One After 909

"I managed the Dodgers for 20 years. Only 4 guys in the history of MLB who managed the same team for 20 years or more. Connie Mack. John McGraw. Then there was my predecessor, Walter Alston, and me. In the 20 years I managed the Dodgers, 210 managers were fired." Tommy Lasorda. Alston and Lasorda.

@Jimfrombaseball Tommy

@DaCoffeeChicory I’m in awe of you

Richie might still be alive if he listened to Uncle June

@Jimfrombaseball Old Gus. I think he was great.

"Early Wynn once was batting against Allie Reynolds, the New York Yankee right-hander, when Reynolds spun Wynn backwards with a fast ball near his head. "Yogi," Wynn said to the Yankees catcher. "You better tell your pitcher to start pitching me outside, because if he doesn't, Yogi, I'm gonna start pitching you inside." Yogi Berra quickly pirouetted to the mound, and Reynolds switched to the outside corner. Early Wynn, armed with his own considerable fast ball, could afford to issue an ultimatum and make it stick. Other ballplayers, however, were lacking in Wynn's temperament and reputation." "You can't get enjoyment out of hate. I wish I could live by this one-hundred percent, but every fourth or fifth day during the summer, I go into a Jekyll and Hyde act. Every time a player gets a hit or home run off me I get strange notions and ideas of things I would like to do to him. Then after the game I feel ashamed and think to myself: 'This guy is a nice fellow and I wonder what's happening to you, Early?' So I'll call him up and invite him to be my guest at dinner and spend the evening talking shop." Early Wynn, Sport Magazine, 1956. 300 wins against 244 losses 3.54 ERA, and 2,334 strikeouts. Won the 1959 Cy Young Award, was a 9-time All-Star, and won 20+ games in five different seasons. Early Wynn gets ready to throw a Cuban palm ball to Willie Mays.

@unclephillyL I’ll have a double-Rob Roy.

@mikemoviez Which, of course, it is.

In THE BIG LEBOWSKI [1998], the Dude writes a check for 69¢, for milk. In NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN [2007], the price of Anton's candy bar is also 69¢

@TheCinesthetic Airport bust in Midnight Express youtu.be/t82I5h0-OCQ?si…

The interrogation scene with Casey Affleck in Oppenheimer (2023) feels like the movie suddenly wandering into horror for a few minutes. Affleck barely raises his voice, but the dead-eyed calm and quiet intimidation make the entire scene deeply unsettling.

If scott Adams were here he would be dragging this guy across the finish line. We need to do it for him. The entire army needs to get to work.

@mikemoviez “You can’t stop what’s coming. That’s vanity.”

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN [2007] Directed by Joel & Ethan Coen ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Couldn't bring myself to cut this shorter

@equinepaparazzi People constantly misunderstand this. The whole point is that in life bad people often get away with it. Good guys can't always keeps up. This is one of those stories. We cannot expect and demand satisfaction in life every single time, for ourselves or for fictional characters.

Watching the greatest concert film ever made. The lineup boggles the mind. THE LAST WALTZ [1978] Directed by Martin Scorsese ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

@mikemoviez Lots of editing but great entertainment. Two high points for me are; -Up On Cripple Creek where Levon Helm lets it all out. -Somewhere Down The Road, during which Eric Clapton and Robbie Robertson demonstrate electric guitar playing.

@girdley I think they saw a good Siri would eventually eliminate the need for Apps, and their App Store

NEW LONG FORM VIDEO: Siri was terrible, and Apple wanted it that way So back on October 4, 2011, Steve Jobs took the stage for Apple one final time and introduced the iPhone 4S. Alongside it came a new feature that he described as the future of computing: Siri. The idea was revolutionary. You would talk to your phone naturally. It would learn your preferences, answer questions, and act as a personal assistant living inside your device. Two days later, Steve Jobs died. Fast forward 13 years to 2026, and Siri has become something of a punchline. Many people, myself included, have turned it off entirely because it works so poorly. Meanwhile, every major tech company is spending tens of billions of dollars trying to win the AI race that Apple arguably started back in 2011. Companies like Microsoft, Google, Meta, and OpenAI are pouring $30, $40, even $50 billion a year into artificial intelligence. But here’s the strange part: while everyone else is racing ahead, Apple has spent relatively little on AI. So how did the company that introduced the world to mainstream voice assistants end up falling so far behind? This is the rise and fall of Siri.

