COURTS OPEN FRIDAY IN SOUTH FLORIDA

 Court's will resume "normal" operations (including Hialeah, which is why we put "normal" in quotation marks) Friday. If you work for the court system, you need to report for work. If you're an attorney, you need to send an associate because nothing significant will be accomplished. 

Some unique facts about Milton. 

Because Milton made landfall south of Tampa Bay, Tampa Bay experienced a "reverse storm surge" in which the effects of Milton pulled (or to use a meteorological term "sucked") all the water out of Tampa Bay instead of flooding Tampa. 

The State housed post-storm workers in the Tampa Bay Rays Tropicana stadium. Prepositioning and all that. 

 

As you can see,  Milton blew the roof off the stadium. 

Where was Rumpole during all of this? 

NOT Florida. We learned our lesson after Andrew. We do not stay. 

Instead, like Tropicana stadium, we were in another place where a giant shot raised the roof- but this was a good kind. 

If you follow baseball at all, what the NY Mets are doing is absolutely unbelievable. In the playoffs- they are 4-0 when down. They have won three games with home runs, and hit two ninth inning home runs to get the lead, including a miraculous shot by Pete Alonso, in Milwaukee, when down to their final two outs of the season. Alonso's HR put the Mets into the Division round of the playoffs about a week ago. Lindor's home run, which we saw live, put the Mets into the Championship round of the playoffs. 

Very simply, life is baseball and baseball, when it plays like this, is life. 

So here was the scenario on Wednesday. Mets were down 1-0. They had squandered away a prior bases-loaded situation a few innings earlier. They loaded the bases in the 6th, and then  Franciso Lindor walked to the plate (and oh yeah, we had him +400 for a Benji to hit a dinger. The odds for a grand salami were +8000 and we kid you not our finger hovered over the bet button before we moved on. Oh well, we will take the 400 which paid for our celebratory dinner in the city afterwards - well not all the tab, bit most of it- the Caymus Cab 2018 was a bit pricy with the restaurant markup). 

Enjoy.