Levels IX | Guinness Open | Tony from the UK | College Scout Insider | Yanks&Jets Banter | Critiquing The Critics | YouTube Rabbithole
Alright @YouTheReader,
In ‘24, His or Her Words, Not Mine has Levels by Avicii on in the background. It’s a happy song so I figured that would be better to throw up on people’s social media timelines every Thursday. If you ever find anything funny on the internet, have a story of your own you want to share, have your own insight on your favorite sports team, or even a Guinness recommendation, whatever it may be, please feel free to shoot over a text, direct message on social media, or email WeekToWeekNotes@gmail.com. You all have no idea how helpful you all are with this on Thursdays, it’s greatly appreciated!
The vocal sample to this tune comes from Etta James’ “Something’s Got a Hold on Me”, originally sung in 1962.
Moving on…
Oh yeah, with His or Her Words, Not Mine….
Large Font italics are readers like you.
The small font is me.
Guinness Open
When you're too lazy to wash a proper glass.
Sometimes it’s what’s inside the drink that counts. We want Italy right?
Yes, Italy 👍
*Huge* Irish Rugby Fans.
You’re right that sounds better 😂 Great half of Irish Rugby!
That’s a class photo!
Haha thanks, it is! My mom took it. My dad hates taking pictures but doesn’t mind with Shane 😂
A couple of proper lads.
Lads being lads.
I just find it amazing he won’t ask me to have a baseball catch but he still finds his way to fetch a proper pint of Guinness at The Tavern at Iron Horse. He’s only 3 months old and my nephew is a gazillion times the content machine I’ll ever be. Unbelievable.
Ireland vs Wales Commentary
Well, the boys in green did well today! Let’s hope the boys in white can regain the Calcutta Cup, but my wife will want the boys in blue to retain it!
Nice win for the Irish, 2nd half was close tighter than the score! I’m sure there will be a bit of banter in the next match between you two. My dad was telling me it should be a good one, so I’m looking forward to it as well.
England vs Scotland Commentary
Well, Scotland needed a win, good for them! Banter? More like my wife shouting at the tv 😂
😂😂😂 too funny! Tough one for England, still more games to play
Yeah, but she’s just been texting her Scottish cousins…..
You gotta hang in there, it will pass, a pint of Guinness might help 😂
College Scout Insider
Cleats On The Diamond (Vol I)
I’m going to the Yanks’ spring training game tomorrow I’ll try to give you a Cleats On The Diamond recap 😂
Cleats On The Diamond has a great ring to it already off to a great start, good stuff!
Spencer Jones is legit. The kid hit a 470 bomb, then went oppo for a couple of base hits. Trent Grisham should be a good addition to the field. Hopefully, he can hit above the Mendoza line. His inning shot looks like a good sign. He should take some notes from Soto and Judge. They’ll be the best outfield by far.
Yup, the OF is crowded. Good problem to have. Imagine Spencer Jones rakes in the minors this year, would they call him up? I forget about Grisham, he’ll get a good amount of playing time. Will be interesting to see what they do once 👽 is ready.
For sure they should Spencer Jones is already 22. I think he’ll be able to produce 30 + homers out of the gate. It’s crazy I forgot about the Martian too. He is another one that will for sure be an All-star one day. Now they just need the pitching to step up and they’ll be set
That would be huge. Jones, 👽, Judge, Soto could be an absurd OF. Hopefully, Matt Blake can produce a few gems. The bullpen should be very solid, but it’s not scary good as it once was.
Absolutely absurd and if Rodon can bounce back that’ll be huge.
NY Yankees & Jets Banter
Large italics are Yankees and Jets fan insiders.
The small font is me.
Last we left, the 3 of us had been duped by Yankees Twitter that Blake Snell was headed to Da Bronx. Snell is still a free agent. Thank goodness we didn’t run with that Story on a Cover, it could’ve been bad for business.
2/22 ‘24
We have 3 top 10 players in baseball, and 2 of them are basically on lifetime contracts. We need to figure out how to keep Soto long-term and then hope that the kids are good.
Soto is not going anywhere. And some of the kids will be good.
Plus if they get Snell, they’ll have both reigning CY Young in the same rotation. That’s gotta be very rare.
They have to do this
I really can’t tell if I want him. I think I do.
There is no reason not to.
I guess the only thing is if the contract is too big it could hurt them extending Soto or going after a better pitcher next offseason. But ya, there really probably is no reason not to
If they sign him - they already have that baked in. We’re good.
