Haha, I was looking through this thread and discovered that you guys already covered every single thing I think I thought when listening to this show. Great minds think alike, eh?
At risk of sounding like a parrot, I'll go ahead and say a few of my observations anyway. It may sound like I'm addressing stuff you said, but I really thought of it before I got on here.
• I've never understood why sports shows are so controversial among AIO fans. I don't like too many sports but a show about basketball won't kill me.
• Eugene's comment about not understanding why they couldn't hit the ball seems to prove that he knows nothing about sports.
• So Tamika's "team" was facing Campell County? Odyssey is
in Campell County so I wonder what the name of the other team was.
• The idea of such a silly lawsuit is way too common these days. I read one just recently about a guy getting hurt trying to break out of a jail and he wants to sue the jail anyway! It's reminiscent of Rodney's lawsuit against Whit's End for falling through the skylight. Ashley's was a tiny bit more legitimate because she wasn't hurt from being stupid and she
did notice a real change in Tom Riley's coaching of her. The whole high school to college thing was important to her, and assuming that things really worked that way, then missing out could have been a big deal to her family. That they didn't tell Tom what her plans were is strange.
• Are finances
always tight at the Timothy Center?
• Eugene's rates are reasonable? I thought the ending was quite strange. He claimed reasonable rates but then racks up stuff like airfare charges without telling Tom! That just doesn't seem right for someone who practically forces someone else to use him as his lawyer!
• Ashley seems like a nice girl in the other shows she's heard in so it's surprising to hear that she's the one suing Tom Riley. Then we hear that she's not too fond of the idea at the beginning. At the end she's much more convinced.
• I think the courtroom scenes are well done, complete with the sound effects as they imagine the court setting. Since the writers decided not to have they actually go to court, we get treated to the scenes anyway.

Through these scenes, we also learn much of the story.
• It's funny how Ashley's dad refers to himself as "Mayor Bill Jenkins." Can't imagine him doing that in realize but we listeners probably needed the cue.
• As soon as I heard he was Ashley's dad, I thought to myself, "Didn't he say he was resigning because he wanted to spend more time with his grandchildren?" I got out "Tom for Mayor" to see and found that I was right. This is a perfectly possible occurrance. Ashley could very well be from her father's second marriage and he could easily be about 60 years old. When he was resigning, you'd think he'd also mention his daughter but we know the writers weren't looking that far ahead so we'll just have to consider it a slight omission. I doubt that the writers were planning to have Ashley be his daughter when they formed the character of "Ashley Jenkins" but it proved a convenient and neat tie-in.
• The apparent tension between Tom Riley and Bill Jenkins seems a bit far-fetched. I could see him talking about them disagreeing over a highway but saying that Tom tried to prove him wrong over little things? I think that's an accusation that Philip Glossman could level and almost get away with but not Bill Jenkins. He resigned because he didn't want the mysterious person at the other end of his phone line to mess with Tom Riley's farm.
• When Bill suggested that Tom was holding a grudge, I was afraid he was right. We know enough about Tom's character to know that's possible.
• Eugene's voluminous research hearkens back to "Faster than a Speeding Ticket" when he so eagerly helped out Whit.
• Heh... it's funny to hear Tom saying all the things a lawyer would advise him not to say and to hear Eugene freaking out over it. It's reminiscent of Eugene's screaming in the background when Whit told the judge that he was pleading guilty.
• I was wondering at first why Ashley had only one shot at the scouts, but then I heard that the high school is in Richland, which is some distance from Odyssey. I was wondering it an All-Star game was the only possible way for Ashley to get into that high school, but it's a minor nitpick of mine.
• I love the way Whit knows everyone!
• Why didn't Whit just tell the scout that he was having him watch Ashely?
• Who does the scout's voice? Does anyone know?
• Why is the earth an oval shape and why did Tom mistake it for a softball diamond?
That's all for now!
