Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining this virtual talk on Kubernetes Cloud Provider IBM project overview and deep dive. My name is Sadeh Zalla. I am a senior software engineer at IBM and a co-lead for this project. Richard, would you like to introduce yourself? Sure. Richard Tice, I'm a senior software engineer and I'm the open shift and Kubernetes release lead for our managed services for open shifting Kubernetes. Brad, would you like to introduce quickly? Sure, Sadeh. Hi, everyone. I'm Brad Topol. I'm IBM's Distinguished Engineer for Open Technologies and Developer Advocacy. All right. Thank you, Brad. All right. So I will provide an overview and the activities structure of the project and then we will straight deep dive into the three repositories, the main repositories we have. Actually, it's four repositories, but the three main repositories for cluster API provider IBM Cloud, there is one for PPC block storage and then we have two under IBM Cloud Provider. All right. So let me just brief about the broader specialist group Cloud Provider. This cloud provider is a group of people interested in various aspect of running Kubernetes on different cloud provider clouds. It owns cloud provider interface code, which is responsible for running all the cloud provider specific control loops. You can read more about the code on the link I have provided. The SIG also ensures that the Kubernetes ecosystem evolve in a way that is neutral to various cloud providers and the same time it ensures that it provides consistent and high quality experience to the users. The SIG owns different sub-projects. They were formally had their own specific SIG, but now they're part of the SIG cloud provider and the provider IBM Cloud is one of the sub-projects. You can read more about the SIG cloud provider on the link I have provided at the bottom of the slide. All right. So the provider IBM Cloud sub-project, it's all about developing and discussions around various aspects of running Kubernetes on IBM Cloud. We also participate in various activities happening in the SIG cloud provider. As a member of this project or you just following it, you basically are staying on top of what's going on in the IBM Cloud platform with respect to Kubernetes and related CNC projects. We strictly don't discuss any commercial kind of activities or any discussions related to it. It's all about open source side of Kubernetes and related development. So as I mentioned, we have a total four code repositories under the project. This year has been great. For the project, we added three new repositories, the bottom three, and we will do a briefing on each of them. But before that, real quick, just about the structure of the project, how it works. So we have three colleagues from different areas of IBM Cloud. We have Khalid Ahmed, who is an IBM Distinguished Engineer from Multicloud Manager, Richard Thais from the IKS and Rockside, and myself, Sade from the open source software side. If you haven't already joined the mailing list, we would love you to join it. But we also have a Slack channel where you can post questions or if you want to have any discussions, please be there. We meet every month, every last Wednesday at 2 p.m. But if you miss the past meetings, you cannot attend it, then you can always look at the meeting recordings, which is available on Kubernetes YouTube channel. And again, in the link, you can read more about the project. All right. So I mentioned that we added three new repositories, but this one, the cluster API program, IBM Cloud, has been around for some time now. As you already know, there is a cluster API project within the Kubernetes project. It's basically about managing the cluster lifecycle, creating, scaling, upgrading, and destroying the cluster by Kubernetes style declared to APIs. So it's basically Kubernetes to manage Kubernetes, right? So there is a management Kubernetes cluster, which manages the workload cluster where the applications are running. And similar to CUBE CTL that we use for working with the Kubernetes, there is a command line tool called cluster CTL for creating and managing provider clusters. Again, there's a link to read more about cluster API. There's a whole book out there, actually. So various cloud providers, they extend the cluster API and for IBM Cloud, we are extending it under cluster API provider IBM Cloud. It abstracts the infrastructure specific details.  We already had the support for classic infrastructure, but this year we added support for IBM VPC, Gen2, and PowerVS. We are also working on a new release for this added support. Again, the link is there. We would like you to take a look, lots of good recommendations, and we would love to have you contribute there. This repo, the IBM VPC block CSI driver, was moved to the Kubernetes 6 just recently, I would say, just in a couple of months. So it provides a CSI plugin for creating and mounting VPC box storage for your applications running on Kubernetes cluster or OpenShift cluster on IBM VPC infrastructure. It currently supports Kubernetes version 1.21, 1.20, 1.19, and for OpenShift it supports 4.7 and 4.6. We would love to take a look at the repo, the documentation. We really have good doc out there on how to deploy the plugin. We use it in production ourselves. So take a look, let us know if you have any questions and contribute if you can. With that, I will hand it over to Richard for IKS. Awesome, thank you. So yeah, I'll be covering IKS and ROX and providing details on our Cloud Controller Manager or Cloud Provider project. So we'll start with IKS, just to give you a little background on our Kubernetes service. It is our managed offering for deploying Kubernetes clusters on IBM Cloud. And our Cloud Controller Manager or IBM Cloud Provider is used as part of this service. So this service is certified. Kubernetes can form it, which is a really nice program from the CNCF to certify offerings as Kubernetes compliant and so that customers can build their apps on a cloud-native certified platform for deploying those container apps on Kubernetes regardless of Cloud Provider. If you want more details on our service from IBM, you can check out that link. All right, let's jump to the next slide and we'll talk about releases. So really, I always put the slide on a conversation here to talk about our releases and really to focus on how they're related to the community and Kubernetes releases and how they work. So IKS has provided two releases of Kubernetes this year, three last year, and we're on target to deliver another release very soon. So that'll bring us to three releases in 2021. And even with the move from the community from four releases a year down to three, which is certainly helpful for many consumers, it's still very challenging for many to keep pace with Kubernetes. This is a current view of our support structure from IKS. We support 119 and later fully. 122 is coming out soon and our 118 release is now deprecated and we'll be out of support very soon. So this is very similar structure to the community's community, which just came out with patch releases 119 to 122 this week. So they have four releases in support at the moment, but 119 will be dropping out of support soon. So let's move on to the next slide. And we'll talk ROX. So ROX is the OpenShift managed service on IBM Cloud. And OpenShift builds on Kubernetes and is also certified Kubernetes can form it. So OpenShift provides some additional features, which Brad will talk about a little bit later. And if you want more information on the managed service, feel free to check out that link on the slide. And then we'll jump to the next slide to talk about the releases here for OpenShift. So OpenShift, building on Kubernetes, we lay out here from our docs, the OpenShift versus Kubernetes version. So each version of OpenShift is associated with a certain version of Kubernetes. And we support three versions at the moment fully supported. This year, we've released two. We're going for a third or OpenShift version 4.8 here shortly. And that again, will bring us to three releases to 2021, just like we had in 2020. Just like our Kubernetes users, OpenShift users have often find themselves in a difficult position at times to keep pace. One of the benefits of OpenShift in this space is that Red Hat as a provider of OpenShift takes on additional extended support of certain releases. So you'll see on the slide that we talk about. We have OpenShift support for 3.11 at the moment. And it's quite extended. And we'll have some extended support here as well for 4.6. But otherwise, it's for the most part aligned on the Kubernetes support timelines, slightly shifted for OpenShift. All right, we'll jump to the next slide. So on both of these managed services and many managed services across cloud providers, they implement what the community calls the Cloud Controller Manager, which is the control loop within Kubernetes owned by the cloud provider SIG, which is the interface for this control loop, to manage an interface with the cloud to deliver certain features to the Kubernetes cluster that Kubernetes itself doesn't implement because they're cloud provider specific and that the Cloud Controller Manager is then responsible for implementing those key features for the cloud. Now, this view here shows the CCM architecture, which is the new architecture out of tree cloud providers. The Cloud Controller Manager runs in the control plane alongside the API server, scheduler at CD, the Kubernetes controller manager. And then the worker side of things, you've got your KubeLid, KubeProxy, other network proxy, CNI setup, container runtime and so on, out on the worker nodes. So that's the basic structure that it is today for the new cloud providers. So we'll move to the next slide and we'll talk about a little bit more details on what a cloud provider provides in Kubernetes. So for most cloud providers, there's two main things. Number one is load balancers and number two is instances. We'll start with load balancers or IBM cloud. We provide four different flavors of load balancers and it depends on the infrastructure on which you run.  