This (Non) Sporting Life: More Banana Ball!

Andrea and I watched another Banana Ball game when the Savannah Bananas took on the Party Animals at Historic Grayson Stadium.

We hadn't had a chance to sit down and watch a Banana Ball game since June (which I posted about here.) 

I had some high expectations to see the 'Nanners go up against the Party Animals, the self described "gayest team in baseball".

We're in the post season as the teams of the Banana Ball Champions League (BBCL) jockey who will be in the epic Banana Bowl in Washington DC on October 24th.

The game did not start on time due to a lightning delay as a torrential thunderstorm tore through Savannah at game time. 

 While the lightning danger passed, the rain continue to pour. BUT the game and the show must go on! 

The Bananas and the Party Animals took to the field in the rain which did not let up until about halfway through the game. 

Because the game was on September 11th, the Bananas did take time to recognize the solemn occasion.  

Savannah Bananas Commemorate 9/11 With Solemn ‘Macarena’ Performance

Gotcha! That was a headline from The Onion.

But seriously, there was a somber moment of silence in remembrance of 9/11. 

One of the appeals of Banana Ball is the theatrical element, that it's as much show time as it is game time. The game from Friday did not give a show as awesome as the one I posted about here when Kristen Bell joined in for an epic musical performance.  

What we got this time was a time to dance, dance, dance! 

Bananas star infielder Jackson Olson is competing on the 35th season of Dancing with the Stars, partnered with professional dancer Emma Slater.  Olson and Slater performed a dance routine for the crowd at Grayson Stadium with a little help from the rest of the 'Nanners. 

I'm impressed that Emma Slater did so well on a wet baseball field in high heels. 

A couple of players were fitted with wireless mikes and headsets to conduct interviews with the game announcers while the players were actively engaged in game play in the outfield. "Yeah, one of the keys to our success this year was a focus on the fundamentals and...Ooops! Gotta catch that ball!" 

There were back flips and trick plays.  One player figured out how to catch a ball in the crook of his elbow.  

There were capes. One of the Bananas had a Superman-eque red cape while one of the Party Animals had an epic black Batman cape. Capes are cool! 

Four moms ran the bases with their arms in legs inside the edges of fitted sheets. Bonus points if they could figure out how to fold them afterwards. 

There was also a bit called "Smashing Pumpkins" where four fans wearing inflated pumpkin costumes and carrying large blue balls smash into each other. 

The Bananas "Stilt Man" made an appearance. He got a base hit but was tagged out before he could make it to first.  

As for the game itself, the golden garbed 'Nanners and their pink and black opponents the Party Animals kept the game tight but the Savannah Bananas held on for the win.  

Andrea said she was entertained but quite frankly, I found this to be no more interesting than regular baseball.

I had hoped for an elevated level of theatrical woo-woo from the Party Animals.  

But what do I know? I am guy who does not know or care much about sports which is why this is my (non) sporting life. 

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Tomorrow on the blog: Are we living in the darkest timeline? 

Tuesday TV Touchbase: The Librarians: The Next Chapter

 In last week's Tuesday TV Touchbase, I wrote this about this season finale of Jeopardy Masters  

Tonight the contest is down to  Victoria Groce, Yogesh Raut and Andrew He.

Everyone think good thoughts: Yogesh must not win. Yogesh must not win. Yogesh must not win. 

<Sigh!>

YOU HAD ONE JOB!  

ONE! JOB! 

So yeah, Yogesh Raut won the damn thing.

To paraphrase Darth Vader: I find your lack of good thoughts disturbing.

OK, let's get on with this week's post.

Bring up the Tuesday TV Touchbase graphic! 

Last week, The LIbrarians: The Next Chapter brought it's 2nd season in for a landing. 

It was a white knuckle, super stressed season finale.

Even if it was all a dream.

Twice! 

The mystic artifact at the center of the last two episodes of season 2 was called Reverie's Torque, a golden doohickey that has power over dreams.  

In episode 11, our Belgrade crew of Librarians have arrived in a German village where everyone has fallen asleep and a demon named Alu is looking to recover the artifact to use dreams to breach his prison and enter our reality. 

