Weekly Mail September 23, 2018

Hey Everyone:

Almost done with September. Let's get to it.



POLITICS: Supreme Court Mess

       So let me start this out by saying as clear as I possibly can, if Brett Kavanaugh did what he has been accused of doing, he shouldn't be allowed to judge a pie eating contest, never mind sit on the Supreme Court.

      I'm not going to get into the psychology of why Professor Christine Blasey Ford waited so long to make her accusations public, I believe the answer to that question has been provided by the animals who have been threatening her and her family.

     But I'm sorry, I don't think it makes me anti-woman or anti anything to suggest that the Democrats sat on this information till they thought it could do maximum damage.

Kavanaugh was nominated by President Trump to succeed Justice Anthony Kennedy on July 9. Earlier that month, when Kavanaugh's name appeared on the list of possible names to replace Kennedy, Ford reached out to her congresswoman Anna Eshoo-(D CA).  After Kavanaugh's nomination, but well before the hearings, Ford contacted Dianne Feinstein via a letter, but asked that her name be kept out of it. At one point, she had decided not to pursue the matter, no doubt wanting to protect herself and her family.

But somehow the letter to Feinstein's office leaked, just days after the hearing were supposed to have wrapped up. Coincidence? Sure.

Again, I'm not blaming Christine Blasey Ford here. She did what she thought was right with plenty of soul searching. But as usual, the politicians on both sides turned this into a circus. Someone leaked that letter and did it for no other reason than to derail this nomination. The people who leaked this letter as far as I'm concerned, are the ones playing politics with this woman's pain and suffering.

And look, I'm not by any means a Brett Kavanaugh supporter. Even before all this, I wasn't a fan of his, mainly because I'm afraid he'll help derail the Special Prosecutors investigation of the Russian election meddling.

But this whole thing stinks. And it's not all on Trump either (though as usual, he's not helping) I remember when Clarence Thomas was nominated, and there was so much back and forth, and that was before Anita Hill surfaced. I remember thinking, there has GOT to be someone out there that has less baggage than this guy.

I've gotten to that point here. And I know it will never happen, but I do know a judge that has much less baggage than Brett Kavanaugh, a judge that many Republicans were interested in a few years ago. Someone who has experience and I think would make an excellent Supreme Court justice.



Merrick Garland.



BASEBALL: RIP 2018 Mets

With their loss to the Phillies on Wednesday, the Mets officially guaranteed themselves another sub.500 finish. I'm probably the only one who cares about that. In the grand scheme of things, finishing below .500 or finishing a couple games over doesn't matter if your not in the playoffs.

The bigger dilemma is what to do? The Mets have a playoff caliber starting pitching staff, but a shaky at best bullpen and paper thin hitting. Do they blow the whole thing up? Try to build around the starters? I feel like that's what they did this year to disastrous results. At one point I know I said that this was the worst Mets team I had ever seen, and in my defense, I said that in the midst of their worst month record wise in recent history. Take away that 5-21 month of June, and you have a .500 team

Thank God for Jacob deGrom. Watching him pitch has been a privilege this year. He has one more start this week against the Braves. I'm praying he pitches a complete game shutout and drops his ERA.  I don't know if he'll win the Cy Young Award with a .500 record, but he was clearly the best pitcher in baseball this year.


FOOTBALL: Same Old Jets


And I'm sticking to my vow not to sacrifice Sunday afternoons with the family to watch football, but I did watch the Jets on Thursday night, and they should have lost that game by 4 touchdowns rather than 4 points. Sam Darnold threw two picks and two more than should have been picked off. I saw at least three times where Browns QB Baker Mayfield threw passes right into the numbers of his wide receivers and they dropped the pass. The Browns didn't win as much as they did just a little less to lose than our Gang Green did.


Next week we'll have a special blogpost that I promise will be much more fun. Sorry this one was so dour.

Have a Great Week