Dodgers Are Done

I was rooting for Los Angeles. Mookie Betts is from my hometown. They just could not overcome the Brewers, who are a complete team this year and are hot at the perfect time this season. Hats off to Milwaukee. They earned their wins. 

Dodgers Are Down

The Los Angeles powerhouse that won the last two World Series seems to be out of juice. Of course not having Shohei Ohtani, arguably the greatest all-around player since Babe Ruth, healthy has slowed the Dodgers down, but on paper, they still seem extremely formidable. Unfortunately for LA, the games are being contested on the baseball diamond and not a piece of paper, and the Brewers are pounding them. Each game has its own momentum, so Los Angeles may certainly come alive in Game Four to avoid the sweep, but it will be a miracle if the ailing Dodgers somehow put together four wins in a row. 

Question of Costs

Does anyone remember those days of yore when Faded Joe was the nominal President, and the puppeteers pulling his strings and running (ruining) our nation were doing all they could to force us into "Green" energy by limiting our access to and surging the prices of fossil fuels while saying nuclear, the low cost alternative, was forbidden because of a whole cloth China Syndrome fear? I remember, and does anybody have an inkling of what everything would cost if we were suffering through nuclear winter after Iran nuked Tel Aviv or was merely using their newly acquired atomic weapons to blackmail Riyadh and extort the other oil=producing states of the Middle East? 

Stop This Ride

Apparently, actress Selma Blair had some sort of issue in the vehicle in which she was being transported. If that happens on a train or bus, generally you can pull a designated cord and be permitted off, Unfortunately for Selma that does not work on airplanes, and she may well have taken her last commercial flight. 

Josh Allen Shines

Josh Allen is a marvelous quarterback. He has a strong and accurate throwing arm and a relatively quick release (though in that aspect he is no Dan Marino or even Tom Brady). He does not have Michael Vick or Lamar Jackson type speed, but he is a great running qb and trying to bring him down is like attempting to tackle a really good yards after contact tight end as Josh is about six-five and two forty, and exceptionally strong for his size. Allen has not yet won a Super Bowl ring and might never, but he has all the tools to be a champion. 

The Titan Mortification

My hometown Tennessee Titans are not just a bad football team but an historically awful one. I had family in the Tampa area when the Buccaneers set several marks for futility, but that was at the inception of that franchise as an expansion team, comprised mainly of the castoffs of other teams. The Titans are an old club that was winning titles before the merger in the former American Football League. Now, they have fallen to depths so low that they make bad teams look like world beaters. Yesterday, they made their fellow winless Houston Texans, the arch-rival team from the city they abandoned, look like Super Bowl contenders by getting smashed by a tally of twenty-six to three. After the initial drive of the game where Tennessee made a field goal, the boys in blue were supine the rest of the contest. Yes, sadly, the Titans are the worst non-expansion outfit in the history of professional football. 

Alabama Was Robbed

I am no particular fan of the Crimson Tide but recognize a theft when I see it. Georgia did not beat Alabama last night, but the officials sure did. As a lifelong Tennessean, I will be rooting for my Vols this coming Saturday, and therefore, sure hope the same referee who handed the Bulldogs victory is there to help my Big Orange win over the team from Tuscaloosa.