IdahoBert

An injured pitcher? Sign me up for that! It’s got to work occasionally. Maybe it’ll work this time!

My son who is 50 years younger than me, breathlessly recommended Caught Stealing which is now available on Netflix and I watched it with him. The first 2/3 of the film is basically deplorable, gut wrenching violence and I wanted to just turn it off, but I also wanted to see how it ended and the last third’s redemptive violence sort of made up for it. If you already have Netflix, it might be worth a watch if you don’t mind being somewhat stained and in the end somewhat entertained. Austin Butler plays a former star baseball player-turned-bartender who unwittingly runs afoul of New York City's criminal underbelly while pet sitting for his neighbor. Regina King, Zoë Kravitz, Matt Smith, Liev Schreiber, Vincent D'Onofrio, Benito Martínez Ocasio, Griffin Dunne, and Carol Kane appear in supporting roles.

No Thanksgiving Miracle… 😫 No Black Friday Miracle…😫 Maybe there will be a Cyber Monday Miracle?😃

Yeah, I get pretty verklempt by that ending.

So we go over 40 hours with no posts on this thread and the only thing to interrupt that silence is Trevor Bauer speculation. This is the very definition of nothing happening.

Our glass runneth to half fulluth!

So I guess there was no Hallmark Channel “Thanksgiving Miracle” in terms of Tigers off-season moves or a big Lions victory today. That means we’re owed two miracles. Yea!

Since we’re back to talking about chili, I guess nothing good has happened

Watched the first 3 1/2 hours of the first set of Stranger Things final season tonight with my son and he was the one who suggested that we hold off and watch the fourth episode on Thanksgiving day. It was so riveting it felt more like a couple hours instead of 3 1/2 hours. It’s quite incredible and they are accelerating the narrative and bringing all the strands together for the climax that is supposed to happen on New Year’s Day after three more episodes drop on Christmas. I’m fortunate to have a nerd for a son who has grown up with this program and who rewatched the entire series in the last month - all four previous seasons. So he was able to keep me on the straight narrow in terms of knowing what was going on because I don’t live and breathe this stuff as he does. Also watched episode five of Pluribus with him too so today it was kind of a TV day after he got off work.

That much money for a 4.55 ERA?

The new Pluribus was pretty incredible episode five. And then four episodes tonight of Stranger Things, followed by three more on Christmas, then a two hour movie on New Year’s Day which apparently is going to be showing in theaters simultaneously, if that’s the way you’d like to experience it.

My son rewatched all of it in the last monthso he’s going to hold my hand and walk me through it tonight.

Watching the Lions lose continually on Thanksgiving Day in the ‘60s as a child cured me of caring about NFL football at all. I was a patriot and felt I could only root for Detroit area teams because of the Tigers even though I lived in Northeast Indiana and not in Detroit. Nobody told me this was a rule. I just made it up in my head. Now that I live in bum <blank> Idaho and I’m surrounded by hayseeds I usually can’t watch a Lions game that’s on FOX because they only let me watch West Coast games, but I’m assuming that because this is a Thanksgiving game it won’t be preempted for something like a tractor pull or a replay of a demolition derby from a week ago. Don’t disappoint me Lions.

He was an exciting player to watch. Had to set the way back machine to find this graphic I assembled in 2015 then stored in my Dropbox account for which I have not paid nor added anything to in eight years. I struggled to get Pixomatic Pro to let me put an accent over the first E in his name and finally gave up.

The fifth episode of Pluribus dropped two days early, apparently to not conflict with Thanksgiving Day in the US which is sort of weird but oh well. I haven’t watched it yet. I’ll watch it tomorrow with my son when he gets off work.

<Crickets>

This idea that a work stoppage should be short assumes a level of human rationality that’s not on display right now to any significant degree, hardly anywhere in this country. It seems like the stakes should be so high that the two sides can agree on who gets screwed in the deal and that will be the basis of an agreement.

So, both teams playing on three days rest. Well, there is a certain egalitarian symmetry to that I guess.

That makes sense. Assuming a long-term work stoppage or more properly a lockout in 2027, this ends up making Skubal one year older, less sharp, and a year removed from being baseball’s “top model” while also operating under a new set of rules less advantageous for players.

I gave him that name and I said goodbye. I knew he’d have to get tough or die and it’s the name that helped to make him strong.

I like chili, flatscreen TVs, and the use of leaf blowers - while wearing protective ear gear - as much as anybody, but when it comes to bold moves from the Detroit Tigers front office:

When my wife’s grandmother died, she still had a load of barely used Cannon towels that she got in soap boxes in the 1950s.