I came here specifically to post your last paragraph. How did he make that throw? He’s an ex-Phiilie. That’s how. And we were stupid enough to think that we got the better of that deal.

Who is doing the critical acclaiming? Med patients on Thorazine?

My point exactly. Kurtzman and CBS took the worst part of the worst Star Trek movie and made it a feature of their TV show. How do people like this get put into positions of authority when they clearly have no idea what they’re doing?

I’ve been giving your question a lot of thought. You and I have gotten into a few good discussions and I respect your opinion. I think you are asking “What if the people who were hired to write Discovery could not come up with a single good story arc without breaking canon?” Is that what you are asking? If that’s the…

I’m not sure I understand your question. There is nothing so terrifying about creating something new that changing the canon of something old feels like a better option.

God I hated 1981! The Phillies won the World Series in ‘80 and were cruising along at the start of ‘81 when the players’ strike hit. When they came back, the Phils had lost their mojo and lost to the Expos in a one game playoff at the end of the season. If not for the strike, the Phils would have won the Series again…

I get the point he was making. The change in the Batman canon was bigger and more impactful than the change in Star Trek canon. So now it’s not really a question of whether a change in canon is OK. It’s a question of degree of change of canon. If it’s OK to change the canon, how much change is OK? How much is too…

By the way, if you are in any way looking forward to a TV show about Batman’s butler you need to get a life in the worst kind of way.

...but him having a sister—something that has never been a factor in accepted Batman canon—is a bizarrely massive and unwarranted alteration to the Batman canon.

If I’m the Phillies, I’d look to sell rather than buy. What an illusion this season turned out to be. Half the team is hurt and the entire pitching staff sucks except for Aaron Nola. Harper isn’t the problem. He’s putting up numbers very close to his career averages (32 HRs, 93 RBI; currently at 17 Hrs, 70 RBI). I…

Call it what you will. Maybe it’s just the Cards playing the game the way it’s supposed to be played. Or maybe it’s one of the bullshit moves the Cards always seem to do that make people hate them.

I could be wrong here since I don’t have any kids. But looking up and down that lineup, I was thinking that this is must-have-TV for anybody with kids.

Just another reason (like we needed one?) to hate, loathe and despise the DH. Can’t wait for it to come to the NL.

And in French!

I just watched this Rutger Hauer movie the other night. It’s called Blind Fury and Hauer plays a blind Viet Nam War Vet. I don’t think I had seen it since it came out back in 1989. It’s a fun movie and a good watch.

He moved but didn’t take his clothes with him? What’s up with that?

Tim Tebow probably could have had a very successful NFL career as a tight end or a full back or a line backer or maybe a safety. He’s big, he’s strong, he’s reasonably quick (for a white guy), he can take a hit and he can lay on a hit. All he had to do was agree to change positions. Guys do it every day! But not…

I was thinking that he probably spiked himself. But they don’t wear metal spikes anymore, do they? Don’t they wear rubber or plastic cleats now? So yea, how did he shred his hand fielding a ball?! Did he get it caught in a sprinkler head?!

If the answer is 1 or more, then the answer is TOO MANY!

The main saga aside, there’s a wrinkle in all of this that makes The Eternals a bit more confusing than they probably need to be.