Events

It's going to be a nerve-wracking week. Tonight, the Cubs play Game 7 of the World Series against the Indians, after some truly wonderful baseball list night: The first-inning sequence in a 9-3 victory at Progressive Field stunned a nervous crowd of 38,116 into silence and announced, loudly, that the Cubs had come ready to rise to the occasion. Facing a win-or-go-home scenario, the Cubs arrived with an intensity the Indians failed to match. Zobrist smacking Anthony Rizzo's hand with more emotion than he...

In between meetings and client visits, I've been paging through New York Magazine's article from last week, "The Final Days of the Trump Campaign:" Perhaps the most surprising thing to ponder at this late stage in the election is just how close the race could have been had he taken nearly any of the advice offered to him by advisers. “This thing was doable if we did it the right way,” one adviser told me. When Paul Manafort, a veteran Republican lobbyist and operative cut from Establishment cloth — he’d...

Here's hoping for a Game 7.

It looks like I'm slowing down Daily Parker posts over the past year. Including this post, I've published 477 items in the past 12 calendar months, for an average of 39.75 per month or 1.3 per day. The long-term average is 40.2 per month or 1.33 per day. This means October 2016 is the first month since July 2011 in which the moving 12-month average dipped below the all-time average. Here's the chart: I'm not sure why the count has dropped off, or why this month was especially slow, but there are some...

The Cubs won last night's game so they get to play Game 6 tomorrow night in Cleveland. Whew! Last night also set a few records: It was the latest Cubs home game ever (October 30th). It ended the longest period in Major League Baseball that a team went between World Series home-game wins (25,955 days). It set the record for highest attendance at Wrigley Field in a season (3,232,420). The Cubs are still favored to win the series, but it'll be tough. I'll be watching.

Folks, if you have to evacuate a burning 767, leave your fucking bags in the plane. That would have prevented most of the injuries sustained when this happened yesterday at O'Hare: The plane's 161 passengers and nine crew members scrambled down emergency chutes on the left side of the plane while flames flared and thick black smoke billowed from the wing on the right side, according to the airline and video from the scene. Twenty people were taken to hospitals with minor injuries, mostly bruises and...

Let me see if I understand. Eleven days before an election, FBI Director James Comey sends a letter to Congress that has no specific information about an issue that was deemed closed in July but with the implication that the presidential candidate in the other party may have committed some malfeasance, even though doing so is against his agency's own policies? How can he be trusted to run a police force now? The FBI language in the letter to Congress made it clear that new evidence had been discovered...

Wired has a good, long article on how millions of security clearance documents were stolen from the Office of Personnel Management: Once Captain America’s name popped up, there could be little doubt that the Office of Personnel Management had been hit by an advanced persistent threat (APT)—security-speak for a well-financed, often state-sponsored team of hackers. APTs like China’s Unit 61398 have no interest in run-of-the-mill criminal activities such as selling pilfered Social Security numbers on the...

All of these articles look interesting, and I hope I get to read them: 538 explains how the Cubs beat Cleveland last night, and how they might do it 3 more times. Richard Florida explains how the class divide in the US is only getting worse. The DNC is suing the RNC over voter intimidation tactics. London's Heathrow is one step closer to getting a third runway. Trying to get to Wrigleyville this weekend? The Tribune has a guide for you. There's new data about what happens in your brain when you lie....

Until yesterday, 25,951 days had passed since the last time the Cubs won a game in the World Series. And tomorrow night, it will have been 25,951 days since the last time a World Series game has been played at Wrigley Field. More than that, as of today, 39,460 days have passed since the last time the Cubs won the whole thing. Let's keep that last number under 39,467, OK? Eamus Catuli!