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“Please tell our viewers what your secret strategy is.”

It’s strange for me to be rooting for Max, but I am right now. Go Max go!

Bo Bichette homers (1) on a fly ball to center field. George Springer scores. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. scores.

If the Tigers were playing in this game, they wouldn’t have got thrown out trying to steal second base…

At least we got the tedious and unnecessary tension of Max pitching a no hitter out of the way quickly.

At the opening, they do show all these World Series celebrations and there’s a grainy black-and-white of Freehan and Lolich embracing so that made me happy. And OMG Max is pitching.

To add insult to injury if there’s a TV on anywhere, it’ll probably have college football on instead of the World Series.

here’s one I missed

Took a walk during the day down Boise‘s historic Harrison Boulevard, which goes all out for Halloween. There’s a thousand people at night on the street and when the lights are on, it’s a much bigger deal but these photos will give you an idea of the creativity and the sense of competition that goes on to come up with neat stuff. I rezzed the photos down from 4MB each to 1MB so they’re not as nice as the original but you get an idea. it’s pretty incredible to go trick-or-treating at night with four kids like I used to, but there’s really long lines and if you go a couple blocks away, people will give you two fistfuls of candy because they get less traffic and they want to get rid of it.

So we’re going to get a god-awful game seven. Well, you can’t say this isn’t dramatic.

That was a hopeful, but in the end, disappointing, bottom of the eighth thinning for the Jay’s. Even the ump calling balls on low strikes wasn’t enough to push them over the edge and score some runs.

Blame Moose and Squirrel! Not me…

Dodgers now lead 3-0. And I’m having a moment of clarity about this. This is not my battle. It’s back to old Bullwinkle cartoons for me.

Will Smith slaps a doubles on a fly ball to left fielder Nathan Lukes. Tommy Edman scores. Shohei Ohtani to 3rd. 1-0 LA

So I guess I’m the only loser on Halloween night watching the World Series. All of the rest of you are getting drunk or high at adult themed Halloween parties or taking your children trick-or-treating because you’re wholesome types.

Wow! Gausman with five strikeouts in the first two innings against the Dodgers.

When I was a kid, I just loved Earl Gibson. I especially loved how he talked about Detroit being a great place and being able to “live the life“ in Detroit that he couldn’t live elsewhere His stories about spring training during segregation are revealing, and how the Red Sox white players had to bring sandwiches to him in the bus because he wasn’t allowed to go into all sorts of places when they were traveling. My recollection is that he permanently relocated to Detroit and was a salesman.

I love how DD used to procure some non-entity no one had thought about and add the secret sauce by saying “we’ve had our eye on player XYZ squared for a long time.”

Per Harris: “I hope that I've demonstrated here that we're focused on winning baseball games and trying to win a World Series, not winters or deadlines,” Harris said earlier this month. “Sometimes that means that we're going to go into a winter and we're going to chase the flashiest name, and we're going to offer a lot of money. And sometimes that means we're going to go into a winter and focus on more targeted needs. I don't know exactly what this winter is going to be.” I don’t think I actually believe he’s uncertain about what he wants to do except for the goal of winning the World Series. But of course he’s not going to be open about it.

This makes a lot of sense.

A few minutes ago, I did a quick search of “Skubal” and according to THE TIMES OF INDIA the Atlanta Braves are devising a trade to get Skubal, but they’re not offering anything in return. Probably a bad deal.

Win. I hate how I get sucked into something as lame as giving a crap about another team, but it happened again. At least I don’t feel betrayed.

It was cool to see Koufax and Magic Johnson together.

Guess this is not a moral dilemma I have to face.

It would be wrong to root for more runs. It would be like dancing on someone’s grave. But if the Blue Jays score more runs in the top of the ninth, I won’t celebrate, but I won’t hang my head either.