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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!

I ruptured my right bicep years ago so I have what’s called a “Popeye bicep” which is a little unsightly, but the doctor I went to was a sports doctor and he said even Brett Favre didn’t have his repaired so I didn’t need to. He did say he had surgically repaired one for a woman who was very thin and she had stopped wearing tops that showed her biceps because with her it was pretty ugly.

Sort of baseball related, but not really, yet right now on FS1 Jason Benetti is the announcer for the #4 Arizona Wildcats vs. #3 UConn in NCAA men’s basketball. I’ve never really heard him announce a non-baseball related game.

This is not particularly encouraging. Does this include the Kansas City Athletics and the Kansas City Royals?

It feels good to be so well understood. I’d walk a mile for everybody on this site. Well most everybody.

I’m glad Gleyber accepted the QO. Ever since I saw him as a 17-year-old playing among 21-year-olds in the Northwest League in Boise, and obviously being the best player on the field, he has held a special place in my heart and mind. And I don’t care if his 3.9LSTMFT+ stats were deficient when he was playing through an injury towards the end of the season.

I’m not sure what’s going on here, because a lot of this is over my head, but since I’m an attention whore, I’m glad to be mentioned in any post.

That seems rational, and I’m not sure if either the players or the team owners would agree to it. I think both are likely to say something to the effect of…

I sure am glad I’m primarily a Tigers baseball fan. In my lifetime I’ve enjoyed two world championships. Both of them deeply meaningful and fulfilling in unique ways. So I’m very glad I’ve never put a part of my soul in hock to any other sport and especially to the Detroit Lions Gun, Pawn & Used Prosthetics Shop. Don’t get me wrong. I have nothing against the Lions, their fans, or even football for that matter. Some of you are fans of both. So in both reality and in principle, I respect that. But damn, you’d have to be almost 80 years old to remember a Lions championship and then it would’ve happened when you were only 9 or 10 years old and it would be a hazy and incomplete memory at best. So nobody can fall back on their memory of that dopamine and endorphin rush a championship provides. And the emotions stirred up by football are really gladiatorial. It’s all or nothing and for 68 years it’s been nothing. Winning is the only thing and that’s a reasonable expectation especially since you play almost 150 fewer games so you have fewer times to experience the joy of winning at least some of the time. This Lions Eagles game has just become too painful to follow. Damn! I can’t really claim it as my own suffering but it sure bothers people I actually care about.

Excellent! Unsportsmanlike conduct cost a point. Jeez.

TD LIONS

I’m getting terrible buffering on the Peacock feed of the game itself, but not the ads. I’ve got a 700 MB download speed right now that’s not the problem.

“We're marching, marching to Shibboleth, With the Eagle and the Sword! We're praising Zion till her death, Until we meet our last reward! Our Lord's reward! Zion! Oh happy Zion! O'er wrapp'd, but not detained! Lion, f'rocious Lion! His beard our mighty mane! At First and Main!” — from Don’t Crush that Dwarf Hand Me the Pliers Firesign Theater (1970)

Pet sitting for a friend and previously their ancient TV required three remotes for some reason. The first remote required me to scroll through six options one of which was “laser disk.“ talk about Y2K. Sheesh. The new TV requires only two remotes, one to turn on the TV and then the fire stick remote and I’m in. Success! And Goff is intercepted. Right after they said, he’d only been intercepted three times. Sigh…