My beef? Dodgers. Yankees. Red Sox. Nationals. Phillies. That’s all you ever hear about. When the national media finally gets around to mentioning the Braves or some other smaller market team. Its usually bad. Shouldn’t let it bother me. It’s never going to change, even if the Braves win four more consecutive division championships. Or eight, or sixteen.
Now Ken Rosenthal says the Braves clubhouse is rite with strife over Freddie’s exit, and the price they’re paying for Olson. Really? Not many are believing it. Players know what happened with Freddie. They know it’s a business. They know how the Braves operate. Young players are taken to arbitration. Albies and Acuna chose to sign relatively low dollar long term contracts, exchanging arbitration years for years of security. Surely Rosenthal is just trying to get people to read his trash.
Dansby has enough to worry about, in the final year of his contract. The Braves don’t have a young buck waiting in the wings. Can Rosario play short? What’s bad is the same agency that botched Freddie’s deal with the Braves also represents Swanson. Perhaps the Marietta native isn’t the greatest shortstop in baseball history, though he did launch 27 homers last year, and plays above average defense. I’m sure Braves GM Alex Anthropolous is working the phones, formulating a plan.
Here lately I’ve been trying to do more enjoyable things than just working long hours. Plus I like to get places early, like Sunday School and worship, so I will have a chance to get settled in and prepared for worship. We changed where we park for church. Slightly longer walk after dropping C off near the door, but no longer crossing a busy street. Nice to walk and collect my thoughts.
When I walk / run out on the streets I don’t use airbuds to listen to anything. Want to be alert, listening to nature and for cars. Gives me time to pray and think about things. At the gym I don’t listen to airbuds when lifting weights. Would be hard to concentrate on the audiobook. But when I am on the treadmill I do have my airpods in.
Knocked out three miles this morning in less than 36 minutes, my fastest time since covid hit. Signed up for the Peachtree Road Race last night. They’re doing the t-shirts different this year. Not sure how. Might be getting them before the race, with the number pickup.
Busy day. Last day of the month, and then off tomorrow, so plenty to do.
It is tiring to hear people throw barbs and soundbites as a defense to why they don’t like/agree with a politician. If someone has a reasonable argument, I am willing to listen. Like most days, today Jim Denison offers a reasonable point about the current Clarence Thomas story.
DENISON: some are calling on Justice Thomas to recuse himself on cases related to the January 6 Capitol riots. Some are calling for Justice Thomas to step down from the court or be impeached. Former prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy states the statute governing judicial disqualification, Section 455 (of Title 28, US Code), involves "financial or legal stakes in the matter, or some connection to the matter as an attorney." According to McCarthy, "Ginni Thomas's activism—up to and including the text messages to Mark Meadows about the 2020 election—does not activate those triggers. If it did, many judges appointed by Democrats would have been disqualified from cases over which they've presided despite the political and legal activism of their spouses." His statement links to a Newsweek article detailing numerous examples of such activism.
McCarthy: "Supreme Court justices are not even subject to disqualification over their own activities that bear directly on cases." Justice Elena Kagan, nominated by President Obama, served as Mr. Obama's solicitor general when the administration was formulating its legal strategy to defend the Affordable Care Act. When the Act came before the Supreme Court, she did not recuse herself from the case and in fact provided the critical vote to uphold it.
McCarthy concludes: "The smearing of Justice Thomas is transparently partisan politics, nothing more." If you accuse me of wrongdoing and I can show that you have done what you now accuse me of doing, I can win our rhetorical battle. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer sought to change the Senate's filibuster rules. Tom Cotton then used Schumer's previous statements in support of the filibuster against him.
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