Israeli fighter jets struck dozens of sites across the Gaza Strip early on Saturday as fighters fired about 30 rockets into Israel, in the heaviest exchange of fire in several weeks.
The fighting followed a bloody day of border protests, in which Israeli forces shot and killed five Palestinians protesting along the perimeter fence dividing Hamas-ruled Gaza and Israel.
The fighting and bloodshed complicated the mission of Egyptian mediators, who have intensified shuttle diplomacy to achieve calm and prevent a full-blown conflict between Hamas and Israel.
The Israeli military said it had struck about 80 sites across Gaza by early Saturday morning, including a security headquarters building. Air raid sirens sounded throughout the night in southern Israel, with firing some 30 rockets, the military said.
It said about 10 rockets were intercepted by its Iron Dome rocket defence system, two landed prematurely in Gaza and the rest fell in open areas. Israel’s military chief, General Gadi Eisenkot, convened an emergency meeting of top security officials, the army added, without elaborating.
There was no word on injuries as a result of the air strikes.
Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepted several rockets launched from Gaza [Reuters]
Islamic Jihad, a smaller group, implicitly claimed responsibility for the rocket fire. It issued a statement saying that it normally exercises restraint, but it “can no longer stand idle before the continued killing of innocents and bloodshed by the Israeli occupation”.
It was not immediately clear whether Islamic Jihad, which sometimes acts independently of Hamas, had coordinated the rocket fire with Hamas. But Israel holds Hamas, which seized control of Gaza in 2007, responsible for all fire emanating from the territory.
Israeli strikes hit the Gaza Strip, which only gets electricity a couple of hours per day [Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters]
The sides have fought three wars over the past decade, and Israel and Egypt have maintained a stifling blockade on the territory. The weekly protests along the Israeli border have been aimed in large part at breaking the blockade, which has devastated the Gaza economy.
On Friday, thousands of Palestinians gathered at five locations along the boundary, burning tires and throwing stones and firebombs at Israeli troops who responded with tear gas and live fire.
Three of the dead were reported in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. Witnesses said that dozens of protesters approached the fence there.
In northern Gaza, a 27-year-old man died after being shot in the head, the ministry said. It added that 170 other protesters sustained various injuries.
On Wednesday, Egyptian intelligence officials met representatives of Palestinian factions in Gaza. Loay Qarouti of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command said the mediators asked them “to protect the lives of protesters and minimise losses among them”.
Egypt wants to restore calm in order to pursue the broader goal of Palestinian reconciliation between Hamas and the West Bank-based administration of President Mahmoud Abbas. The internationally recognised Abbas lost control of Gaza in the 2007 takeover.
But Hamas maintains it wants a full lifting of a crippling blockade Israel and Egypt imposed on Gaza to isolate the movement.
A Palestinian schoolgirl walks past the scene of an Israeli air strike on a building in Gaza City on Saturday [Mohammed Salem/Reuters]
The blockade has made it increasingly difficult for Hamas to govern. Widespread desperation among Gaza’s 2 million residents – who get only a few hours of electricity a day and undrinkable tap water, in addition to suffering from soaring joblessness and limited freedom of travel – fuels their participation in the protests.
Since the marches began six months ago, at least 210 Palestinians present or taking part in the protests have been killed and more than 18,000 were wouned.
Israel has come under heavy international criticism for what many see as excessive use of force and the large number of unarmed people who have been shot.
In the West Bank, a 33-year-old Palestinian man was killed and nine others wounded by live rounds, one in critical conditions, as the Israeli forces confronted stone throwers in a village near Ramallah city, doctors said.
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – Former prime minister Najib Razak – currently facing 38 corruption charges in an ongoing investigation into troubled state fund 1MDB that spans at least six countries – admitted things “went wrong” but insisted he wasn’t involved in any wrongdoing.
“There are things that went wrong in 1MDB,” Najib admitted in an interview with Al Jazeera’s 101 East that was broadcast on Saturday.
But he insisted even though he was prime minister and had ultimate oversight of the fund he was not aware of the transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars through offshore bank accounts around the world, and had done nothing wrong.
“My conscience is clear,” he said. “I would not receive a single cent from sources connected with 1MDB because if it’s 1MDB I would know right away it would not be the right thing to do.”
Najib has appeared in court four times since his party lost power in May’s general election amid simmering public anger over 1MDB. It was the first change in government since the country won its independence from Britain in 1957.
