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I’d probably go with Sisko as my actual favorite captain. (In part because DS9 is my favorite Star Trek show.) It’s more that Pike’s empathetic and generous personality on SNW makes him the best one to get the most out of the crew, and to let them shine as much as he does. TOS and TNG are shows dominated by their top 2-3 characters (Kirk/Spock/McCoy, Picard/Data), with everyone else left to pick up scraps. Of all of them, Pike seems the one best-suited to lead a true ensemble.
I am now reading the Phantom Tollbooth to my 8 year old and when I realized/remembered/read there is a character in it named Alec Bings I laughed out loud and then moved on quickly rather than explain to my daughter why this was funny
Spencer Jones is a polarizing prospect. I don’t think it would be worth calling him up for a week. 40 man spots are precious and they can bring him up next July if they want with that K rate.
Can’t wait to see him in the majors though. Going to be fun and possibly disastrous.
He’s a guy who may benefit from a robo-ump. Judge too. One thing that might help the K issue.
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He sounds a bit like what I remember of Dave Kingman. Is that a fair comparison?
Jones is “shockingly fast for his size” according to Fangraphs. Words no one ever used about Kingman. The fact he can play a credible CF at 6’6 and run the bases well is a huge uptick in value from the typical flat footed slugger type.
He’s as boom or bust as you can get.
He’s quite old for a prospect though at 24. Which is a reason to call him up I guess.
ptmilo is somewhere wondering why he suddenly feels a compulsion to write the story of his first experience reading Phantom Tollbooth in the author’s own style.
LOL
Since I’m not a fan of boring baseball, and my top 2 sports to follow are basketball and Premier League soccer, this is truly the dog days of summer for me.
I’m so desperate to watch sports I actually spent (too much) time the other day watching some random Knicks replay on MSG from last year’s regular season
I’m not sure I’m buying it.
Why bother taking the interview if you already know you want to be close to family and you don’t want to move them?
That may be a factor, but IMO it was more than just that.
Leon just got another coach paid.
Just playing with you, Alan. I like Mount’s Pike a lot – he is generous and empathetic, as you say, a captain for our time if not his. But he’s a better man than captain. I’m enjoying the series a lot, though – a nice balance between old episodic tv and modern streaming serialization.
You’re probably right that DS9 was the high point, but I moved out to the burbs and had kids, so I lost the plot around the third season, alas. Tried to rewatch recently, but lost steam by the end of the first season. Will try again sometime. But why is it so hard for a Trek series to have a good first year? Dang.
The Alec Bings thing kind of blows my mind – Milo didn’t even start that gag, so it is purely an organic connection. Wild. Everything’s tied together, I guess…
Rama, DS9 starts to get good almost immediately when you start the second season, and it leans much more into the advantage of the static setting to go deeper on local politics.
Alan, maybe next time I’ll start with season 2. I know the set up, so it’s not like I need season 1… Things about Trek is that so often you have to tell people “this, not that” (City on the Edge of Forever, not Spock’s Brain) that’s it’s hard to find anything you can just sit and go with, like “Andor.” Oh well, still means more to me than almost any other show – an optimistic view of a future where we all work together to become more than we are. Seeming more unlikely today than ever…
Rama, it did take a total societal collapse to spur the humans of trek into a spacefaring future off world. The federation was born of collapse. I might be making that up but when Picard went back to see his grape vines in some episode or movie I think they went into that.
You are correct, Clarence. Good reminder – we still have the Eugenics Wars (does Steven Miller count?) and WWIII to get through. Happy thoughts!
The thing is, I would argue that Andor also has a rough start — which I’m being reminded of right now while showing it to my son for the first time. The first trio of episodes is really slow, and Cassian himself takes a long time to be interesting. But three rough episodes isn’t as bad as 26, like in the first tng season.
“Leon just got another coach paid.”
Agree. But why do that? Just annoyed another FO, however slightly. In the hopes of being an attractive coaching destination when you don’t need a new coach? As I said before, seems strange.
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