Random News and Notes 2 November
The Los Angeles Dodgers are World Series Champions for the second year in a row. They beat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 in 11 innings last night in the decisive game 7. It is the first time there has been a back-to-back winner of the Commissioner’s Trophy since the Yankees won three in a row way back in 1998-2000. The team to win back-to-back before those Yanks? The Toronto Blue Jays in 1992-3.
This was one of the better Fall Classics in recent memory. It included an 18 inning game, plenty of stud pitching and lots of late game heroics. Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto was named MVP. The 27-year-old Yamamoto tossed 17 2/3 innings to 1.02 ERA over three appearances in the span of a week in the World Series. He gave up just 2 runs in his two starts and kept the Jays bats quiet in his 2 2/3 innings of relief last night. He is the second Japanese born player to be named World Series MVP. The other? Hideki Matsui of the Yankees in 2009.
Muriel Bowser, the mayor of our nation’s Capitol, has issued orders for a juvenile curfew that started last night.
The main driver of this curfew was the events at the Navy Yard on Hallowe’en.
Even the mayor is getting fatigued. . .
There was a mass stabbing on a train in England yesterday. THe LMER train was heading for King’s Cross from Donnington when two men started stabbing away. 12 people were injured, 10 of whom are still hospitalized.
Look, the Metro police are retards. Any time any one (or two in this case) starts randomly stabbing people on a train it is terror. I saw early reports – now disappeared – that the stabbers were yelling the usual thing as the hacked and slashed away. Is there a chance it is true? Oh yeah, but there is also a chance it isn’t. In Starmer’s Britain you can’t take the chance. Remember, a woman was given a longer sentence than a child rapist for complaining about the fact that the rapist was in the UK to begin with.
I would not be surprised to find out that a) the two stabbers were known to the police and 2) they are islamists.
