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World Series Day in the SABLE Face to Face League after the wildest Division series ever played

Posted: March 26, 2022 by datechguy in baseball
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For only the 4th time since 1985 and the first time in the 21st century I’ll be heading to the World Series in our face to face league as my Washington Nationals will face the well rested Colorado Rockies for all the marbles.

The Rockies who won their division by winning the final series against me two games to one made short work of the Cardinals sweeping them in three.

My path to the big game was more complicated.

Finishing in a three way tie for the two wild card berths as the B team I defeated the NYY 7-2 with Max Scherzer dodging bullets the entire way to get me the home spot in the wild card game. In that game Yu Darvish who was acquired at the cost of a 1st round pick early in the season pitched a complete game shutout to give me a chance at a pennant against a NY Mets that had only swept the season series against me this year but one that I had only managed two wins against in the three years since the league was revived.

It was a classic series

In game one I jumped to a 4-0 lead after two but starter Lance Lynn who had lost the wild card game the previous year was jumped on for three runs in the 5th to make it a one run game. Mets relivers Valdez shut me down the rest of the way while my bullpen bent but didn’t break TJ Antony getting out of a bases loaded one out jam in the 7th and after a 9th inning leadoff walk two big defensive plays kept the tying run on first.

Final Washington 5 Mets 4

Game two was a scoreless pitching duel into the 7th until Nolan Arenado singled in Anthony Rendon and a Molina Sac fly scored Lindor to give me a 2-0 lead. In the bottom of the 8th Mookie Betts completely misplayed a Ramirez liner putting him on third where he scored on a Trey Turner ball that went to the warning track to make it a one run game. In the bottom of the 9th Jeffries allowed a one out walk and followed that with a two out walk a single loaded the bases bringing up Ramirez. With Washington about to go up 2 games to none he hit a shot deep into the hole at short that was just out of the reach of the diving Lindor and just like that the series was tied at once each

Final Mets 3 Washington 2

Game three in Washington started well for the Nats, Merrifield singled home Guriell in the 1st and promptly stole 2nd & 3rd with nobody out but Zac Gallen retired Betts, Rendon and Abreu in order to get out of the jam. Meanwhile Max Scherzer who dodged a bunch of bullets vs the Yanks was not so lucky giving up five runs in 2 2/3 innings including a monster 3 run shot to Trey Turner who had an incredible series. Meanwhile Valdez came in again with one outs in the 5th and after giving up a single that made it a one run game retired the next 14 in a row to make the Mets insurance run in the 6th superfluous.

Final New York 6 Nationals 4

Darvish came back for the do or die game and thanks to another big hit by Merrifield was staked to a 3-0 lead until Trey Turner once again hit a 3 run shot to tie things up in the 5th. That’s how it stayed till the top of the 12th when with runners on 1st & 3rd and two outs manager Gionet surprised everyone calling for the suicide squeeze. Josh Bell laid it down perfectly and everyone was safe so even when Washington turned the 6-4-3 double play to end the inning, the Mets were still only 3 outs away from a trip to the series.

They would only get one of them, Rendon and Betts would both walk to start the bottom of the 12th and with one out and the runners going pinch Hitter Didi Gregorius would smash a double down the line scoring them both and tying the series at 2

Final Nationals 5 NY 4 (12)

The rain clouds looked ominous for game five but they decided to try to get the game in anyways. That decision looked poor for NY when Betts and Hosmer went back to back to give Washington a 3-0 lead (they scored first in every game of the series) but with Lance Lynn finally finding his pitching groove giving up only one hit in 4 innings the sky opened up and the rain didn’t stop. The Game was called to be replayed the next day.

Washington surprised everyone by throwing Scherzer who had been roughed up the last time on three days rest while the Mets did the same with Gallen. Washington scored first on a single two wild pitches and another single to make it 1-0 but Acuna Jr.’s two run shot (his only big hit of the series) was enough to chase Scherzer in the third. The Mets went back to Valdez who had shut down the Nats in game 3 but it didn’t work out that way this time A solo shot by Abreu tied the game up and a critical error by Jeff McNeil led to another two run double by Gregorius followed shortly by a 3 run shot by Betts made it 7-2 and it looked like it was all over but the shouting .

It wasn’t Tejay Antone who had been excellent in relief came in with two on and one out in the 7th and after coaxing a force out to third gave up two walks and a double for three runs before the 3rd out was caught against the left field wall just short of giving away the lead.

Down by two the Mets started the 8th with a leadoff single when McNeil an excellent bat handler trying to make up for his 5th inning miscue hit a liner with the runner going that looked destined for left field but Lindor remembering the ball he couldn’t get to dove to his right to spear the liner and managed to get the ball to first to double off the runner. This turned out to be a critical play as the Jeffries arm stiffened up and he had to come out Rosentall was rushed in and threw a fat pitch for his first offering which was promptly deposited into the left field stands. 7-6.

Washington went quietly in the 9th and Trey Turner who already had 7 rbi’s in the series came up and put a 2-1 pitch into the gap to lead off the 9th. Alas what would have capped a sure MVP award for the series never happened as Trevor Rosentall decided to prove the wisdom of deadline trade that sent him to DC retiring the next three batters in a row for his 2nd save of the series and completing the biggest playoff upset in years.

