Sunday Sentences: Tweeting About John Prine with White Sox Dave & PFT

It's 11:30am on Sunday. I have put off writing my Sunday Sentences once again. I just got to a bar with WiFi. I ordered a manmosa and a Shepard's Pie.

I think I'm going to kind of use Sunday Sentences to update people on what I have going on. So, if you're not interested in that, then this probably isn't for you. I 100% feel like a prick for acting like anyone care's about what I'm doing, but I'm trying to do the whole content creator/internet personality/build my brand thing so it's happening.

"Build my brand" really sucked to type out.

Anyways, here's what up:

Barstool Sports (and by Barstool Sports I mean myself) has partnered with Everything College Hockey to start doing some College Hockey Gameday videos at schools across the country. We have one on the books already that will be announced soon. We are going to go to a school for a weekend College Hockey series, rent out a bar, put on a live show, have some games for the fans, get full access behind the scenes to the team, mix it up with the student section, etc. etc.

It's crazy to me that nobody here has fully done this with College Hockey yet, but I'm thrilled that I get to be one of the people who help bring it to Barstool.

If you don't follow Everything College Hockey already, you definitely should. It's above and beyond the best (and pretty much only) place to go on social media for legitimate College Hockey coverage year-round.

I'm honestly not even 100% sure I'm allowed to be doing this. I think I am. I'm at a firm 95% sure. I asked a bunch of people if it was ok, and the answer was always, "Yeah it should be, I'd just let Hank know first." So, I emailed Hank with a whole detailed explanation of what it would be. The next day, I emailed him again with some example videos of what we would be producing. He responded, "I love this idea - Hank" 

I took that as a yes and ran with it. Now we're here. I don't think I'll get in trouble. That's how you make shit happen around here anyways right? I sure hope so. 

Aside from the opportunity to get Barstool into College Hockey, arguably my favorite thing I've done since joining this company was tweeting about John Prine with White Sox Dave & PFT.

I've been a John Prine fan for as long as I can remember, because of my dad. He's in a John Prine cover band if that gives you an idea of how big John Prine music was in my household growing up. 

John Prine is one of those artists that isn't necessarily known by everyone, but the people who do know him recognize him as one of the greatest songwriters of all time. He's the epitome of, "Your favorite artist's favorite artist." Sadly, he died from COVID in 2020, but he lived a hell of a life and made about as big of an impact on the music industry as anyone. 

White Sox Dave blessed us with a beautiful rendition of John Prine's, Angel From Montgomery.

Then PFT gave a decent effort at playing Knockin' on Your Screen Door

It's hard to say which one I enjoyed more. I'm just excited I have at least 2 other John Prine fans in the office. I could write about him all day. Somebody on Twitter asked me to write a blog about my favorite John Prine songs, so I am planning on doing that this week. If you're not familiar with him, I highly recommend giving him a listen. Angel From Montgomery, Knockin' on Your Screen Door, In Spite of Ourselves, and Paradise are great ones to start with. 

I'm trying to decide if there is any possible way I can become a Yankees fan without being an asshole. I don't have a baseball team, and Yankees' games are shoved in my face everywhere I go now, so I'm starting to learn about them. I like their hats and I like Anthony Rizzo, even thought I've won dollars upon dollars betting against him to hit homeruns.

That's really tough to become a Yankees fan at 30 years old though. I could do it in like a trolling way, but Big Cat already has that covered. Not that I'm above stealing bits, but maybe not from him. It probably wouldn't help my case if I told you I was a Red Sox fan as a kid. Yeah I probably should just stick with having no team. 

I spend a lot of time thinking about awkward interactions I've had with people. Especially with people at Barstool. Sometimes I'll just be sitting there thinking, and I'll twitch + cringe out of nowhere. Someone will ask me what's wrong and I'll be like, "oh nothing" but it's because I just thought of the time Rone came up to me and made a joke and I had nothing good to say so I just sat there smiling like an idiot.

"Y'all" is such a good word to use. If you don't have "y'all" in your vocabulary you should start using it. It's so much smoother than saying, "you guys". Plus it adds a little mystery about where you might be from. I don't have an accent, but when I say "y'all" people might be like, "oh interesting he must have spent some time in the south."

How nice would the house have to be for you to move into it if it had no outlets? I honestly don't think there's a nice enough house in the world. I guess you could just have generators everywhere, but that sounds super inconvenient. Outlets are so important. Maybe the most important thing for a house to have.

My favorite non-Barstool podcast to listen to is the Adam Friedland Show (formerly Cum Town - RIP Pierre St. Pierre). I'm about to have to stop listening though. It's hilarious, but every time I listen to it they do bits that I get mad about because I didn't think of them. Every episode just adds 5 things to the list of jokes I can't use because they have already been done.

The other night I was by myself and having some drinks. I Twitter searched: "Barstool Idol" @JohnRichTV so I could read nice comments about myself. Then I watched some Barstool Idol Highlights. It was not my proudest moment. It was also about the hundredth time I've done it. Probably not a healthy practice, but if you say you wouldn't do that too you're lying.