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You need to watch "A Face in the Crowd." A uncomfortably prescient take on how TV would enable grossly unqualified demagogues to become political forces. Griffith is really good at being really bad.

FWIW, my all-time-best, for-medicinal-purposes-only chocolate chip cookie recipe uses vinegar. My understanding is that the extra acid allows you to use less baking soda, so you get a good rise without the soda aftertaste. You can't taste the vinegar at all.

OMG, is this a show that only exists in your mind or something that is already on paper? Either way, I'M DOUBLE-DOG HERE FOR IT, because that is GENIUS. Only in my head, but c'mon!

I hope this becomes a huge success and causes CMT to finally make the Walton Goggins/Merle Haggard Bakersfield-oriented TV show that I have been a grade-A crackpot about.

After I started binging Foyle's War, I started to realize that I thought Foyle was kinda foxy. This confused me until I realized, to my shock, that the character in the show was probably supposed to be in his early 50s, which would definitely put him squarely in my dateable age range. It's always confusing to watch British television, where characters look their actual age, unlike American TV, where actual real-world age should be read as 20 years older. If that makes sense.

Absolutely horrified to get every single game time answer correct. How much of my frontal cortex is occupied by advertisements?

Exactly. And, honestly, you can't tell me that there isn't one woman in the world who is more athletic than Tim Lincecum.

Wow -- so how far do we figure Pawnee, Indiana, is from Hawkins, Indiana?

I was really referring more to the realism of the broadcast and gameplay look than the realism of a woman non-knuckleball pitcher starting in a major league game, especially at those velocities. That being said, I do wonder how hard some elite woman athlete (lets say Serena Williams) could throw if she had decided, from the beginning, to play baseball. I doubt that the best women athletes are playing baseball, depressing the top velocities, because -- why would they when that's not the path to college scholarships or lucrative professional careers? I think it is likely inspired by Mo'ne Davis

Easiest way to explain it is that if you have a player you don't want, you have to ask other teams to take a waiver on them before you can outright release the player. I understand the general principle -- it just gets a little confusing once they start rescinding waiver requests. I don't imagine a TV show will get **inside baseball** (wink, wink)

He's a Fox property.

I don't know if you've listed to the Ringer MLB podcast yet in which they are interviewing the show runner. He mentioned that they not only talked to baseball players/managers, but worked with the Fox MLB broadcast crew to try to make it as realistic as possible. He also promised a whole episode about clearing waivers, so that should be interesting. I might finally understand how all that works.

Me, three

I haven't listened to the podcast yet, but just seeing the topic, which made me think of Death Comes to Pemberley, which featured Elizabeth (Anna Maxwell Martin sans bangs) and Darcy (Matthew Rhys) solving crimes. That made me wonder why we haven't seen a Jane Austen solves mystery vehicle. Who to pair her with? How about Napoleon? He didn't die in exile?

So I guess they can roll this up with the story about Jared.