![]() Australia has been included in recent NATO meetings because it has provided much-needed military supplies to Ukraine and because of its leading work on the security challenge from Beijing.īut you don’t keep getting into influential leaders’ meetings if you stop backing your words with actions. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record.Anthony Albanese faces a testing trip to the NATO meeting in Lithuania’s capital, Vilnius, this week. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. Thanks for being with us.Ĭopyright © 2009 NPR. ![]() SIMON: Howard Bryant, senior writer for, ESPN the Magazine, and ESPN the hair restoration gel. But it is pretty amazing to watch the Dodgers, who could not win a game, to clinch against the Padres or the Pirates - two of the worst teams in the league - and now they're on the brink of going to the National League Championship series. Wouldn't surprise me again if the Cardinals came out and won because those games have been so close. And the one ball he had to catch he said he lost it in the lights and there were too many of those white little towels waving in the background and he couldn't see the ball. ![]() It's something that you do, you know, 20 million times over your career as a baseball player. And the ball hit him right in the stomach and he dropped it. Louis for Game 3, and you're watching the ball go up and it's like, okay, it's 1-1. The game's over, and ESPN is telling me whether or not I have to go to St. SIMON: The Cardinals managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory against the Dodgers on Thursday night. David versus Goliath, but still great baseball. And then Teixeira hits a home run, getting his $180 million worth as well. And everyone in New York would say, how come we can't win? And that's not what happened. They looked like they were about to go to Minnesota tied 1-1 and the sky would be falling for their $1.3 billion ballpark and their $200 million payroll. BRYANT: �two-run home run in the ninth when the Yankees looked finished. BRYANT: And what else is different this year? The Alex Rodriguez who can't hit in the playoffs hits a two� SIMON: The Yankees, by contrast, this year, finally look like they're getting their money's worth. But offensively, they do not look like the dangerous, dangerous team of Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz of yesteryear. It wouldn't surprise me if they came back and won a couple of games because they do have great pitching. They are not a very dangerous team right now. I think the Red Sox won 95 games but they have not looked this average in a very, very long time. They've done something this year they haven't done since 1986, which is to actually win two games in the same series from the Red Sox.Īnd it's been fascinating, watching this year. The Angels actually have a two-nothing lead. ![]() And there is something different this year. It's actually been great baseball, and last night wonderful games with the Yankees and wonderful games with the Red Sox and the Angels. ![]() No more first round flame-out for your team. I was going to tell you, Scott, the only difference between now and the d�j� vu scenario you set up is that now we don't have to listen to the Cubs getting knocked out every� SIMON: And the Angels and the Red Sox, as we note, they faced off in division series three times in the last five years - the Red Sox always win. HOWARD BRYANT (Senior Writer,, ESPN the Magazine): Good morning, Scott. Yogi Berra famously said it's d�j� vu all over again, just like it is when we hear from Howard Bryant of and ESPN the Magazine. Phillies and Rockies are also an encore, only from 2007. Three of the four divisions are all repeat performances from five years ago. SIMON: The Los Angeles-Anaheim-West Covina - whatever they call themselves -Angels defeated the Boston Red Sox, 4-1 last night, and the two highest-paid New York Yankees hit home runs to defeat the Minnesota Twins, 4-3. ![]()
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