Mark Squires resigns from the Wine Advocate

My youngest is finishing her freshman year at Drexel. Go Dragons.

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Didn’t you just come back from Bali?

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We are all anxiously awaiting your unbiased, glowing review of the football squad there! :wink::wine_glass:

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I’ll be surprised if more than 10 Berserkers get that reference.

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They will be undefeated this year. I guarantee it!

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I look so much like Clark Gregg that people stop me at the farmers’ market with this line. So that’s one down, nine to go.

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I was there also! Great Offline. Will never forget 1982 Latour.

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Such a shielded existence.

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Do you also drive a red 1962 Corvette convertible?

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When Squirrel refused to shake hands with me at the Kosher Wine Experience because I was on Todd’s side of the breakup, that simply confirmed what I already knew. He was an asshole.

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But you don’t hold a grudge or anything…

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I never even think about him, now that you mention it, unless one of you guys decides to bring up his name. Despite the fact that he managed to suspend me twice for improper political commentary, which merely proved that, he also had no sense of humor, because my improper political commentary managed to include such horrible statements, is the fact that Ken star was born 50 years too late because he should’ve been solicitor general for the Third Reich.

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That was a great night even though the Braves lost. Here is Mark’s write up of the evening: http://www.marksquires.com/septoc96.htm

Didn’t the Mark Squires board exist first, and then Parker, wanting to have a chat forum, asked Squires to collaborate? So he linked the Squires board to the WA website? Inevitably the board was then identified with Parker, but I thought it Squires more or less remained in control?

And that put him into a seriously bad spot. According to him, Parker had a thinner skin and wanted to close the board long before it happened. Squires had a thin skin regarding some issues, but in person was really an affable guy, with a fairly dry sense of humor. I had dinner with him a few times long ago.

So when the WA was sold, Squires went along with it and I suppose at some point he totally lost control of the board that he had started as a personal hobby and now feels compelled to leave. Kind of sad in a way.

In the end, he became a pretty good critic on his own. Over the years I’ve spoken to a number of producers whose wines he reviewed and they all spoke well of him, praising him for giving the wines time and not dashing off a review after a sip and spit tasting.

Sigh. To think of what might have been. He could have been ruling the world today.

Zuckerberg had a little hobby too - a site where he could share pictures of hot chicks with his friends. And today, one man "doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus, and we petty men walk under his huge legs and peep about to find ourselves dishonorable graves."

The other? He flees into oblivion.

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Are you talking about my cycling quads again? In a tasting note, that would be bingo card material, but I defer to @John_Morris

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Yes, it was Mark’s board, long before Parker was involved.

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Fortunately for all wine lovers, @Eric_LeVine had a little hobby, too…

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And have you seen his big quads? He posts on the Peloton page! The dude is ripped.

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He was an ambassador’s wife (as the Netflix show insists on calling husbands). He needed to look the part. I’m not sure if he went skinny dipping in any ponds though.

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And he certainly didn’t recreate the finale.

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