Happy Autumnal Equinox

Today is the day where the sun is directly over the equator and the first day of fall.

I am a fan of fall. It is the season where I neither sweat or freeze my ass off.

Well, for the most part I don't do that.

There are sometimes a day or two where it is hot enough to pour steel or cold enough break out the skis but for the most part, the temperatures where I live are in the 50's 60's and 70's.

I like those temperatures.

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The Bruins will play pre-season hockey against the Flyers at 7:00 this evening.

I, however, will be watching the Red Sox play the Guardians at 6:45 this evening. Tolle has the start.

Tonights game will be managed by Red Sox not-interim manager Chad Tracy because ownership finally got around to realizing the man has turned that team around and knows what he is doing. They signed him to a 3-year contract as the full-time manager this morning.

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Here are some links:

• Oh good, I can hardly wait for 24 hours of Dementia Donny coverage.



• I'm starting to get a "gestapo" kind of vibe from this organization.



• I'm of the opinion that MassDOT did not plan this very well.

Pre-season win

The Bruins won last night, beating the Capitals 3-2 in a shootout.

I will say this - The Bruins have a problem. They have too many good players and some of those players are going to have to get sent down to the AHL before the start of the regular season.

Hopefuly they make the right decisions and start the season with a strong team.

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As for the Red Sox, there was much celebrating yesterday after they clinched a playoff slot. I suspect a lot of those guys were pretty drunk when they got on the plane to fly home to Boston and right now they are nursing major hangovers.

When a reporter asked Tolle about the celebration, he said, "There was a lot of beer!"

So after spending the first half of the season looking like they were going to come in last in the American League, the Red Sox have shown that they actually know how to play baseball.

Tomorrow they start a 3-game series against the ALCentral leader, the Guardians.

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Dementia Donny had something to say about himself today:

"It is called the Oval Office, and it should be treated with Decorum, Respect, and Dignity, not defiled by Third Rate Clowns"

Actually, he was talking about the press but he could have just as easily been giving a self-assessment of his time in office.

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Here are some links:

• Something tells me this is a load of crap: "Mr. Kashouh was grateful for the opportunity to appear in court..."



• If you were planning on going golfing at Brae Burn Country Club in Newton, you might want to plan on going elsewhere.



• You know it's gotten bad when billionaire's start shopping at Dollar General.

They didn't get swept

The Red Sox lost today meaning they lost their series against the Rays.

Despite that loss, the Red Sox still clinched a playoff slot because the Astros lost to the Braves this afternoon.

They are off tomorrow so no baseball for me.

In other sports news, the Patriots beat the Steelers 20-3 this afternoon.

In still more sports news, I'm currently watching a Bruins / Capitals pre-season game.

And now that I've said all that, I have to say that I was not able to watch any of the Red Sox game or any of the Patriots game because we went to Boston to hang out with our son, our daughter-in-law and our grandaughter. I was able to listen to a few innings of the Red Sox on the radio while sitting in a significant traffic jam on the pike somewhere near Worcester.

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I spent some time yesterday working on my lawn tractor and eventualy came to the conclusion that whatever was wrong was either beyond my ability to diagnose or it was a going to require a complete engine rebuild.

Since I have no intention of rebuilding a 15 year old v-twin engine, we went and bought a new lawn tractor. Trust me, pickings are slim so I didn't have many choices in the matter. I ended up finding a decent mid-range John Deere.

Hopefully it lasts as long as my Husqvarna did because at my age, this will probably be the last lawn tractor I buy.

Now I just need to figure out what to do with the old one.

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Here are some links:

• Everything this guy does is a "matter of national security!"
  Also, everything this guy does is a tacky piece of shit that looks like something a 3^rd world dictator would build.



• Ladies and gentlemen, presenting John Barrasso, Constitutional Scholar.



• Things aren't going well for Psycho Vlad and his special military operation.

They didn't get swept

The Red Sox won last night, beating the Rangers 4-3 and avoiding the sweep.

Their "magic number" to clinch a playoff slot is currently calculated at 3 which means they need to win at least 3 of their 9 remaining games.

Fangraphs currently has them at a 100% chance of getting into the playoffs.

Tonight they start a 3-game series against the Rays.

The other day I said, "They should win the series against the Rangers, win at least 1 game against the Rays, win the series against the Guardians and win the series against the Cubs."

I was wrong about the Rangers series and I'm thinking I'm probably not all that correct about the Rays series. Let's face it, I really have no idea what I'm talking about...

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Here are some links:

• Mitch "Weekend at Bernies" McConnell had to be told how to vote.
  Man, we really need age limits and term limits.



• Much like Fox news, they aren't really news, they're opinion spewers.



• I wonder when he's going to change the name of the city to "Trump D.C.".



• Key lie in this story that is probably a lie itself: "There will be NO COST to the United States!"

Darn It to heck

The Red Sox lost 4-2 last night and they are now 6 games behind the Judges.

Fortunately, they are still 5½ games ahead of the Guardians and 7 games ahead of the Rangers.

Bennett has the start for tonight's game. First pitch is at 8:05.

They really need to win tonight.

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Traditionally, Mexico has been the United States biggest trading partner. Canada has been our second biggest trading partner.

Thanks to Dementia Donny and his ill-conceived trade war, I suspect that will will soon change as Canada increases its trade with Europe and decreases its trade with the US.

As the world pulls back from the United States, our country will become less powerful and our allies will become fewer. It's already manifested itself with the total lack of world involvement in Trump's Iran war.

20 years ago, if the US President said to our allies, "We need to form a coalition and use military force to take care of this problem" the majority of them would have stood up and marched alongside of us. Now, they all look at us and say, "No, you go right ahead. We'll just be over here minding our own business."

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This is funny if you are old enough to remember Columbia House.

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In keeping with my "Trump is an Idiot" theme, here is some trutheee things about how great everything he does is:

I'm betting it's called "The Donald J. Trump Helipad". Also, in keeping with his strong desire to be a king, he's now calling the White House a "Palace!"...

Speaking of putting his name on everything...

He is, by all normal measure, crazy as a loon...

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Here are some links:

• You know what? Let's just take the next month and a half off...



• This seems like a very San Francisco kind of thing.



• Oh Canada.