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This week, he appeared in court with his former treasury chief to face six counts of criminal breach of trust involving the misuse of 6.6 billion ringgit ($1.6bn) in government funds.
“It’s something he has repeatedly said even when he was in power,” said Keith Leong, head of research at KRA Group in Kuala Lumpur.
“[It] will likely be his main defence. There is such feeling against him. One doesn’t know what else he could say. Because this thing was so opaque, so mysterious.”
‘Banking secrets’
The former prime minister – who twice threatened to walk out of the interview – insisted the $681m found in his personal bank account was a gift from a Saudi prince, and he could not trace the source of any of the money because he “did not have access to banking secrets”.
Investigators say that money, which was deposited into the account just before the 2013 election, was given to politicians and covered shopping sprees and credit card bills.
1MDB is under investigation in at least six countries including Singapore, Switzerland and the United States.
The US Department of Justice has said more than $4.5bn was stolen by high-level Malaysian officials and their associates.
Najib insisted he didn’t deliberately close down the Malaysian investigation by suddenly replacing the country’s attorney-general in 2015, and firing ministers who questioned what was going on at the fund.
“I reject that totally because I am on record,” he told 101 East. “I’m on record to say that anyone who has done something wrong will be held accountable. No one is above the law.”
‘Creating value’
1MDB was established as a sovereign fund in 2009 with the help of a now-infamous financier commonly known as Jho Low.
Najib said he saw Low’s role in the fund as “creating value”.
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Investigators allege huge sums of money were siphoned out of the fund through a web of offshore bank accounts helping party-loving Low live a life of luxury with a private jet, a $260m ocean-going yacht, and luxury homes in New York City and Los Angeles.
They say 1MDB money also helped fund the Leonardo di Caprio movie Wolf of Wall Street, which was produced by Najib’s stepson and banned in Malaysia.
In June, Malaysian police seized bundles of cash, designer handbags, and jewellery in raids on a series of Najib’s properties around the capital.
It took three days, six cash-counting machines, and 22 officials from the central bank to add up the money found at the premises, Amar Singh, head of the commercial crime division, told reporters at the time.
The cash totalled $28.9m in 26 different currencies, including the Malaysian ringgit.
Durant scored a game-high 41 points on 17-of-24 shooting to go along with nine rebounds and five assists in Golden State’s 128-120 win.
KD was especially strong in the fourth quarter, as he outscored the Knicks by himself with 25 points:
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New York led Golden State by three entering the fourth quarter, but the Dubs exploded for 47 points in the final frame and held the Knicks to just 16.
The game was a big one for Durant due to talk that he’ll consider signing with the Knicks in free agency after the 2018-19 season.
Chris Haynes of Yahoo Sports appeared on FS1’s Undisputed this month and expressed his belief that New York will have a good shot at landing the nine-time All-Star:
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“New York Knicks have a very good shot at luring KD away from the Bay Area. … The same allure that LeBron had towards the Los Angeles Lakers, just the building, the culture, is the same way I know that KD feels about the Knicks.” — @ChrisBHaynes https://t.co/04xDGmLA2k
All the stops were pulled out for Durant upon his arrival in New York, including a massive billboard outside MSG.
Per Stefan Bondyof the New York Daily News, NYCADSCO.com paid for a billboard meant to entice Durant to sign with the Knicks.
It isn’t clear what the future holds for Durant, but the two-time reigning Finals MVP showed Friday that he is unquestionably among the most dynamic scorers in the NBA.
Things may look bleak for the Knicks currently, but if they can find a way to lure him to the Big Apple during the offseason, they may finally have a chance to return to the playoffs for the first time since 2012-13.
Kulawi, Indonesia – When central Sulawesi was hit by a 7.5-magnitude earthquake and tsunami a month ago, Ariyati was visiting her father who was recovering in a hospital from an eye operation.
But when she heard her village in the mountains had been badly hit, she knew she had to get home.
“I forced myself to come home because everyone was family there,” the 39-year-old mother of three said.
The rain was coming down hard as the cocoa farmer struggled to get to her village. Landslides had cut off the only road to the area and she was forced to spend the night in a settlement at the foot of the hills.
The next day she found out what had happened from a cousin.
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Three people died, including Ariyati’s 63-year-old mother who had been looking after her son and nephew. Many of the houses in the village had been flattened in a landslide. Her mother was crushed when the roof of their house fell on top of her.