Merlin summons the team to help save Mrs. Astolat who is caught in Alu's spell.

Everything that can go wrong is going wrong as the team has to face their fears and traumas explored earlier in the season.

Charlie is faced with a choice of which Librarian she will need to let die to save the rest.

Lyssa is confronted with a child losing her parents and Connor has to deal with his reputation reduced to a mockery.

Vikram saves the team by entering their individual nightmares to guide them to safety.  But in each person's psyche, Vikram appears differently:   

Charlie sees Vikram as a drunken fop.

To Connor, Vikram looks as he usually does but he's acting like a syncophantic sidekick. And Vikram is a foot shorter.

To his great, great, great granddaughter Lysa, Vikram appears very, very old.  

He even has hard candy!

Resistant to using magic,  Vikram is compelled to use Reverie's Torque to drive back Alu and save the town and his team from the dream demon. 

Merlin usurps Reverie's Torque for his own purpose, using it to propel himself back in time to days of Camelot and make sure Camelot does not fall this time. The Librarians follow.

Which brings us to episode 12. 

Merlin stops a young Arthur from drawing the sword from the stone and seizes the blade himself, declaring himself King.

Corrupted by the power of the crown and by his growing magical abilities, Merlin proceeds to make life at Camelot worse. 

Merlin summons a fire breathing dragon and also instigates the death of the Librarians.

One by one, Connor then Charlie and then Lysa all die. 

Merlin kills the immortal Mrs. Astolate by killing her young pre-immortal self who was at Camelot.

Vikram has one last desperate chance to stop Merlin and even reverse all the deaths that have occurered. Until Merlin kills him.

And then he unleashes his full magical power in a paroxysm of fire and fury that destroys Camelot. 

Which is not what Merlin wanted. 

So all the Librarians are dead and Merlin, totally corrupted by magic, has done the very thing he did not want to do.

How are we gonna fix this mess?

It bears remembering that Reverie's Torque is a golden doohickey that has power over dreams. 

It is NOT a golden doohickey that has power over time travel.

Having hit rock bottom in his addiction to magic, Merlin wakes up in the Library's Belgrade Annex surrounded by the still very much alive Librarians. 

So yeah, we're going with the old "it was all a dream" ending.

As we discussed in this Star Trek: Strange New Worlds post, the "it was all a dream" resolution can be such an overused cliche. 

But in the case of the The Librarians: TNC finale, the writers do play fair with us. It is made very plain right up front in part 1 (episode 11), Reverie's Torque is a golden doohickey that has power over dreams. 

It is only Merlin's desperate desire to recover his magical power and his fervent need to undo the fall of Camelot that even suggests that Reverie's Torque can do any more than that. 

Last year, in my post about season 1 of  The LIbrarians: The Next Chapter, I wrote:   

I've enjoyed The Librarians: The Next Chapter well enough and I'm glad there is this opportunity to explore the world we met in the original series. But I cannot quite shake the feeling that TL:TNC is a pale, less expensive knock off of what came before. 

The team still feels like cyphers that elude significant engagement with the viewer.  

Having rewatched season 1 in advance of season 2, I kinda feel that assessment may have been kind of true but also unnecessarily harsh. In retrospect, the new team was a lot stronger than I was giving them credit for.  

But whatever misgivings I may have had about TL:TNC in season 1, season 2 more than made up for it. The show looked better with better lighting and better sets. And the characters more than came into their own. 

Highlights of the 2nd season:

The physical comedy between Vikram and Jacob Stone in "And the Tethered Wish". The genie was a wild and wacky antagonist.

Ty Tennant's guest turn as a malevolent Peter Pan in "And the Vanishing Bankers" was amazing and we got a strong spollight for Jessica Green's Charlie. And Lysa introduces us to the term "magical woo-woo".

The chaotic body swaps in "And Descartes' Nightmare" where our intrepid cast has to play each other rather their regular characters. 

