Quick Baseball Thoughts, Rendon, Cole, Mookie, Colon & Sable

Posted: December 12, 2019 by datechguy in Uncategorized

The worst part of the off season is waiting for things to happen but here is my take on what’s currently going on.

When I heard that Anthony Rendon (who is on both my face to face and my online SABLE draft league) was picked up by the Angels my 1st thought was: It’s about time.

What the point of having arguably the best player in the game (Mike Trout) if you don’t put someone with him to give your team a chance at a pennant run? It’s sort of like the Phillies when they had Steve Carlton and nothing else except there is a reason to watch each game rather than one out of five.

Will Rendon be enough? I don’t know, after all we all remember what happened to Pablo Sandoval when he came to the RedSox.

The Yankees have signed Garret Cole to a monster contract and that to me means all is right in the world.

The Yankees are SUPPOSED to be overpaying for great players rather than building a farm system and a 9 year deal likely means they will be paying him big money when he’s got nothing left and as last year’s Red Sox team demonstrated, signing good pitchers for big contracts doesn’t mean they will not get hurt or have an off year.

Of course Cole could go all Roger Clemens or Nolan Ryan and prove to be valuable for the full time but either way I want the Yankees to be outspending my Red Sox. It’s a lot more fun to beat them that way.

Speaking of the Redsox and spending there is a lot of fuss about Mookie Betts wanting to go to the free agent market to make his fortune rather than re-sign here.

This is sad to me but hey if Mookie wants to make UnGodly money elsewhere rather than just Big money here, who am I to say otherwise? He worked hard for the right and I wish him the best. I’m just going to miss watching the best outfield the Redsox had since the days when Rice was in left, Lynn was in Center and Evans was in right.

As for trading him or not I say wait until the deadline, if it looks like we have a real shot this year then keep him for the run because the reality is you don’t get a lot of title shots (the Patriots are an aberration that has clouded the minds of Boston fans on that point) but if it becomes clear that this team is not going anywhere then if you’re going to lose him anyways I’d stock up that farm system while you can, hopefully with a few good arms because God knows we can use them.

I love this story:

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I was hoping the Redsox would sign Colon to a one year deal last year when everyone was falling apart because not only would he have eaten up innings he would have been fun to watch but given the need to preserve the illusion that they were playoff bound it didn’t happen, that being said having watched not only a bad Redsox rotation but having regularly seen the Baltimore Orioles pitching nobody is telling me that a I watched the Redsox play the Orioles a lot last year so nobody is telling me that a 46 or 47 Bartolo Colon isn’t better than a lot of guys currently on Major League Rosters.

And frankly it would be fun to have one player who pitched i the 20th century still not to mention a person who actually played for the Montreal Expos still in the game. I’m sure a non-contender with some young kids could learn a lot from this guy. It would be like carrying an extra pitching coach for free.

And you never know when a guy like Colon will surprise you, like this

The worst part about getting hurt and missing time right now is that this is the period where there is a bunch of overtime and 3 paid vacation days that I’m missing. The 2nd worst part is that it’s not during the baseball season where I could at least watch the RedSox every day.

Thank God for Dynasty League Baseball Online, between My greatest team league (1924 Senators 27-24 2nd place AL West behind 73 Oakland A’s) My worst team league (1970 White Sox 16-10 tied 1st place AL east with 2018 Orioles) and regular tournaments (just moved to a tie for 9th all time in the game) I’m getting my baseball fix.

This is a completely unpaid endorsement but if you have a baseball fan in the house a gift subscription to this game would be a gift that will keep giving for a lifetime.

Five Instant One Line Time/Greta Thoughts UPDATE Bonus Thought!

Posted: December 11, 2019 by datechguy in culture, News/opinion
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If you thought Greta was insufferable before can you imagine how she’ll be now?

This is likely the 1st time in Time’s history that a person who has actually had no impact on the world, nor is likely to, has been chosen as Person of the year.

Presuming she doesn’t know it now, the day she realizes this is all a con will be her 1st chance to actually be worthy of being named person of the year.

