I set this up yesterday, love it already. A great feature, for both safety and sanity.

With that off-balance swing, all his weight on his front leg, your batter is — at best — going to ground out weakly to second. He might be horny, but he’s not going to get the job done.

In the wise words of Victor Gianelli, “Pass.”

I think it’s the management “gentleman’s agreement” that you cover up previous management’s catastrophic mistakes in the expectation that your successor will cover up your catastrophic mistakes. And so everybody keeps their big money. Except the employees and the customers, of course, since they’re the scum of the…

So Trump is okay with the idea of killing twenty-five million people. Good to know.

You’d think Harvey would be the one going to the team and asking to be sent back to the minors so he can pitch and pitch and pitch until his arm strength and his confidence return. That the Mets don’t suggest this is understandable — they’re paying him and that’s not the bottom line, it’s the only line.

The Mets seem to have adopted a purely corporate mentality, that players are interchangeable cogs who are in no sense human beings or anything along that line. And for a guy who every sportswriter in the world claims to be a heckuva nice fellow, Collins seems to have incredibly little empathy for the players who work…

Help!

I didn’t realize that the Vikings had hired the Mets’ medical staff.

“The first rule to cool,” said Mr Fonzarelli, “is if somebody like you thinks they can hire somebody like me...you’re not cool.”

Good info; answering the questions I didn’t really know enough to ask. Thank you!

How come none of these rich old white men who desperately admire these statues have offered to buy them and ship them (at their own expense) to their house/estate/island/condo/hovel? I mean...does heritage mean nothing to these goobers?

I wondered why drones aren’t used for this kind of risky business, but I’m guessing that any plane that goes in needs a certain amount of mass to retain any stability at all. And perhaps radio-controlled drones aren’t up to the job yet.

I don’t know for sure, but I’d be astonished if there wasn’t considerable overlap. Terrifying: yes.

Mets fan since ‘71, and I totally agree with you. Not sure I can work up any enthusiasm for 2018, either.

I know. I was at Target Field when he pitched one helluva game against the Twins. It seems so far back now, somebody could tell me Tug McGraw finished out the ninth and I’d have to consider whether I believed that or not.

There’s a small but powerful subset of extremely “christian” police who believe that they are they chosen by god to be the shepherds of society. Which makes the rest of us sheep, of course. And nobody is supposed to mind if the shepherd shears a few sheep for his own profit or kills a sheep when he’s hungry.

So if CC is facing a hitter who can’t hit a curve ball, he’s going to do the right and honorable thing and throw nothing but fastballs, right? This is mighty bold talk for a team that’s only won a single solitary World Series in this century.

Veni. Vidi. I changed the channel.

Beautifully played.