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law and courts as complicit in their execution.
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I love to celebrate. I love to make a fuss over birthdays and holidays, I love decorating and putting out fun little reminders of the season, and there's just something about balloons that can turn a rough day around. But, as the school year has begun and families settle into a new routine, the holidays can seem so far away. The days have a way of blending together, chaos and busyness replacing the fun of summer. It doesn't have to be that way, though. There are loads of ways you can add a little celebration into a rough week. I love celebrating those silly, made-up national days to surprise the kids and perk up the week. You know the ones – National Donut Day (yes, please!), National Talk Like a Pirate Day, National Go Barefoot Day… Someone went to all the time and effort to make up reasons to celebrate life, and you better believe I'll take whatever chance I can get.
For the next few months, I am going to be sharing some of my favorite National Days and fun ways to celebrate with your family. Add them into your week and have a little fun!
Let's get started with September. This month has so many fun ways to celebrate! As much as I would love to go through each one, I doubt anyone would be awake at the end of the post, so I've narrowed it down to my favorite 5.
Moms, here's a great excuse for an easy weeknight meal. Order from your favorite restaurant or get the family involved and make your own, experimenting with different cheeses. Have a pizza cook-off competition and have the kids make a pizza trophy for the winner. Use cardboard triangles and yellow tissue paper and have your younger kids practice tearing the tissue paper cheese and pasting it on their cardboard pizza. Make a pizza banner. Get creative and have fun with it!
Oh, I love any excuse to celebrate reading. Wrap up a new book and surprise your kids. Spend the afternoon at the library. Make a fort at home and snuggle in with the kids to read your favorites. Have the kids make up their own stories for you to read. Make special bookmarks. See who can do the funniest character voices.
I think this one is especially important for all ages. Spend the day encouraging each other. Make a pact that no one will complain or grumble. Write sweet notes and put them in your children's lunchboxes. Tell your spouse how much you appreciate him. Have the kids make a list of all the great things about their siblings. Check out this list of 64 Positive things to Say to Kids and encourage your children. It's amazing what a little encouragement can do to brighten someone's day.
Kids love helping in the kitchen. Let them! Make a day of it! Have them create menus and play restaurant. Let the little ones make their snacks. Help the older ones navigate the grocery store for ingredients.
Share a favorite family recipe. Bake and decorate cookies, and by all means let them lick the bowl!
Spend the day doing nice things for your neighbors. Take in their garbage cans, bring them some cookies. Leave some rainbow rocks for them to find. Bring them some "just because" balloons or some flowers from your garden. Good neighbors are invaluable. Show them some extra love!
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Berlin wool work is a style of embroidery similar to today's needlepoint that was particularly popular in Europe and America from 1804 to 1875. It is typically executed with wool yarn on canvas, worked in a single stitch such as cross stitch or tent stitch, although Beeton's book of Needlework (1870) describes 15 different stitches for use in Berlin work. It was traditionally stitched in many colours and hues, producing intricate three-dimensional looks by careful shading. Silk or beads were frequently used as highlights. The design of such embroidery was made possible by the great progress made in dyeing, initially with new mordants and chemical dyes, followed in 1856, especially by the discovery of aniline dyes, which produced bright colors.

Berlin work creates very durable and long-lived pieces of embroidery that can be used as furniture covers, cushions, bags, or even clothing.

History

Berlin wool work patterns were first published in Berlin, Germany, early in the 19th century. The first Berlin wool patterns were printed in black and white on grid paper and then hand-coloured. Previously, the stitcher was expected to draw the outlines on the canvas and then stitch following the colours on the pattern. Counted stitch patterns on charted paper, similar to modern cross-stitch patterns, made it easier to execute the designs, because amateur embroiderers were able to follow the patterns using just a simple tent stitch. They were published mostly as single sheets which made them affordable to middle-class women.

Soon they were exported to Britain and the United States. The patterns were used sparsely in the United States until the 1840s, when they started to appear in women's magazines, after which "Berlin work" became all the rage. Indeed, Berlin work became practically synonymous with canvas work.

