Month: April 2023

Ted Lasso Erases A Week Of My Life

In a couple of day’s ago post I mentioned watching the Red Sox playing on MLBTV. Well, one of the commercials in between innings was an offer for a 2 month free trial of Apple TV+. I had the commercial on mute, so I didn’t hear what they were on about, but I thought, “Hmmm, I’ve wanted to check Apple TV+, but never pulled the trigger for one reason or another. This looks a pretty good deal.”

So, I went to apple.co/mlbgift and signed up (offer is good until July 7th if you are interested.) Turns out the reason is that Apple TV+ has the rights to one Friday night baseball game, chosen by MLB maybe, for the season and they also have a 30 minute nightly MLB recap. I have not bothered with the recap show, but I did watch an inning or two of last Friday’s Dodgers Cardinals game. I may keep and eye out for Red Sox game on Fridays between now and June 24th when my free trial ends.

So, anyway, the first show I wanted to check out was this Ted Lasso show all the cool people were talking about. Tuesday night the 18th I watched Season 1 Episode 1. I wasn’t sure what all the fuss was about, it seemed like just another fish out of water story and Jason Sudeikis’s character seemed too broadly drawn and the accent was kind of over the top. I wasn’t going to watch anymore, but as I was talking to Donna about it, I suggested watching Episode 2 on Wednesday at lunch and if she seemed interested we would watch the show together.

She was not interested, so I figured that was that. Later that afternoon, with nothing else going on I thought, let me watch episode three and if I don’t get into it, I’ll move on. After that third show I watched the fourth. I got interested in the arcs of the cast of characters that surround out titular hero and I am a lover of listening to the accents when the Queen’s English is spoken. And I’d become used to the Ted Lasso character.

On Thursday I watched the next four episodes, this left only two episodes of the first season for Friday which lead to rolling right into season two. The only time I came up for air over the the weekend was Sunday night to watch Thursday’s new episode of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel my previous favorite show.

Sometime on Tuesday I ran out of episodes when I finished episode 6 of season three. So now I had to wait until the next day for Apple TV+ to release the next show and after that I’d stuck waiting a whole week between new episodes. I briefly considered waiting for 6 weeks so I could binge those last set of season three’s shows, but couldn’t do it, I watched episode seven the next day when it became available.

Summer Weather Trailer

Yesterday and today we were low 80s and tomorrow is supposed to be low 70’s, but Monday we revert back to the normal mid 50’s, so we took advantage. We enjoyed outside sitting on our porch and I went for the first bicycle ride outside on Friday morning. Then I put the summer rubber on the Miata in the afternoon.

Today we went up and watched the first game of a double header between the OIT ladies softball team and the visiting University of British Columbia squad. We stopped at Brevada Brewhouse on the way to pick up lunch and had a picnic on a hill just outside the stadium where the view of the overall field is better (and save the $4 entrance fee.)

It Works

Two weeks ago I found out that the FRS were the free game of the day on MLBTV, so I thought I’d tune in. They were in last place in the division at 5 wins and 6 loses, but hey it’s still early in the season. I just looked today and currently the Red Sox are 13 & 13 and still in last place in the division, two games behind the Yankees and eight behind the division leading Tampa Bay Rays. Oh. well, wait’ll next year.

Plus I also wanted to see a game and check on how the whole pitch clock thing was working out. I’m not sure how the players like the clock, but according to a Bleacher Report article, MLB says it has knocked an average of 26 minutes from game times. Wow. The game I watched with the Angels still went almost 3 hours, but hey, it could have been nearly 3-1/2 hours.

I scanned back several games and found that several of their games have been just a few minutes over two and a half hours. This means that if I was still back on the east coast those 7:10 PM starts would be ending at a sensible half past ten. This pitch clock thing might have even prevented those games against their arch rivals the Yankees running to nearly midnight. And if I remember, I’ll see how long the games against New York when they play them on back to back weekends in early June.

Sport, Off-Road, Touring

Act Now! Edition of SORT
As of Monday, April 24, 2023 at 4:00 PM pacific time:

Sport Off-Road Touring
2005 Mazda RX-8 1988 Suzuki Samurai 1963 Chevrolet Nova
Bidding will end around noon tomorrow, so if you want one, you had better act now!

Here is what last week’s cars sold for, or bid to (if the reserve was not met):
Sports: 1974 Porsche 911 Bid to $135,000 on 4/21/23
Off-Road: 1987 Volkswagen Vanagon Sold for $28,000 on 4/20/23
Touring: 2003 Chevrolet Corvette Sold for $29,500 on 4/23/23

Sport, Off-Road, Touring

International BAT Appreciation Day Edition of SORT
As of Monday, April 17, 2023 at 2:00 PM pacific time:

Sport Off-Road Touring
1974 Porsche 911 1987 Volkswagen Vanagon 2003 Chevrolet Corvette
International BAT Appreciation Day has nothing to do with Bring A Trailer itself, but it has everything to do with showing our flying and mostly nocturnal friends some love. As well as an opportunity to delve deep and learn the important role bats play in the ecosystem and biodiversity.

Here is what last week’s cars sold for, or bid to (if the reserve was not met):
Sports: 1988 Honda CRX Si Sold for $15,000 on 4/15/23
Off-Road: 2014 Toyota FJ Cruiser Sold for $40,750 on 4/13/23
Touring: 2001 BMW 325Ci Sold for $16,000 on 4/12/23

Thursday Is The New Friday

According to Amazon, Season 5 of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel was supposed to start on Friday, April 14th, but I just finished watching Episode 1. I’ve run into this before on Amazon Prime, with Season 4 of this show, as well as Season 1 of Reacher last year too. My theory is that it is a time zone thing, it is already tomorrow in Europe (and it is also almost tomorrow on the East Coast right now too), but who knows.

As I mentioned a few weeks ago IMDB had nine episodes listed for this season, but no real dates on the episodes except for April 14, 2023 for the first. I wondered how they would show each episode, and if IMDB is correct, we get all of the first three episodes this week and the following six will come out one at a time every “Friday” until the show finale on May 26th.

I’ve watched episode one and I wonder if I can stretch out the other two episodes during this week gap, say every other day, so as to bridge the gap until episode four next “Friday.” Oh, who am I kidding, I’ll probably watch them tomorrow morning…