The Mets are down 2-1

Last night they didn't play well. The Dodgers, however, did play well. The Mets lost 8-0 which isn't as bad as the 9-0 loss the other day,

On a more positive note, the Dodgers are sitting Freeman. That is a big bat taken out of their lineup.

As for the Aaron Judges, they have a 2-1 series lead but right now, the Guardians are up 2-1 in the 6^th inning.

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The Bruins managed to beat the Avalanche 5-3 last night even though I wasn't watching them.

This gives them a 3-2 record.

Tomorrow they will take on the Utah Hockey Club. Puck drops at 9:00 so maybe I'll be able to watch the the first and part of the second periods before calling it a night.

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NOAA has released it's winter outlook and it looks like we are going to avoid a lot of snow.

I still fired up The Beast yesterday just to make sure it was working correctly but if I don't have to use it very often, I'm not going to be disappointed.

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I've got some baseball to watch.

Here are some links:

• This just keeps getting better and better...



• Key line in this story: "A state-of-the-art fire station in western Germany that was completed last year at a cost of tens of millions of euros has burned to the ground because it had not been equipped with a fire alarm."



• Well this sounds awful.



• Wait'll my wife hear's about this...



• Oh Canada.

Yankees are up 2-0

The New York Aaron Judges managed to hold off the Guardians and won last night. This puts them up 2-0 on the ALCS series.

Both teams are heading to Cleveland where they will continue the series starting tomorrow.

The Mets and Dodgers are in Queens for the continuation of their series. It would do my heart good to see the Mets win all three of their home games and take the pennant.

Go Mets!
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As for the Bruins, they are out in Denver where at 9:30 tonight, they will play the Avalanche.

Also happening at 9:30 tonight will be me going to bed and not seeing any of the game.

Hopefully tomorrow morning I will discover that the Bruins won the game.

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So Goofy Joe told HeeBeeJeeBee Netanyahu that if he didn't stop blowing up little kids, we would cut off his supply of weapons.

If you read that sentence, you might find yourself saying, "Huh?"

That's right, we told Israel that if they stop blowing up people, we will keep giving them bombs so they can keep blowing up people.

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We have a law in this state that says anyone that is unable to take care of their newborn baby can leave the baby at a hospital, a police station or a fire station and there will be no ramifications. The state will place the child into the foster system and put it up for adoption. In other words, we make it easy for people to give up their responsibilities of parenthood.

Let me be clear: We make it easy for people to put their children into a system that will care for them. And this law is not one of those "hidden" laws, it is talked about on the news and in public all the time.

Can someone explain to me why anyone who is at least smart enough to have sex and procreate is stupid enough to abandon their child on someones doorstep?

There are a lot of idiots in our society...

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Here are some links:

• Seems that Masataka got some surgery. Hopefully he's good to go come February.



• Based on I've seen when the camera pans the "crowd", they don't have a lot of fans. They could probably play at any high school or college field and still not fill the seats.



• Key phrase in this story: "And we know that that drives them nuts."



• We don't pay cops enough.



• Well maybe they should keep it in the fairway.



• Key lie in this story: "The damaged cars will then be fixed..."

Long day = short post

The Met's beat the Dodgers and the Yankees beat the Guardians yesterday.

That means the Mets and Dodgers are tied 1-1 and the Yankees are up 1-0.

Go Mets!

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Here are a couple of links:

• Fashion: I don't get it.



• Oh Canada.

Bad start.

The Mets got stomped last night, getting beat 9-0 by the Dodgers in game one of the NLCS.

Hopefully they can turn it around this afternoon and grab a win in Los Angeles before they head to Queens.

First pitch was thrown for 4:08pm and by 4:10pm, it was 1-0 Mets.

Go Mets!

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In the hockey world, the Bruins & Panthers went at it this afternoon and the first period was like the final game in the movie Slapshot!.

Apparently the refs decided they weren't going to call penalties until the boys decided to doll out their own form of justice. Suddenly, after several fights that involved more than two players, the refs started to get control of the game and things calmed down a bit.

In the end, the Bruins lost to the Panthers, getting beat 4-3.

Their next game is Wednesday. They'll head out to Denver to take on the Avalanche. Puck drops at 9:30, which is way too late for me.

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We closed the proch for the season but one of The Sisters has decided otherwise:

The other one is also not ready to call it a season but she's hiding under the tarp.

