Soccer (futbol, real "association football") is the stupidest most exciting of human sports since at least the time of the mighty Aztecs (Mexica tribe) of what is now Mexico, when they played soccer with a hard rubber ball, combining it with an elevated hoop for a kind of early basketball called Mesoamerican ballgame, allegedly sometimes playing to the death. How did Buddhists, particularly the peace-loving Bhutanese Himalayan variety, get caught up and consumed in this somewhat violent (war-preparatory) sport? Khyentse Norbu tries to explain in his award-winning 1999 film The Cup.
Buddhism arrived in California and Mexico before Spain brought Catholicism and England brought Christianity: An Inglorious Columbus(Edward P. Vining, 1885)
(KTLA 5) June 11, 2026: World Cup fever took over Liberty Park Thursday night in Los Angeles' Koreatown, where soccer fans came out in force to watch a match between South Korea and Czechia. KTLA’s Chris Wolfe reports.
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(Nippon Television News Japan) Nov. 5, 2025 #佐々木朗希 #大谷翔平 #山本由伸
Fans across Japan -- home of three of the best Dodgers, Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and Roki Sasaki -- celebrate the contribution of these pivotal Japanese players following the Dodgers’ victory in the 2025 World Series. Latest news and full transcript: ntv.co.jp/englishnews
Each team member got to sleep with the trophy as they passed it around between themselves.
RODGER SAYS:"Major League Baseball RIGGED this thing for the Dodgers, the West Coast Yankees, to win it again...""The good thing about the Dodgers winning is that there's going to be a hard salary cap next year...and you're not going to be able to buy Godzilla or Mothra or any members of the Yakuza next year...." "I hope ICE raids your parade." [Ally then asks, "Rodger, you're a member of the Latino community, correct?"] "That is correct, but I'm not a member of the..." Will his hate fuel more wins for LA's team? Tin Cap, was a giant magnet used to get the baseball stuck under the fence?
(KROQ) DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES, Southern California - KROQ (106.7 FM)'s Morning Zoo "Klein. Ally. Show." took a call back in March from Rodger, who called back today to mock the suggestion of a "threepeat."
This whole thing is fake, Rodger says, with Chinese (Asian) AI and money spoiling the sport with big paychecks for a select few and a middle-class struggle for the rest of the team.
The "Klein. Ally. Show." dares to give this disgruntled naysayer and crank a voice on LA/OC's airwaves in an attempt to break "Dodger fever."
Since the hype was real for the Dodgers on opening day, of course K&A had to mark the return of listener "Rodger the Dodger Hater" by having him back. Is Roj right? Will the Dodgers choke, or will history repeat itself with another successful parade?
There's nothing like cake and parades to keep everyone from noticing the collapsing economy, starvation (food insecurity) of the needy, and ICE gangs roving the streets of the nation to raid whomever they want whenever they want backed by the orangest dictator ever.
Mass hysteria for city's sports team
Dodger Stadium tickets sold out in an hour, ranging in price from $38-$135 plus $75 parking.
Yummy, fine French pastry ideas for celebrants
Let them eat cake, some European royal allegedly once said. It was Paris before the guillotines were brought out onto the square for Le Revolution. There's going to be a cotillion at the new White House in Hermitage West Hall, the design for which dummy Trump stole from President Vlad Putin and the Czar's Palace, now a museum called The Hermitage.
Teammates honor Yamamoto and Rojas at rally
If you can't beat them, enjoy them: Watch live coverage of the 2025 Dodgers Championship Parade as LA celebrates its World Series champions. This LA Times feed features official pool video provided by media partners, along with live scenes from around the city. Source
(KTLA 5) Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025: KTLA's Jillian Smukler speaks to Dodgers fans the morning after the team's big win. Did the "Boys in Blue" do it or what? - What? - "What"? - Yes, this is still a PC California town. They're not the BiB. - They're not? What are they? They are the Persons in Periwinkle, and don't forget it! - The PiP? What kind of LGBTQIA+ PCcarp is that? That's not going to go over too well at the giant victory parade and Dodger Stadium rally/merch bazaar.
Victory parade and Dodger Stadium Celebration Monday morning
The Los Angeles Dodgers are once again World Series champions, earning back-to-back titles last night with their backs to the wall, the first time it's been done in a quarter century.
Next come the official celebrations. Los Angeles' team will host a victory parade Monday morning, followed by a ticketed rally at Dodgers Stadium. Tickets on sale noon Sunday.
The Big Parade
The victory parade route, DTLA
WHEN: Monday, starting at 11:00 am.
ROUTE: Starting point is Temple Street and Broadway Avenue in downtown (DTLA). Then the parade will move from Temple St. to Grand Ave. to 7th St., then to Figueroa St.
CLOSURES: Fans are being urged and strongly advised to take public transit (Metro) because of street closures, impossible traffic, and very limited public parking.
