Well, come to find out, even though Trump constantly says he was great at high school baseball and could have gone pro … no.  Not even close.

In fact, he was pretty much the kid they picked last for the team.

Slate has managed to unearth nine box scores from Trump’s time at New York Military Academy, which showed a four-for-29 batting record in his sophomore, junior, and senior seasons, with three runs batted in and a single run scored. Trump’s batting average in the nine games Slate found box scores for stood at a disappointing .138.

 

I don’t know many first basemen with a .138 batting average outside of Little League. We could ask Yuli Gurriel if he knows any.

He also cheats at golf.

By the way, this is amazing.  42 epic half-innings, one after another

Leaving for Arizona yesterday, a reporter asked Trump why he supported reopening even as cases increase.  He said, “”The whole world is excited, watching us, because we’re leading the world.”  Yes, we are leading the world:

Trump’s delusion is complete.  I would think that the only thing the world is excited about is ridding itself of Donald Trump on November 3 (but only if we do our job).

Today, in a leaked audio of a call with Republican representatives, Greg Abbott admitted that opening up the economy will increase the community spread of COVID-19.  At the same time, he offered up his strawman argument that, since we’ll never get to zero spread, we should open up anyway.  Of course, NO ONE has EVER set the standard of zero spread.  The standard is 14 consecutive days of diminishing new cases, which we are most certainly not experiencing.

This is the same argument that Abbott and other Republicans have used to not do immigration reform.  They keep saying that reform can only happen when undocumented immigration is brought to zero.  They KNOW it will never be at zero, so by default immigration reform will never happen.

If you want to get really aggravated, listen to the leaked recording:

Here ya go —

President Barack and Michelle Obama are the keynote speakers at a graduation ceremony for the class of 2020 and they’ve got a crowd of other people who want to make graduation special for kids across America.

It’s going to go a little like this:

This sounds like such fun!

Reminder: this is what real leaders do.

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They don’t have breaking news every day, but today they did.

Remember death panels?  Well, the Governor isn’t bothered by that now.

By the way, Texas ranks 47th among the states for Covid19 testing.  Way to go, Gov.

Okay, I’m gonna admit that I woke up this morning a little down.  Down, dooby do down down, comma  comma, down dooby do … oh good lord, I’m so depressed that I’m having a Neil Sedaka attack.

The thought of facing a resurgence of 3,000 deaths a day (think about it – that’s a 911 every damn day) and being locked in my house for three more months just made me crazy.

I was doing a housecoat rant this morning about all the things I want – I want to go to the farmer’s market and feel the peaches to see if they are ripe. I want to take a nap in the hammock with my grandson. I want to go to the eye doctor for new glasses – and this time I’m gonna get some with rhinestones. I want to go to the theater for a musical and slug the person behind me if they think it’s a sing-along. I want to eat crawfish for hours with a whole bunch of people around the table. I want go somewhere at night with my fancy clothes on. .

And there is my idea.

I think I’m going to put up my Christmas lights and I’m going to invite my friends to come drive by my house at night and see some damn joy. I think you ought to do the same thing. I think this should be viral so you can drive around at night to see the lights.  I don’t know about foreign states, but in Texas we can do tacky and extravagant with sublime perfection. Some people even hire other people to do their lights professionally, which is a job and goodness knows we need jobs.

We could just leave those suckers up until December. We could add a flag for the 4th of July, some political signs for election day, you know, keep it topical.

The only downside I see is that if a hurricane comes, you gotta haul all that crap back into the garage, but face it, you ain’t got nothing to do anyway.

That’s my idea. I think it’s a pretty good idea considering all the other ideas I’ve heard lately.

Or, you could be like Glen and build a chicken coop and bird feeder in your backyard made out of old political signs.

See, I told you we can do tacky with perfection in Texas.