Random thoughts #58

Pardon me but here are some more random thoughts.

Why do baseball managers wear baseball uniforms? Can you imagine coaches having to wear football or basketball uniforms? Rick Barnes in shorts?

The fact that fans support teams that have no chance of winning a championship shows the love for the game. Realistically only a few teams in baseball and football have a chance for a championship. I thought the same about basketball. Then I saw that the top seeded teams were Cleveland and Oklahoma City. I thought it was a misprint.

Can you imagine having season tickets for the Miami Marlins, the Oakland (Sacramento) Athletics, the Chicago White Sox, the Cleveland Browns (sorry Jimmy Haslam) or the New York Jets/Giants? Those are true fans.

I saw a white cybertruck. It was white with custom wheels and in the foundation series. I talked to the owner and told him – truthfully – that his truck was stunning. He beamed. I meant it. Usually when I see a cybertruck I think there goes someone with more money than brains. I still think that unless it is a white foundation truck with trick wheels.

The fans at major league baseball games during the beginning of the season look like they are at a football game sitting in freezing temperatures and driving snow. Opening day was March 27. When did they start playing baseball in March? The season is too long and should start in mid-April.

Harvard is now offering a remedial math course. Harvard? It rejects 97 percent of its applicants. Obviously it should reject a few more. Harvard says its due to the pandemic. That’s like saying the dog ate my homework. 

That the democrats are still in disarray only shows how badly Biden screwed up everything. I thought the border crisis could only be solved with new legislation? What was a flood is now a trickle. It has gotten so boring that Fox has taken its imbedded reporter out of Eagle Pass, Texas.

Did you see that Joe Biden resurfaced and gave a speech to a group of advocates for the disabled? Someone has a sense of humor. Maybe it takes one to know one.

Instead of having a message other than hating Trump there is no coherent positive message coming out of the democrat party. Then why its vice chairman is fermenting even more discord by threatening to primary incumbents is puzzling.

Equally puzzling is the talk of the democrats running AOC for president. Huh? And you thought Harris was verbally challenged? More realistically is her running against Schumer for his senate seat.  Well if Adam Schiff, Mazie Hirono and Ruben Gallego can be senators I guess that AOC can be one too. Who is the dumbest republican senator? MSNBC says its Tommy (Coach) Tuberville who will give up that honor to run for governor of Alabama.

Remember all those hate filled sarcastic Trump tweets about Mitch McConnell? He even ridiculed Elaine Chao, McConnell’s wife calling her “Coco Chow.” Trump has called McConnell a “sullen unsmiling political hack.” Trump said “I feel sorry for Mitch. He wanted to go to the end and he wanted to stay leader. He’s not equipped mentally, he wasn’t equipped 10 years ago mentally in my opinion.” Of course McConnell reportedly has called Trump “stupid” and ” ill-tempered,” a “despicable human being” and a “narcissist.” Apparently there is no love lost between the two. 

Curiously, Trump has not attacked the other senator from Kentucky, Rand Paul who opposes Trump’s budget plan, is opposed to the tariffs and co-sponsored a bill to strip Trump of the power to unilaterally impose tariffs. Paul says “Congress needs to grow a spine, and Congress needs to stand up for its prerogatives.” Paul didn’t even endorse Trump for president. It is interesting that over in the House, the most vocal republican opposing Trump’s policies is also from Kentucky, Thomas Massie for whom Trump has tweeted “HE SHOULD BE PRIMARIED. I will lead the charge against him. He’s just another GRANDSTANDER, who’s too much trouble, and not worth the fight.” Massie responded “POTUS is spending his day attacking me and Canada. The difference is Canada will eventually cave.”

Paul must have been reading my blog when he ridiculed Trump’s tariffs saying “I have a deficit at my grocery store.” So why has Trump not attacked Paul with his avalanche of caps and exclamation points?

Trump wants Europe to buy more American agriculture, cars and get rid of their value added taxes. Both the Europeans and the Brits have told him to pound sand saying that those items are off the table and are nonnegotiable. How will Trump respond? Maybe he will threaten to double their tariffs but so far, silence.

Halleluiah! The president signed an order to rescind the Biden rule governing the flow of water through showerheads proclaiming that he was making showers great again. The rule was stupid as evidenced by it taking 13,000 words to define “showerhead.” The rule was supposed to conserve water but usage increased as people took longer showers. However, Trump’s order did not get rid of the restriction, it only reverted to the one set in 1992 that mandates a 2.5 gallon per minute standard. The 1992 law also mandated a maximum flush volume for toilets at 1.8 gallons.  Previously toilets flushed at 3 gallons or more. 

Those early 1.8 gallon toilets had to be flushed multiple times to get rid of heavy loads – if you know what I mean. I still have one toilet that can be vexing. I am tempted to replace it. I did replace an older toilet with one that advertises being able to flush a bucket of golf balls with a single flush. That should enough power to flush down anything that might come out of me. Maybe.