Hey There:
Last night we turned the clocks back one hour. That was cool, I could use the extra hour of sleep. But it's always a bit of a drag when you look out the window that first Sunday after around 5 PM and see that it is middle of the night dark outside. It's been 2 months since Labor Day and about 6 weeks till the official start of winter.
It's can be a bit depressing.
But I was going through some pictures recently, and I came across one that was taken 4 years ago.
That was taken on November 7, 2021 at 5:02 PM, on my parent's terrace in Rockaway. It was that first Sunday after the clocks went back, and it was mostly dark. Except for that fiery sunset over Brooklyn in the background. Mom really wanted Tim and I see to see that. She really was so happy down there, and views like that were one of the big reasons why. As the sky went dark tonight, I thought about that late afternoon, early evening 4 years ago and smiled. These are the kind of memories that keep me going as we navigate through these difficult times.
Again, next week, we will go over the Election results. I voted on Saturday in Island Park.
For now, we have a couple things to discuss.
AIRLINE ISSUES:
A Paris to JFK Delta Airline flight that was diverted to Boston's Logan Airport due to the heavy rainstorms in NY on Thursday nearly collided with a Cape Air plane that was taking off.
Per CBS News..
As the Airbus 330-900neo came in for a landing at Logan at about 4:15 p.m. Eastern Time, air traffic control told the flight crew to "go around" to keep a safe distance from a smaller plane that was taking off, according to audio recorded by LiveATC.net.
"Air traffic control instructed Delta Air Lines Flight 263 to perform a go-around at Boston Logan International Airport because Cape Air Flight 548 was cleared to takeoff from an intersecting runway," the FAA said in a statement.
A go-around is a procedure in which a pilot discontinues a landing approach at the direction of air traffic control and returns to altitude, according to the FAA. It's not clear exactly how close the two planes got to each other. Air traffic control audio recorded by LiveATC.net captured the reaction from pilots on both flights.What the heck?" the Cape Air pilot is heard saying.
"That was close," the Delta pilot responds after being told to maintain an altitude of 3,000 feet.
"Yeah man, not cool," the Cape Air pilot then says.
Not cool indeed. Thankfully the Delta plane landed and the Cape Air plane took off without incident.
Passengers on another flight weren't quite as lucky.
A Jet Blue flight from Cancun to Newark suddenly dropped altitude causing injuries to at least 15 passengers.
Now I first heard about these two incidents on Friday's ABC World News Tonight as I was waiting for trick or treaters to come to the house. They reported on the near collison at Logan before they reported on the altitude drop on Jet Blue. To me the Jet Blue story was the big one, because there were injuries.
The ABC News report showed damage to the ceiling of the plane. A passenger told the network that the flight attendant pushing the snack cart was ""jerked to the left and then flew up with the cart, and you heard a big bang."
I wasn't planning on any big trips anytime soon anyway, but now, with air traffic controllers not getting paid, it's even more scary than usual.
We mentioned the weather on Thursday here in NY and I’m hoping all of you are all right. Two people died due to the flooding, one drowned in his basement apartment and another was electrocuted as he tried to turn off his power in a flooded room. I saw some pictures from Bushwick and Bed-Stuy and of course several videos from Rockaway. This was 13 almost to the day of Superstorm Sandy, and while the damage was nowhere near what we went through that time, it was a rough reminder.
Who did suffer a storm even worse than Sandy were the people of Jamaica who were slammed by Catgeory 5 Hurricane Melissa. As of this writing, there were 28 people dead in Jamaica and 60 dead in all of the Caribbean. That total is expected to rise.
This was the first time in a few years that a major hurricane did not strike the mainland US. But Jamaica and Cuba are dealing with devastation.
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2025 WORLD SERIES
It’s funny, back in 1992 and 1993, I was rooting as hard against the Blue Jays as I was rooting for them here in 2025. I really didn’t want to see a team from Canada win a championship in our national pastime, which sounds as stupid as is. Even more ironic the two teams the Jays beat those years, the Braves and Phillies respectively, are two my least favorite teams in baseball.
But 32 years later it was the Dodgers who I considered public enemy number one in baseball. Before Game 7 of the ALCS, I read someone post that game would decide which team would lose to the Dodgers.Talk about presumptuous!
The Jays gave LA a hell of a World Series and quite frankly I feel they should have won it. Taking a 3-2 lead back to your ballpark, I mean you gotta close that deal, no?
I was a lot more annoyed that the Dodgers won than I thought I would be. Again, I don’t have any real love for the Blue Jays. And I realize that me complaining about a team spending their way to a World Series is awfully rich (har har) from a guy whose team is owned by Steve Cohen.
But that contract Shohei Othani signed was awfully fugazy. And also, baseball’s CBA is expiring after the 2026 season and the rumors are that the small market owners are banding together to force the league to come up with a salary cap, or force a lockout.
I’m not naive enough to think that the Blue Jays knocking off the Dodgers would have stopped these rumors, but I’m sure it added some fuel to the fire. That’s a problem for down the road.
The game that Karl, Ray and I attended at Dodger Stadium back in June was decided, in a harbinger of things to come, on a Will Smith walk off homer. Smith hit what proved to be the World Series home run, after the Jays gave up the game tying home run in the bottom of the ninth to the Dodgers 9th place hitter. Inexcusable.
Still, despite the lousy outcome, despite the hated Dodgers repeating as champions, it was a very exciting, very evenly played World Series. Pissed off as I am, I can’t dispute that.
Please if you haven’t already done so, get out and vote. As much as I have lost faith after last year, the only way the flame of democracy can stay alive is if we don’t let them extinguish it. We keep it alive by voting.
Other than that…
Stay Safe
and Have a Great Week
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