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Jason Kipnis, Terry Francona react to Cleveland Indians" trade for Andrew Miller & deadline
Andrew Miller: Sampson old boy, how the devil? Still sticking it to The Men, I trust? I hear rumours that Death of a Gentleman has released in India, which is tremendous news and a huge feather in your campaigning cap. I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability, as George Galloway once said (I think) of Giles Clarke.
On a related note, I was amused to see the words "transparency" and "governance" appearing in the same sentence of the ICC"s press release after their board meeting in Dubai in February. A quick search through my 20,000-odd unread Gmail messages confirmed that this was, indeed, the first instance of such a juxtaposition in any ICC release since at least 2007. And given how heroically you have striven to have those words added to cricket"s lexicon, I for one refuse to believe it was a coincidence.
I am very proud to have played a small part in bringing Death of a Gentleman into the world, and have enjoyed watching the accolades roll in over the past few months (don"t worry, my free copy will do for payment). And yet, one thing has bugged me ever since those frantic final days of the editing process at Silverglade, when the clock was ticking and 400 hours of interviews had yet to be turned into 90 minutes of coherent narrative, and your producers were haranguing you for a plausible pay-off, an answer to that thorniest of questions: "So, what"s the solution then?"
"Since rugby union"s return to the Olympics was announced in 2009 around 20m has been invested in the sport by National Olympic Committees"
Collins
And the solution you identified was... the Olympics.
Okay, so the topic had to make the cut in one way or another, simply to enable that magnificently malevolent exchange between you and dear old Giles - "I have every right to put my board"s interests first" and all that. But all the same, I still struggle to be convinced that it really can be the answer to cricket"s ills.
Here"s how I see the Olympics - as a depository for the marginalised and irrelevant, a once-a-leap-year invitation for sport"s Cinderellas to come to the ball and make off with the prince as well. It all ends up back in sackcloth and ashes. Has anyone paid any attention to badminton or white-water canoeing recently?
I"ll be the first to admit, it is certainly fun while it lasts. But is this really the company that cricket needs to keep? Is the sport really so lacking in ambition and self-esteem that it needs to outsource its issues to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), like a bank flogging its bad debt, rather than address them itself? You"ll probably say "probably" and I"m still willing to be convinced. But I just don"t buy that Olympic status is the panacea it is being made out to be.
Yours in the runs,Miller
Olympic status is one way to secure the sport"s futureGetty Images
Sam Collins: Miller, you sordid corporate-dollar guzzler, I"m sorry to hear about your bad tum, but how good of you to take time out from bathing in the fountain of Walt Disney to break bread with the little men.
Now, this is interesting. While trying to anticipate your angle of attack, I was in full expectation that you"d be trying to paint me as worthier than a religious volunteer on a church bench in the centre of Worth sucking on a Werther"s Original. But you"ve gone rogue. In between claiming full credit for Death of a Gentleman, and calling me cheap, you"ve subtly painted me as more cynical than a circa-2005 Lalit Modi, who scarcely even had to pretend to like cricket to orchestrate the multibillion-dollar T20 revolution that crystallised this whole mess in the first place.
My crime, as you would have it, is to have simply slid on the G-string of Olympic participation primarily as a means of providing said anti-corruption-in-cricket-independent-feature-documentary-available-on-a-subscription-video-platform-near-you-soon with a plausible alternative to the "GIVE ME MORE NOW" attitudes of the cricket boards, an antidote to the administrative short-sightedness and incompetence that has been running a great sport into the ground for too long.
Well, in one respect, you"re right.
You didn"t expect that, did you?
I"m not an Olympic fundamentalist. I don"t believe in this "pinnacle of sporting achievement" bollocks. I"ve become a cold, hard pragmatist. I look at dollars, and I try to speak in common sense. And it is common sense for cricket to be in the Olympics.
"Is the sport really so lacking in ambition and self-esteem that it needs to outsource its issues to the IOC, like a bank flogging its bad debt?"
