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One of my best friends is born on December 7, “a day that will live…“

It looks like Santa isn’t bringing us big gifts this Christmas. Feels like we’re the kid from the wrong side of the tracks in Polar Express.

No prisoners!

The movies really suck lately. I’m thinking of getting rid of my Regal monthly subscription which I’ve had for six or seven years. My son who is 50 years younger than me already got rid of his and he’s the demographic they want coming to the theater. They’ve completely remodeled my 30 year-old Regal Theatre in Boise, and it looks like the bridge of a recent version the Starship Enterprise, but I could care less. The seating accommodations are spectacular, but there’s nothing to watch. If the movies are not merely horror movies, which I’m totally tired of, they are retreads. The new Avatar… BFD. A new Zootopia. Another Wicked. Marginal right wing Christian movies. Another 5 Nights at Freddy’s retread horror. Another Predator. And the spate of post apocalyptic films are tedious. Maybe it has something to do with the backlog of films that aren’t available due to the strike. I don’t know. It seems like that should be over by now. On Amazon Prime they’re claiming that that terrible Christmas movie Red One is brand new. It came out last year at Christmas. Guess I’ll watch a real Christmas movie on TV and see what happens at Nakatomi Plaza.

Beck is steady and reliable. I hope whomever pays him treats him well. I don’t know if it’s the Tigers or MLB or what.

By the way, the very last episode of the first season of Pluribus on Apple TV air at 9 PM EST on Tuesday, December 23 so as not to air on Christmas which was also the case with an earlier episode that would’ve aired on Thanksgiving

This is true. I just hope the other boys coming out of the pipeline hit the ground running a little bit quicker with fewer missteps. We have such high hopes that this all works out. I don’t think anyone was expecting Keith to be Vlad Guerrero and hit 48 homers at age 22 or anything.

I’m fearful that our heralded “top prospects“ could end up being different versions of Colt Keith.

That is so totally cool and unexpected, although when she did her dramatic wind up to pitch the shocking truth about what the joined are eating I had the feeling she was going to be immediately deflated and she was. But the whole thing with him was just a rifle shot out of the blue, actually more of a howitzer blast out of the blue.

So, episode eight of the nine episode season of Pluribus drops at 7 PM Thursday night on Apple TV. And once again it only is officially dropping on Friday because Apple goes by GMT. There’s a lot of riding on this episode and a lot of dissension about the direction in which the program is heading depending on how you interpret the end of episode seven - which I will not relate for those of you not caught up to the most recent episodes. I’m actually pretty excited. To quote François Truffaut‘s remark in Close Encounters “Listen to me, Major Walsh, it is an event sociologique."

The Diamondbacks are courting Bregman. And I think the greater Phoenix Metropolitan area is Tork’s off season home.

Why are we still giving Avilla credit for drafting the guys almost everybody else would’ve drafted if they were in a similar draft order? That’s sort of like saying “I won the lottery so I’m better than you.”

But can he find a way?

What? He’s only 37 years old? Aren’t there any 45 year-old retired knuckleballers who’ve undergone years of surgery available?