Weekly Mail April 14, 2019

Hey:

Hope everyone had a good weekend. We may have a special for next week, an Easter Special. We'll see.

And away we go....


POLITICS: A Little Something/Something

Several years ago, Bill O'Reilly appeared on The View, and the discussion turned to the proposed mosque that was to be built not far from Ground Zero. When O'Reilly said that "Muslims killed us on 9/11", View hosts Joy Behar and Whoppi Goldberg stormed off the stage in protest.

This came to mind this week when Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) in a speech, said that "some people did something" on 9/11.  I wondered if Behar and Whoopi would have been as outraged as they were at O'Reilly?

I mean were both O'Reilly and Omar technically right? Sure. Somebody did something on 9/11. I also did something this morning on the toilet. Did Muslims kill us on 9/11? I always thought so.  A white Christian male from New York named Timothy (whose father's name was Bill)  blew up the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City. I don't think anybody believes Timmy or I to be domestic terrorists by association. Of course not all Muslims are terrorists.

And 9/11 was more than just some people doing something.

It's all about optics here folks. O'Reilly should have (by his own admission) said Muslim extremists. I'm not sure that would have placated those two dopes on the View, but you never know.

Omar has to know that most of us are still angry and hurt by what happened in Manhattan that day. Even the point she was trying to make was technically wrong, that CAIR was founded after 9/11. (It was founded in 1994)

Even Chuck Schumer had the good sense not to try to defend her, unlike Captain Marvel herself Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who tried to run interference for her fellow freshman.

And let me be clear here.... Nobody in this country should be discriminated against on the basis of race, gender or religion. Several Muslims who were just going to work or taking a flight died that day too. I know that.

It doesn't give this woman the right to downplay the events of that day. If she thinks she's helping her cause, she is sadly mistaken.

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My first thoughts when I saw them dragging Julian Assange out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London last week was "I can't believe that dude is only two years older than me."

I mean not that I look good by any definition of the word, but with his bald head and white beard, Assange looked at least 10 years older than 47. I guess that's how you look when you spend 7 years locked in an embassy.

I can't help but wonder, if he would have just been better off in jail. I realize that jail by design is about the worst place you can end up, but Assange couldn't even go outside to get a cup of coffee. The second he stepped outside they were going to haul his a$$ in. As it was, the second the Ecuadorians came to their senses and revoked his diplomatic immunity, they swarmed in and took him away.

I'll reiterate my feelings on Wikileaks again...whether they were leaking classified intel on the Iraqi War, or leaking Hillary's e-mails, they weren't doing our country any favors, so I won't be sorry to see him locked up. (I believe he is also wanted for questioning in a sexual assault case which again should see him locked up if proven guilty).

But even if the only charge against him was of being a skeezy looking dirtbag, he's definitely guilty of that.


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RON DARLING V. LENNY DYKSTRA

Former Met and current Met broadcaster Ron Darling just had a book published called 108 Stitches (which I have yet to read). One of the excerpts published by the Post, Darling tells a story about Game 3 of the 1986 World Series. According to Darling while me and my fellow St. Mary's classmates were making Confirmation-(and no Keri-Ann Hart I'm still not over that)  Met center fielder Lenny Dykstra was peppering Red Sox starting pitcher Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd with a series of racial epitaphs the likes that would make the KKK blush....


In Game 3 of the 1986 World Series, though, Oil Can was on the receiving end of the ugliest piece of vitriol I’ve ever heard — in a bar, on a baseball diamond … anywhere. It was right up there with one of the worst, most shameful moments I ever experienced in the game, and one of the great shames of the exchange was that I sat there with my teammates and didn’t do a damn thing about it. In fact, it resulted in a momentum shift that probably turned the Series around for us, and like most of the other guys on the bench, I stood and cheered at the positive outcome.


In his masterful book about the 1986 Mets "The Bad Guys Won" Jeff Pearlman says that before Game 3 of the Series, Keith Hernandez was talking to former Met Tom Paciorek who was there as a commentator. He told Hernandez and Wally Backman that Boyd had "Rabbit Ears"-that bench jockeying could get him rattled. Hernandez passed the info onto his teammates and they let him have it.

According to Pearlman, they referred to Boyd as "Sh-t Can", and mostly gave him crap about his pitching. There was nothing about anyone, including Dykstra using any racist taunts.

None of the other African Americans on the 86 Mets remember Dykstra saying anything racist towards Boyd. I don't know why Darling would make this up. I really don't know who or what to believe, but Dykstra has a ton of issues with credibility and Darling not so much. Do with that what you will.

Speaking of Darling, he announced Saturday night that he will be off Met telecasts for a month or so because he is having surgery to remove a mass from his chest. Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

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I stumbled upon the NHL Draft Lottery on Tuesday night. The Rangers had the 6th worst record in the league, which meant anything higher than the 6th pick should be considered a win.

When I first tuned in places 14-6 were already in place, and the Rangers still hadn't been selected. Two more teams were picked leaving the Rangers, Devils and Blackhawks as the last three (or the first three in the draft order) They went to commercial just to drag it out some more, then when they came back, the Blackhawks were selected, it was down to us and the Devils.

The next selection would be the first pick and when I saw that horned NJ, I flipped out.

Turns out this may have been a premature explosion. Perish the thought.

I wanted Jack Hughes, but according to many, the consensus second pick, a Finnish winger named Kaapo Kakko may be just as good and perhaps more NHL ready than Hughes.  It's just that in a season where all my teams were just awful, it would have been nice to win something. Now I have to wait to see if the Knicks losing all year pays off.

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Tim Williams aka that creepy looking dude from the Trivago commercials, was arrested for DWI in Texas last week. I don't mean to make light of something as serious as DWI, but couldn't he have just ordered himself a hotel room?


Easter is next Sunday, if you gave up anything for Lent, you're in the home stretch.

Have a Great Week