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Are you new around these parts? 😏 The police will do whatever is in their best interests, as always.

That’s a big part of it, due to the 162-game schedule. Another big part is that it’s a lot harder for a player to single-handedly lead his team to victory in baseball on an everygame basis, like one can in football (quarterback), hockey (hot-hand goalie), and basketball (superduperstars).

Stint in the penalty box for you! 😉

The other thing here she is skating around is that the hobbled Mookie was still a four-win player in 122 games, and Cody Bellinger is born again hard in the playoffs. This appears to be a narrative of convenience.

By tens of millions and/or a year or two, I believe so.

The original story I saw included a sheriff’s office quote that they were filming a scene. Doesn’t mean that’s true and that he wasn’t really just screwing around. It’s also possible that he accidentally mishandled the gun while picking it up, and also possible that he legitimately threatened the cinematographer in the manner of phony tough guy act gone awry. This is one of those things where we may never know what actually happened. There’s too much money tied up in the guy and in the business for them to let the chips fall where they may with the media.

He’ll release a statement under the imprimatur of 45th President of the United States, in the same manner he “eulogized” Colin Powell.

Doesn’t mean we have to just shrug and accept it.

Brandon Lee was thirty years ago. Memories fade. Alec Baldwin seems like one of those actors who raises a loud fuss and people just cave to get past it. It’s possible that in the experience of seasoned movie people, they’ve been around dozens or even hundreds of prop guns and practically nothing ever goes haywire. Then again, maybe it wasn’t Baldwin so much as everyone was simpatico with the idea of what kind of proper gun they would use and there was no need to discuss it, again because practically nothing ever goes wrong. Yeah, someone’s gonna be in trouble.

Let the kvetching and kvelling begin! 1 The Wire (2002-2008) 2 Mad Men (2007-2015) 3 Breaking Bad (2008-2013) 4 Fleabag (2016-2019) 5 Game of Thrones (2011-2019) 6 I May Destroy You (2020) 7 The Leftovers (2014-2017) 8 The Americans (2013-2018) 9 The Office (UK) (2001-2003) 10 Succession (2018-) 11 BoJack Horseman (2014-2020) 12 Six Feet Under (2001-2005) 13 Twin Peaks: The Return (2017) 14 Atlanta (2016-) 15 Chernobyl (2019) 16 The Crown (2016-) 17 30 Rock (2006-2013) 18 Deadwood (2004-2006) 19 Lost (2004-2010) 20 The Thick of It (2005-2012) 21 Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000-) 22 Black Mirror (2011-) 23 Better Call Saul (2015-2022) 24 Veep (2012-2019) 25 Sherlock (2010-2017) 26 Watchmen (2019) 27 Line of Duty (2012-2021) 28 Friday Night Lights (2006-2011) 29 Parks and Recreation (2009-2015) 30 Girls (2012-2017) 31 True Detective (2014-2019) 32 Arrested Development (2003-2019) 33 The Good Wife (2009-2016) 34 The Bridge (2011-2018) 35 Fargo (2014-) 36= Downton Abbey (2010-2015) 36= Band of Brothers (2001) 38 The Handmaid's Tale (2017-) 39 The Office (US) (2005-2013) 40 Borgen (2010-2022) 41 Schitt's Creek (2015-2020) 42 Peep Show (2003-2015) 43 Money Heist (2017-2021) 44 Community (2009-2015) 45 The Good Fight (2017-) 46 Homeland (2011-2020) 47 Grey's Anatomy (2005-) 48 Inside No 9 (2014-) 49 The Bureau (2015-) 50 Halt and Catch Fire (2014-2017) 51 Small Axe (2020) 52 This is England 86, 88 and 90 (2010-2015) 53 Call My Agent! (2015-2020) 54 Happy Valley (2014-) 55 The Shield (2002-2008) 56 The Big Bang Theory (2007-2019) 57 The Young Pope (2016) 58 Dark (2017-2020) 59 The Underground Railroad (2021) 60 House of Cards (2013-2018) 61 Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005-2008) 62= The Good Place (2016-2020) 62= Pose (2018-2021) 64 Detectorists (2014-2017) 65 Orange is the New Black (2013-2019) 66 Mare of Easttown (2021) 67 RuPaul's Drag Race (2009-) 68 Stranger Things (2016-) 69 24 (2001-2010) 70 Battlestar Galactica (2004-2009) 71 Enlightened (2011-2013) 72 Gilmore Girls (2000-2007) 73 Planet Earth (2006) 74 Utopia (2013-2014) 75 Babylon Berlin (2017-) 76 Rick and Morty (2013-) 77 American Crime Story (2016-) 78 The Killing (Denmark) (2007-2012) 79 Mindhunter (2017-2019) 80 House (2004-2012) 81 OJ: Made in America (2016) 82 Big Little Lies (2017-2019) 83 Insecure (2016-2021) 84= Normal People (2020) 84= Narcos (2015-2017) 86 How I Met Your Mother (2005-2014) 87 The Comeback (2005-2014) 88 The OA (2016-2019) 89 Dexter (2006-2013) 90 It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005-) 91 Westworld (2016-) 92 Show Me a Hero (2015) 93 Treme (2010-2013) 94 Louie (2010-2015) 95 Luther (2010-2019) 96 Catastrophe (2015-2019) 97 Hannibal (2013-2015) 98 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2015-2019) 99 Steven Universe (2013-2020) 100 The Queen's Gambit (2020)

