As many of you probably know, Gunsmoke began, like many of its contemporaries, as a radio series, launching 3 years before the TV version.
The first radio "season" lasted well over a year, and includes the series' 1st "Christmas Story". Keep an ear open for the twist ending to Antony Ellis' story.
From season 1:
Mary Richards (Mary Tyler Moore) ends up working alone on Christmas Eve & Christmas Day, but watch for a familiar scene, used in the opening credits in later episodes, unfold toward the end of the show.
So why is this titled, "Christmas & The Hard Luck Kid II"? Because the title is borrowed from a similarly named episode from That Girl, and the producers added the "II" to avoid confusion, since That Girl was already in or about to enter syndication.
This was just too easy.
Texas twit Timex Cruz opened his big mouth, and said some more stupid things, like, for example, suggesting that Dr. Anthony Fauci be jailed for lying to Congress about the COVID pandemic.
Fauci went on CBS' Face The Nation on Sunday, and literally laughed off Cruz's pea-brained whining.
First, here's Farron Cousins to sum it all up:
With all the stories in sports about athletes struggling with mental health (i.e. Naomi Osaka), All Elite Wrestling put together a 7 minute video in which a number of talents and Amanda Huber, widow of the late Jon Huber (Brodie Lee), addressed their own issues with mental health.
Ryan Nemeth, brother of WWE's Dolph Ziggler (Nick Nemeth) hosts.
"Those who fail to remember history are condemned to repeat it."-George Santayana.
McLean Stevenson falls into the category of actors who were better received by TV viewers as a supporting player, rather than a lead. Kind of like Tim Conway, Paul Lynde, and Nancy Walker, to name a few.
Stevenson's first post-M*A*S*H entry was 1976's The McLean Stevenson Show, which he co-produced himself, along with game show icon Monty Hall, who was developing something other than a game show for the first time. In what would be the start of a career trend, the series failed to get beyond one season.
Following is a sample episode. Mark Evanier, who was also a writer for ABC's Welcome Back, Kotter, among others, and also was a comics writer, co-wrote the script.
From the CBS Radio Mystery Theatre:
Host E. G. Marshall (ex-The Defenders, The Bold Ones) slides into the role of Ebenezer Scrooge, in addition to narrating the series' adaptation of A Christmas Carol.
M*A*S*H had been off the air a few years when someone convinced IBM to get most of the cast together for a series of commercials. The ad agency was able to bring in Harry Morgan, Alan Alda, Loretta Swit, Jamie Farr, Gary Burghoff, Wayne Rogers, William Christopher, & Larry Linville.
The following six minute-plus compilation doesn't cover all of the ads.
Today, Kyle Rittenhouse will spend Thanksgiving like so many others, at the dinner table with his family, thankful especially of being acquitted six days ago. If he's lucky, he can fade into the mists of time until he's ready to decide what his life path really is.
Conservatives and Q-Anon cult members don't like that.
In an interview with Fox Shmooze's Tabloid Carlson, Rittenhouse shredded ambulance chaser and Q-fool Looney Lin Woodchips, saying that the deranged barrister's constant rants about conspiracies offended him and his family to the point where Woodchips was fired months ago, along with John Pierce. Pierce, at least, wants to distance himself from further controversy.
Woodchips, on the other hand, has the support of his fellow Q-dorks.
Earlier this week, Dumb Donald II (Donald Trump, Jr.) posted a photoshopped picture of his father giving Rittenhouse a Medal of Freedom. Empty-G (Marjorie Taylor Greene) introduced a resolution that would award Rittenhouse the Congressional Medal of Honor. If what we've learned about Rittenhouse this week tells us anything, it's that he's still a kid who thought he was doing something noble by crossing state lines 15 months ago, and wading into a battle that wasn't his. He didn't want the attention that came with it.
But as long as the right wing's lunatic fringe continues to keep his name in their conversations, Kyle Rittenhouse won't be truly free. Just walk away from it all, kid, and we'll see you in a few years.
Ah, the legendary Carvel ice cream commercials of New York. This time of year, back in 1978, Carvel offered ice cream alternatives to the traditional holiday desserts of mince or pumpkin pie. If you grew up in New York, any part of the state, mind you, thanks to cable, you've probably seen this, narrated by Tom Carvel himself.
Jason Garrett's 2nd go-round with the Giants is over.
When many of us were growing up, the #1 brand in frozen turkey was Butterball, at the time a brand of Swift Premium, long since co-opted by ConAgra Brands.
