Weekly Mail October 28,2018

Hello:

Hope everyone stayed dry on Saturday. It never seemed to be raining that hard, but there were huge puddles all over the place near my house. Monday will mark the 6th anniversary of Super Storm Sandy, also on a cold gray Monday. While this nor'easter was peanuts compared to what happened that day, the huge puddles and brisk wind brought Sandy to mind. Thankfully it doesn't look like there was much in the way of damage.

In any event......



TERRORISM: Pipe Bomb Mail Attack:

None of the bombs exploded and when was the last time Barack Obama and Bill Clinton retrieved their own mail? Those were two of the arguments I heard some people using to suggest that what happened this week wasn't a domestic terrorist attack on America, specifically members and big shot supporters of the Democratic party.

And that's about as dumb a thing I've ever heard.

This was, by any way you want to define the word, terrorism. The fact that the suspect wasn't really good at making bombs doesn't cheapen the fact. If these bombs had done what they were intended to do, two ex Presidents, one Vice President, two senators, one former first lady and an academy award winner could have died. I can't even imagine the pall that would have cast over our nation.

But the thought that scares me, even more than believing something like that could happen, is that the blame game and the finger pointing would have commenced immediately. I know I've beat this drum to death, but I think it bears repeating... We were able to start to recover from 9/11 relatively quickly because we came together as a country. It didn't last really long, but long enough that we were able to heal somewhat.

Could you see that happening here? Because I can't.

And yeah, I'll lay some of the blame for this on President Trump and his brainless rantings. But I see folks on the left doing the same thing, looking to assign blame rather than deal with the issue. It's pretty obvious the person responsible for this was an unhinged extreme Trump supporter. But before they even had this guy in custody, the left was blaming Trump and the right was saying it was an extreme left setup. How about let's get this person so that nobody gets hurt. Instead you have both sides acting as this is an October Surprise.

That's the sad part of all this.

And as of course what happened in Pittsburgh was just another disgrace. I just can't even go there right now. I just don't understand the hate. I really don't.


LOTTERY: Megascam!!

Last Tuesday's Mega Millions jackpot was 1.6 billion, won by somebody in South Carolina.

I have a big nose, and it smells a scam!

You ever notice with these multistate mega lotteries reach these huge jackpots, it's almost always one winner? Millions of Americans by billions of tickets and it just so happens the winning ticket has a sole winner? It's happened too many times to be a mere coincidence.

And the winner is probably going to be a retiree who spends his days fishing and golfing, it won't be someone who really needs the $$$. I know they don't have a say over that, but I'd bet the little money I have someone running the lottery knows what state the winner is going to be in before the drawing. It's a scam. I guess the only reason I buy a ticket is on the off chance the computers malfunction and they award the money to multiple people.

Money stinks and I don't have any.-Alex Reiger (Judd Hirsch) Taxi



THIS JUST IN: Apparently the Powerball which was also a huge jackpot had two winners, one of which purchased a ticket in Harlem, Still, two winners out of all those millions. I stand by my previous statements.


BOOK REVIEW: Football for a Buck-The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL
BY: Jeff Pearlman.

Jeff Pearlman is my favorite author, and he has yet to write a book I haven't enjoyed thoroughly. And I was sure I would enjoy this one as well. But I did have a concern.

I follow his blog and his Facebook page, and he has made it abundantly clear that he is no fan of Donald Trump. Actually I'm understating this. All you people here who can't stand Trump, multiply your disgust by about 100 and you'll approach the level of anger, distrust and loathing Jeff Pearlman has for Trump.

I only bring this up because my concern was that this book was going to be page upon page of Trump bashing. And while I don't begrudge anyone of their political beliefs, I read books like his as an escape from reality.

Trump was the owner of the  USFL's New Jersey Generals, and make no mistake, Pearlman lays the overwhelming majority of the blame for the failure of the USFL at Trump's feet. Trump's desire to get into the NFL was what caused him to push the other owners to move the USFL's season from spring to fall and he led the ultimately failed antitrust lawsuit against the NFL.

But thankfully, Pearlman only made that a part of the book. The rest of it was what he does best, the hysterical stories of sex drugs and partying. The shenanigans of some of the other owners. (Think John Spano's reign as Islanders owner-That had been done before apparently) The at times barbaric conditions that these guys played in. (Extreme heat in Arizona and Birmingham, painted on fields in San Antonio) Jeff Pearlman is a master story teller. This book was his masterpiece.

5 Auggies.



I was at JPaul's the other night watching Game 3 of the World Series. I told Tara I was going to stay till the end of the game then come home. It's a good thing I abandoned that plan, or else I would have been doing after hours. Not to mention I would have been more hungover on Saturday than I already was.

That said, Game 5 was happening at press time, but after what happened on Saturday night, it looks like its all over but the crying. I'll be surprised if the Bosox didn't wrap it up Sunday night. I'll be stunned if LA comes back and wins it all. This is just one of those years where one team pretty much went wire to wire.  Just keep this in mind, the last time the '18 Red Sox won the World Series, they had to wait 86 years for the next one.

On that happy note

Have a Great Week

We'll have an election special next Sunday