It is October 2nd. One wild card game is in the books and one is about to get going tonight Let's talk all about it What's going on everybody? Thank you for joining us for a never another episode of talking baseball on this fine Wednesday morning recording at 10 o'clock getting there Bearings going it's 8 o'clock for Jake who is in Denver This episode of talking baseball is sponsored by a bunch of great people Raymond Torres Scott Sebert Jules hails always like to name jewels. Not sure why Benjamin Slate Ben Slate. That's a power name. Mr. Slate Wow Mr. Slate is like a bad guy in a comic book. That's crazy Connor Armheim old friend and then Istanbul Istanbul no way I got that right, but I tried my hardest and I did my best and those are our most recent patreon Sponsors they get to watch live as we do these and maybe chat with us in the chat if they Would like to and they also get a chance to win a jersey each month Jake, how are you doing? Good morning? Good morning James. I'm doing well Good to see your smile and face It's a great night for baseball And for our Milwaukee fans and listeners. I'm I'm sorry Welcome to the wild card. There's no way listening and for yeah, that's actually a great call so all right go screw you Milwaukee tune in oh no and For our Nationals fans that are listening Sorry you had to endure eight innings of that Yeah, I was gonna say that there's the Nationals fans didn't really have a fun night. They almost got it worse than the Brewers The Brewers was kind of a band-aid they they had their guy in the situation And they had to lead the whole game and then it was the rug got taken out from under them Man, it was crazy. What was your situation watching the game? You went to a bar? so Yesterday, I made a promise to the listeners that I would have a blackout game.  I Would live on what like that was my that was my problem just be active like I Mean I was being I was live on Twitter. I was I was going the whole night But yeah, I didn't really have the form for that But uh, yeah, and it was a it was a good time and Jim leading up to the game And I I don't know if we want to I guess we could dive Not fully into it but leading up to the game Because you and I had talked earlier that day and we both kind of landed on the same page where it's better for Baseball if the Nationals win this game They would be a they're gonna they are going to be a really tough out in the playoffs If they won that game which they did and the Brewers. Yeah, they were a fun story in there They've been fighting hard and they're pesky and you know, no yell itch Obviously the closer I got to game time. I was rooting brew crew man. I I was feeling it I was like, yeah, let's pass the torch You know the Nats because what got me was Nats fans were thinking the same thing Nats fans were rubbing their hands going We win this I think we're looking good And I just like the Brewers mentality and then I was gonna link up with cuz I was gonna drink during this game So I linked up with our friend Jeff who is a Brewers fan. So then it felt like a perfect storm We went to a bar called Badgers a big Wisconsin Sports Bar in Denver and Man, it was just awesome the intensity of every pitch When the yes, man hits that home run, it's just like whoa, we are in it now So yeah, it was it was it was awesome until uh until the end and I snuck out of Badgers pretty quick but But it was a great great baseball game. How uh, what how did how did the game go for you James? I mean, it was pretty good. I was just sitting here enjoying it Twitter was down so I couldn't post gifts or videos I was pretty frustrating right for a while. It took me a while to realize it was down for everyone even like MLB Bad timing Twitter Come on Twitter baseball needs this. I don't know why cuz TBS was being ruthless They were hunting down the most miserable fans. Yeah, that was that was pretty funny like Just ruthless. I mean I had to share him I was obligated to because they're hilarious and I felt for him I I felt for national fans people thought I was making fun of them like no, I've been there 2017 wild card game. I've been through all these emotions The release of winning is amazing for Brewers fans when they open up three nothing in the second inning Like that release is amazing Wild card games of motherfucker, man. No one wins You get you may get to move on but you didn't like win the day as A fan of one of those two teams. It's miserable at from the outside. I enjoyed it heavily. Yes. Yes, of course Yeah, okay, it's it's it's perfect I a lot of people complain because it's crazy to have a 160 season to come down to one game But it is the best way to start the postseason just game 7 intensity right away and for casual fans It's like whoa, wait what this is insane Yeah, and I had I will say this one one of the fun parts of bopping around a little bit last night was getting I Did get some secondary fan reactions and stuff and I had one one moment that I liked a lot There was a person at the bar They turned to the the person they were with at the bar and they they clearly were there for them The the person person came in and all sorts of Milwaukee garb the other person was clearly just at a bar looking at screens and during the soda at Bat you saw the light bulb go off over their head and they turn to their friend and they go so wait this is kind of like Guy vs. Guy deciding the game and they were like, yeah I felt bad for the person who had to answer because their heartstrings were on the line And then they were like, oh, that's pretty cool. So I was like, all right. We got a baseball light bulb going off I love that and then I heard another guy that was like it played too many games and I was like Hold me back Jeff hold me back What'd you think of the actual gameplay I mean Sherser came out and he didn't really have duty like I mean didn't have his a plus stuff His B stuff is is still rather good But he was missing his fast while there are some pitches. He was just straight yanking and I loved Dude, this is gonna sound so crazy But I put in my notes like what a leadoff at bat by Trent Grisham to take the walk couple close pitches. Hello Sherser first playoff bat like big moment for the rookie. We talked about this the rookie nerves And I was like, oh damn me he came over came and we got the walk We joked about how a walk is a rally in Joe's McFly's quote walk is a rally in the playoffs And then because Sherser was wild and then fell behind 1.0 To grand all did he fall behind 1.0? In my head, it was the first pitch. Yeah first pitch fastball. So because because Sherser walked Grisham grandals like why Betty's come in with a strike because he doesn't want to fall behind in the county Dent and just bam what a sucker punch for Nationals fans right away and Then and then what the next inning Tames got a is it Thames? I don't know what it is Tames clipped them We pronounced like every Brewer's name wrong last episode. Yeah. Yeah, we're if you're new a thank you Leave a five star. Maybe you like it. Um, and yeah, we're not a names podcast We're gonna get it wrong. It might be a Tim's thing I thought it was Tames, but I think it's tough to say you'll hear us pronounce it every single way the rest of this episode his home run was pretty impressive because it was Like curveball slider for strike one or but he missed But that's what Sherser through and then he tried to bring the curveball back in like behind in the county Didn't go fastball because I thought he'd go fastball and he'd be sitting fastball again Just like grand all but no he was he got the slider Tames being told it's Tames Great, and it you're right.  Let's enjoy the game Is the wild card game is these are these on baseball reference yet? I'm looking at the ESPN box score. I did um Jim, I don't know if you want it or not.  It's a little recap of the game. We should have went into this right away here Let me get the music up All right, Jake burn the wild card game for us on your mark Get set burn Win or go home in the nation's capital as the beer makers face the Nats with Mad Max Sherser on the mound and could Milwaukee would rough him up as they sent Brandon to the mound Everyone in DC has their yes, man Yasmani grand doll a to run yacker to write the crowd is stunned welcome to the wild card DC To nothing Nats scratch that three nothing as they can't tame Marcus Oh, he big strong Washington would have to turn things around quick turn around Trace Homer just made it a little bit closer, but the Nats still need more runs Three one after three Sherser settled in and passed it to Strasburg who got out of a big big double play in the six And mama now here comes that man Haterade as Josh comes in for the Brewers and oh no We've got some action hit by pitch Ryan Zimmerman the old Nats legend He breaks his bat shatters the single Rendon walks hater didn't want him and Jim You probably didn't know this the kid is only 20 years old Juan Soto lines one to write one run will score Christian with the oh no And it's like a nightmare book by John Gresham the ball goes off his glove Three runs will score Nats win just like that Hudson with the save Washington advances Damn you got a John Gresham reference in there. You like that Yeah, I like some of his books. I Went through a big face Yeah, I feel like I don't know my mom and sister went through the Gresham phase. I never read a single one Boy, you're where mr. Poppers penguins and that's it. It's a good book got to read it There's a good game. That's a good burn makes me remember how much how fun this game was Yeah, I'm trying to um were you shocked how long they rode Sherser because he didn't look good At any when when he got into trouble in the fourth inning. I was like, why is he still out there? He's straight yanking fastballs and Yeah, they they stuck to their guns and that did surprise me Jim And I guess I guess they had to make a conscious decision before the game, right? They had to go into this game saying We're gonna ride max like we're not gonna treat him We're not gonna treat him as Bob Brandon Woodruff. We kept calling him Bob Woodruff the old reporter We're not gonna treat him like Brandon Woodruff who looked great by the way But if Woodruff got into trouble in the second inning say they would have pulled the plug Because that's how Milwaukee operates the Nats made a conscious decision that they were gonna go Sherser to Strasburg to essentially try to complete the game. I was a little surprised. They went to Hudson But Hudson ended up looking great Left do little in the pin. I thought that might become a controversy They they left their neck out there a little bit if if do little didn't get a chance to come in But Hudson looked good. And yeah, man. Sherser that they decided to let him go and it kind of paid off He settled in a little bit the crowd got behind Sherser because fifth inning is what I meant. Sorry when he walked Shaw. I was like This bad that was a jaw-dropping moment because Shaw has been so awful this season that Sherser walked him and that was An overlying kind of theme of this game where Travis Shaw draws a big walk against Sherser and you're like what he had one of the worst Like seasons off of a 30 Homer season ever How good did Drew Pomeran's look what?  