Blue Won the World Series, will Blue win the Election?

Happy Halloween. Trick or treating tonight, and a Diwali party tomorrow. 

The weather will be unseasonably warm, with temperatures climbing into the low 80s. We're going as a middle-aged father of three teenaged daughters. 

The Los Angeles Dodgers are the world champions. An impressive win, an impressive late inning comeback. The Dodgers were clearly better than the Yankees, who at least avoided getting swept. The Yankees are good at hitting homeruns and clubbing the opposition to death. They're not good at working the count, defense, baserunning - the fundamentals. These Yankees remind us of the 1990s Texas Rangers, whom Joe Torries' Yankees beat in the playoffs three times. It felt like there were a lot of Dodgers' fans at Yankees Stadium last night, no?

Dodgers' manager Dave Roberts has taken the team to the World Series four times in the last decade and won two of them. He's won a hundred games five  times.  Dave Roberts is the greatest Dodgers manager since Tommy Lasorda, obviously. Even as an admittedly casual fan now, it's nice to see the Dodgers being one of the great teams in baseball. Baseball is better with great teams. 

As for the Yankees they have some tough decisions to make, and we don't envy GM Brian Cashman. Would you give free agent Juan Soto a 15-year, $600 million contract? 

Oh, fuck no...In other sports news the Jets are on Thursday night football. 

In health news The Bridgewater-Raritan Daily Voice reports, 'Rise In Walking Pneumonia Cases Prompts CDC Warning...' Yes, we know. It's been going around. Readers will see cases of walking pneumonia peaked in August. August, you say? We had a terrible cough in late August and even mentioned it twice on this blog. At the time we wrote that we suspected our ailment was the thing from the place. 

Related: Bridgewater had a watermain break yesterday and we're under a boil water advisory here. 

Also we have a moody kitchen overhead light fixture that's not getting enough power. 

Trump arriving at a rally in a garbage truck and giving a speech in an orange vest is just masterful showmanship. French kiss.  When talking to someone about the election yesterday, we convinced ourselves that Trump was gonna win. We believed that to our core last night reading of the garbage truck business. We even messaged one of you people yesterday, 'Fuck it. We're gonna win.' You gotta admit, Trump's campaign is a lot of fun. Kamala's campaign seems angry. 

There was a batch of CNN polls yesterday showing Kamala leading by 4 or 5 points in PA, MI, and WI. Most other polls show Trump slowly but steadily inching ahead. The CNN polls are probably outliers. Probably. There's no reason for MAGA hats not to feel confident, cautiously optimistic even.  Exit question: what are the unknown unknowns?

War Night's Australian story is big and clunky and has too many words. Also, we don't know quite how it ends. This is normal. This story needs to be wrapped up and then placed in timeout for a while. Then we'll come back to it and figure out which words need to go. 

Oh look, World War 1990: Norway Has 200 ratings for a 4.3 star average. Huh, as of this writing Norway is ranked 200 in alternate history. By comparison World War 1990: The Final Storm is ranked 600 or so. Reminder, we are among the best there is at what we do.