• There's a bit where Connor is in Lysa's body and like any man in a woman's body starts to check out his new breasts.  (It's what I would do in that situation!) Lysa in Vikram's body tells him to cut that out. There are more swaps as at any given time, any Librarian can be in the body of another. 
• Shout out to Dominic Monaghan who is really on point when Lysa winds up in Merlin's body.  
• On a serious note, the teammates who wind up in Charlie's body realize that the physical demands as the team's Guardian means that Charlie is always in a lot of pain and she's never said anything.  

Props to Olivia Morris who has to play the heartbreaking scene where Lysa says goodbye to her dead parents in "And the Monkey's Paw" and gets to play her 1857 ancestor Anya in "And the Heart of a Librarian".  Anya turns out be all sorts of awesome as she deals with a cursed artifact. I wanna see more of Anya's adventures! 

O.G. Librarians Cassandra and Jacob take the spotlight in episode 9 in "And the Toy Phone". Oh it was so good to see Lindy Booth back as Cassie, still kicking butt and taking names with super math. And the episode is another excellent vehicle for Jessica Green's Charlie in a starring role.  

Right now, the Librarians fandom is in an anxiety fueled frenzy over the fate of The LIbrarians: The Next Chapter. At the end of season 1, we knew season 2 was coming. So far as I write this, we have no word from TNT on season 3.  

I would ask you all to think good thoughts but I saw how well that didn't work with Jeopardy Masters and Yogesh Raut 😠 so I don't wanna jinx our chances. 

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Side quest to the Emmys!

Jean Smart won her fifth consecutive Emmy for her role as Deborah Vance on Hacks. Jean Smart is a goddess and you all must worship her! 

In a big ol' "Fuck you!" to CBS and Paramount, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert won for best talk show.  In the tradition of David Letterman after he left The Late Show, Colbert has grown a beard.  By the way, Stephen will be on Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight.

Sally Field won Best Actress in a TV movie for Remarkably Bright Creatures which Andrea and I watched back in May which we enjoyed a lot.  Sally took time to pay sincere tribute to Dolly Parton. Sally and Dolly were in Steel Magnolias together.  

Emmy host Mariska Hargitay was in a Law & Order: SVU sketch that guest starred Taylor Swift which I rather enjoyed. 

Widow’s Bay, an alleged comedy series I have not seen or heard of before tonight, won a crap ton of Emmys. They edged out my beloved Hacks for best comedy series so Widow's Bay can go fuck itself.  

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That is that for this week's Touchbase.

Until next time, remember to be good to one another and try to keep it down in there, would ya? I'm trying to watch TV over here.

 

Later today on the blog: This (Non) Sporting Life with the Savannah Bananas! 

Blog Post # 5000

Greetings, Earth Creatures!

This is I'm So Glad My Suffering Amuses You! 

I am Dave-El! 

Look upon my works, ye mighty and despair! 

illustration by Dean Long, lettering by me! 

Yea, I say unto thee the time has cometh to pass!

Today is the day of the blog's 5000th post!!!

I have suffered to give you 5000 blog posts!!! 

Has my suffering not amused you?!?! 

Damn it! Was AI used to create that graphic?  

Let me check in with the I'm So Glad My Suffering Amuses You editorial department. 

Why do I even have an editorial staff? Have you seen ALL the typos in this blog?

OK, fine! I will cop to it! I used ChatGPT to create this graphic.

I know, I know! I shouldn't be giving in to the AI takeover of our planet and our souls. 

Look, I was doing this course at work ("AI: It's Not Just For E-Mails Anymore!") and decided to have some "fun" with it.  

I know I burned off the water supply of a nearby small town to make that image. Sorry 'bout that. But I had "fun" with the AI and that's the important thing.  

I gotta admit I'm kinda vamping here.  Yeah, I've realized for several weeks that blog post #5000 was coming but I was at a loss on now to commemorate this momentous occasion.

I turned to the writing staff.

"Wait! This is due NOW?!?!"

Sometimes, I feel like....

There is no writing staff....

No editorial.

It's just... me in here.

OK, there was on thing for sure I wanted to bring back for this milestone blog post, the return of the man, the myth, the legend, Dwayne DeFontaine!