Woodruff looked like Strasburg. Yeah, it was strong He looked like Lance Lynn in his prime just high fastballs Yeah, you see his pitch makes that one point when he was 26 pitches in 22 of them were fastballs two sliders to change something like that It was definitely 22 of 26 pitch were fastballs They were gearing up and then when Pomeran's came in his at bat Versus, I think Juan Soto Was high fastball high change up to get the strike out and was like this is their strategy I guess I wonder if as the Nats move on the Dodgers pick up that same thing with just high heat And I mean it's it's been a little bit of the evolution of baseball this season with the looping swings I feel I feel like even two years ago, Jim that the low and away slider felt like it was every other pitch I mean the Lance McCullers game didn't he throw 17 sliders in a row or whatever the number ended up landing at now We're gonna see a little bit of that second half of the show We are we are with with the with the later game But there there's definitely been a transition in in baseball that I think the best pitch in baseball right now is An up and in fastball. There's not many guys that can handle it The guys that can are the guys that were in the running for the batting title DJ LaMahieu Michael Brantley guys like that They feasted on them because they just slapped them the other way for a single or double where these power hitters trying to hit home Runs couldn't touch them Let's get to Let's get to the eighth inning the fall apart. Yes, there's a lot to discuss and then we are the second half The show will be the AL wildcard preview So haters in Yeah, they're asking him to get two innings And here's where Hader looked Even with the air and the hit by pitch Hader wasn't getting you two innings in this game It just didn't look like he could but he strikes out Victor Robles to lead it off And you're like, all right two outs to go move on to the next inning then Michael Taylor with the controversial hit by pitch I'm sure Brewer's fans are still very upset by this I haven't I haven't reached out into the Brewer's fans lives, but it's pretty close. They go to replay What are your thoughts like open thoughts on it?  They called it a hit by pitch. They probably go by sound definitely hit his hand Did it hit the bat like a smidge like a slight slight slight second earlier? Maybe but I I Think if you're like, no, it definitely I think you're just You're just you're just throwing down to throw down You don't definitely know a thing if you have a definite stance You're a fan of one of the teams or you had money on the game. That's that's the only tweener because yeah I mean, or you operate by definite. It's like some people just operate like they can Right.  Okay, hit by pitch and it hits the hand and the bat at the same time and Action you make that decision on a national stage. That's insane so I I don't know I It kind of comes back to what's the logical thing and it's like a Hit his hand in the bat. I think that's a hit by pitch. I I think the calls kind of right, but so the Nationals kind of had an a good pinch hitting strategy here. So they had Zimmerman in the on-deck circle when Robles was up He strikes out. So I'm guessing their thinking is okay. We don't if Victor Robles got on. Okay. Let's put in, you know more of a power hitter or whatever But he didn't so they switched a pinch hitter and they go to Michael Taylor I'm guessing they want speed on the bases or something or you know So he gets hit by pitch trade turner get strikes out now. There's two outs ban on first and Zimmerman Takes the like 97 fastball inside Breaks his bat Total bloop shot great base running by Taylor to go first to third on it And I don't know if you watch the TBS after show I'm doubt I doubt you did if you were at the bar and stuff But Sheffield Gary Sheffield and someone else him and Rollins were pro and I did I did watch this They were going back and forth forever on if Kane should have thrown to third to get Michael Taylor out in my breakdown. I paused it. He could have had him He could have had him and it's a really good debate about a really small aspect of baseball because like yeah I think casual fans that were tuning in the TBS like what are they talking about or maybe they were into it basically Zimmerman the tying run so he's really all that matters. So keeping him at first Yeah more important than going for that out at third because if you go to third to get that out and you don't he can Zimmerman can easily trail to second and now you got him on second base. I mean so at that moment It's an interesting call like if he gunned it to third and got the out that would have been the best case But there is a lot of logic that says don't let that Runner on first get to second. Yeah, and I right now my my brain's spinning on it because I did see them I'm going at it. It's kind of fun knock yourself out guys But I there's so many things in play here because it's okay can Kane get him if he could have yeah I mean that would have been unbelievable the stadium would have erupted and it would be I heard the stadium would have went silent and you play it'd be a play known forever And for Milwaukee fans on the other side of it I guess where I think I leaned throw the ball and and maybe this is a little being able to look back But Rendon was coming up and with how good hater is verse lefties In my head it seems like Rendon was gonna get walked anyways It hater was attacking him to a degree and then he totally wasn't So I don't know I guess with that in mind like you want hater versus Soto you want I know but that's that's what I'm that's what I'm saying. That's how crazy this is and that's how the depths of baseball go But yeah, it's impossible for Lorenzo Kane to be thinking of that on the fly Josh hater's next approach Against Rendon yet at the same time you should kind of know who's coming up because that does change the approach a little bit I think this debate you could go in circles all day I think it's interesting. It's good. Yeah. Anyway, he doesn't sort of third that means it's first and third They pinch run for Zimmerman Rendon gets walked 3-2 pitch goes to 3-2 Walk in bases loaded two outs one Soto versus Josh hater A single ties the game and this is the game this at bat when you can boil down a game to one at bat.  He has like every nationals team record He sits on the bench before the game because howie kendrick has been playing so well He comes out he pinch hits versus hater and just like There's something beautiful about a shattered bat single and he uh It's like the definition of survival as a hitter like that's the definition of I will do anything to get this hit and Zimmerman does it Um and then Soto man. I mean the kid and he he's just special and I I tweeted it right before is that bad I just said be special dude and he is Um and everyone was tweeting out the the lefty numbers Against hater It's it's a game of odds and statistics, but guess what? That's why we love it because stuff like that happens. It's incredible And yeah, jim. I we we kind of breezed over it in the ninth Hudson comes in Um, he gets tames Lorenzo Cain signals, uh Lorenzo Cain gets on base and he's a threat Um, Arsia follows out and then they have gamble and this is where I didn't know enough about the Washington bullpen Because gamble's a lefty.  See a pitch man See a pitch. Yeah, uh, how bad do you feel progression last topic before we uh bounce out of this one? I Obviously feel bad.  He's a kid. He's trying to get everything he can into a throw home Uh to try to make a heroic play And he it takes kind of a funny hop and goes off his glove. He's the dude that's out there for Yellich I don't even think it went off his glove. He straight up missed it He nicked it He nicked it. Um But uh, it's it's excruciating it's excruciating And I I think the the biggest thing for him is he he is a pretty big time prospect. He was a top 100 prospect He came up and he was solid for the gnats And uh, I don't know. There's there's two things you could do after something like that.  