Twins won again last night, this time 3-2 against the Indians in Cleveland. We've had a lot of close, entertaining and generally low-scoring games against divisional rivals Cleveland and Kansas City. Maybe this shouldn't surprise inasmuch as Cleveland and Kansas City both pitch a lot better than they hit. Good news is we've been winning our share of the games. Last night, a solo bomb by Cruz and another with a man aboard by Sano was enough. Our bullpen has been great. Ditto for Kenta Maeda, last night's starter who allowed one run in five innings pitched. His ERA now stands at 2.21. In the American League this season, only the Indians (87) have allowed fewer runs than the Twins (102).
During the inning breaks, I looked in on the Republicans. Yes, I enjoy picking scabs when there is nothing else to do. I happened to see the segment in which Trump, sitting in the Oval Office with some Americans he said he freed from captivity, told a pastor who'd been held in Erdogan's Turkey: "To me, President Erdogan was very good." The minister had just described the conditions under which he'd been held for 21 months and he shifted slightly in his seat. I'm used to Trump loving on dictators and tyrants but it's a little weird that, as this conversation occurred a couple years ago, it was edited to present to the world at the RNC—and the praise for Erdogan made the cut. Reminds me how, according to legend, at the Mets first spring training manager Casey Stengel was heard complaining, to no one in particular, "Doesn't anyone here know how to play baseball?" No, because most of them are named Trump, unless their name is Kushner and they're married to a Trump, so it's not as if they're the ones signing off on the video because they performed so well in the minor leagues.
The Falwells sure sound like a fun couple! Count me among those men who fail to understand the pleasures associated with watching as another man screws your wife, but whatevs! As the Woody Allen character says in one of his movies, when it comes to human sexuality "normal" is not a useful concept. Real journalists don't have to take advice from me but I think they should investigate contacts between Falwell and the Trump campaign in 2016. Notwithstanding Trump's Christian lifestyle, many evangelicals were suspicious of him, and it helped his cause when Falwell endorsed him after visiting with Michael Cohen. This may sound wild but what if the force of Cohen's presentation was augmented by "evidence" that some secular humanists might describe as "racy"?
Oh, they're already on it!
The McCloskeys sound nice, too. They're the St. Louis power couple—personal injury lawyers, not evangelical leaders—who earlier this summer pointed guns at BLM protestors outside their mansion. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch profiles them here. More than one reason not to buy in these gated communities. The covenants and restrictions! The association dues! The pricks next door! Of course the McCloskeys were recruited to tell their tale of woe at the RNC last night, but alack and alas, I missed their segment.
Why are the police in Kenosha so tight-lipped about the "officer involved shooting" in their city on Sunday? One theory might be that they are busy developing a story that is in line with what's already known and won't be refuted by anything the public might subsequently find out. It's referred to as "an officer involved shooting" because the officer, from a distance of about one foot, aims his gun into the back of a black guy and pulls the trigger around a half dozen times. So, in that limited sense, yes, the "officer" was "involved."
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