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Gee, I don't know what all the fuss is about regarding injuries to pitchers. The Brewers have some guy who is making multiple starts during the next week. His name is Undecided. The Brewers have had some odd injuries to their pitchers - Megill concussing himself by fainting after a bout with food poisoning, DL Hall injuring his knee trying to field a bunt, and Jakob Junis, already on the IL with a bum shoulder, took a line drive to the neck during BP. I'm assuming someone choking on their bubble gum in the dugout is next.

The Washington Commanders are retiring Darrell Green's #28. I cannot believe this didn't happen already. Great on and off the field during TWO DECADES with the team & beloved by the fans. I know this is a franchise that only recently had more than one retired jersey number, there are only so many numbers, and thus only the greatest of the great should get this honor. But c'mon, Darrell Green? It would be like the Packers not retiring Bart Starr's #15.

I don't think this is still the case, but not too long ago young people had to send their signed letter of intent regarding the acceptance of an athletic scholarship which obligated them to attend a particular university or college for a year via fax. This caused some coaches to sweat it out waiting on a national signing day to hear from a particular athlete, who was scrambling to figure out what a fax machine was and where one could be found. I remember the office where I was working in the early 1980's had a contract with a business located about 5 miles away to use their fax machine. It was a big deal with the office purchased their own fax machine. I remember how annoying the thermal paper that had to be used in the machines then was. I'm not sure when machines that used regular copy paper arrived, probably about the time we all started using email to send documents back and forth. Fax machines are considered to be more secure than email/computer systems, just as landlines are considered more secure than cell phones.

I knew I should have checked that before I posted - I was thinking that the extra game was added for the first time last year and I knew that the Packers had 8 homes games in 2022. I was right about the NFL not taking a home game from the Packers until there was the extra home game, I just didn't realize it had already happened! I never trusted those assurances from the league that they wouldn't take a home game from the Pack until I saw each season's schedule. I don't trust anything the league says, especially when they say they have a team's or players' best interests in mind. I had a friend ask me this week what position I thought the Packers would target in the first round. I told him it didn't matter because for every James Lofton or Aaron Rodgers in my lifetime, there have been about 15 Terrell Buckleys or Jamal Reynolds. I always assume the Packers' first round pick will be a bust. I still have PTSD from when they picked Mandarich instead of Barry Sanders and that was 35 years ago!

I wasn't surprised to hear it was Gregg Doyel who made an inappropriate comment to Caitlin Clark at her press conference in Indy. I've thought the guy was a jerk since his time with CBSSports.com when he mocked Brian Butch, a University of Wisconsin basketball player, for crying as he left the floor after suffering an injury. Butch had dislocated and broken his elbow, he was in extreme pain, and the injury ended his season. Doyel made some type of half-assed apology after the outrage of Wisconsin fans (and others with a sense of decency) was made loud and clear. That happened 17 years ago and it is clear Doyel has not improved with age. He's moved on from mocking the injured to making inappropriate remarks to a female athlete.

I found the episode. It was the third episode in season three, and the midwife involved was Jenny, not Trixie. The reason I was thinking of the story-line is that I have a good friend whose daughter is in the midst of her first pregnancy, a young woman who has always been gorgeous and perfectly turned out, and she's had all day nausea, acne, hair loss, varicose veins, terrible heartburn, etc. My friend told me that her daughter had a bit of a meltdown, sobbing to her mom about how ugly she felt.

I didn't like how Amanda announced in front of a reporter that they had some new video they had to watch. That's something that annoys me in most cop shows, how they casually discuss details of the case in front of civilians. Of course IRL, a reporter would never be allowed into the investigators' area, where they could see or hear something that shouldn't be made public. No real LEO would let their kid anywhere near that situation, even if they were confident he wasn't the murderer. I did like Ormewood getting Barrett to admit to multiple felonies. I'm suspicious of Antonio.

Wouldn't Hen and Karen have been provided more background on the child, not just that her parents were dead? That her parents died and Mara found their bodies? That her parents had an ongoing drug/criminal life that Mara was exposed to? Why do they have to go to Athena to pull police records and Maddie to obtain the 911 call? The parents are dead; it wouldn't be violating any type of privacy concern by providing H&K with all the facts on them and Mara. Why does Marisol have a framed picture of herself as a novitiate? I guess I can understand her keeping the picture; that time was a part of her life after all. But to have it framed and ready for display? I thought that was odd. I was wondering whether I missed an episode, because I also was thinking wedding? What wedding? I cannot believe there wouldn't have been an episode with Maddie nonstop talking about the venue, the dress, the cake, etc.

