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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.

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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.

Rosenthal has got to stop posting stuff when he’s drunk.

That 59 yard field goal. It almost looks like an angel nudged it back over the goal post. That field goal looks like an angel nudged it back over the goal post.

Holy crap! 69 yards!

The new SISU film was disappointing, for me. My son loved it, but I was merely glad to have seen it, but I can’t see any point in rewatching it as I did the first film. I don’t think a film has to be worthy of repeated viewings to be OK, but the first film set the bar pretty high and that’s something difficult to repeat. There is none of the surprise the previous film displayed. We already know he can’t be killed, so that tension is gone. The film isolates one aspect of its precursor, the violence, but in the absence of many of the other elements in the original it’s repetitive, only bigger. If that’s what you’re looking for you’ll get it. There’s nothing intrinsically wrong with that. But there’s not a single woman in this entire film. There’s none of the stoic solidarity and heroism on the part of the women that was integral - even uplifting- with the first film. it’s worth seeing, at least once.

You are really a “man of the cloth“ with this series. I grok where you’re coming from. My whole family is following this series from wherever it is we’re scattered which is in Boise, Idaho, West Hollywood, and Portland, Oregon.

My son and I are going to see Sisu: Road to Revenge tonight. It’s basically a comedy where a lot of bad people are dismembered in an entertaining manner. In the first film, he was killing Nazis and in the second film he’s killing Stalinists. Count me in! I like seeing films where the agents of repressive regimes are brought to heel. It’s also just under an hour and a half, which is just about right for something that isn’t too deep.

I’m sure there’s a true crime website where they have us beat.

Well, he’s the real mayor. Ha! I never assumed they were that clever, but they are. You know you need a lot of help putting together one of these episodes which I understand cost $15 million apiece and having friends in high places is good. I loved the episode. It’s amazing how in just the short conversation with the pirate lady, she and Carol disclosed an immense degree of the logic behind the entire series and the deep structure of the relationship between the hive and the handful of remaining true humans.

I just double checked and Pluribus becomes available at 2 AM GMT which is 9 PM Thursday night EST.

I am really really really looking forward to the fourth episode of Apple TVs Vince Gilligan series, Pluribus. It technically becomes available I think around 1 AM GMT Friday which means it becomes available sometime this evening for the rest of us in North America this Thursday night tonight. I believe this was the case with other Apple TV series, such as Foundation and Studio.

You are right. Especially about the way he’s retooled player development. Although I’ve never had data to support my assumption, I always assumed that a lot of the staff in the minor leagues who were allegedly “developing“ talent were predominantly “old school“ to the extreme and that somehow the Tigers should’ve gotten more juice out of the grapes that their elderly winery maidens were squeezing between their toes. The Tigers now have new wine in new wine skins, and we are now on the verge of reaping that harvest.

I’m tired of all this optimism about the team! WAH! Everybody should be fired! Fire Bob Scheffing, Chuck Dressen, Bob Swift, Mayo Smith, Ralph Houk, Sparky Anderson, Buddy Bell, Tram, Jim Leyland, Brad Ausmus, Ron Gardenhire, and A.J. Hinch! Fire Fetzer! Fire both Briggs Sr. and Jr! Fire Jim Campbell! Fire Bo Schembechler! Fire John McHale Jr. Fire DD, AA and especially Scott Harris! Grrr!