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Mark Watson

@watsoncomedian.bsky.social

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Comedian and author. Quite a bit more, too. NEW NOVEL OUT: https://www.waterstones.com/book/one-minute-away/mark-watson/9780008347000

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 3h

The Mariners would also deserve it, to be fair. But let’s see.

Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 4h

Oh I’m glad! It is hard to give generalised advice for such a personal undertaking. But I think backing yourself hard, and jumping in, is always the way. I’ll follow you so I can keep an eye on it.

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 4h

Succession was always maybe a niche thing, relatively speaking, but it still mattered hugely to the people watching it. You’re (as in the original poster is) on dangerous ground trying to claim any art or media ‘doesn’t really matter’ once it’s made a large number of viewers happy for a bit.

Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 5h

Didn’t you almost win it a couple of years back?

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 5h

The thing is here it doesn't even start till 11.30pm or something, so (a) you have to be at least slightly interested in the game itself, (b) you can only manage so much beer without falling asleep.

Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 5h

It certainly would. You've got a little more recent experience of it.

Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 5h

I've just been on a train with a load of people coming back from the game and they were buzzing, so imagine if they sent us a GOOD game.

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 5h

If you're still watering them when Casimir Pulaski Day comes round, you can do it with your tears. One of the saddest songs I have ever come across.

Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 5h

I've seen it happen with AFL, too.

Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 5h

Yes, you've got to be in the mood (I suppose that's true of any music) but he's remarkable.

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 5h

In 2006, I'm glad to say, with the Illinois album. I don't know if you've got to that yet, but it's sensational.

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 5h

...as you say, though, this hasn't happened since the 90s.

Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 5h

I do also watch baseball. My team's the Blue Jays. We are on the verge of the big one.

Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 5h

@mythalive.bsky.social I actually don't have a team, because I got into it quite late in life compared with other sports. It's maybe the only sport I watch as a neutral. Although for the Super Bowl every year, my friend and I pick one side or the other and pretend to have been lifelong fans.

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 5h

I was going to say we don't really have an equivalent of this, but I suppose parachute payments are a slightly fucked-up version of the same idea (I'm speaking as a mid table Championship fan though, and we don't have the healthiest relationship with the whole system).

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 5h

No, it's not patronising. I understand the principle, but just struggling to visualise a game where you lose more yards to sacks than ALL of the passes you throw.

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 5h

Incredible, how do you end up with negative passing yards across an entire game. Well, I guess you’ve seen how.

Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 6h

Hahaha yes I suppose you have enough of it going around.

Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah the draft system has some pluses but that’s a weird thing to imagine.

Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 6h

As in, when you give up on the season to get a better place in the draft?

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 6h

Unlucky today, by the look of it.

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 6h

THIS IS NOT AN ATTEMPT TO START ONE OF THESE BLUESKY CROSS-ATLANTIC WARS, I WATCH NFL, ALSO AFL

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 6h

It must be odd supporting a struggling American or Australian sports team because with no relegation, you’re just there going ‘cool so now it’s 26 weeks of being shit with no jeopardy’.

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 7h

If anything it will really have motivated him to put the band together and get well known.

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 8h

The talk my parents went to was in fact BY David Suchet, based on that.

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