Miller
I don"t think that Olympic participation will solve all of cricket"s problems, and I don"t think that it will make anyone in the UK (because, like our good friend Giles Clarke, you seem to be looking at this through some red-white-and-blue tinted spectacles) appreciate cricket more. But the more I"ve studied the utter mess that is the running of the game, the more I can clearly see how becoming an Olympic sport could benefit cricket"s growth, helping to provide the money that the ICC is unwilling to commit to funding cricket worldwide.
All sports need money to survive, and Olympic participation would open up millions and millions of dollars of government funding. And isn"t it a tantalising prospect that even if cricket"s rulers did decide they wanted to spread around a little more of their estimated US$2.3 billion kitty, it could be supplemented by that government funding, improving infrastructure in countries that need all the help they can get, some of which have economies and television markets that could be of huge benefit to even cricket"s established powers in a decade or so?
How, please, could that possibly be bad for cricket?
Miller: A cold hard pragmatist, who looks at dollars and deals in common sense... Careful now. I think being locked in that edit suite with so many Big Three reprobates has given you Stockholm Syndrome.
Still, you"re not a fundamentalist. Jolly relieved to hear it. I"m not a complete atheist either. But your reply doesn"t remotely invalidate my doubts about cricket at the Olympics.
If the ICC wants China to join the cricket family, Olympic participation is the way to go about itGetty Images
I get that it would widen the sport"s base, and unleash a torrent of funding. But at what cost to the already damaged integrity of top-level international cricket?
I"m with you in loathing the word "pinnacle" in a sporting context. Nothing smacks of lip service more readily than some IPL superstar insisting that Test matches remain the "pinnacle" of cricket. However, where the Olympics are concerned, it is either everything to a sport or it is next to nothing.
Pop quiz, hotshot. Here are four plucky Brits who claimed gold medals at the London Olympics in 2012: Ed McKeever, Peter Wilson, Tim Baillie and Etienne Stott. Now, name the sports in which they captivated the nation (*of course you can"t, so the answers are below).
Meanwhile, here are four Team GB players who dribbled out on penalties at the quarter-final stage of that year"s Olympic football tournament. Ryan Giggs, Daniel Sturridge, Aaron Ramsey and Danny Rose. You see what I"m getting at. Notwithstanding the platitudes that they will doubtless have uttered as South Korea launched into their victory parade around the Millennium Stadium, are we really supposed to believe that Great Britain"s random ensemble cared even a smidgen compared to the genuine Olympians for whom 2012 really was the be-all and end-all?
And then there"s the newest re-entrant to the Olympic family. Golf. Earlier this year, Adam Scott, the 2013 Masters champion and former world No. 1, withdrew from Rio, dismissing it as an "exhibition event". He"d rather focus on the PGA Tour, thanks very much.
"Wake up, we"re having this conversation because Test cricket is already dead in all but name, contested, just about, by the three or four teams who make money from it"
Collins
Clarke"s stance as witnessed in Death of a Gentleman was preposterous, of course it was. But if the interview with him is even remotely indicative of cricket"s lack of interest in the Olympics (indoor cricket, anyone?), then is it really sensible to send the international game down that path? That way lies madness and marginalisation - if not football"s disinterest, then (worse, surely) the sort of team-sport no man"s land to which handball, water polo, hockey and synchronised swimming, among others, are condemned.
Collins: Sorry, I fell asleep for a second there. What were you saying? Olympic participation would damage the integrity of international cricket? Oh. Would that be the same international cricket often so lacking in competitive sides and context that not even the players know who or why they are playing half the time? And which format of international cricket would you be talking about? Test cricket? Or T20? Because last time I looked, the whole cricketing world was revelling in the novelty of a short, sharp international T20 tournament.
And that"s what cricket in the Olympics should be: a two-week T20 tournament, featuring the best players international cricket can spare (Associates and Affiliates included). This is bigger picture stuff, Miller, it"s not about you rattling off random Olympians and obscure disciplines to boost your word count. If cricket has to ape football and be essentially an Under-23 tournament, then so be it. History may not remember all the participants, but the many thousands of children worldwide who would benefit from the government funding will remember the moment cricket thought about their future, and crucially the players outside the biggest nations currently denied the opportunity to compete in most ICC events will have their showcase tournament to aim for.
