From Yahoo Sports: One of those great oddities that occur in MLB's 162 game schedule happened last night in Arlington, Texas. Rangers teammates Jurickson Profar and Rougned Odor turned a triple play without retiring the batter, which hasn't happened since 1912 when the Brooklyn Dodgers did it against the Cincinnati Reds. With the bases loaded and no outs, 3B Profar short-hopped David Fletcher’s liner down the third-base line, stepped on the bag, tagged out Taylor Ward, who wandered off third base, and threw to Odor for a force-out at second. Many on and off the field were confused as to what went down. Here's video: https://sports.yahoo.com/rangers-turn-wild-triple-play-angels-hasnt-since-1912-144001447.html
There's a new book out for anyone who wants an alternative to what the mainstream media covers or ignores. One of the reasons why those who lose security clearance are so angry is that it costs them access to contractors who enrich them:
If this weather pattern holds through winter and the temperature regularly dips below freezing, there will be record snowfall in NYC. This conjures Mark Twain's great quote: "I knew a great many troubles in my life, but most of them never happened." May it be so.
My thanks to the middle age woman who got things going in the right direction by buying two paperbacks in Russian as I was setting up shop. Another soon came along and bought two tiny booklets, one on brothers and sisters, the other on Jewish spiritualism. Thanks also to Shelley, who selected QB VII by Leon Uris, and to the guy who bought a book in Russian. I had a nice laugh when a gentleman who yesterday bought From Beirut to Jerusalem - and thought it would occupy him for months - returned. As soon as he'd noticed it was by NY Times liberal columnist Thomas Friedman, he dumped it in the trash. Today he chose John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. My kind of man.
Here's a pic I took on the sly of a lovely young woman oblivious to all but the screen of her phone:
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