@TheSopranosClub @pityforyourself David Proval was driven by his anger at the profession and then, when he found out he was being offed from the series channeled that into creating as more and menacing character. That’s what I recall him saying on Talking Sopranos.

We would probably have never seen the character Patsy if Risploli had come back to play a twin brother. David Chase said you can only do the twin thing once. @pityforyourself

@TheMafiaPoint There is no Godfather III

Would The Godfather saga be better if The Godfather Part III (1990) never existed?

@North2North You don’t believe in redemption?

The guy on the right was a junkie and liked his booze and took USC down .The other is a carpetbagger who throws shade on a school that paid him 9 million a year now the phony’s bothered by its past .He signed an extension in 2023 so he felt comfortable there 🔥

Eliminating the pathogen is one thing but mitigating the collateral damage left from the body’s immune response has always been the holy grail, like Xigris for microcirculation in sepsis was supposed to do. Manipulating such a complex system will always have unintended consequences.

Severe Andes hantavirus disease is fundamentally a problem of endothelial leak, inflammation, and immune dysregulation - not simply viral replication alone. That’s why an interesting mechanistic question emerges: Could near-infrared (NIR) or far-infrared (FIR) light theoretically help modulate some of the downstream inflammatory injury? Here’s the biologic rationale: • Andes virus infects endothelial cells and is associated with capillary leak syndrome and pulmonary edema. • TLR-4 / NF-κB inflammatory signaling appears involved in endothelial dysfunction and cytokine amplification. • Photobiomodulation (NIR light) has been shown in multiple experimental systems to: → improve mitochondrial function → reduce oxidative stress → modulate NF-κB/TLR-4 signaling → reduce inflammatory cytokines → improve endothelial function Mechanistically, this creates a plausible pathway where infrared light could theoretically attenuate some of the vascular leak/inflammatory cascade seen in severe hantavirus disease. NIR → improved mitochondrial electron transport → reduced ROS/NF-κB signaling → less endothelial dysfunction → potentially less capillary leak. Importantly: This is NOT a proven treatment for hantavirus. This is a mechanistic hypothesis based on overlapping biology. Relevant references: • Hamblin MR. Photobiomodulation or low-level laser therapy. J Biophotonics. 2016. • de Freitas LF, Hamblin MR. Proposed mechanisms of photobiomodulation. IEEE J Sel Top Quantum Electron. 2016. • Chen AC et al. Low-level laser therapy activates NF-κB via generation of reactive oxygen species in mouse embryonic fibroblasts. PLoS One. 2011. • Vial PA et al. Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in Andes virus infection. Curr Opin Infect Dis. 2005. • Mackow ER, Gavrilovskaya IN. Hantavirus regulation of endothelial cell functions. Thromb Haemost. 2009. Interesting biology worth studying further and honestly what is the downside of getting 20 minutes a day of infrared light or even sunlight.

@RogerSeheult Wasn’t something similar put forth early in COVID?

@mikemoviez Unpopular opinion: I am unable to watch any Indiana Jones sequel. “Who cares?” you say? Exactly.

Which album do you like more? 🤔 💿 A HARD DAY'S NIGHT [1964] 1) A Hard Day's Night 2) I Should Have Known Better 3) If I Fell 4) I'm Happy Just to Dance with You 5) And I Love Her 6) Tell Me Why 7) Can't Buy Me Love 8) Any Time at All 9) I'll Cry Instead 10) Things We Said Today 11) When I Get Home 12) You Can't Do That 13) I'll Be Back 💿 HELP! [1965] 1) Help! 2) The Night Before 3) You've Got to Hide Your Love Away 4) I Need You 5) Another Girl 6) You're Going to Lose That Girl 7) Ticket to Ride 8) Act Naturally 9) It's Only Love 10) You Like Me Too Much 11) Tell Me What You See 12) I've Just Seen a Face 13) Yesterday 14) Dizzy Miss Lizzy