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Fast Times at Yeshiva High
Oct. 6th, 2022 02:35 pmMy Jewish brethren just went through their annual day of atonement. Being a lapsed Methodist and unsigned spiritual free agent, I did not participate but sent wishes for an easy fast. It also didn't stop me from a Yom Wednesday of work, where three cases all converged- one recent, one fairly new-to-me client and a golden oldie returned- to keep me very busy throughout atonement time.
If anyone needs to apologize, though, it's Siri.
With the Old-Now-New-Again Client, I heard Monday they'd need to file their third bankruptcy in 12 years due to a foreclosure sale this morning they supposedly didn't know about until it was almost too late. I therefore managed to break my long-standing record of Fastest Filing Ever from four days down to under 48 hours....
only for them to find out the foreclosure sale wasn't even scheduled for today. Meanwhile, Recent Client kept sending me messages and emails, which I finally responded to this morning:
Sorry for the lack of response. I had an emergency filing.
Least that's what I said. What my stupid phone HEARD was,
Sorry for the lack of response. I had an emergency failing.
She thought I meant I'd fallen and couldn't get up, and promised to pray for me. I told her to pray for Siri instead to keep me from throwing that phone up against a brick wall. Hell, I've got a whole year now to atone for it:P
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In the travels to and fro to ONNA Client, I got to listen to a game at the end of the Mets' regular season. The year ended better than any has since 2016, but still below the expectation of a division title. They came oh so close, tying Atlanta with their second best record ever, but the first tiebreaker is head-to-head and the Braves took that honor by sweeping the final three game series of the year against the Mets over the weekend. Both teams make the playoffs, and both start at home, but. First place means Atlanta gets a break for a few days, awaiting the winners of two three-game opening round matches, which for us will begin in Queens tomorrow night. If we win (and we are favored), we then head west to play LA in a best-of-five Division Series, while the Braves get the winner of Cardinals-Phillies (in which St. Louis is favored).
My thoughts about that from the morning after the southern sweep:-
- It happened. Wouldacouldashoulda doesn't do any good. The weirdness of that week's schedule- travel from west coast for two games at home and then another road swing for the most crucial series of the year- can't have been good for anyone.
- No blowouts. The Mets had a lead in every game and many chances to come back after losing them.
- Acceptance. The tragic number is zero in reality. Rest starters. Let Diaz start a Nats game as an opener just to give him some work and open the possibility down the road. If you can't beat San Diago two out of three at home with their shit record and shittier closer than yours, you didn't deserve to even be in the conversation.
- Foolish optimism. First round byes go both ways. Atlanta was 2-4 in their first six games out of the All Star Break. Their prize for the division title will likely be a five-game series against the Cardinals. I'd prefer avoiding Pujols, Wainwright and Molina as long as possible, because they're older than we are, plus, Pujols and fucking Wainwright and Molina. I also like our chances against LA in a five-game series more than I would in a best-of-seven, given pitching depths.
- Silver linings. DeGrom's opt-out price just went way down. And we still have a better record than the Yankees, since SOMEBODY from Baltimore held on to their lead yesterday.
(For what it's worth, which is basically nothing, we ended with a better record than the Yankees by sweeping our final three games against the current team from Washington while they lost their final game against the former team from there. Had they finished their business, it would have been the first time since 1941 that two teams from New York won 100 games in the same season. That year, Leo Durocher's Dodgers went 100-54 and Yankee manager Joe McCarthy had a list in his pocket of 101-53. That was all the more impressive for being achieved in a 154 game season, and probably why it never happened for the next 20 years. It never happened for the 60 years after the expansion to 162 games because generally, at any given time, one if not both of the two New York teams sucked.)
So, starting tomorrow night, there's that.
If anyone needs to apologize, though, it's Siri.
With the Old-Now-New-Again Client, I heard Monday they'd need to file their third bankruptcy in 12 years due to a foreclosure sale this morning they supposedly didn't know about until it was almost too late. I therefore managed to break my long-standing record of Fastest Filing Ever from four days down to under 48 hours....
only for them to find out the foreclosure sale wasn't even scheduled for today. Meanwhile, Recent Client kept sending me messages and emails, which I finally responded to this morning:
Sorry for the lack of response. I had an emergency filing.
Least that's what I said. What my stupid phone HEARD was,
Sorry for the lack of response. I had an emergency failing.
She thought I meant I'd fallen and couldn't get up, and promised to pray for me. I told her to pray for Siri instead to keep me from throwing that phone up against a brick wall. Hell, I've got a whole year now to atone for it:P
----
In the travels to and fro to ONNA Client, I got to listen to a game at the end of the Mets' regular season. The year ended better than any has since 2016, but still below the expectation of a division title. They came oh so close, tying Atlanta with their second best record ever, but the first tiebreaker is head-to-head and the Braves took that honor by sweeping the final three game series of the year against the Mets over the weekend. Both teams make the playoffs, and both start at home, but. First place means Atlanta gets a break for a few days, awaiting the winners of two three-game opening round matches, which for us will begin in Queens tomorrow night. If we win (and we are favored), we then head west to play LA in a best-of-five Division Series, while the Braves get the winner of Cardinals-Phillies (in which St. Louis is favored).
My thoughts about that from the morning after the southern sweep:-
- It happened. Wouldacouldashoulda doesn't do any good. The weirdness of that week's schedule- travel from west coast for two games at home and then another road swing for the most crucial series of the year- can't have been good for anyone.
- No blowouts. The Mets had a lead in every game and many chances to come back after losing them.
- Acceptance. The tragic number is zero in reality. Rest starters. Let Diaz start a Nats game as an opener just to give him some work and open the possibility down the road. If you can't beat San Diago two out of three at home with their shit record and shittier closer than yours, you didn't deserve to even be in the conversation.
- Foolish optimism. First round byes go both ways. Atlanta was 2-4 in their first six games out of the All Star Break. Their prize for the division title will likely be a five-game series against the Cardinals. I'd prefer avoiding Pujols, Wainwright and Molina as long as possible, because they're older than we are, plus, Pujols and fucking Wainwright and Molina. I also like our chances against LA in a five-game series more than I would in a best-of-seven, given pitching depths.
- Silver linings. DeGrom's opt-out price just went way down. And we still have a better record than the Yankees, since SOMEBODY from Baltimore held on to their lead yesterday.
(For what it's worth, which is basically nothing, we ended with a better record than the Yankees by sweeping our final three games against the current team from Washington while they lost their final game against the former team from there. Had they finished their business, it would have been the first time since 1941 that two teams from New York won 100 games in the same season. That year, Leo Durocher's Dodgers went 100-54 and Yankee manager Joe McCarthy had a list in his pocket of 101-53. That was all the more impressive for being achieved in a 154 game season, and probably why it never happened for the next 20 years. It never happened for the 60 years after the expansion to 162 games because generally, at any given time, one if not both of the two New York teams sucked.)
So, starting tomorrow night, there's that.