Covered this week; Latest drone footage from Apple Campus 2… Problems with tolerance and throwing inside for Red Sox Nation… Some of the many ways Trump could be fired… Watching Trump’s America circle the bowl… Yu Darvish, a study in dichotomy… Baez searches for consistency… Chris Rock starts over… John Lennon in his own words…
May 1, 2017
As opening day draws near, here’s Matthew Robert’s latest drone footage documenting the construction progress at Apple Campus 2…
May 2, 2017
The Red Sox crowd, embarrassed by the actions of a few Monday night that yelled racial slurs at Jones, with some later throwing a bag of peanuts at him, let Jones know that a few fools’ certainly actions don’t reflect everyone.
This time, the pitch went nowhere close to Manny Machado’s head. But that didn’t stop Machado from losing his mind.
May 3, 2017
“For Trump’s allies, the depth of his unpopularity is an urgent cause for alarm. “You can’t govern this country with a forty-per-cent approval rate. You just can’t,” Stephen Moore, a senior economist at the Heritage Foundation, who advised Trump during the campaign, told me. “Nobody in either party is going to bend over backwards for Trump if over half the country doesn’t approve of him. That, to me, should be a big warning sign.“
May 4, 2017
“Decades from now, if the planet is even inhabited by then, we will look back at one 72-hour period as the most crucial in the history of America’s last president, Donald John Trump. Between the days of April 5th and 7th, 2017, the Washington political establishment tried to reform our madman president and instead only made him infinitely more dangerous, pushing us closer to doomsday than at any time since the Cuban missile crisis.”
May 5, 2017
“But for about two minutes every night that he starts, Darvish gets lit up. No pitcher in baseball has been worse to start games, relative to the rest of his pitching, than Darvish. He allows an OPS almost 270 points higher to the first batter of the game than to everybody else. Here’s how his pitching compares to the rest of his body of work.”
Take a look around Wrigley Field during any Cubs game, and Javier Baez jerseys are one of the most common sights you’ll see in the stands. But the man wearing the authentic No. 9 in Chicago has been in a five-week fight just to keep his playing time.
May 6, 2017
“Last October, Chris Rock drove from his New Jersey home to Greenwich Village’s Comedy Cellar and slipped inside undetected. The Comedy Cellar charges patrons $24 to see anonymous comics, with the unspoken tease that you might see Louis C.K. or Amy Schumer working on new material. Tonight was no different. The patrons sipped away their drink minimums and endured unknowns sprinkled with knowns – both Judd Apatow and Dave Attell did sets. Then the MC announced Rock. The audience went silent for a moment before jumping up in a roar as Rock, in jeans and a T-shirt, took the stage.”
May 7, 2017
Sorta cool to look back and consider Lennon’s words in the context of the times… looking forward to Part 2 of this interview…
