Welcome to Screencaps, “America’s Best Daily Column,” as named by the readers. Screencaps, which publishes seven-days-a-week, is a mix of sports, pop culture, and emails from sane readers from around the world. This column isn’t for the coastal elites. Give us a week to steal your heart. Our track record is pretty good. Let’s have some fun.
It’s like shooting fish in a barrel right now for this column. I was telling Mrs. Screencaps this week that there are days of the year I don’t like to take off work because the content is just so good. Those days include the holidays and Halloween.
Why wouldn’t I take off the holidays? 1. It’s my column. I don’t feel like it’s fair to SeanJo to tell him to work the holidays when I started this column. 2. The content is always great. July 4? Are you kidding me? The content is off the charts. Christmas? Instagram models dump out all sorts of content. New Years? Having to work in the morning tends to prevent me from going too nuts the night before. Thanksgiving morning is one of the easiest editions of Screencaps to produce. People are in a good mood. They want to show me what they’re cooking.
And they’re dialed into the content because they’re not at work.
As for Halloween, I literally get paid to report on Halloween costumes. After being told this week by some idiot emailer that I should retire, my resolve is stronger than ever. No, I won’t retire. I built this column into the greatest job on the Internet. You’d have to yank it out of my cold dead hands.
Thank you to retired tennis star Genie Bouchard for kicking off the weekend with a Brit Brit tribute. Well done.
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– Jayson asks: A buddy of mine writes a mailbag column for a website. He said that occasionally, he will get emails from “psychos” who flip on him for not reading their questions. Have you ever received that kind of junk since starting Screencaps? If you do, do you answer them back, or simply ignore them?
Kinsey: I’ve never had emailers turn heel because I wouldn’t publish their emails, but I’ve had guys who claimed to be fans and loyal readers who turned out to be total scumbags, especially after I left Busted Coverage and joined Clay Travis here at OutKick. There have been guys who felt like I should’ve given them freebies that brands used to send to me.
As for a–hole emailers, I like when people write and snap on me. It’s great content. Typically, when I reply to their emails, the people disappear.
A quick Google search reveals that Elizabethtown College was having revenue trouble in 2024 when the school cut 13 faculty members. You know what they didn’t cut? Women’s golf, where members of the team are really killing it out on the links.
• Legacy reader Jess in Alabama, who has been emailing longer than pretty much any other OutKick reader, says it’s just convenient: The guy who wrote in that only the elderly or disabled should get delivery groceries is forgetting the time in his life with babies. I can get off my lazy ass, but y’all don’t want to see that diaper blowout spill on the aisle next to your shoe or hear the tantrum that happens 1 out of 4 trips. I’ll let the grocery guy pick out a bag of potatoes or mustard or random stuff I grab off the shelf. Then I’ll find time to stock my own meat and fruit when I get a chance. And I am not complaining about my life. I’m very grateful. And very grateful not to ruin your pleasant experience at the grocery store.
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• Louie in Savannah pushes back on Chris A.’s email: I have been following along with the grocery pick up debate the last few days and have to weigh in, especially after the comment about those that do it are lazy and park in the fire lane.
We use it every week. We are quite able-bodied, just busy as hell.
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My wife is the “Food and Beverage Coordinator” in our home and we have been using the Kroger “Click list” just about every week since it became an option years ago. I imagine every store in different parts of the country have varying experiences but there are so many benefits for us to ordering online and picking it up. My wife just submitted ours and I’m picking it up on the way home from work tomorrow. I’ll be in the parking lot for no more that 15 minutes total. It’s very convenient and actually saves money. There is no impulse buying when you pick it up, only what you ordered. We also aren’t bringing our teen and pre-teen sons into the store who are suddenly starving (as always) and now want to throw everything they see into the cart and grab a sushi roll to devour while walking around. As an added bonus, once every two months or so, the store accidentally loads someone else’s partial order into the car and there is no way to tell until you get home. It is like a bonus mystery box. We always call to let them know but they always say to keep the items.
Sure, there are issues with produce or other things sometimes but the customer service personnel are always nice and they will throw a $20 coupon into the next order for the inconvenience. Also, beer and wine purchases are allowed as well so that is one fewer stop while running errands.
With as busy as we are in my house with jobs, school and sports, grocery pick up saves a ton of time!
Everywhere is different I am sure but it’s a huge benefit for our house.
• Voiceover Mike writes: To be honest, my wife will put in a weekly Target order, something of a holdover from Covid days, and I’m usually the one on pick-up duty. Do I feel a little emasculated, sitting next to soccer moms in their SUVs and Teslas waiting for their orders? Maybe a little. Will I let the Target order picker select produce for me? Nope. I hit the grocery store for that.
If it were my choice, I’d wander the aisles, list in hand, and pick everything myself, but I’ve been relegated to pick-up duty. Keep up the great work, and never underestimate the importance of what you do for us.
• Tom T. is fired up: Nice fall weather hare in VA. It’s a good day to shake my old man fist at the clouds.
Chris A. really nailed it! Get off your lazy butt and go get your own damn groceries! Also, if you are under 40 and would like to one day own a home, get off your lazy butt and go get your own damn groceries, and then COOK your own damn food. I just do not get the allure of Door Dash, unless you have been drinking beer all day, because nobody should be drinking and driving in this day and age. Also, make your own damn coffee in the morning.
I also LOVE the entitled losers who park in the fire lane while their spouse “runs” into the grocery store “for one thing”. I always give ‘em the hairy eyeball as I walk into the grocery store.
• Bob in Cincy says: Our strategy for groceries is to leverage the Kroger pickup for staples such as canned good, frozen items and the like. No veggies or fruits. For those we go to Dorthy Lane or Fresh Thyme which are more expensive in general. The online shopping is convenient I’ll admit, and less expensive than DL or FT. It works well for us.
• Joe in E. Tennessee checks in: What am I going to do with the twenty or so chip clips that are currently keeping my cereal fresh!?!? I’ll run out of room on my refrigerator!!!
Kinsey: The Big Chip Clip lobbyists will not stand for these resealable bags. Just wait. Congress will intervene.
ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON’T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW!
• Darren in NE ATL shares: Had almost forgotten a fall golf memory. Late fall in the 90’s, with my dad, north of Dover, DE. Probably low 40’s. Pushed a drive near a lake into clumped grass. Got there and a slow moving, big ass snake was right at my ball. Seeing as my one true phobia is snakes, I took a stroke penalty for a lost ball, and ran the he’ll away.
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That is it this morning. What a morning it has been. Mrs. Screencaps, whose birthday is Sunday, has been sick on and off all week and she’s dealing with a sore back. It takes a village around here, that’s for sure. But, we made it through another week of life.
Let’s go have a great Halloween, if you celebrate. I have one more morning to go. Tomorrow morning will be 13 straight editions of Screencaps before I get to turn off the alarm Sunday morning. Let’s finish strong.