It's time for a  word from our sponsor, Plain White Unmarked Van Emporium!

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WE GOT VANS! 

So give us money and get the hell off our lot! 

 

So this is Dwayne DeFontaine inviting you to come on down to Plain White Unmarked Van Emporium, off the service road 3 miles east of the Business I-97/Old Mill Road interchange, right across from the country's only year round Spirit Halloween!

Plain White Unmarked Van Emporium is opened until 9 PM Monday thru Saturday! We're not open Sunday because, dammit, you really need to be in church! But the rest of the week, for whatever morally, legally or ethically questionable thing you need to do, you're gonna need a van!

Good ol' Dwayne! Man, I've missed that ornery old curmudgeon.

Can't say I pegged him for being anti-ICE but really does it matter? If you need a van, he has a van! 

Out of all the blog posts I've written about television, movies, comic books, politics and whatever random shit that pop is my head. my blog post from July 29, 2018, Kimberly Guilfoyle: Fall of a LEGend continues to appear in the top ten of the most viewed blog posts.

Speaking of women who were fired by Fox News, you might wonder why didn't do a post about Maria Bartiromo.  

She was just not as LEGendary.

Let's take a moment to check in with Edith, our Director of Ethics and Standards.

Good job keeping us on our toes around this blog, Edith, you saucy minx! 

Let me take a moment to speak to my all my fans who keep me energized and ready to post every single day.

#kansas 

Sometimes I forget.

It's just me in here.

Anyway....

I feel I should acknowledge someone who has unfortunately become a frequent fixture on this blog.

You know him, you hate him, we wish we could live without him!

It's America's own lying, petulant, bullying, unintelligent, sociopathic, dishonorable, treasonous, gutless, moronic, heartless, soulless, slimy, loathsome, vile, incompetent, psychotic, crooked, disgusting, reprehensible, revolting, horrible, malicious, obnoxious, hateful, narcissistic, small-minded, despicable god damn, motherfucking piece of shit.....  der Führer!

Back in 2013, when I first launched this blog, I thought that I might occasionally dabble in the random political thought once in awhile.  But not that often since I did not consider myself a particularly nuanced or sophisticated political pundit.

But who needs nuance or sophistication when dealing with a political person of such blindingly obvious levels of STUPID! 

I look like a fucking genius compared to this guy! 

Who I am not calling by name in this post because it's BLOG POST 5000 and we're here to have a good time! 

And what better way to have a good time that avoiding Donald Tr-GODDAMMIT!!! 

OK, where were we? Oh yeah! We're celebrating 5000 blog posts!

FUCK! It's that AI image!  How could I allowed myself to be corrupted to let AI generated stuff into this blog? 

Goddam fucking AI shit! 

OK, Dave-El!  Deep breath! 

Oh, right! 5000 blog posts.

I've seen my stats and I know that virtually nobody reads this thing.  And that's OK.

I am actually quite surprised, alarmed even, when I have evidence that someone actually saw this blog.  

Mostly, this blog is my diary that is open to anyone to read.  

It's may not be much but it's mine.

So I will continue to do this damn thing because (and this is so sad), it's a purpose I have in life.

And I am so glad my suffering amuses you! 

Dedicated to my son Dean! 

Doctor Who and An Electric Future

 It's been a minute since I last did a Doctor Who post.  

So let's talk about Doctor Who for a bit.

A few weeks ago, the internet went into full on red alert that Dean Devlin and his production company Electric Entertainment were up to take over as producers of Doctor Who. And he was bringing back David Tennant.

Wait! Who the what was going to how when why now? 

As you know, the BBC announced it's intention to put Doctor Who out for tender.  After the departure of Russell T. Davies and Bad Wolf, the BBC will be looking for someone to produce Doctor Who for them. 

As I write this, the BBC has not acted on that intention so as of right now, the BBC is not in talks with anyone to run the show.

What is the hold up on putting Doctor Who out to tender? I have no idea. I imagine there is some legal woo-woo with lawyers and such I don't understand.