Do we need to add more paper pushers to the already large numbers mismanaging cricket"s affairs?IDI/Getty Images
Being an administrator is surely about doing whatever it (legally) takes to take your sport to the widest possible audience, and make as much money for the sport as you can in the process. That, for cricket, is the Olympics - a two-week hit every four years that brings the chance to boost the funding and consequently the competitiveness of international cricket (men"s, women"s and disabled) essentially for free. And the best thing is, the IOC wants it to happen - however cynical their hopes of getting a share of Indian TV rights may be, as a forward-thinking administrator this has to be one time you don"t mind being used. Only the brains at the current ICC could pass up this sort of opportunity.
The ICC now claims to be debating the Olympic question, while apparently privately believing there is no chance in h**l. Those in favour are "naive", while various defeatist suggestions fly as to why cricket couldn"t be an Olympic sport, including fundamentally incorrect arguments that the Olympics would devalue ICC events, and - strangest among them - the idea that you couldn"t fit a T20 tournament (where matches last three hours) into two weeks.
Yes, there are bigger issues, such as India"s non-compliance with the World Anti Doping Agency regulations, but this is a situation where Giles Clarke and Co should be using whatever diplomatic skills they possess to do the bidding of the 90% of ICC nations who favour Olympic participation, rather than prioritising the demands of domestic television contracts. Instead, self-interest prevails, as cricket continues an inexorable contraction towards its three richest countries and privately owned T20 franchise leagues, and these "administrocrats" don"t even have to pay us the courtesy of explaining their decisions. And that is the worst thing about it. At least if cricket was properly run we could trust that it was rejecting the Olympics for good reason, but it isn"t and we can"t.
Miller: All right, all right, keep your wig on. You may have spent four years asking awkward questions of the rich and powerful, but that doesn"t give you the right to get all haughty when your stance is questioned. (Mind you, what other tips have you picked up from the master? I look forward to the wine at our next lunch!)
"Here"s how I see the Olympics - a once-a-leap-year invitation for sport"s Cinderellas to come to the ball and make off with the prince as well"
Miller
Anyway, back to the debate. You question my fear about the integrity of cricket, yet you seem to think that the sport would become more integrated if it answered to two global institutions, not one? It"s not just etymology that tells you that is nonsense.
You say the Olympics would be a "two-week hit every four years". Are you really sure about that? We aren"t just talking about the time it takes up in the calendar (although, I grant you, that was the ECB"s principal objection). It"s the knock-on effects of IOC involvement that concern me - you only need to look at the plutocratic demands they make of their host cities to know they won"t simply pop up, brimming with largesse, for two weeks in every 200 then quietly slip away.
You say it"s "fundamentally incorrect" that an Olympic event would undermine an ICC one, but it"s not just Clarke apologists who are willing to make that point. Take the head of a prominent players" association you were in touch with. He rightly queries who is going to pay the sport"s bills if cricket goes to the Olympics.
The IOC doesn"t cough up any dividends from its massive commercial returns (some $6-8 billion at the last time of asking), and most of cricket"s associations are broke already. So, what next? Do we really expect individual governments - national taxpayers, no less - to prop up the sport for evermore? You talk of all the government funding that will be unlocked by OlympIN (to coin a phrase), but what if that tap gets turned off at some time in the future? What if the stench of an IOC scandal becomes too niffy to countenance, or if austerity kicks in and a hatchet-wielding chancellor just thinks, cricket meh.
The International Olympic Committee is keen to have cricket on the roster because of the potential windfall it could receive from Indian TV rights dealsAFP
And what if that tap doesn"t get turned off? I think of Bermuda, to name one example of a nation that was showered with too much government largesse (on account of their qualification for the 2007 World Cup). They sank like Dwayne Leverock in a lard-filled swimming pool - dragged down by an ambition-less nexus of elite (well-remunerated) players and held under by next to no investment in grass-roots cricket. Last September cricket in Bermuda was again in the headlines following a brawl in the national club final.