In Britain, Berlin work received a further boost through the Great Exhibition of 1851, and by the advent of ladies' magazines such as The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine.

The popularity of Berlin work was due largely to the fact that, for the first time in history, a fairly large number of women had leisure time to devote to needlework.

Designs started to be published in Vienna and Paris as well, and included geometric, floral, and pictorial scenes, before sentimental Victorian tastes impacted the patterns. Subjects to be embroidered were influenced by Victorian Romanticism and included floral designs, Victorian paintings, biblical or allegorical motifs, and animals. Berlin work patterns could be applied to various kinds of clothing and home furnishings or could be made as stand-alone artworks, in the style of needle paintings, which are works that copy well-known master paintings in thread.

In the late 1880s, the demand for Berlin wool work decreased dramatically, largely because the tastes had changed, but Berlin work publishers failed to accommodate new tastes. Other, less opulent styles of embroidery became more popular, such as the art needlework advocated by William Morris and his Arts and Crafts movement. Yet the wide distribution of Berlin work patterns had made needlework available to a large number of women, and it also caused them to become interested in other types of needlework.

Motifs

Biblical quotations or other allegorical messages espousing Christian values and ideals were often incorporated into Berlin work designs; "God Bless Our Home", "Forget Me Not", "Remember Me", "Look to Jesus", and so on. Other popular motifs included children, pets lying on cushions, forest scenes, and hunting. In the United States, flowers were the most popular design.

Today

Original charted Berlin wool work patterns remain available in a number of books. Berlin wool work designs are still popular in trammed needlepoint canvases, printed canvas needlepoint kits and can be found as digitized charts on needlework enthusiasts' websites.

References

Bibliography
Desnoyers, Rosika. Pictorial Embroidery in England: A Critical History of Needlepainting and Berlin Work. London: Bloomsbury, 2019.
Edwards, Joan. Berlin Work. Dorking, England: Bayford Books, 1980.
Levey, Santina M. Discovering Embroidery of the 19th Century. England: Shire Publications, Ltd., 1977.
Markrich, Lilo, and Heinz Edgar Kiewe. Victorian Fancywork: Nineteenth-Century Needlepoint Patterns and Designs. Chicago: Regnery, 1974.
Procter, Molly G. Victorian Canvas Work: Berlin Wool Work, B T Batsford Ltd, 1986.
Serena, Raffaella. Animal Embroideries & Patterns: From 19th Century Vienna, Antique Collectors Club Dist, 2006.
Serena, Raffaella. Berlin Work, Samplers & Embroidery of the Nineteenth Century, Lacis, 1996.
Serena, Raffaella. Embroideries & Patterns from 19th Century Vienna, Antique Collectors Club Dist, 2006.
Stepanova, Irina. Berlin Work: An Exuberance of Color, PieceWork magazine, March–April, 2011, pp. 41–46.
Stepanova, Irina. Berlin Wool: Fine Fiber from an Innovative Age, PieceWork magazine, November–December, 2011, pp. 12–17.

External links
Berlin Work by Pat Berman, a technical history at the American Needlepoint Guild site.

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La iglesia de San Gil Abad es un templo católico situado en la localidad de Huérmeda, pedanía del municipio de Calatayud, en la provincia de Zaragoza, España.

Historia
La iglesia data del  y es de estilo gótico tardío, si bien se reformó en el  al estilo renacentista.

Características
De simple fachada, con cubierta a cuatro aguas y fábricas de tapial y contrafuertes de mampostería.

La iglesia tiene una única nave y cuenta con capillas entre el ábside poligonal y los contrafuertes. El interior tiene pilastras, cornisa, un coro alto sobre una bóveda de cañón de lunetos y un falso techo.

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Q: Passing multiple states in react context I have a context that should pass down in the tree multiple states.
Which is the correct approach to set Provider's value?

