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Hope everyone had a good Turkey Day. Our meal won't be till tonight as my wife's family long ago decided it made more sense to cook a special meal for the sabbath and to have all of Thursday as well as part of Friday to cook. Also allows us to invite friends. So I spent my day not watching football, washing dishes, and taking in MST3K. Today is more of the same, plus tidying the house and avoiding any shopping since I am not a fan of performative consumption. But it's been Black Friday for two months now, so I have probably participated anyway.

One tiny bit of Mets news: they are hiring John Gibbons to be the bench coach. Make of that what you will. I figure there won't be much news of signings this weekend, but you never know.

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I had my very first American thanksgiving yesterday. It was nice. I met my neighbour’s parents and brother and they’re cool people.

No yams with marshmallows though. I always wanted to try that.

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I can feel I can speak for all good and normal people: you really didn't miss anything. If you must have some form of oversweetened tuber dish, go with sweet potato pie.

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I want to try that too! I’ve only ever had sweet potatoes in savoury preparations, usually roasted with garlic. So I’m curious about sweet preparations. And I like roasted marshmallows.

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Due to a fractured family we've done Latesgiving on Saturday of T-giving weekend for years. Which always made actual Thanksgiving feel sort of...sad and weird (though the pizza has generally been good). This year we decided to do Friendsgiving and it was an awesome time. I'd say more but it's time to empty dishwasher load five and fill it up with load six now lol

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I'm up earlier than usual on this "day off" but I'm going to get my car inspected today. The exciting lives we lead. Happy Thanksgiving.

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I twice had to go to the DMV to renew my license as my birthday is in November. Thankfully I can do that by mail or online now, but not in the 90s.

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I remember when the day after Thanksgiving was set aside for vomiting. Another nice tradition slain by crass commercialism.

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Your past Thanksgivings appear to have been a lot more entertaining than mine!

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When you think about it, watching yourself throwing up in the toilet water is a pretty odd form of narcissism, innit?

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I guess that’s one way of looking at it. And yeah, I’ve had lots of experience at that.

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I'm pretty sure that I'm doing something wrong with bluesky codes. Just finished trying to use each of them with no luck. Getting a message of Code not valid. Could they have been used already this early?

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YES! That worked. Thanks very much. I stopped twitter post Elon and wanted to try this out. I appreciate the help.

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Suarez has somehow just made zero impression on me. A guy who hits 49 homers in the first three decades of my fandom would have a big spot in my mental game. But after Seligball and with my age he is just a name.

232 / 323 / 391 last year doesn’t seem like much. But it was, in SEA, good enough for a 101 OPS+. Moving to Phoenix and even at his advanced age of 32 (hah!) I wouldn’t be surprised to see him bounce back to 30-35 homers.

This is probably it for Longoria. He wasn’t BAD but a part time 40 year old who is a below average hitter is not going to be in high demand. I doubt he gets any significant support for the HOF but he’s near the top of the HOVG. 1000 runs and ribbies 340 homers 119 OPS+ and great defense when he was young. Plus I feel like I read back when Evan won the ROY that he and Eva were cousins.

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Any thought on the Barves’ High-A team becoming the Emperors?

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Are they honoring penguins or people?

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The mascot is a bird.

If they don’t rename the park to The Coliseum then it’s a failure.

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Ron Cey should throw out the first pitch every home game.

Don't make me go down there and program your special events, Rome Emperors. Get this done.

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Shame that Burgess Meredith is no longer with us.

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For many reasons, yes, this is true.

Maybe use his penguin braying sound effect instead of Homer Simpson's ubiquitous d'oh or even substitute for broken windshield noise on foul balls? Seriously, Rome Emperors, this season is programming itself.

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Suarez seems like a salary dump, which is weird in the off-season as while he’s not great he’s certainly worth the $10M or so he’s getting paid. They got a 3rd string catcher and a “non-prospect” arm in return from what I see.

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Dump, yes. The concern among long-suffering Ms fans is that Jerry D believes he got his third basemen in Luis Urias and will return the dump dividend to his bosses.

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Ugh. I expect Urias will bounce back but he was terrible this year. Plus the Mariners are so offensively challenged seems they could find a way to play both Urias and Suarez.