But, there was a time when Swift had competition, namely Armour Star, better known for their canned corned beef hash, chili, and Vienna sausage, the latter of which can now be found in dollar stores.
In 1972, chef Jacques LeRoux was brought in to demonstrate Armour's self-basting turkey. Ed McMahon (The Tonight Show) is the announcer.
Three days after Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges for killing two and wounding a third man in Kenosha 15 months ago, the teenager was on Tabloid Carlson's Fox Shmooze garbage hour, but, oh, did Rittenhouse have a moment.
When Rittenhouse was arrested last year, a $2 million dollar bond was posted, mostly raised by conservative lawyers such as John Pierce and L. Lin Wood. Now that Rittenhouse is free, Looney Lin Woodchips wants the money back, but Pierce doesn't.
We know this. Looney Woodchips wants to extend his 15 minutes of fame. Pierce just wants out of the whole scene, and who could blame him? Carlson, who hired a documentary crew to film Rittenhouse during the trial for his own selfish purposes, was spared the wrath for now, but if Rittenhouse goes to another show, like, say, for example, 60 Minutes, that could change.
Woodchips has legal problems of his own, which is why he's so hot for the $2 million as if he won the lottery. A chunk of the money was posted by Rittenhouse's mom, so figure she'll get her share back, which cuts the payday for Woodchips.
Prediction: The Rittenhouse family will get the money, and donate what was raised for them to charity. Turns out Kyle's actually found his maturity and brains. Maybe he can use the money for acting classes.
Match Game PM was one of two syndicated spin-offs from the CBS series. This weekly iteration was in its final season when this particular episode aired.
The difference between this and the regular Match Game was an additional round of game play and an extra Super Match before the Star Wheel (introduced a couple of years earlier). The 1st Super Match question has to do with this week's holiday.
Panel includes series regulars Brett Somers (ex-The New Perry Mason), Charles Nelson Reilly (ex-The Ghost & Mrs. Muir), and rotating guests Dolly Martin (Dick's wife), Jimmie Walker (ex-Good Times, B. A. D. Cats), Bill Daily (ex-The Bob Newhart Show, I Dream of Jeannie), and Debralee Scott (ex-Angie).
After leaving Chicago, Peter Cetera forged a successful career as a solo act, although the chart hits were few & far between.
Cetera's last hit was a duet with actress-singer Crystal Bernard (Wings, ex-Happy Days) in 1995, "(I Wanna Take) Forever Tonight", co-authored by Eric Carmen.
Donald Trump just doesn't want to get with the program, and he doesn't want the Republican Party to, either.
More than a year after a humiliating loss at the polls, which he's still publicly denying, exposing himself as the oldest baby in America, Trump is still fighting a losing battle to keep his records leading up to the January 6 insurrection away from investigators in Congress.
But, that's not all.
Remember when a scheduled rally in Alabama was cancelled earlier this year? Trump does, and he's railing against governor Kay Ivey.
The narrative across the board has been this. The GOP has to give in to what the man-child wants, regardless of the fact that he has no true power. Those that defy him, like Ivey, for example, will face a challenge from a Trump-backed opponent.
In Georgia, Trump is threatening to have governor Brian Kemp primaried because Kemp refused to overturn last year's election.
All of this could be moot if the investigation bears fruit, and Trump ends up in prison or a mental hospital by this time next year.
The 80's brought some musical "rivalries" on the pop charts.
First, Madonna & Cyndi Lauper arrived on the scene relatively around the same time in the winter of 1983-4. Both are still active today, though Lauper has moved on to Broadway ("Kinky Boots"), and has moved away from the pop charts.
Just a few short years later, Tiffany and Debbie Gibson arrived on the scene. Like Lauper, Gibson was a New York girl, in this case from Long Island. Just before her 18th birthday, Debbie hit the top of the charts with "Foolish Beat", the fourth single from her Atlantic Records debut, "Out of The Blue". Gibson also wrote "Beat", and all of the material on the album.
Gibson's then-crush, Matt Goss, whose band, The Bros, was on the charts for a hot minute, appears in the video.
Let's just put the cards on the table in relation to the Kyle Rittenhouse case, which ended Friday with Rittenhouse being acquitted of all charges in relation to his shooting three people in Kenosha, Wisconsin, 15 months ago.
