Bullpen

"It ain't even summer, we can't do nothing with that" Agreed the narration made this even better than it really was!

I'll give him this, he at least THINKS he's made of Teflon! This firing came about 8 months too late.

Does Kevin Smith own anything besides "ironic" hockey sweaters? But yeah seriously cut or 86 Talking Dead. And by the way, WHO THE HELL IS WATCHING JUDITH THIS TIME!?!?!?! I swear the disregard for supervision over children on this show is hilarious!!!!

I'm telling you Negan is TWD version of Rex. Talk, talk, talk, bluster, bully, in charge, blah... we're only a month in and he's already become a caricature of himself in my opinion. Hardwick holds the answers and the "I'm more clever than you" smirk that makes me wanna go Lucille on him. The mid-season break is maddening for me! I can see a quick break over the holidays (especially with the holidays falling on Sunday this year), but fer Christ's sake, already! By the time, the series comes back and some of the fringe characters show up, I'm asking my wife, "who's that again?" The show has definitely fallen into the "This entire episode is going to be dedicated to these shlubs" category. And to a point, I understand the groups are splintered, but for me, if you go with the "Love Boat" formula where we see a little of each story line, the fringe characters are going to stick with me more due to more consistent exposure to them. Speaking of fringe characters, Enid's now become the character that's right in my (and hopefully someone else's) crosshairs. Seriously, she's perpetually running away from Alexandria to some such BS. And Coral isn't going to save her anymore, except when he is?!!? She's approaching Lori and Andrea levels of dislike for me already.

Thanks for this dirtbag... I needed this this morning! As YoloinOhio would say, "This is fine"

HAHA!!!! They actually left Neil Diamond behind!

Coincidently enough, I had some little s%#^s help relieve me of some of my CDs while I was dog-sitting for a friend two weeks ago. I know it was kids because they didn't even bother with the garage door opener, grabbed the ipod and the CDs and left the opener. Thankfully I don't leave my registration or insurance in the car.

Man Neegs likes to prattle on and on doesn't he? And now he's basically cuckholding Dwight? That's some level 10 head game right there! (But luckily for us Hardwick was right there again to help us "process things" his exact words). At which point my wife rolled her eyes and went to bed. She's even moved past hate watching the talking dead with me. In the preview it looks like we're back to defeated and get along to get along Rick. I can honestly see why, I'm not faulting him, but he's going to need someone (Zeke) to come along and pull the load for awhile and keep things together. I found Neegan's graphic novel back story and I guess at one point he was a HS gym teacher... shocking! Dwight, Sherry and Daryl are going to be teaming up soon I think and plot an escape that only two make it out.

What's wrong with these people man?!?! It's lemonade! Read the sign... Lemonade! It's delicious!

Loved this. Michael Cudlitz chiming in at the end was fantastic!!!!

To the man never forgets to wish everyone else happy birthday, happy birthday mead, this place is better because of you!

Came here for this, was not disappointed!

I enjoyed this episode a lot. Seeing the King Ezekiel façade come down tied it all together. I know a lot of fans don't like these kinds of episodes, but as long as it advances the story, I'm okay with it.

My wife rarely cusses (I guess maybe to make up for my abundance of it), and when Hardwick said that line, she said, "Holy ****! It is a TV show!" We rarely watch the recap show, unless one of the cast members we really want to see is on. I read or heard somewhere, we're getting one of the "break from the action" shows next week where we take the focus off the main story line and go back to Morgster and Carol for the whole episode. Watching the main series, just reinforces how bad the spinoff, Fear the Walking Dead really is. I always thought Andrea or Laurie were the league leaders in bad decisions until I saw the west coast characters in action. As I watch these later episodes, I'm always wondering in the back of my head, who were these people in the pre-apocalypse. There was a mini series of books about the the Gubna's life. I wonder if Neegan was a bus-driver, financial planner, minor league club house attendant. I think flashbacks or a web series on some of the new characters would be really interesting to see how far they've drifted from who they used to be.

