Speaking as a Mets fan, the ONLY way this makes sense is if the Mets are about to trade Jacob DeGrom and need a stable pitcher to take his place in the rotation. That said...I don’t think our GM has the guts -- or the permission from the Wilpons -- to make that trade.

Mets fan since ‘71, listened to the game today, and when Frazier hit his two-run home run in the 9th, I felt absolutely nothing. Not because it wasn’t a splendid moment, but because I knew — the way Spock knows that when he drops a hammer on a positive-gravity planet, he doesn’t have to see it fall to know that it has…

$1 per bag for the bellhop was standard when I was working in US hotels back in the early 80s. Seems like a minimum like that should be off the table by now. Not saying it isn’t. Just saying it should be.

If Trump is personally serving food to me without my personally viewing him personally washing his personal hands for at least a quarter hour first, I wouldn’t even touch the plate.

And what this “means” is that, on Trump’s pre-presidential trips to Saudi Arabia, Saudi intelligence got fully as much blackmail material on him as did the Russians. Between money and sexual blackmail, both those states have Trump on a short, tight leash.

One of the many subtleties Trump is missing here is, when you put the murder of your enemies on the political table, you’re putting yourself on that table, too.

But never on Sunday...

Going OT here: The Minneapolis Institute of Art is currently hosting “Egypt’s Sunken Cities.” These relics are chiefly from Egypt’s Ptolemaic period, but they are none the less fascinating. Runs through April, and if you’ve had only limited chances to see the glory of Egypt in person, as have I, it’s absolutely…

Considering Rome wouldn’t be (officially) founded for seven hundred years after her death, I think we should cut Hatshepsut some slack on that one...

“Rusty Trawler” lives, and likely has no more money of his own than had the original.

OMG...but what if they are?

I think a domed stadium is a given. And tourists leaving the casinos to spend money in the stadium are spending money. If Vegas didn’t think a sports team would bring in money, they wouldn’t have spent years in the quest of an NFL team.

I think Vegas is a given, because it wouldn’t be getting a team for the city or the citizens, but for the tourist dollar. They could field a barely competitive team and probably still draw three million a year from tourists who’d like to catch a game or two while they’re in town.

“Instead of hanging out at the drive-in...”

“As soon as possible.” 

This’d make a helluva good tv series on HBO. 

Breakheart Pass (1975). A solid Alistair MacLean suspense western, but the fight between Charles Bronson and Archie Moore on the roof of a snow-covered railroad car is top-notch.

Absolutely right. Also, most drivers — all drivers? — seem to be hardwired so that we see what we expect to see on highways, so anything out of the ordinary, such as a car driving the wrong way on your side of the road, a pedestrian walking around on the highway, a tire rolling down the pavement, take a definitely…

Your typical American nazi’s second-favorite fantasy — coming right after the one that Taylor Swift could really, really like them, if she’d just give them a chance — is that they’re cool and calm and logical and unemotional and rational and keep their heads no matter how difficult the situation. And they never quite…

Pence is out there making the bizarre claim that the 14th Amendment has never been “tested” by the Supreme Court, which I believe is not in the court’s purview. The look on his face clearly says that even he knows his mouth is more full of trumpshit than usual.