They leverage basic in-cluster networking, IP tables, IPVS are the two different versions there. And then if you move to our VPC infrastructure, VPC Gen 2, we have a couple load balancers there as well, different flavors and they're configured slightly differently. Details are in our docs as far as how that is concerned. We also, with our open source project for the cloud provider, you can certainly dig into the code details to find out how that's all done with the docs associated with that at the cloud provider level and how those load balancer types are configured. And then the next major part of a cloud provider is it's responsible for node initialization. And this is extremely important. So I'm talking like Kubernetes nodes getting brought up and brought into the cluster. They get stored in the SED database, the node is coming online, but the node stays tainted until the cloud provider comes in and clears the taint for the node so that it is initialized by the cloud provider. So it's a really important part of the bootstrap process for your cluster that the cloud provider is functional. It's able to understand that node comes coming in, get some data about the node so that it can provide it to Kubernetes. Some of the key data that it needs to know is the type of instances you're dealing with, what zone is it in and so on, so that those can be used to bootstrap the node into Kubernetes cluster. Right now in our managed services offerings, we rely on an internal bootstrapping process to help us with this. We are working on enhancing this to support OpenShift, IPI, UPI installs which would be done outside of the managed service environment. And I'll talk about that in a moment. And then we have a couple other big interfaces, clusters and routes. We don't implement them at the moment. We rely on a CNI or like Calico or in the case of OpenShift, like I think it's OBS or OVN to do the routing and configuration. But we are looking at possibly having some route support for VPC native routing. And some cloud providers do that as well. And then there's other things that cloud providers can plug in to these and extend upon, storage being one of the things you may find in some cloud providers or like credential operators. But so I've already talked about how we have the VPC block plug in there, which is a separate repository, separate control loop. So we'll move on to the next slide. And we'll look at some of the activities that we're focused on at the moment. So one of the big things this year is to deliver the open-source version of our cloud provider. So we have two repos out there. One builds the core, the other ones used for VPC, some of the VPC components. There's a bit of a history as to why it's done that way. Ultimately, we like to have just one repo. But that's out there available to build, check out the code. It's based on Kubernetes 1.22. And this is one of the main drivers to deliver the open-source was to support OpenShift, IPI, or UPI installs on IBM Cloud. So this is an installation done outside of the managed service. Now OpenShift provides this type of installation on a lot of cloud providers. So one of the key things that happened though for OpenShift and Red Hat in the Fortnite timeframe is that all the cloud providers from the early days in Kubernetes, they were built in-tree. So like Google's cloud provider, Amazon, AWS, Azure, and so on, they were in-tree. Now the cloud provider community and the SIG has determined that those are all deprecated. All those cloud providers in-tree, they need to move out-of-tree. And that is going to be the new path forward. And eventually, those in-tree cloud providers will be removed from the code base in Kubernetes. So it's really important for consumers to switch to out-of-tree cloud providers. And the Fortnite release of OpenShift is really where the Red Hat folks worked with a lot of the cloud providers to start transitioning from these in-tree providers to out-of-tree. So they did a lot of work with OpenStack folks and Amazon and Microsoft and obviously us, IBM, to try to support CCM-based installs of OpenShift on various cloud providers. So we started our work in 4.9. We're continuing here in 4.10 of OpenShift. Our goal is to complete in 4.10. And that is a lot of changes will be required for our cloud provider to support this type of installation mechanism. Because at the moment, it was designed for our managed services. So that's another second big piece that we're working on with that. Different features will hopefully be coming in the areas of networking. We've been looking at different things in the load balancers or in routing. And then having this up in OpenShift in the community, also having the open source up there, we hope to extend that support build on our community, provided more documentation, how to deploy it on your own, how to do all those things so that we can grow this community. And that pretty much covers the cloud provider overview. So I'll jump to the next slide and turn it over to Brad. Thank you. So one question that we typically get at this session is what's the difference between Kubernetes and OpenShift? And essentially, OpenShift is a Kubernetes distribution that includes extra tooling to simplify cloud-native development and provide automated operation support. So for example, and just vanilla Kubernetes, if you want to deploy your application, what do you need to do? You typically start, you find a base image and you use Docker commands to then take the base image and then add your code to that image, and you'll create a new image using those commands and then you'll push it to a registry. And so a lot of us, the folks on this presentation, we're very familiar with doing those steps. We're very comfortable doing it. But there's a lot of developers out there like Java developers that aren't very familiar with those steps. And so what OpenShift provides you is it provides you the ability to, it'll recognize your source code repository and pick the right base image for you, and it'll automatically take your code, merge it with the base image, create the new image, and push that image to one of its registries. So it's reducing the friction for developers who wouldn't commonly know those low-level cloud-native development steps of dealing with the containers and dealing with the image and building the container image. So OpenShift's going to take care of that with its sourced image and make that a lot easier for those types of developers. It also provides nice techniques for recognizing when images change or when the configurations change and even being able to automate actually the deploy when those changes occur. So that management aspect is also made simpler through OpenShift. OpenShift's security is a big, big feature of it. It has good security guardrails. So with vanilla Kubernetes, you can do a lot of things. It'll let you out of the box, do a lot of things that aren't very secure.  And with OpenShift, they're going to have guardrails to keep that for happening. So for example, OpenShift will prevent privileged containers from running by default. If you ever take a container and let it run as privileged, it gives it boot access. There is a lot of surface area for a security breach when you do that. So out of the box, OpenShift is going to keep you from doing that.  Similarly, OpenShift gives you, it prevents you from running with a default namespace. Again, using the default namespace is not a secure and you really need to learn to not use it. And so OpenShift keeps you from doing that. And a final security feature that I want to cover is the notion of security context constraints. Basically, OpenShift provides you several security profiles that you can choose for your pod's container. And what's nice about that is that enables you to not have to worry about all the individual security knobs and try and get all the individual security settings correct. Because if you have like 25 settings, the odds are you're trying to set each one individually and you think you know what you're doing, the odds are you may not. And so instead of you setting all the individual knobs, you could just pick a security context profile and use the one that's best for your pod's container. And the nice thing is then you know what features, what security enablement your pod's container is going to get when you pick that security context. So you'll know, will I have root access or not? Will I have access to all the block storage or only a portion of it? Will I have to run as user? So all those types of features and you'll know exactly what you're guaranteed to get. Security context constraints give you that ability. Day two operations, this is another place where OpenShift really shines. It has automated cluster size management so it can automatically provision new worker nodes to increase your cluster size. That's a huge feature that you don't get with vanilla Kubernetes. Automated day two operations, it can do automated installation, automated updates. It worries about making sure the right version of OpenShift is running on the right version of RHEL so that you're guaranteed you've got full stack consistency. It uses a capability of identifying what are called cluster versions and so it does cluster version management to do all that automation of the lifecycle management. So those are huge features for your day two and your IT operations side of your house. And of course OpenShift also provides multi-cloud management support, provides a unified cloud console to view and manage multiple OpenShift clusters. So as you get into production and you're dealing with multiple clusters on multiple clouds, this is where OpenShift is going to shine as well. Next chart. So we'd like to thank you for coming to this presentation. We hope it's been very helpful. Please feel free to reach out to us and we will be available during the virtual playback for questions or you can reach out to us on Twitter or our other contact mechanisms. And again, thank you for coming to our presentation.


