Although Plato denied the artists their inalienable rights

Although Plato denied the artists their inalienable rights, his claim they corrupted the youth of Athens.. But  here centuries later, the retribution, seems to these eyes, the miraculous playing out the Dodgers of Brooklyn….. the reincarnation of these New York Mets, their roots being Brooklyn’s Lafayette High School of Bensonhurst.

Sandy Koufax, the Wilpon family, Koufax’ssemi pro team ‘the House of David’, their base being the Parade Grounds of Prospect Park.

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In asking for the historic  forgiveness among the readers, may we go back to the bygone yesterdays when Leo Durocher, once of the St. Louis Cardinals Gashouse Gang, was banished for his gambling .

He married Laraine Day …an actress of note, Leo the lip spend his time at the Fria Club of Beverly Hills, playing gin rummy, jostling with the likes of Milton Berle and other celebs.Munching oncracker jackc, mustarding gown hot dogs, rinkingbeer (“only kidding”).

He was the epitome of the fast life in baseball circles, which brings to mind the World Series being in Kansas City,  the Royals the  big time foe, facing these reincarnated Dodgers, the Mets , in the World Series, beginning Tuesday night 11r/27/15 in K.C.

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Therefore in asking for your indulgence, may your scribe go back, and sand bag those yesterdays at Ebbets Field, before Walter O’Malley turned toward Plato …corrupting the denizens of Brooklyn at Ebbets Field, thus moving the team to L.As Chavez Ravine.

These miracle Mets are filling the void..their Skipper…Terry Collins ……Murphy, Harvey, their bullpen…the metamorphosis to these aging eyes transcend Leo, O’Maley, his son Peter , his father in law, the Judge.

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The soul of the once Brooklyn Dodgers…….in those bygone Plato yesterdays at Ebbets Field are Pete Reiser, Pee Wee Reese, Jackie Robinson breaking the color line, Branch Rickey who master minded  breaking the color line from Montreal, the minor league support system, Rickey’s own Gas House Gang with the Cardinals….

Cookie Lavagetto, Dolph Camilli, Vito Tamulis, Eddie Stanky, Billy Herman, Pete Coscart .,Preacher Roe, Rex Barney, Hal Gregg.Johney Podres, Joe Black, Sal Maglie, Billy Cox,. Don Newcombe

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Eddie Basinski, Dixie Walker, Charlie Dressen  ,a coach become manager, treading up and down the chalked third base line, Joe “Dusty” Medwick. Duke Snider….

Hughh Casey in relief, MangER Walter Alston, Tommy LaSorda(L.A. Dodger maaer.. Roy Campanela (“Campy”) Mickey Owen, Howie Schultz, Carl Furillo, Paul Waner, Lloyd Waner….Abe Stark’s “clothing” center field advertising…

Hilda and her noise makers , Gladys Gooding singing her high C’s, a foretaste of Joan Sutherland’s cosmic consciousness.

The knot hole kids in the right field bleachers at 55 cent an aficiando. Ralph Branca who threw the home run pitch to the Giants Bobby Thompson in their playoff game, wth Horace Stonehan Giants  before they and Willie Mays, abandoned the Polo Grounds for San Francisco like O’Malley’s Chavez Ravine. ..

Two gun g ho sellouts, would you believe it?   Branca marrying the boss’s daughter.

Don Drysdale, a nd the immortal Sandy Koufax from Lafayette High School , the House of David in the Parade Grounds and whiffing the enemy batters one two three…..

Cut Davis, Freddy Fitzsimmons, Kirlby Higb e,  Whitlow Wyatt, catcher slugger Babe Phelps….. hopefully second guessing Plato’s curse on these Ebbets Field artists, the New York Mets reaffirming those reincarnated yesterdays, beginning Tuesday night against the Kansas City Royals

“GO METS GO.”

 “Long LIVE THE MEts”  

October 26, 215  The City that never sleeps.