“I didn’t believe it when I heard it,” Ariyati said, her home now a pile of broken timber and cement. “I fainted.”
‘There is no road’
At least 2,000 people are now known to have died in the earthquake and tsunami, which swept across the coastal communities and devastated Palu, the area’s biggest city.
More than 200,000 people lost their homes and up in the mountains where landslides buried houses and made roads impassable, people are still struggling to get the help they need and fear the rainy season will make an already difficult situation worse.
It took a week for aid to arrive in Kulawi, the area around Ariyati’s village, and when it did it was supplied by a military helicopter that has made only sporadic visits since.
“If we want to get aid from Palu, there is no road,” said Erwin Monopo, the head of the aid distribution centre for the district.
The drive from Palu used to take about three hours, but now takes at least five. Motorcyclists are forced to lift their bikes over the trunks of fallen trees and across trails of mud piled as much as three metres above the original road.
Aid distribution has been devolved to the local level and Monopo, a 42-year-old civil servant, is in charge of all government relief for the estimated 15,000 people in Kulawi.
Supplies in Kulawi’s aid distribution centre in the Central Sulawesi hills. [Ian Morse/Al Jazeera]
“[The government] trusts us to organise everything,” he said from his warehouse where he’s helped by 30 other volunteers. “We organise and create our own rules so that no one feels like they aren’t being helped.”
Aid rules
In Kulawi, those rules include residents having to wait until all 12 metric tonnes of rice has arrived so everyone can receive their supplies at the same time.
On Wednesday, 2.5 tonnes was sitting in the warehouse, even as families around Kulawi said in the past month they had received only two allocations of rice, five kilos at a time, an amount that would normally last a family of four about three days.
“It’s definitely not enough, but what are we going to do?” Monopo told Al Jazeera. “That’s all we have and we have to distribute fast so people aren’t hungry.”
But local residents are losing patience.
Almost everyone in the area is living in tents, either because their houses were destroyed in the quake or because they fear their home will collapse, and the rainy season increases the chance of more landslides.
“Tell the volunteers in Palu to bring us cooking pans, cooking oil and batteries for lights,” said Santi Maun, 45. “Give it straight to the people. Just don’t give it to the [distribution centre] in Kulawi. They don’t distribute justly.”
Monopo understands the villagers’ anger, but said he brought in the rules because he wants to avoid creating conflict between the villagers if some people get rations and others don’t. He doesn’t know when helicopters will arrive, or what will be on board when they do, he said.
Rain and cold
Army spokesman Teguh Puji Raharjo told Al Jazeera with the state of emergency extended into December, aid drops will continue for “as long as needed”, but the local authorities would soon have to take control of the aid effort because of the cost and limited flying time of the helicopters.
Like Ariyati, most people who live in the hills make a meagre living as cocoa farmers and are now worrying about what will happen when the colder weather that accompanies the rainy season sets in.
Ariyati stands in the ruins of her house a month after an earthquake struck Central Sulawesi [Ian Morse/Al Jazeera]
The first blankets arrived on a helicopter on Wednesday. An aid group from the neighbouring city of Poso began distributing jackets, and after seeing more people catch colds and rashes, local relief workers have suggested residents begin building new homes.
“Most of our aid is from private organisations,” Ariyati said, recalling in the weeks since the disaster army helicopters will often fly overhead, but rarely deliver assistance.
“From the government we get very little. Even until now we don’t know how we receive aid from the government. It just arrives.”
Recently, the New York Times reported that Donald Trump won’t give up his iPhones despite the fact he’s been told that Chinese and Russian spies are eavesdropping on him.
Yeah, we’re talking about the same Donald Trump who smiles as crowds chant “lock her up” and regularly criticizes Hillary Clinton for using an unsecured email server during the 2016 campaign.
Obviously, Barack Obama is having none of it. At a rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Friday, the former president picked apart the hypocrisy of attacking Clinton while ignoring Trump’s baffling lack of concern over foreign surveillance. (The NYT also reports Trump once left his iPhone in a golf cart.)
“They didn’t care about [Hillary Clinton’s] emails…because if they did, they’d be up in arms right now as the Chinese are listening to the president’s iPhone that he leaves in his golf cart,” Barack Obama said at a campaign event, slamming GOP politicians and conservative media pic.twitter.com/KjlLHOTXC5
“They didn’t care about emails,” he said. “If they did, they’d be up in arms right now as the Chinese are listening to the president’s iPhone that he leaves in his golf cart.”
