How Trey Yesavage put Blue Jays on cusp of World Series title

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They also lead the majors in comeback wins with 49. That said the Dodgers had 48. For 9th inning comeback wins Toronto had 5, Dodgers 4. Texas led the majors with 7. They actually seem pretty close in some stats however you don’t play the games on paper but in actual real life. So far only the Game 3 marathon was a tight close game. Dodgers seem to be favoured by the odds makers to win game 6 and force a game 7. We’ll see how the actual game unfolds and who will have the trick and who will get the treat.

I had him out here announcing Dback games for years. He got old,.. and then he got “old” real quick. A lot of cornpone, hackneyed sayings.

I liked Tony Kubek when he was doin TV announcing and most radio announcers. Listening to a ball game on radio is a real treat.

Sometimes those cornpone sayings were funny to me like
Ernie Harwell describing a batter not letting the bat leave his shoulder and getting called out on strikes as being guilty of excessive window shopping.

That’s a good one and Harwell was/is one of the greats.

I got the sense that Garagiola became a parody of himself and carried away by his own, alleged, “colorful” image. He was often doing the “Garagiola Show”, not the baseball game. He was coasting in his later years.

Harwell was a hard-bitten baseball man. He was an excellent play by play guy and very knowledgeable...he knew he wasn’t the main reason people tuned in; the game was.

I agree with you. I only had limited exposure to Joe on the NBC game of the week and him endorsing President Gerald Ford during the 1976 election in an infomercial back in the day. Your comment just reminded me of the Harwell quip.

thought that must be a movie but see it was actually a TV series?

Multi-year TV series playing out one storyline on AMC. Very high production values. Great directing, good scripting, excellent actors. PG-13 throughout.

The story is about a very intelligent chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with terminal cancer. His son has cerebral palsy, so there are extra expenses that will not be met after his death.

He decides to start making illegal meth. He's good at it, and turns into a monster.

I actually find the underlying moral (the danger of ends justifying means; despite your rationalizations, pride is under everything; the latent evil in the most ordinary appearing men) is a good one. The Gus Fring character is unusual, in that he is a homosexual who is portrayed as an unambiguous villain. Brilliant in his own right, but otherwise quite evil.

Series available on DVD/BluRay at most libraries, but I am happy just to get key plot points from YouTube shorts. The series was a huge success, as well as its successor, "Better Call Saul", about an Irishman who pretends to be Jewish to help market his solo practitioner law firm. He puts the "Criminal" in Criminal Attorney. That one has a lighter tone most of the time, though also gets quite dark.

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