The State of Affairs of State

Are you keeping up with the world? With the news? With the state of affairs, foreign and domestic (Heineken or Bud)?

Anyway, the World Series starts tonight. Does it matter who wins? To this Brooklyn-born sportswriter it does. Except Clayton Kershaw is usually a playoff disaster. Usually. Wasn't against Milwaukee though. Hmm.... hope.

Chris Sale is a baby who nagged his way out of Chicago and now gets to pitch in the World Series. Will he be Mitchell Trubisky, Tom Brady or Eli Manning? You never know with him.

The Red Sox are the better team. But they got there in part because of a poor replay-review call by Joe West on Jose Altuve's home run, which became an out. It's time to get rid of replay in baseball. The game is slow enough. I probably won't watch any of the games in their entirety. I'll check in, maybe watch the eighth and/or ninth innings if the games are close. But that's it.

Baseball sucks. Really.

Speaking of sucks, my NY Giants do. Can't win for losing, as the saying goes, even when Eli has a semi-good game, which he did on MNF against Atlanta.

He has the weapons, the quarterback-whisperer coach and two rings on his shelf. And has sucked since winning his last Super Bowl, something like 70-80 overall, with one disastrous playoff appearance.

The Giants played well enough to beat Atlanta. And didn't. The coaching, the time-wasting offensive series in the game's final minute, the 2-point conversion attempt they didn't need to go for at that point of the game (and failed on) and an offensive line that can't guard its lunch. And remember when their secondary was good? Same guys now, but they suck.

At halftime though on Monday night, they had a "performance" by Atlanta's own Little Yachty. On tape. A video. Why not live? Why not right there in the stadium? Why not in person somewhere in Atlanta where people were gathered to watch the game? Stupid. ESPN touted the performance, but forgot to tell us it's a video we can pull up on YouTube.

I keep turning on ESPN2 mornings and keep forgetting that it's Golic and Wingo now, not Greeny and Golic. Actually, it's Golic, Golic and Wingo. Greeny has blown them off for his own competing show in the same time slot on ESPN. Both shows are basically the same as they were when it was Greeny and Golic. Go figure.

So I watch reruns of Leverage instead on ion TV, at the gym. Great show about shyster hustlers with special thievery skills who are modern-day Robin Hoods with all the right little touches. They need to bring it back (went off the air in 2012 after five great seasons).

And in case you haven't seen it on Twitter, Niecy Nash has an hysterical video about a special phone line, 1-844-WYT-FEAR, a number whites can call if they spot blacks doing anything - not anything suspicious - just anything, anywhere, anytime to report them. I'm surprised Donald Trump hasn't incorporated it into his schtick.

Yo, Donald, where's the wall? The infrastructure? The real tax relief? The new tax bill (Congress is not in session). What major legislation have you gotten passed, by the way? Maybe this is Trump's way of admitting that the unpopular previous tax-cut bill only benefitted the extremely rich and giant corporations.

Hey everyone, tear yourselves away from the World Series long enough to go vote.

Hey Chris Callahan, what up?