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Batter up Antoinette,

It's October...the time when America's 2 favorite pastimes come to fruition and our manifest destiny was largely fulfilled. Time to harvest the grapes and watch the boys of October play for a title. So pick your grape, root for your team and celebrate 'merica and the events in this week in history that made it all possible. First our victory at Yorktown and the eviction of the Brits and their alcohol tax,* then the Louisiana purchase which lead TJ to celebrate his two terms by spending the equivalent of over $200,000 on wine. For dessert we went ahead and threw in Alaska, otherwise known as Seward's Folly. Named such when Sec. of State Seward didn't realize that too much ice wine leads to a lot of Eskimo kisses, heating up the igloo so much that even an Inuit's ardor was "dampened". And just to make it competitive, Mason and Dixon drew a line between north and south to see who could grow the best wine (they may have used that line for other competitions but I can't remember). And finally, every good coach knows it's important to hold a lead once you get it, so Kennedy told Castro and Kruschev to stick those missiles up their silos, because they aren't getting our wine and we'll embargo them until they learn how to play nice*. What greater bulwark against communism than baseball and wine....just look at the number of Cuban defectors who risked the Bermuda triangle to come here and enjoy our low hanging fruit. Now wine and baseball are in every state...coincidence? I think not...can't celebrate victory without a bubbly bath! Time to cheer America's bounty...Baseball, Vino and even Reggie Jackson who hit 3 homeruns on 3 swings and earned the title Mr October (he was kind of like the Yankees, Tom Brady or plum wine, you either hate him or love him).

Play Ball!

*Keep in mind candidates, we fought a rebellion when alcohol tax was only 1%...points to ponder!

*Of course Kennedy had the foresight to buy up all his favorite Cuban cigars before slapping on the embargo.