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There are Four bets that I really like this season. We'll get into them if you were here last year for this exact show Jim was hosting. I was a guest last year My my big take for the pod last year was Matt Olson at 28 to 1 to lead the league in home runs and After 162 games that came to fruition a really nice winner. It's a season-long bet We have to understand what these season-long bets league leader bets what they mean Really high odds low and low imply Probability, but it gives you some you know some action throughout the season You can find different ways to hedge out of it. Whatever it might be. So when it comes to the home run market this year I guess I should note on it just because I you know hit the league leader last year with Matt Olson When it comes to the odds this year, there are Very very few spots that I like I spoke about Ronald Acuna briefly on some other shows. He was at 19 to 1 Currently on the Fandals sports book. He's at 14 to 1 I will always say shop for the best lines available as Jim continuously mentions I will do the same you can find Ronald Acuna and 19 to 1 across the industry to lead the league in home runs That's the lowest number that I would look for a player right now If you were to ask me who do I think leads the league in home runs this year It was just simply just a prediction right and there were no betting odds attached. My answer would be Pita Lonzo However, I don't have interest in Pita Lonzo at 8 to 1 Now if someone else gets well, you know couple players go off to a super hot start and Pita Lonzo falls back and we can get Pita Lonzo at 14 to 1 15 to 1 12 to 1 somewhere around there That's where I'll be looking to jump in on Pita Lonzo But right now at a plus 800 I have no interest in that number no interest in judge Like I said the first player that I'll I'll be looking to would be Ronald Acuna Now I don't mind taking some shots on maybe a longer shot like Julio Rodriguez at 40 to 1 that is certainly fine But Acuna is probably my favorite the combination of his probabilities to actually do it in his overall skill set Combined with the odds actually having to be good and that's what we do get with Acuna again shot for the best lines available So let's get into my favorite season-long league leader bet this season and it is going to be Bobby Witt jr. At 18 to 1 to lead the league in hits Bobby Witt is obviously fantastic player and there's plenty to back this up I will say from the jump any stats that I Reference are either from fan graphs or baseball savants. I also don't do any my own projections We can find projections on fan graphs that people that do these projections are obviously fantastic We can look at the projections. We can see where he stands all these sorts of things So at 18 to 1 Bobby Witt to lead the league in hits that is a 5.3 implied probability very low We have to take all this into consideration When we look at Bobby Witt in his actual production from last year, he had a 17.4 percent striker rate, which is great He had a 2 18 ISO which is obviously strong. We're not here for an aesthetic power But that is obviously good to see He had a 295 bad with which is batting average of balls and play and when we look at his Some of his underlying stats between his ex Woba ex batting average and ex slugging They were all in the 91st percentile or higher and when we flip to his baseball savante page It's as red as can possibly be now the chase rate is a little bit low We'd like to see that improve But the point being is Bobby Witt is a fantastic player. So when we look back to last year Bobby Witt had 177 hits when we look to some of his projections for this year again on fan graphs not doing any of my own projections He's right around that same mark whether we're looking at Steamer or zips or the bat or whatever might be they all have him at that same mark about 170 Maybe a little bit higher when we look at the season-long projections for Bobby Witt in terms of the overall leaderboards The projections have him at about fifth sixth seventh in some spots depending on You know what specific projection we're looking at so Bobby Witt is a top five player when it comes to projected hits His stats should be on the rise this year in terms of his projection in terms of his chase rate He has a very strong strike area in terms of it being low. He's not wasting chances at the play He's putting the ball in play. He has enough power He's gonna be at the top of the Royals lineup and while they may not be the best off offense overall He's going to have plenty of played appearances to put him in a good spot for hits So when we're looking at his odds and we see him Realistically where it should be as I said projected for the sixth seventh hits Maybe the fifth most hits at 18 to one. I like where he sits compared to some of the other players I don't have interest in Ronald Acuna. I don't have interest in Luisa rise Freddie Freeman we can maybe make the case for his odds were a little bit longer same thing with Boba Shet If you can get Boba Shet up at 15 to one I have a ton of interest there, but he's sitting at 10 to 1 right now So Bobby Whit brings the combination of odds and probability that I do like backed by very strong projections So Bobby Whit at 18 to 1 to lead the league in hits That is the first part Next up there are three Player season oh a total over unders that I like one hitter and Then two pitchers and for the hitter we can maybe look at his Odds to lead the league in home runs. So let's start with the hitter. It's a little bit more exciting for home runs Adolis Garcia over 31 and a half home runs this season sitting a minus 113 His odds to lead the league in home runs. I believe are sitting at 40 to 1 Let's double check quickly for yes 41 for Adolis Garcia if I like him to go over 31 and a half I have a slight interest in him to lead the league in home runs as well Understand what that probability is though. So over 31 and a half when we look at Adolis Garcia over the past few seasons He's ended with 31 27 and 39 home runs last year. He has tremendous power a 212 iso a 207 iso and a 263 iso Over the last few seasons the issue with Adolis Garcia are the strikeouts He swings and misses a lot, but man when he makes contact. He has a ton of power So this is a player that can have a higher range of outcomes and much of what much of that can be shown on his baseball savante page where The power the exit velocity the barrel rate the hard hit rate are Fantastic, but the strikeouts are there the strikeouts are certainly there for Adolis Garcia So if we look at the potential upside for Adolis Garcia, it's him pushing towards 40 home runs I don't expect him to fall, you know massively below the 31 and a half number If he's gonna be anywhere It's me right at that number and he's gonna miss it by one or two. He's not gonna end the season with 17 home runs That's just not the type of hitter that he is So yes, I want to bank on a player's theoretical upside rather than looking at a floor outcome for them We want to bank on the ceiling outcome for them and that is Adolis Garcia again backed by strong projections Getting right to this number sitting at 31 sitting at 32. Maybe even getting up to the mid 30s So if he can stay healthy and play of high volume of games surrounded by a fantastic line up with Texas He's always going to be in a good spot to hit and that's one of the things I said about Matt Olson last year is Kind of along the same lines as Adolis Garcia when I specifically said it about Matt Olson last year It's like when Ronald de Cuny is on base and Austin Riley is on base and then Matt Olson is up and Sean Murphy is behind them and Ozzy Alves is there. You can't pitch around Matt Olson He has to see good pitches. That's largely the same for Adolis Garcia when they have a loaded lineup They can't just put pitches out there and let Adolis Garcia on base for free because there's gonna be some other power hitter coming up behind him So I like Adolis Garcia and his upside over 31 and a half home runs this season And again, if you want to take a small Sprinkle on him to lead the league in home runs You can do that as well now to Season-long strikeout props for pitchers and when it comes to pitchers, I generally air on the side of caution and Generally that means taking some unders and when it comes to taking unders on pitchers season-long There's obviously a lot that can go wrong for pitchers Missing a start here or there can really throw off their projections in a big way Missing any significant amount of time if you take the under a pitcher missing any significant amount of time puts you in a great spot You know, we don't want to root for injuries But injuries are just a thing when it comes to pitchers and a lot of teams are very very cautious when it comes to their pitchers and I also think as we get to the end portions of the season It does allow you to hedge out in a certain way where a player is approaching their season-long prop You can look to them when they start games and you can look to take an over on their strikeouts and potentially You know make back some of the initial bet So let's go to two pitchers It's going to be both unders for their season-long strikeouts And that's starting off with nester Cortez for the new york Yankees under 139 and a half strikeouts again minus 113 When we look to nester Cortez he obviously missed a significant amount of time last year