Wowwww. This is horrendous. I was wondering WTF was going on this morning when some horrible asshole was badmouthing baseball fans for booing the president at the game, saying that some “slut” had resigned this morning. It’s definitely inappropriate to have this type of relationship with your staffer, but the smear…

Sigh.

Agree; but, how could they not identify with him?

These two idiots are the prototypical Trump supporters. They are directly negatively affected by Trump’s policies, yet the still support him. Also, you’re right, they really do see themselves as being better than other immigrants. Even though they’re criminals who add nothing of value to society and they cost…

Joe Giudice supporting Trump after having spent time in ICE detention seems a lot like Rep Steve Scalise (R-La) getting shot then affirming his stance against gun control. The mind reels trying to understand these right wingers and Trump fans.

It’s not as if many people from the hood can afford WS tickets. Those boos came from people with money.

I loved everything about this. From the boos, to the “lock him up” chants to this:

I can’t believe it has taken this long for him to appear in public.

I honestly feel like something like this will be what brings him down. Not legal issues, or ethical violations....it will be something like a crowd booing and wounding his fragile little ego that will cause him to quit and let the world know, arms crossed and lip sticking out, that he didn’t want to be president…

I realize that Trump is the poster boy for the Dunning Kruger Effect, so yes, he probably did think that he would get a rousing ovation - hell, he probably thought the bullpen was going to call and ask him to come pitchy a couple innings - but is everyone else around him so brainwashed they honestly weren’t expecting…

“That original reaction by the Astros was wrong, and we own it as an organization. There were many people involved in reviewing that, approving that, and I’m not gonna get into the details of that. It was wrong, it was the Astros’ decision.”

Calm down Ben.

This is a devastating tweet by Hazel Mae. By referring to her by her first name and that she was sitting in the room, it humanizes her, to most humans with human feelings I guess. Maybe for those still missing the point, it shifts the perception of it involving a faceless SI reporter, to an actual person being vilified…

You are very dumb and have no idea what "off the record" means.

Is it really the sleazy ivy league-ness that is the problem though? When the Yanks signed Chapman, or when the Mets re-signed Reyes, or when the Cubs got Chapman (srsly, f that guy), it was more of a low-key face-rubbing of “yeah, this is a baseball move” and “due process” “charges dropped” etc.

That’s kind of an amazing observation- I hadn’t ever compared the Crane/Lunhow Astros to Enron, but you’re right, they feel like they’re cut from the same cloth. Including Lunhow and Skilling’s McKinsey ties.

I know what they are trying to accomplish by claiming the whole front office is responsible (if everyone’s at fault no one’s at fault), and I don’t even doubt that it is true, but I don’t know if they realize what a brutal fucking indictment it is of the entire organization. The culture in the front office is such…

We all chuckled when Mark McGwire warily muttered “I’m not here to talk about the past” to Congress, but it turns out he was just ahead of his time.

I keep thinking back to how their current ballpark opened as Enron Park, and while they’ve long dissociated themselves from Enron (they had to pay $25 million to remove all the signage and rename the stadium!) but I feel like the “smartest guys in the room” legacy lives on.

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