🔥🔥🔥
Less flair, but I like them
Ryans is all about the drip (not sure I said that right?)
Wow, those are both awesome. Jordan’s cleats have come a long way, Jeter’s were cool for ‘06.
I don’t remember my cleats, but I’ll never forget my OG basketball sneakers. D Wade from the ‘06 finals. Mine were red instead of the black. I loved those things…
They were 🔥
I had D-Wade’s too. Different version. One of my favorite shoes (White Air Force 1 high-top will be #1)…
I had these…
(@YouTheReader D-Wade’s sneakers were awesome but imagine being a teenager in the 80s with Jordan’s. The two of us just got dunked on.)
2/24 ‘24
“Count it” !!!
2/25 ‘24
Soto just hit a nuke
He crushed that, wow Left-center too. (@YouTheReader I was dying from pints at The Tavern at Iron Horse the night before.)
They should just sign him to whatever he wants now. Also, why are there so many Justin Jefferson-Jets tweets?
Apparently, he could be on the trade block.
Ridiculous
This and the Ichiro never dipping below .300 after he started his career 3 for 10 are insane.
2/26 ‘24
This is ridiculous too !!
That era of baseball was awesome to grow up in. At least Judge broke the record clean and Ohtani is kinda good.
That would be pretty cool, would think he’s solid since it seemed like they liked Trey Sweeney.
Underrated trade. He’s gonna be good.
JD making moves.
2/27 ‘24
I’m excited to see what this guy and Chase Hampton can do.
1 out of 2 of them has a shot at the Opening-Day bullpen, but maybe they’d want to keep them stretched out as starters in the minors.
2/28 ‘24
Baseball is awesome!!
So cool
Seems like a disaster waiting to happen.
Agreed, pass.
Can’t wait for this guy to suck (yikes !!)
The hitter is clearly still getting his timing down. (That looks nasty.)
This guy is a clown, but if the Jets knew all this stuff - why did they just let him walk out and go join KC - saying what a great guys we was in the way out?
Mecole is a bum, KC drafted him in 2nd round to be the next Tyreek and after the Jets paid him he got outplayed fair & square by an undrafted rookie trying to make the team. He’ll be out of the league as soon as KC is done with his act.
I kind of agree
Agree with Verdugo in the leadoff. Maybe start the year with him there, Judge 2, and Soto 3. See how it goes, could always stick DJLM there later if doesn’t work. Could also go with Rizzo leadoff too. (@YouTheReader Old School fans just groaned but he’d see pitches with Judge & Soto behind him and could stick Volpe at 9 as your traditional leadoff guy for asthetics.)
Judge seems hell-bent on hitting 3rd. It’s kinda weird.
I’d let the new guy hit where’s he’s comfortable - but Judge knows what he’s doing (I hope)
(@YouTheReader Dammit, I can’t wait for Yankee baseball!)
Critiquing The Critics
Editor’s Note: My Uncle T was adamant that I let the record show that he and my aunt took me to see Spider-Man with Tobey Maguire in theaters. I had wrongly stated that I watched the original with my cousins at my grandparents’ house. Hand up, my mistake, that’s on me!
The Social Network is today’s Critiquing The Critics because I don’t think I made any new movie references and Justin Timberlake’s bar reminded me of the film. This movie came out in the fall of ‘10 when Instagram and Twitter were babies. Young people were still taking mass amounts of pictures and uploading them onto albums on Facebook. I wasn’t posting but I was getting tagged on some embarrassing stuff like the rest of you. Now I play the game so I’m no better. The iPhone wasn’t yet in nearly everybody’s pocket, but we still knew at the time that feckin’ Zuck changed everything. Rather than just laminate on all the negatives involved with it, I will say in some ways it is very cool that you instantly message somebody halfway across the pond, so in that regard, social media has its benefits. Forget the impact of Facebook, this movie was excellently done. It’s pretty much flawless. Even the critics only had positive reviews…
Little did Chris Vognar know at the time that he should have gone with the perfect Tweet or Instagram caption.
Leave it to Dave to take Time Out of his day to make us all feel complicit.
I concur with Kimberly here, time is still unfurling, and social media is certainly provocative. It gets the people going.
Radheyan is spot on. At least it had a great movie score to listen to.
I didn’t expect to wake up this morning and see Roger Ebert throwing around the word cocksure in a sentence, that’s a new one to add to the vocabulary bank.
YouTube Rabbithole
The Social Network “Hand Covers Bruise” (Opening Scene)
Low-key-high-key iconic movie score. They nailed it.