For those of you following Pirate Master on CBS, you probably now know that Joe Don is gone, cut adrift by captain Azmyth. Give Azmyth credit, it was a superb piece of manipulation to force the remaining pirates to choose between Joe Don and Louie.

Many are thinking this might have been the last gasp for the Red Team, but I don't buy the reasoning--men are needed to overcome the advantage of Azmyth and his henchman. Perhaps the contestants need to read The Pirate of Panther Bay? Isabella would whoop them into shape!