Goodbye San Diego. Things went well enough returning to Honolulu from San Diego. Some disappointments included having to wait more than an hour for the Hawaiian Airlines desk to open at the airport, then we found out that the company is supposedly putting together an executive club not yet ready. Also, even though Hawaiian has merged with Alaska Airlines, as business class passengers, we could NOT use the Alaska lounge. Finally, the flight left late. So I missed taking a perfect sunset photo. Here is one when we were in flight.
By, the way, should you wear a mask throughout a flight? First, you can't if you wish to eat and drink. But no matter, this info to the left says that there is just about no chance of getting infected by COVID or the flu or anything else respiratory if you keep a mask on for the whole plane ride. Who does that? What is the rate if you don't wear a mask? People were coughing behind us. Maybe 5-10% had on a mask. I did not.
Otherwise, I enjoyed the ride back to Honolulu. Salad and curry on rice for the dinner. Had Johnny Walker Black Label, beer and Bailey's Cream/Cognac over ice.
Saw two films. Materialists, with Dakota Johnson and Chris Evans. Movie released this summer and did relatively well, earning $109 million worldwide. Rotten Tomatoes score of only 78/66, which was about right.
The redeeming virtue for me was that the movie occurs in New York City. We were there for almost a week in one of our recent trips, and some of the scenes were memorable. Some of the "needledrops" were nice, like Sweet Caroline, etc.
The second was Black Bag, given 97/70 scores by Rotten Tomatoes. Very well-made espionage film with intrigue and psychological games. Stars Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender, and Pierce Brosnan, directed by Steven Soderbergh. Released in March of this year. In case you never figured it out, black bag refers to a code word for top secret information and operations that intelligence agents cannot disclose to each other.
Arrival in Honolulu.
TORONTO — The fingers of Dodgers catcher Will Smith played upon the keys of the PitchCom device on his right knee like those of a virtuoso pianist playing Johan Sebastian Bach. In and out, up and down, fast and slow, as if weaving multiple melodies within one work, Smith called one of the most beautiful World Series games ever composed because of how well the master on the mound followed his lead. Dodgers righthander Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitched the Brandenburg Concertos of the World Series oeuvre.
It was classical music on a ball field. Yamamoto threw 104 pitches at 19 different speeds with six different pitch types spaced apart as far as 24 mph. He didn’t just beat the hottest lineup of October; he also made the Toronto Blue Jays hitters appear overmatched in a 5–1 victory Saturday that evened the World Series at one throwback win apiece: an old-school contact-heavy win by Toronto in Game 1 and this magnum opus by Yamamoto in Game 2.
- Game 4, Tuesday, Shane Bieber of Toronto, Shohei Ohtani of the Dodgers.
- Game 5, Wednesday, not yet announced. Toronto has Chris Bassitt, who pitched the final two innings of game 1. The Dodgers could move Snell to only four days of rest, but might also consider Emmet Sheehan, Clayton Kershaw or Roki Sasaki. This is the only day of uncertainty for pitching.
- Oh, in this second game of the World Series, Yamamoto walked no one, and completed his second straight nine-inning game. Worse for Toronto, if the Series goes to Game 6, Yamamoto could pitch with 5 days rest.
To close, is this true?
Hurricane Melissa is up to 140 MPH, and projected to strengthen into a Category 5 tomorrow, crashing into Jamaica on Tuesday.
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