Welcome back to the Barstool HQ Week in Review. Started this last week and I’m going to keep it running for the foreseeable future. I know some may say “We already have Stool Scenes” but this is for the behind of the scenes of the behind the scenes. Some stuff that hasn’t been covered. Eventually I may just transition this back to Power Rankings but I don’t really want people to get mad at me.

Monday 6/4/18

Great start to the week as I was in line with Dave at Starbucks. He was a couple people behind me and asked me to get his coffee so he didn’t have to wait, but I had an astounding lack of confidence. I’ve never got his coffee right before and didn’t want to risk it. Also of note, I was behind our co-worker Deirdre in line (she’s very important). We never made eye contact though, and I didn’t want to tap her on the shoulder because that’d be weird. So I just didn’t say anything. Real tough spot.

Not great.

Later, we had a very special guest in the office- Terry Rozier aka the newest member of Mickstape.

Later, in the day I got an email inviting me to a business meeting at 4:30 on the second floor. I was fired up. I love taking meetings and telling nobody in particular to “hold my calls.” Turns out I was invited by accident. Heartbreaking.

Tuesday 6/5/18

Big office shakeup in the morning as a bunch of people got moved from the third floor to second floor. With all the new interns, it got way too crowded. So now it’s just way too crowded on the second floor. Luckily, I was saved and get to stay on the third floor. Part of the perks of Team Portnoy, as Zah was saved too. Big Ev took all the blame for it.

The extra room, however, did not stop Zah from handing out curses left and right.

As for guests, we had Frank the Tank come to the office for the day.

As per usual, Frank was unbelievably pessimistic about the Mets. I think the third sentence out of his mouth was “Things are so bad with the Mets. They’re gonna lose 100 games.” I’m excited to see how Frank handles the Subway Series this weekend. I decided that if I had a time machine, the one thing I would do is Periscope Frank’s live reaction to Luis Castillo dropping the A-Rod pop up during the 2009 Subway Series. Could’ve been a Hall of Fame Internet clip, alongside this one.

Tank’s visit also gave us this Hall of Fame picture. Nowhere else but Barstool HQ.

Wednesday 6/6/18

Barstool Idol Day. The first of 3 auditions. Also coming next Wednesday and the Wednesday after that. 6 of the 9 people made it through (nice). The office is overcrowded already, if we keep that rate up for the next two weeks, the office is really gonna be a zoo come idol week. Here’s the recap video for Week 1. As long as nobody who gets denied goes nuts and starts assaulting people, I consider it a success. So the first week was a success. My personal favorite was Marty Mush.

Also was a lot of office chatter about my outfit.

I would like to put an end to this “new money Tommy” chatter. The shirt was on sale at Modell’s for $6.57. 3 for $20 deal. Total steal. I’ve had the jeans since January. Big upgrade from the way oversized khakis I used to wear. But when I was picking out my Team Portnoy quarter zip, I couldn’t decide between medium and large. Dave said “we wear our shit tight.” Ever since then, I’m a medium.

Super busy day for me, otherwise. On CITO, they had the Floribama Shore people on as guests, and one girl wanted to be a smokeshow. Ria and Fran told her to apply through me. Had to sort through her application. Whole big process.

(Ultimately I just posted her like 3 hours later).

Lost in the shuffle was me getting Dave’s coffee right for the first time ever. 21 months of working here and I finally nailed it. I just never got the amount of cream and sugar right. Well I nailed it Wednesday, and now I got tasked with getting his coffee every morning. Some would look down on this task. Not me. Anything to help the team and keep that big brain functioning.

Thursday 6/8/18

Thursday was a relatively uneventful day in the office.The big office debate was Carrabis debating Coley and Big Cat over the rules of 21. Jared said you don’t dribble in the game (of basketball). Big Cat and Coley said you did. I have bad knees so don’t play much pick-up, but Jared was definitely wrong.

I ended the day by getting a milkshake at Melt Shop. The guy in front of me tried to tip the cashier and said “Where’s the tip jar?” but he said they don’t accept tips. Next time I go, I’m gonna go out of my way to try to leave a tip knowing they can’t accept it. I’ll get the credit of being a tipper but won’t actually have to tip. Genius.

Friday 6/8/18

The big story of today was some rando on Twitter breaking news that Gronk could be traded to the Patriots. It was the talk of the office.

Not sure where he got his info from but he was wrong. Thankfully our fearless leader was there to clear up the rumors.

That’s why he’s the best in the biz.

Now, I’m getting ready to host EYAK from 6-7. Many are calling it the Tommy Smokes hour. I would never call it that myself, but I did come up with it. Call in and talk about whatever you want 833-857-8665 (they call this a tease, folks).

Til next week,

Smokes

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