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And when Joe DiMaggio was in his late 50s, I saw him hit a long double off the left-field wall at the old Yankee Stadium in an Old Timers’ Game — more than 400 feet away.

Wasn’t there a story that when Sandy Koufax was 60+, he was still able to get it up to 90 when he used to go to spring training with the Dodgers?

Nope. Used to be, but is now in favor. I don’t give her much, but I give her that.

Don’t be so sure. More and more federal courts have ruled in the last decade that discrimination agains trans people — and, in the last few years, discrimination against recently, gay people — constitutes discrimination on the grounds of sex and, therefore, is barred by Title VII.

Sort of like the Confederacy whined about states’ rights, but made sure to provide in their Constitution that no individual Confederate State had the power to ban slavery.

Don’t be so damn sure. Look what happened in Indiana. This is way bigger than same-sex marriage.

But didn’t you know trans women who are able to pee standing up always make a point of leaving the stall door open so everyone can watch them do so?

I transitioned almost 11 years ago, and have yet to see another (trans or cis) woman’s genitals in a women’s bathroom. Nor has anyone seen mine. Either before or after I had surgery. News bulletin: generally speaking, women don’t pull down their pants before entering a stall.

It’s just a shorthand way of saying “not transgender.” Like “straight” = “not gay.” You’re making way too much of it.

Oh, great. A trans woman. Another chance for bigots — from Trump supporters to the religious right to TERFS and TEFS — to vilify all trans women for what one trans woman did. “More proof that trans women are really just violent, deranged men!!!” Unfortunately, we’re still at the stage of political development as a

And all these people who vilify Hillary as having an insufficiently liberal history forget that Elizabeth Warren was a Republican until 1995!

I think it’s rather puzzling the way some Bernie supporters vilify Hillary for having been for Goldwater in 1964 — even though she was 16 years old, and was campaigning for Eugene McCarthy by the end of 1967 — but are all for Elizabeth Warren, even though she was a Republican (and voted Republican) until 1995.

Honestly, what she hated most was the British habit of eating almost-raw, bloody meat. And she missed her mother’s spaetzle.

Do you even know when the war and rationing started? I said December 1938, not 1939! That was my entire point — that her experience began prewar, and she disliked the food just as much then as afterwards. Besides, I was in England for a few weeks in 1986, and didn’t like any of the food other than Indian food. It was

I don’t know about that — my mother (from Berlin) was a refugee in London as of December 1938, and she passionately hated British food for the entire five years she was in England.

I remember the first time I took a plane flight, to Miami in the 60s, when I was 9 — and got a free pack of cigarettes with my meal tray, just like everyone else.

I was following baseball before you were born. I went to my first major league game in 1967. You’ve never heard of organizational players sticking around in the minors for years, even if they’re non-prospects? Which there’s no indication he was? You’re not only a bigot, you’re an ignorant one. Almost nobody “achieves

Perhaps that’s why Mike Mussina (who graduated from Stanford) always had the reputation when he was with the Yankees of not being popular with his teammates, and talking down to reporters.

You don’t know much about minor league baseball, do you? Apart from being a bigot.

Yes, but a lot of mediocre players (compared to major leaguers) play for years and years in the minors without having to quit because they’re non-prospects. They’re often called “organizational players.” There’s no reason to believe he couldn’t have stuck around a while if he hadn’t felt it necessary to quit because