It’s a big favorite of mine because for me, verisimilitude is a big plus in just about any movie I see. The more it seems like “yeah, this could really happen”, the more likely I’ll enjoy it.

Verisimilitude? Some actors are insistent on that, and I could see Baldwin being one of those guys. Pretty sure we’ll never see a prop gun on set like that ever again.

Holy shitballs!

My heart said Tampa Brewers. My head said Dodgers Astros.

How great is it when a c-store has separate checkouts for lottery and everything else, and there is invariably only one person working the counter.

“Where am I? Am I in an alternate universe?” ”Why, no, Jim. You’re in Chicago.”

Statues are not for teaching history. They are for revering heroes. I'm with Moses on the whole graven image thing. If they were all toppled, I don't think I would feel bereft of anything.

I predict he will challenge for the title of Biggest MAGhole once he does.

That's what can happen when hard-headed people are thrown together into a situation.

Not a peeve because it's kind of rare nowadays, but I saw this today on my optometrist's website: their phone number is listed as (800) 8-CORNEA. I don't understand the point of listing out their number in this way on a website. I believe the main reason these vanity phone numbers are used is for situations where you can't call right then but it's easy to remember once you do get to a phone. For example, hearing the phone number in a TV or radio commercial, or seeing it on a billboard as you drive by. What was the number again? Oh yeah: eight hundred-eight cornea. That's easy. But if I am specifically on the web page because I am looking for the phone number, writing it out as 8-CORNEA actually slows me down, because now I have to take extra time figuring out which letter lines up to which number. It would be better/faster/more convenient to list it as 826-7632 (I actually had to look up what the numbers were to type them out here).

I do the same although I've been scanning only for old people and children in the line, who tend to really bottleneck things at event search points. Based on your experience, maybe I need to widen my prejudice to include women ... 😂

Isn't it a bagger's job to bag groceries? Isn't that what they get paid to do? Customers don't get paid to do that, right? At one top grocery chain here, frequently when there is both a checkout person (CP) and bagger present (as opposed to just the CP), the CP will ring up an item and, instead of sending it down the belt to the bagger, will set it aside. Then once enough items have been set aside, the CP will then bag them all, then hand the bag to me to put into the cart, and the whole time, the bagger is just sitting there watching us. I have no idea what that is about, but I have seen it at multiple locations of this chain, so it must be part what they are trained to do (like silently handing the receipt to you afterwards, rather than handing it to you with a "thank you" like I was told to do when I worked at Kroger). I've never understood why they do this because not only is this ignoring the available resource that is the bagger, but it's slowing down the entire transaction as the CP pauses ringing up groceries to bag them—again, while the bagger is standing around doing nothing. I'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for it all ...

How about newspapers.com! I went in to search for the Cher ad and darned if I didn't find it!

That’s a stretch.