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Last week I compared, OSU to a villain in a horror movie sequel and I was worried OSU would be the type of villain that would be strong or interesting enough to win the sequel and set up the stakes for the trilogy.

Instead, we got the franchise sequel even the laziest Hollywood hack would have been embarrassed to shove in a producer’s hands. 

Act 1:  The villain wins a few battles in the first act and even manages to sideline or kill one of the stars from the first movie.

Act 2:  The new group learns to fight back against the villain’s “new” and improved tactics.

Act 3: THE EXACT SAME AS THE ORIGINAL.  Everyone in the theatre gets their dopamine hit from seeing something familiar.

  Ok, Maybe not the laziest

Bill Simmons lost his fastball a decade ago and has become an arrogant Hollywood type; but this is him describing The first Red Sox title in his book Now I Can Die in Peace

"Unlike any other sport, the baseball season resembles a soap opera- peaks and valleys, trails and tribulations, raging subplots and memorable cliffhangers. When you stick with a team for 6 months and everything culminates in a champagne party, it feels pretty damned good. Even if you aren't covered in bubbly." - Bill Simmons

It’s not true that we get to live and die with a team on a daily basis, but with Brian, Seth, Sam Webb, Devin Gardner,  Al Borges, Vance Bedford and many others who turn 3.5 hours on Saturday into a daily cornucopia of content that allows us to live college football all week.

OSU and their 5 star Monstars rosters have been defeated twice in a row.  Neither by fluke or even close games.  I won’t claim that the rivalry is now flipped an 180,  but the narrartives are over.  It seems unthinkable but there are now OSU players that will leave school with a pair of gold pants.  Yet here we are.

                          CJ Stroud

The Blue Train

Harbaugh has this blue train running right through Indianapolis on through Glendale and beyond.

The original Blue Train cocktail was named after the le train bleu located in Northern France.  Woolf Barnato bet he could beat the train from Paris to Calais with his  1929 Bentley  Light Rover 6.  20 hours later the car beat the train by 20 minutes. 

The original cocktail called for pineapple syrup , apricot brandy and champagne, it is French after all.  The problem is that none of those ingredients are blue.  I’m theorizing exasperated bartenders got sick of patrons being disappointed when being served something that was the opposite of blue.  So they kept the name and changed the recipe. 

Ingredients

2 oz gin—I’m using the Empress 1908 Gin for the extra blue coloring

.75  oz triple sec

.75 oz lemon juice

.5 oz blue curaco

Orange for garnish

Simple for the Saturday night game.  Take all ingredients in a cocktail shaker. Add some ice.  Shake until cold for about 20 seconds.  Strain into cocktail glass.  Garnish with an orange wedge.