In the orbit of greatness

I've been so busy catching up on all the football news from the past week, that I haven't really had time to talk too much about major league baseball and the world series which starts tomorrow night.

I'll get to it in a little bit, but I think it is important to point out the amazing performance by Shohei Ohtani. You can read a bit more about it here in this great post by @dbooster. I will be talking about it as well, but in case you wanted a different perspective.

In the post from my main account today, I spent a little bit of time talking about my nieces softball team and how her coach used to be a professional NFL player. Actually, not just a professional NFL player, but a two time Superbowl winning NFL player. He was a defensive tackle (I think) on the 49'ers when Joe Montana was doing his thing.

I think that's pretty cool, and while he was probably happy to be in the orbit of the greats like Montana and Rice, now my niece gets to be in his orbit as well.

Then you have the Dodgers players who get to be in the orbit of Ohtani, and I honestly don't know if I have ever been that close to someone so talented. I feel like sometimes the knowledge just oozes off them. Like you can get smarter about the game just by being close to them.

I guess we will see how that works out for my niece!

So Thursday night we had two games in the series. The Dodgers beat the Brewers 3 to 1 to go up 3 games to zero in their NLDS best of seven series. Then, the Blue Jay's beat Seattle 8 to 2 to tie things up at 2 games a piece.

When Friday rolled around, we were heading back to Radford University from the University of Virginia after having watched our niece play against UVA, and we happened to catch the end of the Dodgers game.

Seattle beat Toronto 6 to 2 to put the Jay's future in question. The big news of the night though was the Dodgers beating Milwaukee 5 to 1 and sweeping the series in 4 straight games. In addition to that, as I mentioned above, Ohtani pitched six scoreless innings with ten strikeouts, and on top of that despite his recent hitting slump, he knocked out three home runs all in the same game.

As the commentators were saying, this was the single greatest performance in the modern baseball era. We haven't seen anything like this since the days of Babe Ruth. Even then, this might still top all of that.

With the Dodgers basically getting a full week off until the World Series started, on Sunday night Toronto showed they weren't ready to be done just yet beating Seattle 6 to 2.

Then on Monday night, it was a winner take all game seven that saw Toronto send Seattle packing 4 to 3. I actually couldn't be more happy about this outcome. I'm really good with whoever wins the World Series at this point. I was cheering for the Jay's once the Tigers got knocked out, and the Dodgers have a minor league affiliate in my home town, so I wouldn't mind them winning either.

It's being billed as a David vs. Goliath match up with the huge payroll that the Dodgers have versus the significantly smaller one of Toronto. As I have said, Vegas had LA pegged to win the series all season. Even when their record wasn't that great.

I guess we will see how the cards play out.

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