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Prime Minister Jim Hacker: If there were a conflict of interests which side is the civil service really on?

Private Secretary Bernard Wooley: The winning side Prime Minister.

Yes Prime Minister: A Real Partnership 1986

At Twitchy they had a story on CNN actually giving Terry McAuliffe some solid questions and even ridiculing his obsession with Donald Trump

This tells you one important thing.

It tells me that CNN thinks that McAuliffe is likely not going to be able to sell himself to Virginia votes and that CNN sees no percentage in propping him up.

Now in fairness McAuliffe doesn’t have to sell himself to the voters in a Democrat leaning state he simply has to sell himself to the people who count the votes and the judges who protect him, but when you’ve lost CNN…

The season has started in the 1969 draft league and other than the opening series between the Dodgers and Giants all team have played at least one series, some have finished two and I was curious how the 1st round draft picks of each team have done so far.

9 Position players and 7 pitchers were taken in the 1st round

Here are their current stats

Player	Team	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	AVG	OBP	SLG	OBS
Rico Petrocelli	NYY	6	24	2	4			1	1		4			.167	.167	.292	.458
Willie McCovey	LAD	6	19	3	6	1			1	7	2			.316	.500	.368	.868
Harmon Killebrew	Cle	5	15	9	8			3	7	5	2			.533	,650	1.133	1,783
Carl Yazstremski	Mont	3	8	2	2					2	1			.250	.400	.250	.650
Pete Rose	Sea	6	25	5	10	1	2	1	5	2	2			.400	.444	.720	1,164
Frank Howard	Wash	6	19	7	10			5	9	6	1			.526	.667	1.316	1.982
Curt Flood	StL	5	19	4	5	1	1		4	1	1			.263	.333	.421	.754
Joe Morgan	Min	5	15		1					1	3			.067	.125	.067	.192

Clearly Rose and Howard and Killebrew are ruling the roost at this point but so far Joe Morgan is not living up to his potential.

As for the Pitchers…

Pitcher	Team	G	GS	CG	W	L	PCT	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	BA	WHIP	ERA
Jim Palmer	SF	0
Andy Messersmith	Balt	2	2	1	1	1	.500			15	12	8	8	4	5	13	.214	1.13	4.80
Phil Niekro	CSox	2	2	1	0	2	.000			16	20	5	4	1	3	7	.303	1.44	2.25
Steve Carlton	NYM	1	1							7	6	4	1	1	1	4	.207	1.00	1.29
Jerry Koosman	Oak	1	1		0	1	.000			5	6	6	6	1	3	4	.286	1.80	10.80
Ferguson Jenkins	Atl	1	1		0	1	.000			5	9	5	3		3	5	.391	2,40	5.40
Gaylord Perry	Pit	1	1							5	7	3	3	1	1	4	.318	1.60	5.40

Amazingly the pitchers taken in the 1st round are a combined 1-5 in seven starts. Only Niekro and Carlton have ERA’s that are respectable and three pitchers (Niekro, Perry and Jenkins) are all allowing batters to hit over .300 against them. Presumably over the course of the season these numbers will improve.

Now there were 16 players on the various rosters before the 1st round of the draft. Each team was allowed to keep one player from their franchise before the draft. Ten Batter and six pitchers were kept. So how have they done?

Player	Team	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	AVG	OBP	SLG	OBS
Bobby Bonds	SF	3	11	2	2			1	1	2	2	1		.182	.308	.455	.763
Rusty Staub	Mont	3	9	3	3					2	1			.333	.455	.333	.788
Boog Powell	Balt	6	25	4	7				1	4	3			.280	,379	.280	.659
Tommy Harper	Sea	6	23	6	6			1	3	3	4	1	1	.261	.346	.381	.737
Reggie Jackson	Oak	6	19	1	5	2	1		1	5	7			.263	.440	.474	.914
Hank Aaron	Atl	3	10	2	2			1	3	3	3			.200	.357	.250	.607
Ed Brinkman	Wash	6	24	1	8	1		1	5	1	2		1	.333	.360	.500	.860
Roberto Clemente	Pit	3	10	1	3				1	4	1			.300	.500	.300	.800
Rod Carew	Twins	6	21	3	5				1	3	3	2		.238	.269	.240	.509

It’s worth noting that Even though Eddie Brinkman is clearly doing best with Harper and Jackson as honorable mentions he was primarily drafted for his defense. Here are his stats at SS

Player	Team	Pos	G	GS	Inn	Total chances	PO	A	E	DP	FPCT	Range Factor
Ed Brinkman	Wash	SS	6	6	53	37	14	23	0	5	1.000	6,28

Not too shabby at all.

