Sports talk radio slows down in July, so naturally Barstool staffers filled the void with a Star Wars characters draft. It should have been harmless internet content. Instead it turned into a legitimate office beef, complete with prequel-trilogy discourse and public callouts.
It kicked off with Robbie Fox floating a theory that felt more like a shot across the bow than a passing thought. He suggested someone's picks read as a direct defense of The Last Jedi and an attack on The Rise of Skywalker, the kind of take that splits Star Wars fandom down the middle every single time it comes up.
This REALLY feels like a direct defense of The Last Jedi and an attack on The Rise of Skywalker lol
From there, Marty Mush tried to pour gasoline on it the fun way, pulling in Barstool's MLB All-Star Game media day coverage and asking Robbie and Jeff D. Lowe to weigh in on someone's top-3 Star Wars characters. It's Barstool's greatest trick: turn an actual sports event into a Star Wars debate stage.
I need to know @RobbieBarstool @JeffDLowe thoughts on @Cam31Schlittler top 3 Star Wars characters
Robbie didn't dodge the ask. He conceded ground on one front, admitting Anakin Skywalker is "indeed a dog" as a pick, but immediately drew a line in the sand demanding Han Solo be in the mix. That's the correct take, honestly. Leaving the guy who shot first off a Star Wars roster is close to draft malpractice.
Jeff D. Lowe wasn't having any of it, though, and he came in with the pettiest possible counter. He fired back at Robbie with a straight roast over the snub of Ben Quadinaros, the background podracer alien most fans couldn't pick out of a lineup, pairing the jab with the actual pod-race clip from Episode I as a visual gut punch. It's a bit, not a scouting report, but it landed exactly the way Jeff wanted it to.
No Ben Quadinaros? No thanks. @RobbieBarstool
None of this settles anything, which is the whole point. A Star Wars draft was never going to end without someone feeling slighted over a fourth-round pick, and Robbie's Anakin-over-Han stance versus Jeff's Ben Quadinaros loyalty is exactly the kind of low-stakes, high-volume argument this office runs on. Expect this to keep going until somebody actually finishes the draft and the group chat can move on to arguing about the results instead.