He was trying to like come around the ball So that where he reached it. He was going to third base Or second base, you know So like he didn't run right at the ball And the ball I think was faster than he went because it just went to his right as he was trying to do a little like peel And just straight up it goes right under his glove. It's pretty brutal He nicked it. I'm watching it right now I'm watching it right now. I mean Tweeted us did did Grisham clip that ball At john boy at talking jake. Yeah, I'm going frame by frame. I mean if he clipped it, it's not like It hit his He missed it. I mean maybe like a centimeter of clip, but yeah, I don't even clip in that Well, I mean, it's It's all it's a flat out whiff. He didn't get the ball That's the biggest thing. He didn't get it. I think he missed it altogether But I think if he doesn't clip it, I think it would have rolled to the wall, you know what I'm saying Yeah, it rolls pretty far It's bad play that sucks I love how pumped up soda was even though he got thrown out Oh, that was awesome soda. I I've never seen someone celebrating so much as they're about to be tagged out That was pretty cool. He was celebrating before he got tagged out. Yeah, I know but that's a strategy in baseball Um, so if you don't know that people already get tagged out what bad bass running, you know that third run Yeah, so much more important than him So if he can bait them to try and get him out that secures Rendon Being a safe passage home. So they call it baiting them chase hardly Chase headly used to talk about it a lot for the Yankees like you got to bait them So they don't even think about throwing home and then you just got to get in a run down long enough So that run at home counts and it's a strategy. So That's probably why he didn't care Yeah, I I think there I think that run was going to score anyways, but so to insured it Um, I I do as well, but it is a strategy that some people might not realize I I think the other thing with Gresham. I I mean that was a deep single. It was hit pretty hard He's he's not going to throw out the runner from at second. There was a pinch runner So I mean the game was going to be tied anyways. So I think that's the other thing where it's not like If if him fielding that and throwing it could have prevented them from tying it I think it looks so much worse, but it it would have at least been a tied game instead. It gives up the run and uh brutal Brutal is apparently crying And stuff like that, but all right that wraps up The first half of the show The nl wildcard recap Oh Let's move on To the game coming up jake the al wildcard The tampa bay rays have found themselves in oakland california For a game at the coliseum This is a such an interesting matchup two teams with shitty stadiums a low payroll and a pitching strategy That is a lot of bullpen and mixing and matching yet They're both going with traditional starters Yeah, uh jim. Well, you just said uh someone from the new york times who gets paid to be a writer keppner called them their cousins from the different the opposite coasts um They're they're they're both frugal with their budget, but they both are like well run organizations at this point um And yeah, I think it's it's fun that they're going with their guns show manaya manaya Versus charlie moran, whatever we say it'll be wrong Yeah, charlie moran. I know I got that one right nailed it So, yeah, it's interesting. It's good. Uh, I mean, let's just dive right in jake. I have some notes here I mean, do you have do you have any gut feelings about this? I I guess first Well, my my first gut question I was going to send to you and it's kind of the scherzer debate Do you think do you think any of these teams? Have that scherzer leash like do you think either of these starting pitchers will be allowed to give up Three runs in the first two innings. Yeah Okay, both of them No, uh, I think charlie morton. Well, yeah, I think morton has more leash than manaya, right? There's been a top three pitcher in the american league. He's gonna get scion votes Yeah, so manaya is coming off injury And he was a coin flip anyways with fires. Yeah Yeah So just a little like Go even zoom out even more these two teams have played each other seven got seven times They were all back in june mid june jake or late june Oakland won the first series in tampa. They took two of three Then they had a four game set in oakland that they split None of them were like all of them were pretty close games There's one eight to two game But the rest were pretty close oakland had a walk off at the coliseum against the rays at some point So that's such a different animal though. I mean, yeah, like you don't know what was going on You don't know who was injured. You don't know What the rest schedule called for like, you know, it's just such a different animal So I don't I actually don't put much stock in the head to head unless it's glaring Yeah, and it's it postseason baseball is a different sport I mean, you can almost say it about any sport, but I mean when When the pitchers would throw ball one an account last night and it'd be one and oh you'd hear the crowd like yes We got him. We got this fucker Um, it's it's a totally different sport. It's it's awesome. I like both of them, but playoff baseball I you can't do playoff baseball for 162.   Um, he has been so good um that I I like it and um I I like fires coming out of the pin better than manaya too. I I don't I'll be honest with you guys I don't have a ton of reasoning behind it. I don't think he's gonna come out of the pen Oh, really?  Um, So I like it. Um, I I'd have to get the uh Get some rays righty lefty split stuff going on Um, but I I don't know they they picked their guy and roll with it. Um I'm uh jim. I'm starting to I'm starting to think this is gonna be So much bullpen.  I I like them. I love them for three I don't like them for six. I agree with you, but they might ask them for six But I do agree that you needed just a three. Soria's gonna get in there. Petit's gonna get in there. I believe um I believe like puck is gonna get in there. Yeah um And then they have like hey zoos lizardo like I think they like a lot of those guys So maybe if if manai is terrible then fires comes in But I think they're gonna hope to get five and bullpen or four and bullpen I'm both on both sides champa bay. I mean they have a huge bullpen Yeah, like of crazy talent I don't I just don't know I I For me if I was a raised fan And dude, how good glass no has been if you want to save one for extra innings If you want to make snel your patrick corbin from yesterday that you're only going to use him if you need him in extra innings I'm fine with that But I think I need two or three on deck and especially glass no dude when he's When he's right that dude's straight unhittable um Straight unhittable. So I don't know. I think I like I like more in more in glass. No Um, and yeah, you're probably right. The a's probably want to dodge fires, but I think you still have to have them ready, right? Maybe yeah Want to know something cool about uh, shamanaya? I need to know it He's come back from injure in september 1st. He made five starts, right? And he they've all been good. That's what bob belvin said. They're like Every manai start has been good like fires has been our rock and he's really good at home But he's had a couple starts that are blips manai hasn't had a blip yet But I was looking at his Game log and in the five game shamanaya pitch for the a's he has zero runs in the first four innings shake All of them come in the fifth and sixth So he's been strong right out the gates and if they get four out of them. They may be like Great. Yeah That's all we wanted and he hasn't given up a run in the fourth in the First second third or fourth yet. So that's pretty good And none of the rays have faced him Darno is that's what I was gonna say jim. I think that's a huge factor Darno's two for two Kiermeyer is one for three and avasio garcia is one for three and those three guys are the only people with that bats So watch out for darno. He's two for two with the walk But um, I I think I think what's kind of interesting to jim is that the the rey's best player If you're not familiar with austin meadows, he's an awesome ball player And the fact that they got meadows and glass snow for chris archer is sinful and will be worked looked at as one of the worst trades of all time, but anyways I think with the lefty meadows his numbers are a lot worse his ops is down about 130 points against lefties his on base percentage is 316. So you're neutralizing meadows Um and gman choy a little bit who's been really solid for them lately And he was he was on that post season picture that went viral Which is pretty funny for us as yankees fans just because he was kind of like He was like a you're gonna be off the 40 man. We can't keep you, dude Um, so it's kind of funny that he's he's been getting that love, but I think the rey's They have a lot of like solid righty hitters like avasail garcia. You mentioned him. He's gonna give you a good at bat Darno has had a really solid season tommy fan. So, um, I think it is the lesser of the two evils and you wonder if that factored into the decision. I don't know Yeah, the rey's are like split proof because they just use their guys crazily, right? Like they're line up change with maniah like you're gonna see fam meadows garcia.  Uh, yeah, that's a great. That's a crazy point Wendell Brasso, maybe kiermaier will be in there. He's a lefty, but he's in there for his defense um, adams, so you see a lot of righties and that may Change the way oakland uses their pen and they might bring in a lot of their righty relievers right away because Like if they have to go to the pen early, it might be let's bring in a righty reliever for one inning To make them either pinch hit way before they wanted to Or just because they got righties bad And it's it's a good point Jim because in a game like this you're you're going to see guys pinch hitting It's do or die Uh, the rays kind of do that all year Um, where the a's I mean they have their dudes their their one through five one through six is pretty locked in um And and let's be honest. I feel like we're tiptoeing around it a little bit the the a's are a lot more talented I mean matt olson. There's an argument that he's one of the best first baseman in baseball matt Chapman There's an argument. He's one of the best third baseman in baseball marcus simion.  Um, never mind the year that someone like mark canna has had Um, just their their lineup is deeper in How how much do you think the stadium is a factor tonight jimmy? Well, there's the stadium itself and the loudness and the drums and the boob as well as and stuff like that There's also the rays are coming off an exhausting trip jake. They they had to play the yankees boston The dodgers down the stretch then they had to fly to toronto to close out their season Then they had to fly all the way out to oakland So they're kind of on like this whirlwind trip where they haven't seen home or regular routine in a while that could play a factor My thing is oakland is deeper like you said They have a top four like if charlie morton needs to just shut down that top four simion Uh Chapman olson kana He needs to shut them down because They are the dudes. They all have wildcard experience from last year one game but It was at yankee stadium.  