End of the Season

We haven’t paid too much attention to baseball this year but it has turned into an exciting World Series at the end. A major reason why we haven’t followed much baseball lately is the Los Angeles Dodgers have over the past few years developed into the overlords of the National League West, leaving our favorite team the San Francisco Giants to struggle. It is not surprising to see the Dodgers being the National League team in the World Series.
But it is a bit unusual to see the Toronto Blue Jays as their opponent; I don’t think they’ve been in the World Series since 1993.

Naturally we are rooting for the Blue Jays, who have taken a 3-2 lead as the series heads back to Toronto for the final game or two. It is difficult to find the games on the radio however, and we don’t have streaming access. I have been able to barely tune in ESPN Radio on KTCT 1050 AM in San Mateo, though I fight a lot of interference to pick up the station, such as from a neighbor’s noisy solar inverter. It was easier listening to baseball on the radio when we lived just outside of town. One advantage to listening to baseball on the radio is that it is closer to real time than streaming or even the television. Based on comparison with our next-door neighbor also following the game, the radio seems to be a few pitches ahead of the television broadcast.