Obama had a few other burns for Trump, too.
“Their promise to drain the swamp, that was not on the up and up. Nobody in my administration got indicted.”
The former president was in Milwaukee stumping for Sen. Tammy Baldwin, who led her competitor, state Sen. Leah Vukmir, by 15 points in a recent poll.
President Donald Trump on Friday evening accused the media of using a nationwide bomb-threat scare to “score political points against me” and the GOP ahead of the midterm elections.
“We have seen an effort by the media in recent hours to use the sinister actions of one individual to score political points against me and the Republican Party,” Trump told supporters during a rally in Charlotte, N.C., alluding to the actions of a fervent Trump supporter who was arrested and charged Friday for allegedly sending 14 potentially explosive devices to prominent Democrats from Barack Obama to Robert DeNiro.
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As he has this past week, Trump cast himself as a unifier and chided journalists for covering his administration too critically, calling on the media to cover his administration more fairly and to help end the “politics of personal destruction.”
Echoing a talking point of his political allies, Trump said the media gave Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) a free pass after the accused shooter of the 2017 Republican congressional baseball practice was found to have volunteered for Sanders’ presidential campaign and curated a Facebook page of left-wing memes that criticized the president and GOP lawmakers.
Trump said he has not blamed Democrats when “radical leftists seize and destroy public property and unleash violence and mayhem.” The president has recently begun using the slogan “jobs, not mobs” and as recently as Oct. 20 said “Democrats produce mobs, Republicans produce jobs.”
On Friday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, FBI Director Chris Wray and top law enforcement officials announced Cesar Sayoc, 56, of Aventura, Florida, had been charged with five federal crimes for allegedly mailing 14 improvised explosive devices to Obama, DeNiro, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and other prominent Democratic officials. CNN’s newsroom was also evacuated after a suspicious package was identified.
A van reportedly belonging to Sayoc was emblazoned with stickers and images of Trump along with figures like Clinton with target crosshairs superimposed over their faces.
But Trump portrayed any criticism of his campaign trail rhetoric against his political targets as an indictment of his supporters.
“Yet, the media has tried to attack the incredible Americans who support our movement to give power back to the people,” Trump said. “Our supporters are the most honest, wonderful like you — principled, hard working, patriotic people on the face of God’s earth.”
Later, Trump brought up “crooked Hillary Clinton” when talking about his former opponent’s positions on immigration during her time as a senator. His supporters responded with their frequent chanted rejoinder of “lock her up.”
“Oh boy they’re going to be reporting about you tonight,” Trump said.
You know you’re in trouble when you’ve lost Carlos Matos.
The walking meme made famous by his unbridled enthusiasm for Bitconnect, a cryptocurrency project strongly resembling a Ponzi scheme that shut down its lending and exchange platform in January, is now here to offer some measured words of caution. Namely, stay the hell away from bitcoin.
“Bitcoin Is A Scam,” he tweeted on October 26. “Sell Everything It’s NEVER Going Back Up”
Bitcoin Is A Scam. Sell Everything It’s NEVER Going Back Up
Matos, of course, is best known for promoting a likely scam himself. He launched into meme infamy in October of 2017 after a video of him singing Bitconnect’s praises went viral.
Importantly, this was all before the price of a BCC token shot up to around $437, and then crashed back down to its current price of $.67.
If you haven’t seen the clip, recorded at a Bitconnect gala in Thailand, you should go ahead and watch it now. We’ll wait.
His proclamations of “I love Bitconnect!” were endlessly remixed, and Matos — a self-proclaimed Bitconnect investor — quickly became the face of the project.
Needless to say, none of this worked out so well for him. Even John Oliver took a swing at Matos on Last Week Tonight.
And while Matos surely regrets the day he heard of Bitconnect, you can’t say he didn’t learn anything from the mess he helped create.
This article contains spoilers for the original Halloween and its 2018 sequel.
The trope of the final girl — you know, the last one standing in horror movies, who either simply survives or also kills the villain that murdered all her friends — didn’t just define the slasher formula for decades.
The archetype was more than a staple of the great classics, from Texas Chain Saw Massacre to Halloween and A Nightmare on Elm Street. The final girl trope was also the key to understanding the entire genre’s psychology, and how horror movies capture our social anxieties about sex and gender.
