Royals beat Mets in Game Five Winning World Series

I had Face the Nation on and the commercials were back this week.  It was nice not having them last week.  Marco Rubio is an articulate speaker.  There is no question about that and he explained his conflict with Jeb Bush well.  He has the ability to sway people to his side and it’s been my contention for quite a few months that Rubio will end up being the nominee.  Well, I was right about Biden and Hillary wasn’t I?  He raised a point about Syria I hadn’t entirely thought about.  Putin wants to completely wipe out the Syrian rebel moderates so he can say to the world, “Look there are no moderates.  It’s a choice between our leadership with Assad as our installed puppet, or else ISIS.  You don’t want ISIS do you?”  President Obama has made a different argument.  His claim is that Assad is a “recruitment tool” for ISIS saying “Look at that bad ol’ repressive government in Damascus.  You don’t want that, do you?”  But if there were moderates out to tamp down Assad then ISIS would have less appeal.  Others would just say “Look, the United States is an empire.  And we need stomping grounds all over the world where we are held supreme and for this reason we need a presence in the Mideast so that we can exercise “leadership”.  I’ve weighed all these arguments in my mind and I still say that it’s better, as Donald Trump says, just to let the two protagonists fight it out between then weakening them both without our having to lift a finger.  They had Paul Ryan on after this and I’ve really learned nothing from Paul Ryan.  I’ve heard his words about a new beginning, which is kind of a variant of “hope and change” but I still have no idea what direction he will lead the House in except he says he wants to “let the house decide”.  This is what John Boehner did.  But for Boehner “the house” consists of that contingent of forty or fifty “freedom lobby” congressmen and so you will have a continuing case of the tail wagging the dog, if Paul Ryan continues to adopt this philosophy.  If however he means “all minority interests should be listened to” then maybe there is a ray of hope.  After this it was Steny Hoyer on.  However they were going to stick in yet another commercial so I turned away.  “Sweet Child of Mine” is a lot nicer piece to listen to when you get to hear the lyrics and not just music.  The worst thing about Ed Schultz is this as a bumper music theme sucked.  For one thing even all the good guitar playing was edited out.  KRTH was having an all eighties weekend and this song takes you to about 1988.

I had Chris Matthews on and he talked about the Republican convention a lot.  These Republicans are just a bunch of whiners because Hillary was asked just as tough questions but she didn’t throw a hissy fit over it the way so many of these Republicans did, almost as if there were strength in numbers.  I got two cups of iced tea from Rico in the courtyard and two decent sized pieces of our Halloween cake and I had the orange icing this time because at the party I got no icing.  Both of these pieces were way bigger than that one.  I don't know how they are able to do such good 3 D on Google Earth now.    Last night I was looking around Euclid and the Santa Ana Freeway on Google Earth and today in Google Earth I had downtown Santa Ana and the high rise business district in San Francisco.  I'm typing this Monday morning and the Rude Pundit was on the Stephanie Miller show on this morning.  The questions the moderators asked of the Republicans were things like "Even conservative think tanks think your tax plan is unworkable.  Can you please explain to us how your tax plan could possibly work?  Sarah Palin was asked a question like what she likes to read or her oppinions of various Supreme Court decisions and she calls those questions as "Gotcha questions", so you can't win for losing if you're an objective watcher.

The Kansas City Royals are world champions today having won game five in New York.  I never guessed that the Series would end so soon.  The Royals won games four and five in New York.  That Harvey pitcher had the game in the bag through eight innings.  At some point they announced that Denver defeated Green Bay in the battle of the undefeateds on NBC.  But Harvy demanded to stay in and pitch in the ninth when management wanted to take him out.  Clearly the Mets let pitchers stay in too long.  But even after the first run the Mets could have won the game even when it was two to one.  But the Royals are good base runners and their motto is "We don't make mistakes; we make the Other Guy make mistakes".  So the score was tied up two and two at the end of the ninth with the Mets failing to score at the bottom of the ninth. They played innings ten and eleven and there was no score.  But then in the twelvth the Royals scored a bunch of runs and there was a pitching change and I decided to go to bed because it was like Chinese water torture watching an outcome you know know to be inevitable.  The Royals won game five 7 to 2 having scored five runs in the top of the ninth.  I didn't stay for any of the trophy presentations.

The air conditioning is on in here and we don’t need it.  It’s actually starting to get a little chilly outside.  Tonight for dinner we had a chicken drumstick.  Part of the reason why people complain about having so much chicken is that it’s been stale meat, and far from its optimum.  We had mashed potatoes and peas with that and bread pudding for dessert with whipped cream on it.  Gary saw it and thought it was pumpkin pie.  Jeff saw it and thought it was carrot pudding and I had to tell them both the sad news and how we used to be plagued with bread pudding all the time.  This will make the third day I haven’t done a blog entry if I end up not doing one today.  We have slowed our pace all the way back to about 2006 levels now.