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Just my opinion: I've never been impressed with the Mets managerial choices, they seem to be on the weaker side for a premier franchise.

Still trying to process all the information that is coming out, one thing that seems universal is that Houston is now a despised organization and that Jim Crane is escaping with total lack of respect inside baseball but also with a World Series championship. The GM, Jeff Luhnow seems to be a real jerk, blaming everyone but himself. Does this stop electronic cheating though? I doubt it. Whats to stop a team from having someone off-site watching the game and just relaying the call in real time through some kind of communication system? Don't see how Beltran stays, but hey, it the Mets we're talking about! If I'm Alex Cora, I'm planning a vacation for at least a year, if not more.

Gary Peacock: Tales of Another

Dusty In Memphis: Dusty Springfield

I Don't Want To Hear It Anymore -- Dusty Springfield

I feel that way about most of the commercials I see, don't understand them, don't know who the famous people are.....

Nickel & Nickel C. C. Ranch 2015

Eli and the Thirteenth Confession: Laura Nryo. A great gap in my musical listening... I've never listened to a Nryo album in my life, but hearing so many people here praise her, I finally listened to Eli, and it's wonderful! What a great voice. I'm going have to listen to the rest of her albums.

At Play in the Lions' Den: A Biography and Memoir of Daniel Berrigan by Jim Forest. Just happened to be re-reading this book, and with the current events, it's more timely than ever. Berrigan's life was totally committed to peace & justice, never allowing institutions to control him, but always striving to live a free and encouraging life.

Renaissance: The Association

Nickel & Nickel 2015 Bear Flat Merlot

You lucky so-and-so!

The Passion of Joan of Arc. I'm surprised at how intense and moving the film is, a must watch again movie.

This Empty Northern Hemisphere: Gregory Alan Isakov

Last of the Old Guard by Louis Auchincloss. Nice novel by Auchincloss, a writer that I discovered this year. Never thought I would like his writing as much as I do, with his concern for wealthy, old families of the upper class New York, reeking of Boarding Schools, law firms and loveless marriages of convenience, all written in that "New Yorker" style that most East Cost writers seemed to have from that era. However, he turns out to be much better writer than I imagined and I'm enjoying the novels and short stories that I've read so far.

Valetudinarian: Someone who is unduly anxious about their health. I never knew of the word until this morning.

The Clefs of Lavender Hill: Stop! Get A Ticket

The Huge World of Emily Small: Piccadilly Line

The Noble Art of Teddy Wilson

Light From Distant Stars by Shawn Smucker

SF Sorrow: The Pretty Things

The Red Button: as far as yesterday goes

Crime and Poetry: A Magical Bookshop Mystery by Amanda Flower

Spiritualized: Ladies and Gentleman We Are Floating in Space