you're only pitch 63.1 innings The year before that he pitched 158.1 The year before that he was at 93 his k per 9 and a strikeout radar nearly identical over this Three-year sample size. He was up at 27.5 strikeout rate 26.5 and last year is at 25.2 So the lowest of the three years was last year Also from the smallest sample size last year. He also struggled with home runs Last year we also saw the highest walk rate from nester cortez up at 7.5 and while 7.7 7.5 is not a bad walk rate It just was the highest that he's posted of the three main years that he's been in the league not compared to You know prior when he was with a handful of teams not pitching a large sample size He's not a dominant strikeout pitcher is what it comes down to he's a league average strikeout pitcher slightly above league average He can pile up the strikeouts when the matchup allows it But he's not routinely going to be going out there pushing towards 8 9 10 strikeouts on a game by game basis start by start basis He's going to be around 5 6 maybe 7 strikeouts To start spring training. He has a 23.5 strikeout rate and again comes from a very small 14 innings sample size It is an indication. We can't use it as a set in stone because the sample size is so small When we're looking at the Yankees overall I'm trying to take in a consideration where their team and their pitching staff is combined with nester cortez who did again Struggle to stay healthy last year considering Garrett Cole is already injured to start the season whatever status may be I'm under the assumption that the Yankees are going to play things a little bit safer this year when it comes to Pitchers if they have to force a pitcher to miss any pitcher rogdon or cortez or anyone to miss an extra start They'd rather do that then push them out. They're considering their pitching staff isn't already at full health So when it comes to nester cortez And we're seeing 63 innings last year and 67 strikeouts and 158 innings and 163 strikeouts And 93 innings and 103 strikeouts over the past three years three seasons with the Yankees He has to be out there in order to obviously rack up the strikeouts And considering where his health has been and the Yankees pitching staff overall I'm playing this a little bit cautious, you know, we'd expect a seal we would need not expect We would need a sealing season from nester cortez with 130 innings minimum In order for him to get to 130 or 140 strikeouts in order to hit the over So i'm playing things a little bit safer And again it gets to the end of the season and staying fully healthy. We can obviously look to hedge out of this as well Let's go to the final pitcher For another under on a strikeout prop and that's going to be zack gallin under 192 and a half strikeouts sitting at minus 113 I think zack gallin is a fantastic pitcher. He really is he's truly one of the best in the national league However, I think this projection is just a touch high and it's Based off of what we've seen from him the past two seasons, which were granted great seasons We just have to look at that in full context and Look at it in terms of will he be able to repeat those performances So last year 210 innings pitched 220 strikeouts He had a 26 strikeout rate overall in 2022 We saw 184 innings from him and 192 strikeouts and he had a 26.9 strikeout rate The year before that he had 121 innings and 139 strikeouts With a 26.6 strikeout rate. So we have seen his strikeout rate trend slightly down Last year 26 when it was about 26.9 and 26.6 His innings are strong. He has been healthy. However, however, we always want to look at was a potential floor outcome for these pitchers And that floor outcome for zack gallin would be his strikeout rate continuing to decline getting toward 25.2 25.3 His innings are scaled back slightly and instead of hitting over 200 again this year He sits at 190 195 and that means he we need to be exactly Efficient as he was last year this year in order to hit 193 strikeouts So zack gallin while he's fantastic last year Was a ceiling year for him with 210 innings pitched and 220 strikeouts So if his strikeout rate continues to decline And his innings are scaled back ever so slightly this year It's going to be razor thin for him to hit the over now I think he's a fantastic real life pitcher and it you know, obviously a player anyone anyone would want on our team He's great with limiting home runs. He's great at inducing ground balls. He's great at limiting the hard contact, but Those strikeouts could be on a decline this year. And again, we'll look at his spring training numbers, which is a very small 13 innings sample size He has a 14.3 strikeout rate and an 11.1 walk rate So strikeout rate, which is obviously nowhere near where he was in the past few seasons His walk rate is at 11. It was at 5.6 last year 5.6 is fantastic Again, a super small sample size But are we using that as an indication where maybe he starts the year super slow And if he starts the year slow on strikeouts, he may eventually return to the form he was at last year But that projection is going to be uh, you know Trailing from behind if he does start the year slow because he's not racking them up at the same rate So again, I always like to play things a little bit safer when it comes to pitchers And again, if we get to the end of the year in august september and he's at 280 some odd innings And he's sitting here at 180 strikeouts. Yeah, we can look to take some overs on him on a start by star basis And then we make back our initial bet and we come out net even So that's what I like to do when it comes to pitchers side on the side of caution There's just so much that can go wrong for a pitcher In a season missing one or two starts can throw off his projection by 12 13 strikeouts and then we'd be cruising to an under So when it comes to the lead league league leader market in strikeouts Spencer strider is by far the favorite There's not many players that can compete with him when it comes to his strikeout rate overall Kevin gossman is there for me the fact but kevin gossman isn't healthy Right, uh, I believe he's going to miss the opening day start. So I'm a little bit hesitant on kevin gossman Pablo Lopez, Tyler glass now hunter green in this range. I think they're all fine Dylan cease again is good The walks the walks and home runs are always an issue for Dylan cease Corbin burns is the player I'm going to have the most interest in if we see that number get a little bit longer If we can if we see Corbin burns at 17 to 1 that's something I would take some shares of He is one of the favorites to win the al sayang now at the Orioles al sayang So I will have some interest in Corbin burns if we can find A live number once the season starts around 15 or 17 to 1 to lead the league in strikeouts So that does it for today's podcast. We have bobby wick to lead the league in hits at 18 to 1 Really like the projection for him this year like him obviously going forward throughout his career Adolas Garcia over 31 and a half home runs immense power Yes, the strikeouts can be an issue for Garcia, but the power and realistically the lineup around him are both fantastic and then when it comes to strikeouts nester cortez for the new york Yankees under 139 and a half strikeouts and then zack gallon for the diamondbacks under 192 and a half strikeouts So that does it for today's podcast austin swain will be here with you tomorrow I will be back on wednesday gym will be back on thursday and we will keep things rolling as a reminder This is one of the many shows on the faddle podcast network You can find that anywhere whether it's apple podcast or that spotify make sure to give it a like follow or subscribe Leave a review that be greatly appreciated. You can follow me on twitter at tom underscore vecchio one until next time Good luck with your bets


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I was beginning to think that you were no longer a boy that you were now a man.  John Dana as Paladin San Francisco 1875 the Carlton Hotel headquarters of the man called Paladin Yes Hello a boy come on in Want me to take tray and glasses downstairs now? Yes. Thank you. You have long talk with man up here this afternoon Yes, he's an old friend of mine a Colonel Amos R. Leland the United States Army now retired Oh, he's a ah and the colonel's father was general Amos R. Leland United States Army now deceased perhaps you remember him Oh general Amos R. Leland No, sir As a matter of fact, I guess there's been an Amos R. Leland carrying a high rank in the United States Army since Well, since the United States had an army Amos R. Leland seems to be in rut Well, it looks like the present generation is going to put a stop to it Amos junior is a second lieutenant and he doesn't seem very enthusiastic about it Oh, I was junior don't like on me Yeah, the colonel has heard indirectly that the boy is going to resign as Commission. Oh Resigned mm-hmm. He wants me to check on it. Oh, you go Snoopy for Colonel Well, I wouldn't put it that way. Hey boy, I know young Leland. He's a fine boy If he has some problem, maybe I can help him seem to me. Maybe Amos junior just don't like army That's quite possible. Hey boy Constipation can be a problem for anyone even doctors And when constipation occurs, it's interesting to see just what doctors consider important about a laxative They might use or recommend Well, a majority of the doctors we heard from had this to say a laxative should be