Now, with 2018’s Halloween and the return of the prototypical final girl, Jamie Lee Curtis’ Laurie Strode has ushered in a new kind of slasher flick for the #MeToo era.
Coined by feminist film scholar Carol J. Clover in 1992, the trope was at first narrowly defined by a very specific set of characteristics in 70s-80s slashers: The classic final girl was virginal, virtuous, and innocent, especially when compared to her sexually promiscuous friends, who inevitably die. While conventionally feminine and attractive, her final confrontation with the villain also challenged on-screen gender norms, giving her a masculine autonomy that emasculated the male villain.
Above all, the final girl phenomenon forced audiences to identify with female victims (a true rarity in those days), by sharing in her triumph over trauma.
Though the archetype evolved, critics, scholars, and filmmakers still see the final girl as a window into horror as a culmination of our most Freudian fears. 2012′s beloved Cabin in the Woods even used the final girl as the entire basis of its plot, pointing to how the horror trope is a return to ancient ritual and sacrifice.
Through the ritual of horror movies, we highlight some of our culture’s modern anxieties. John Carpenter’s original Halloween was somewhat unfairly maligned as a moral backlash to women’s liberation and the sexual revolution of the ’60s.
Meanwhile, 2018’s Halloween tackles our collective anxiety over the seemingly unstoppable epidemic of male predators. In the original, the responsible Laurie survives the Michael Meyers’ rampage that kills all her party-obsessed friends; in 1978, the final girl’s survival or rescue was focused on her victimization. Now, after 40 years, the final girl has grown into a woman. And 2018’s Laurie reverses what the “finality” of being the last surviving female means.
The final girl of the #MeToo era is defined by her determination to stop male predators from ever hurting people again.
The final girl of the #MeToo era is defined by her determination to stop male predators from ever hurting people again.
Even more important: Her survival is no longer defined by her being alone in her survival.
The timeliness of the new Halloween lies in how it speaks to a real-world moment of women coming together for a reckoning. As survivors everywhere seek to end decades of victimization, Laurie finally confronts her own predator, drawing strength from the solidarity and shared experience of trauma with other women in her life.
The brilliance of Halloween‘s update to the final girl trope goes well beyond the topicality of the #MeToo movement, though.
2018’s Halloween was written before the explosion of the #MeToo movement in 2017.And it leans into other modern trends: Recent hits like The Babadook and Hereditary, for example,are slowly replacing the final girl trope with the “dysfunctional mother,” or mothers who are demonized after suffering a monstrous trauma.
Happy Halloween, Michael
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Certainly, gun-toting Grandma Laurie fits that perfectly, as a woman who society deemed unfit to fulfill her traditional role as a mother due to the trauma of surviving Meyers. This ostracization is apparently what becomes of a final girl after she endures what Clover called a process of “masculinization.”
But ultimately, it’s not just the victims of slashers that reveal a film’s subtextual gender politics.
Michael Meyers is coded as a very masculine evil, this symbol of what we might call “toxic masculinity” today.
The villain of Michael Meyers is coded as a very masculine evil, too — this symbol of what we might today call “toxic masculinity.” I mean, his origin story of murdering his own sister with a knife as a kid while she was having sex sounds like some serious Incel shit.
And, at the risk of sounding a bit Feminism 101, Michael Meyers can also be seen as an embodiment of patriarchy itself, especially in the most recent Halloween.
Think of what makes Meyers so terrifying. We very pointedly never see his face, the blank mask making him not an individual man (#NotAllMenAreMikeMeyers), but instead a symbol of the inhuman, all-powerful, deathless social conceit of masculine dominance.
Meyers is never given any human motivation for why he does what he does. He does not want or desire, like a normal man. He is simply a force, punishing anything it cannot control. The horror of Mike Meyers is a lot like that of an unfeeling social system, an unstoppable entity who indiscriminately dehumanizes his victims.
Like the stoner boyfriend in the new movie points out, Michael Meyers is also a monster strangely grounded in reality, especially when compared to his more supernatural counterparts, like the dream-hopping Freddy Krueger. We call him the Boogie Man because there is something so commonplace about his MO. He could be any male predator from your favorite true-crime show.
Still unconvinced of Meyers as an embodiment of patriarchy? Look at his preferred weapon. You can’t get more phallic than a knife, this fatal form of symbolic penetration.
