All the Way, But to Where

So, in England, the Yankees and Red Sox are showing the Brits how to hit home runs - uh, play baseball. If only they could show 'em how to Brexit properly, or Brexit at all. Something tells me they never will.

Show them, that is.

The field they're playing is on so short for baseball dimensions that every team is petitioning the commissioner's office for a couple of games there. Or else rebuild Ebbets Field or the old Yankee Stadium with that short rightfield porch.

Speaking of dimensions, why not hop over to the Demilitarized Zone between the Koreas for a quick handshake and chit-chat with Kim Jong-Un? Couldn't be safer, right? I mean, the guy kills his own half-brother in more public spaces.

Meanwhile, back home, Kamala Harris is making Joe Biden look like a rookie politician. Is she a courtroom tiger, or what? What a prosecutor she must have been. Maybe she won't get the Democratic presidential nomination. But would she ever cut Trump to shreds on a debate platform.

And Julian Castro is letting Beto O'Rourke know that he has to do his homework better about immigration just as Harris did to Biden about race and segregation comments.

Meanwhile, Trump is skating on all this. Or is he? He joked with and brushed off questions about telling Putin not to interfere in the 2020 elections, despite the Mueller Report findings that conclusively showed that the Russians interfered.

Mueller is going to testify before the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees, respectively, in a joint session. That's a joint session you might want to light up for.

Back in Boston, while the Sox and Yankees battle in London, the investigation into the shooting of former Sox star David Ortiz continues, acknowledging that Ortiz was the not the target, but rather the man beside an alleged known associate of a leading drug cartel.

Big Papi will eventually emerge from a Boston hospital and at-home rehab to backslap, gladhand and joke with the Boston media that reveres him and do everything but answer the question about why he was hanging with an alleged known associate of a drug cartel who was the supposed actual target of the shooting.

Hey, if it gets you in the Hall of Fame, good for you. But is there any truth to the reports that Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds are seeking drug cartel "executives" to hang out with and hitmen to shoot them while supposedly aiming at the cartel reps for sympathy toward an HoF voting in?

Oh, where have you gone Rafael Palmeiro and Mark McGwire? And Sammy Sosa?

Run, Run, Run .. But for the Right Position

Twenty-three Democratic presidential candidates and good on 'em. So many females, so many minorities. This is good for America.

But they're not all going to win, so here's a novel thought.

In 2018 you took back the House. Now in 2020, take back the Senate. Hey presidential candidate John Hickenlooper in Colorado, you can beat Republican Cory Gardner for that Senate seat. Hey presidential candidate Steve Bullock in Montana, a Red State, you can beat Steve Daines. Hey Beto O'Rourke in Texas, you damn near beat Ted Cruz - which means you could beat John Cornyn. And if you won't, hey, Julian Castro of Texas, you can.

Stacy Abrams, I know you are not formally running for president and what a great running mate you'd make for whoever gets the nomination after having the Georgia governorship stolen from you, but don't you think you could beat David Perdue for his Senate seat?

And Michael Bennett in Colorado, hold onto your Senate seat.

If most of that let alone all of that comes to pass, you take back the Senate, no matter who wins the presidential election. If Trump gets re-elected, and he could, all of you are laying tracks now for a run for the seat in 2024 against Paul ("I'm baaaack") Ryan of Wisconsin, who would love to be back in office, any office, with Trump out of the way to constrict him.

Now that's just my take. But, hey, Democrats, take it back and start running the country sensibly again with the pride you have long earned with the American people and around the world.

Speaking of running, saw Kyle Schwarber of the Cubs steal a base the other day. Yikes. And Todd Gurley might not be running as much for the Rams if his injury is as bad as we're being lead to believe. Pay attention to that, fantasy footballers.

Still trying to figure out why the NY Giants think Golden Tate is a better option at wide receiver than Odell Beckham Jr. and why Daniel Jones is a better prospect to groom at quarterback behind Eli than Dwayne Haskins. but they do, although I don't believe OBJ will be missed in the locker room.

Meanwhile, how are the Toronto Raptors doing this? Yeah, I know there's no Kevin Durant while Klay Thompson and Kevon Looney are playing through injuries, But the Raptors have been the better team, period. And Kawhi Leonard and Kyle Lowry have been playing through injuries of their own (let alone insults, in Lowry's case).

Major League Baseball is on pace to set a single-season record for home runs this year, by a long shot. Do you get the feeling that MLB chemical guys are working overtime in MLB clubhouses "collecting samples?"

Tune in today, by the way. I fill in for dear friend Sharon Lynn Kelley at 6 p.m. Central on Radio Free Phoenix and then do my own gig, as usual, at 11 p.m. Central. And of course, you never know who gets a shout-out on my shows. Maybe you.