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In terms of Vince Gilligan‘s Pluribus it appears he is in no hurry to get going on a second season. He said he’s tired he’s old and if you want quality work, you can’t just grind it out mechanically. So people will have to find something else to divert their minds from reality. Apparently he’s telling us in a roundabout way to “get a life.”

Yeah, it’s low hanging fruit. And I’m not proud of contributing to its harvest I mean, I’m not mentally and emotionally strong, but I’m not paid to produce an alternate reality that other people can identify with and feel that they have “won” or accomplished something. But I wish him the best, and when he was blossoming at the end of 2024, it was beautiful. Let’s hope he can come around and do it again.

Ripped from the headlines: A healthy Meadows could be game-changer for Tigers' lineup I thought he was healthy when he couldn’t hit squat this season…

When major league players make fun of McGonagle by calling him “shrimp“ or asking him “how’s the weather down there?” I hope he just doesn’t go back home and cry on his mother skirt.

So what you’re parodying in pre-analytic terms is that “he doesn’t look like a ball player.“ I can see that being a problem for some.

What are his physical limitations?

If McGonagle is the shortstop, what do we do with Baez? I’m tired of expecting Mr. Glass Meadows to repeat what he did in 2024. I’d rather see Baez in center because he seemed to hit better playing that position. I’m not sure how much worse a fielder he is than Mr. Glass but I’m not expecting his hitting to rebound. And I really enjoyed not disliking Javy last year.

No.

Several years ago, Facebook threatened me with banishment for cultural appropriation like it was a witless eight-year-old who wanted to be “woke“ because I posted a beautiful photograph of a Native American woman that was an art installation at the local botanical garden. The irony is that the art installation was created by Native Americans and I am 1/4 Potawatomi.

Me me I have a pet peeve! Facebook Meta is so stupid. Today when I opened Facebook I got an urgent message from them saying they had removed a picture I had posted seven years ago from my profile and they said it was sexually exploitive of children. And it was was a picture of the scientist Carl Sagan making a joke about science where he says “If science was easy, they would call it your mom.” Which then and now I find hilarious. So here we have Meta hogging the water, and taxing the resources of communities building giant AI farms, and their artificial intelligence can’t even understand a joke that the dumbest person in every room would understand.

I guess if we’re talking about this kind of stuff there’s not much going on in terms of baseball at least for us.

For several years we would drive up to Silver City from Boise Idaho. Silver City is an abandoned former mining town kind of eerie with a creepy cemetery. The locals would get permits to cut trees in the national forest and they were sold as a fundraising project to keep the parts of the town that were historic monuments from crumbling away. It’s a precious memory and if you got there early enough in the day you didn’t end up with a Charlie Brown tree; you got a great tree for 20 bucks

It took 19 months from the time they started filming Pluribus before all nine episodes were finished and ready to drop. I’m crossing my fingers that they’ve nailed the methodology for the process for this specific series and might be able to get season two out to the public quicker without sacrificing quality. I don’t know if that’s a reasonable assumption or not.

Precise about the timing.

One of my best friends is born on December 7, “a day that will live…“

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.