The point is, you might widen cricket"s footprint via OlympIN, but you would be doing nothing to tackle the basic governance issues that you and I both believe to be at the root of the game"s current ills. And given that the IOC is even more inscrutable than the ICC, I suspect that giving in to being "used" (your word, not mine) would simply exacerbate them.
Collins: Wine at lunch? Let"s hope the Cricket Monthly"s expenses stretch as far as the ECB"s are rumoured to have done.
I"m not sure where to start my response to your latest barf.
Do you genuinely believe that any level of sporting corruption could make these PR and consequently sports-obsessed governments turn off the funding tap?
"At least if cricket was properly run we could trust that it was rejecting the Olympics for good reason, but it isn"t and we can"t"
Collins
In terms of cricketing countries being showered by funding and failing to make the most of it due to administrative short-sightedness, incompetence and perhaps even corruption, I"m sure we"re both in agreement that this is a live issue for the game whether that money comes from governments or - as it currently does - the ICC. Anyway, let"s talk specifics for a second.
One problem cricket doesn"t have is generating money, but seeing as its three biggest countries don"t have much intention of sharing it, this is where that Olympic pot comes in. We only have to look at other sports to see the impact - since rugby union"s return to the Olympics was announced in 2009, around 20m has been invested in the sport by national Olympic committees. Badminton is another sport to have benefited: following its debut at the 1992 games, the International Badminton Federation estimated that more than $100m a year of government funding began pouring into the sport purely because it was on the Olympic programme. And as far as spreading the game goes - guaranteeing more money for the sport in the process - since tennis was readmitted to the games in 1988, the number of nations affiliated to the International Tennis Federation has grown from 147 to 211. Even golf is realistic about the Olympics being a possible way to resuscitate a sport whose fans are dying off (literally) even more quickly than county memberships.
In China the worth of Olympic participation is estimated at $20m a year in government funding for cricket, and there is precedent for other sports in that country. Rugby sevens" Olympic status has transformed the sport there from a tin-pot operation run by one man and a few students, into a professional outfit with access to the country"s outstanding athletes at sports-specific schools, and also now incorporates a women"s rugby sevens team. This further illustrates the far-reaching benefits of Olympic participation to women"s sport - the debut of women"s rowing in 1976 was a watershed (pun intended) moment for the sport, finally giving women access to funding and facilities that had previously been reserved for men. Given the rapid growth of women"s and disabled cricket around the world, but still the comparative lack of participation and funding, this is an opportunity cricket can"t afford to turn down.
Dwayne Bravo and Chris Gayle will find themselves on opposing sides in an Olympic matchGetty Images
For all your worries about IOC involvement, the only negative I"ve found from any of these sports after embracing the five rings is allegations that funding tends to be targeted at the elite, with little trickle-down effect. But even this "problem" would help cricket to tackle its major on-pitch problem - not enough competitive teams at the international level. If West Indies were able to invest in better facilities at the top level (remember Ramnaresh Sarwan"s rant about the last few years), they would be better able to compete at the top level in Test cricket, and therefore a more attractive proposition for the kids currently so disillusioned by the vicious circle of poverty, administrative incompetence and poor performance. But I suppose you"ll now come back and tell me that West Indies wouldn"t even compete in an Olympics.
Miller: No, you"re right, West Indies wouldn"t compete in the Olympics. The likes of Jamaica, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago would go it alone, and in the case of T&T, I reckon they might even have picked up a medal with their Daren Ganga-led side had they competed in London 2012.
Okay, so now I"m arguing at cross purposes but, as I conceded from the outset, I"m not an unequivocal naysayer. I can see the benefits from the Olympics and I don"t dispute that the competition would be a success for that one fortnight in four years.
But West Indies are the perfect example of the fragmentation and competing priorities that would kick in as soon as such a beast was unleashed. Okay, so maybe they are already dead as a Test team - the WICB is not fit for purpose and West Indies" recent World T20 triumph was achieved in spite of the fools at the helm who have mismanaged the region for decades.