These are all in 15 plus played appearances chris davis has a bad batting average But he's got two home runs versus morton and matt chapman has a 294 on base percentage 200 batting average But their top five dudes have all had 15 plus played appearances against charlie morton So it's kind of on one side of the ball. It's a lot of experience oakland has experience in the post season In a one game wildcard super small. They have experience against Against charlie morton Right. They're the home team And on the other side you have A bunch of rays with no experience I mean fam Garcia and darneau are the only guys with post season play before You got meadows Um All the young guys dude wendell brosso even kirmeyer doesn't have a post season at bat And they've never seen manaya And they have to fly so a lot of like the stats and the anecdotes kind of lead to oakland being good Manaya has no experience though on oakland side. This is his first play I'll start ever and that's a big dude to have no experience. So it's interesting Yeah, it does feel like you you mentioned experience, but at the same time like some of the games like aj puck lasardo The ace pitching is all new the rays lineup is all new if the a's lose this game it's going to be because Their young pitchers Couldn't handle the stage um that being said I the a's are the favorite in this game Home field and I think talent wise and I I think Yesterday's game we said the nationals were the favorite But the the thing that was literally the wild card was they were just such contrasting styles and we saw that I mean you know the Milwaukee threw woodruff out there and it was do or die for him Basically every pitch and he was a stud the whole way through Scherzer got knocked around It ended up coming around full circle later in the game against hater These um like the coastal cousins are or whatever that phrase was But it just feels like the a's are the better team I I like the a's more tonight than I like the nationals yesterday and I mean again Josh hater was in with the lead. So it doesn't mean too much um, but I I think it the I'm trying to what what's the rey's storyline if the rey's win this game? uh, I think this game may be Like one nothing through eight innings Okay, I think it may be like a two nothing win and it's Maybe early runs and then that's like the game Yeah And the reys can win a game like that easily Yeah, so it's really more inverse is the top four for me Like that's I think the biggest matchup can Morton shut down the top four two I don't know if they'll ask him to do it three times, but See, uh, and then oakland's rookie pitching like that dude puck. He's been good. He is green so Oh speaking up, dude Oakland's wearing the kelly green uniforms. Oh, wow That's huge. That's huge Yeah, don't don't even come to the stadium tampa for real I'm rooting for the oakland in the same reason I rooted for The nationals last night. I think it leads to a better divisional series And jim, that's kind of the thing that just went through my head.  I haven't mentioned Ramon Lyriano I absolutely loved the way that dude plays. Hopefully he's in the lineup today But yeah The ace got Frankie Montes back off of his suspension with fires and if manaya shoves today That's a guy that you look at is almost a bona fide ace for them So the ace could be a real scary team Montes can't pitch in the postseason though I thought if you get suspended you're ineligible like cano was ineligible when he got suspended That that may be right. I just I know they they made a big deal of it when he came back and he pitched in one of the last regular season games, but that uh That would seem right. Yeah Well, so yeah, he's he's not on the postseason. Excuse me. So, okay, the a's are terrible. Go race All right, that ends this one. Thank you guys very much for listening. 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Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, very warm welcome to you all to members of the Zoroastrian communities, to scholars, to students, to friends. My name is Almut Hinze, I'm Satoshi's brother's professor of Zoroastrianism here at SOAS and it's my great privilege and honor to welcome you all tonight here. When we are celebrating the memory of Professor John Hinze. The department for the study of religions as today's department of religions and philosophies was known at John Hinze's time, is one of the younger departments at SOAS, yet one with a distinctive and illustrious history. Its founding head of department was the man whose memory we are celebrating tonight, Professor John Russell Hinze. He joined SOAS in 1993 to take up the chair of comparative religion and serve as head of the newly established study of religions department. Before talking a little about John Hinze's work, let me briefly say a few words about his life. John Hinze was born on the 27th of August 1941 in Derby, the only child of Lillian and William Hinze. He spent much of his childhood from the age of 16 to 13 in hospital for treatment of tuberculosis, the after effects of which have been powerful and challenging throughout his life. He then went to a secondary school, took the 13 plus exam, passed and went to Spondent Park Grammar School from 1954 to 1957, although at one point he was thrown out for tripping up people who were cruel to him about his crutches. So he had a powerful weapon. Subsequently he attended Derby District College of Art from 1957 to 1959. Although he taught art for two years, he felt inclined to become a clergyman of the Church of England and he attended the preliminary theological training college for prospective priests at St Andrews Church in Graystroke near Penrith in Cumbria that was in 1959 to 1960. He then expressed the wish to enter the monastic life and he joined the Anglican community of the Resurrection based in Merfield Monastery near Leeds in West Yorkshire. However, there he met and fell in love with his future wife, Marian Gray Spusher, who had come to visit a cousin. As a result, his plans changed dramatically. Unable and unwilling to take monastic vows, he left monastery and in 1961 he went up to King's College London to study theology and religious studies and he graduated as a Bachelor of Divinity in 1964. Marian and he were married on the 24th of July 1965 and their two sons, Mark and Duncan, who are here with us tonight, they were born in 1966 and 1968 respectively and here you can see them a few years earlier than today. At King's College London, John was fortunate to study under the guidance of eminent teachers including the New Testament scholar Professor Mona Hooker and Professor Christopher Francis Evans, while among his inspiring peers and indeed his tutorial partner was Desmond Tutu, the South African Social Rights Activist and later Anglican Archbishop, preferring academia to the priesthood. John engaged in postgraduate research at King's College and at SOAS, where under the supervision of Professor Mary Boyce, he researched the Russian influence on the Judeo-Jewish and Christian traditions. John Hinnells went on to have a distinguished academic career starting at the age of 26 as a lecturer at the University of Newcastle. In 1970 he moved on to the University of Manchester where he remained for 23 years rising to Professor of Comparative Religion in 1985. In 1993 he took up the chair of Comparative Religion at SOAS, University of London and became founding head of this new department for the study of religions. However, he left SOAS in 1997 after the painful loss of his beloved wife Marianne who had certainly died prematurely from cancer in 1996. After a year as visiting fellow at Clare Hall in Cambridge, John returned to the city of his birth and became research professor of Comparative Religion at Derby University and then he became professor of Comparative Religion at Liverpool Hope University in 2002 until his retirement. While holding his appointments at Derby and Liverpool Hope, John made Cambridge his home and became a senior member at Robinson College where he met again his former tutor of King's College Professor Mona Hooker. He enjoyed the congenial company at Robinson College as well as at Clare Hall and that of his friend Mrs Alison Houghton founding librarian of Robinson College. In 2013 John decided to sell his bungalow in Histon and moved closer to his son Mark in Oxford where he lived for the rest of his life in a bungalow set on in beautiful grounds. The move to Oxford enabled John to be closer to his two sons and their families especially his four grandchildren Eleanor and Teo and Emma and Oliver. The title of the chair which John held held at four universities in Manchester London and Liverpool, two universities Liverpool at Liverpool describes the white remit of his scholarly work. He was one of the protagonists for the non-confessional study of religions. Note the S at the end of the word religions. At the time religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam and Zoroastrianism tended to be the remit of regional departments such as South Asia and the near Middle East while Judaism and Christianity were not entirely excluded from the regional departments where predominantly studied and taught in theology and divinity departments. Such a separation of the latter two from the other religions has of course good historical reasons but Hindus promoted an approach that studies Judaism and Christianity alongside other religions. But John Hinnell's approach to education in religions was by no means confined to academia and this is why the title of this talk is the study of religions at so at so us and beyond and not as someone who was passing by here was suggesting