Rittenhouse's crying jag on the witness stand was an acting performance worthy of an award. A Golden Raspberry, sure, but it's an award. Pathetic, but it served a purpose. Rittenhouse got the sympathy from the jury to avoid going to prison.
But, this is what's lost in the narrative.
As a 17 year old, Rittenhouse, now 18, crossed state lines, carrying a weapon he wasn't supposed to have. He wounded one, and killed two, all white, like himself. The judge assigned to the case, Bruce Schroeder, was already demonstrating bias in favor of Rittenhouse by dressing down the prosecution before either side rested their case. The fix was clearly in.
I don't think the kid ever took an acting class in high school. Looking at pictures of him crying, he looks like a total dork. The bottom line is, he had no business being in Kenosha in the first place. He was looking for trouble. Personally, I think Schroeder was pissed because he was forced to cancel piano lessons for some local kids for a few days.
Anyway, it now comes out that DoorMatt Gaetz wants to reward Rittenhouse by offering him an intern's job. We don't even know if Crybaby Kyle even finished high school!
As Farron Cousins discusses this, he offers the idea that Gaetz is looking for a wingman to hook him up with some more co-eds or younger........
The 3rd installment of Norman Lear & Jimmy Kimmel's Live in Front of a Studio Audience specials drops on ABC & Hulu next month, this time featuring a pair of series Lear produced for NBC.
That, of course, would be Diff'rent Strokes and its spin-off, The Facts of Life. However, some of the casting this time leaves something to be desired.
As Arnold famously would ask, whatchoo talkin' bout, Mr. Lear? Ann Dowd (The Handmaid's Tale) rounds out the four leads as Edna Garrett, who, of course, would move on to Facts. The younger Wayans was last heard from hosting the game show Frogger for Peacock, and his pop is waaaaaaaaaaaaay too old to be playing Willis.
Now, if they could snag Todd Bridges, the only remaining original cast member, for a cameo.....!
Just to give you an idea of how far-fetched casting Hart & Wayans is, we give you the intro to season 1 of Strokes:
Paula Abdul pays homage to James Dean, with a little help from special guest Keanu Reeves, in this clip for "Rush, Rush", from her 1991 CD, "Spellbound".
Donald Trump's legal team filed another brief trying to prevent the release of specific documents by the National Archive to Congress, still claiming that America's Oldest Baby has executive privilege.
Unfortunately, these clowns would get laughed out of moot court (if you've ever seen The Paper Chase or the movie version, you'll get the idea). Farron Cousins explains.
Why do conservatives have a problem with Sesame Street?
The long running children's series introduced a new Asian-American Muppet, Ji-Young, who will debut in a special episode airing on Thanksgiving Day. Still stinging from one of the show's core characters, Big Bird, endorsing the COVID-19 vaccine for the kiddo's, leading to Ted Cruz showing his virtual butt on social media yet again, another conservative is whining about the new kid in town.
Anyway, what Schlapp wants to do is have PBS defunded because of this. Like, hello? First run episodes of Sesame Street now air first on HBO, then go to PBS, PBS Kids, & HBO Max. Like most conservative whiners, Schlapp has no real basis for his complaints, other than virtue signaling the bigots in our midst.
Conservative criticism of Sesame Street goes all the way back to the Nixon administration, which only goes to prove that conservatives and GOPers don't want education to evolve as society does.
Schlapp gets the Weasel ears this week for his ignorance.
Retired General Michael Flynn, a former national (in)security adviser under Donald Trump until his fall from grace for lying to Congress, only to be pardoned by Trump, was at a evangelical conference in San Antonio over the weekend. Demonstrating once again that he gave up his brains to blindly follow a false prophet in Trump, Flynn is claiming we only need one religion in the US.
Bollocks & balderdash!!
While it is the Christian mission to bring the Word of God to people of other faiths, such as Buddhism & Islam, force-feeding it down everyone's throats paints the Christian faith in an even worse light than it already is in. As Jesse Dollemore explains, Flynn's bizarre rants suggest a willful violation of the 1st Amendment to the Constitution, which Flynn swore an oath to years ago.
The Jests had a chance to break a 3rd place tie with Miami by upsetting AFC East leader Buffalo on Sunday. Then again, the Bills needed to make a statement after losing a snoozer to Jacksonville last week, and with New England hot on their heels, a half-game back.
Statement made.
Buffalo's defense collected four interceptions from Jests QB Mike White, who likely now goes to the bench for Joe Flacco if Zach Wilson isn't ready for next week, and routed the Gangreens, 45-17. Jests head coach Robert Saleh is a defensive specialist, but the Jests keep making the same mistakes as a certain baseball team in town, and don't think through their decisions.