As for the six pitchers

Pitcher	Team	G	GS	CG	W	L	PCT	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	BA	WHIP	ERA
Fritz Peterson	NYY	1	1	1	1	0	1.000			9	3	1	1	1	2	5	.100	0.56	1.00
Don Sutton	LA
Sam McDowell	Cle	2	2	1	1	1	.500			14 2/3	19	5	5		2	14	.322	1.43	3.07
Tommy John	CSox	1	1		1	0	1.000			5	8	2	2	1	4	2	.364	2.40	3.60
Tom Seaver	NYM	1	1	1	1	0	1.000			9	3				7	4	.257	1.78	0.00
Bob Gibson	StL	2	2	1	1	1	.500			17	10	5	5	1	3	14	.169	0.76	2.65

This is the opposite of the 1st round picks with almost every starter with a win under his belt a combined 5-2.

As a general rule if I see a story at Hotair authored by Allahpundit I tend to pass it by, but this caught my eye because it touches on something that I’ve been talking about for a while. After looking at the piece as usual it wasn’t worth my time but the basic point that President Trump made concerning the Trust of the Biden administration is worth touching on.

Both the Biden Administration and their sycophants in the media and big tech have been pushing the vaccine to the nth degree and doing their best to demonize and/or punish anyone in the nation who dare defy their demand to receive said vaccine.

That alone is reason enough to be suspicious but there are two facts here that should be pointed out.

1. The reason we have these vaccines at all is because of the Actions of the Trump administation to speed up their development and suspend the norms usually followed for vaccines: (Remember Kamala Harris’ very public statement that she would not take a “Trump” Vaccine?)
2. The fact that Donald Trump was president when the vaccine was released and that Joe Biden is president as the Vaccine is being pushed has no bearing on if the Vaccine safe or effective.

The vaccine doesn’t care who is president, whether or not it’s effective or has side effects, short or long term. The vaccines are what they are for good or ill, only the messaging is different.

I guarantee you that if Trump was in office there would be no shortages of media stories questioning the numbers and even the slightest side effect would be front page news.

That we have reached this point is an indictment of us as a society.

John Bernard Books: What good’s your assurance when my veins are filled with your damn juice?

The Shootist 1975

According to this data via the the VAERS website the COVID 19 vaccines have caused more, life threating events, more permanent disabilities and more direct deaths than all other vaccines combined since 1990.

Furthermore the number of adverse reactions to all other vaccines since 1990 is 824K vs 778k for COVID.

And of course these numbers only count stuff that has been reported and we have reason to believe that these numbers are low

Doctor reveals how the FDA and CDC are hiding the truth on Covid Vaccines.pic.twitter.com/fWdmfVWuuT

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) October 8, 2021

If a batch of Hamburg had reported 1/10 of the side effects these virus had it would be recalled and the lawsuits would be legendary.

Eventually another administration will be in power and all of this will come out. I presume when it does (and particularly if it’s led by Donald Trump) the media & the tech companies that censor this data will suddenly discover it newsworthy and the vaccines will suddenly become the “Trump” Vaccines.

#Unexpectedly of course

Update: One argument I’ve heard from people concerning this stuff is that there have been few immediate side effects from the vaccines (and given these figures 500K adverse reactions out of 150 Mil people vaccinated in the US comes to .3% and that’s a fair point to be made and even the 7,347 deaths and 8,628 disabilities amount to only 15,975 people or .01% of the population ) so the math is still very much in your favor but there are three things I would point out.

1. The actual odds of dying from COVID are also less than 1% for everyone except those in the highest risk ranges
2. A person who has already had COVID would already have antibodies against the disease which would decrease these odds even further.
3. Those figures above represent only the immediate side effects, we don’t know the long term effects that might result. Under a standard that only considers immediate effects for one year afterwards Cigarette Smoking would be consider a safe and harmless recreational activity.

This is not to say that some, indeed many may consider this an acceptable risk and I have no problem with those who have and those who choose to play these odds.

But I submit and suggest that nobody should be forced to play them

(added the John Wayne quote from the shootist)