the jobs which you can get after you have studied Zoroastrian religions. John Hinnell strove to influence the way religions are taught at schools as well as at university. If it all happened today his work would make a great impact case for our government's research excellent framework. In order to promote the work of comparative religion John set up the sharp working party on education in world religions. One of his very first publications entitled comparative religion in education from 1970 is a collection of eight papers which John edited and this work has a forward forward by Edward Short then secretary of state for education and deputy labor leader. The secretary of state emphasizes the importance of teaching a range of different religions at school and accept and promote diversity. This was a significant endorsement of the sharp perspective and it laid the basis for a profound move to a much more diverse style of teaching of religion in both schools and in higher education. One of John's colleagues at the sharp working party Peter Woodward who sadly can't speak here in person tonight sent me the following tribute where I to have just two words to portray how I see John they would be activator and humility activator in the sense that whatever he set out to achieve he first planned with care and then ensured it took place humility in the way he liaised with others to bring about what he could never have achieved just on his own. Let me give me you just three examples first the sharp working party on world religions in education was chiefly the result of John's foresight and planning. Admittedly four others shared in the organization of the first sharp conference held in April 1969 Alistair Mackenzie, Donald Butler, Owen Cole and Gordon Smith gathered with John at Leeds in 1968 to help him plan it. But it was John's links with Jeff Whatmore, tutor in extramural studies at the University of Newcastle, Pontein where John lectured that led to the shopwells hotel in the Lake District becoming the focus for this innovative gathering of some 40 folk from around the country. Jeff often used this venue for other conferences but it was John's influence that led to its being used for this one on comparative religion in education. The team of speakers John gathered led by Professor Ninian Smart by Frank Hilliard and Jeffrey Perinder shared scholarly but very down-to-earth ethos that has been typical of the working party for nearly 50 years. So John became the instigator and first secretary of the working party that had flourished and influenced developments in religious studies in the UK for 50 years. The second example is jump on four or five years to visit, to a visit paid by the gang of four sharp officers to Northern Ireland to persuade the senior directors of the new University of Ulster that they needed to create a post of a lecturer in religious education. They were successful and Dr. John Greer eventually took up the post. The weight of the voices of the universities of Lancaster and Manchester spread beyond the boundaries of the English coastland largely due to the creative insight of our two like-minded innovators Ninian Smart and John Hinnells. Completely typical of the sort of planning that John envisaged and brought to fruition sometimes on his own but equally open in cooperation with like-minded colleagues. And the third example which Peter Woodward adduces is a visit which John paid to Birmingham to pick the brains of those who created the first genuinely multi-phase RE syllables for state schools in the country. He had been asked to produce a penguin dictionary of religions published in 1984 as a guide to students and teachers who were eager to popularize the type of open RE John and others were promulgating. His willingness to seek advice from workers in the school field and to garner experience wherever he could these were symptoms of the humility that made him so welcome and popular in every creative endeavor he undertook. Much more could be said about the character of this amazing scholar, his attention to detail, his humor, his cheerfulness, his resilience but for John Woodward it was his gentle humility and the quietly purposeful way he achieved what he set out to do that appealed above all. So much the message of Peter Woodward. John retained a keen interest in the work of the SHAP Working Party right to the end of his life. It is almost iconic that Peter Woodward spoke to John on the phone just a day before John's passing on the 3rd of May 2018. Peter tells us that John was his usual bright and cheerful self though sad and by the fact that his beloved football team Manchester United were now only the second best team in the country and by the news that the SHAP Working Party was probably going to close but not before celebrating its jubilee in 2019. John's heart and soul were then as ever passionately dedicated to the organization in whose founding he was so deeply involved. The widening of the approach which John Hinnells advocated for the study of religions did not only concern the religion studied but also methodologies and topics covered. Taking a thematic approach for comparative religion by studying themes such as religion and health, religion and art, charitable giving and interface relationships. The important topic of religious violence was the focus of his collaborative work with Richard King on religion and violence in South Asia. With regard to methodology in the study of religions, John Hinnells contributed to establishing appropriate research methodology through the Routledge companion in the study of religions which he edited. This work influenced methodology in the study of migration and human biography as well as in religion. John was deeply devoted to work for the popularization of the study of religions as exemplified by a range of books which he edited especially for Penguin including the Penguin Dictionary and the Handbook of Living Religion, the Handbook of Ancient Religion, the Who Is Who of World Religions and his richly illustrated Persian mythology. He was in fact a champion of religious equality, tackling prejudice wherever he founded, not only in religion and race, campaigning for example for women priests but also in his work with the NHS and the police. His advice was also widely sought when institutions especially universities and charities such as the Ancient India and Iran Trust in Cambridge improved disabled access. In addition to championing the study of comparative religion in the widest possible sense, John's second major academic field was the study of the nowadays tiny community of the Zoroastrians. Here John undertook a journey from ancient to modern and contemporary. He started off with work on the question of the historical links between Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians and then moved into the study of Mithraism. Between 1971 and 1978 he organized three major congresses on Mithraism in Manchester, Tehran and Rome and edited the Proceedings of Two. The first international congress of Mithraic studies which was generously supported by the Imperial Pahlavi Library of Tehran was the first of its kind and marked the beginning of a new epoch in the study of the cult. Hinels brought together an impressive range of scholars from around the globe working in a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences including theology and religious studies. Latin, Greek and Iranian philology, archaeology, epigraphy and papyrology. Participants included Sir Harold Walter Bailey for whom John Hinels has always had great admiration and also great affection. He published the Proceedings in two volumes in 1975 with Manchester University Press. John Hinels' early work on Mithraism and his work on ancient Zoroastrianism helped set the base for analysis of how one religion influences another. John Hinels' work on the Parsi community is entirely groundbreaking. Here too his approach was truly global even in the literal sense. He traveled the world 250,000 miles and developed methodology up to then unprecedented in Zoroastrian studies to solicit information from members of this global community in the form of questionnaires. The Katra lectures of 1985 on Zoroastrians in Britain were a decisive moment in his career in terms of his external profile and internal confidence in himself and this monograph was complemented by his monumental Zoroastrian diaspora Religion and Migration published in 2005. In this book John Hinels tells us that Cyrus P. Mehta was the first Zoroastrian he met and that Cyrus immediately inspired in him his love for the living community. London is the home of the oldest Zoroastrian community in the western world and has one of the largest Zoroastrian population outside of India and Iran. Hinels' ties with the community were acknowledged by the Zoroastrian trust funds of Europe, ZTFE who bestowed on him the title are not friend of the ZTFE on 20th of May 2007 and Ruzi Dalal will talk a little more about John's relationship to the Parsi community in a moment. John has always made a point of cultivating good relationships with all parts of the community. Sharpoor captain the past president of the world's Zoroastrian organization also located here in London who sadly cannot be with us tonight sent me this memory. I had a close relationship with John when I was the president of ZTFE and opened all our files to him and tried to find whatever information he needed for his studies of the Parsi's. I used to visit him at his home and we spent the time discussing my work for the world's Zoroastrian organization and my work with the trustees of the Bombay Parsi Ponshired in India and we received a message from Kogyasti mystery from Mumbai addressed to John's sons and here Kogyasti writes my wife Feroza and our daughter Sharna's and I were deeply grieved on hearing of the passing away of your dear father John who was an old friend of ours. We met John in the 1980s in the residence of Adi Chinnoy with whom he was staying during his sojourn in Mumbai. He was working on his first book on the Parsi's entitled Zoroastrianism and