Will's Baseball Round Up

We did an hour on various machines yesterday, treadmill, rope pulley, stair master, rowing machine. A tough but good session. The left foot hurts we don't know why. We'd like to hit the gym today, but the foot might not let us. 

Took the girls to pick up Mrs. Stroock at the airport yesterday morning. Later we celebrated mom's triumphant return by ordering Chinese and watching the Mets/Phillies. 

The Daily Caller reports that the Texas Rangers' home opener was packed. Good. It should be patently obvious by now that lockdowns, social distancing and masks don't work and probably make things worse. NJ.com reports: 'The state’s seven-day average for newly confirmed cases is 3,918, up 7% from a week ago and 44% from a month ago.' How are Florida and Texas doing, ya'll?

We haven't been to an MLB game since...Christ 2004, we think.* But there's a great minor league team ten minutes from us, the Somerset Patriots. Until the Wuflu hit the Fami di Stroock would go to half a dozen games a year. We looked over the Patriots' website and so far they aren't requiring vaxes, tests, etc etc. Good. We won't do it. We've been vaxed, but we'll be damned if we're going to prove it just to go to a ballgame.

Man, oh man, did MLB commissioner Rob Manfred ever screw up by moving the All Star Game out of Atlanta. Idiot. They were going to celebrate Hank Aaron, baseball's homerun king and a black player who had to overcome real racism, not the phony baloney 'systemic' kind. Under Rob Manfred there's no baseball in Atlanta but plenty in Communist China. Senator Marco Rubio asked Beijing's Boy if he'd resign from Augusta National. It's almost as if the right has figured out how to play this game.** When Kristi Noem bends the knee to a bunch of weirdos and Brian Kemp roars like a lion....They've moved the ASG to Denver. We guess baseball will commemorate Larry Walker, or something. 

*We took our grandfather down to Baltimore for the weekend and saw the Yankees play the Orioles. Here's the game. The trip was a huge success

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Monday Boy Band

We were going to mail our baseball flags, hats and T-shirts to MLB's office in New York. But we can't find any. It's been a decade since we gave a goddamn about the Yankees. Still we're stunned. Bear in mind that there was a time when our mood was determined by the Yankees, and not just wins and losses. Twenty years ago we'd be pissed if the Yankees had to come from behind, or didn't annihilate the team they were playing. I know, right?

Anyway, below is the letter we were going to send:

Rob Manfred:

Enclosed you will find several baseball items. You can have them, I don't want them anymore. I'm sure you know why, cocksucker.

Don't worry, there's no turd in the box or anything like that, at least not until you opened it.

Sincerely...

Over in Israel, more deadlock:  'Beginning an intensive day of meetings with political parties for consultations on each one’s preferred candidate for forming the next government, President Reuven Rivlin lamented Monday that “at the moment, I can’t see a way to form a coalition.” He also said if his first choice to form a government fails, he may send the mandate back to the Knesset to make a choice, rather than giving a second person a chance to do so first' We'd love to see Naftalli Bennett and Yamina rejoin Likud with Bennet as the heir apparent. There's talk of making Bibi President, but that's a largely ceremonial role. Do reader(s) really think he'd do that? Hmmm...legacy wise it's a hell of a sendoff.

The New York Post reports that NYC mayoral candidate Andrew Yang may actually have some good ideas: Is Andrew Yang getting interesting? The mayoral front-runner has lately developed a habit of making reasonable, if rather big-picture, suggestions for governing Gotham — and it’s driving his rivals crazy. Yang hasn’t proved he’s ready to be mayor, but his competitors’ unhinged responses to even the most obvious of his ideas show they aren’t...' Which is why we oppose Yang's candidacy. This blog supports the worst possible candidate who will make the worst possible mayor of NYC. You can't help these people till they hit rock bottom and another 4-8 years of crime, racial mayhem and nihilistic violence may push that fetid crap-hole of a city to bottom of the septic tank. Also, we just hate NYC. We once again call upon Phil Murphy to blow the Hudson River crossings. We don't want they're kind here. 

Look we have three daughters, ok? At least that's what we told the Heavy Metal Police*. And the 11 year old is obsessed with Harry Styles and One Direction. Just a few days ago we were making tacos with the girls and debating who was The Cute One, The Bad Boy, the Older Brother Type, the Shy One, etc etc. It's not Monday Metal but we kind of dig the song below, the refrain does thump:

Dismiss them all you want, we certainly have, but they get all the chicks and you don't.

Now we're off to Newark Liberty International to pick up Mrs. Stroock.

*Not to mention the Royal Heavy Metal Society of Canada, which sent us a stern letter. Only having scene Anvil in concert saved our membership.