A BAR SCENE, PART TWO
See this if you want to make any sense out of what follows.
Rich Rodriguez sips at his drink and looks around the bar.
Bartender: Another, ma’am?
RR: Yeah, make it another Jack and Coke.
Bartender: If it’s on his tab, it’s gotta be well brand. Sorry, but that’s what he said.
West Virginia’s in the corner playing darts and yelling out WOOOOOOOOOOOOO! for no particular reason, and not paying attention to RR, who’s wearing a low cut top and tight blue jeans.
RR: It’s like he doesn’t even love me sometimes.
Bartender: What?
RR: Well’s fine, man. Just pour it.
Bill Martin, Michigan Athletic director, walks into the bar. He is wearing his customary captain’s hat, but has eschewed his old suit and tie for a frilly blue shirt, skin-tight yellow pants, and a full-length chinchilla coat that extends to the floor. At his side is a woman dressed in a matching chinchilla coat, hot pants, and a Foxy Brown top.
Bartender: What the fuck is that?
The bar stops, and the sound of a needle being dragged across a record is audible in the background
Bill Martin: What is up, you…um…
Martin: You trick bitches and skank duffel bag boys. Bow…(swallows)…to a pimp!
The bar goes silent. Bouncers flex quietly and crack their knuckles.
Mary Sue Coleman, Michigan President, leans into Martin’s ear and whispers.
MSC: sotto voce Try to sound less mincing when you say that. Use the pimp juice, Bill!
Martin: Right-o. BOW….TO A PIMP!!!
He fumbles in his pockets and pulls out fistfuls of money.
MSC: Bill, you have to throw it in the air. It’s called “making it rain.”
Martin: Why would they call it that?
MSC: Because you’re “making it rain money,” that’s why.
Martin: My, but that would be a tremendous waste of money! Why on earth-
MSC: Just throw it, Bill. Trust me.
Martin throws the money, and the floor is covered with bar patrons scuffling on the dingy concrete for Martin’s money. Bouncers leap in to break up fights and attempt to scrounge some lucre for themselves.
MSC: Now, just walk right up to her. Go ahead.
Martin: And just…I can’t just throw money at her. That’s so…vulgar!
MSC: Trust me on this one.
Martin: Whatever happened to a nice conversation, or perhaps sharing a malted shake at a diner, even? A bit proletarian, I know, but the slumming was what made piquant, you know.
MSC: Bill, treat a ho like a ho. Remember what I told you earlier today?
Martin: (Sighs, recites.) Pimpin’ ain’t easy….
MSC: Go on.
Martin: But it got to be done.
MSC: That’s my streetstalkin’ hustler, Bill. No go treat her like the ho she is.
Martin approaches RR, who is already turned toward him and staring.
RR: Who the hell are—
Martin: Please, um. Shake it?
MSC: Jesus, Bill. It’s a command, not a question.
Martin: Oh, yes. SHAKE IT, BITCH!!!
He tosses money at RR, who seems stunned.
RR: What the hell are you doing?
Martin: I SAID DROP IT TO THE FLOOR! SCRUUUUUUUB THA GROUND!
RR: I…my boyfriend he’s….
MSC: Just keep throwing the money. He’ll trick for treats if you keep going.
Martin: (now feverishly throwing money) LIKE IT’S HOT! I DEMAND YOU DROP IT LIKE IT’S HOT!
RR, as if under a spell, instantly drops his ass to the floor and starts scrubbing said ground and popping it like it’s hot. . MSC digs in her pockets as well, and begins peeling off money and making it rain on RR.
MSC: It’s all a matter of the price. Do the rabbit in a hat trick!
Bartender: Wow. A sighting of the rare she-pimp!
Martin: My, this is invigorating! COME WITH ME TO THE…um…THE…
MSC: The crib, Bill. The crib.
MARTIN: To the CRIB! Where you will assist in MAKING YOUR DADDY RICH!!!
RR: Anything you want, daddy. I’m yours. You like that?
Martin: Oh certainly!
West Virginia, finally noticing the spectacle unfolding at the bar: GET YUR HANDS OFFA MAH WOMAN, PREPPIE!
MSC: Bill, let’s go.