the Parsi's and he very generously gave our institute Zoroastrian studies the right to publication in India. This book continues to be one of the best selling books owing to its clear articulation of the faith and history of its people which has made it popular overall for all ages. Over the years our friendship grew and we spent many valuable hours together discussing Zoroastrian theology contemporary Parsi issues and the future of the community. He wrote with great fondness about the Parsi's and his work filled a huge void in Parsi studies making it relevant and germane to current issues and through it academically raising the profile of our small community internationally. He worked with the Parsi community all over the world collecting information and collating facts for his books. He was a great friend of High Priest Dastur Khaikushro Jamasasa with whom he worked on several projects. Dastur Jamasasa translated large amounts of Gujarati into English to enable John to further his research. It was John Hinders eternal disappointment that he couldn't go back to Iran after the fall of the Shah and study Zoroastrianism in Iran as well as in India and the diasporas. This topic has now been taken forward by my colleague Dr. Sara Stewart who has worked with Zoroastrians in Iran over the past 10 years or so and whose forthcoming book on Zoroastrian voices of Iran will be launched here at SOAS on the 14th of November. The work of John Hinders is as profoundly important now as it was in the 1970s and he seems to have been a long way ahead of his time in anticipating how crucial it is for today's world to understand religion, migrating, migration and interfaith relations. John Hinders' research interests spanned ancient and modern and he moved on that journey throughout his Swiss career holding the academic posts I mentioned at Newcastle, Manchester, SOAS and Liverpool with a wonderful late period in Cambridge and then finally Oxford where even in his last years he was senior fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies from 2015. Throughout his career he supported many younger academic colleagues and departments in creating opportunities and helping build careers. He has always put people first and at work the care for his student was his top priority. Colleagues and friends celebrated his work with a festrift in his honour presented to him on the 11th of March 2017 at the ancient India and Iran Trust in Cambridge, an institution to which he bequeathed his collection of books. The words which John Hinders said there were and he never ever spoke ill of anyone and he was talking there of Sir Harold Bailey. John Hinders' work has also left a legacy at SOAS in the form of the Satoshi brothers chair of Zoroastrianism towards whose endowment he worked together with the late Professor Mary Boyce. It was a testimony of the high regard with which the Zoroastrian community held for his scholarly work that the TfE benefactor and patron Moved Mehraban Satoshi immediately agreed within minutes of a meeting at the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai in December 1996 to donate the seed capital to restart Zoroastrian studies at SOAS with a view to establishing the world's first in doubt chair in Zoroastrianism. The Satoshi brothers professorship in Zoroastrianism which is now in doubt with almost three million pounds of which a substantial part comes from the late Professor Mary Boyce who bequeathed her entire estate to top up the endowment of this post. It has now fallen on Sarah Stuart and myself to carry on this great legacy. We have been privileged to mount the exhibition The Everlasting Flame which was masterminded by Sarah Stuart in the Brunei gallery in 2013 and the next pictures may bring up memories to quite a few of us I think. This year was the Yasna ritual precinct with all the implements and everything which was brought over from Mumbai and with the full funding from the government of India this exhibition went then to New Delhi to be there on show in the National Museum in 2016 and here you can see a street advert of our exhibition there in Delhi The Everlasting Flame. Here you can see the opening event which was attended by many hundreds of people and it included illustrious persons such as Ratan Tata and Ratia Nadia Godrej and Feruza Godrej and also Kojasti Mistry and many others and of course also Koshita Stur the chief priest of the Zoroastrian community from Udvada. Here is the audience a few more pictures of the audience here and here you can see Lord Karan Billimoria lighting the flame together with our director Valerie Amos with the Iranians Iran's minister looking on and here the two queens of the exhibition with Kojasti Mistry but not only that a dream became true when Sharpoor Mystery after visiting the Everlasting Flame exhibition at SOAS decided to donate five million pounds to SOAS to establish the Sharpoorji Palangi Institute of Zoroastrian Studies and this institute was inaugurated this year on the 27th of June. Sharpoorji Palangi's business logo built to last now also applies to Zoroastrianism at SOAS. With a total endowment of almost eight million pounds we are hoping that the study of Zoroastrianism at SOAS is now firmly cemented and secured in perpetuity. John Hinnels was aware that this was happening and he delighted in the thought of this great development. The old his old department now houses the institute in three beautiful rooms which were refurbished especially for the institute they are located on the third floor of the main building and please do go and visit the institute when you can and also have a look at the exhibition case in the institute's administrator's office Clive Bream which shows some beautiful Zoroastrian items. The remit of the institute is threefold research teaching and outreach. The donation provides the endowment of the Sharpoorji Palangi Lectureship in Zoroastrianism held by Dr. Sara Stewart. This post complements the already existing in doubt Satoshi brother's chair in Zoroastrianism. With two in doubt posts in Zoroastrianism SOAS is now able to cover a wide range of subjects and methodologies including oral studies and minority studies as well as Zoroastrian religion and Iranian philology and linguistics. A large part of the donation in doubts postgraduate scholarships thus enabling students from around the globe to come and study Zoroastrianism at SOAS and I'm delighted that so many of our students are here tonight. Outreach activities include partnerships with other institutions and organizations, lectures and other public events and digital resources will be made available in the Sharpoorji Palangi Digital Archive. And the two first beneficiaries of the Sharpoorji Palangi scholarships are actually here tonight with us and I would like you to stand up. This is Mariano Ericiello. He is doing a PhD on the schnumists here at SOAS and he is supported by a Sharpoorji Palangi scholarship and Chiara Graci who is doing an MA in Zoroastrianism. We are very proud of our close collaboration and good relationships with Zoroastrian, with all Zoroastrian institutions and this is very very important for us. Thus through the world's Zoroastrian organization the annual Kutah Memorial lecture has been, was in doubt. The Zoroastrian Trust Funds of Europe administer scholarships endowment fund of the Satoshi brothers to enable Zoroastrian students to study their religion here at SOAS and here there you can see that the summer of 2018 was a bumper year for us with two MA students, Ervat Yazabhada and Mr. Ruzbed Haudhuala and one PhD student, Mehbud Karnizadeh, took their degrees and this was reported in the Zoroastrian newspapers such as the Jame Jamshid in Mumbai and Zoroastrian Trust Funds here in London held a special ceremony to felicitate our three students who were supported by the Satoshi funds. The current research of Dr. Stewart and myself is being showcased in the exhibition Living Zoroastrianism which we are going to open this evening. The multimedia Yasna or Muya project which is led by myself and funded by the European Research Council is designed to preserve the Yasna ritual by filming and recording a full-length performance. This was done at the only remaining Zoroastrian Priestley School in Mumbai in 2017 by our film team Anna and Remy Sova of Shwet Films with the priests Adil Bhezania and Aspaniyar Jidadachandri. We made two films, one two-dimensional in two-dimensional format and one in 360 degree virtual reality using a spherical camera while and you can have a taste have a look at this and try it out being transported into the ritual. While the VR film takes the viewer into a virtual reality experience by full immersion the two-dimensional film is going to be a multimedia experience. The viewer can read the Avestan words which the priests recite as subtitles along with their English translation while watching the film in slow movement. When clicking on a ritual implement the viewer finds an explanation of the implement and of its function and significance. We also approach the Yasna through the manuscripts. In collaboration with our project partners in Birmingham, Tuya and Munster we are developing a suite of digital tools to transcribe, collate and evaluate manuscripts for producing a multi-volume printed edition of Avestan texts of the Yasna with the translation commentary and dictionary. Muya's aim is to unlock the meaning and the function of this millennia old Zoroastrian ritual to contribute to its preservation and to enhance its understanding among scholars the Zoroastrian community and the general republic. The other project on show Dr. Stewart's audio installation draws on her project Voices from Zoroastrian Iran which maps the remaining Zoroastrian communities in Iran and looks at what has happened to their religious lives and social structures since the revolution of 1979 and the establishment of the Islamic Republic. Funded by the British Academy and the British Institute of Persian Studies between 2007 and 2011 over 300 interviews were collected from Zoroastrians living in urban centers and in the villages surrounding the city of Yazd where an ever-diminishing number still live or own property. The first volume on the project will be launched here next month on the occasion of Professor Philip Crainbrooks lecture for the Institute and which I hope you will all come to attend. In this exhibition you can listen to a few samples of lay people's views on various subjects such as fire, shrines, the avesta and prayer. Thus Zoroastrianism has been going from strengths to strengths at SARS and we are doing our best to continue the legacy of John Hinnels by being activators in gentle humility, by working together as a team and by being truthful and committed to our sources while being open to new ideas. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. It's now my pleasure to invite Ruzi Dalal to say a few words about Professor Hinnels' relationship to the Parsi community before all of us then transfer to the Brunei Gallery for the opening of the exhibition. Thank you very much Almod for giving me the opportunity of addressing this August gathering. Professor Almod Hinsel, Dr. Sarah Stewart, Mark Hinnels and Duncan Hinnels, they're there, I know that one. The SOAS organizers distinguished lecturers and professors and of course the students that would be part of the distinguished gathering we have today. My wife and I came to know Professor Hinnels like most of you, first as an academic tutor and particularly in relation to his studies, research, writings on Zoroastrianism. Today I'll refer more to Professor Hinnels' bond with the Zoroastrian community than with Zoroastrianism. There will be some repeat of what Almod Hinsel has already mentioned but if I may be allowed to say a few things about Professor Hinnels. Being a Zoroastrian myself and having been to Iran several times, I was attracted by Professor Hinnels' title book titled The Persian Mythology which Almod mentioned, 1973, which I read with great interest. I compared my own notes that I complied during my visit to Iran and somehow had the urge to meet this great personality. John Hinnels then lived in Manchester where he was a professor of comparative religion at the university. Professor Hinnels already had made his impact on the Zoroastrians living in and around Manchester whom he encouraged to group into a formal body called the Northwest Zoroastrian community, an institution that still functions today. Professor Hinnels' connections with SOAS and the academic world who brought him to London quite often and that is when our families became friends and my wife, Roshan, and I began to know them as Marion and John and of course young Mark and Duncan. We vividly remember them all with us at our board in Ealing. It was Professor Hinnels' ongoing quest for research, learning and writing that led him to the publication of his book, The Zoroastrian Diaspora, these books that Almod did mention, 1985. He had discussed with me our way of life and experience in Zanzibar where I was born. The gist of it has been illustrated in his book. He had sent me his script to read and verify some of the facts with instructions of what I could not do more than what I could do and this was a sense of his meticulous being a meticulous author. He just wanted to have his say which he did. Later on, Professor Hinnels encouraged by the ZTF, the Zoroastrian Trusts of Europe, our communal institution in London to circulate a questionnaire to members for their attitude to social, cultural, and religious lives, the response of which culminated in the publication of his book titled The Zoroastrians of Britain, 1996. Professor Hinnels along with Professor Mary Boyce were acutely aware of the overall decline in the academic research and study of Zoroastrianism. At one of his lecture tours in India, Professor Hinnels met Maraban's orthoste at the Taj in Mumbai as Almud mentioned and briefed him of the dilemma facing the few scholars here of the lack of an institution anywhere that offered academic study of Zoroastrian religion. After a brief discussion, Maraban readily agreed to provide the initial funding. I remember Maraban calling me, requiring me to set up a dialogue with SOAS to implement his readiness for the funding of such a study of Zoroastrianism at SOAS. In 1997, this culminated in SOAS' declaration by the then director, Sir John, Sir Tim Lancaster, of the commitment to re-establish the lectureship in Zoroastrian studies. Mind you, I'm talking of re-establishment knowing that the study lectures at SOAS had begun way back in 1929. During my discussions, I asked Professor Hinnels a very simple question. How many students would you need to start these studies at SOAS? Professor Hinnels blunt answer came, give me one student and we shall build an institution around it. Such was his faith and commitment to the studies here. As it happened, there was no shortage of students registering from day one. Almut Hinsel was then appointed the very first lecturer, ably assisted by Dr. Sarah Stewart, and other guest lecturers. In 2012, a second wave of the anticipated funding from the legacy of Professor Mary Boyce and the hermetic bequest came along. Almut mentioned that one. But I'm aware that that was pre-connived with the knowledge of Professor Hinnels. Then came the greatest show on earth. Again, that was mentioned. The everlasting fame flame exhibition at SOAS on Zoroastrianism in History and Imagination 2013. At one stage, lack of adequate flow of funding put doubts on the staging was such an ambition exhibition. But thanks to the bold decision of the then director Paul Webley, who declared SOAS's commitment to go ahead with the exhibition anyway. This exhibition was so successful, thanks to Almut and Sarah again, that a repeat staging of the SOAS exhibition in New Delhi was announced with the support of the Indian government 2016. Having visited the everlasting flame exhibition in London, the, I must say, billionaire Zoroastrian Sapoji Palanji Mystery, whom you saw the picture, from Mumbai recently made a handsome bequest of the total of five million pounds for establishing the Institute of Zoroastrian Studies at SOAS. Of course, I'm repeating this one, but Almut had already mentioned this one. Professor Hinels also motivated a team of activists and helping hands that included successive directors of SOAS from Sir Tim Lancaster, Professor Colin Bundy, Professor Paul Webley, and our current director Baroness, Baroness Amos, who has now taken up the baton. I know that contributions in person, because I have been involved as well. They were helping hands from, of course, Almut and Sarah and from the SOAS staff, not forgetting late Professor Mary Boyce, the late Zarsusi brothers, Merawan and Faridun, and also my, I must mention, my successive presidents of these Zoroastrian trusts of Zoroastrian, Zoroastrian Mystery, Poros Jilla, and the current illustrious president. He has not been able to be here right now, Malcolm Debo. Why I'm saying all this, is that in 1990, when the studies of Zoroastrianism was almost dormant at SOAS and elsewhere, it was Professor Hinels who, with his foresight, enthusiasm, perseverance, instigated all of us into creating something unique by planting a seed of learning that has now germinated to a fully grown tree of Zoroastrian studies at SOAS. And therefore our gratitude must extend to all of those who has strived to make a success of what Professor Hinels has initiated over the last two decades. Let me turn to the human side of Professor Hinels. Professor Hinels was very much a family man. He regularly kept in touch, not only with his family, but his fellow friends and colleagues all over the United Kingdom and abroad, informing them of his family members' successes and well-being. After moving to Cambridge, he must be missing his pals and friends elsewhere, because when he was in Oxford, he wrote to me and I quote, it is nice to be near a mark and the families, otherwise Oxford is very lonely. Best wishes, John. 19 December 2013. I have outlined Professor Hinels' contributions towards the Zoroastrian community and Zoroastrianism is totally unsurpassed. His worldwide visits, lectures, regular write-ups in Zoroastrian journals, newsletters as far away as India, Pakistan, Iran, America, Hong Kong, Australia, has enlightened the Zoroastrian communities and the others as well worldwide. Thus he was one of those who have projected the Zoroastrians on the world map. His personal connections, cooperation and friendship with two of our current and most eminent high priests, I would mention that. Namely, Lasthu Jikai Khashogh, Jamas Asa and Lasthu Feroz Kotwal, they were both so as scholars. This speaks volumes of the extent of Professor John Hinels had influenced the Zoroastrian communities. We, the Zoroastrians of the United Kingdom, recognize his contributions worldwide and with our membership of our institution, the ZTFE readily resolving and bestowing the title of the Honored Friend of Zoroastrian Trusts of Europe upon Professor Hinels. This was in 2007. In conclusion, we have set upon a march along the road to success that was charted by Professor Hinels some two decades ago. With the passing away of Professor Hinels, we have not really lost him as his legacy still remains with us. This gathering and the exhibition that is to follow now is a befitting tribute to Professor John Hinels' achievements. Let us therefore pray that John Hinels' legacies continue to guide us along this righteous path of teaching, learning and that of service forever. I thank you. Thank you very much for your words. One can almost feel John Hinels being present here and I'm sure he would have thoroughly enjoyed all this boost for Zoroastrianism which we are allowed to celebrate today. And now I would like to invite you all to go to the Brunei Gallery to see our exhibition. There is going to be a formal opening. Professor Deborah Johnson is going to open the exhibition and our two priests, Yazad and Raymond Bahadhar, two brothers, they will recite some prayers and then the exhibition will be opened and there are going to be refreshments available for everybody to enjoy. Thank you.