effective Gentle close to natural acting a medicine that can be used with complete confidence Now x-lax has been popular with many doctors and millions of people over the years Because chocolate at x-lax is effective overnight. It helps you toward your normal regularity X-lax is so gentle so close to natural acting. There's no upset That's why many doctors and millions of people use x-lax with complete confidence x-lax the laxative that helps you toward your normal regularity gently overnight It was late in the day when I reached Tucson I Checked into a hotel and early the next morning rode out to Fort bleaker Where young Leland had been transferred after a brief tour of duty with the War Department in Washington When I reached the stockade gates I dismounted and crossed the dusty parade ground of the low squat administration building to inquire where I might find the Lieutenant I was directed to his room in the boq the bachelor officer's quarters Hello Amos good to see you Paladin what a surprise What brings you to this God forsaken place you? Well sit down Thank you Amos I See no reason to beat about the bush your father asked me to look in on you Got wind of my resignation. Yeah, we're dad I'm afraid. I'm quite a disappointment to him Paladin. Well, he he's disturbed about you and I'll admit that I'm puzzled as I recall Amos you graduated from the Academy with honors What happened very simple when I was in Washington the job I had gave me access to certain files going through them one day I uncovered an irregularity that I felt merited the attention of my superior officers So you brought it to their attention, of course Did they act on it immediately here? I am as far away from the department as I can get Amos when you were in Washington was it part of your job to go through the files? No, oh I see You were meddling I don't call it that You were prying into something that didn't concern you I discovered a gross blunder I think it concerns me and every American did it serve any of us Americans to bring the blunder to light Did any of us benefit from in my opinion the bumbling of the army should be exposed at every opportunity? So I have to resign. Well, I think you've come to a wise decision Amos The army apparently is no longer the place for you. I agree, but I hope they don't wait too long to accept my resignation After Fort Bleaker, I don't know where they can send me except to the firing squad Have you been peeking in the files again? Not just the files I've been snooping around the whole territory and this time I really have something like what like this setup smells to high heaven Now couldn't you have been a little hasty in drawing your conclusions? You've been here how long now long enough to unearth some startling facts about the way things are run out here And this time I'm not going to trust my information to go through channels I'm going straight to the great white father the president. Yes, I Can't act as an officer in the United States Army, but I can't act as a private citizen Well Amos, I must remember you were no longer that boy. I used to know you're a man. It's your life Yes, the only one I've got right now. I'm hoping I'll be able to hang on to it for a while What do you mean by that? I'm skating on awfully thin ice paladin My plan must not be discovered Good evening Pedro. Oh, Mr. Paladin. I think you go already back to San Francisco. No, I decided to stay a while a beer, please Hot night Thank you Senor Paladin, yeah, you are a friend of the Lieutenant Amos Leland Yes, I am I saw him yesterday. I am also his friend. He was in here today look for you He was here in Tucson. See Have you any idea where I can find him? Maybe I Would think at la casa delgado. Where's that? Is a little hotel here in old town down the street around corner You find him, Senor Paladin. My friend Amos Leland seemed to have big worry Thanks Pedro Amos. It's Paladin Amos, hey, what's the idea put that gun away come in come in and close the door and lock it sure There you weren't followed were you? There's no one with you. No, what's the matter with you? Sorry, I guess I'm just plain scared Pedro at the Contina said you were looking for me. Yes, I wanted to talk to you All right, let's talk. Well, there isn't time now every second counts. I've been waiting till dark now. I gotta move fast Where are you going? I? Gotta hide out for a while Amos has the army's acceptance of your resignation comes through no no not yet then you're deserting well I guess you can call it that I I think of it as saving my neck Somebody's out to kill me Paladin is somebody whose toes you might have stepped on with your snooping. I suppose so I'm I'm not sure who could have found out, but I'm being followed somebody took a shot at me last night I'm scared, and I'm running out. Well, you're gonna get yourself in a real jam this time. You let me worry about that wait Paladin here you take this map map one for it's the information I told you about I have the documented proof of my findings It's all in a chest buried in a safe place. Now you keep the map. Well, what do I do with it? Well, it'll be safer with you, but Don't do anything until you hear from me. I'll get in touch with you somehow Don't do it this way Amos if you have information that you honestly feel should reach the president Let me help you see that he gets it, but go back to the fort don't desert Paladin. It's too late for that It's too late for anything except just what I'm doing Amos yesterday I said you were no longer a boy that you were now a man. I was wrong.   Now come on You're going Amos who did it who shot you? I I'll track him down Amos. Could you see who it was? No, it's too dark. Let's get you to a doctor. No No, Paladin. Yes The map the map. Yes place of singing water to Tolica Amos Amos Magikersen, my name is Paladin. Oh, yes sit down. You were with lieutenant Leland last night when he Most unfortunate thing. Yes, it was Major early this morning. I followed the tracks of the horse that rode away from the scene I finally lost the trail about oh four miles south, but This was an unshod horse an Indian pony Strange doesn't follow the pattern. That's not the way an Indian kills. No, I don't think it was an Indian You have any suspicions. No, not really Major, what do you know about the lieutenant's off-duty life while he was here at the fort? Well, not much he was a strange one didn't mingle kept to himself Well, we seemed busy poking around alone Do you know what he was doing? No He was gathering evidence of incompetence and bungling in the army to present to the chief executive What that's right? It was a sort of crusade Well, the one who was so busy Lord knows he could find enough of it around here Major it's a sad thing to see a man die for a cause he believed in Paladin Lieutenant Leland was young. He was impatient. He allowed himself to forget his lessons on military strategy But sometimes it's necessary to take other than the shortest route to achieve an objective Yet yet to find out that battles are not won easily or without some margin for error I think he died for a cause. He knew was right Just what are you getting at Paladin? What right have we to be tolerant of corrupt practices? Or to be intolerant of youthful impatience Maybe a little more poking around meddling is what we need. I repeat just what are you getting at Amos? Leland was murdered major because in his poking around he uncovered something pretty hot. He compiled documents of his findings and Major it's only fair to tell you that I'm gonna try to locate them and if I do I Feel obligated to carry out the boys plan and see that they're placed in the hands of the president Well, I can't stop you Paladin But before you get too involved Think it over Hey Pedro, you see Does the place of singing water mean anything to you? Yes, and your what? It is most beautiful spot on all Apache reservation. It does Taliqa mean anything to you See Taliqa is most beautiful girl on all Apache reservation She's daughter of great chief Only now it is so sad sad now Taliqa will cut her pretty hair and Make dirty with soot or pretty face and wear the ugly dress. Why is that? For the great sorrow It is a Apache way She will mourn her husband Our good friend lieutenant Leland her husband Amos was married to an Indian girl Taliqa was his wife in Apache marriage ceremony Only a patch is not this and I know it and now you know it Pedro Here Yeah, this map here Does this make any sense to you? Oh but of course This mark this is tree that leans and here is cradle rock This map this is place of singing water. I want to go there Pedro. Will you show me the way? Seguro Now you're sure there's the right spot The map says well that wiki up there. What's that that is wiki up of emus Leland and his wife Taliqa They really made a home together Well, thanks Pedro. You might as well go back now. I'll see you later You dig senior Paladin you dig you find what you look for Yes, goodbye Pedro. Thank you It is not much deeper and a bit this way. Oh Well, I I'm not mean to start with you. Please forgive me. I am Taliqa Taliqa, you are beautiful Yeah, Taliqa, my name is Paladin Paladin. Oh, yes You were friend to emus Leland Your spade mr. Paladin this way now Big here. Oh All right Hey, yeah, you see the corner of wooden box. That is what you want. Well Yeah, it must be oh Have I your permission? Yes, mr. Paladin take it there You seem to know about this box Taliqa Yes, I do Do you know what's in it? Yes