Martin: I got no patience, and I hate waiting. Bitch-and I only mean that in the colloquial sense, and certainly mean no professional disrespect to you, ma’am-get your ass in here and let’s ri-ai-ai-ai-ai-aide.
RR: Anything you say, daddy.
West Virginia: I’LL KEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLL YOUUUUUUUUUU!!!! THAT’S THE SECOND TAAAAAHME YOU’VE DONE THIS TO MEEEEE.
MSC: Floor it.
Martin, being dragged out of the door, pops his head back in for a farewell.
Martin: Thank you all, and we out like Clay Aiken, y’all! Get money!
Fin.
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simply transcendent.
Comment by kleph — December 17, 2025 @ 1:21 pm
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Imagining Mal Moore in fur is….well, disturbing. Not nearly disturbing as the idea that we almost hired this ho last year.
Comment by BamaCPA — December 17, 2025 @ 1:24 pm
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Why don’t I know what a ‘Foxy Brown top” looks like? I’m assuming it’s awful though…
Comment by Sarah — December 17, 2025 @ 1:29 pm
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“I DEMAND YOU DROP IT LIKE IT’S HOT! ”
That’s some good stuff there.
Comment by Etch Westgrin — December 17, 2025 @ 1:29 pm
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To the R. Rod haters…. it took Mack Brown a few years to win a “Big Game” then he won a little thing called the National Championship. He’ll learn from that and now be able to capitalize with much more talent at Michigan than he ever had at WFVU.
And to think Edsall you posted in a previous post about this…how did that UCONN vs WFVU game end up for you this year?
Comment by BG — December 17, 2025 @ 1:30 pm
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I am still trying to fiquere out how Mal Moore even allowed a man interviewing for a coaching position allowed his wife in on the interview….my gut feeling is that she did the negotiation….strikes me as one of those guys who have to consult with their wife before giving a decision on buying a car, much less where to go coach….I wonder if Mal talked to his wife to get permission to talk to Rich Rodriquez last year, seeing as wives seem to tell their husbands what to do and all with their careers and what not….But Rita Rodriquez, underneath all that poofed up 80’s hair band hair ala’ Poison’ CC Deville, looks pretty good for a Cougar…..just sayin
Comment by Mr Pelican Pants — December 17, 2025 @ 1:33 pm
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If “Rich Texan” from The Simpsons played Arkansas in our last episode, then West Virginia must be Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel.
Comment by Craig — December 17, 2025 @ 1:33 pm
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5- Actually, it took Mack Brown a couple of down years from OU and Vince Young to win a national title. Now that OU isn’t desperate for a quarterback and Vince Young is stunningly mediocre in Tennessee, Mack’s back to his old modus operandi (complete with the Texas AM melt downs).
Comment by them oklahoma — December 17, 2025 @ 1:37 pm
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Simply awesome, and probably closer to the truth than MSC and BM would like to admit.
Comment by eric_lanai — December 17, 2025 @ 1:38 pm
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Awesome.
“I DEMAND THAT YOU DROP IT LIKE IT’S HOT!”
Sailboat Bill would prefer if you recognized.
Comment by Sailboat Bill — December 17, 2025 @ 1:42 pm
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I think this is the finest post ever. I can’t think of a better way to tell the Michigan story than this. You are getting really good at this.
Put this in the hall of fame.
Comment by Odell 51 — December 17, 2025 @ 1:53 pm
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Shake it like a salt shaker!
Comment by Out of Conference — December 17, 2025 @ 1:56 pm
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Your new unintentionally inspired t-shirt of the day must be some variation of “The rare she-pimp.”
Comment by Kenny — December 17, 2025 @ 2:03 pm
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Bravo, sir. Bravo.
The image of Martin reciting “Pimpin’ ain’t easy” is almost as good as finally hiring a coach.
Comment by SA — December 17, 2025 @ 2:06 pm
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He’s called Big Billy Dollaz for a reason.
http://autumnthunder.blogspot.com/search/label/Bill%20Martin
Comment by The New Math: 86=1 — December 17, 2025 @ 2:06 pm
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That was hilarious. How do you make it seem so real? I can actually visualize Martin stumbling through some of those phrases.
