For the love of god ... please stop raining! As I sit here pumping out another edition of Thursday Screencaps, it's cloudy, it's wet and it's supposed to rain ... again... later today, which will make four straight days of downpours.
Let's get the day started with news that Victoria's Secret rejected Rachel Pizzolato, the Instagram and YouTube star, and Screencaps favorite, who rose to fame for changing the oil in her Hyundai. She's also handy enough to fix toilets.
"I might've gotten rejected, but who cares, it doesn't matter because I showed my face, I had an amazing time with the audience and I met beautiful girls who basically have the same traits and desires and drive as I have," Pizzolato said.
SYDNEY SWEENEY AND LIVVY DUNNE FORM ALLIANCE AS LINGERIE WAR WITH VICTORIA'S SECRET OFFICIALLY HEATS UP
While Vicky Secret might not have signed Pizzolato, she's not giving up on the brand that is having a massive resurgence. She says the rejection has "turned into redirection, and I’m never giving up on my dream to be [an] Angel."
That's smart, because if you guys haven't been paying attention, VS is on fire. The stock is up 74% year-to-date and 311% over the last 112 months. The brand was was pretty much left for dead a year ago.
Enter new CEO Hillary Super. She was hired in September 2024 and quickly figured out that Victoria's Secret's "woke washing" was killing the company.
"That natural human reaction is to want to stay out of controversy," Super told Fortune in February of the company's woke era. "Victoria’s Secret was so cautious, it stopped bragging altogether—even about being a go-to destination for bra fittings."
Is Victoria's Secret totally ditching the woke era? We'll see this fall when it holds the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. As of last fall, the brand was still featuring at least one biological male in lingerie during its show.
LANDRY KIFFIN & HER MOM GET INTO GAME SHAPE FOR THE UPCOMING SEC SEASON, CORN BATS, PLUS A LLWS TANK
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VEGAS LITTLE LEAGUE PRESIDENT ACCUSED OF SPENDING LEAGUE MONEY ON STRIP CLUBS AND ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION MEDS
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– Matt in Phenix City, AL shares: Joe, as a resident of Phenix City, AL and a parent of a child that PLAYED rec league with most of the kids on the current team out of Phenix City, I can assure you that every single one of those kids plays travel ball.
They strictly join the league to meet the requirements for all-star tournaments/little league World Series. I cannot begin to tell you the amount of times these kids missed practices (sometimes even actual games) because of their travel ball commitments.
Or worse, parents wouldn’t let them pitch for the rec league team because they had a travel ball game the next day/pitched the previous day at travel ball. Made for great practices when you’ve only got 10-12 kids on the team and you’re lucky to get even 8 or 9 to actually show up for practice. The best time for rec league? Fall ball. Fewer teams, no travel ball weirdos, and kids that want to actually be there to learn and get better without losing a spot to some kid who’s parents sign them up to play the bare minimum to qualify for the LL tournaments.
PERCEPTION IS REALITY, AND THE SEC NEEDS TO START WINNING AGAIN BEFORE IT CONTINUES TO PUFF OUT ITS CHEST
Admittedly, my son wasn’t the greatest or most athletic kid out there but you know what? He was out there for every practice and every game. How are the kids like that supposed to grow and learn to love the game when they lose out on playing opportunities to the part-timers? It stopped being fun for him when he realized that no matter what he did he was stuck.
Kinsey: Don't let ESPN warp your brain over the next two weeks. You're watching a travel ball tournament. This idea that you're watching a bunch of scrappy kids who've spent their summer playing with nose pickers in right field couldn't be further from the truth. This is all smoke and mirrors from Little League and ESPN. At this point, ESPN is pretty much just renting the Little League brand to hold a made-for-TV tournament to fill TV time in August. And they don't have to pay the labor.
And why doesn't Little League increase the field size these kids are playing on? Because the made-for-TV product wouldn't be as spectacular. And they'd have to change the size of the fields in Williamsport. That's not happening.
– Will in Mississippi on Yankees attending SEC schools: This post from you really hit home with me. I'm surprised that there wasn't a percentage at Mississippi State from 2004 and that the percentage in 2024 is that low.
URBAN MEYER, COLIN COWHERD SAY BIG TEN VENUES AND FANS HAVE CAUGHT UP AND 'BYPASSED THE SEC'
I reality question that number. When I was in school at MSU in the mid 80s studying civil engineering, there were very few out of state students in that department but the few that I remember were from "Southern" states. Tennessee and Florida and a few foreign students. There were many non American students in other fields, usually agriculture related since MSU is an engineering and agriculture centrict university. Of course this was 40 years ago and things change.