Bitterness Bitterness What are you trying to tell me Taliqa this? It is not in every man to be warrior mr. Paladin No, but if it is not in man to be warrior this man will say let others be warriors I will do what is for me to do He will not hold bitterness in his heart abuse those who are warriors What you're saying is that emus became bitter toward the whole army because He would never make a decent soldier is that it yes It is not easy for a man to have knowledge that he must fail When he is expected to prove himself as one of a line of great fighting men But my husband did not look deep within himself to know this I Knew it I loved him very much Well, I thought it was something I could do for emus to take the information in this box to the president as he had planned to do Mr. Paladin the great white father is welcome to it But it will burden him A box filled with hate and longing and anger but take it I have now to do what I must do. What's that Taliqa? You are not stranger to our country mr. Paladin You know Apache custom for the dead to burn all the personal belongings. Yes There is not much I had only part of his life The wiki up The buckskins he wore here To bow my brother made him Things from our home Taliqa This belongs with the rest of his things The buck yes Take it burn it too Thank you It is right. I'm sure it is It's still Amos died for what is in that box No matter what prompted that He was a martyr to a cause This will disturb you always Well, it's not mr. Paladin I'm afraid so it must not Did you know that Amos Lillian was soon to resign from the army? Yes Did you know that his plans were to return to the east coast of the country? And marry a girl to whom he has long been betrothed No I didn't know that Do not be disturbed mr. Paladin Amos Lillian did not die a martyr to a cause He died because he betrayed an indian girl Taliqa yes I killed him Mr. Paladin You please move so missy wong can map in that corner. Oh sure I'm sorry miss wong and I guess my mind was some other place Mr. Paladin Seem like since you come back from trip you'll mind some other place last time.  Paladin Yes, he did But there wasn't much I could do about it This real problem was deep in the recesses of his mind And he wasn't even aware of it Get all mixed up Farah, mrs. James and I both say you're the best housekeeper we know You wouldn't say that today. 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You are in the army now. We have some singers.  But let me put this down so I don't accidentally. OK. All right. Good morning, everyone. I'm Emily Rendela Rojo. I think I know many of you, but I'm the director here at Uptown Social. With me, I have my friends. We all sing together in college. So when Marilyn said the theme for today was the military, she asked me, Emily, would you sing the Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy? And I said, I would love to. And I recruited my friends, Crystal and Jenna. So we are going to sing the Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy for you in three-part harmony acapella. Crystal actually grew up to become the minister at my church. So she is Reverend Crystal Clemmie. And Jenna grew up to be a music teacher and a rock star. So she was failed. And the joke being, what do you get when you put a businesswoman, a minister, and a rock star together? And the answer is the Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy. We are also assisted by Louen. You want to give everybody a wave, Louen? Or not. So I am going to kick us off, but I have a quick story. This morning, Joanne, who's volunteering out front, asked me, Emily, do you have a tin of snuff in your back pocket? And I was like, me? I'm the squarist person that ever was. I would never. I've never smoked anything. And I pulled out my pitch pipe. So we had quite a giggle. All the cool kids did. Let's do that better. He was a famous trumpet man from Chicago Way. He had a Boogie style that no one else could play. He was the top man of his craft. But then his number came up, and he was gone with the trap. He's in the Army now, a blowing rambly. He's the Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company V. They made him blow a bugle for his uncle Sam. It really brought him down because he couldn't jam. The captain seemed to understand. Because the next day, the cat went out and drafted a bend. And now the company jumps when he plays ravelly. He's the Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company V. A root, a toot, a toot, a toot, add a toot. He blows it egg to the bar. In Boogie rhythm, he can't blow a note unless the bass and guitar is playing with it. He makes the company jump when he plays ravelly. He's the Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company V. He puts the voice to sleep with Boogie every night. And wakes him up the same way in the early ride. They clap their hands and stand their feet. Because they know how he plays when someone gives him a beat. He really breaks it up when he plays ravelly. He's the Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company V. A root, a toot, a toot, filly, add a toot. He blows it egg to the bar. In Boogie rhythm, he can't blow a note unless the bass and guitar is playing with it. He makes the company jump when he plays ravelly. He's the Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company V. Listen, January is going to be turnips and tea. We'll think of some, tea for two? We'll think of some. OK, all right. Thank you for having us. Thank you. Now they're a real show. OK. Thank you. I'm going to get next closer. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Well, you're in the Army now. I'm on a committee for the county with Craig Stewart. Craig Stewart, I always say he is the Cheboygan County Veterans Administration representative. But that's the wrong title. Craig, what's your actual title? I am the Deputy Director of the Cheboygan County Veteran Service Office. Same idea, same idea. And I cannot beat that intro. Thank you, Craig. Thank you so much for coming. We're going to make SOS. I said to Craig and his boss, would it be too kitschy? They said, no, Marilyn, do SOS. So we have an upscale version of SOS. But instead of toast, we're making some sweet cream biscuits. And then because it is autumn, we'll do a Waldorf salad with apples, kohlrabi, and pistachios. And then I have roasted acorn squash, buttercup squash, butternut squash. And we'll have that over there so you can taste the difference. And I think all of them work to make pumpkin pie. The acorn is kind of pale, but the other ones work great for pumpkin pie. I have my wonderful volunteers. Faith is going to be the squash lady today. And Janet has been helping all morning. And of course, she helps her sister all the time with the tables. Jackie's been running like mad since she arrived. And this is Peg, which I call Sue. She's doing the apple. And then my friend Liz Gilvanetti, she and I started the cafe at the art center. By the way, in the year 2000, when they started the cafe at the art center, the Waldorf company made 300 of these to be used in the cafe. Until about two years ago, these are the plates that were used in the cafe. But it looks like an army plate, doesn't it? All right. Thank you, Liz. Thank you, Peggy Sue. Thank you, Jackie Vicki. Thank you, Janet. Thank you, Faith. And back in the corner, of course, is Anne Kraft. Anne, do you want to say something special today? OK. All right. All right. All right. Let's start with SOS. Yes, yes. Thank you. Thank you. We could not put it together without volunteers. You know that. And I'm a volunteer, too. Someone said you don't get paid. I said no. I'm retired. No one can hire me. I will only volunteer. Then I get to call the shots. Who has been in the military? B was in the Air Force. Army, army, OK. Now, I brought my Pan Am uniform. It's not the Air Force. But it sort of looks like the Air Force, doesn't it? So I brought it along. That was quite a while ago. OK, Scott. Let's start with the SOS. Cream, chip, beef on toast. And we all know what SOS means. Oh, while I'm getting this going, would you cut up the dried beef in a jar? This is Hormel. Dried beef in a jar, this is armor. And they did not have the plastic packages with the lunch meat. They were out of them. So all of it today is one of these two.  All right, and I'll start with this. But I do need my recipe. OK, butter. And it says three tablespoons of butter. I just put in a stick. And we need three tablespoons of flour. Oh, gosh, yeah.  This month it's going. It must be the weather. That's it. It's the weather. That's right. OK, and milk. Look at as smooth as can be. I love that. And I didn't measure because I was going to use whatever was left in this jar. And then we have nutmeg. Oops. And garlic powder. And of course, you can use fresh onion. You can use fresh garlic. Or you can use the powder. There are no army police coming to check your cooking in your kitchen.  