I will say that Dean Devlin taking up the reins of Doctor Who is, I think, a very good idea.

David Tennant coming back is NOT a very good idea.  

Look, we all love David Tennant but I think if there is any concensus on the future of Doctor Who, it's that the show needs to move forward.  If anything scuttled the Doctor Who run on Disney+, it was RTD's penchant for nostalgia.

If there is anything the fandom can agree about, whoever takes over the show needs to take a page from the 2005 playbook and hit the ground running with a new Doctor.

As for Dean Devlin running the show, well, I think he would be a great choice.  Dean is a big Doctor Who fan and the show's influence can be keenly felt in his TV series The Librarians, both the original series and it's follow up, The Next Chapter.

Callum McGowan who plays Vikram Chamberlain on TNC would be a perfect person to play the Doctor. 

Heck, if you wanna be bold and try for a female Doctor again, I think Olivia Morris who plays Lysa Pascal on TNC is a strong candidate.   

Or maybe there might be a Tennant involved in Dean Devlin's ideas for Doctor Who but to quote the 8th Doctor, "It's not the one you were expecting".

While watching the season 2 TNC episode "And the Vanishing Bankers", I was struck by how good guest star Ty Tennant (David's son) might be as the Doctor.  

But we are getting ahead of ourselves.

As for the internet rumor that Dean Devlin and Electric Entertainment running Doctor Who was a done deal? 

No, it is not and Dean Devlin had something to say about that.

He confirmed that Electric Entertainment hopes to talk with the BBC about Doctor Who once the formal tender process officially opens. But no one has talked to anyone about anything at this time. And any other talk about any direction or casting for the series is just speculation.   

While Andrea and I think Dean Devlin would be a great choice to produce Doctor Who, it is not a universally endorsed idea.  I've seen people concerned about the Doctor being "Americanized".  Whatever that means.  

The entire lead cast of The Librarians: The Next Chapter is British. Don't mind the American accents for Lysa, Charlie and Connor.    

I think Dean and his team have demonstrated via The Librarians that they have at least the very strong potential to oversee the future of Doctor Who.  

But right now this is all just hopes and speculation.

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Tomorrow: it's BLOG POST#5000! 

That sounds important! 

Geez! I better get working on that! 

 

Star Trekking: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 4 -“Orders of Magnitude”

 

Welcome back to Star Trekking, my regular blog berth for my Star Trek fandom.

This week brings us to the 8th episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' 4th season. 

"Orders of Magnitude" gives us another step in the development of James T. Kirk into the leader he is destined to become.

For a guy who is not assigned to the Enterprise yet, boy, he does show up a lot.  But seriously, this is a good outing for a our future captain.

This episode gives us that standard Star Trek staple, the "Bad Admiral".   

The trope of the "Bad Admiral" got a lot of play on Star Trek: The Next Generation.

"Too Short a Season"

"Ensign Ro"

"The Drumhead"

"The Pegasus"

Just to name a few.  And the trope continued into the movies with Star Trek: Insurrection.

The "Bad Admiral" is usually a high ranking person in Starfleet with an absolute 100% certainty of the rightness of their cause even if that cause stands in defiance of the ideals of Starfleet and the Federation. 

Sometimes the "Bad Admiral" is just plain nuts.

Which brings us to this week's episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

Capt. Pike, Commander Chin Riley along with Uhura, Chapel and Vulcan cadet Asha are on a side quest off the Enterprise.

(I'm not clear why the Captain AND the first officer had to BOTH be off the ship but hey, the original series did it all the freakin' time!) 

This team is checking into an SOS on a distant and mostly barren world.  Only to find themselves in a trap laid by some rogue Andorian pirates engaged in some decidedly illegal arms sales.  

But that's the B plot.

Meanwhile, back on the Enterprise, an admiral has arrived that has the crew squeeing with fangoodber glee.  When he was Captain of the starship Constitution, Admiral Simon Reeger was a hero of the Klingon war, fighting off an assault by 4 Klingon warships all by his damn self.  