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Game one of the ALCS between the Yankees / Guardians kicks off at 7:38pm and yes, I will be watching it.

While I do that, you should check these out:

• We're gonna end up in a civil war.



• I'm not sure this is the right thing to do but they definitely need to do something with that line.



• Oh Canada.



• This is probably going to end poorly.



• I'm pretty sure this is fake news.



• Yet another reason to not fly commercial.

Sportings kind of day

Today was filled with football, golf, and (very soon) baseball.

The Patriots managed to stink the place up and they lost 41-21 to the Texans

Maye started and since the offensive line still sucks, he didn't have a good outing. They had at least three turnovers and Maye got sacked several times.

And the defensive line wasn't faring much better. The Texans were up 14-0 before the end of the first quarter.

Oh well. Next up for them is a trip to London, England where they will play the Jaguars. Kickoff is scheduled for 9:30 am our time. And by "our time", I mean Eastern Daylight Savings Time

As for my other football team, the Steelers, they are playing as I type but I can't watch them because CBS thinks it's more important for me to listen to a bunch of guys talk about how bad the Patriots played...

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Tonight starts the NLCS series between the Mets and the Dodgers.

First pitch is at 8:15. Since the game is being carried by a network that loves the sound of it's own voice (FOX) we should assume first pitch will happen sometime before 8:45

Go Mets!

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Things I miss:

Cars:
Those side vent "wing" windows - Those things were great and there was no reason to remove them from car design. No reason at all.

Push buttons - The touch screen is a pain in the ass and if you want to change something, you have to take your eyes off the road so you can find the spot on the screen to touch. With buttons, you could just feel it and then push it.

Ashtrays - They were perfect for holding a shitload of quarters for things like parking meters, toll-booths (I don't miss those) and just to generally have some spare change when you needed it.


Candy:
Candy cigarettes - Yes, I know people think those things made kids turn into smokers but people are wrong. No kid ever started smoking because of a candy cigarette. We all started smoking because it was cool and it made us look rebelious.

Black Jack Gum - I like licorice-flavored anything.


Television:
Anything other than 24 hour news networks - The worst part of our society is made even worse by all the so-called "24 hour news networks". They aren't news networks, they are opinion networks. There is not 24 hours worth of news occurring in the world. There is at most, 2 or 3 hours of news in any given day. That means CNN, FOX, MSNBC, etc... spend the other 21/22 hours telling us what they think about things.

Westerns - "Gunsmoke", "Bonanza", "Have Gun Will Travel", "Maverick", etc... And while "F-Troop" wasn't really a western, it was funny as hell.


Sports:
Marching bands during the half-fime of a football game - I could care less what some bonehead thinks of how so-and-so is playing. Show me the Michigan State marching band forming shapes on the field.

ABC's Wide World Of Sports - That was a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon, watching ski jumping, curling, bocci ball, rattlesnake hunting, whatever they could find. Jim McKay was the announcer and he made every "sport" sound like it was the best sport ever invented. "The thrill of victory... The agony of defeat"


United States:
Dreams - As a nation, we used to have big dreams. "Let's go to the moon!", "Let's create public schools!", "Let's run municiple hospitals!", etc... Now all of that stuff is being done by for-profit businesses. Damn shame if you ask me. I've always said we needed a massive public works project to get us off fossile fuels. Something like the Manhattan Project but instead of creating a weapon, they create a power source that can effectively replace fossile fuels.

Parties - 1976 was the nations bicentennial year. Trust me when I say this country threw a hell of a party for that celebration. Also, when was the last time you saw a ticker-tape parade? We held ticker-tape parades for anyone who did anything cool or exciting.

That's all I can think of right now but it's a good bet that at least half a dozen more things will pop into my head in the future.

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I'm going to leave you with these links:

• Key line in this story: "...leaning tower of penis..."



• I can't help but wonder how much Goya Foods is paying him to shill for them.



• Florida: We're not Australia but we're working on it.



• Rest in Peace Robert Adolph Boehm.



• Researchers: Contributing to the betterment of society or a complete waste of perfectly good oxygen.



• Key poll choice in this story: "Don't want to vote for either..."



• Key line in this story: "And knows damn well it's not supposed to be here."



• They started going downhill when they stopped selling those microwaveable Stewart Sandwiches.



• If he were my neighbor, I'd take care of that problem with my trusty pellet gun...