Shohei Ohtani just played the greatest game in baseball history.  To quote MSNBC: This is Beethoven at a piano. This is Shakespeare with a quill. This is Michael Jordan in the Finals. This is Tiger Woods in Sunday red.   This is too good to be true with no reason to doubt it. This is the beginning of every baseball conversation and the end of the debate: Shohei Ohtani is the best baseball player who has ever played the game, the most talented hitter and pitcher of an era in which data and nutrition have made an everyman’s sport a game for superhumans. And Friday night, when he helped his Los Angeles Dodgers win the pennant with a 5-1 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers in Game 4 of the National League Championship Series, was his Mona Lisa. How was this for a beginning?  In the top of the first inning, he struck out the side, then led off the bottom with a home run. When he hit his second homer, where the ball traveled 469 feet in the fourth inning, he had more hits ...

What is a PBGV?  One of 210 dog breeds, Petit Basset Graffon Vendéen,  competing at the  Westminster Kennel Club dog show  this week.  Named after Buddy Holly, the designer below prevailed over 2500 dogs. PBGVs are bred to chase, not kill, rabbits, and are so extroverted, friendly and happy, that they make superb therapy dogs.  A newcomer to Westminister, but popular in Europe, for Soletrader Peek A Boo (or  Jilly ) beat more than 20,000 dogs in the Crufts 2013 held in Birmingham, England, the largest annual competition.  Costs $100 to enter Westminister and only around $25 for Crufts. From  Yahoo : What You Can Buy for the Cost of Owning a Show Dog? If you think bankrolling a show dog isn’t the best use of a quarter million dollars, there are a lot of other things you could buy. For the same cost of owning a show dog, you could buy: A three-bedroom home in Birmingham, Ala., Des Moines, Iowa, Minneapolis, Minn., or many other places across th...