Election is one week away and Dodgers are one game away. GOD only knows the results

 My avid Republican brother told me yesterday that the Madison Square Garden speech that The Donald gave on the 27th was the greatest speech he ever made.

So this morning I decided to watch the entire speech.

I am currently 16 minutes into IT and I'm once more reminded of the different interpretations that certain people have for the word GREAT.

He also informed me that 3 of his 4 daughters are voting for Trump.  I simply answered him by saying that sometimes people say things so they won't have to listen anymore.

Knowing those 4 beautiful nieces I am fairly certain that maybe 1 or perhaps 2 might be voting for Trump but since I can't imagine anyone voting for him I guess I'll just have to take a deep breath and accept that anything is possible.

Let's get back to his Madison Square Garden event.  My brother thought there were 80,000 people there and I had to explain that the building only holds 19,000....so right off the bat everything is ass backwards.

In the first 16 minutes of his speech he claimed that America was NOT going to exist anymore if Kamala Harris wins the election.

He also just said that the United States was an OCCUPIED COUNTRY.

 THIS IS THE TYPE OF STATEMENT THAT FEEDS HIS VOTERS.

THE UNITED STATES IS AN OCCUPIED COUNTRY 

like France was in WW11??????????

SERIOUSLY 

How could a person running for President say that our country is occupied?  

AND HIS PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT BULLSHIT AND THEN REPEAT IT TO THEIR FAMILY AND FRIENDS.

HE JUST STATED THAT ELECTION DAY IN 2024 WILL BE LIBERATION DAY IN AMERICA.

I will now go back and listen to the rest of the speech....maybe I'll be able to make it all the way through before the Dodger game starts in 6 hours.  It might take me that long because I simply can't stand they way he talks.  IT'S SIMPLY JUST BROKEN SENTENCES.....ONE AFTER ANOTHER......REPEATING WORDS AND THOUGHTS OVER AND OVER.

Hopefully I'll be able to give a complete report.

THEN AFTER ANOTHER 30 MINUTES OF LISTENING......

...........I can't take anymore of HIS STYLE.

I've decided to wait and finish this after the Dodger game.

I'm back and it's 8:30 pm and the LOS ANGELES DODGERS ARE WORLD CHAMPIONS FOR THE 8th TIME.

Somethings are right with the world......and somethings aren't.

Yankees have 27 championships so don't feel sorry for that franchise.

Trump's already been President once....isn't that enough?

Do I have to beg?

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE......NOT AGAIN.

6 DAYS AWAY.

TRUE STORY

I've told this story quite a few times but never wrote it down.  

HOW I BECAME A DODGER FAN

Having been born in Hollywood California in1946 baseball was not a focal point of my early childhood but in 1955 that was about to change.  I attended Catholic schools for the first 12 years and the first 8 years the instructors were NUNS.  

CATHOLIC NUNS WITH BLACK AND WHITE HABITS...WHO CARRIED WOODEN RULERS WITH A BRASS EDGE.....and were never shy about using it as a weapon.

In my recollection they were all named Sister Mary Margaret.

My mother volunteered to drive them around to certain functions because we had a station wagon so their presence extended beyond the school boundaries.....and needless to say I was always riding in the very back looking out the rear window.

One October morning in 1955, which would put me in the 3rd grade at the age of 9, Sister Mary Margaret wheeled a cart in the room with a small  black and white TV set on top and made the following announcement.  "Boys and girls, today we are going to watch my beloved New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers again in the 7th game of the World Series."

Sister Mary Margaret and I didn't see eye to eye on very many subjects so at that exact moment I was rooting for the Brooklyn Dodgers without knowing anything about the team and very little about baseball. 

She proceeded to give us a history of how the Yankees had beaten the Dodgers every time they played in the World Series. I also liked the name Dodgers because one of our recess games was Dodgeball....and I assumed the team was named after the game we played....and since they were throwing a ball around it made perfect sense to me.

As you may or may not know the result of that game resulted in a very upset Sister Mary Margaret and a jubilant young Michael Timothy McAlevey.  For the first time the Dodgers beat the Yankees and won the World Series.  I'm pretty sure my reaction got me sent to the corner of the room because I did share cheering loudly when the final out was made.  Obviously Sister Mary Margaret was from the east coast and obviously she had grown up a Yankee fan but on that October day in 1955 her world was turned upside down and The Dodgers were now a central part of my sports awareness.

