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Clayton Kershaw

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I am sitting here watching the LA Dodgers playing the Seattle Mariners in the final regular season game of the 2025 season. Both teams have clinched births in the playoffs so there was little to play for. However, there was a major reason this game was a must see.

This would be the final time Clayton Kershaw would step on a mound for a regular season game.

Clayton Kershaw announced his retirement a few weeks ago, after spending 18 years pitching for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Against the Mariners today, Clayton has gone 5 1/3 innings pitched, 0 earned runs, 7 strikeouts, 4 hits and 1 walk. He left the game with a 4-0 lead, with a chance to get one more win, which would be his 223rd in his career.

At the end of the 5th inning, it felt as if Kershaw was going to be done, but he went back out for the sixth inning. First batter he faced was Seattle’s Eugenio Suarez, who had 49 home runs this season. Kershaw struck him out and out came Freddie Freeman.

Freeman had already been taken out of the game after he had homered and he was coming out as a friend to take Clayton Kershaw out of the game. It was a beautiful moment. Freddie tried to take the ball, but Clayton wouldn’t give it to him. He was keeping that ball. The Seattle crowd gave him a remarkable ovation and the camera followed him into the dugout.

Dodger manager Dave Roberts met Clayton before heading into the dugout for a big hug.

Coming into the game, Clayton Kershaw has a record of 222-96, which is an amazing W-L percentage. His career ERA was 2.54, and his career WHIP is 1.02. He recently joined the 3000 career strikeout club, perhaps the final pitcher to ever do it. He is a three-time Cy Young Award winner and an 11-time All-Star. He has been on two World Series winning teams. He is a surefire Hall of Famer.

I have to say that I had a lot of emotions watching Clayton Kershaw walk off that mound for the final time in the regular season. I had some tears in my eyes. He has been one of the biggest stars on my favorite team for years, and his loyalty and dedication to the Dodgers, in an era where players rarely stick with one team for their entire career, is amazing.

I felt as if the moment was so large for me that I needed to write about it. I hope Clayton pitches again in the post season, though he will not be on the Wild Card series roster. If the Dodgers advance, I expect Clayton Kershaw out on that mound again.

(By the way, it is currently 5-0 in the top of the 8th. Shohei Ohtani hit his 55th homer).

The X-Files S8 E3

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“Patience”

Agent Scully and Agent Doggett went together for the first time as partners out to chase down DC Comic’s Man-Bat.

Okay, so maybe it is not specifically the Man-Bat aka Dr. Robert Kirkland “Kirk” Langstrom. But there sure were a few similarities to the two characters.

I thought that the scenes with Scully and Doggett worked fairly well. Scully going out of her way to try and fit into the role of Mulder in the story seemed logical and the conflict with local authorities continued to be a trope of the X-Files.

John Doggett is an interesting piece. He seemed more willing to buy into the paranormal than Scully would have been, but he proved himself with his late second return after what looked to be a potential watery grave. I was never worried that Doggett was going to be killed, but it was a dramatic moment as Man-Bat and he fought in the water.

The ending was a bit anticlimactic as the Man-Bat just swooped down, was shot at, and disappeared. Doggett’s idea that he had shot him, as did Scully did not feel like a satisfying conclusion. Sure, it fell into the type of ending the X-Files thrived on, but this did not work as well as many of these previous monster episodes did.

Overall, it was an okay episode, and it furthered the partnership of Scully and Doggett, which was a vital component for the rest of the season.

The Turnaround (2024)

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January 3

It is a busy day today, so this is the first of the Genre-ary DailyView that will be a documentary short. I found this doc on Netflix, called The Turnaround and it focused on Trea Turner, a player for the Philadelphia Phillies.

Trea Turner signed a contract with the Phillies was 11 years for $300 million. It was a large contract and they expected adding him to a mighty Phillies lineup that would immediately shoot them to the World Series.

However, Turner started off with the Phillies in a terrible way, striking out and committing errors.

The Phillies fans are notorious for being tough on players. However a standing ovation from the fans led to a total turnaround.

This doc looked at one fan in particular named Jon McCann. According to IMDB, McCann was “a Phillies fan from the city’s Bridesburg neighborhood and a content creator known as ‘The Philly Captain’ who helped spearhead the standing ovation.”

“It’s nice to be nice some times,” said McCann in the doc.

The doc showed the depression that McCann was in, to a point where he was hospitalized for the potential of killing himself. The doc brought the two stories together in a very effective manner.

I am a baseball fan, and I loved Trea Turner, who spent some time as a Dodger. This was a really nice documentary short that presents that love of baseball and how the power of positivity can truly make a difference.