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The Ledger: RY 23-10 | Rylie 20-13
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RY: Romo hits a point-one-five and still tries to schedule his CBS return the same day.
RYLIE: Wait, what?
RY: Same day as the plea. No contest. Then the Instagram essay.
RYLIE: We’ve got Romo owning an OWI while soft-landing the booth, Notre Dame as BetMGM’s biggest title liability, and Tacko Fall turning Sixers camp into actual Embiid math.
RY: I believe the pain pipeline.
RYLIE: Of course you do.
RY: Multiple back surgeries. Constant pain. Meds. Then alcohol. Football chews bodies up and spits them out.
RYLIE: Hold on.
RY: What.
RYLIE: He told deputies zero drinks.
RY: I know.
RYLIE: Zero. Lawyer on loop. Refused the breath test. Glassy eyes. Odor. Then the number lands at point-one-five.
RY: Nearly twice the limit.
RYLIE: That gap is the whole story.
RY: He wrote I own this completely.
RYLIE: [scoffs]
RY: He did.
RYLIE: He owns everything except the timeline back to the lead booth.
RY: Come on.
RYLIE: No.
RY: The man taught his three young sons to stand up when you fall short. That line hit me.
RYLIE: Cute line. Bad clock management.
RY: You want him in exile forever?
RYLIE: I want recovery work before a microphone.
RY: And I—
RYLIE: Not a carefully coached closing argument aimed straight at CBS.
RY: That’s fair.
RYLIE: Thank you.
RY: I still trust the toughness I watched in Dallas.
RYLIE: Toughness is not the question.
RY: Then what is?
RYLIE: Whether owning it means controlling the next chapter on your timetable.
RY: He pleaded. First offense. Milwaukee County. He did not hide.
RYLIE: Bodycam already showed the hide.
RY: [exhales]
RYLIE: Denial first. Number second. Statement third. Soft landing fourth.
RY: I hear you, but pain-to-pills-to-alcohol is real in that league.
RYLIE: Pipeline can be real and the rush back can still be wrong.
RY: So he sits.
RYLIE: He sits until the work is boring and quiet, not content.
RY: You would bury the best booth voice in football.
RYLIE: I would make him earn the chair again.
RY: Ha!
RYLIE: What.
RY: You sound like a league office.
RYLIE: You sound like a friend group chat.
RY: Guilty.
RYLIE: Dumb-smart question time. Why does the booth even matter in the apology?
RY: Because if he names CBS in the same breath as ownership, he is already negotiating the comeback, not just confessing the crash.
RYLIE: Exactly.
RY: Still gut says he climbs back.
RYLIE: Gut is not a recovery plan.
RY: Moving on before I defend another statement.
RYLIE: Please.
RY: Notre Dame is getting hammered like a sure thing and I am all the way in.
RYLIE: Nope.
RY: Opened plus-seven hundred. Now plus-six fifty. Public money pouring in.
RYLIE: That is the problem.
RY: Eighteen point five percent of the tickets. Highest share in the market.
RYLIE: Eighteen point one of the handle too.
RY: They look like a title club to me.
RYLIE: [laughs]
RY: Brand. Talent. Runway.
RYLIE: Soft runway.
RY: Say it.
RYLIE: Wisconsin at Lambeau as heavy favorites, then Rice, Michigan State, Purdue, North Carolina, Stanford.
RY: And?
RYLIE: That slate pads a résumé. It does not stress-test a contender.
RY: They still have to win the games.
RYLIE: Winning those games proves a logo more than a gauntlet.
RY: BetMGM is sweating them. That means the Irish are live.
RYLIE: Listen to the book.
RY: I am.
RYLIE: Seamus Magee said Notre Dame is the most bet and the biggest liability. Ohio State is the best outcome for the book among the favorites.
RY: So fade the public.
RYLIE: Yes. Clear tier is Notre Dame, Texas, Ohio State, Georgia. Public crushes the Irish. Book prays for Buckeyes.
RY: I am the public here.
RYLIE: I noticed.
RY: Last year snub still fuels this. People want the correction.
RYLIE: Emotion is not a price.
RY: My eyes say championship ceiling.
RYLIE: My sheet says liability pile-on.
RY: I hear you, but a national book calling them the biggest liability is respect.
RYLIE: It is a warning label.
RY: You fading straight up.
RYLIE: Fading the bandwagon. Not shocked if they look pretty in September.
RY: And then?
RYLIE: Then January asks harder questions than Rice does.
RY: Brutal.
RYLIE: Accurate.
RY: I am still riding the Irish vibe.
RYLIE: Keep the receipt.
RY: Oh I will—
RYLIE: And I will read it back in January.
RY: Deal.
RYLIE: Deal.
RY: Curveball. Tacko Fall. Seven-foot-six. Thirty years old. Exhibit 10 in Philly and I am not laughing.
RYLIE: You never laugh at big men.
RY: Jaylen Brown dropped a goat emoji. That is not random.
RYLIE: Says who?
RY: Says a former Boston teammate who knows the tourist attraction still blocks shots.
RYLIE: Last NBA minutes were twenty twenty-one twenty-two with Cleveland.
RY: Then he worked.
RYLIE: China. New Zealand. Ningbo. Wherever the rim was tall enough.
RY: Roughly eleven points, seven boards, two blocks in about eighteen minutes abroad.
RYLIE: Celebrity Game he goes twenty, twenty-one, and five blocks.
RY: Gravity took the night off.
RYLIE: [sighs]
RY: You see a meme.
RYLIE: I see paperwork that usually dies in a press release.
RY: Alongside Jameer Nelson Jr. and Saint Thomas. Open two-way math. Embiid minutes always need a giant behind them.
RYLIE: I hear you, but camp comedy becomes roster real only if the body holds.
RY: Brown did not post goat by accident.
RYLIE: One emoji is not a scouting report.
RY: Fall called it an opportunity of a lifetime he shall not waste.
RYLIE: Good quote. Still an Exhibit 10.
RY: Stack that roster picture and try not to run the minutes.
RYLIE: I ran them. Novelty until the load management hits.
RY: Then suddenly the giant is—
RYLIE: Useful. Fine. Useful.
RY: Concession accepted.
RYLIE: Narrow one.
RY: I will take it.
RYLIE: Ledger time.
RY: Yesterday I took Philly over Arizona and they stomped them seven to one.
RYLIE: Clean.
RY: I am rolling. Twenty-four and ten.
RYLIE: I took Milwaukee over Chicago and the Brewers dropped nine to four on them.
RY: Also clean.
RYLIE: Twenty-one and thirteen. Both cashed. No loser excuse today, just me noting your lead is loud and annoying.
RY: [laughs] Say it nicer.
RYLIE: No.
RY: Fresh pick. Give me NYY over LAA.
RYLIE: Give me SD over CIN.
RY: Yankees get the job done out west.
RYLIE: Padres look sharper to me on the road there.
RY: Tomorrow we chase whether Romo’s quiet work actually starts and if USC’s empty-seat fight keeps spilling.
RY: That’s the Rundown. Same time tomorrow — bring your takes.