So you’re pretending Trump is the smart one in that match up? Does the pro-Trump troll gig pay well?

Posey won the Academic All-American of the Year award when he graduated from FSU. No dummy.

Come on. The bone spur excuse to let Pence take over was funny.

Einstein is quoted as suggesting a way to stretch time:

The rules of various sports are vague or applied loosely, and baseball more than most. Technically it doesn’t look like that was a legal pitch. The pitcher’s pivot foot left the rubber and it appears he stepped toward home before releasing the ball. But that’s almost never called. In the end it’s not a reviewable…

Batter can’t step out of the box during a pitch unless it’s to avoid being hit or in the process of swinging the bat. If he’d waited until the catcher was throwing the ball back to the pitcher he could have taken a practice swing while in the box or stepped out. The problem was he swung before the pitch reached the…

As Obama was reported to sometimes ask his staff, “Who thought this was a good idea?”

You’ve merely responded with party line generalizations used to justify lowering taxes on the rich and serving the financial interests of corporations, with no evidence to back up those assertions. You’re right about different philosophies, and I would add different values and morality. Hard to see at this point…

Sounds good, but are you quoting the actual rule book or just making that up? The rule I quoted says the pitch must be “struck at by the batter”. Did it look to you like that batter “struck at” that pitch?

I’m unconvinced. What I see is he just stops and slumps, then starts to take what looks like a practice swing, but checks again, before realizing “oh why not, just follow through with a practice stroke”. It’s like he has a quick succession of conflicting thoughts, none of which are related to hitting the ball or…

The ball is always live unless an ump calls a timeout. Runners can try to advance at any time except a timeout, no tag up required. Catcher did what he should, ump ruled it a 3rd strike, catcher didn’t have control of the ball, so batter could very well have taken off to 1st, and at that point the catcher had to tag…

Good point. If the ball had been thrown harder, past the catcher, the batter could have swung the bat to force a 3rd strike and taken off to 1st. However, that obviously wasn’t his intention on this play. It’s also true that the pitcher didn’t mean to throw the ball, sort of like a checked throw that slipped out of…

Interesting point. The rule says:

Education: We don’t have equality at the college level, but perhaps we should. The current college reality is not a justification for denying children an equal opportunity to have the best early education we can devise, for everyone. Inequality at the college level is no excuse for segregated public schools, which…

There’s an early stage of falling asleep I’ve experienced numerous times where my whole body feels like electricity is buzzing through it in sporadic waves. I’m not aware of my surroundings, do have sleep paralysis, but am fully conscious. I nearly always feel like I’m floating sometimes at an angle or turned over,…

Well, there goes my weekend, won’t be able to sleep a wink from despair...

Aggregate poll rating is about 39%. Still way too high, but not close to 48%.

There needs to be a travel ban on Trump. We pay for his weekly golfing trips, and those “please love me” pep rallies, and now this embarrassing trip abroad. Lock him in a room until the impeachment is done, and take away that Twitter phone.

What an amazing sequence of dick moves. Impatiently shove the Prime Minister of Montenegro out of his way, assume a look of “who are these peons around the great me” while snapping his coat, pointedly ignore the offer of a hand shake from the President of Lithuania, point at the offending lady while saying something…

Tried watching a game on ESPN and had to turn the sound off. Non-stop wall-to-wall Ross commercial. Every ten minutes or so they’d take a second to nod to the game on the field, then back to Rossmania. Don’t know if that kind of BS broadcasting is the cause or a symptom of the networks financial decline. Wasn’t…