The metamorphosis of the killer instinct

The metamorphosis of the killer instinct, seemed to these brain neurons, to be playing out yesterday in the House of Representatives hearing, the Congressmen grilliung acontender for the Presidemncy of the United States of America, day and night,for the Ben  Gazi Libya  Embassy mureder of the Ambassador and his three comrades, the Libya dictator having been overthrown in the Revolution.

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But the scemario clearly showed that Mrs. Clinton was up to her own splendor, taking on the barrage, with her Yale Law School (Dean Lou Pollock, President Kingman Brewwster) with her awesome recollection of that African scene and its tragic consequences in our Embassy.

To sit in that hot seat, with on;ly a drink of water and notes of many pagesas her accomplices, seemed a replay “On the Waterfront” and Marlon Brando’s own metamorphosis “I wuz once a contender”.

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To attack the former Secretary of State’s chacter with such viiolic sarcasm was but a theme, her use of a personal server in her E mails., their killer instinct playing out. Their dismay that the Secretary of State

N her role in Washington, could notassecess the dangers the former Peace Corps volunteer and Ambassador and his four alter egos, were facing from the murderous Libya

n killer instincts playing out..

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Thus this was our own UCLA Political Science major, playing out on Chaepel Street (Stratford on the

Avon)  in the New Haven scene playing out.

Hilary, her husband, former President bush’s son o “weapos of mass destruction” (in reespopnse to 9/11),

Bush junior debating from his Park Street soap box.

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 The Yale book store, the Drama school,the post office where we locked horns with Yalies Eric Sherman, our own student at Milliiken Junior High, Sherman Oaks, California a year ago.Eric, the son of the warner Brothrs director.

Serendipity playing out, our eyes and ears playing out the coincidences beyond coincidence.

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But it was the Yale Law School Thursday night steak dinners, that Jerry Brown, a former Divinity major, present Governor of Californmia for the second time, sat with Lenny, the Vrdugo Hills High School graduate, from Mills college and a former winner o the “64000 quiz show. Leny on graduation become a Professor at Bolt LW School, his rea “Nukes” and a cabinet member of Brown’s cabinet.

Tragically, he later drowned in a swimming pool.

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But in the meantime, the contender for the role of President of the United States of America, former United States Senator from New York and most recent Secretary of State, was holding her own in the all day and night grilling, the congressmen playing out their own killer instincts.

“Serendipity” playing out, you say.

October 23, 2015 The City that never sleeps.

10/23/2015

Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers

Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers, stealing home plate in a swirl of dust, his eye and hand coordination groomed at UCLA men’s gym, playing ping pong…Stan  Musial of the Cardinals of St. Louis chasing fly balls in right field and batting  over three fifty, playing his harmonica at home later...

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“Where to tonight at Wrigley Field in Chicago? the New York Met fans and former Ebbets Field  knothole bleacher “rats”, sitting on the edge of their vicarious seats, caught up the “Over the rainbow” syndrome..

Theo Epstein, the Grand Vicar and architect of the Cubbies hundred year incarnation into Wrigley’s gum chewing stadium. 

Where else on the planet’s playgrounds and schoolyards could a dreamer take off from their mother’ s womb into the unknownmetamorphosis and divine intervention.

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But to follow a “a swirl of dust” and a “harmonica”? into the unknown?

Unbelievable?

“Right? Right! “ 

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A chewing gum dynasty into a bat and ball metaphor. Not a “Dr. Jekyll and Mister. Hyde” masked personality.  

Anna Freud’s empathetic approach (Dr. Freud’s daughter, fromher London digs: tormented mothers adrift with their gurglingcrying infants)

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Is it any indisputable irony of ironies that when these dreamers take the field at Wrigley tonight, their     collective unconscious “Over the rainbow” is watched and overheard by millions and millions of fans.…

”PLAY BALL”

October 20, 2015 The City that never sleeps..