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Sep 21Liked by Neil Paine

My grandparents so loved Barney Miller and even the vastly inferior spinoff Fish...

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Thanks for sharing Neil.

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Sep 21Liked by Neil Paine

Very nice surprise this morning to see my article among such great company - thank you!

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Sep 21Liked by Neil Paine

Man, just treated my ears to that early 70s ear candy...thank you YouTube...dig those keyboards and realize if you you were a part of it, just how lucky you were to grow up in the greatest decade of all time...

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Sep 21Liked by Neil Paine

The single greatest theme song ever...the GOAT...is The Mod Squad! Nothing compares. You didn’t know what precisely, but you knew immediately when it was coming out of the speakers some serious sh*t was going down on ABC...an Earle Hagen masterpiece most worthy of your time...

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Haha, yes, that is one dramatic theme!

Meanwhile, I went the funky route and had to point out that Dan was missing the theme from Barney Miller -- a very different style of theme:

https://danepstein.substack.com/p/tube-grooves/comment/69308372

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Curious if you have a theory about how much Clark's improvement in the 2nd half was due to 1) "development," ie getting a handle on the new league, especially as a guard with more skill and decision making based game vs 2) "rest," ie she had to play a full ncaa season back to back with her WNBA rookie campaign. I always throught 2) was underrated in explaining her early struggles - which the long olympic break could in theory show. But then again - alot of rookies came back better in the nba bubble in 2020 - which could have been explained by having some space to "develop" skills and mentally

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BTW, noticed Molly Knight borrowing my prior comment on Shohei. Next time you run into her tell her Grant would appreciate some attribution for his growing following of zeroπŸ˜„ just kidding.

Here's a freebie for her follow-up. Words matter and the language in LA has suddenly shifted from him not pitching for his arm health to now whether his pitches will be ready per his rehab.

Now better than 50/50 that he goes at some point...

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