"Realistically all that would be left standing, after the Olympic T20 tsunami, would be the Ashes and... er... that"s it"
Miller
Or maybe they aren"t quite dead and this would be a mercy killing. But make no mistake, the impact of inviting a new bossman in to "help" the sport before it has learnt to help itself would be shattering. Whether that is shattering in a good way or a bad way depends on how bleak you currently believe the game"s prospects to be.
But let"s pop back to Death of a Gentleman briefly, because, Lord knows, you need another plug, you impoverished renegade. Remember, if you can, the original premise of your film - it was that nagging existential fear for your favourite, and still the world"s greatest form of the game, Test cricket.
OlympIN would be Tests out. West Indies, gone at a stroke. Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, New Zealand to follow soon enough. India might pretend for a while because they rather enjoy their cosy bilateral arrangements with England and Australia, but realistically all that would be left standing, after the Olympic T20 tsunami, would be the Ashes and... er... that"s it.
Surely we are better staying in and trying to reform the game on the game"s own terms, than taking on the world before we actually know what we want for our sport?
Collins: This feels like the last gasps of a desperate man, Miller. Is there, for example, any rationale behind your assertion that the Olympics would kill off Test cricket? Wake up, we"re having this conversation because Test cricket is already dead in all but name, contested, just about, by the three or four teams who make money from it while everybody else fills in the fixture card for posterity.
Sam Collins (front row, fifth from right) at a protest against the Big Three in LondonGetty Images
The only way you save the Test game is by creating more competitive teams over the long term, and addressing the financial disparities currently pulling the sport apart. In this context I"m not sure how the chance of extra funding for Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Co could possibly be a bad thing for the Test game. Rather it is a throw of the dice that could actually help to reinvigorate things, and surely this chance to grow the game in countries beyond the established powers (with the aim that they will aspire to play the longest form of the game) could be perfectly timed given the ICC finally appears set to open the door to the smoking room?
You can romanticise all you want about West Indies. Gideon Haigh put it to us rather well (in a bite that sadly ended up on the cutting-room floor) that it may be that West Indies - with their dysfunctional governance and several competing interests - are themselves a vestige of the Caribbean"s (and cricket"s) past rather than what it might become. I hope that"s not the case, that they can re-establish themselves as the power base that cricket is desperate for them to be. But the game"s problem is that as they have fallen apart there has been no one coming through to take their place - whether due to a lack of funding, lack of opportunity or other reasons - and that is what has to change. Other major sports (football, rugby to name two) are implementing huge expansion in front of our eyes, and with more and more entertainment options and less and less time to indulge them, the same globalisation and technological growth that brought cricket"s financial windfall could well finish the global game off, and sharpish.
You can put the Olympic schemozzle up there with cricket"s procrastination over day-night cricket, its failure to harness online streaming, the game"s almost non-existent YouTube presence - all proof that the men in charge of this sport are still embarrassingly behind the times when it comes to engaging with their potential audience.
Cricket"s rulers need to catch up, and quickly, before that papier mch rock of TV dollars that they are desperately clinging to is submerged by the self-inflicted tsunami of reality. I"m all in.
Miller: Ah sod it, we"re all doomed. Let"s go to the pub.
Everyone loves to brageven if you"re talking about how lonely and single you are online. So it should come as no surprise that just as many (if not more) super-depressing singletons are using the #NationalGirlfriendDay hashtagas people in happy relationships. If you dive deep into this trending topic, you"ll find memes, trolls, sad boys, pictures of pizza, and girlfriends who are just confused as to why they haven"t gotten their shout-out yet.
Thankfully, you don"t have to.We rounded up the best (or the worst, depending on how you look at it) tweets celebrating the hashtag. The LOLs come in fast and strong.
Man Assaulted Inside Bronx Bodega — New York Post Modal Trigger
A police officer (right) escorts Victor Oliveira Amorim, who is suspected of involvement in the kidnapping of Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone"s mother-in-law, Aparecida Schunk, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Aug. 1, 2016.Photo: Reuters
The mother-in-law of Formula 1 chief Bernie Ecclestone was rescued by Brazilian cops Sunday after being kidnapped more than a week ago.
