Visit the Morning Screencaps archive<\/a><\/p>\nOn Dianna Russini<\/p>\n
\u2014 Rob in Florida says:\u00a0<\/p>\n
A couple thoughts on Dianna and sideline reporters in general, we\u2019ve talked about it before, but it bears repeating with everything going on.<\/p>\n
The next time a sideline reporter has a relevant thought or informs me on some pertinent issue will be the first time. Here is your litmus test, it\u2019s pretty simple. Ask yourself, when was the last time you and the boys were hanging out, hammering cheap beer and one of you said ” Did you hear the big news that Dianna just dropped?”. Let me answer that for you, never in the history of guys hanging out has that statement ever been uttered. The sideline reporter is a worthless endeavor, they serve no purpose whatsoever, they add nothing to the game. Now, let me take this a little deeper, the only thing worse than the standard version of the sideline reporter, is the female sideline reporter.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I do not need some blonde on the sideline in heels and tight leather pants to tell me how focused team X is today and what this game means to the team. It\u2019s painfully obvious why you have the job, no one is listening to you, we just don\u2019t care. You are about as relevant to the broadcast as the cheerleaders.<\/p>\n
Look, I have no problem with women, I have even less of a problem with hot women, I just don\u2019t need them on the field getting camera time with useless information. I especially don\u2019t need them anchoring the pregame show, or doing fluff interviews on set while wearing a short skirt and boots. It\u2019s an interview with a football player who is desperately trying not to look up your dress and pretend he is interested in what you have to say, hoping maybe he can get some Russini like time with you for throwing you a couple of decent quotes.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll say it now, men have no interest in talking about football to women, we have no interest being told about football BY women, regardless of how hot they are. We have no interest in their opinion unless it\u2019s our wives, then there really is no option, we have to pretend we care. Too harsh? Ok, when was the last time you had a truly deep conversation about the game of football or baseball with anyone else but the guys? When was the last time you had a really great discussion about cars with anyone else but the guys? Designated hitter vs the pitcher batting? \u00a0Right. Maybe I\u2019m just the only one dumb enough to put it in writing.<\/p>\n
Also, I was NOT one of the five watching the WNBA draft, but I\u2019m guessing you figured that out by now\u2026..<\/p>\n
Kinsey:\u00a0<\/p>\n
The only thing here is that Dianna was not a sideline reporter in her role at The Athletic. They had her writing about NFL news that she was curating from all these sources.\u00a0<\/p>\n
How was she curating the content? I do not know and I will not be sucked into a court of law, so I will not say anything more.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Has the text group ever discussed anything that Russini has broken? No.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I’ll also say this about the state of Insiders\u00ae. DO NOT BE SHOCKED when ESPN suddenly has a new hot 32 year old female Insider\u00ae. These outlets will let this all die down, but in 18 months from now, I predict there will be new hot Insider\u00ae reporters who suddenly have all the big scoops around the league.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That’s just how the game is played.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Chris A. writes:\u00a0<\/p>\n
I wanted to believe that Dianna Russini was professional\u00a0enough to just do her job and not get involved with the people she reported on. Guess I was wrong. Her next phase may be to copy Danica Patrick’s playbook and island hop in a bikini with a bunch of hot girlfriends (not the ones who went radio silent in her defense).<\/p>\n
But I think it’s\u00a0unfair that she felt compelled to quit her job at the Athletic even though her credibility as an impartial reporter is now shot, and she had to move on. What about Vrabel? He gets off scot-free even though he played an equal role in starting an intimate relationship outside of his marriage (that’s scot-free work-wise, the old homestead life is another story), so why don’t the Patriots suspend\/fire him, or he fires himself? His credibility with female reporters is also shot, because now they’ll think he’s feeding them stories to get in their pants.<\/p>\n
Nobody comes out looking good in this, and I lost respect for\u00a0both Russini and Vrabel. You get married, you’re spoken for. End of story.<\/p>\n
Kinsey:\u00a0<\/p>\n
To be fair, we don’t know if Dianna was just interlocking her hands with Vrabel and watching a sunset as part of a story she was working on. Again, I like to stay out of courtrooms. I’m too old for that.\u00a0The problem with taking a page out of Danica’s playbook is that Dianna has two really young kids at home. I get it, she was living the NFL reporter on the road lifestyle, but does that all change when you don’t have a job that has you out on the road?\u00a0What about Vrabel? He just had his team in the Super Bowl. Maybe he and his wife had an understanding. Or maybe he had photos of him and the boys at the couples’ retreat as evidence he wasn’t up to anything.\u00a0I’ll say it again, Dianna’s alleged friends that were with her are absolutely thee worst friends ever to let Dianna go down like this. One of them needs to step up and provide a group photo. There must be at least 200 photos from a girls’ trip.\u00a0I need \u2018Sheriff\u2019 John in Houston to weigh in here on if he’s ever studied a raccoon’s penis<\/p>\n
