Bonds and Clemens were going to the Hall of Fame before the fall, as it were. That should end it. But you need to acknowledge they were the faces of a deep problem. Not just by their fame, but by their actions. The stonewalling. The game is worse for their behavior.
Schilling is to me a different case. He is by the standards I've always held very good, not great. But the Hall of Fame has opened the door to those players. Even so, that he has no friends is his problem. His play is not compelling enough to override that.
Schilling is also an example of a dumb trend in modern Hall of Fame voting: a well-known playoff game living too large in memory.
Then you have someone like Carew, who won seven batting titles and hit .328 lifetime, but never played in a Series. People overlook him.
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An airplane, for instance, is a beautiful machine. Operated competently and in good faith it will almost never hurt people. You follow?
What I think the Democrats have yet to learn is that though they have an edge on policy, probably, we're past the point where policy counts. More than ever politics is about societal control. That is why people vote against interest.
If the Democrats have a hope in hell they have to be the square party now. Money in your pocket, the rule of law, a normal life.
Is there desire for us here to broadly explain and interpret the "Brexit" deal? Even in general terms it would be of some length.
We’ll now try to sum up main points of the “Brexit” agreement. Keep in mind, please, that space is limited and the agreement is new.
First, it is a deal, that is the opposite of no deal, which would have had instant, catastrophic consequences. The wound is serious. Now we need to see how stitches work. Healing, such as it is, will be slow, and the patient will be permanently changed, if not totally weakened.
You know, this is not a difference of opinion or open to interpretation or a matter of being misinformed. It's a lie.
Someone wrote to say the meaning of "shall" is debatable in law. That's true. But in context of Article II, Section 1 there is no debate. Did the Founders, who took every pain to vest responsibility for elections in the States, intend the Vice President to have ultimate power?
If you want to know who's running things over there, London is about to go into strict lockdown. But in any case the rules will be lifted December 23-27 because, well, Pickwick and Cratchit and oranges around the fire. I don't know.
This has changed to a strict lockdown covering London and "much of the south and east," whatever that means. Households outside this area can now mix with other households on Christmas Day only.
When "Brexit" goes to hell, and it will, soon, the parliamentary party will fast put Johnson in a gibbet and all that Churchill garbage, which not even his allies really believe, will go up in smoke forever.
The House of Commons this week voted down providing free school meals to children during the Christmas break. Local councils are now stepping in, spurred by the footballer Marcus Rashford, who shamed the government into acting once already.
Nothing changed. Trump spoke English, as he sometimes does, and did a reasonable job of hitting his marks. And that’s all it was—his marks. His relative fluency will make for horse race-type speculation but he only repeated what he’s done for six months and more.
Biden was sharper than the town hall, and as I said, did a good job of knowing when to talk to the camera for brass tacks: “You’re poor, you’re sick, I’m here for you.” It sounds simplistic but he was for the popular things and spoke of them in reasonable detail.
Trump sneering at Biden when he talked of the kitchen table will come back again.