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*Creating an object in place doesn't work since it is re-built at every re-render, causing the child to re-render as well also if the actual content of the context didn't change (because a new object is created, with a different memory address, causing the child to think the object changed).

How should I pass the context?
//Example:
interface Context {
 state1: number,
 state2: number,
}

const MyContext = React.createContext<Context|null>(null)

const MyFC: React.FC = (props)=>{
 const [state1,setState1] = useState<number>(0) //To pass down
 const [state2,setState2] = useState<number>(0) //To pass down
 const [state3,setState3] = useState<number>(0) //Not to pass down

 return(
   <MyContext.Provider value={????}>
      {/* components */}
   <MyContext>
 )
}

A: You can pass a keyed array to value :
value={{'state1':[state1,setstate1],'state2':[state2,setstate2]}}

And then you can retrieve each data :
const context = React.useContext(MyContext);
const [state1,setstate1] = context['state1'];
const [state2,setstate2] = context['state2'];

Or directly :
const [state1,setstate1] = React.useContext(MyContext)['state1'];
const [state2,setstate2] = React.useContext(MyContext)['state2'];

You can add how many states you want.

A: The options to pass down complex states in a context are multiple.
Option 1: Split contexts that don't change together
If elements composing a context are not tightly related consider splitting the context into different contexts. In this way you can pass single states without having to handle the problem of "unifying" states.
Option 2: use useReducer to combine related states

When using useState hook is advised to create a separate state for
each element since, unlike the state in class components, updating
single elements of a state can lead to unnecessary complexity.

Use state is the most common tool to save state in functional components.
However, when more complex states (and state management) are needed, useReducer can be used to wrap up states in a single object. Then you can pass reducer's state as value for the context
function reducer(state,action) {
 switch(action.type){
   //Cases:
   //.... (works like redux reducer)
   default:
     return state
 }
}

const MyContext = React.createContext<Context|null>(null)

const MyFC: React.FC = (props)=>{
 const [compressedState,dispatch] = useReducer(reducer,{state1:0,state2:0})
 const [state3,setState3] = useState<number>(0) //Not to pass down

 return(
   <MyContext.Provider value={compressedState}>
       {/* components */}
   <MyContext>
 )
}

Option 3: useMemo
When neither of the previous options are feasible, useMemo is the way to go.
Simply combine all the elements that needs to be passed to create a value that updates only when at least one of the dependencies changes.
const MyContext = React.createContext<Context|null>(null)

const MyFC: React.FC = (props)=>{
 const [state1,setState1] = useState<number>(0) //To pass down
 const [state2,setState2] = useState<number>(0) //To pass down
 const [state3,setState3] = useState<number>(0) //Not to pass down

 const contextValue= useMemo(()=>{
   return{
    state1: state1,
    state2: state2
   }
 },[state1,state2]);

 return(
   <MyContext.Provider value={contextValue}>
       {/* components */}
   <MyContext>
 )
}

Final note on useMemo
Use memo becomes useful also when we need to pass both elements of useState (state and set state) or useReducer (state and dispatch).
In context, we should always avoid to put inside the value prop an inline object. As said at the beginning of the post, this object is re-created at every render (new memory address) causing the hooks checking to it to re-render (since the observed memory value changed) as well down in the widget tree.
Use memo can become handful in this scenario since it allows to avoid passing an inline object:
//Example for useReducer. Works also with useState.

const contextValue = useMemo(() => {
  return { state, dispatch };
}, [state, dispatch]);

Sources:

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*https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/15156

*https://hswolff.com/blog/how-to-usecontext-with-usereducer/

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My name is Raspberry. I like to play and to explore my little world, but my favorite time of day might be bedtime when I can curl up and relax with my favorite people. If cuddling were an Olympic sport, I'd win the gold. I will flourish with a family that has time to play with me, encourage me to build up my self confidence and to pet my little head and back while I rest. I'm great with other cats and love snuggling with my sibling, Strawberry!