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In this video I'm talking about a penny stop that I think could reach $15, it's one that we've talked about before but it's also one that's had some recent breaking news where this could send the stock up even further and I think it's already starting to do that, it's actually already going up from this news and I think as long as this news continues and in terms of positive news for this company I think that it's in a sector which is just really hot right now and it's going to keep growing even more towards that $15. So we'll go through the information that I've got in this video, I've got to say I'm not a financial advisor, I am a business teacher in my daily life but I'm by no means an expert on the stock market and we'll get right into the information. If you appreciate that direct approach then do leave a like on the video. So moving on let's get right into it. The stock that we're going to be talking about, EEG, it's Orbital Energy Group, we've mentioned it on the channel before, we actually suggested this around $4, it's now set above $7, it might have a little bit of a pullback but I think in the medium to long term this is going to $15 easy in my opinion. But what do they do? Just as a quick background but then I'm going to go into the news. The news is sending this stock flying essentially. So we'll go into this. So what do they do? So they're an energy group but they cover orbital gas, power and solar and the leading in the pursuit of energy services. What I'm going to do is we get into the news, just a quick update for you to turn on notifications if you haven't already. Because we covered this stock when it was about $4 and you might have missed it in your subscription box but if you turn on the notifications you get automatically informed when we create a new video. And like we suggested this at $4 and it's above that now by a significant amount. So many of the penny stocks we've talked about, Transcendrix up a lot, AITX up a lot. There's so many of the stocks that we've talked about that are up a lot, Zemedica was up a lot, Gaxi is doing, it's interesting, it's kind of consolidating a little bit but it's still up a decent amount. But a lot of the stocks we've talked about is going up. So do turn on the notifications to be informed of that new video. I'll get right back into the information of the breaking news right now. Get into the news though because that's what you hear for us. What is this actually doing in terms of sending it flying? So the recent news has come out in terms of orbital energy, group subsidiary, Orbital Solar Services partners with Black Sunrise Half Century Fund and ACON Lighting America as exclusive EPC for North America's solar projects. Says here today announced that solely subsidiary Orbital Solar Services are leading in utility scale solar power generation facilities has been named the engineering procurement and construction EPC company of choice for the newly formed Black Sunrise Half Century Fund. This is massive news, it's not only just bringing attention to the stock, it's also a really good strategic partnership to be having here in terms of its partnering up there. So to go into this further, as announced by ACON last Wednesday at President Biden's Clean Energy for America inaugural ball, OSS is partner of ACON, ACON Lighting America and the Black Sunrise Half Century Fund to decommission coal fire power plants through the United States and convert them into utility scale solar energy farms. OSS is responsible for providing full EPC services for these solar facilities beginning in the second quarter of 2021. The Black Sunrise Fund was created in conjunction with ACON Lighting America a leading developer of clean energy projects across the globe to bring large scale solar power to North America by remediating now redundant coal facilities and converting the site into a utility scale solar farm producing clean energy over the next three years. In this, BSF expects to build over one gigawatt of solar power with a beginning investment of $725 million and ultimately, Orbital Energy Group are going to be working with them on this in terms of orbital solar here. So in a selection, OSS and Orbital Energy Group as its EPC company of choice, BSF consider OSS technical innovation and support capabilities. This includes OSS proven track record of success in executing over 40 solar projects in excess of 600 megawatts with more than 50 years combined experience in the delivery and management of both commercial and renewable energy construction projects. So what is he saying in terms of the quotes here? So we are now entering a stage of solar development in our nation. So it's very interesting this partnership, it's why the stock has shot up and you can no longer look at this as a stock what it was previously at, right? You have to base a stock's value based upon any recent news that comes out in any partnerships that are actually being forged and then that sends a stock price up and rightfully so and you've got to base that on its current price, not what its old price was maybe even two months ago. I think six or seven weeks ago this stock was trading at like $2. I thought I was late to the party when I made a video suggesting it at four and it's run up even past that it's run up to $7 around that point and just to go on a little bit about what Orbital Energy actually are a bit further. So they are a publicly traded company dedicated to maximizing shareholder value through the acquisition and development of innovative companies to create a diversified energy infrastructure service platform. OEG's group of business include Orbital Gas Systems, Power Service, Renewables, Solar Services, which is what is kind of linked with this particular partnership that's going on here and Eclipse Foundation Group, subsidiary of Orbital Foundation Service. So they were involved in a lot of different areas and what's to say we don't see any further announcements coming out in terms of partnerships in the renewable side or the power side or the gas side of what they're doing there. So we could see further partnerships but this is certainly a catalyst that has actually sent the stock up and again I think that there's a lot of more positive news to come out about this business. It's in its growth stage meaning that it's got a lot of potential to grow its revenue in the future but also in addition to that it's based upon some solid foundations the business. I mean if you look into the investor presentation you can see that they've got a really good leadership team and a good strategy in terms of where they want to build this company into the future and this extra partnership and deal with their deal doing here it adds actual more attention onto the stock more people take notice of the stock which shoots it up in that sense but also it adds potential favour resources that can help build its strategic direction as well and that's the key point is ultimately no pun intended is this stock sustainable in terms of its economic foundations and I think with an increase in partnerships and an increase in positive news and resources I think this stock is just going to be here to stay it's going to be here that's going to actually it's going to build towards much higher prices here and this is now set at $7.28 as you can see here and I think that this is when the markets open by the way when I'm making this video so it may dip a little bit bit actually okay because as a massive run up you can see the massive run up here so it may dip a little bit or it could go further but what I would certainly say is in certain certain certain confidence that I have I would say this is going to reach $15 at some point in the medium to long term without a question here because of the fundamentals of the company and this recent news I think this is going to reach $15 I really do so do take a look into this stock what I would say is in terms of getting into it if you haven't already if you haven't already if you didn't get into it when I suggested at $4 what I would do is I would wait and wait for a mini dip and then try to get into it then but I would also not put your full positioning on one trade right so maybe averaging your position over two three or four trade to the amount that you want to scale it up to that way you're building in your average cost by basis okay rather than potentially buying at the run-up and then it coming down again so just buy incrementally of a time because it is a fairly volatile stock volatile stock in terms of it being a penny stock and but again you know it's going to move out to that too it's going to move towards that $15 range I really do believe that it's really interesting company it's got a lot of aspects going for it and its fundamentals so certainly want to watch and do have a look and see what you think of this stock thanks for watching the video don't forget to leave the video like and also subscribe to the channel if you knew we cover many penny stock market videos and all sorts of different types of content so it'd be awesome if you could come join the channel and we're also trying to build towards 10,000 subscribers okay that's what we're trying to do so thanks for all the support and I'll see everybody in the next one


The federal government has hinted that all structures are being put in place to commence the auction of Niger and Benjamin. This is following the completion of automation of the mining system to meet international full standards for online mining. Minister of Mines and Steel Development, architect Olam El-Kwan-Dibbiteh, hinted this in the Buja, who was featuring at the weekly media briefing coordinated by the presidential communication team. The minister also spoke about the 2023 target of resuscitation of a Jakuta steel company. He made it clear that the delivery date is no longer feasible or into the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our plan was to deliver Jakuta this year, 2022. And I've said it before, when we came back from Russia, yes, I went to the public and said, look, we'll deliver Jakuta before the end of this tunnel. And I pray that I'll have a chance to go back and apologize and explain what happened to the people before I leave office. Yes, it's true, no fault of us. Everybody was gone. Go. We're ready to go. Unfortunately, COVID became a first major project delivery timelines. I gave you so many. I said all these six original projects will be commissioned by July. I gave you timelines. We're going to do our bitumen auction by June this year by the grace of God. What I told you before the end of the year is the cooperation between NMDC and Daikon. They produce alloy for Daikon, which they can use, and it's found it to be cheaper. But actually the funding for that operation is coming trickles. That's why I can't give you a particular timeline.


Valery Gerassimov also warned about Russia-NATO war. Moscow continues to work to resolve the most acute contradictions between Armenia and Russia, as well as to conclude a peace treaty between Baku and Yerevan, chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces. Valery Gerassimov said at a briefing for foreign military attachés. Gerassimov noted that Russia is carrying out targeted work on the political track to unblock transport communications in the South Caucasus, conclude a peace treaty between Baku and Yerevan, as well as resolve the most acute Armenian-Azabaijani contradictions. The situation in the South Caucasus remains tense, but has a steady tendency towards stabilisation, Gerassimov said. He noted that the Russian military contingent continues to carry out tasks in Karabakh. Valery Gerassimov said that the actions of the North Atlantic Alliance negatively affect the situation in Europe. There are risks of increased confrontation. The European continent has become an arena of confrontation between the West and the Russian Federation in the political and economic spheres. The accelerated integration of Sweden and Finland into the Alliance, the increase in the military presence of NATO troops in Eastern Europe, the Baltic and Black Sea regions, as well as in the Arctic, have a negative impact on the situation in Europe with prospects for increased confrontation. Gerassimov said at the same time he noted that the high intensity of operational and combat training activities carried out by NATO-allied forces remains high.


So sometimes on the weekends we'd be on the beach laying with our friends and hanging out and there would be a massive pile of trash right next to you. And a lot of the times what we saw in these piles of trash were single use plastic items. Whether it was the bag, the straw, the bottle and whether we were swimming in the ocean sometimes we'd feel these plastic bags wrapping around our legs and it really showed you know in a sense that plastic was strangling us all the time. We constantly asked you know what's someone going to do about this and I think you sometimes forget that you can be that someone. So six years ago when we began our campaign plastic bags were used widely in Bali. I remember the first few times we were like okay we don't want to plastic bags they'd look at us confused and they double bag it even. But we've come such a long way in six years. Recently we have seen definitely a change in mindset when you go to a store or a restaurant and they don't serve a plastic straw or you don't receive a plastic bag and you ask them why they respond with it's the law now you can't use a plastic bag. And unfortunately since it's only been really recently that it's been implemented we still do see a few single use plastic bags being used and so that really shows that just because these regulations and policies are now there it doesn't mean the work is finished. It means that we have to go harder to ensure that these policies and regulations are implemented and enforced properly and thoroughly. We've always had the message of saying no to plastic bags but it's also sort of become a movement that kids can do things. My sister and I started when we were 10 and 12 years old and our entire team locally and globally are all middle school students high school students or university students and so we really embody the message that kids can do things. And so naturally our next project that we're hoping to launch in the next two months is called YouthTopia where we believe empowered young people can accelerate change and so we hope to create spaces platforms and a sort of headquarters for young people to come together to create solutions and to become real world change makers.