After the New York Mets (9-3) victory in game 3 of a World Series the K.C. Royals now lead two games to one, some notes, as usual not found in too many, if any other outlets.

Maybe someone noted it, but incredibly, after the Mets’ second batter in game 3, David Wright hit a two run home run, the Mets have now hit a home run before making an out in four of their 5 games three of a World Series.

Tom Agee (1969), Wayne Garrett (1973) and Len Dykstra (1986) all hit lead off home runs in game three, Dykstra’s homer leading off the game on the road.

The Mets are now (4-1) in game three of the World Series while the Royals whose Friday night post-season record dropped to (8-2), lost for the first time in four games three of the World Series.

Among the 16 (more or less) original major league teams/franchises and the first four expansion teams that started play in 1961 and 1962, only the Mets have never been swept in a post season series.

David Wright pictured above.

In a great and visionary speech at Rice University in 1962, United States president John F. Kennedy talked of reaching higher and of giving a great effort. One of his goals was the space program and to get to the moon.

Yet the speech resonates on a far greater level, evoking past discovery and urging us to try harder and take on challenging goals.

Toward that end, he asked “why does Rice, (a vast underdog at that time and most every time),? play Texas?”

From the ashes of all that went wrong, culminating in tragedy in the same state of Texas when President Kennedy was tragically killed and all the horror since—on an exponentially lighter note, I ask why does Rice play Louisiana Tech tonight.

One reason is revenue, as in money not the people who stop alcohol production from stills, the other as part of another vice, is that the Rice Owls will cover the spread as ten and a half point underdogs tonight.

Nobody can know for sure but I believe fervently that the vast macro and micro slides relevant to me, began when the visionary John F. Kennedy was killed.

Click below for President Kennedy’s Speech at Rice University in 1962

JFK – We choose to go to the Moon, full length

The Kansas Royals, who lost a heartbreaking World Series to the San Francisco Giants last year, won the first two games at home vs the New York Mets in the current Fall (not so) Classic.

It is just the third time in ten post-season series the Royals have opened at home, in which they have led two games to none.

Additionally it is just the third time in twelve post-season series the Mets have opened on the road, in which they lost the first two games.

The Royals are in their fifteenth post-season series,  having opened at home ten times.

This is contrasted with the Mets, who have opened thirteen of their seventeen post-season series on the road.

Overall, this is the fifth time, fourth in the last two years, the Royals have been ahead two games to none in a series.

It is the fourth time the Mets have been down two games to none in a post season series.

I endured the entire 14 inning World Series opener won by the Kansas City Royals (5-4) over the New York Mets.

The Fox broadcast, interrupted briefly by a power failure in one of their generators, was better than those by TBS, but that is not saying much.

Why is Fox network “sideline reporter” Erin Andrews there? She can use a refresher course in English (so can most of us but SHE IS ON THE AIR). Essentially she uttered Eric Hosmer “HAD WROTE.”

The day/date free food is being given away by a sponsor was listed as November 5th, “this Thursday.” The next Thursday, tomorrow is October 29th.

Royals’ manager Ned Yost still has not learned and foolishly sacrificed twice. Once by doing so, he “lost” the opening game’s best hitter, Ben Zobrist. In the 14th even Yost knew to let Zobrist swing the bat and he delivered a big hit.

Last I saw a big mistake by ESPN.com by senior writer Jason Stark. It is shown below.

First of all, why not add that Babe Ruth did not just start the 14 inning World Series game in 1916, but pitched a 14 inning shutout and won the game. Pitchers today go 8 innings and it is front page news.

Next Mr. Blum’s home run was not a game ending home run as he played for the Chicago White Sox and the game 3 of the 2005 World Series Mr. Stark is citing, was in Houston vs the Astros.

Instead of using that horrible, ridiculous, term for a game ending play, I suggest you do your research, esteemed Mr. Stark, and get your facts correct.

A camera, a woman with poor English skills, a beyond over rated writer walk into a fast food place a week early for the free item. There has to be a joke somewhere and it is what ‘they’ have done to the once great game of baseball.

Click below for another performance of “Help” by The Beatles

The Beatles “Help” Live 1965 (Reelin’ In The Years Archives …

Click below for ESPN.com senior writer Jayson Stark’s factual error.

Senior Writer, ESPN.com

There have been two previous 14-inning games in World Series history. The first, in 1916, was started by Babe Ruth. The other, in 2005, was ended by a Geoff Blum walkoff HR. That’s your history update. For now.

The opening game of the 2015 World Series will be played tonight in a contest matching two teams that are a combined (0-7) in World Series openers.

Neither the New York Mets (0-4) nor the Kansas City Royals (0-3) have ever won the opening game of the World Series.

New York and Kansas City will have met at all four stages of the post-season with this being the first finals series.

All of the post-season meetings have been in either baseball or football. The brief period in which Kansas City had a basketball or hockey team passed over three decades ago.

There were four previous baseball post season clashes between the two cities, all semi-finals/ALCS between the Yankees and Royals.

The Yankees won the first three (1976-1978) and went on to win the World Series in both 1977 and 1978.

The Royals won the 1980 ALCS but lost the subsequent World Series.

The Kansas City Chiefs and New York Jets have met in the quarterfinal and preliminary/wild card rounds.

In the last AFL season and fourth in which the AFL and NFL champions would meet in the Super Bowl, the AFL instituted a “crossover” game matching the first place team in one division vs the second place team in the other.

