It’s not a justification, but I wonder if on the first pitch, either the pitcher or the catcher made a remark about that call, and so this one was payback.

As a lifelong Mets fan, I wish I didn’t completely agree with you.

Ghosts playing the piano have been done.

For a man who formerly was a combat general in the Marines, Kelly comes across as incredibly weak, almost spineless. Can’t help but wonder if Russian intelligence has film of his escapades, too.

One of my favorite films. And the thing about the happy ending (which I love) is that I can’t actually picture these two living a long, happy life together. I think she’d give it her best -- after all, she’d never been married to a writer before! -- but I think in a year or three, she’d start looking toward the…

It is...odd...that that’s the first insult to come to Musk’s mind. Hope it’s not a tell.

A complete nonentity Congressman like Jordan, and there’s a world-spanning conspiracy to get him? Right.

I had pancakes & maple syrup and sausages on a plane once. It was the 70s.

Bully!

When I’m faced with neo-Confederate who spouts the “Most southerners didn’t own slaves” bit, I point out that southerners who didn’t own slaves could still rent slaves at planting time or harvest time, or work-I-don’t-feel-like-doing time. Most of the big slaveowners liked to pick up a bit of extra cash by keeping…

In other words, it’s the ESPN line that Trout must be traded (for nothing) to either the Yankees or to the Red Sox or to both (the King Solomon Solution), because every other team is supposed to be the Washington Generals.

This guy would’ve made a wonderful character on “Community.” Until he was replaced by someone with actual talent, of course.

“Mar-Vell, the original Captain Marvel in the comics...” Except for the original Captain Marvel, of course, who seems to have become He Who Is Not To Be Mentioned.

There was a brief period in the 70s, I think, when the desk-clear was accomplished by lifting one end of the desk and letting everything fall to the floor. This was replaced by the arm-sweep, probably because the desk-lift was frequently accompanied by lower-back pain.

Actually, I suspect the Mets are exactly as the Wilpons want them to be. There is so much money flowing into baseball these days, it is probably far more profitable to own a non-competitive team than one that is riding near the top of its league. And the Wilpons are much more about the money than they are about…

Eventually, Trump will want two-tiered citizenship: Model A with voting and no taxes, and Model B with no voting but plenty of taxes. Model A, of course, will be chiefly reserved for straight white men with lots of money, the mythical job-creators, who think “correctly” and would never dream of stepping out of line.

If these guys have any friends (dubious), somebody really needs to get them laid...

He didn’t know he wasn’t a Knowledge Officer?

You realize you just defined Donald Trump and every single evangelical preacher in the US of A, right?

Got into a fight — more accurately termed a “got punched three times in the face and fell down” — in 7th grade because I wouldn’t swap seats in music class.