Anything that made her unhappy had to be a really good thing.

That might sound harsh but my NUN stories are legendary and they still rest in parts of my frontal lobe.

But this is a baseball story so let's get back to the Dodgers.

From that year on I started playing baseball in the street with my friends and in 1958 the Brooklyn Dodgers  moved to Los Angeles, California and at the age of 12  I signed up for my first and last year of  Little League.  The Dodgers in their first year finished  7th out of 8 teams....but in 1959, in my first year of Babe Ruth Baseball the LOS ANGELES DODGERS WON THE WORLD SERIES.  In that World Series the Dodgers lost the first game to the Chicago White Sox 11-0....but came back to win the series in 6 games.

The  one truly constant attraction for loving the Dodgers lies directly on the voice of Vin Scully.  I listened to him when I was 12 years old in my backyard swinging a bat.....and in 2016 I was standing in my living room swinging at bat in the last game in announced as he retired.

58 years listening to the Greatest Dodger of all time is truly one of best sports memories I will carry to my home plate....which hopefully isn't scheduled for any time soon.

The Dodgers vs Sister Mary Margaret's beloved Yankees in the 2024 World Series.....69 years after a day that made her weep and made me a lifetime Dodger fan.

GO DODGERS!

Good News and WTF

The Dodgers are in the World Series and after 43 years they will be playing The Yankees.

The Presidential Election is 12 days away and after all the things The Grifter Trump has said and done in the last eight years the polls show that the race is too close to call.  It's come down to a Man vs a Woman thing and even if you don't believe that to be true.....IT'S A FACT.

Political experience doesn't seem to matter anymore and public service isn't an honorable thing like it used to be.

The Dodgers in the World Series is more of a focal point for me personally and I am fully aware that that shouldn't be the case....but it is.

I just find it so amazing the The Donald has a following close to the last time he lost.  He got 73 million votes in 2020 and it looks like that number will be repeated.  Biden got 83 million and hopefully Mrs. Harris will get close to that number.

There are 161 million registered voters in America.  You have to a citizen to vote. There are another 60 million eligible but not registered.  

NO IMMIGRANT WHO HAS ENTERED THIS COUNRTY ILLIGALLY IS ALLOWED TO VOTE.

But when The Grifter talks he tells you that illegal immigrants are the reason he lost the last election and of course The non-existent cheating that took place.

AND HIS FOLLOWERS NOT ONLY BELIEVE HIM BUT WILL TELL YOU WITH A STRAIGHT FACE THAT THEY HAVE PROOF.

68 COURTROOMS in 2020 election heard the arguments and threw them all out.  Note that the main lawyer working for DJT, Rudy Guliani, was just ordered to give his assets to two women in Georgia as part of the lawsuit he lost after accusing those women off being responsible for voter fraud.

This is the type of election information that really makes me focus on The Dodgers vs The Yankees.

The Dodgers lost a legend yesterday who was involved in the 1981 World Series when the Dodgers beat The Yankees in 5 games.  

Fernando Mania was as big a thing at the time as the Ohtani thing is now.

Two 17's makes a 34 and if Ohtani keeps it up maybe his number will also be retired.

Probably need a few World Series wins and this might be a good time to start.

Go Dodgers

Go Away Donald

The THIRD part of the season is here

 Baseball has three seasons.....Pre-season, Regular season and POST season.

Statistics show that 60 % of the people who watch baseball don't start until the Post Season.

The Post season is a crap shoot because any team can win in a short series.

The Los Angeles Dodgers are currently the favorite to win the World Series BECAUSE they have THE SHO.

If you don't know about The Sho then you should stop reading this because nothing will mean anything to you.

Shohei Ohtani just had the greatest offensive season of any player in history.  54 Homeruns and 59 stolen bases.  If he falters in the post season it won't take away from the history he created this year.

The ball he hit for the 50th Homerun is estimated to be worth 2-3 MILLION dollars....and there's a possession lawsuit in play.  It's an interested sidebar story.  Check it out.

I've said it before and I'll say it again.....THERE IS NO PREDICTING IN BASEBALL but of course I want the Dodgers to win the first series this weekend against the Padres.  They have some starting pitcher issues and their great first baseman, Freddy Freeman , has a bad ankle.

Enjoy the excitement

PLAY BALL!