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Two days after the Dodgers released a washed-up Chris Taylor, he was starting in center field for the Angels.

On the most basic level, “Stick” is about a prematurely washed-up golfer who takes a teen prodigy under his wing and on the road.

Co-writer Dylan plays Jack Fate, a washed-up musician enlisted by John Goodman’s Uncle Sweetheart to join a motley crew of circus acts and con artists for a benefit concert.

Like a washed-up guitarist, Trump’s so-called “weave” was often aimless and longwinded but filled with riffs that longtime listeners would know and love.

Bringing in the criminal element, of course, puts extra pressure on the characters beyond the question of whether an underdog will triumph or a washed-up competitor come back.