My son goes to Ole Miss and he has complained about the amount of non Mississippi students that attend Ole Miss. For some reason, he especially complains about the students from New Jersey, New York and that part of the US. Two of his apartment roommates last year were from Virginia and Texas and he had no problems with them. One thing to understand about Ole Miss right now is that the Chancellor has opened the admissions floodgates for the tuition money. The acceptance rate is extremely high, like 90%. Ole Miss (which requires freshmen to live in a dorm) doesn't have enough dorm rooms for students or enough parking on campus for students. Parking passes for the year cost anywhere between $200 and $600 or maybe higher.
BTW, you talked about the Ole Miss vs, LSU game in September, I'll try to get a report on the day from my son but he'll be pre-gaming in the Grove so I can't promise anything on that.
Kinsey: I believe it was 12 years ago when our neighbors told us their daughter was going to Alabama. I remember it catching me off-guard because it wasn't common yet for Ohio high school students to attend SEC schools just because. Now? It's completely common. I just saw this morning that a woman I grew up with is sending her son off to Ole Miss today.
THESE ONCE-ANNUAL COLLEGE RIVALRIES USED TO DEFINE COLLEGE FOOTBALL AND NEED TO MAKE A COMEBACK ASAP
Those numbers above are up to 2024. Wait until we get 2025 and 2026 numbers.
As for the neighbor's daughter, she lasted a year at Bama, I believe, and then enrolled at Ohio State.
– Brandon in NW Houston provides an update on how his wife decorated his son's dorm room. It turns out Brandon overreacted. His wife didn't go nuts: I need to amend last weeks email. The wife did an awesome job and the stuff she was buying ended up being all practical. I think she spent about $400-$500 dollars and it was all storage/quality of life stuff, no fancy smancy curtains or wallpaper.
I've sent a Pic of his room. His roommate hasn't moved in yet so his side is a good "before" pic.
CURT CIGNETTI REVEALS HOW WORKING FOR NICK SABAN CHANGED EVERYTHING: 'EVERY DAY WAS 4TH-AND-1'
Pretty simple but 100% better than my 12x12dormin 1991-1993. Ahhhh even with a crappy room those were some days ever.
I believe we've addressed Cig going with this look during the CFB Playoff, which was crazy, but now we're getting this look in August when most coaches will go with a sweat-wicking polo or some performance shirt. Not Cig.
– Marty in Idaho proves yet again that he's living in some sort of Jack Hanna fantasy world. This is his yard: I loved the video a couple days ago with the bear and black wolf. Much happens in the mountains out west that city dwellers don't often get to see so I hope 'cappers enjoy the content. This morning I had about 25 elk behind the house and a couple went up on their hind legs to play fight. Had never seen that before. These are pretty big animals; average adult weight for males and females is 700 and 500 pounds. For reference, if you watched the my previous video of mountain lions feeding, that was in the patch of green grass on the right edge of this video. What's left of the carcass is still there.
– 'Sheriff' John in Houston emails: The subject of driving in the rain with your hazards on got my attention. Drives me crazy. Your hazard lights are supposed to be used when your car is stationary (stopped) at the side of the road and could be a hazard to other drivers. That's it.
Other traffic laws I've noticed that just aren't enforced anymore:
- Having non-white colored lights on the front of your vehicle. Yellow or blue was bad, but now I've seen RED headlights. Just dumb. How do these idiots just don't know how dangerous that is?
- Riding a bicycle on the sidewalk or riding a bicycle on the shoulder AGAINST traffic where oncoming traffic can't see you until the last minute, especially if there's a headlight on your bike and now it looks like there is someone coming towards you in the wrong lane.
- Rolling your bicycle through a stop sign. Yeah, it's hard work to stop your bike and start again. Tough crap. I'd also get better gas mileage in my car if I blew through stop signs, but that doesn't mean I can ignore the sign if there is no traffic.
- Walking or running in the road when there is a sidewalk. (You've already touched on this one before.)
- Rolling through stop signs when making a right turn.
- Closely related to that is just pulling out and turning left into oncoming traffic. Drives me crazy. We live on a semi-rural highway down from a fairly large subdivision and I'm convinced people think the highway ends there and there's no need to look to the right. They just pull out into highway traffic. Just awful.
That's all I've got for now. I'm sure your readers will have others.
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– Mark J. has a suggestion: Joe, buy it! That thing would be a great speakeasy! Keep one cell intact so if some loser gets out of hand, he gets tossed in the "drunk tank" What an opportunity! Hell I would even make a detour on my next visit back to the O-H just to visit it!
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And that is a wrap on this Thursday morning. I'm fired up. I might still be furious over Indiana beating MY Buckeyes in the B1G title game, but it's impossible not to get fired up for a day of work when Cignetti content pops up.
Channel your inner Cig today and go get after it.