Members of the elite Sao Paulo anti-kidnapping division saved Aparecida Schunk the 67-year-old mother of Ecclestones third wife, Fabiana Flosi following a daring raid, according to the Daily Mirror.
She was found unharmed in a building as officers arrested two suspects.
Aparecida Schunk, mother-in-law of Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone, leaves a police station in Sao Paulo, Brazil.Photo: Reuters
Schunks captors had demanded that a ransom of about $36 million be paid in exchange for her freedom, but Brazilian news outlets reported that not a dime was paid.
It was the largest ransom demand in the countrys history.
The kidnappers, several of whom are still believed to be on the loose, had posed as delivery drivers, even carrying a bogus package, when they snatched Schunk from her home in Sao Paolo on July 22.
Ecclestone, who runs the Formula 1 group of companies that oversee the prominent European racing series, is believed to be worth more than $3 billion.
Jason Day poses with the winners trophy on the 18th green alongside his son Dash and wife Ellie after his six-stroke victory at The Barclays at Plainfield Country Club. (Getty)
Defending PGA champion Jason Day is aiming for back-to-back wins at Baltusrol, something that only Tiger Woods has done in recent history.
The 29-year-old won the 2015 PGA Championship at Whistling Straits for the first major victory of his career.
Jason Days son, Dash, is only 4 years old, but has already become well-known in the sports circuit and even appeared in a recent commercial.
Heres what you need to know about Dash Day:
1. He Appeared in a Recent PGA Tour Commercial
TaylorMade and the PGA Tour Superstore released a Fathers Day commercial that featured Dash and his dad, Jason Day in June.
Dash narrates the video, which shows Jason and Dash playing golf together, like most Sundays.
But since its Fathers Day, I let him win, he says.
Jason spoke about Dash learning to read his lines for the commercial.
Day told Golf.com:
So (Dash) went down to, in Columbus, they went down to a studio. He had headphones on and Ellie was helping him out with his lines. I mean, the lines, hes only 3, so and people forget hes 3. Hes a humongous toddler. Hes very big. And you should see Lucy, shes even bigger. Shes a fatty. Its fine. Like Ellie, I think she has protein shakes in those things. I dont know what shes doing. But for some reason, shes a very, very big baby. I dont know how other people have real tiny babies.
2. He Is 4 Years Old
Jason met his wife, Ellie Harvey in 2005 at a Ohio restaurant where she worked. Day frequented the restaurant with his caddie, Colin Swatton. However, they didnt begin dating until 2007.
The couple tied the know in October 2009 and had their first son, Dash, in July 2012.
When Day is on Tour, their family travels together in an RV.
3. Dash Already Has a Love for Golf
Jason Day waits on a green with his son Dash during the Par 3 Contest prior to the start of the 2015 Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club. (Getty)
Dash has developed a passion for the game of golf, according to his father, who wrote about his son in a Golf Digest article.
Day wrote:
I was kind of pushed into golf as a kid, so I vowed never to do that with my son. My rule is, Dash has to ask me to go to the range. Our family travels to most tournaments in our RV, and our home is almost always parked on or near a golf course. So the game is very present in his world. Dash will grab his driver and say, Hit b***s, hit b***s. He really likes it, and watching his face light up when he connects with one brings me great joy.
4. Once Dash Grows Older, Day Plans to Have Him Coached by His Caddie
Jason Day walks off the 18th green with his son Dash after winning the 2015 PGA Championship with a score of 20-under par at Whistling Straits. (Getty)
If Dash continues to play golf, Jason says he plans to pass the coaching duties over to Colin Swatton, his own caddie.
(Swatton) took me from a 12-year-old to where I am today, Jason told Golf Magazine. If Dash ever decides to pursue golf seriously, Ill put Col in charge. Id be too technical a teacher for a junior.