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Right? Young enough to take a flier on, but Urias has some reputation to rebuild. Also, maybe he's a platoon buddy with Rojas at 2b (still suboptimal) but he and Moore share a handed-ness and create no obvious advantage. It could be that the Ms surprise everyone and plunder the Padre fire sale, if such a thing is ignited, but dang, this is some terrible fan service. They are not great as composed but the time to start putting a roster around Julio was yesterday. Missing that chance, today is the next best time. What in the world are they thinking... beyond making ownership richer, that is?

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Keeping the DH slot open for Ohtani.

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Wouldn't that be something?

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Longoria will pick up sentimental votes for being a James Bond semi-finalist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTLQBOlgkTg

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Absolutely a first-ballot entry in the HOVG.

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It's sort of remarkable that Suarez couldn't muster a 5 WAR season with 49 dingers. That's how the game has changed for me--mentally I see a 5 win season as AS caliber.

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Happy Black Friday to those who celebrate!

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What makes this Friday different from all other Fridays? Who is the youngest here to ask the Ma Nishtana?

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Update on the Heidi Schloegel Hynes food drive.

We ended up collecting 1,144 pound of food for Harvesters. And we sent over $3,000 to the Bronx to get healthy food for the program my sister started.

I’m not sure exactly how much was donated by the Cup of Coffee community, but I know it was a lot more than nothing.

With Twitter turning into a rot of toxic right wing insults, I am particularly thankful for this message board and newsletter.

Happy Thanksgiving

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No good wishes for those who work retail on this shittiest of workdays?

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You have from me! People are awful on this day of all days.

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I was talking to a friend last night, and we both agreed that it feels like the Black Friday fever has passed somewhat ... don’t know if it was COVID, online shopping, a correction from the crazy excesses we saw a few years ago - or if retailers just spread it out more now – but I don’t feel like we’re storming the stores like we used to.

For my part, I’m going to try very hard NOT to spend any money today. We will see how I do.

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I'm going to buy a six pack, and that will be about it.

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Lienenkugel? Point? Or go really local with Swinging Bridge?

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Current crush is Rush River Unforgiven, but list has now expanded to a new $900 central vacuum system.

Happy wife, happy life, right?

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A new vacuum?! Wow. That sucks.

(I’ll show myself out, thanks.)

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We are about to head out for a few hours on the lake. So we’ll be buying some chips and charcuterie. Does that count?

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No judgment… I just have been spending a lot lately and thought I would mix it up today :)

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Good choices. Fish and wildlife out here in WA recently dumped a few thousand 1+ pound rainbows in several lakes, to get us out of the malls and into our little boats. I'll be out there tomorrow morning because fish don't keep calendars and today I wanted to sleep past sunrise. Chores today, tight lines tomorrow!

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A lot of online stores have black Friday deals too, judging by the number of emails I've gotten overnight. Most ignored because I have too much crap as it is.

I did order a few hooded sweatshirts though because I just got rid of several that were worn and ratty so may as well replace them at a discount. But the only thing I might go out for is a walk at the local botanical gardens to get some much needed quiet time after the entire family for dinner yesterday (when you spend the workday with about 8 people in a large space, dinner in a small space with 13 people and 3 dogs is just too much).

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Old sweaters are better than new but new sweatshirts are better than old. Gotta have a few of each.

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Good wishes to those working retail on this, the shittiest of workdays.

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Cracker Barrel was quite tasty last night. Although half the people at this campground drove their $70k trucks pulling an $80K camper to a campground so they could sit in it and watch TV. Seems like they could have stayed home and not missed anything.

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I'll never get steel-sided camping.

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Nov 24, 2023·edited Nov 24, 2023

Visiting my friend at the beach for this week, and damn, we did a fine dinner yesterday. I made my best gravy ever, and now we get to enjoy my favorite part of Thanksgiving dinner -- leftovers!

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For the Friday CoC crew heres a few more bsky invites.

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I have some Bluesky invitations as well:

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Get them while they’re hot!

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I used the second one. Thanks very much!

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I work in retail, but I'm in Canada, so at least people are generally polite. And my 12 year old printer has bitten the dust, so today was a good day to pick one up.

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Love the Kinks! If only they would tour again.

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