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Or not….

And apparently Vince Gilligan, who did Breaking Bad and Saul, etc. really likes Albuquerque because a big part of this story is taking place there.

Apple TV+ series Pluribus is pretty cool and I’m watching the first two episodes that dropped simultaneously. The “hive mind” thing is pretty salient and gripping.

Thanks. So people are merely being playfully talkative so that’s cool.

People keep talking about Bichette coming to Detroit as a live possibility. I haven’t thought of Detroit as a free agent destination city in a long time. Has he in someway indicated that Detroit is on his map as a prospective destination?

Skubal would have to be an incredibly sweet guy to stay with the Tigers when he could go to the Dodgers and live the dream there. He’s a pugnacious fighter and he’s ambitious. It would be out of character for him not to be all that he could be. And there’s a good chance it’s not only about money. Being on a perennial World Series contender is pretty attractive in and of itself. We should enjoy our ice cream before it melts and enjoy his last season as a Detroit Tiger. Full stop.

I hesitate to generalize about this tragedy. You think that there are people who should be on top of the world then it turns out they are not. I read somewhere that before the chase police were summoned to his address for a “welfare check“ because someone felt he was in danger of harming himself, but he wasn’t there when police arrived.

Revisiting Tucson, Arizona this week where I lived for 13 years for the first time in almost 40 years and drove by the home I inhabited from May 1977 to May 1978, which is colloquially known as “the Dillinger house” where the famous gangster John Dillinger was arrested on January 25, 1934. It is now immaculately restored with every conceivable gleaming modern upgrade. My pal Milt and I and a cast of colorful revolving third roommates spent a fruitful year within these walls and it was really quite a time.

“Former Orioles’ coaching staff Asche (asst. hitting coach), Sanders (first base) among Tigers' coaching hires.” Onward and upward! As the hippie girls I hung out with in the early 1970s used to say “the coming together is coming together, man.“

Twenty million dollars And they put you on the day shift Look out kid They keep it all hid Better jump down a manhole Light yourself a candle Don’t wear sandals Try to avoid the scandals Don’t wanna be a bum You better chew gum The pump don’t work ’Cause the vandals took the handles

I feel like the GEICO caveman around here when I see the level of the posts people are composing, but I do agree with all the shmart people. Keep Skubal and add as much genuine hitting and pitching fire power as possible that doesn’t block the pathway of our can’t miss future stars. Work whatever magic it takes to ensure the arms of our pitchers don’t fall out of their sockets next year and make sure that our hitters don’t forget how to hit in the last month of the season. Then try to sign Skubal after 2026 even though he probably won’t sign with us and there may be no season anyway in 2027.

According to AI, nobody cares about this guy anyway so we can ignore the little pest… “Public opinion on an individual named "Doug" in Fowlerville, Michigan, is not clearly available in public search results. The person referred to simply as "Doug" is not a widely known public figure with extensive, easily searchable community-wide feedback or news coverage.” .

I’m such a dope. I keep checking this site and other news sources to see “if anything‘s happened!“ It’s like I’m a kid and even though Thanksgiving itself is weeks away, when my parents are gone I contemplate sneaking around the house trying to find Christmas presents hidden somewhere. I never really did this because I was worried I’d find a box of socks or something and get real sad. I hope Scott and Chris get us more than socks this off-season, and some indication of this occurring sooner rather than later would be welcome.

The 2025 Cy Young Award winners will be announced on Wednesday, November 12, 2025, at 7pm EST.

This is tremendously good news.

This is stupendously awful. The “suite address“ was a mailbox at a UPS store? Millions of dollars spent with feather bedding positions for Clark’s daughter? Four clinics held over the years that’s it?

Move to Tucson. I did that for precisely 13 years on the dot. For seven months it’s pretty special but the five months of summer can be tough. Not much lawn mowing though everyone has desert friendly dirt yards so you get used to it.

Wow! Two quick touchdowns by the Vikings. I don’t know if I’m cut out for this football thing. It’s pretty stressful and uncertain I might need something gentler and more life affirming so I’ll probably rewatch Hereditary or Midsommer.

Gee zow willikers, Batman! We might have a game on our hands. 7-7 in less than five minutes of gameplay.

That is a heck of a return by the Vikings.

Well, that first drive is rather nice way to start the game. I’m following this game on the game cast on the ESPN app and the plus side is that I don’t have to listen to or watch commercials or deal with announcers.

I honestly don’t know what to do. I’m just a fan seeking an angry fix in the starry dynamo of the night. Maybe “staying the course” will indeed reap dividends that surpass anything our imaginations can manufacture. But I don’t think the collapse at the end of the season was merely indicative of statistical fluctuations beyond anyone’s control. There was something seriously wrong that neither the players nor the coaching staff could address. I don’t know if newer and better players or a reshuffled coaching staff or philosophy will be an answer or not. I just want the world and I want it now.

I’m not the sharpest pencil in the box, nor am I — to quote the confident protagonist in Sinclair Lewis’s book Babbitt, “a Rockefeller or a James J. Shakespeare“ who nonetheless “knows his own mind” — but I think this team as presently constituted has peaked. Unless serious changes are made the magic carpet ride is over, and when I cast my crone-like wandering eye into my gypsy crystal ball I see the beginning of this next season as an extension of what we witnessed in the slide at the end of 2025. This club has to do more than just “stay the course“ as the elder President Bush once put it. I’m almost up for erecting a gallows or rolling the guillotine out to home plate during the off-season to ensure that things change.

Once again, I can’t watch this game on FOX. Like the sad little boy who lives on the wrong side of the tracks in The Polar Express who never gets any presents, I got my hopes up when the national FOX feed of game 7 last night in Toronto pitched the opportunity to watch this Lions Vikings game on TV at home, but to no avail. When I checked my local YouTube TV listings I of course get my “local” or “regional“ broadcast of the Denver Broncos which is a whopping 12 hr. drive away and only accomplished if I never stop for food, drink or gas and am catheterized the whole way. I have never met anybody in the 38 years I’ve lived in Boise Idaho, who is an avid Denver Broncos fan among my extended family group, or friends, at work, or school, or anywhere for that matter.

My life isn’t appreciatively affected by the outcome of this World Series. At least I don’t feel I’ve had my lungs removed and that I’m hanging upside down in a rural Swedish barn as in Midsommer or anything like I do when the Tigers lose just about any game.