World Not Serious

Following Baseball, one finds a respite from the vicissitudes of world calamity. Then comes the 2024 World Series, and the 5th Inning of Game 5, when the wheels fall off the Yankee machine. In a sense, that inning was a baseball cartoon, three errors by the Yankee fielders, a fourth error if failing to cover first base on a right-side infield grounder is counted, and the Dodgers catch up from a no hit 5 to 0 deficit to tie the score 5 to 5. The Yankees then go ahead 6 to 5 in the 6th, but the Dodgers go ahead 7 to 6 in the 8th, which they hold for the win, taking another storied series 4 games to 1.

“Back, back, to the wall!…and it’s gone! A home run!”
The New York Yankees baseball team is a big book of stories, every year a new chapter.
5th Inning, Game 5: The wheels fall off the Yankee Machine
The Los Angeles Dodgers, since 1958, first season after moving out West from Brooklyn – along with millions of others from around the States, pouring into Gold Rush Country.
Celebration Parade, Downtown Los Angeles

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