam has been pretty interesting so far. The only real demerit is that two female students got all dirty with Midoriya . . . including one whose Quirk infers impersonation. Also, she winds up looking naked, which a visiting Sero appreciated. I'm surprised he didn't yell for Minetta to join him. Those girls did everything short of handing applications to the hapless Deku to form his harem. This week: Todoroki takes care of some multi-colored ninja-looking dudes to advance. A quartet of 1A student (Yaoyorozu, Asui, Jiro. Shoji) overcome a team that neutralizes their respective Quirks. Yaoyorozu gets MVP honors . . . she knew that she was expected to tax out her Quirk (Creation), but she wound up doing it on a smaller scale for the win. In other news, Jiro's earbuds can bleed, and Asui freezes up when the temperature drops. Because she's a frog girl, you see. Elsewhere, Kirishima gets turned into a flesh blob by a student, but Bakugo doesn't look like he'll back down. On the sidelines, Aizawa notes that he and Midoriya have set the tone that their classmates strive to match. On YouTube, someone did a video about those two. The title: "Green Naruto, Mean Naruto." I haven't seen it yet, but I think it's probably accurate. The credits (set to "Make My Story” by Lenny code fiction) are shown in full. Here they are in case you haven't seen them yet. I'm tickled that the final scene has a minor character like Toru front-and-center . . . but since she's invisible, it works well. And here's a sketch of Uraraka I got last week. I'm not sure which MHA/BnHA characters I should get next. I don't have any villains yet, Shigaraki would be logical, since his look is striking. I've also been getting sketches based on Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, and the guy looks like Yoshikage Kira's wet dream come to life.

Promo for Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin, premiering in two weeks at 3 a.m.:

Mac from Philadelphia finally gets to play catch with Chase Utley. This would be something to look forward to, except that Utley basically took a Mets player out of the 2015 postseaon with a dirty slide, and received zero consequence for it. So, you know, fuck Utley. And fuck Mac for mancrushing on him. Okay, not really.

Found this online . . . Donkey Kong goes full Star Platinum:

Looks like the forum got collapsed. Saw this, immediately thought of “Faith Hilling.”

From what I’ve heard, it’s already been cast and filmed. It’s a question of “when,” not “if.”

That's a discouraging sentence . . . until you remember that overstuffed primetime game show revivals are the norm these days. "Shit, I can't believe Celebrity Classic Concentration beat my show in the ratings!" "Sorry, I was busy bingeing Scrabble. No, not based on the board game., The one with the best-of-5 games and the plunger." A strong finish next week would be nice, especially if we get TAR32 earlier because of it, even if the difference is a mere few weeks.

I want the Sarge stuff resolved. The fact that his crew might be the good guys is a nice swerve. Even the kill-happy harpy? Oh, Enoch. You still have a lot to learn about the [metaphysical] human heart. "But I have reunited the 'FitzSimmons'. Surely, the fans would praise my name up and down the World Wide Web. Are they that cynical that they are critical of me?"

Beast Titan mentioned "warmup pitch" and "perfect game." I can't see how baseball would be a thing in that universe. Not enough room to play. Shit, that was a depressing episode. Scouts are not winning any battles, AND Armored Titan isn't incapacitated after all. Basically, "Rush towards our painful deaths while Levi maybe have a sliver of a chance of even challenging the Beast Titan" is the best plan. The kids from The Promised Neverland have better odds of escaping their predicament. Also: did nobody think to ask the horses if they wanted to be mounted for an obvious suicide mission? Selfish humans.

It was an okay anime. Maybe if the mangaka is healthy enough to write an ending, we'll get an InuYasha: The Final Season situation. Seriously, though . . . I don't think a thug reincarnated as a pink koala going over his lives is the funniest thing, it certainly is unique. So Kite.2 is a Chimera that resembles a girl? I meant Kurapika.