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What My Marriage Has Taught Me About My Teenage Insecurities
While recently editing some photos, I stopped to admire this one of my husband. I love that I can see the flex of his muscles in his arms and legs. I love that even for a man who rarely works out (!!!) he is still so strong and it makes me proud to be his wife.
When I was in high school I was a tomboy. I played rugby and I held the women's back squat record of lifting 300 pounds. These were all things I found much pride in but not everyone felt that way. I never dated anyone and I never got asked to a high school dance. People--my friends--would tell me that I was too strong and tough and that guys would be intimidated by it.
My lack of attention from boys made me feel insecure about myself. I was too much of a tomboy. I wasn't thin enough. Not pretty enough. Too shy. My lack of a dating life felt like a reflection of who I was...never enough.
Little did I know that down the road my marriage would prove all of these things wrong.
I have a very strong and masculine husband. He is not intimidated by my strength. Instead he encourages it. It is in his masculinity that has allowed me to be more feminine. I no longer have to prove myself or find my worth in my achievements. Instead I have been able to settle in being loved for who I am. At the same time I can continue to embrace my own physical strength and independence because it is not a threat to him.
If I could go back in time and tell my teenage self all of this, I would tell her to stay true to who she is. It was in what I thought were insecurities that proved to be my greatest strengths. I no longer have to prove myself but instead am rooted in being true to who I really am.
My husband and my marriage have shown me that all those questions and doubts about myself would only surface to become a more beautiful understanding of who I am as a person, as a wife to my husband, and the purpose that has been set before me in this world.
As I wrote this, I was reminded I have touched on this subject before. If you would like, you can read my Letter to My Teenage Self. It was a reminder I needed today to continue to be true and confident to who I am even when it feels like the rest of the world doesn't understand.
by Domestic Fashionista at 6:00 AM
Nicole Depies November 11, 2013 9:15 AM
I love this. This is totally me too. I was asked to one school dance as a freshman. Other than that, I went with people 'as friends' but mostly solo. I distinctly remember when I liked a boy, and vice versa, but he told his friends he 'could never date me because I could beat him at every sport'. Those insecurities have spilled over to most of my life, and I'm learning to be more confident with who I am. But that's still a battle every day. Stay strong my friend! :)
Simply Evani November 12, 2013 10:00 PM
You share the most beautiful reflections. I love that you've found a partner in life that cherishes you for the person you are, and even makes you embrace the teenage self you once were unsure of. You are really a beautiful person in and out!

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Future has shared a new song, "My Peak," featuring Chance The Rapper and King Louie, who is also rumored to have spent time on Kanye West's Wyoming project. Chance previewed the track, his second collaboration with Future following Coloring Book's "Smoke Break," on Instagram back in February, Pitchfork notes. It's unclear if "My Peak" is the second single off the Future-curated Superfly soundtrack, from which Future released "No Shame" last week. Listen above.
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Leicester Tigers winger Jonny May has been shortlisted as one of six players for this season's Guinness Six Nations Player of the Championship.
May is one of two England players nominated alongside back-rower Tom Curry, with all four remaining nominees coming from the Grand Slam and Championship winning Welsh squad.
Wales' shortlisted players are Josh Adams, Alun Wyn Jones, Hadleigh Parkes and Liam Williams.
Tigers speedster May finished the tournament with the most tries of any player (6) in his five appearances and with the fourth most points of any player (30) - the only non goal kicking player in the top five, above Ireland's Johnny Sexton on 23 points.
May also featured in top five for both metres gained (284) and clean breaks (11) at the conclusion of the Championship.


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Waste and brand audits were conducted in 250 sites across 15 cities in 18 Indian states in 21 days in May 2018 to highlight the pervasiveness of plastics and to ascertain responsibility for the proliferation of problematic plastic packaging in the environment. Participating groups conducted the audits in different sites such as public parks, water bodies, and resource recovery centres.