In one of those games, on a blustery day at Shea Stadium in Queens, New York, the Chiefs defeated the defending Super Bowl champion Jets and eventually won the Super Bowl. They were champions along with the New York Mets from January 1970 until the Pirates won the NL East, eliminating the Mets in late September 1970.

The Jets having backed into the playoffs despite five straight losses then defeated the Chiefs in a wild card round game at the Jets’ Giants Stadium “home.” The Cleveland Browns then defeated the Jets in a quarterfinal/divisional round game in Cleveland the following week.

Yesterday in the NFL, two teams, the New England Patriots and Carolina Panthers, won at home to join three other teams with (6-0) records.

The other three teams, the Green Bay Packers, Denver Broncos and Cincinnati Bengals had byes yesterday.

Next Sunday night, the (6-0) Packers visit the (6-0) Broncos in a rematch of the 1997 season Super Bowl, when Terrell Davis and not John Elway led the Broncos to the title after four Denver Super Bowl losses in as many Supe appearances, three with Elway as the quarterback.

While the Panthers covered the spread and are also (6-0) vs it, the “interesting developments” at the end of the Patriots eventual 7 point win, among other things, raised WFAN radio’s Mike Francesa’s record to (14-6-1), a stellar percentage of .700

The stars must be aligned differently but though I knock him, it may just be time to say “if you can’t beat him, join him.”

Nah! One thing I will predict and my predictions have been poor, from here on Francesa will win less than 70 percent of his predictions. For now, kudos on a fine record this season to Mr. Francesa.

Mike Francesa pictured above.

I truly must stop watching sports or at least turn the sound off.

CBS television’s Phil Simms, referring to the Seattle Seahawks as defending Super Bowl champions (they are not!) does not bother me as much as his non stop talking, cliche filled analysis.

He was trying to point out how tough it is for defending Super Bowl champions, perhaps remembering his exploits after his more or less fluke great game vs the Denver Broncos in the Super Bowl when his N.Y. (really Hackensack) Giants won the Supe, but struggled the next season.

In fairness, it was a strike season and Simms was a very good, not great quarterback, but the hype for him as a player and his horrible analysis (once down 14 points in the 4th quarter he agreed with Bill Cowher’s horrible decision  for the Steelers to kick a field goal inside the Patriots’ 10 yard line in the 2004 AFC title game. Of course the Steelers lost the game) really gets to me in a bad way.

One more blight, a truly “bad penny,” who has resurfaced on college football games named Mike Patrick.

His mistakes made New York Post media columnist  Phil Mushnick’s job easier, as they filled up his notebook during Sunday night football telecasts decades back.

Worse than Verne Lundquist saying we all know where we were when Bobby Thomson hit his pennant winning home run in 1952 (of course it was 1951 and what still galls me is that Lundquist was so certain and arrogant in passing on the wrong information back in 1990) was Patrick advising the opposing team to intentionally walk JD Drew with a 5 run lead and the bases loaded, in the ninth inning of a College World Series game.

Yesterday with two touchdown favorite, Michigan State up by 5 points and in a third and goal situation at about the Indiana 8 yard line, Patrick said “the game is on the line” on this play. As a dear friend would say “Really?!!!”

Click below for the iconic Beatles’ song “Help”

Help Beatles-With Lyrics

It will be the 1985 World Series champion, Kansas City Royals vs the 1986 World champion New York Mets in the 2015 World Series. Each franchise will be seeking their first title since the one cited.

The Royals made the World Series last year, losing a heartbreaking series to Madison Bumgarner and the S.F. Giants. They won a second straight pennant beating the favored Toronto Blue Jays (4-3) in game six to win the ALCS four games to two.

While Bumgarner’s dominant pitching is not likely to be matched, the Royals have some good pitching while their opponents, the Mets, have received great pitching, thus far in the playoffs.

After losing their first three ALCS and four of their first five, the Royals have now won in their last three ALCS appearances.

The Blue Jays are now (2-4) in ALCS and (0-2) vs the Royals. The winner of the five previous Jays’ ALCS went on to win the World Series.

The Mets are now (5-3) in NLCS play, the winner of the previous 7 Mets’ NLCS going (4-3) in the World Series.

One real problem is that if the World Series goes as many as six games and stays on schedule, the sixth game will be played on Election Day. That is disgraceful, but typical of baseball hierarchy policy, which cares about money and little else.

A little mix and match after a (1-2) week in the pros. Radio station WFAN’s Mike Francesa went (2-1) and is (11-6-1) for the year.

For the second straight week, the featured game on ABC/ESPN/Disney involves defending college champion Ohio State as a three touchdown or more favorite.

Last week Ohio State (7-0) and (2-5) vs the spread, broke a “spread” losing streak, by exceeding it as a three touchdown plus favorite vs Penn State.

This week viewers will be more likely to stay tuned. Ohio State 38 Rutgers 24.

Two pro picks, thefirst against my norm, a favorite, the underachieving Buffalo Bills to get it together overseas in London, England, winning (20-6) vs the Jacksonville Jaguars.

The (4-2) Arizona Cardinals are 8 and a half point favorites vs the Baltimore Ravens. I predict the game will end in a tie, not because I think it will (there is incredibly low probability that a tie will occur) but because the Ravens are a solid pick here to play the Cardinals to a standstill, and perhaps win.