Alas I will likely not be alive to interview Greta in thirty years to ask her why we are all still here.

Finally nothing Confirms Impeachment as a bigger Dud than Greta Thunburg being picked by Time as Person of the Year.

UPDATE Bonus Thought:

This is the 2nd time in my life (the 1st being when Obama won the Nobel Prize) that I woke up, saw a news report and thought I was still asleep.

If Jr Did nothing wrong why does Old Joe need to restrain him?

Posted: December 11, 2019 by datechguy in Uncategorized

At Drudge this weekend there was an interesting Joe Biden headline.

Now I don’t have HBO and I didn’t see the show in question but this headline brings an obvious question.

If there was nothing funny going on with his son, why keep him on a leash?

After all if Joe Biden got very heated with a voter at the suggestion that there was anything wrong with his son and Ukraine so if all this stuff if GOP BS why is any kind of restriction needed?

You think about it Joe, I’ve got all day.

It’s Almost Showtime

Posted: December 10, 2019 by julietteochieng in Always look at the bright side of Trump, politics, war
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by baldilocks

Remember, President Trump wants the trial in the Senate to happen.

He knows that the Democrats have been after him since he announced his candidacy; they pre-conjured a reason for his impeachment, for Heaven’s sake. Therefore, he is forcing an impeachment at the time of his choosing rather than theirs.

And with formal articles of impeachment set for a House vote – likely this year – things appears to be going according to plan.

By the way, it behooves every American to review the stages of impeachment; who is supposed to do what and when. Since I like to be helpful, here you go.

The House brings charges for impeachment. The Senate holds a trial and votes to convict or acquit. The only way to remove a President, Vice President, or Article 3 judge is through impeachment. Impeachments are not tried by a jury. The rest of the process is left to the rules of Congress.

The process begins with the House. It votes on passing articles of impeachment against a member of the Executive or Judicial branches. If the articles pass, then it is said that the person has been impeached. The vote is a straight up-or-down, majority vote.

After the House votes, the impeachment goes to the Senate. There, members of the House who were advocates for impeachment become the prosecutors in the Senate trial (they are called the House Managers). The accused secures his own counsel. The judge is the Senate itself, though the presiding officer acts as the head judge. In the case of a presidential impeachment, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court presides; in other cases, the Vice President or President Pro Tem presides.

After all testimony has been heard, the Senate votes. If the Senate votes to convict by more than a two-thirds majority, the person is impeached. The person convicted is removed from office. The Senate may also prevent that person from ever holding another elective office. The Senate may set its own rules for impeachments, and the rules are not subject to judicial review. The Senate has streamlined rules for trial of impeachment for persons holding lower offices. There is no appeal in the case of conviction of impeachment.

Emphasis mine. Won’t that be interesting?

I wish I were surprised at how many people think that when the House votes on formal impeachment articles that the president must be removed from office right then and there, but I’m not. Even some of those who were around when it happened to President Clinton will not bother themselves to understand the process.

Anyway, some of my smart friends speculate that, during the trial, the defense will call only one witness: President Trump himself. If true, it’s very smart in that it will force all eyes – corporeal and digital — to be on the showman …

… the one who is holding all high cards. And the MSM will not be able to ignore it when the president reveals his hand — like they usually do with news they don’t like.

Bonus: it will be Trump versus Nancy Pelosi or Adam Schiff on the cross-examination!

I think Speaker Pelosi understands what’s coming, but she is powerless to stop the freight train. Her dimmer, less experienced charges – not to mention most of the Democrat voting public — want the president’s hide for daring to beat the anointed Hillary Clinton and they are unable to comprehend reason. This is probably why the speaker doesn’t care about being drunk on camera. I’d be frequently sloshed, too, if I were in her position.

This will be the Show of Shows.

People tell me that popcorn is high in carbs. Any suggestions for crunchy low-carb substitutes? I’m going to need them, and you will, too.

Juliette Akinyi Ochieng has been blogging since 2003 as baldilocks. Her older blog is here.  She published her first novel, Tale of the Tigers: Love is Not a Game in 2012.

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