Reeger has arrived to commandeer the Enterprise for an urgent mission.  He's tracking a cloaked ship that staged an attack on a Federation outpost that killed 5 million people. The ion trail will soon dissipate so:

• Reeger is taking command of the Enterprise NOW!
• The Enterprise is leaving to track the enemy vessel NOW!
• And something other 3rd thing right NOW! 

Reeger assigns the visiting Jim Kirk as his first officer. Jim's dad, George, was Reeger's first officer on the Constitution and the admiral seems to take some perverse pleasure by shitting all over the senior Kirk's reputation.  

There is a lot about Reeger that sets me on edge from jump. His drastic swings between gregarious familiarity and ball busting brusqueness, his frequent goddam passive aggressive manipulation of the bridge crew. 

Jim Kirk knows something is not right with this bastard.  And those doubts are crystalized when Reeger makes a very drastic decision.

The cloaked ship has entered a planet's atmosphere and can no longer be tracked.  To ensure the enemy vessel does not leave the planet. Reeger invokes General Order 24.

General Order 24 is the destruction of an entire planet.  

Jim has to play beat the clock and convince the crew that Reeger is fucking nuts and needs to be removed from command.  And NOT blow up a damn planet.  

Which is quite frankly harder than it should be because Reeger is so frickin' obvious koo-koo for cocoa puffs. 

What follows is Kirk using all his skills, courage and more than a little bit of guile to stop Reeger's myopic quest to stop an alien invader even at the cost of innocent lives.

Meanwhile, back with the the B-plot, the Andorian pirates seem to have the upper hand.  They have injured Asha, the Vulcan cadet; she will die if they can't get her to the medical help she needs soon. Asha's mentor, Uhura, is feeling particularly guilty for bringing Asha on the away mission and despite Pike's orders not to do so, Uhura agrees to help the Andorians in their schemes.

Don't worry: Uhura has a plan! And she and the plan kick all sorts of ass! 

For her efforts, Uhura is awarded a promotion to lieutenant junior-grade after being an ensign for little more than 2 years.

To quote Wrenn Simms, wife of Keith R.A. DeCandido, "SUCK IT, HARRY KIM!"

(Harry Kim spent seven years on Star Trek: Voyager stuck at the rank of Ensign.)   

"Orders of Magnitude" is a great spotlight for legacy characters Uhura and Kirk. 

The mystery of the cloaked invader is not resolved within the episode but the evidence  suggests we're dealing with an advance foray by the Romulans before their next incursion in the original series "Balance of Terror".  

There was another question in my mind that was not resolved.  Reeger was accompanied by a female assistant who was always lurking in the background, never saying anything. 

There she is lurking behind Kirk and Ortegas.  

I kept waiting for some shoe to drop that she was up to something. Like she was some kind of mind controlling shape shifter alien who was making Reeger act crazy or some shit like that. 

But no. She was just...  there. Always there. Always watching.

Keith R.A. DeCandido didn't mention her in his blog post. Nor did anyone bring her up anywhere else I looked.

So my questions about her were just mine, I suppose.

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As part of the 60th Anniversay celebration of Star Trek, The Price Is Right presented a Star Trek themed episode with Drew Carey and the TPIR gang clad in Trekkian regalia, Trek themed games and prizes and an appearance by Rebecca Romijin and Ethan Peck.

It was kind of dumb fun with Ethan and Rebecca having a blast introducing the showcase prizes. Drew and the announcer engaged in a lot of groan worthy Trek based puns.

I sucked at guessing prices because man, shit costs too much now! One woman won a pair of sunglasses with a retail price of $1,900! Nearly TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS for sunglasses?!?!

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On the subject of StarTrek's 60th, click here for a very well written post by Kevin Church about his discovery of and passion for Star Trek.   

That is that for this week's Star Trekking.

Until next week, remember to live long and prosper, y'all!  

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Later today, we take a brief break with Doctor Who!

And tomorrow: BLOG POST#5000! 

What will that be all about? Your guess is as good as mine.

My writing staff is working on it now.

"OH SHIT! THAT'S DUE TOMORROW!?!?!"