I saw a joke in the newspaper a couple of weeks ago. Maybe you saw it too. It was this elderly couple. It was a comic strip. And the wife was eating some scrambled eggs. Oh, these are crunchy. And he said, I followed the recipe. Two whole eggs. You're smarter than that. And you have chickens, which reminds me. Our famous eggs. Remember, I don't like brown eggs. I'll eat them back eventually. All right. Let's see if we can thicken this. We'll put in the dried beef. And this is more than what the recipe calls for. But better more than less. But if so far you put more than the recipe calls for anyway, so you're better than that. That's right. And a little green onion. Would you stir that one? And then a little red diced pepper. We're making the deluxe. That's exactly it. Well, I asked you and your boss, well, I said that. Should we do SOS? And they said yes. And she did say upscale. And this is definitely upscale. I remember mother made this when we were children. And we liked it just wonderfully. Oh, yeah. Sure. And I'm guessing that it was made a lot in the 50s and 60s because the ingredients were not expensive. OK, now I have some tasting spoons someplace right there. Oh, look at that. It's nice and colorful. Woo. Oh, it does taste. Yum, yum. No, it's heavy on the meat, so it's a little salty. But soldiers always had to have lots of salt and water to keep going. Stay hydrated. Yep. OK, I will pull this plug. And then Craig, I will hold this. If you will, just I'll do this. If you'll just scoop it into here. Sure. So you'll need apple juice and water today. OK. Any questions about SOS? Yeah, but it's simple. It's pretty good. Did one say less sodium or no? No, this one says 90% fat free. None of them say anything about. And gluten free, nothing about salt free. Well, I don't think you can make dried beef without using salt. Salt is extremely, extremely, extremely good. Yep, right. It is. Cream biscuits. We could use toast, but I thought cream biscuits taste very good, and they're very simple to make. I have two cups of flour, a tablespoon of baking powder, and I know Jackie found measuring spoons for me in a teaspoon of salt. We do need salt in the biscuits. There's lots of biscuits. There's sourdough biscuits. There's milk biscuits. There's salt rising biscuits. And I'm using straight cream for the liquid, but I'll bet you could use beer if you wanted to, just so it's wet and a tablespoon of sugar. And sugar is not to make it sweet. Sugar just enhances the flavor. It sort of works like salt does. It enhances the flavor. OK, and here we go. Mix together the dry ingredient, a cup and a half of cream. And of course, you know this probably will not open the way we want it to. We can get this far and not any further, right? So we open up the whole thing. You've all had the same problem, about a cup and a half. You want to just give that a stir in some melted butter. It's not melted at all. It was melted. It was melted. That's correct. It's soft. There we go. There we go. Yeah, and they're nice and sticky, and that is what we want. Now, of course. You're sitting in the splash zone. We could put them out and make them into the flat biscuits, but I like to do it this way. I spray the, yep, and the outside too. Then, whoops, and even if it doesn't glue together here, it will when it's baking. And that's the first measuring device she's used today. Hey! Way to go. Only for convenience, right? That is correct for convenience. And we get about 10 out of her recipe. Then a spoon. Oh, yeah. And this time, we're going to get nine. And you know it sticks to the outside also. That's why I sprayed the outside of the ice cream scoop as well. And then, and I put all the melted butter into the biscuits. I was supposed to save some to put on top, which I didn't. So let's put some Pam on there. Yep. As you do at home, you improvise. You just use what you have. And then a little bit of sugar, just to sprinkle on top. Again, not to make it sweet, but just to enhance the flavor. And you'll see if you like these biscuits. Now, my husband ate two as soon as they came out of the oven. But I didn't make these today, so you'll have to imagine how delicious they were yesterday. And these will go into the magic oven. Any questions about the biscuits? They really are easy to make. And you can see it's not lots of trouble. Let's work down to the salad. A week ago today, I did a funeral for my daughter-in-law's mother. Yeah, and she's the same age as me. Anyway, I made hot beef sandwiches. And Amy said to me, you don't have to cook the beef. Just buy the beef from Nicevelts already cooked. I said, OK, I didn't even know they had that. And that Nicevelts a lot. It was very good.  You all know the marinated raw vegetable salad. Actually, that was the hit, the marinated raw vegetables. And a Waldorf salad being autumn. We did apples and I forget. Where are you finding ground arrabbi now? Grocery store. Grocery store. Yeah, they did. And of course, I need a little knife. And I think I have one someplace here. And of course, let's see if I can do it in front.  And then I just peel it like this. Now I saw on YouTube or something like that, they used a potato peeler. That's a lot of work to use a potato peeler when a little paring knife goes so quickly. Unless you're really good with a potato peeler. And then, and I thought, I'll make little sticks. So you'll be able to tell the kohlrabi from the diced apple if that makes a difference. And I do like cutting. My friend Liz is here to wash dishes. She likes washing dishes and cleaning the kitchen. Hallelujah. Bring her a knife. Yes. And I like cutting. OK, that's enough. All right, let's put in the kohlrabi, put in the apples. Just different kinds. Yes, red and green, simply for the color. Here you can, and then, and here Craig, if it's easier to use two, use two. The dressing is simply mayonnaise, a little miracle whip, and lemon juice. My daughter sent to me yesterday, she's in California, this Meg military energy gum, 100 milligrams of caffeine per piece. And I suppose soldiers could use that sometimes. They'd give them that extra step, sure. Right, when they have to step for 22 miles. Yeah. And they're young. I want that little bit of tang of the miracle whip. But that is not compulsory. I just like that tang. And we'll see if this is enough, or do we have to add more. We'll find out. Some people like their Waldorf very mayonnaise-ish, some people like it less, and lemon juice. Let's give it a squish. I think you could ride on this all the way to Elkhart Lake and you wouldn't feel a thing. And probably take out the seeds.


I'm about to sign a law, bipartisan safety legislation, gun safety legislation, and time is of the essence. Lives will be saved. When it seems impossible to get anything done in Washington, we are doing something consequential. We can reach compromise on guns. We ought to be able to reach compromise on other critical issues. The new gun law is not an inspiring example of bipartisan cooperation to protect public safety. It's an illustration of how the worst instincts of both major parties combine to produce policies that are neither just nor sensible. The bill passed the Senate by unanimous consent and passed the House with bipartisan support because it offered something to both sides. Republicans got tougher sentences, Democrats got more gun control, and both got to pretend they were doing something to prevent mass shootings. The law is unlikely to have a meaningful impact on mass shootings, but it will cancel the gun rights of adults based on juvenile records and subsidized state laws that suspend those rights without due process. It also increases the maximum penalty for gun possession by people with felony records from 10 to 15 years. That ban applies no matter how old the conviction is and regardless of whether the offense involved violence. The law created additional criminal penalties of up to 15 years in prison for trafficking in firearms, which is defined so broadly that it covers any prohibited person who receives a gun. Prohibited persons who are legally disqualified from owning firearms include millions of Americans with no history of violence, such as cannabis consumers, former psychiatric patients who have never been deemed a threat to others, and people convicted of drug crimes or other nonviolent felonies. Thanks to this law, a cannabis consumer could go to prison for up to 15 years if he obtains a gun, even if he lives in a state that is legalized marijuana. That trafficking in firearms penalty also applies to people who have lost the right to own guns under state law, even when they are not disqualified under federal law. These new penalties will disproportionately harm African Americans. Last fiscal year, 89% of federal firearm offenses involved illegal possession, often without aggravating circumstances or history of violence. 55% of those defendants were black. Even the American Civil Liberties Union, which thinks the right to keep and bear arms is a figment of the Supreme Court's imagination, recognizes that the categories of people that federal law currently prohibits from possessing or purchasing a gun are over-broad and not reasonably related to the state's interest in public safety. The ACLU says those gun bans raise significant equal protection and due process concerns. As an appeals court judge, Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett went even further, arguing that the wildly over-inclusive gun ban for people with felony records violates the Second Amendment. Undeterred by such criticism, Republicans who claim to support the Second Amendment, though did not only to continue punishing people for exercising the rights it guarantees, but to increase the penalties they face. So did Democrats, despite their avowed concern about excessively severe sentences, racial disparities and the damage done by the war on drugs. This is what bipartisan compromise means in Washington. I will compromise my principles if you compromise yours.


Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to another Top 5 Friday.  Today we are talking about the Top 5 Stephen King Scenes for me, moi, me, myself, and I. So please don't get upset if your favorite scene isn't here, but I would love to hear from you down there in the doobly-doo on what your favorite scenes are. Some of these might be a surprise, but whenever I do any of these Top 5 Fridays, I come out to the office, come out to my collection, and I look around for the theme. Well, not for the theme. I know the theme. I'm looking around for the things that fit the theme, and these are the first five books that I grabbed. The same with any other Top 5 Friday that I do. Sometimes I miss some things that I love because I either don't own them or I didn't think about them at that point in time. Now, at number 5, number 5, Revival. The scene that I love so much in this, first let me go ahead and go back and start this over with a preface that I'm not going to be doing endings because I've already done my Top 5 favorite Stephen King endings, so what we are going to do is we are only talking about scenes that happen somewhere between the beginning and just before the end matter of the book. So in this one, it's where Rev. Jacob's spoilers for all the books on this list. I will do the time signatures down there in the description, so if you want to skip ahead, you can. So spoilers again for Revival, there's a scene in here after Charlie Jacob, the reverend's wife and child dies. I think it's been a while since I've read it, and it happens really early on in the book. I can't remember if it's a boy or a girl, or if the wife is just pregnant. I can't really remember, but it just utterly destroys this dude. And he gets up in front of his congregation and he talks about losing, he talks about his faith. He has completely lost his faith and how poisonous and bad religion is, and that scene encapsulated kind of my experience with religion. I'm not knocking you if you're religious, but that pretty much just sums up my experience with religion. I was a very devout Christian up until the point where I was 13, and then I just lost all of my faith. And it took very little, so this scene, of course, there's a lot more going on in this scene than happened in my life, but his speech is what really resonated with me. So that's number five, that scene in Revival. Next up, we have Pet Cemetery. At number four, the scene, it has to be Gage's death. Every single time I have read this book, that scene has meant something different to me. I've read the book twice since I've been a father, and I read the book once before I was a father. It was very disturbing before I was a father. It was even more so after I was a father, and it was even more so after I was a father for the second time, because I couldn't imagine losing a child. But at the same time, after my second child was born, I couldn't imagine the concept of not only losing a child, but having a child left and always seeing, this might sound terrible, maybe not, but always seeing that one child, how do you react to something like that? How do you tell your child that their sibling has passed away? I can't even imagine that.  But to tell a child that this other human being that they have lived with, it just destroys me. It's one of the most affecting scenes Stephen King has ever written.  He lets us know several times to try and not really ease the blow, but kind of just to ease you into it. It's like, things are going to get very, very ugly here in a minute, and so you don't hate me, I'm letting you know ahead of time. And I actually think it's a very smart move on his part, because if that scene had come out of absolutely nowhere, I don't think that the book would be as well regarded widely as it is, the same way with Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door. With that book, it's not as widely accepted because Jack just, he's kind of hit you with all of that content, with really no precursor precursor and no warning. All right, so next up we have at number three, The Shining.  The scariest part of this book, really the only scary part of this book for me is the topiary animals, not the fire hose, not Jack's descent into madness, not Room 230, oh shoot, I don't forget, I can't remember what it, oh Jesus. It's all, I always want to say 217, but that's not right. Let's see, it is 217, it's like 230 something in the movie, isn't it? I can't remember. Anyway, yeah, it's 217 in the book because it adds up to 19. I'm gonna leave all that in, I don't remember all of this stuff right off the top of my head. He's got 70 some odd books. But anyways, so yeah, the topiary animals in The Shining have long disturbed me. The scene with Jack and the topiary animals is fine and it's creepy, but the one that bothers me the most, the one that always, and I'm currently rereading this, so this is very fresh in my mind, is the scene where Danny goes out and he climbs into the snow tunnel and then when he comes out, all of the topiary animals, the hedge animals, if you don't know what topiary means, the hedge animals, they've all moved. And that scene for me is not only, it is terrifying, so it's not here because it's the scariest scene, it's just so well written. It is brilliantly placed and it comes at the perfect time in the book, it's starting to get a bit monotonous and slow and then here we have the scene with Danny and the hedge animals. But the way he builds the dread, you know because beforehand Jack has seen these, well not seen, you never actually see them move in the book. It's always implied that they had moved, which is another genius joke, I think. But you have it set up with Jack and you think maybe Jack is going to end up being attacked by the hedge animals, but then Danny ends up, he's the one who ends up and while he's out there, you know what's coming. That's the best part about it, you know what's coming. You know he's out there with these dang things that move because Jack had the same experience earlier on in the book. I think it's fantastic. Yeah, that's number three. Okay, at number two, this might be controversial opinion. I don't know. Anytime I think about this book, this absolutely beast of a book, this absolute unit of a book, this is the scene that comes to mind. I am not a huge fan of this book because the middle of it is so, so boring to me, but it's the scene in the stand with the kid and trash can man and trash.  I think it's a pistol. Is it a revolver? I think it's a revolver, but please let me know down there in the doobly-doo whether or not I'm wrong. That scene really bothered me. It's not only the rape, but it is the object that is used to rape.  It's one of those things that just made me feel wholly uncomfortable. That scene to me is more powerful and more poignant than anything Richard Layman has ever written as far as rapey scenes are concerned or even Dean Coons, anybody else. That scene really, really bothered me. It has nothing to do with two dudes. It has nothing to do with that. It has to do with the utter assault and the violation that happens to trash. Trash has always been one of my favorite characters in the Stephen King universe. You see his descent into madness just like with Jack Torrance. Stephen King has always done that well by the way. Trash was crazy to begin with, but it gets even worse. I can't wait to find out whether or not the scene is in the original version of the stand because I have not read it yet, but I will be reading it in November. If anybody wants to or is already looking forward to it, we're going to do the stand. We'll probably start the stand on November 1st. I don't know if we'll be doing a chapter a day. I don't know how long we're going to go because there's certain sections of this book that I can read, 100 pages at a time, easy. There's also certain sections of this book that I can't stand, so it'll be like a 10 page a day kind of thing. But yeah, number two is the scene with Trash and the kid, the rape scene. I know it's weird to say it's my favorite scene, but it's one of the most affecting scenes for me. It's just one of those things that sticks in your mind. It just roots in. It's insidious and it just sticks there. Okay, so at number one, which is kind of themed for the week. I mean, we all know what comes out this week. We all pretty much know what book this is because it is my favorite Stephen King book. In fact, I was thinking about doing a top five scenes from this, but I want to wait until the second movie gets farther out. But yes, it is from it. The number one scene on this list for me, and I know there's a lot of people who disagree with this, but it's the mummy scene. Out there in the snow, in the ice, in the cold, Ben on the bridge, looking down and seeing the mummy, and then the crawling, the whole scene is ingenious. I feel once again, this is all subjective opinions. The only reason I'm harping on this is my opinion because I've had three comments in the past week say the scene isn't all that great. For me, it is. The scene, I feel the scene is the most terrifying and the best written scene in the book. Only, well, I don't want to go into what else I would put on this list because I would love to do just the top five scenes of this book, period, if I could mail it down to just five scenes. But anytime I think of this scene, that's the one that pop, sorry, this book. Anytime I think of this book, that's the scene that pops into my head. There's something so ominous and bothersome, and I hope I have not yet, this is being filmed earlier in the week, so I have not seen it chapter two, but I'm really hoping that the scene is in there, or they figure out some way of doing the scene, either with the adults or whatever it is, because it's one of my favorite scenes. I'm hoping the scene with Adrienne Mellon is in it. There's so much that I want to see in there, but I would especially love to see Michetti, especially him, do this scene justice. But I'm not entirely sure why the scene works so well for me, and there's a lot of dread involved. In fact, there's a lot of dread in most of the stuff that sticks with me.  Those scenes that are not really there, but they're implied. Now, there is a lot in the scene that is shown, but the dread building up to that moment, and then the final end of that scene, I feel is just absolutely amazing. So you know how we do. Let me know your top five Stephen King scenes down there in the doobly-doo, and let me know what you think of these these individual scenes and if that maybe they fall on your list as well. Or if you don't like them, let me know why you don't like them. I don't mind different opinions as long as you're not rude about it. But until next time, I have been E, you've been U, this has been another book, no, it's another book review. It's a top five Friday. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye-bye. Hey, by the way, I will be doing a review of It chapter two tonight. When I get, well, the night that I go see it, the night that I get back, I would be putting the the review up. I'm not sure at this point in time if I'm going Thursday or Friday, but as soon as I see it, I will come home and give you guys a review. I may even try to talk Shell into it so we can get another point of view from someone who hasn't actually read the book. But yeah, so I'm super, super excited. And if you guys have seen it, let me know what you thought down there. But please, please, please with the spoiler alert for anybody who hasn't. And also for me, just in case I haven't seen it yet, please put spoiler alert for It movie at the beginning of your comments. Thanks. Bye.


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