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Arbitration starts today. You have a month to boost up salaries on your opponents' teams. PS Is anybody not coming back? And does anybody want in if we have an opening?

I know he still has growing pains, but there's no way we ride with the catchers we have in September and October if there's a catcher at AAA who can do THAT.

He has a criminally low BABIP so far, but everything else is OK so far at AAA. I'm betting he'll be cruising in another week or two.

I was thinking the same thing. Catcher is the weak spot in our lineup even when McCann comes back, and while I wouldn't bring Alvarez to Queens tomorrow, seeing how he handles AAA at this point seems reasonable.

With or without the cigar?

I was just going to say, if McCann doesn't bounce back with the bat we could be seeing Alvarez sooner rather than later.

PS the league link is https://ottoneu.fangraphs.com/209/homehttps://ottoneu.fangraphs.com/209/home.

Is Whizzo Butter one of us? If there are any objections to 9:30 on Wednesday, please let me know by 10 am tomorrow morning.

OK, so I'm aiming for a draft on or around Wednesday the 23rd. If you have a day/time preference, please let me know. Otherwise, I will give the CPF until next Saturday the 19th to claim the two open spots before I make them public.

Perhaps overly sentimental towards the original, but there was quite a bit to like about it.

Metsmarathon, your check is in the mail.

We have two open spots, if anybody wishes to jump in.

There is at least one available team as of now. Any takers in the forum?

Edgy MD wrote: The most memorable scene in the Let It Be movie for me was when Paul took John aside (I'm going to guess a day or two farther than I've gotten so far in Get Back) to discuss George, suggesting that they needed to push him like they did at Hamburg (apparently Paul saw some equivalence between the Beatles' situations in Hamburg and in early 1969). Wait until you get to the secretly audiotaped conversation they have about him. The argument between George and John which preceded George's walkout wasn't recorded (I'm assuming we'd have heard it if it was), which leads me to think that Lindsay-Hogg realized he missed something important. From what is known about that argument, George pulled John aside because he felt John wasn't standing up for him. So we have the irony of George becoming increasingly resentful of the kid brother treatment he's getting from Paul, yet still expecting John to fight his battles for him. (A recorded conversation between John, Paul, and George in September 1969 was recently uncovered. John, who had also successfully lobbied for "Something" to be an A-side, suggests that the three of them should each get four songs on the next album, and Paul vetoes the suggestion rather curtly.) As for John, he was very seriously depressed and, for lack of a more polite way of putting it, appeared to be taking the wrong medication for it. The depression got noticeably worse when George left, but he was a different person when they resumed at Apple. He wasn't the last person to arrive either of the first two days at Apple, after always being the last one there at Twickenham. Peter Jackson should have acknowledged that the argument happened at the point in the film when it happened, because the incident dominated the conversation on the first day of filming back at Apple after it was blown out of proportion in a newspaper article. This leads to two questions: 1. Who was the douchebag in the room who fed half-truths to the tabloid press? 2. How much of the established narrative of what went on that month (and the breakup in general, along with who caused it) came from the tabloid press? I've come to the conclusion that Michael Lindsay-Hogg represents everybody who has ever felt that they were entitled to more from the Beatles than they got. I've also concluded that the Beatles broke up because they were four fallible human beings living in a world where they were expected to be more than that.

Cutting to the credits of part 1 with a solo demo of "Isn't It A Pity" was another great touch.

I really enjoyed "Maxwell's Silver Hammer." It was the most complete arrangement up to that point, at least that we see. It makes me wonder how they decided which songs would be part of the final project, and which would be held on to for a later album (and, ironically, released sooner). Mal Evans gets a lot of random air time in Beatles films and videos (and at least one solo video as well ). I'm not sure if the anvil tops "White Cliffs of Dover?" from Help!, but it comes close. I'm guessing that it wasn't a coincidence that Linda came in the day after the "waltz." Speaking of which, as harmless as it was, John should have noticed that George was looking for reasons to be put off. Peter Jackson gets big time points for the way he shifts between Dennis O'Dell (who just passed a couple of days ago) going over stage details with John and Michael Lindsay-Hogg begging Ringo to go along with his vision, while Paul can be heard creating "Let It Be" in the background.

I've finally started watching, basically going day by day as I have time. A few observations to start: I had no idea "Gimme Some Truth" went back this far. But I think it reflects the conflict that John was starting to have, where the kind of songs he wanted to write wouldn't have worked as Beatles songs (even though it appears that Paul gave him some help with this one). The most memorable scene in the Let It Be movie for me was when Paul took John aside (I'm going to guess a day or two farther than I've gotten so far in Get Back) to discuss George, suggesting that they needed to push him like they did at Hamburg (apparently Paul saw some equivalence between the Beatles' situations in Hamburg and in early 1969). John doesn't talk, but the look on his face says everything. He gives the exact same look when Paul and George are bickering over the arrangement of his song "Don't Let Me Down." Ringo walked out during the White Album sessions because he felt like he was being ignored. The situation hadn't changed much. The comic relief is actually supplied by Yoko, who is quietly engaged in one random activity after another while the action goes on around her. John needing her to be next to him may well have been an issue, but there were much, much bigger issues going on.

The movie had its moments, but it peaked with "Volcano Man" right at the beginning.

So arbitration starts tomorrow, meaning you will have about a month to boost the salaries of players on other teams.

Yeah, I saw his comment and I already regret taking on the job. I'd cut him one bit of slack in the hope that he's more immature than malicious, but that wasn't called for. And he complimented me in private, and now I feel bad about it. Sigh.

So what do I need to do?

So congratulations to Arsenal BC for going absolutely nuts on the last day of the season and finding four points to gain. Now back to the drawing board...

Don't forget the draft is tomorrow night. We still have a spot open, from the looks of it, so jump on in!

Alas, I am already in two football leagues. But I like the idea.

I watched Breaking Away but don't remember it. I was just the right age for The Bad News Bears, much like I was just the right age for Star Wars. It's always been a favorite of mine. It got even better as I played Little League.