2018’s ‘Halloween’ is still a terrible movie for babysitters, though.
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So if the final girl archetype in 1978’s Halloween was in some ways a response to how patriarchy was handling women’s sexual liberation, 2018’s Halloween responds to the feminism of today.
It’s only fitting, then, that Meyers (as a symbol of patriarchy) is hell bent on silencing three generations of Strode women (Laurie, Karen, and Allyson), who band together to end his tyrannical predation. It’s even more fitting that every institution, from the police to Meyers’ doctor, prove completely inept at stopping him or helping the Strode women.
The horror of Mike Meyers is like that of an unfeeling social system, this unstoppable entity indiscriminately dehumanizing his victims.
And at first, it does feel like a slap in the face. After all Laurie’s been through — whether as the final girl or the dysfunctional mother — she still couldn’t conquer this symbol of patriarchal trauma.
But of course, that’s an apt metaphor for what it feels like right now to be waging war against social structures that uphold misogyny.
As the hearing and appointment of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh showed, traumatized women continue to be put through a hell akin to slasher movies. Real-world final girls like Dr. Christine Blasey Ford continue to show strength and courage in the face of the terrors they’ve survived. And audiences couldn’t help but identify and empathize with her for that.
As we’ve seen with #MeToo, it’s solidarity among all women that will bring down the patriarchy
Image: universal
Just when we think we’ve dealt the final death blow, patriarchal bullshit rises from the ashes. It waves away women’s pleas to be heard, believed, and taken seriously as they demand an end to widespread acceptance and sympathy toward male predators.
No matter how hard survivors fight, maddeningly, the men who abuse and mistreat them continue to draw ragged breaths. But 2018’s Halloween does leave us with some hope: We final women and girls have been preparing, learning, and are now ready for a battle to the death.
We final women and girls have been preparing, learning, and are now ready for a battle to the death.
Sure, generations of female survivors haven’t been able to end the real-world monstrosity of misogyny … yet. But we won’t stop trying. Because now, the hunted have become the hunters.
Laurie’s chase through her house for Meyers in the final scenes of the new Halloween is an almost exact reversal of the first time she was a final girl. And like the new Laurie, final girls of today are no longer fearful victims turned into accidental warriors.
The battle is happening on our terms, and on our territory. We’ve used the horrifying experiences of being women at the end of patriarchy’s knife as an opportunity to learn about our enemy. We’ve turned the prison of our own trauma into the cage that will entrap our predators.
We do not necessarily continue our fight because we see an end in sight. We fight precisely because we cannot see the end. So all that’s left for us to do is fight like hell.
Because if final girls are known for one thing, it’s overcoming evil even after all hope feels lost.
Buehler just completed the longest 1-2-3 inning in baseball history. (Probably not…but 26 pitches.)
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First two hitters for the Red Sox: five two-strike foul balls already.
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On his way into the 07 #Worldseries, Dustin Pedroia got held up and ID’d by security Dustin told them to go ask Jeff Francis! Who he HR’d off night before. Well some things never change. https://t.co/iGdqLfq32Y
The Dodgers have won three best-of-seven series in which they trailed two-games-to-none: the 1955, 1965 and 1981 World Series. In all three instances they lost the first two games on the road.
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#WorldSeries Game 3
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Buehler just completed the longest 1-2-3 inning in baseball history. (Probably not…but 26 pitches.)
Clock Icon12 minutes ago
via Boston.com
Clock Icon13 minutes ago
Buster Olney @Buster_ESPN
First two hitters for the Red Sox: five two-strike foul balls already.
Clock Icon6 minutes ago
The Camera Guys @NBCSCameraGuys
On his way into the 07 #Worldseries, Dustin Pedroia got held up and ID’d by security Dustin told them to go ask Jeff Francis! Who he HR’d off night before. Well some things never change. https://t.co/iGdqLfq32Y
The Dodgers have won three best-of-seven series in which they trailed two-games-to-none: the 1955, 1965 and 1981 World Series. In all three instances they lost the first two games on the road.
@Dodgers host @RedSox
#WorldSeries Game 3
now on @ESPNRadio
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MLB Stat of the Day @MLBStatoftheDay
Back home, the @Dodgers have the right kid on the mound. #WorldSeries https://t.co/ZWiHUyzXj9
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