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When the Blue Jays screwed the pooch and didn’t score in the top of the 2nd, then Hernandez hit that home run for the Dodgers in the bottom of the 2nd, I was really upset until I remembered I don’t actually have to care about this. The sense of freedom in not being obligated to care is a real delight.

He knows our team so well he’ll probably pitch complete game no hitters against us.

I guess Max is the Blue Jays starter for game three. I don’t particularly have anything against players that are traded away or leave through free agency, but I am resentful at the success they enjoy elsewhere and experience it as a betrayal, even though it’s not. So I am all for Max tonight although I don’t think I’ll watch the game and I’ll just probably peek in here and there.

It’s actually two boys playing on a tire swing and it was in the Boise mall for years and when new ownership took over they threw it away and some one saw it on the scrap heap at metal recycling facility and they knew the artist so they retrieved it and the artist repaired it and put it in the botanical garden. It was a beloved piece of public art that a lot of people recalled fondly from a more innocent time in our city’s past and it was kind of a big deal to reclaim it. Absentee ownership moves in all sorts of places and erases public memories, but this was one memory that in the end, and only by happenstance, was not erased.

That is totally awesome.

Dodger win game 2, oh well… You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt Saint Peter don't you call me, 'cause I can't go I owe my soul to the company store — merle Travis

And suddenly the blue evil empire has a 1-0 lead.

When the Tigers get a double they do the bone saw, but when the Dodgers do one, they stick their arms up in the air and swivel their hips like a stripper.

I have enough skin in the game that if the Dodgers jump out to an early lead, I’ll probably bail like I did last night until I noticed that the score was tied and I started watching it again. I don’t care if Toronto wins so much as I want the Dodgers to lose.

I notice that there’s no discussion of the Michigan v. Michigan State game. Guess it’s not that big of a deal to people.

…Beauty.

Go crazy folks, go crazy! Blue Jays win the first game of the World Series! Go crazy!

I didn’t know anything about the ads that are running on the World Series until I saw it. Ha!

Ohtani hits a meaningless 2-run home run. Who does he think he is, Torkelson?

My daughter who has lived in West Hollywood for the last five years is rooting for Toronto.

Alejandro Kirk homers (4) on a fly ball to center field. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. scores. 11-2 Toronto.

Addison Barger hits a grand slam (3) to center field. Nathan Lukes scores. Andrés Giménez scores. George Springer scores. BJ’s 9-2 lead in 6th

I don’t know where to put this so I’m putting it here. I hadn’t been to IHOP in a long time, but apparently the size of a coffee is now the size of an espresso. I don’t know if this is an effect of the tariffs or not. And I don’t know how much more of this “winning” or “getting my country back” I can take. But at least the coffee plantations in the upper peninsula that have been undercut by “cheap foreign coffee“ will be able to rise from the ruins and back to the greatness they once knew.

This is a really good all Idaho Pilsner that’s crisp and with a great finish. It makes me smile. My son is 50 years younger than me and he and his friends really like it and deride “old people’s beer” saying that IPAs taste like feet. I have neglected asking him how he knows feet taste bad.

I’ve been here 21 years and I still consider myself one of the new kids.

Just another typical fall day at the Idaho Botanical Garden, one of my most frequently visited and favorite places ever.

It was a more benign version of that brainwashing scene out of A Clockwork Orange.

I was a Dodgers fan for one year in 1982 when I was laid up from a motorcycle injury and it was the only baseball on the radio where I lived. I loved Fernando, but always knew Garvey was a prick. Vin Scully was great. But that short-lived Bleeding Dodger Blue part of me has long since expired. I’m pulling for Toronto for lots of reasons, but I don’t have much hope for them.

This was an exciting game to watch. I’m glad it was a nationally televised broadcast and not something on FOX which never allows me to watch the Lions unless they’re playing someone on the West Coast.

Thank you.