share in sorrow or glory as the day decides. sports is our great teacher. offering us lessons that guide us from a young age for the rest of our lives. lessons about courage and grit, the importance of team work and diligence. how to play like a champion, even in a loss. sports has been at the center of american understanding about race, immigration, religion, and meritocracy. the baseball playoffs begin tonight and from jackie robinson to sandy koufax to clementy, children learned what it mean to be a good american watch these figures give their all in the field of play. so why is it that sports today seems to be a place of division not unity? something used to break us further apart not bring us together? when did competition become such a bad thing? 20 years ago after 9/11 getting back to sports was incredibly important it wasn t just a sign that america was going to continue. it was a sign that we were confident and unafraid. eight years ago tears turned to
as you know, the first line of the baseball playoffs are a quick three out of five. if you re a key player or more than one player maybe in the case of the red sox, if it happened now there would be several. if you re sidelined, you re putting your team at a competitive disadvantage. it could have an effect on baseball s pro season. and something else to remember, players who have had covid, even if they weren t terribly ill we re not talking about you and me, jim, where we went back to our jobs and maybe we felt sort of crummy. we re talking about elite athletes. if they re only 90% effectiveness, that makes a huge difference. they said when they returned, their energy level wasn t quite the same. again, this isn t the most important thing in the world, but can it impact team s fortunes? it most certainly can. just after the days of 9/11 it felt good to get back into sports. it felt good to talk sports with
but fast-forwarding to today, do you expect this vaccine issue to wreak havoc with the upcoming baseball playoffs? that would certainly be a game changer. here s something to consider. it s relatively minor in the big picture when we talk about what our country is facing, but leave aside all of the debates about mandates and vaccines and whatever else. the boston red sox had roughly a dozen players, they had a true outbreak on their team, including yesterday came word that their ace pitcher chris sail had tested positive. a vast majority of these players, maybe none of them, will end up hospitalized and it s more than overwhelmingly unlikely, let me put it that way, that any of them would die as a result. but that s not the point. according to the protocols, they have to be sidelined. if they test positive, they have to be sidelined. if they re in close contact, they have to be sidelined.
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they want an end to corruption. they want an end to unemployment. university graduates here can barely find work. and they want their basic services to be improved. there s still widespread electricity cuts and it is sweltering hot. the concern is if this unrest continues to further develop, that could potentially destabilize iraq. as we know very well having reported for years in this region when iraq is destabilized, the region is as well. no question about that. i ll take it. we re talking about decades now of destabilization and decades of frustration as well. thank you very much for that reporting. a huge night in sports with baseball playoffs and a thriller in the nfl that went back and forth to the final seconds. carolyn manno has more in the breacher report. good morning. good morning. it was an electrifying thursday night. if you went to bed early like john did, shame on you. don t worry. i ve got you covered. the seahawks and rams in a big game. russell wilson is off to