The songwriting team of David Lowen & Dan Navarro wrote "We Belong" for Pat Benatar, who released the single on her 1984 CD, "Tropico", as Benatar was easing toward a more adult contemporary sound.
Released to radio stations in July 1981, "The Voice", the 2nd single off the Moody Blues' album, "Long Distance Voyager", peaked at #15 on the Hot 100.
"Those who fail to remember history are condemned to repeat it."--George Santayana.
Colorado airhead Lauren Boebert had to have seen the Twitter feud between Texas Senator Ted Cruz and ABC late night talk host Jimmy Kimmel. Why else would she be stupid enough to follow suit?
Boebert, who's looking like a clone of Sarah Palin in the clip below, shredded Kimmel one week ago on Twitter. Kimmel fired back the best way he knew. Farron Cousins explains:
This next item turned up more on sports programming than anywhere else. McCullough was a sponsor of ABC's Pro Bowlers Tour, Wide World of Sports, & The American Sportsman during the 70's. In 1978, they came up with a clever ad campaign that had a pair of beavers (voice actors unknown) finding a chain saw left unattended.
Casey Kasem (American Top 40, Super Friends, etc.) is the narrator.
For 10 years, Newsnax anchor Eric Bolling has had a vendetta against the Muppets, dating back to their namesake 2011 movie, all because in the context of the movie, the villain of the piece was a corrupt oil baron.
Now, in the wake of Timex Cruz hassling Big Bird for getting vaccinated, Bolling wants to debate the eternal 6 year old or any of the other Muppet characters. Bolling even got his briefs in a twist over a recent episode of the Disney Jr. reboot of Muppet Babies because a parody of "Cinderella", in his warped mind, had a transgender agenda.
Bolling's another conservative moron lying to his audience to rile up the masses against the beloved children's franchise. Disney, which owns the Muppets these days, should consider litigation against this moron.
Farron Cousins breaks it down, mocking Bolling as he goes along.
Al Masini, the man who brought us Lifestyles of The Rich & Famous through Television Program Enterprises (TPE), thought he had a good idea for a game show. Unfortunately, viewers didn't agree.
Triple Threat was a generational music trivia game. 2/3 of each team consisted of celebrities and their relatives (i.e. parent, child), partnered with a contestant. Jim Lange (ex-The Dating Game, Bullseye) was the series host for most of its year-long run. His fill-in when on vacation? Ex-MTV VJ Alan Hunter. Granted, in the episode with Hunter that's available, he actually hustles out to the stage when called by announcer-associate producer Sam Riddle (ex-Hollywood a Go-Go). Lange, a veteran of more than 2 decades of game shows, simply jogged. Generations, yo'.
Undaunted by cancellation, Masini was able to revive the series, and sold a revamped version, sans celebrities, to BET, with Spencer Christian (Good Morning America) as the new host. This also lasted one year, with two families playing.
Following is a sample with Lange.
"How do I know you're not sick? You could be some deranged lunatic!!"----The Fresh Prince (Will Smith), "Parents Just Don't Understand", 1987-88.
If you're a Republican, you've imbibed too much of the Trump kool-aid, you may be beyond help.
One example is Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar, who, over the weekend, decided to have someone doctor some footage from the popular anime, Attack on Titan, by photoshopping the faces of Gosar himself, President Biden, and NY Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, on different characters, positing Gosar as the hero, of course.
The idea here is being presented that Gosar is fantasizing about killing AOC & Biden. Gosar is too much of a coward to confront Alex From The Block on the House floor on issues, as most GOPers are, and while AOC & Biden have disagreed on some Democratic issues of late, they still come across as mature, responsible adults, unlike the GOPers, who are now characterized as too cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs to belong in office.
Farron Cousins explains:
Timex Cruz is at it again.
The Texas Senator, speaking at Texas A & M University the other day, told students that he was actually thinking of having the Lone Star State secede from the rest of the US. Uh, that was tried many, many years ago, and nothing came of it, jackass.
Even worse, Timex decided that podcaster and UFC commentator Joe Rogan (ex-The Man Show, NewsRadio, Fear Factor) would be appointed as president of Texas.
Farron Cousins explains why Timex plays the dummy card so much.
Kids are finally getting their COVID shots, and many of them can probably thank Big Bird, the eternally 6 year old character from Sesame Street, who publicly was vaccinated over the weekend to show the kiddo's that it's safe.
