Cup of Coffee: November 3, 2023

Nelson Cruz hangs 'em up, MLB settles a troublesome lawsuit, your offseason calendar, a couple of contract extensions, me not trying to be a dick, "Love Actually" and "Now and Then"

Good morning!

It’s the offseason. There are no recaps. But, for some reason, there’s more baseball content today than there has been for a while. The world is a weird place.

There was a retirement, a couple of contract extensions, I have all of the important dates of the offseason, the Silver Slugger nominees, a potentially troublesome lawsuit got settled, I tried not to be a dick about something but I was probably a dick about it anyway, there’s a movie coming back to the big screen that some folks love and, actually, others loathe, and I talk a bit about the new Beatles song, “Now and Then.”

Let’s get at ‘er.