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Late to the party but I still find it jarring and unrealistic that the Belters aren't trying to colonize some planets. Not Marcos, but the rest of them. Esp after that other season where they went on and on about it. But even without that- you have worlds of planets with potentially boundless resources (boundless until humans inevitably fuck it up) but to stay in space and potentially starve bc.....? Why again? Talk about small imaginations. Marco can't think beyond running some space stations and throwing rocks when there are literally whole galaxies of planets open to them.

I think I read the stadium is close to the Vegas strip. They could be the Las Vegas Strippers.

There is no objective standard for how much rosin is too much. That seems problematic. I keep wondering how big gambling is now and how long they can keep allowing umps to make these subjective calls. Or maybe the gambling companies don't care, but like I wouldn't be betting on games Cuzzi is umpiring. Or Angel Hernandez. And so on.

Astros are sponsored by Oxy. Is that not a drug? Does nobody vet this stuff lol? Giant patches and all over the field. I mean maybe it's oxy clean but that is not what comes to mind. Would've pegged it for a Florida team tbh.

In his quest to ruin the game, Manfred is testing some new rules in the Atlantic league. One of them- if the pitcher exits early so does the DH. WTF. I'm not even sure how that would work. Also so much for trying to be conscious of pitcher health. Can't stress enough how much I hate this guy.

Also what are the ages the 4 Capwell kids supposed to be? Kelly and Ted were too young to be a killer, but Mason was old enough to be drinking. So--- 14? I would guess 14 or 15. Kelly said she was 5. They never suspect Eden. Just Mason or CC. Why not Eden? Yes, I'm thinking too much about this lol. Normally I can ride with gigantic potholes and ridiculous stories in soaps but this supposed murder plot has got me thinking.

So I'm watching the ep where they show the redesigned Capwell mansion. I really like the new set. I started watching towards summer 1990 so this was the only set I knew, so maybe that's why I like it best. Funny to think I probably watched less than 12 months originally, but it had a huge impression on me. ETA except I'm not sure this storyline with Cassandra makes sense. Like I know she was alive but they don't. So they think she was killed in the shed and her blood is there on gardening shears. But really she was in the tunnel with Mason. And then there was no body. So she was actually mysteriously kidnapped or whatever. So how did her blood get in the shed? It just irritates me bc I assume they're not going to really explain anymof this. Also I am beyond ready for GT. TL is a great actor but he is just not right for this part. I find myself wishing GT was in all these scenes.

I watched the Utah storyline once, I think that was enough for me. And it is sooooo long.

Yes I think I've said before I'm a pessimist through and through. It's always nice to be surprised though.

This is the biggest issue I have with all the clock stuff- it rests on the ability of the umps to do their job correctly and fairly. They have a lot of discretionary power with it. Balls and strikes are a lot more clear cut and they can't even manage that very well.

You are correct about RW. Really irritates me and I'll be honest I dislike RW bc of it. I hate that pretentious attitude, some of the comments she has made about it were pretty obnoxious imo, but she wasn't too good to take the pay cheque.

I don't like the Rays but it is impressive. I think I can safely say that anyone thinking they will finally face a good team when they come to Toronto this weekend is mistaken. We have a good lineup but our pitching sucks.

See I didn't think Augusta thought that until after. If she thought that all along and let an innocent guy go to jail, that's pretty shitty son or no. Anyway that storyline was just just not for me. I found it all awful. But thanks for trying to make it make sense! You probably did a better job than the writers.

Why was Joe Augusta's enemy? She tried to keep him away before he came to town.

I think it was more the plot I didn't get. She didn't want him to come to town and was against him, then she wanted him around....I can't remember the details now. Just early in some of the characters were so contradictory and poorly written. Also though Dane Witherspoon is just not appealing to me heh. So that too.

I get too caught up in it, I was yelling at my TV heh. I wish our GM would get decent pitching. It's been a problem for years. Two or three good guys and a bunch of crappy guys doesn't cut it. Jays aren't going to get double digit runs every game. Maybe if we get swept by Tampa next weekend he'll wakeup.

Holy fuck baseball is stressful.

I never really got the Joe and Augusta thing.

Yeah I liked Ric a lot. Haven't gotten to Cassie yet but I'm maybe 20 eps away? I've never seen when she started. I'm going fairly fast, I'm skipping a lot. I just can't watch the stuff with Cruz on the island with Kirk, or much of the stuff with Mason and Julia being haunted by Sasha's sister. But it is mercifully coming to an end. If I were the writers, I would be ashamed about completely ripping off a story from GH (Heather trying to kill whatsername) and then still doing such a poor job of it. How much I watxh right now depends on whether the Jays are good or bad heh.

Year of the Ump. Was Manfred booed at the draft last year, or did I dream that? Looking forward to it happening again.

I didn't watch but it looks ridiculous. I really think giving the umps a bunch of complicated rules, with a bunch of complicated discretionary exceptions thrown on top for good measure, will be a disaster. I'm not sure how on earth Manfred thinks they can adjudicate these clock stop start rules fairly with all the discretionary exceptions. If he cared.

So watching April 1990. Seems like I'm coming to another bad stretch. The story with Tawny and Ric? Is that any good? Weird they would do a sibling thing and then again with Cassie and Warren. Not sure how much of it to watch Cruz and the shaman thing and the guy wanted Eden to join his dozen women or whatever. Not sure I can get through that. The stuff with the orphans and Cassie- I am interested in her story, but I don't think that's for a while. Man, Amado was smoking hot. Too bad they really tamped that down and stuck him in a boring relationship with Laken. I would've just come up with story after story where he had to run around in a ripped tank top heh. Yes, shallow lol. ETA I really like Craig. Shame they never gave him a decent story or love interest.

Yeah, agreed. I didn't quite get what the big deal was. To be clear, Ohtani is impressive to me in general. But I've never understood the hype about Trout and and all the boohooing about his own desire to stay with a losing team People were calling him a master of the sport yesterday. Really? Has he ever been in a playoff game? Maybe one I think. I don't know how you can call him a master of the sport when he has largely not participated in one significant aspect of it, and to some extent by his own choosing. I also read he was going to try to convince Ohtani to stay with the Angels. I have no.idea if that's true but if it was- dude, c'mon. ETA apparently it is true lol. Run away Ohtani.

I hope Ohtani follows through and signs with a better team. Trout seems to prefer the Angels for some reason.

It's episode 201, he says that if she gets pregnant by anyone else he will basically hint to CC that it's not his child, so that CC would do a blood test to check. So if she wants to get pregnant, he is basically blackmailing her so that it will be have to be with Mason. I dunno, to me those scenes play really sleazy and gross, and even the first scene where they sleep together the first time, it's played that way- that she is not really consenting, she is doing it bc Mason says he will tell CC if she gets pregnant from anyone else. So I guess I consider that blackmail. Then like I said, SB goes the route of most soaps - it's not played as very serious, and the woman inevitably ends up liking it. But it did not start like that. And I do think they dropped the sleazier aspects of Mason after that. Although there was also a scene when Eden was with Kirk and Mason was teasing her about hearing them have sex. Which wtf. I have 2 brothers and if they thought there was the remote chance of that happening they would be running for the hills as fast as they could. And if they did hear that accidentally they would drop dead before commenting about it. But that one I blame more on the writers. But it's really weird scene bc it's like did you sit there and listen to your sister having sex? So weird. At least that would be weird in my family lol.