TURN Finale' / Brewers

Watched the series finale' of TURN: Washington's Spies  last night and I would have said it was in the top 2 of series finale's with Justified as the other great finish.

But alas.  The show took so many liberties with the truth in the finale 5 minutes it fell down the list.

OH - for the most part it was true to form and the major things happened. But for the characters and especially when the final scenes had the "what became of them" part.  WELL, some of the characters were just made up completely.  What became of the made up characters? Come on!

Abe Woodhull was NOT married to his wife ( his cousin) until after the war and there was no affair with Anna Strong.

Abigail (355) - not a real character and did not get sent away to prison or whatever by accident as . . she never actually existed.   The woman who was 355 has never been identified. The only person in the Culper ring that no one knows who she was but was VERY important i winning the war.

Edmund Hewlett became a world class astronomer . . . . was fictional, not a real person. Their was a Hewlett in Setauket who was a British officer but he was actually an American loyalist from Long Island.

James Rivington the Royal Gazette publisher - switched sides and was a spy for Washington. That story line never made it to the screen. 

But there were many many true things.  Simco - the A-hole in charge of the Queens Rangers and the guy you REALLY REALLY wanted to see a long suffering death . . . . founded Toronto in his later life when he was Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada and was a key player in the 1793 Act Against Slavery.

The law, titled An Act to Prevent the further Introduction of Slaves and to limit the Term of Contracts for Servitude within this Province, stated that while all slaves in the province would remain enslaved until death, no new slaves could be brought into Upper Canada, and children born to female slaves after passage of the act would be freed at the age of 25

Benedict Arnold's life when steadily downhill once the war was over. Nobody liked him and when he dies in England they did not even give him a military funeral.

His wife Peggy died 20 years after the war and did not lead a happy life either.

GREAT show and I will miss all of my TV-land friends I had come to know.

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Brewers won last night and I am surprised at how they did it.  Home Runs.  AT&T park is the hardest stadium to hit a home run.  Last year it was 39% harder to hit a home run compared to the average park. I looked at my Strat-o-matic ball park ratings.

To compare.

If you have to roll a 20 sided die for a Home Run in Milwaukee, you would have to roll any number 18 or less.

If you have to roll a 20 sided die for a Home Run in San Francisco you would have to roll . .a 1.

It is that hard to hit an HR in San Francisco. Wind coming off the ocean

In other Brewer news

Ryan Braun has to be secretly happy that Hader had some bad Tweets as a dumb ass stupid teenager.  Now fans in other ball parks won't boo him as they boo Hader.

The bullpen got some help, as if it was needed.  Some BIG help. The Crew acquired Joakim Soria, the Chicago White Sox closer.  A GOOD one.  Remember how good Kneble was last year?  Soria is better then Kneble and you will see more ground balls.  Plus the Crew get Matt Albers back from the DL   

The Brewer bullpen which was near the best in MLB just got a LOT better.

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I'm into the men drifting at sea part of the new Indianapolis book but I had never heard accounts of what was happening as the ship sank.  Something I did not know is that as the Indianapolis was exploding and sinking an Air Force PBY was flying right over it at 9000 feet. 

They watched in awe as fire erupted thinking they were having gunnery practice . . . and flew on not reporting it.  The SOS did get out and the radio man went down with the ship. Nobody believed it.  "A Jap hoax".

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I heard Trump bragging about the GDP and making up false claims - problem with the GDP this quarter is that it's a false positive.  Many countries purchased a LOT of material before tariffs kicked in.

It was like America told the world all prices are going up - BUY NOW.

Here is the thing.  Can the President really boast?  This is like borrowing $30,000 from your credit card in cash and then claiming you are rich because you have so much money to spend.

OF COURSE the economy is doing great when you borrow and give everybody free money.  What happens when they have to pay it back? 

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Scott Walker is in big big trouble and is far behind Tony Evers (zzzzzzzzz) in polls.

An NBC/Marist Poll (a good poll) said in Wisconsin 63% of the residents do not believe Trump should be re-elected.  But these kinds of polls are "question dependent". Trump would not lose by 30% in an election.

33% of Americans approve of Trump’s handling of his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki

26 of the 39 Republicans are retiring from politics. The most ever pure retiring.  8 of the 16 Democrats are retiring completely from politics.  The least in 10 years.

I do not own any stocks in Facebook . . . thank goodness.

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Have I posted this?  I probably have - sorry. When I got my haircut I was asked if I had any images of an F35.

Goes with my B17

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Weather - nothing has changed - today will be like yesterday but less windy. Upper 70s this weekend. Maybe a pop up thunderstorm here and there - no big deal.  good chance of t-storms next Wednesday into Thursday  and it turns a little warmer at the end of NEXT week.

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Have a great weekend.