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I’ll admit that Scott Harris does look like a high school valedictorian. He must have a picture hidden somewhere like Dorian Gray, where his actual age is revealed.

I haven’t watched any interviews, but when I read where Harris said “no one is untouchable“ and that he’s willing to “listen” this means the organization is not desperate, that they’re not panicking, and they will not be easy prey and it’s going to take quite a bit to pry anything loose of substance from the club. It’s his way of dealing from strength instead of weakness regardless of optics. Of course I’m an inveterate optimist and I like reading the most positive intent into things.

“College Boy” is just a way of making fun of people who disparage education as a mark of inauthenticity although they would scratch their heads at the use of the term “inauthenticity” and utter resentful banalities about “the wisdom of the common man” being slandered. They’re the same people who are against the practice of the term “doctor“ being used for anyone except a male MD.

I am looking forward to a screaming headline mentioning SCOTT HARRIS and 3-WAY together to see how adroitly it’s handled given the fact that proofreading is a lost art in journalism.

Saw on the MLB app on my phone that Harris said there were “no untouchables” on this team and that he’ll act with “due diligence” and listen. I’m still not expecting earthshaking changes but whatever. Maybe the “college boy“ routine is a cover up for the fact that he can get tough the way that other “college boy” Michael Corleone did. It would be exciting to see him do something stupendous. I think this may qualify as being “optimistic.”

I have to admit, I sort of miss the drama of the way Dombrowski could acquire established talent, even if it didn’t in the end pan out the way any of us hoped it would. What’s the famous saying? “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.” The Tigers have to be some part of the main this week. Some activity with other clubs that work within a SOP methodology seems to be required.

This team is capable of growing its own in its solar powered self-replicating underground hydroponic greenhouse, and is committed to that process, but I think Harris is fully aware of the value of coming up into the sunlight at ground zero and dealing with other protagonists on their level. I’m hoping for some above ground activity this week and if there isn’t much, I don’t think it will be because Harris is a conceited college boy or Chris is a cheap bastard. it’ll be for well-thought-out reasons aligned with a general operating procedure that has birthed more fruit recently than we ever harvested for many years previously.

Get on YouTube and fast forward to the 10:30 mark - beyond the banal foreplay all podcasts seem to mimic of warming up the audience, and the obligatory rite going down on rhe sponsors and it’s really nothing that we haven’t always already heard or knew ourselves without anybody’s help. It’s only two or three minutes long and after that, I stopped listening because I don’t care about other teams. You’re welcome.

I wish the Tigers were at least a Five Guys, but they’re not.

I also just realized that because the Lions are playing the Rams on December 14, I might actually be able to watch this game on my local FOX affiliate because FOX usually only lets me watch “regional“ or West Coast games because I live in freaking Idaho.

Great win and it’s great to read the comments. I didn’t watch this game all the way through, because I took off almost an hour to watch the newest episode of Pluribus on Apple TV. But watching this game and my favorite TV show at pretty much the same time made for a good evening.

Per ESPN- The Boston Red Sox, seeking to fortify their starting rotation, acquired right-hander Johan Oviedo from the Pittsburgh Pirates in a five-player trade that sent heralded outfield prospect Jhostynxon Garcia to Pittsburgh, the teams announced Thursday. The Pirates also received minor league right-hander Jesus Travieso and shipped minor league left-hander Tyler Samaniego and catcher Adonys Guzman to Boston. Oviedo, 27, joins the Red Sox days after the club acquired right-hander Sonny Gray from the St. Louis Cardinals for two players. Gray is an established 13-year veteran with a 3.60 ERA in 330 career starts. Oviedo has tantalizing tools that made him an attractive option on the trade market. He will be under team control through 2027.

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.