A raw, entertaining and at times ridiculously open South Yorkshire derby was perhaps the ideal stage on which Irvine could gauge the mettle of his recently inherited squad, and they didn't disappoint.
The game is still far from completion, but it is still playable amidst an introductory cutscene, several interesting side quests and a ridiculously enjoyable open world environment.
Blackpool were ridiculously open, allowing Fulham to do more or less as they pleased.
After a ridiculously fast opening 38 kilometres, a few crashes and several foiled peloton-breaks into this afternoon's stage, a group of six riders have opened a 18-second gap on the field, while five others are currently trying to bridge the gap.
For example, here's an example of a ridiculously overwrought opening that's consciously cheeky: Frozen though it may have been that night, I marched on undaunted.
The combination of a badly tentative Per Mertesacker and a ridiculously rash Gabriel was an open invitation to Watford.
Among the funniest, saddest figures is Healy, the bigoted prison social worker, who totes around Hanna Rosin's "The End of Men," struggles to connect with his Ukrainian mail-order bride, and opens up a ridiculously unsafe "safe space" for the inmates, as a way of easing his own isolation.
The odds on Woods winning at Muirfield were a ridiculously short 13-to-8 before the British Open began.
Perhaps the best example of a high concept opening that moves at such a ridiculously fast pace you don't notice how daft the whole thing is until a lot later.
That's potentially opening up copyright infringement to a ridiculously wide definition.