Unfortunately, there are a few wackjobs who can't handle it. We call them GOPers.
Chief among the conservative crybabies in this case is Texas Senator Ted "Timex" Cruz, who called Big Bird getting vaccinated "propaganda". Apparently, Timex, you lost you dictionary when you fled to Cancun over the winter, because I don't think you get the message.
And while we haven't heard from the biggest baby in the Repugnant Party, and we shouldn't have to, quite frankly, Cruz's tin foil lips resulted in a discussion this morning on CNN's New Day:
For nearly 2 decades (1973-91), Dick Wood was the "opening act", if you will, to network evening news, anchoring WTEN's 6 & 11 pm news, after spending a decade in Rhode Island, where he helped launch one of the first hour-long newscasts.
From 1973-77, Wood's 6 pm newscast was a lead-in to The CBS Evening News With Walter Cronkite before the local affiliates began shuffling. WTEN flipped from CBS to ABC in October 1977. Wood, like his rivals, including WRGB's Ernie Tetrault, didn't confine himself to the anchor desk, often going into the field.
In recent years, Wood, born Richard Woodward, turned to advertising, just like Tetrault. Wood's voice was heard doing radio & TV ads for Quick Response Restoration, out of Clifton Park.
In 1980, WTEN decided to try a year-end news recap special, anchored by Wood.......
Uber Eats began their series of celebrity-driven ads last year, and some of these spots have been pretty funny, or, in the case of Olympic gymnastics champion Simone Biles being paired with Jonathan Van Ness (Queer Eye For The Straight Guy), cringe-worthy.
However, Uber got off to a good start with a pair of genre legends.
Think of it as Luke Skywalker vs. Jean-Luc Picard. Or, if you're a comics fan, The Joker vs. Professor Charles Xavier.
In other words, Mark Hamill and Patrick Stewart appeared in a series of spots similar to what Lil Nas X is doing now with rock icon Sir Elton John. And, at the end of this compilation, I think we get a wee bit of the Joker from Hamill, whose television career dates all the way back to the early 70's, well before "Star Wars".
To illustrate how the CW is run by incompetent programmers these days, the network hasn't fully launched its fall schedule, but they're already planning for winter.
The Flash & Riverdale will be partnered for five weeks, November 16-December 14, before going on a 3 month break. Each series will open their seasons with 5 part "event" arcs.
After that, it gets crazy.
Superman & Lois returns on January 11, and moves up to 8 pm (ET), replacing Flash, while freshman drama Naomi, based on the short-lived DC series of the same name created by Brian Bendis, David Walker & Jamal Campbell, follows at 9. Naomi currently appears in Justice League, currently written by Bendis, so there figures to be some cross-promotion between DC & CW before January.
The Flash, which has led off the Tuesday lineup since its launch, shifts to Wednesdays, starting March 6, where it will be coupled with the returning Kung Fu, while Batwoman & Legends of Tomorrow, which have started their seasons, go on break or finish their current seasons. Riverdale then changes nights again, and moves to Sundays. That means that if Riverdale & Flash have full season orders for this season (season 6 for Riverdale, season 8 for The Flash), their seasons will bleed into the summer months again.
Ye scribe's take: I've felt for some time that Flash has run out of legitimately solid story ideas, and this could conceivably be the final season. Riverdale being shuffled twice in the same season suggests the end is near for Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's dark alternate reality soap as well. There usually is no rhyme or reason to how CW schedules their programming, and if that sounds familiar, well, they had the same problems with children's programming until they gave that up a number of years ago.
Then again, this is why they invented On Demand.
From the recent YouTube special, Dear Earth, Dr. Teeth & The Electric Mayhem serve up a tasty cover of Electric Light Orchestra's 1977 opus, "Mr. Blue Sky". Dr. Teeth himself is on the keyboards with Rowlf unavailable.
Prior to the start of the NFL season, Green Bay Packers QB-State Farm agent Aaron Rodgers would tell anyone who'd listen that he was "immunized", leading people to assume he had gotten the COVID-19 vaccine.
Days before the Packers are to play Kansas City and fellow State Farm shill Patrick Mahomes, Rodgers is out of Sunday's game after it got out that he lied about being immunized, and has contracted COVID, perhaps putting teammates at risk.
With Rodgers on the COVID list, the Packers brought in Blake Bortles to fill in, and likely back up 2nd year QB Jordan Love, who likely gets the start vs. Kansas City.
