Jim Cowan

I agree 100%. Based on his facial appearance he has an excellent chance to succeed. However I can't say that I am pleased that they might offer a contract to Samuel Gil. There is no place on this baseball team for anyone whose surname is Gil. Research all of the players in baseball history whose surname is Gil and you will find that their collective OPS+ is 59. So, I'm putting a stop to this right now.

Brexit caused supply chain issues, which caused inflation. Johnson gets blamed for that. And inflation is worthwhile if Brexit keeps brown immigrants out, which is its only purpose.

I never liked it either, I think it's stupid, but using the same rules makes sense.

They say this kid Novak Djokovic might have some upside.

Absolutely the deader ball would restore the game and, I think, reduce pitching injuries. Pitchers always did get hurt and disappear, Les Cain comes to mind and Mark Fidrych too, but I think that sports medicine is so much more sophisticated today that their careers might be salvaged. And analysis of kinesiology and the throwing motion is far more advanced too, perhaps their injuries could have been averted.

I wish I could hear more news about Novak Djokovic.

Tony Fernandez, so brilliant, an MVP candidate during his mid-1980's peak years. And then at the ages of 36 and 37 he produced his two finest offensive seasons.

Well you aren't from Dartmouth. (I know, it's not really a top Ivy League school. Shh).

There was a DJ on WKBW in Buffalo, stage name Stan Roberts, who referred to horseradish as "Jewish Dristan". He could get away with it, being Jewish.

You're welcome! You're right next door for Pete's sake, pretty hard to ignore, and an extremely negative influence on the number of illegal guns in this country. If one has to be a citizen of a country in order to criticize it, let me know when you become Chinese.

Just go back to the ball that was used in the mid 1980's (not 1987). All the other problems, including the shift, are solved.

I know that people are sick of the comparisons to the later years of the Weimar Republic but some of the similarities really are quite striking.

Right so the son is in his early teens, and the grandson is 4. Is the son Jim Adduci?

Lol

I like to follow it, but I can't put 3 hours into watching it. Which is moot, because I pulled out my cable 10 years ago so I can't watch it anyway. The best for me was always Sunday afternoon on the radio, washing the car, listening to Tom Cheek call a Blue Jays game.

Even his name sounded like some sort of insect.

Poor Higginson, he was on the 1996 team and the 2003 team, they were just awful. In 1996 he was an excellent player, but was washed up in 2003. Brian Williams led that '96 staff in innings with 121. His WHIP was 1.901. I just read the entire '96 roster on b-ref...memory lane! Especially if you were an avid reader of The Sporting News.

Thanks for that. So it seems that the US government might get an assist on Moderna, but had no connection to vaccine development at Pfizer, Johnson and Johnson, or Astra Zeneca. Which is a long, long way from "let's give Trump proper credit for the vaccines".

Just to add a comment to the idea that Trump is not responsible for unnecessary deaths, he most certainly is. Americans die from Covid at a rate that is more than 3 times that of Canadians, which amounts to 600,000 unnecessary deaths so far. He spent most of 2020 mocking people for wearing masks and telling his idiot throng that "it's a flu", turning mask resistance and, by extension, anti-vaxxing into a MAGA core value. He directly killed the guy, was it in Denver?, who drank the aquarium cleaner after Trump said hydroxy was a cure. So let's not hear any more about "we'll never know how many Americans would have died under a different presidency", of course we will. Divide the eventual total by 3.

Here is a serious question, about something about which I have no information. I keep reading that Trump should get credit for the vaccines, and I want to know why. It is was my understanding that the US government did not give any money to the companies that developed the vaccines, and that "Operation Warp Speed" would spend some taxpayer money on vaccine distribution. Is that not correct?

He always denied it I think. Just good old-fashioned weightlifting.

The A's wanted to get a bit more handsome.

Good man! Resist the praw-cess!

Without looking anything up it seems like Brocail arrived here twice and possibly Ausmus too.

I had an aunt who would have happily killed someone to get that Rocky Colavito card. He was the major heartthrob of the 1950s for female fans.