Chuck Tryon

Play ball!

It’s a beautiful film.

It’s cloudy and chilly, but I’m following up 2 hours of tennis with a lunch comprising bolognese and Cabernet. Good.

I truly feel sorry for every American smart enough to realize that this makes the United States look like the dumbest nation on the planet.

Interesting, but I’ll pass on this one.
I’m looking for another baseball hat instead.

Strange what some countries will do to leaders who start an insurrection.

Good to hear that they’re spending time on Goodman’s defense.

I guess I recently did something good somehow, somewhere for someone, because tonight’s dinner was both steak and bouillabaisse.

I was born and raised a butter person. My ancestors were butter people.
Over time I became an olive oil person.
Eventually I also became a soy sauce person.
I am complete.

Exactly.

History suggests that the owners will buckle on this issue before the players do, but things could get pretty ugly.

Salmon Wellington fresh out of the oven with a crispy crust.

Salmon Wellington cut open showing the salmon and spinach filling.

A friend gave us some salmon, so we invited her over for Salmon Wellington.

Baseball 2026. Savor the season.

MLB: A 2027 season without a work stoppage is in doubt.

NPB: This year is the last year the Central League plays without a DH. Grrrr . . . (Yeah, I’m a grizzly traditionalist.)

Played tennis today. I was much better than the last time. Still need to get back to normal.
Night time music: Sometimes We Cry. Tom Jones & Van Morrison. Great.

Green or not, US energy future depends on Native nations Native American lands contain 30% of the nation’s coal, 50% of its uranium and 20% of its natural gas, as well as copper, lithium and rare earth elements.

Tribal territories hold 30% of U.S. coal, 50% of uranium and major reserves of critical minerals — and their treaty rights are supposed to be “the supreme Law of the Land.”

Post a tree you photographed.

This is good.
Thanks, Renee.

Good piece here.
I say that LLMs are not intelligent. They mimic intelligence. Big difference. Important difference.

Wow. What will the Rox rotation look like now?
Fun times.

I can be wrong - and have been in the past - but Kris Byrant going to the 60-day IL is the earliest the Colorado Rockies have used this option.

Previous earliest: Feb 18, 2016. Rockies claimed Tony Wolters off waivers and placed Adam Ottavino (TJ surgery) on the 60-day IL.

On June 30, 2008, Jeffrey Epstein pled guilty to Procuring Person under 18 for Prostitution.

Not every person who associated with him after that date was a pedophile. But every person who associated with him after that date was at least okay with hanging out with one.

Small glass of hirezake.

It was chilly the other night, so I had some hirezake (hot sake with a grilled blowfish fin) at the neighborhood izakaya. Delicious.

I love it.

Did you lose that Super Bowl prop bet? Recover your losses by betting on the next war.
Remember to have fun. Fun is what it’s all about.

That didn’t take long.

Ok, enough of the back and forth games.
Pitchers and catchers report!

The last 2 Super Bowl half time shows have been two of the most culturally significant moments in music of my lifetime.

A defiance of fascism which at its core is a vision of uniformity and service to one.

On the flip side we see a celebration of diversity. Of the many. Of US.

Music is powerful.

Thanks for the thread.

LDP secures supermajority in Lower House election victory | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis Voters overwhelmingly gave a mandate to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Feb. 8, sending her Liberal Democratic Party to its most resounding Lower House election victory since its founding in 1955.

Stunning, overwhelming victory for Takaichi and LDP.

Meanwhile in Korea.