The heading says it all. What a debacle! Heads will roll, I’m sure. There are enough free agents available this winter that I’m sure Steinbrenner can get the payroll above $200 million. For me, baseball’s over for the season, though I’ll watch the World Series when I get the chance. Still, emotionally, I won’t have a whole lot invested in it. A couple of friends and I may venture down to Daegu on Sunday to take in the Korean Championship Series. I don’t even know who’s playing, but if I go, it will be my first Korean ball game. It’ll be interesting to compare it with American baseball. The game is the same, but what will the stadium be like, the vendors, the fans, all the trappings?
Typhoon Tokage just raked Japan, the tenth one this season to do so, setting a new record. {{link http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/ Typhoon Nock-Ten}} is churning toward Taiwan, but it is very possible that it will turn northeast and come our way in the next week, threatening Japan once more. If the pattern holds, it will bear down on Korea, but then get swept northeast by the prevailing winds. I love the names that are given these storms. According to {{link http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=24133&archive=true Stars and Stripes}}, Tokage is the Japanese word for the constellation Lacerta, the lizard, and Nock-Ten is a Laotian word for bird. How about changing the naming system for Atlantic hurricanes? Thus, we could have Hurricane Crocodile or Hurricane Heron instead of the more pedestrian Camille or Charley.