Source: leelowenfish.com --- Thursday, December 01, 2016
I find it amazing that to the best of my knowledge no one has noticed that 2016 marks the first time in the long history of Major League Baseball and the shorter history of the National Basketball Association that each champion was crowned after coming back from a 3 games to 1 deficit in the final series. Not only that but both the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Chicago Cubs won their titles on the road - over the Golden State Warriors and Chicago Cubs, respectively. It was a volatile year in sports, and the upset tide spilled over to politics with Donald Trump’s wholly unpredicted triumph over Hillary Clinton. As usual the results in sports were clear-cut and indisputable unlike the very unsettling Trump electoral college victory that finds him the loser in the popular vote by at last count over one and a half million votes. Hardly a mandate for alt-right foreign and domestic policies but that seems to be the direction the Trump administration will be going. Roger Simon in the November 16 politico.com quoted a Leonard Cohen poem to provide the solace for those upset by the election result. Cohen, who died a day before 11/8/16, once wrote: Ring the bells that can still ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. RETURNING TO Baseball . . . For those who love the triumph of underdogs, the World Series was a no-lose affair except, of course, for fans of Cleveland who will now have t ...
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