Swatton has been beside the champion golfer throughout the ups and downs of his career. The pair met when Days mother sent him to the Koralbyn International School in Queensland, where Swatton was a coach, after the golfers father died. Since then, Swatton has helped Day capture 10 PGA Tour wins, and earn over $33.5 million.
In a press conference following Days victory at the 2015 PGA Championshiphis first major win he talked about his relationship with Swatton.
Hes been there for me since I was 12 1/2 years old, Day said. I mean, hes taken me from a kid that was getting in fights at home and getting drunk at 12 and not heading in the right direction, to a major champion. And theres not many coaches that can say that in many sports. So, he means the world to me. I love him to death.
5. He Has a Younger Sister, Lucy
Jason Day celebrates with son Dash, wife Ellie and daughter Lucy after winning during the final round of The Players Championship. (Getty)
On November 11, 2015, Ellie gave birth to the couples second child, Lucy.
Lucy made her first appearance on the golf course at the 2016 Par 3 Contest. The annual tradition during Masters week allows families to caddie for the players.
Jason Day & Colin Swatton: The Photos You Need to See
As defending PGA champion Jason Day enters the final round at Baltusrol, his caddie of 16 years, Colin Swatton is by his side.
Preacher: Comic-Con 2016 Official Trailer Were all just people
The season finale, more than anything, feels like a sequel to the Preacher pilot, with Sam Catlin back behind the camera. This is a good thing, but also makes things feel a little abrupt. It starts with a sleepy montage of Annville waking up, set to Willie Nelsons Time of the Preacher.
Theres a strong sense of urgency here thats been missing from the past few episodes: Jesse is running from the cops (literally, in one notable shot), the entire town appears to be buzzing about it (theres graffiti and signs ordering Jesse to run, and asking about the presence of G*d), and Annville genuinely feels like its experiencing its end of days more on that in a minute.
So much has changed that it feels like theres a whole episode we havent seen. Cassidy is in jail, apparently nabbed at the whorehouse because of his association with Jesse. (A sequence I would have loved to see.) Sheriff Root puts two and two together, using Cassidys penchant for shade and long arrest record (why doesnt he just use different names?) to suss out that hes a vampire. The sheriff spends the night shooting him in an effort to find his son.
Also, has Donnie Schenk found mercy? Jesse has been staying with the Schenks apparently, because Donnie letting Jesse live proved to be a spiritual awakening. This is a good idea: Jesse finally saved someone not by using his power, but simply by being a good person. But it also feels like a scene we really needed to see. While the Schenks read Good Housekeeping and Gorillas in the Mist, Jesse and Tulip take it outside. Ruth Negga does a delightful impersonation of Dominic Coopers gruffness, and she leads Jesse flirtatiously by the belt buckle only to show him that Carlos is, of course, in the trunk.
Were all just people Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang: W Earl Brown as Hugo Root. Photograph: Lewis Jacobs/Sony Pictures Television
Carlos is played by the great Desmin Borges of Youre the Worst. It turns out the big incident in Dallas is a lot smaller in scope than wed been led to believe: tired of being stepped on and mocked by the admittedly obnoxiously in love Jesse and Tulip, Carlos lets a security guard go during a bank robbery, forcing Jesse to kill the guard and causing Tulip to lose her baby in the process. Its a strange development. Miscarriages are already an overused plot device on TV, and the baby is in this case just a convenient reason why Tulip and Jesse hate Carlos so much.
Still, the final confrontation in which Jesse first decides to kill Carlos out of despair and is then turned back by Tulip, who was never going to kill him anyway is really sweet and fun. (Its especially fun to watch couched in an argument over how messy the car would get if Jesse shot Carlos in different places.) This is a much better look for the show, and its central couple. By the time the camera pulls in on Jesse and Tulip preparing to mercilessly beat Carlos, firmly together in both goodness and mild sadism, their relationship has become the most important thing on the show.
You are all saved
The next morning, Betsy Schenk appears to rat Jesse out to the cops, but it turns out that she and Donnie snuck him and Tulip to the church in the trunk, where she helps him set up the angel phone. All of this camaraderie is fun, and pleasant in the way that, say, an Oceans movie is, but it mostly serves to remind us that were not going to be spending much more time with these characters.