Technological revolution is inevitable! Much that once was, is now beginning to fade away into the yore. Dating too, has not been isolated from the effects of this revolution that is transforming everything into the virtual. Today, meeting up at social gatherings is not the only way to go about it, and the excitement of discovering a person through a firsthand experience is only reserved for the traditionalists. Now, the era of online dating has arrived! Is it convenient? Yes! Does it cross geographical and cultural boundaries? Yes! Is it safe? (Silence…) Such is the nature of technology that along with bringing a fair share of advantages and opening up the whole horizon for you, it also brings more than a fair share of risks. If not tackled carefully, these risks will eventually turn into threatening dangers. Dangers? Go through rest of the section to know more about the prevalent dangers of online dating.
Common Online Dating Dangers Personal Information At Risk It is an inherent risk that comes attached with being visible in public through the personal dating websites. Although promised to be safe by the service provider, the risk of misusing your personal information (name, photograph, contact number, email address, and home address, etc.) prevails all the time, without many people realizing it. As a result, people put much of it on display without even giving it a second thought and a simple search by the corrupt can put your personal information in jeopardy within seconds.
Relationship Status: Truth or Lie? Based on the information provided by a member on these so called online dating sites, it is nearly impossible to be sure if the person is telling a truth about his/her relationship status. More often, either the person with the "Single" status is married or may be seeing someone. All you can do is follow the cues -- he/she may be the first one to initiate contact, may be irregular in responding to you, only shares the cell number, chooses not the share the last name, and so on. Even the MSNBC stats show that one third of the members registered on online dating sites are married.
Spams that Scam If you are not careful with the information you share, then you will never see the end of what follows next. Your email account will get flooded with series of emails. You will receive phone calls at the most ungodly hours that keep asking you about more of your personal information, to the extent of tricking you into giving them your bank account number or PAN number. Don't fall for the bait and never ever give your bank account number or other important details, no matter what the mailer or caller claims you have won.
Cons Potential conmen and women frequently lurk the physically non-existent, but vast online dating grounds. They will talk to you in an utterly pleasing manner till the moment you have literally fallen for them in your mind and are ready to help out in any which way. After days, or months of setting you up; they will eventually let the cat out of the hat by requesting you to send/transfer some money so that they could treat their dying family member. When you do, that will be the last time of hearing from them.
Undisclosed Records It's a common practice by online dating sites to run a background check on all the potential members before actually letting them be a member. However, the practice is far from the industry standards and non-disclosure of potentially dangerous criminal information might ruin the day for you later on. So, it is advisable that you do not take the displayed information at the face value and tread carefully along the dangerous waters.
Make sure your first meeting with the person takes place in a public place and that you reach at the meeting point by yourself.
Before leaving, tell few of your best friends or family members about who you are going to meet and where.
Don't give out personal information too soon. It's advisable to share the information once you have met him/her personally several times and also have met a few of his/her friends or family members.
The fact remains that many people have met online, then in person, and got married to start a wonderful life. Having said that, still, the dangers that run along the path of online dating cannot be taken lightly, not even to the slightest.


We are delighted to announce that Susan Veitch from South Queensferry today passed her test in Currie with only 2 minors. This is a great achievement for Susan as this will make her life so much easier for work purposes and also for our instructor Laura who maintains her incredible pass record. Well done again Susan, we at Compass are so pleased for you. Enjoy the new licence and remember to stay safe out there.


