Anybody who shows up at this White House and willingly turns their phone over to Trump’s security people is a damn fool.

I think they’re betting that, after they sell the team and the Marlins move to Vegas, the city of Miami will decide that its money is better served by forcing MLB to expand again rather than sue the new ownership of the Marlins to return to Florida.

Eventually, there’ll be a large enough data base on these strange calls that league bias in favor of certain teams will be indisputable.

Oh, NBC, please, please, please, please broadcast Heidi!

Being a Mets fan puts you automatically in Conspiracy Theory Land these days, so let me just vent my impression — no evidence — that it begins to feel like MLB is “encouraging” teams in lesser cities to move superior players to the more highly-valued teams in more important cities. This is known as the “NBA Method.”

What I’ve always enjoyed, when somebody on the bridge/quarterdeck/barcalounger shouts, “Ramming speed!” is the implication that at some space academy, somewhen, somewhere, there’s a class being taught in proper starship ramming technique, and that ship’s “Sulu” immediately adjusts the throttle to the proper speed…

Somewhere, Charles Ponzi is smiling...

Uh....uh....uh....uh...three? And a half? Point...something???

But it’s good if you want to watch a movie.

But it’s good if you want to watch a movie.

Conservatives are in bed with Trump. You are a conservative. That means you don’t get to complain when Trump is hogging the blankets.

You know, the Marlins have some exceptionally attentive fans in section B, rows 12-15, with wonderful cheering voices. What’ll they bring in a trade?

The thing is, tanking your team for five years in order to pile up huge numbers of Number One draft picks only works if, A) you make the right picks, B) most if not all of those picks pan out, and — most importantly — C) your team doesn’t overplay its expectations and no other team underplays its expectations. I’m not…

One free back rub is over the Mets’ budget. (And I say that as a fan.)

So we have the Mets and the Orioles and the Marlins on the short list of teams that — while not “rebuilding” — are definitely tanking the 2018 season and giving up on the year 106 days before opening day. Who’s next?

After reading this, I want a remake of “Train Spotting,” only with cheddar cheese addicts instead of been-there, done-that heroin.

Diet Coke with caffeine, or the decaf? If Trump is doing twelve cans of caffeine a day, he must have a sleeping pill “habit” that’s absolutely terrifying.

Moore reminds me of several guys I was friends with in high school who then went the Kampus Krusade for Kristianity route in college, would take winter break trips to Thailand and come back complaining that young Thai women were selling themselves for 25¢. I listened to three or four of their holiest-than-thou…

Did not know that. Thanks!

There were minor league teams in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Kansas City, and other cities before major league teams hit town, too.

Probably against MLB’s (unwritten) rules, but has anybody ever just flipped a baseball team? Buy the Marlins, strip them to nothing, run ‘em for a year, then sell them to a Vegas consortium for a profit of three or four hundred million. Easy money.