This week's episode of Game of Thrones sucked. Sure, Dragon Lady had her dragons burn some dude to a crisp and let them rip him apart and eat him, and that psychotic Bolton bastard continued to emotionally torture everyone around him because, as it turns out, his asshole father emotionally tortures him too. And, yes, fine, the other bastard, Jon Snow, was making deals with the poor chumps on the wrong side of the wall and changing the very nature of the Night's Watch as Winter (and war) looms. Even the dwarf and his captor Jorah Mormont, thirsty for some Dragon Lady love, had some intrigue with the falling rock people who are not supposed to touch you and yet touched Thirsty Jorah as we ominously learned at the end of the episode.All of these things are great; good times, but at the end of the day the show went 0-3 with a walk in a ho-hum win over the Orioles. There aren't even any highlights for it on mlb.com. You won't find more support for Game of Thrones than in these pages here, but the showrunners have to do something. You've got a Grade-A performer who's languishing on the sidelines for most of the episode. Let him play some defense, let him pitch. Hell, he'd probably do a better job of it than Pineda. Or maybe even let him bat multiple times in the same inning. Think outside the box, this isn't TV, it's HBO.Despite all of that, despite a clear lack of direction and even a modicum of creativity, Thrones is still in first place in the AL East; it's not going anywhere anytime soon, but let's hope everyone gets their act together next week, yes?
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