“I can put you in contact with someone who would release it,” the text message said. “It might make you feel better.”

This is what happens when you outsource and buy cheap speeches from Russia.

I didn’t know it was even possible for a skinny white male actor to put on the stovepipe hat and the beard without looking at least vaguely like Abraham Lincoln, but Mr Taylor has achieved that dubious Raspberry. I’m six inches shorter and seventy pounds heavier and I don’t have a beard and I look more Lincolnesque…

“(Bad) luck is the residue of (bad) design.” -- Branch Rickey.

And that’s the best “taking off the jacket for the fight” scene in years.

Little known mathematical fact: In dating, a 36-year old woman is older than a man who is 25. But a 36-year old man is the same age as a woman who is 25. Math is wonderful!

It’s like the Nationals are very much aware they’re playing an exhibition game against a Little League team.

The advantage of being a Mets fans is that, when this team falls behind by six in the first, your evening opens wide with myriad possibilities, because there is no chance this Mets team comes back from six down, and you can turn off the radio. (And I am SO glad I didn’t waste my money on buying Mets-TV.)

The problem with the Nats plan, as I see it, is that I don’t see Harper coming back to Washington. I’m guessing that he’ll be a Philly next year, as they have the cash on hand to outbid just about everybody and most of the other big money teams are trying to stay under the magic tax line.

For all that he’s held to be the second- or third- or whatever-best player in baseball, Harper is beginning to remind me of Dale Murphy. I don’t think he’s going to age well, and I suspect that in a couple of decades, people will look back at his career and wonder what all the fuss was about.

In his defense, Jones would need three CAT-scanners and a crack team of cardiologists from the Mayo Clinic to find his heart.

This was commonly observed back in sf novels back in the 60s & 70s, so much so that one writer -- Isaac Asimov, perhaps? -- suggested that in order to remedy this, all men after sex should shout, “Screw you, Philip K. Dick, I feel great!”

“...I have never misused my position to harm or hinder anyone’s career.”

Going OT here, but my personal and admittedly idiosyncratic feeling is that, if you make the wild card and lose that one-game playoff, you shouldn’t be allowed to count it as a post-season appearance. :)

Did not know that about the Pirates. Thanks for the info!

What form would you like this proof to take?

Wright has been hurt, his baseball career clearly done, since 2016. Harvey hasn’t been a dominant pitcher, hasn’t won as many as six games in a season, since 2015. The people in charge -- which would be the Wilpons -- counting on players already injured to the point of irrelevancy is incompetence. And dumb.

Branch Rickey is credited with saying, “Luck is the residue of design.” While most people take this to be an assessment of how good luck comes your way, it applies to bad luck, too. When an organization has as much “bad luck” as the Mets have had under the Wilpons, it truly does come back to ownership that is more…

Sanchez is the second “Better than Johnny Bench!” catcher the Yankees have, uh, “developed,” in the past decade or so. The first was exiled to Seattle and then vanished from the face of the Earth, and Sanchez seems to be fated to abandon the tools of ignorance sooner rather than later. I know that eras of good…

How dare people other than you hold opinions other than yours? The nerve!