Emboss beautifully detailed floral and butterfly designs into your cake designs, using this brand new Creative Cake Embossers collection from Katy Sue.
This embosser collection is an absolute must-have for both expert cake artists and home bakers, allowing beautiful butterfly detailing in various edible mediums. Achieve stunning unique textured backgrounds, or use them to create perfect guidelines for painting. You could even press and cut around the outer edge of the design to create appliqué pieces to give a 3D embossed embellishment!
Can be used with: sugarpaste, fondant, modelling paste, flower paste, marzipan, chocolate, candy, sugar clay and more. Simply cut off tabs between each design and press firmly into the paste. Once embossed, either paint, dust, create gilded line and brush embroidery to decorate.
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Wall-E, Feet of Clay, and What It Means to Be Human
by Jennifer Kathleen • September 13, 2013 • 3 Comments
It's no secret among people who know me that Pixar's Wall-E is quite possibly my favorite movie of all time. Usually, the most detail I have to give in explaining my love of the film is just squealing "OMG cute robot love story". I like to think that everyone who knows me sees why that's appealing. But there's really quite a lot more to it than that. One of my favorite narrative devices is exploring and evaluating what it means to be human, especially in sci-fi and fantasy. In my personal experience, those genres hold the most potential to be optimistic about the human experience.
When rereading Feet of Clay, of the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett, I realized how much the use of the golems in the book reminded me of the robots in Wall-E, especially the ways in which they interact with humans. Originating in Jewish mythology, golems are clay workers given life and purpose by the words written inside their heads. Feet of Clay follows the golems' quest for freedom and equality with flesh-and-blood people. Wall-E is, of course, a love story, but it's also about these robots leading humanity back to Earth and finding their origins, while at the same time gaining sentience themselves.
One of the first commonalities that struck me was the subservience/dependency present in these works. It's obvious in Wall-E that the robots are a subservient working class, even though the humans would be quite helpless without them. While the humans of Discworld are less directly reliant on their golems, they still refuse to rid themselves of what they consider to be blasphemous, unnatural magic because they're just too useful to destroy. I know it's a drastic comparison to make, but it does remind me of the arguments against abolishing slavery pre-Civil War. With our current, modern morality, we know it's wrong to use people as mere tools, but where do we draw that line? Particularly intelligent animals, like dolphins and great apes? How to we prove and quantify that intelligence? Robots? Where's the sentience limit on personhood? I'm not suggesting that we start paying our Roombas wages any time soon, but I think it's something to be aware of as our technology advances and we become more aware of intelligences besides our own.
Another big similarity is the purpose of these workers. Golems are given both life and their rules by their "chem" or scroll of words encased in their heads. Robots are clearly just programmed with a directive. Both are initially presented as being unable to disobey these fundamental orders, but that's quickly shown to be false in both works. The golems perhaps more blatantly disobey their chems, as they start "skiving off" work and become capable of directly lying about their holy days. The robots of Wall-E, I think, simply redefine their directives. When EVE tosses the plant away in the trash compactor, she reaffirms that Wall-E and the love between them are her new top priority directive. It's not that their original missions become unimportant to them, though. The golems still want to work, EVE still wants to complete her job with the plant, it's just that they want to do so on their own terms, which I think is a very human desire.
The third big point that I want to bring up is the methods of communication used in these works. As a linguistics major, I'm pretty biased in saying that language and communication are quite central to being human. Both the golems and the robots are limited in regards to speech, so it's interesting to see how they overcome that. The golems of Feet of Clay are built without tongues, and so do all their communication by writing on slates carries with them at all times. When a golem gains ownership of himself, he shows the first inklings of speech, but is not fully capable of it until a human rebuilds him to have a tongue (now free, speech is literally gifted unto him by his previous masters). Quite a big deal is made of this, with one antagonist calling it blasphemy. In a very poignant moment, one of the main characters responds, "That's what people say when the voiceless speak." The robots of Wall-E, on the other hand, are verbally capable, though presumably only the words that have been programmed into them. It's an extremely limited vocabulary, only things related to their functions as workers, as far as we see. We do see, in a few small quiet moments, Wall-E and EVE using other forms of expression for concepts that would not have been in their programming, like "love" and "goodbye". Hand-holding is of course an important motif in their story, but more subtle is how she says goodbye to him. At the end, when she believes his memory and personality have been wiped clean, she holds him close and hums a few notes of the song from Hello Dolly that they had shared earlier in the film. She uses new things she's learned for other than their literal intention when her programming fails her. This is remarkably similar to the natural evolution of metaphor in language.
