As the snow falls, its certainly a nice day to settle in and catch some shows on Netflix or HBO Max. Some suggestions – The New Yorker at 100 (Netflix). While it is interesting that the documentary portrays Harold Ross as the guiding hand in the early stages of the magazine, that conflicts with The New Yorker’s own article on its’ first 100 years. While you cannot deny Ross’ role in the creation, for whatever reason, his wife’s role was almost non-existent. Some feel that Jane Grant played a much more prominent role in the creation of the New Yorker. I will have to cite my source some other day. To paraphrase from the New Yorker article was that Grant was clearly the brighter of the two as Ross’ mind is uncluttered with culture or facts. Wherever you fall on the two camps it is still an entertaining watch!

The sport of baseball can be exceptionally boring at times, especially Major League Baseball but it took me a long time to realize that baseball is so much more than the sport itself. It can be something that you take a long lost friend to when you’re trying to reconnect or simply looking for a place to sit with someone for a couple of hours. There is a lot of value to that. For families, I can’t suggest a sox game unless you’ve come into some small forture, a sox game can cost a family of four upwards of $200 a game now! No, families who can, should jump into a car and travel up Route 93 to Manchester NH and catch a Fishercats game! Its 30 mins door to door. They are the farm team for the Toronto Bluejays but they do play the Red Sox affiilate, the Portland Sea Dogs at least four times a year. Tickets are $20 and the games are geared towards family, I challenge you not to have a good time at these games – https://www.milb.com/new-hampshire

Which brings us to another show worth checking out. That is Brockmire (HBO Max). This is not kid friendly and you could say this is the video equivalent to Jim Bouton’s book “Ball Four”. Bouton’s book infuriated the MLB commissioner Bowie Kuhn, that Kuhn sought a lifetime ban for Bouton. Jim’s book exposed the seamy underside of baseball, from the copious amounts of drinking, to the womanizing, to the clueless coaching that goes on. It is all there. There are also memorable quotes “Knowledge and assumptions, those are like Loggins and Messina. They seem similar, but time proves one of them to be completely worthless.” Its fun and its adult so enjoy!