1. Because it was late. I had thought she was coming in by train from NJ, but she was driving. Had I had known or deduced that, I would have tried for a better day to meet her. 1a. Because I felt guilty at the thought of calling it off if she had made it to the city. If I had pulled the plug much earlier, I would have felt confident about eventually seeing her at a better time and place for both of us. 2. We agreed to meet around 6. 3. She texted that she was caught in traffic. This was basically rush hour on a weekday early evening in Manhattan. If I had known she would drive, I would have made better plans, because who wants to be caught in traffic before a date? Or be the one waiting on someone who's caught in traffic and trying not to pull the plug? Does that make sense? Most of the time, stuff that makes sense in my head comes out garbled for anyone listening/reading. 4. I think she had to find a place to park. In my head, I figured she'd have to go through the trouble of finding a lot, this coming AFTER sitting in traffic. Parking rules didn't cross my mind. We wound up going to a Chipolte. I got more frustrated as I waited, because I had missed the chance to postpone the date before she had to pay for toll and parking. Right before she arrived, my need to get home outweighed feeling like an asshole for pulling the plug that late.

Saw this on Facebook; I may have found it too funny. (NSFW) I’m thinking the animal wrangling was added. Giant koala and penguin made me think of the Chimeras from Hunter x Hunter.

Second win. They won the leg in Ho Chi Minh City.

Another fun episode, with more Cheryl/Carol being Cheryl/Carol . . . delightfully insane. Also, a few jokes with the word "space" crammed in there. I still found it funny. Not as much as Cyril, though. I bet that cracked captain barely had to convince him to commit suicide. Once again: Chris Parnell is so good at voicing pathetic men. Krieger trying to create offspring . . . that's "on brand." Remember, Crackers probably didn't get to do any mad science stuff next season. Krieger Head isn't the anime bride, but it's a step in the right direction. Didn't see the twist coming, where the crew didn't have to go through bullshit to escape. And, of course, Archer doesn't record Glenda's last words. She was a cannibal, so I guess he gets a pass this once.

*sigh* The streak is over. No, Nicole & Victor didn't take first, but Becca & Floyd got eliminated. And even with Becca getting pissy over a cracked egg, I feel bad for them. They do look like they have fun. Fuck, I wish TARCon was still a thing because I would like to see them up close. And maybe I could not have avoided Colin & Christie like I did at TARCon 5. Nicole & Victor are probably nice and decent people . . . but they're still Big Brother. Big Brother is the antithesis of The Amazing Race . . . very little substance, crap host, but CBS treats it and the fanbase so much better. Nic & Vic winning wouldn't be as hard to stomach as Cody & Jessica last year . . . .but they would still be Big Brother. Fuck, CBS would probably end up with 4-5 people from the next BB to "suggest" to Elise & Bertram when another TAR gets cast. And that's even if Nic & Vic go out in the penultimate leg. I'm guessing the Roadblock was edited out. Also, the U-Turn goes back to being stationed after the Detour task. Once again, I feel that it should be executed by a team AFTER they complete both tasks, but it's better than having a team learn they'd have to do both. Also, it's slightly more evil. "Damn, that was a brutal task! Let's see what we have to do nex- . .. FUCK, we gotta do the other thing. Motherfucker!!!" I guess I'll be pulling for Colin & Christie next week, which probably means they'll be the last team out because Mirna finally made an effective Colin voodoo doll. The Afghanimals come up short statstically, but I think they tie Rachel's record next week. Tyler & Korey seem nice, but "The Broken Ox Redemption" seems like a much better story than two guys from a stuntcast themed season winning. And Nicole & Victor are Big Brother. I'm not sorry if that makes me sound like a snob. Wait, so do they hoist a cow up like that for real? DAMN. And I'm guessing the vaulting wasn't an unannounced Switchback, because all that ha to be done was to do it "the Dutch way." Otherwise, Nicole would still be out there.

Bleak stuff. Doesn't help that the opening credits look and sound peppy in stark contrast, especially with Emma doing serious forest parkour with a smile on her face. Not sure how this anime (or this first season) would end. Ray looks to be setting the place on fire, which is a good plan when you're out of hope and feeling guilty about working with Isabella. Hopefully, there won't be a 90-degree twist, like Norman is actually a human-looking demon that feeds on "regular" demons. Does anyone feel that a tween like Norman wearing an adult men's hat is hilarious? Or is it just me?

. . . how?!? What, were they fans of Big Papi, and they thought they were attacking Kenan Thompson, a guy that makes fun of him?!?