I just don't get the followers of Q-anon conspiracies. Their theories sound so improbable, even implausible, such that they might've come from the desk of the National Enquirer.
The latest scamspiracy settles in Dallas, where John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, was murdered nearly 60 years ago this month. Q zombies believe that Kennedy's son, John, Jr., who died in a plane crash with his wife & sister-in-law in July 1999, was secretly still alive, using an assumed name, and would resurface, and align himself with defeated former president Donald Trump, who got blown out of the White House one year ago.
And so these jabronies gathered at AT&T Discovery Plaza in Dallas, mindlessly, aimlessly waiting for someone who wouldn't be there. They'd later show up at a Rolling Stones concert, thinking the late JFK, Jr. would be there.
Farron Cousins explains why this is so, so far-fetched.
Thirty years ago, the Atlanta Braves & Houston Astros were divisional rivals in the National League. The Braves began their string of divisional titles under Bobby Cox in the NL West, moving to the NL East a few years later, and won it all in 1995, defeating Cleveland.
Ten years later, with each league now three divisions, and Houston in the NL Central, the Astros reached the World Series for the first time, after being denied in the 80's, most notably by the Mets in 1986. Unfortunately, it wasn't Houston's time yet, losing to the Chicago White Sox. It would be Houston's only World Series appearance as a National League team, as they left for the American League seven years later.
We all know what's happened since then. The 2017 run tainted by the cheating scandal still lingered as this season began. Fans vented their anger when the season began. Still, the Astros persevered, and reached the Series for the 3rd time in 5 years, losing two years ago to Washington.
Most folks had picked Houston to win the Series this year. Not ye scribe. Oh, sure, there were still some ex-Tri-City Valleycats on the Astros' roster, one of whom, Jason Castro, on his 2nd tour of duty in Houston, was removed from the roster due to COVID. Atlanta also had 518 ties in the form of Shenendehowa graduate Ian Anderson, who would be pitching tonight if they needed to.
And that's a big 'if' we don't have to worry about.
Consider the moves Atlanta made in July at the trade deadline, or even earlier. Moves that were key to this Series.
The Braves traded for Joc Pederson, who won with the Dodgers last year, getting him from the Cubs. Jorge Soler came over from Kansas City. Eddie Rosario was heisted from Cleveland, and was NLCS MVP against the Dodgers. Once Charlie Morton, acquired from Tampa Bay in the off-season, went down with a broken leg in game 1 of the Series, the Braves went to "Next Man Up", giving rookies Kyle Wright and Tucker Davidson some prime time shine.
Anderson, in particular, was ridiculous in game 3, no-hitting the Astros for five innings. All of America found out what we in the 518 already knew. Anderson became an even bigger star in his 2nd postseason.
On Tuesday, then, came the coronation.
Soler launched a three run bomb in the visiting 3rd, which was all the offense Atlanta starter Max Fried needed to avenge a loss in game 2 a week ago. Dansby Swanson & Freddie Freeman added homers in the 5th & 7th innings, and the Braves, 22 years after losing to the Yankees in their last Series appearance, 26 years after dispatching Cleveland, may have written fini to the Astros' AL West dynasty.
Check the video:
On Monday, with the World Series due to wrap up either tonight or tomorrow, Cleveland's baseball team is beginning the transition from Indians to Guardians.
You see, Cleveland already has Guardians. They play roller derby, and absent a television contract, the skating Guardians are having what amounts to a herd of cows over the baseball Guardians, such that they've filed a lawsuit to stop the transition.
The skating Guardians' lawyers make a good point, noting that Major League Baseball would be the ones litigating if a roller derby team in Chicago used the "Cubs", or in New York, the "Yankees".
In the 70's, Cleveland had an NHL franchise, the Barons. However, they lasted two seasons before merging with the Minnesota North Stars, and eventually moved to Dallas as the Dallas Stars. There is, however, a local amateur program using the Barons name. Hmmmmmmmm.
What do you think?
Just to prove how crazy things are in the NFL in 2021, we offer this bit of news, broken by ESPN's Adam Schefter, earlier today.
The Denver Broncos, in 3rd place in the AFC West at 4-4, but still within striking distance of the front-running Las Vegas Raiders, traded star linebacker Von Miller to the Los Angeles Rams, tied for 1st in the NFC West with Arizona, in exchange for draft picks in 2022.
SAY WHAT??