Re the sentence I bolded - ding! ding! ding! We may have a winner.

But who will look for the real killer(s) now? (Just in case anyone has doubts, yes, I'm being sarcastic.) There was so much that angered me - the incompetence of the LA Police Department and the District Attorney's Office, a judge who was overly consumed with being on TV, and especially the number of people, both in the entertainment industry and sports television, who knew of Simpson's history of domestic violence and dismissed it.

Can anyone tell me what episode it was that the very pretty young woman who was having her first baby was so upset at the physical changes (if I remember correctly, she had varicose veins and lots of stitches following delivery) that she thought her husband would find her ugly? I've skimmed through the episode descriptions found on Wikipedia and I'm beginning to wonder whether what I'm remembering is actually from a different show.

I hate it - as I mentioned above, where I live in Wisconsin is not considered "home" territory for the Packers, so I won't get the game on commercial TV and I don't subscribe to Peacock. The Packers have played in only one international game, in London in 2022. Knowing the economic impact home games have on the Green Bay area, the NFL has never taken a home game from the Packers (although that could change in future years with the additional home game) and a lot of teams fought having their home game against the Packers being an international game, since it was often a game with a higher attendance. Several years ago, there was talk of the Packers playing a game against the Jaguars in London and it was reported that the Jags protested vociferously about losing this particular game, since they could count on selling thousands more tickets than usual for their home game against the Packers. A lot of snowbirds in Florida, and it's often easier for Packer fans to get a ticket for a road game than for a game at Lambeau.

I don't think everyone knows about Amanda because how could she be reinstated? It would become public knowledge pretty quickly and the outcry against having such a corrupt person as the deputy director of the GBI would be immense. I'm not sure how Faith knows, unless Amanda or Will told her. I laughed at the notion that Amanda planted exactly 28 grams of cocaine. C'mon, did she measure it out? Didn't think that perhaps some might be lost when it was found, bagged, taken for testing? I felt for Garza having Amanda report him for not replacing the plastic bag in her trash can each time he emptied it. There was a very similar situation in my office. Some people were upset that the bags weren't replaced daily; it was because the cleaning person was a contract employee and the contract required that the cleaner provide cleaning supplies, including trash bags. Thus our cleaner, who likely wasn't paid very much, was trying to save a few pennies. It was never a problem for me, since I always threw food wrappings or other sticky/gooey things away in the break room bins. I didn't want those smells in my office!

I couldn't believe how easily he stepped down into the pool. And how did Ronit walk so effortlessly just after having abdominal surgery? And in heels? Even if the surgery was laparoscopic, that would have hurt. I'm wondering what is the basis of the complaint that Charlie filed. IMO Shaun was right to order her out of the OR. If I'm the patient on that table in some distress as indicated by all the alarms going, I do not want a medical student taking any action such as moving instruments around, or trying to justify a mistake that has caused the surgeon delays, or constantly talking when the surgeon has asked her to stop. Was that a nurse that Shaun said something to, about letting Charlie reorganize the surgical tray? Why would any surgical nurse listen to a medical student and change things from the way the surgeon wants them? I don't understand why any med student would interject their thoughts and opinions, whether it's when assessing a new patient, when treatment options are proposed to a patient, or during a surgery. I've been a patient several times at a teaching hospital/clinic when I have been asked if it is OK if a medical student is present (and I have always said yes, because otherwise how do they learn?) but there's never been a situation where that medical student has piped up or interrupted a doctor. If there was, I would expect the doctor to ask them to leave the room! Why don't Lim and Glassman assign Charlie to another surgeon? They should each be asking themselves how they would react if a medical student took it upon themselves to re-organize the surgical instruments when they were operating. What happened to Asher is so sad, because he was one of my favorite characters on the show, and because it is too true to life with the ever-rising rate of antisemitic and other hate crimes. Why would Asher and the rabbi not call 911? With the horrific crimes that have been committed at places of worship in recent years? Why would Asher have walked away, leaving the rabbi alone, just assuming the creeps had left and all danger was gone?

That was Molly Price. She's appeared on many shows, just about most of the one-hour dramas over the past 20+ years. I recall her from episodes of Elementary and The Mentalist. She was one of the co-stars of Third Watch, playing a NYC police officer. Her husband appeared on the show as a firefighter with FDNY, which was his job in real life.