It's worth mentioning, I think, that both the golems and the robots are creations of humans who turned out to be much more like us than we ever intended. Some might view this as a curse, or as previously stated, blasphemy (see the number of robot revolt movies out there), but I'd prefer to see it as a blessing. I'm a humanist to the core, and the burden of sentience is a heavy one for one species to bear. I think it would be nice to share it, and be a little less lonely in the world. I would love to think that it is this wistful thinking that drives us onwards, just a desire for companionship in the universe, and the thinking that "human" and "person" don't need to be synonyms anymore.
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The Subway Series is always special. I've been reading memories periodically today, reminiscing about much of the great moments between the two teams of the City. New York vs. New York is nearly as old as baseball itself, the city once filled with random teams like the Knickerbockers, Atlantics, and Bushwicks to the foundational team of the Highlanders, Gothams, and Bridegrooms (which would become the Yankees, Giants, and Dodgers, respectively).
Once the game was organized and the precursor to MLB formed, the teams remaining in New York were the New York Giants, New York Yankees, and Brooklyn Dodgers. While the Giants and Dodgers faced off frequently, they only met the Yankees during the World Series if the two were the best in their leagues. Which happened a lot (12 times, 1921-1956). After the Dodger and Giants moved to the West Coast in 1957, the need for baseball was filled in New York by the newly formed Mets (in 1962). But the current New York teams didn't meet in the Series until the legendary one in 2000.
And if you're a bit of a trivia nerd, in their total history, the Yankees have won 40 AL Pennants, the Giants 23, the Dodgers 22, and the Mets 5. The Dodgers and Yankees have met up for 11 World Series (the Dodgers won 3 times); the Giants met the Yankees 7 times (the Giants won twice); the Yankees won their only Series against the Mets in 2000.
Not that the Mets are having a 2000 kind of year. So while the Yankees are battling to stay atop the AL East, the Mets are struggling to stay afloat in their division. And tonight's game just reflected both teams' seasons so far, despite the Mets sending in their best starter.
So for tonight's opener in Queens, Masahiro Tanaka got the start for the Yankees, threw 75 pitches in his solid 5 innings, gave up just 1 hit, 1 walk, and 1 run, and struck out an impressive 8 batters. The Mets' lone allowed run tonight was a lead-off solo homer in the 1st inning.
Now, the Yankees were held at bay for most of the game, thanks to the Mets' ace. In fact, they were limited to a walk and a single through 5 innings. In the 6th, with 1 out, Tanaka actually made it to 1st safely on a fielding error. He moved to 2nd on Torres' single and then to 3rd on Gardner's walk. So with the bases loaded, Aaron Judge hit a long sacrifice fly and Tanaka sped home to tie up the game.
However, on the run home, Tanaka felt a tightness in both his hamstrings and was pulled from the game. (More below) Holder sailed his way through the 6th inning in 12 pitches. Chad Green gave up 2 singles and still got of the 7th unscathed before Betances' speedy 9-pitch 8th and Chapman's scoreless 9th closed out the game.
The Yankees' batters found another opportunity in the 8th inning, the final inning of the Mets' ace starter. With 2 outs, Torres singled and then scored with Brett Gardner's big 2-run home run. Giancarlo Stanton's 1-out solo home run off the left field wall (above the home run line) in the 9th inning capped off their runs tonight.
Injury update: Tanaka's injury tonight was diagnosed as pulled hamstrings in his legs. This isn't entirely unexpected, in a way. AL pitchers never have to bat or run bases except in NL-hosted games. So they aren't used to using those muscles in the same way, so an injury from the activity isn't ideal but not unexpected.
Now, fortunately, Tanaka's next start isn't scheduled until next Thursday against the Rays (in the Bronx). However, with Jordan Montgomery out for the rest of the year due to his Tommy John surgery yesterday, the Yankees will be looking for a new starter for the season. The trade deadline is July 31 (about 7 weeks away), but I expect a deal before then thanks to this recent issue.