Tom, I'm using this exact quote tonight, when my wife mentions not seeing the little Grimes Scamp! Jeffery Dean Morgan for my money is a great choice for this character, but while watching it last night and thinking back to the books, it suddenly dawned on me, "Neegan certainly does like to hear himself pontificate!" (Not unlike a certain leader of a certain group we speak of quite often on TBD). Neegan always with the chit-chat! I may start using Neegan and Rex interchangeably. Overall, great episode, but last night came thisclose to becoming tortureporn with giving Carl the old Luke Skywalker treatment. We get it Neegan is a bad man who does bad things to other arguably bad people. It's established now. Let's not turn this into "Neegan's Catch-22 of the Week!" Did anyone else notice it seemed like Mags was almost speaking in tongues a couple times after Neegan and crew left them? I could understand a couple lines of her dialogue, but other times, either her real accent crept in or she was acting so "distraught" that you couldn't make out what she was saying. Last thing, I promise... Hardwick!!!! Fer Christ's sake can you stop the with the overly dramatic, melancholic intro to talking dead every time a character dies? You're not reporting REAL news for a network. You're hosting a forum. My wife even said, "why's he acting like a therapist for the viewers? We know he's going to be yukking it up in about five minutes when he brings out the first guests!"

This ^^^^^^^ Who the hell has Judith btw? Oh Key-riste, now we got another Grimes kid who can't be accounted for half the time?!?!

+ 1 bug... this got me right in the giggles! Mid season form to Cap'n Quint as well! Good to see you Spags! I've been on hiatus for a couple years and wasn't sure if you still showed up during Jets week! Mingia, you crack me up. Back away from a gabbagool though or your gonna need Rex's lapband!

Man, I miss that dude! As a young Air Force journalist, I was on the sidelines shooting photos at a preseason game against Houston at the newly opened Alamodome in San Antonio. I spent most of time shooting from the Bills sideline. Midway through the third quarter Bruce and Phil Hansen were down at my end of the sideline having been pulled from the game. I had 70 to 200 mm lens on the camera to help bring the action closer to me. Bruce turns to me and says, "hey little man, can I see that camera?" Who was I to say no to Big Bruce. I hand him the camera and starts zooming in on the visiting sideline where the Oilers prospect cheerleaders were going through their routines. After a couple minutes, Phil asks if he can borrow the camera and for the next five minutes I stand there while Bruce and Phil scout the talent. Bruce hands the camera back, says thanks, shakes my hand. That's it... no "hey I'm from WNY, big fan, thanks for being a Bill" nothing. Just frozen... felt like the Chris Farley character on SNL... "Jeez, why am I so STUPID!!!!"

Some advice? The day after the game, come back to the board and post a topic about the deplorable behavior of Bills fans. Paint with a broad brush! Label all the fans as classless Neanderthals. Be as sanctimonious (look it up Beerbawl) as possible. Talk down to the local fan base. Describe scenes of drunken debauchery and disrespect towards opposing fans. Throw in a story or two about card tables being broken. Close the post with something along the lines of "this is the last game I will ever be attending in person." (As opposed to attending a game from afar). Sound advice, since you was askin!!!

We went to a Rockies game last week. Out tickets were down first baseline in the fourth row, which is prime line drive foul ball territory. We sit in these seats four or five times a season and without fail at every single game at least one comes screaming into our section within five or six rows of us. Last week was no different. Charlie Blackman rips a foul ball in our section two rows back. The seating arrangement in the row behind us was aisle, small child, small child, small child standing on seat, dad and then mom. Basically he put his kids in direct line of fire while he was sitting "behind" them. Foul ball is hit, dad dives across all three kids in a human shield attempt knocking drinks, snacks, kids, etc in all directions. No one hurt. Game resumes. You might think the dad would realize the seriousness of the seating arrangement and put HIMSELF between the batter and the kids? You would be wrong ladies and gentlemen. I suggested a new seating system to him and his reply was that his kids wouldn't be able to see the game like that.

Hey OGTEleven! This is best version of the original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koFlWXgX52E

I wouldn't take any advice from any of these chuckleheads before, during or after going home to WNY.

Colorado Springs: the friends I've made here over the past 20 years Colorado: the small mountain towns and absolutely nothing else. Everyone raves about this place, like it's the end all and be all of places to be, maybe there's something wrong with me because I just don't get it. Sure it's nice, but it's not Valhalla. If you voice that thought to others, you get looked as if you have a third ear growing out of your forehead. If I could convince Mrs. Bullpen to pull up stakes and leave tomorrow, I wouldn't look back.

Forgive me Father, for I have sinned. It's been 30 years since my last confession... I've not shared my HOT SPORTZ TAKEZ regarding the Bills on this board in five to seven years and mostly lurk around the off topic board instead. I always thought the main board had enough hot takes....

The group is meeting at my bar on the 21st, I'll let you guys know what they discussed.