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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?

Same.

I just checked YouTube TV, and our robot overlords are actually going to let me watch this Lions vs. Rams game in Idaho instead of making me watch the 49ers game. I’m going to party like it’s 1957!

It’s not constantly burning the heck down either! GO MICHIGAN!

I understand wanting to be “entertained.” When I want to be entertained alone I re-watch the first 15 minutes of Clint Eastwood‘s High Plains Drifter for the umpteenth time, which is incredibly exciting, and I skip past the rape scene because once was enough. Gilligan is not trying to merely “entertain.“ He instead wants you to be also seduced by the intriguing internal dramas the people in the show are experiencing, which are profound. I’m thinking he also wants to critique unreflective “group think” which we all get involved in.

E-7 of Pluribus was really incredible last night. There are only two more episodes left this season and the next one won’t begin for 1 1/2 to 2 years from what I’ve read. A lot of people have remarked that this episode is boring because it doesn’t move the story along very much, but it deepens the emotional and psychological stakes of the major characters who deal with crushing isolation and sorrow differently. I don’t know if it says something about how women and men deal with this differently or simply how different people deal with it.

JFC. It’s almost as if a troll is writing the script for this off-season.

Per Jason Beck: “…they were in a happy place for at least holding on to some key pieces.” The French felt good about the Maginot Line too… I know not everything has to be done right now. I was, though, hoping for more than just socks for Christmas.

So far it looks like the team is going to pretty much be what it was last year, maybe with the addition of one of the kids or two, I don’t know.

FIRE EVERYBODY!

I guess Pete Alonso to the Orioles is not a big deal.

When I saw that there were four whole new pages in this thread in an hour, I thought oh my God, something big has happened! But we’re discussing the merits of Al Avila. OK. Turns out it’s a slow news day after all.