Night Owl Cards

  I was out of town for a few days visiting my daughter.   She and her boyfriend have a new apartment, which is charming but very small, just like the last one. Housing is brutal for young adults these days. Because of that, mom and dad get a hotel room for the weekend.   That's where I saw the Dodgers finish off the Mets in the NLCS (and Juan Soto's HR ... gag). I turned on the hotel TV for the first time in years. The last big baseball event I remember watching in a hotel room was the All-Star Game in 2010. I hope the cheering Sunday didn't wake the neighbors. Oddly, my daughter is now a faithful Dodger fan. She's not interested in sports hardly at all. But I guess all those games I watched, while she sat in a chair as a teen not caring, had an effect. She got into the Dodgers around the time of their Series trip in 2017. She doesn't watch the games. Like most people her age, she gets an update on instagram or TikTok and she's good. But she knows enough to be

The Dodgers just finished playing the Yankees and lost 2 of the 3 games. This doesn't bother me much because regular-season meetings seem to mean less and less every year when it comes to the postseason. But you know the hype machine. Just about every media outlet, after mentioning the Dodgers and Yankees were playing, would follow with "a possible World Series preview" in the next sentence. Of course it's a POSSIBLE World Series preview. So was the Indians-Braves a few weeks ago. I don't remember anyone mentioning that matchup as a potential World Series preview. Personally, I don't think anyone is getting past the Astros this year. And if the Yankees somehow manage to beat the Astros, then I don't think I want to follow the rest of the postseason. But all the mentions -- Yankees-Dodgers World Series! Yankees-Dodgers World Series! -- you can't help but think about it a little bit. The first World Series that I saw most of was the Yankees-D