Getting There

We've all seen the MVP of the World Series, the Superbowl or other championships, standing amid confetti or sprouting champagne, trophy in hand, smiling broadly and saying. "I'm going to Disneyland!"  The season ended in final victory and Disneyland is the cherry on top of the sundae or the icing on the cake.  We'll for Bashar al-Assad it's not Disneyland, it's Moscow.  Now Bashar did not  look right into the camera, as he got off the plane there but he was smiling just as broadly as Patrick Mahomes or Freddie Freeman.  Bashar is still upright, still breathing and still above room temperature.  For a Middle Eastern despot who has been deposed, that's just as good as winning a World's Championship and going to Disneyland.

For Donald John Trump HLH, HIAH, Former, Future and some seem to think, current President of the United States, it's the White House.  He actually lives pretty near Disneyland, so he could just go there anytime he wanted.  But what he wanted was The White House.  And he's got it, in spite of being impeached twice, indicted 90 something times, convicted 34 times and shot.  We don't expect him to look into the camera and say.  "I'm going to the White House." as everyone already knows it.

For the Islamic Rebels who've just taken over Damascus, they say their next stop is Jerusalem.  We're kind of thinking, they might have a better shot at Disneyland.  If they're not on a no fly list, as yet.  Then again, maybe they have a better shot at Moscow or Tehran.

And this last Sunday, The New York Jets once again snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory.  The New York Giants just lost ignominiously.  The fans of both teams may well be gnashing their teeth.  Some of them are on staff here and they are.  But the more savvy among the fans are keeping their eyes on the prize.  With the season for both teams firmly in the toilet, the savvy amongst us know that wins are impediments right now.  The goal is getting the first pick in the 2025 draft or as close to it as possible.  That will put them on the path to the Superbowl, at some imagined point up ahead.  Right now, the Jets have 3 wins and the Giants only 2.  The only team in their path are the Raiders with only 2 wins.  So the goal here is to play out the string, loose them all and hope the Raiders win 1 or even 2 more games.  Now some of you are saying that's no way to play football!  But remember, the object is getting there and there, is the Superbowl.  Hopefully, before the decade is out.  Sort of like the goal of getting to the Moon was, back in the 1960's.

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