Finally, the last Sunday service. (I assume there wont be many of these in the next season.) Its cool to see the whole town assembled, maybe even more so than the last service it feels like something the whole season has been building to. Of course, the phone doesnt work at first. But then, G*d shows up in the video conference who is an old dude with a booming voice sitting on throne, surrounded by bright light. (Cue the unfazed Tulip: Told you he was a white guy.)
The video-conferencing G*d deigns to answer a few of the towns questions, but everything he says is terrible, a series of religious cliches about divine authority and the plan that sends everyone into a tizzy. (Its crazier than the time Cassidy drank a bunch of Red Bull and saw Justin Bieber.) Quincannon even confronts G*d about his family, who he is assured are safely in heaven. But when Jesse realizes that this G*d doesnt know about Genesis, he sees the truth, and the foundation of the comic: G*d is missing. It turns out to just have been an angel (or something), stalling to fill the void on high. This knowledge sends the town into a riot, culminating in a fuzzed-out shot of Quincannon snapping off a crucifix.
Nothings changed
Preachers first season concludes largely on a montage set to Blind Melons No Rain, which seems about right. Far from saved, Annville is in ruins Emily tells her kids that they never needed G*d in the first place, but no one else seems to believe that. Death overtakes the town and it becomes a place that could inspire a thousand Murder Ballads: both of the mascots hang themselves on the scalp tree. The children murder Linus the creepy bus driver. Mrs Loach smothers her comatose daughter. Theres even a last Tom Cruise gag, with a TV showing his ashes being shot into space. Root stares into the distance, haunted (W Earl Brown has done really excellent work in these past few episodes.) And Quincannon cradles a baby made out of meat, stuffed into a parka.
In the chaos, the Quincannon power plant, which weve seen a few times over the course of the season, spews methane all over Annville and the town explodes. Theres no way the season wasnt going to end with a massacre, which makes it a lot harder to invest in all of the characters weve been told to care about for the past 10 episodes. I suspect Quincannon will be back in some form, but will Emily? Donnie? Sheriff Root? As Cas says, whats the b****y point?
At least our core trio is out of town, plopped down at a diner where Jesse lays out his plan: find G*d. This plan will, it seems, involve a road trip, lots of sin, and shooting a second season that sounds way more fun than this one. Preacher was always going to get to this point, which made a lot of this first season feel like a waiting game. Its been a bit of a slog, but there have been enough genuinely fun, exciting sequences that Jesse, Tulip and Cassidy putting on shades and punching the gas feels like its been worth the wait. Lets hope that season two delivers on the promise of this moment. Oh, also, the Saint (Cowboy) shows up in Annville, and starts his hunt for Jesse in earnest. This should be interesting.
Notes from the nave RIP, Annville? Photograph: Lewis Jacobs/Sony Pictures Television
Cassidy, to Sheriff Root: Im not an a*****e, Im the a*****e.
Also, he finally says arseface and Sheriff Root empties a round into him. (Related: Jesse still sees a hallucinatory version of Eugene possibly G*d? which is good, because Ian Colletti really needs to remain in this cast.)
Clive asking, Can I get my d**k back on? Everyones raucous, borderline wholesome laughter at this inquiry is hilarious.
Cassidy still hates the end of The Big Lebowski.
Obligatory Johnny Cash song
Finally, another one and boy, is it appropriate.
Worst job in Texas
Whoever had to clean up after Cassidy bleeding out in a cell all night, then probably getting vaporized in the explosion. Bummer.
Scripture of the week
Revelation 18:13, graffitied on a wall in Annville. The passage, about the fall of Babylon, reads: Cargoes of cinnamon and spice, of incense, myrrh and frankincense, of wine and olive oil, of fine flour and wheat; cattle and sheep; horses and carriages; and human beings sold as slaves. Im not totally sure what that means (if its supposed to mean anything), but Im going to optimistically hope it means that next season is going to be batshit crazy.
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