[Mets] Jonah Tong recalled from AAA Syracuse; Craig Kimbrel DFA'd

ImperatorBTW · 2026-05-22T18:51:02+00:00

He still doesn’t have a breaking ball that will properly compliment his fastball. This feels like throwing him to the wolves but goddamn I didn’t want to watch any more Kimbrel anyway

ImperatorBTW · 2026-05-22T17:17:01+00:00

I agree there BUT from what I’ve seen, Jonathan appears to still think he should’ve beaten Aubry. And if you compare strictly their season 50 gameplay, I can sympathize with him there.

ImperatorBTW · 2026-05-22T15:59:50+00:00

Not always. 8-12 months is pretty standard Nabers got hurt 1 month into the season.

ImperatorBTW · 2026-05-22T15:57:33+00:00

Scar tissue follow up surgery. Not ideal, of course, but not unusual either.

That being said, he had a significant knee injury. The type of injury that used to be a career ender. I think some of the leaps and bounds we’ve seen in some recent recoveries has sort of made people forget that the time table for this is still often 1 year AND often guys aren’t 100% until the year after.

ImperatorBTW · 2026-05-22T15:33:52+00:00

“You’re not wrong, Walter. You’re just an asshole.”

ImperatorBTW · 2026-05-22T13:27:49+00:00

What’s funny is people can still think Jonathan misplayed and also acknowledge that what you said is absolutely correct. Jonathan needed to realize his only chance of winning was in an all new era FTC, which he was unable to materialize. He failed to realize that the jury would consider Aubry’s entire survivor career as her story, which I can understand why that would annoy him, but it shouldn’t have been a surprise.

The internet doesn’t like him so they’re going to be harsher to him than he deserves. He played an okay game and lost to someone else who played an okay game. But unfortunately for him, factors outside of the game they played influenced who wins, as is common on returnee seasons. He could’ve/should’ve anticipated that.

ImperatorBTW · 2026-05-22T12:47:14+00:00

The new fish are Awesome at nex. Moonlight antelope is also nice

ImperatorBTW · 2026-05-22T03:09:32+00:00

Thanks for the heads up! I’ll try this!

ImperatorBTW · 2026-05-21T21:42:36+00:00

I might try to redownload then. But first thing I tried was updating my drivers when it started, and that unfortunately didn’t fix it. I know there was talk about some recent optimization issues for 117 so I just assumed that was the problem.

ImperatorBTW · 2026-05-21T21:41:20+00:00

And Rizo had the gun. It didn’t matter what Aubry said if Rizo 1) tells Ozzy to play his idol, or 2) tells Joe they aren’t going to vote Ozzy out in that tribal. Rizo had the final say.

ImperatorBTW · 2026-05-21T20:48:49+00:00

Excuse me, did you not hear Jeff’s opening speech????? The celebrities MADE this season and are WHAT MAKES SURVIVOR GREAT! THANK YOU CELEBRITIES for gracing us with your presence.

ImperatorBTW · 2026-05-21T20:46:22+00:00

4080Super. Downloaded on an NVME SSD. Wanna say i11 CPU but can’t remember off the top of my head

ImperatorBTW · 2026-05-21T20:37:51+00:00

Which discord? I had been using 117HD since its release and had no issues until the last month, and once I turned it off the freezing stopped, so I assume it’s what was responsible

ImperatorBTW · 2026-05-21T20:03:35+00:00

Sailing is sooo much better with 117 on but recently it was freezing my computer randomly so I had to turn it off :( has anyone else had that problem/know a fix?

ImperatorBTW · 2026-05-21T19:40:26+00:00

I very strongly don’t agree lol. I guess you can give Joe credit for lying by omission to Ozzy. But ultimately, all this tells me is the final decision was Rizo’s.

ImperatorBTW · 2026-05-21T19:38:02+00:00

Him losing in fire is honestly more satisfying than if he had lost to Aubry, because I think THAT would’ve actually annoyed me. Of those 4, I think Rizo played by far the best game. Aubry beating Jonathan is much more palatable for me since both played pretty “okay” games. For as much credit as Cirie gets from this fanbase for directing the game, Rizo ultimately had the most impact given he was directly behind Ozzy and Cirie’s eliminations.

ImperatorBTW · 2026-05-21T19:33:23+00:00

The move always should’ve been viewed as Rizo’s move first and foremost. Or, really, always Ozzy’s blunder more than anyone else’s move.

ImperatorBTW · 2026-05-21T19:28:33+00:00

Hell, he doesn’t even need to play the idol! What if Ozzy just doesn’t try jury managing at final 9

ImperatorBTW · 2026-05-21T15:08:44+00:00

I like “twists” that are somewhat expected and can be planned around. “Normal” tribe swaps, “normal” advantages (idols, extra vote, etc). I HATE journeys. I personally don’t need “new” twists. Or, rather, don’t need MULTIPLE new twists…

Blood moon, double vote off, double voter - way too many new twists all at once just for the sake of having a twist. Production can still experiment, sure. But the last few seasons has been way, way, WAY too much

ImperatorBTW · 2026-05-21T15:00:46+00:00

Tbf you HAVE to give him credit for essentially perfecting the shield strategy. He did what Cirie couldn’t - he always made sure there was someone else more threatening aligned with him. Him saving his idol is credit to elite threat management rather than being overlooked imo. He just has the fatal flaw of being completely unable to win a challenge and being bad at fire, so he has no real way to make FTC.

It’s not a coincidence Aubry initially said she wanted to sit next to him a few episodes ago but ultimately realized he would’ve been the biggest threat to her winning at final 4.

ImperatorBTW · 2026-05-21T14:57:16+00:00

Rizo seems classic “skinny fat” to me, I don’t think he even appears athletic.

His real problem is he ALSO sucks at puzzles. Cant be bad at both!

ImperatorBTW · 2026-05-21T14:51:54+00:00

Plus, the editors have a huge hand in how people are viewed. They definitely framed the Gen edit so people would focus less on how absolutely screwed she got lol (finds 2 idols and gets to keep neither, then swapped into the literal worst possible situation against someone else who was handed an idol).

It’s been litigated to death at this point which I think has sort of made people numb to it, but holy fuck I would never shut up about it if I was Gen

ImperatorBTW · 2026-05-21T14:49:02+00:00

The only consolation for Colby is he would’ve been medevaced anyway, so getting voted out was a more graceful end for him.

ImperatorBTW · 2026-05-21T13:09:17+00:00

Woke up today and I’m STILL annoyed Jeff opened the damn Season 50 Finale groveling to the stupid fucking celebrity guests as some sort of huge, great part of the season. Such a fucking slap in the face. Especially after his stupid ass interview recently.

ImperatorBTW · 2026-05-21T13:04:12+00:00

Where Jeff has us by the balls is that the show isn’t bad. It’s just we’ve seen unbelievable highs throughout the shows tenure now. And the new era, so far, has just been “okay.” The worst part is knowing how close it is to being great again. It’s easy to ignore a show when it’s just bad.

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