Saturday, June 29, 2019

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?


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