Spaceman Spiff

This Sam Cooke documentary on Netflix is really interesting. Knew his music, didn't know much about him.

As I understand it, they're up for free agency after this year, right? So they're gonna do their best to ball out, put up some good tape and try to cash in this summer. I can't blame anyone for that. But yeah, that means that the Wiz could snag an 8 seed and say they made the playoffs, Ernie looks good for shaving off the Porter contract and steering the team into the playoffs without Wall.

Despite my previous post, I agree with this on all points. Worried about Parker's knees though.

You guys falling in love with Portis and Parker after two games....wait till the honeymoon period is over.

I've seen this Wizards game one too many times. Hhhhhanging around...

Jabari Parker, looking good.

Oh **** off Lopez, acting like you didn't do anything bad by blatantly pushing Bryant. Looking like a dumbass 2000s Dave Corzine.

Tuning in for the first time in awhile. Wanna see the new blood vs. Otto.

I tried the Butcher Box burger meat this week. Really good quality meat. It doesn't say the fat content percentage on the package but it's definitely not lean burger meat. It cooks like it's got high fat content and certainly tastes like it, too. Tastes like something I'd get from The Organic Butcher in McLean.

Jesus, what the ****

Look at the bright side, guys. We've got a Portis in DC again.

This seems logical, but there's not a chance that they could pull off a Beal trade today by 3pm right? From what I can see the Wiz only have a chance if they Forrest Gump their way into a generational talent like the Bucks did with Giannis.

If that's the case you gotta try to trade Beal for a couple 1sts right?

Can't believe Ernie got out from a max contract like that. Wow.

Well, when you put it that way...yeah.

Does anyone think for a second that he slipped and fell at home? Is anyone buying that?

Should have traded him earlier this year when it was obvious they were headed to a 40 win season.

Used to be a man. No doubt in my mind.

Friend of mine came over earlier this evening and we somehow ended up watching this movie on Netflix called Polar. It's got Mads Mikkelson in it and a couple of other cool cameos, I won't spoil it if anyone decides to watch it. Basically, he's a hitman two weeks from retirement and his company that he works for is trying to screw him on the 8 million owed to him at the end of his contract by killing him. There's more to it than that, but that's the basic plot. A group of hitmen trying to kill a hitman. It could have been so much better than it was. In a way, really disjointed. You've got Mikkelson, who's really good, in these really well shot noir scenes...and then a minute later, you've got this rag tag group of hitmen that are on his trail, and they're depicted in this 2000s really annoying, way over the top "Smokin' Aces" type style that was popular 10-15 years ago. And the bad guy that's heading it all up is just more annoying than bad. Didn't really have a reason to hate him, just thought he was bad in a B movie kinda way. There's a lot of violence, a couple scenes that reminded me of John Wick from a choreographed perspective. There's some t & a. There's some funny scenes. But it's a 2 hour movie that's about 20-30 minutes too long. If they'd had tightened it up, found a better bad guy and maybe gotten rid of some of that Smokin Aces vibe, it could have been really good. But I'm just giving it a C.

Been getting back into Blacklist again. Spader is awesome.

The NBA has the best offseason and trade deadline out of any sport, hands down.

Ichiro was great, no doubt, but Griffey was a .900+ OPS player. Ichiro was high .700s, low .800s. Both first ballot hall of famers with different skill sets, but I'd take prime Griffey every day first.

Good tip on where Sunshine gets their meat from. Can you get their blend there?

@AlvinWaltonIsMyBoy Butcher Box arrived today. Read some online reviews that people had meat arrive that was semi thawed out. The stuff I got was frozen solid. What was inside: There were two of these. I cut one in half and made it for dinner tonight, it was damn good. Put a little Old Bay on it, put it in my air fryer and it came out damn delicious. Thick, juicy, great flavor. Two strip loin steaks. The aforementioned free wings. 3 pounds of wings sounds a lot more than it really is. I'll be thawing these out later and cooking them soon. Chuck roast. Pretty good size. Burger meat Chicken breast. It's not a ton of food. Quite frankly, if I wasn't trying to cut back on portion intake a losing weight, I could house all of this in a week or so. The goal is to see how long I can make it last. That said, I'm certainly not going to try to adhere to how many portions the labels say each selection has as that's not realistic. But if the pork loin I had this evening is any indicator, it'll be really good stuff.

Good calls there. I hope the Nats can retain Turner, Rendon and others now.