Comment by Clemson327 — December 17, 2025 @ 2:18 pm
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It’s posts like this that make me sad to see the Coaching Carousel slowly coming to an end (or at least the Coach Poaching portion of it.)
I can only hope WVU, in fact, does go after Saban, and then we get Alabama involved in this again!
Comment by Eric — December 17, 2025 @ 2:20 pm
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Yeah, I was about to say, when does Nick Saban enter this tawdry scene, and what would he/she be wearing?
Comment by Doug — December 17, 2025 @ 2:38 pm
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BamaCPA - Imagining Mal Moore in fur is….well, disturbing. Not nearly disturbing as the idea that we almost hired this ho last year.
ummm…..
and you are not at all uneasy about the “ho” you got?
Comment by Futbawl Fan — December 17, 2025 @ 2:40 pm
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Resplendent.
Comment by Dave — December 17, 2025 @ 2:47 pm
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Damn.
Thank you for the belly laughs. Every time I thought you couldn’t top the last line, you did it. You may need to add late night TV skit writer to your plethora of pursuits.
Comment by TIGERinATL — December 17, 2025 @ 2:48 pm
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@ 17
Agreed. It’s just getting good. I don’t want a “To Be Continued….” Please let the Saban to WFV rumors have legs. Please.
Comment by Turd Ferguson — December 17, 2025 @ 2:48 pm
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while i live for the comedy, there is definitely more to this story than the money. rrod wanted to be at wvu - the ad didnt want him there. just my opinion.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07351/842323-144.stm
Comment by Ryan — December 17, 2025 @ 3:01 pm
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LOL . . . Awesome!
Comment by hat — December 17, 2025 @ 3:30 pm
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Closer to the truth than reality….its scary.
Comment by George P. Burdell — December 17, 2025 @ 3:49 pm
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I think I just wet myself…..
Comment by texgator — December 17, 2025 @ 4:05 pm
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Thank God MSC has some balls! Great stuff.
Comment by BlueTurbo — December 17, 2025 @ 4:19 pm
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Who knew Toledo could be such a sordid place. Sounds more like Ybor City.
Comment by bitterhorn — December 17, 2025 @ 4:25 pm
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Bravo, sir, bravo!
Let’s hope there is no encore because the accountants with whom I share this floor cannot take another round of this merriment and tomfoolery.
Comment by bevo — December 17, 2025 @ 4:59 pm
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Jesus, Orson. That was fantastic.
Comment by Signal to Noise — December 17, 2025 @ 5:10 pm
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I think the pimp was promoted to arch bishop……
…The Archbishop Don” Magic” Juan
Comment by Stacy Keibler Luvs Me — December 17, 2025 @ 6:10 pm
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Truly good. Best of luck with the whore Michigan! I wouldn’t worry to much about the VD (or the fact that he’ll choke against the Buckeyes)
Comment by montani semper liberi — December 17, 2025 @ 8:09 pm
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Not bad Main, but my parting shot to WV woulda been:
“…Hillbilly if you hate now, then you wait while I get yo bitch butt naked.”
Comment by PIMP C — December 17, 2025 @ 9:09 pm
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Extremely clever and hilarious…but why did you have to put that damned yellow suited fool’s pic in this? I get the connection but I hate him…everytime I see a picture of this fool I wish to heaven that he’d just fall off the face of the earth into a bottomless hole, never to be seen again.
Comment by Senore Bitey — December 17, 2025 @ 10:46 pm
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more news coming out about rrod’s departure…
http://postgazette.com/pg/07352/842541-144.stm
Comment by ryan — December 18, 2025 @ 12:47 am
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Somehow this is enhanced by listening to “Big Pimpin’” in the office before anyone else gets here. Way better.
Comment by dave — December 18, 2025 @ 7:24 am
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watch this - fucked, WV is……..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBL2FaLG0Ck&NR=1
Comment by cj — December 18, 2025 @ 9:35 am
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“Sailboat Bill would prefer if you recognized.”
Holy crap, that’s funny! I guess it truly is is hard out here for a pimp…
Comment by Because They Can — December 19, 2025 @ 8:12 am