Telling A Big League Whopper

EVERY TRUE BLUE baseball fan has a list of the greatest baseball games of all time. Americans almost always list games played in the American major leagues, while, for all we know, the greatest games ever played were all played in various countries around the world. World Series games have a special advantage, because of their relative importance, and therefore most lists are filed with them. Examples include the seventh game of the 1960 world series, the seventh game of the 2001 world series, the sixth game of the 1975 world series, and so forth. In the seventh game of last year's (2017) world series between the Astros and the Dodgers, the Astros scored four runes in the second inning off an uncharacteristically shaky Yu Darvish pitching for the Dodgers, and never looked back, winning 5 to 2. Not a bad game, actually, because there a certain amount of suspense throughout, wondering whether the home team Dodgers could make a comeback and win the series for the first time since 1988, or whether the Houston Astros could hold the lead and win their first world series ever - no not a bad game at all. but, there is no way in hell any real baseball fan would list it as the greatest game of all time, or would even put it on a best one hundred or best one thousand games of all time list. It was, at best, an average game. Leave it to Donald Trump, our great presidential prevaricator, to do just that. while visiting the White House, which the winning team does each year, our president, never one to be even remotely influenced by facts, pronounced that last year's game seven was without doubt the greatest baseball game in all recorded history. One senses our president wanting to curry favor and show his extensive baseball knowledge, and falsely assuming that one opinion is about as good as another. Chalk up another whopper, in the same league with the one about millions of illegal Clinton voters, and all the rest. Fact checking groups report that to date, the president has made no less than about two thousand false or misleading public statements since entering the White House, with many more doubtless on the way. Next thing you know, Trump'll be telling us that pro wrestling is authentic, not fake, and that NFL players who kneel during the national anthem are paid to do so by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.