Something tells me when \u2018Sheriff\u2019 John kills raccoons, there’s not much studying going on even though he’s an Ivy League grad.\u00a0<\/p>\n
How Screencaps Boomers are preventing themselves from spending their golden years doomscrolling\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2014 Tom in Nashville reports:\u00a0<\/p>\n
I retired almost 1 year ago (4\/30\/2025) after practicing medicine (anesthesiology) for over 40 years.\u00a0 I loved my work, but at age 69, it was time to stop.\u00a0 I have no Facebook account.\u00a0 I do have an Instagram account, where I occasionally post photos of cocktails that I make, photos I took at Grateful Dead concerts in the early 1970\u2019s and birthday wishes to my family.\u00a0 No doomscrolling, although I occasionally watch videos of bands from the 1960\u2019s-70\u2019s.\u00a0 I have no trouble staying occupied, but not busy\u2014exercising, minor home projects, a small amount of yard work, reading, traveling, etc.\u00a0 I also volunteer with Operation Smile, participating in surgical programs in other countries, taking care of children with cleft lips and cleft palates.\u00a0 I frequently run into other retired doctors at Costco and Home Depot, all with experiences similar to mine.\u00a0 No one is bored or at loose ends.<\/p>\n
For me and former colleagues who have retired, life is good and interesting.\u00a0 Not enough time to sit around staring at a small screen, arguing politics with strangers or trying to reconnect with high school classmates.\u00a0 Mark me as happily retired.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A 50th birthday report from the Bourbon Trail from a Screencaps reader who asked you guys for suggestions<\/p>\n
\u2014 Drew in OC hit the big 5-0:\u00a0<\/p>\n
A few months ago I had asked for recommendations for a trip to Louisville and the Bourbon Trail for my 50th birthday and the community did not disappoint\u00a0from suggestions. To say the trip was ‘epic’ is an understatement.\u00a0 I was surprised at how small of a town Louisville is.\u00a0 I was expecting a large\u00a0city and that was not the case.\u00a0 The only downer was that we were there Mon – Thurs and just about everything is closed on Mondays and half the places are closed on Tuesdays.\u00a0 But on Wednesday the town\u00a0came to life.\u00a0 Here is what we got accomplished, everything listed below is #notsponsored\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mon – Flew in and went to the Louisville Slugger factory.\u00a0 This was awesome, we had such a good time.\u00a0 It’s only about 90 minutes of your time, so not something you plan your whole trip around, but if you are in the area, or nearby, it is a great daytime activity.\u00a0 We got to hold a bat from 1930 that Babe Ruth used!<\/p>\n
Tues – We spent Tuesday around downtown.\u00a0 Breakfast at Biscuit Belly is a must!\u00a0 Holy hangover cure.\u00a0 We went to the Whiskey Thief tasting room where they let you thrive from 5 different barrels in their tasting. We also visited Angels Envy and Michters before having dinner at Troll Under the Bridge.<\/p>\n
The highlight of the day was wandering into a local leather store\u00a0called Clayton & Crume located on Shelby St.\u00a0 We walked in just to smell the leather and before you know it we were invited to the back to have an Old Fashioned while shopping.\u00a0 That’s right, this leather store has a full bar tucked away in the back, almost speakeasy like.\u00a0 THe GM James was mixing the drinks and sat and talked with us, giving us the history of Louisville and bourbon for over an hour.\u00a0 We tasted 3-4 bourbons of James’s choice and had the time of our life.\u00a0 Visit Clayton & Crume and ask if James is in!<\/p>\n
Wed – Wednesday was our trail day.\u00a0 We drove to Frankfor and\u00a0visited Buffalo Trace where we did the behind the scenes tour, which was the highlight\u00a0of the week. Being a huge Blantons and BT fan, this was fantastic.\u00a0 Great tour and got to taste 4 different products at the end.\u00a0 Their merch\/gift store is massive as well. From there we went to have lunch at The Stave.\u00a0 Perfect Kentucky lunch spot with fried bologna and Kentucky chow-chow. We then visited Castle and Key and Woodford Reserve.\u00a0 Woodford was great also.\u00a0 It is like a horse ranch with a distillery at it.\u00a0 Evolution Liquors does half price tastings on Wednesday where I had my first Pappy. We capped off the night\u00a0with a birthday steak dinner at Repeal.\u00a0 Top notch.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Thurs – We drove to Bardstown on Thursday to visit the Bardstown distillery and have lunch at Talbot Tavern.\u00a0 Bardstown was so unique because of how modern it is.\u00a0 Unlike any other place we went.\u00a0 They also let us try the shine, as well as thieve\u00a0from a barrel during the tour. Talbot Tavern is the oldest bourbon bar in the world as well as a restaurant and hotel.\u00a0 Classic Kentucky food again with Burgoo and Kentucky Hot Brown.\u00a0 Upstairs you can visit the room that Abe Lincoln used to stay in, and a room where the outlaw Jesse James shot up the walls.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
From there we drove to Nashville and partied for 3 nights way harder than a 50 year old body can handle.\u00a0 We decided we are daytime Broadway visitors now, not nighttime anymore.\u00a0<\/p>\n
All in all, the\u00a0trip of a lifetime, and it was thanks in large part to the recommendations of the members of this fine group.\u00a0 Can’t wait to go back and see everything\u00a0we didn’t see the first time.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nike is starting to sniff around at Costco, or Costco is starting to kick the tires to see if customers will buy Nike<\/p>\n