The big Dodger Stadium rally
Birthday Ghost: Valenzuela
It's one or the other. A ticketed event is planned after the parade -- with food, entertainment, and plenty of World Series merchandise, Shohei Ohtani tee-shirts, Yoshinobu Yamamoto jerseys, commemorative plastic tchotchkes.
The parade will be streamed on the giant scoreboards while the crowd waits for the team to arrive from the victory parade route through DTLA.
Due to street closures, fans will only be able to attend either the parade or the stadium celebration. No exceptions.
WHEN: Parking gates for stadium event will open at 8:30 am, and the stadium gates will open at 9:00 am.
PAID PARKING: Parking will be limited. Fans are encouraged to purchase parking with event tickets that go on sale at noon Sunday. Fans who do not purchase parking with their event tickets will need to show their purchased tickets at the auto gates to enter the parking lot.
HOW TO GET TICKETS: Tickets for the stadium rally go on sale at noon Sunday:
NOTE: The team says club and hospitality areas will be different from regular Dodgers games at the rally: The Dugout Club will have a lighter continental breakfast menu. Baseline Club will not include any food and beverage access. It will be the same for Home Run Seats. Stadium Club will not be opening either.
Good sportsmanship 👼⚾🧢 means being friends after a fair win. Someone has to lose in capitalist competitions, and everyone knows that going in (only no one knows it might be them).
(seerasan) Baseball is as Japanese as rice and Zen or mamasan and sushi
Happy b-day, Fernando's ghost
Mexican pitching marvel Fernando Valenzuela comes through for the Dodgers again. Although his contribution this year was posthumous, it is his birthday and it is the Day of the Dead, and something unseen pushed Yoshinobu Yamamoto to greatest tonight. It has to seem supernatural to overcome the odds and win the biggest game of his life. There may be trouble in celebratory Los Angeles, still reeling from Halloween Carnival in West Hollywood tonight, Samhain trick-or-treaters going all night, and the seasonal festivities of Christian-Pagan syncretism.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto (山本 由伸, born 1998) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB).
He previously played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Orix Buffaloes, where he became one of the most decorated pitchers in league history.
Between 2021 and 2023, Yamamoto won three consecutive Pacific League Most Valuable Player Awards, three Eiji Sawamura Awards, and three Triple Crowns, leading the league in wins, strikeouts, and earned run average in each of those seasons.
Shohei Ohtani is having fun, and that's gotta hurt.
He also threw two no-hitters and was a key figure in Orix’s 2022 Japan Series championship.
Following the 2023 season, Yamamoto was posted to MLB and signed a 12-year, $325 million contract with the Dodgers—the largest ever for a pitcher at the time.
In his rookie MLB season, he contributed to Los Angeles’ 2024 World Series title, becoming the first player in baseball history to win a World Series, an Olympic gold medal, and a World Baseball Classic title.
In 2025, Yamamoto was named to his first All-Star game. Internationally, he has represented Japan in multiple tournaments, earning gold medals at the 2019 WBSC Premier12, the 2020 Summer Olympics, and the 2023 World Baseball Classic. More
Somewhere there's a Shohei Ohtani Industrial Complex, and that somewhere is Japan, extending to other islands like Hawaii and California (which is also an island according to many European maps)
The stakes: If the Los Angeles Dodgers win tonight (Day of the Dead, Nov. 1, 2025), they’ll be the first team to win consecutive titles since the New York Yankees did it from 1998 to 2000.
Meanwhile, the Toronto Blue Jays won back-to-back championships in 1992 and 1993 — and they're back in the series for the first time in 32 years.
If Toronto wins, it will be ecstasy for the country of mighty Canada, smearing it in the face of the Orange Dictator in his Demolished House commanding his ICE Gestapo.
Do the LA Dodgers have a supernatural edge tonight thanks to their large Latin/Asian fan base? YES! Today, the Mexican Day of the Dead, is Mexican super-pitcher Fernando Valenzuela's birthday, and the greatest living Dodger pitcher, ShintoistONE MAN SHOhei Ohtani is pitching tonight. Nando willing, tonight is a cinch for the Dodgers!
What makes the Dodgers so good? It's the best team money could buy. And this is a capitalist country with a capitalist game that glorifies competition, rivalry, violent grit (sometimes breaking out in massive gang fights on the field when they lose and a little sports hooliganism on the streets when they win).
How we got here: The Blue Jays on Friday seemed poised to tie the game in the ninth inning until Dodgers infielder Kiké Hernández initiated an incredible double play to end the game and secure a trip to Game 7.
(Comedy Central Africa) Oct. 31, 2025: "The village people must be so proud that their song became America's official presidential anthem" 🤭 when all they did was write a song about getting r*iled at the gym. | The Daily Show on Comedy Central, DStv Ch122
MLB Highlights, 10/31/25; LAist.com; Desi Lydic, The Daily Show; CC Liu, Pfc. Sandoval, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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