Final Washington 7 Mets 6

Well my pitching staff isn’t well rested and Colorado who leads the season series against me 4-2 is but on the bright side my starting center fielder who was injured on the final day of the regular season has been cleared to play adding both power and defense to my lineup.

I’ll need it.

Under the Fedora Logistics and war, Consecration day, Manchin, Pot and Reality and The End of the Golden Age

Posted: March 25, 2022 by datechguy in Uncategorized

While I make it a rule to discount any battlefield reports from either the Russians, the Ukrainians and our Media which are all serving their own purposes one of the basic lessons of this war has been that without logistics you can’t sustain either an army or a city. A static army without supply or a city without trucks bringing in food are simply starving grounds.

It’s been decades since the west has had to remember than and over a century and a half since Americans have had to learn this.

Speaking of the war Today is the day that the Pope, along with various Bishops (including my own) and local parishes around the world (including my own during mass today) consecrated Russia and the Ukraine to the immaculate Heart of Mary.

Non believers will see this as useless, and some believers think it doesn’t matter while others who consider this Pope to be, shall we say less than optimal will discount both the act and the pontiff leading it.

Nothing I say will convince the former but let me remind any Christians doubting this of both these words from C. S. Lewis Screwtape:

Wherever there is prayer, there is danger of His own immediate action.

and those of Christ:

Again, (amen,) I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything for which they are to pray, it shall be granted to them by my heavenly Father.

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”

Matt 18:19-20

I must confess I’m confused at Christians who dismiss this stuff, either we believe or we don’t.

Joe Manchin’s vote on Judge Jackson confirms that all politics is local.

Manchin may not be willing to anger local voters on things such as Coal, or fuel prices but when it comes to the grand liberal agenda that will be advanced long after he’s gone, he’s not willing to make the fight.

Of course he might figure that thanks to the Senators from Maine Utah and Alaska no amount of idiocy or prevarication will stop her he might as well go along since the Biden Administration will just nominate another of her ilk and it might not hurt to dull the blades of the liberals out for his blood

Manchin is out for Manchin, never forget it.

The nasty realities of the legalization of Pot are coming to a head as studies show that “medical mamajuana” simply leads to addiction and all the problems that people had warned about for years.

This was never about pain relief it was always about the 60’s generation legitimizing their faults in the same way that Gay “marriage” was all about legitimizing sin.

The costs of this idiocy will be paid by the country for years. It will be an Idiocracy of the left that loves to deny reality.

Even more disturbing than the prevarications of Jackson is the public defense of the same from institutions.

It’s a reminder that the Golden Age of America is over. A country is only as good as it’s people and institutions. Our institutions are corrupt and evil and our people too cowardly to fight back.

I’m old enough to have lived through at least the end of this golden age and I dread the country my children and someday grandchildren will have to live in, but it’s an important reminder that heaven on earth is a pipe dream.

But I will say this unless we get our children out of these people’s hands they’ll certainly make a go of establishing Hell.

Told Ya

Posted: March 24, 2022 by datechguy in Uncategorized

DaTechGuy Tuesday:

I Submit and Suggest That if you Don’t Start with the Presumption That Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is Dishonest and Dishonorable You’re a Fool

Judge Jackson later that same day:

Ed Morrissey Yesterday:

Jackson will be expected to rule on issues related to biological sex, such as Title IX enforcement — a particular issue at the moment that will almost certainly be heading to courtrooms. If the word “woman” and/or “female” have no meaning, then neither does a whole raft of legislation passed by Congress and signed into law. The administration just got done celebrating the Violence Against Women Act renewal, for instance. What does that mean if “woman” does not have a specific definition grounded in law? It’s not called the “Violence Against Persons Who Identify As Anything But Traditionally Male Law,” after all.

A joke nomination from an illegitimate administration whose primary mission on the court will be to do what she is told.

I’m sure Mitt will love her.

I Submit and Suggest That if you Don’t Start with the Presumption That Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is Dishonest and Dishonorable You’re a Fool

Posted: March 22, 2022 by datechguy in the courts
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I’m not going to bother with a long essay here I’m going to explain this provocative statement in just a few sentences.

For the last several years we have seen it clearly demonstrated that the left and it’s gatekeepers are dishonest and dishonorable who have lied, cheated, stolen elections, persecuted political enemies while allowing rioters to go free and enriched themselves and those who willing to aid them in these efforts to a point where I’m actually surprised that we haven’t ended up with a shooting war here.

These very people have now advanced Ketanji Brown Jackson as their primary choice to be on the final arbiter of justice in these United States and moreover they have done so over an alternative choice, favored by one of their own that not only met their dishonorable racial/gender quota1 but who, whose qualifications, honesty and integrity were vouched for by two members of the opposite party who are diametrically opposed to her judicial philosophy.

I submit and suggest that Judge J. Michelle Childs was not passed over because her honesty and integrity was doubted by these dishonest and dishonorable gatekeepers, but because it was believed and thus could not be counted to to advance the agenda of dishonest and dishonorable people.

And of course there is this, when you conceal documents it’s for a reason.

For these reasons I think anyone who does not start from the proposition that Judge Jackson is dishonest and dishonorable is a fool. If on the basis of objective facts and evidence you are persuaded otherwise that’s up to you, but any person who thinks bad actors advance good people to achieve evil ends are smoking something.

1Let the record show that neither Joe Biden nor anyone in his administration has been willing or able to define “Woman” or “Black”. I’d find it quite interesting to hear judge Jackson’s definition of either.

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