\u2014 Jonathan D. emails:\u00a0<\/p>\n
Just wanted to give you a heads up it looks like the Nike merch in the picture you posted in Screencaps today\u00a0 has the “Costco Death Star” meaning it won’t be reordered once it is sold out at your club. So it won’t be available at your club for long and probably won’t return.\u00a0<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/lifestyle\/means-see-costco-death-star-210005393.html<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\nKinsey:\u00a0<\/p>\n
Here’s the photo I took from my Costco run when I heard the Iron Maiden song. I will say these polos appeared to be the cheapest-quality polos you’re going to see out of Nike’s Chinese production facilities. Bottom of the barrel. Honestly, I’d prefer it if Nike was banned from Costco’s clothing tables.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Screw Nike. Give me Kirkland polos for $9.97. \u00a0<\/p>\n
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On gas prices and the price shifts<\/p>\n
\u2014 Ron writes:\u00a0<\/p>\n
Love your column!! I\u2019m 71, recently retired (love it!) after 52 years at the same place, and enjoying golf in Myrtle Beach, as long as the Northerners don\u2019t hog all the good tee-times with their package deals. Separate rant: you are NOT Scottie or Rory, so don\u2019t \u2018aimpoint\u2019 your 4th putt. 5 hours is WAY too long for a round of golf!!\u00a0<\/p>\n
Reason for this email: Looking at gas prices constantly rising, although they did come down a few pennies overnight here in SC, I keep wondering WHY they\u2019ve gone up so much in the first place since we keep hearing “only 20% of US oil comes through Hormuz\/from Iran”.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And, now, numerous tankers are heading HERE to get their oil. If we have so much, shouldn\u2019t our prices go down!! Those gas prices are a daily reminder to everyone who drives by the stations, definitely felt in everyone\u2019s pocketbooks, and sure won\u2019t help the GOP in the mid\u2019s, unless it\u2019s corrected soon.<\/p>\n
My brother had a great idea – have some DOGE types investigate oil company profits since the Iran conflict started, and see how they look. Even a mention of that should make them a little nervous, I\u2019d think.<\/p>\n
Thanks for allowing the rant.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The current state of the new Buc-ees in Huber Heights, Ohio<\/p>\n
\u2014 Kim P. tells me:\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tried going to Buc-ees last Friday (I-70-235 north of Dayton) it had just opened on Monday; thought we would be ok; WRONG! Never have I seen one so crowded! We didn\u2019t even see a parking spot from 235; didn\u2019t even turn in to fight that kind of crowd! I have been to a Buc-ees off of I-10 in TX headed to A&M vs LSU game on a Saturday morning and I-45 on Easter Sunday from Dallas toward Houston\u2026\u2026not even close to the crowd in the parking lot that I witnessed last Friday!! ( anxious to go but probably will wait for a month or 2\u2026..incidentally my experience was 3:30 in the afternoon..)<\/p>\n
Kinsey:\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rednecks love Buc-ees.\u00a0Based on my unscientific data analysis, there are more rednecks in Huber Heights with nothing to do for entertainment, than there are in the entire eastern Kentucky region.\u00a0Huber Heights is called Huber-tucky by those of us from Dayton who live north of state route 35. If you’re from south of 35, you’re too elite to have ever heard anything about Huber Heights.\u00a0Do you guys realize how much Buc-ees crap is going to end up under Christmas trees in Huber-tucky and nearby redneck enclaves like east Dayton or Harrison Twp?\u00a0For Daytonian rednecks, this is akin to landing an NFL franchise. This might actually be better because visiting Buc-ees won’t require going on StubHub, and it’s open 24 hours a day. If you’re a grown man and you just came off a Minecraft bender, you can shoot over to Buc-ees at 3 a.m. to get a brisket sandwich.\u00a0The same people who are blowing through money at Buc-ees in Huber are the same people who used to take dates to Dayton International Airport to watch planes take-off. Buc-ees will provide that sort of entertainment value for the locals.\u00a0It’s probably a good thing Buc-ees doesn’t have inside tables because the locals would turn it into one of their finest dining destinations. Date night!\u00a0<\/p>\n
Disclaimer: I can rip because I’m from there, I will know many of the rednecks going to that Buc-ees location and I might even end up with some sort of Buc-ees contraband under the Christmas tree from a family member who does his\/her shopping at Buc-ees.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Conclusion: The Huber Heights Buc-ees is going to do numbers like the chain has never seen before. This is a perfect storm. It’s the ultimate location.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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That is it this morning. It’s nice to get the creative juices writing about my birthplace this morning. Dayton will always hold a special place in my heart. I truly hope all the locals enjoy being so close to Buc-ees so they don’t have to drive down I-75 through Kentucky just for the experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Anyway, let’s get the day rolling. We’re supposed to get pummeled by thunderstorms yet again today before ultimately the temps fall off a cliff early Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The birds are chirping. It’s time to work.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Numbers from :Stuff You Guys Sent In & Stuff I Like :\u00a0
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