Let the games begin

Baseball playoffs begin tonight and I will be watching, at least for a little while. They don't start until 8:00 tonight and once TBS / ESPN finishes up with all the pregame hoopla they like to show, we probably won't see any actual baseball until 8:30 or so.

Tonight is the American League wild card game that determines who will be playing the number one seed, the Rangers. Like I said the other day, I'm hoping that it's the Orioles because I like Buck Showalter. He's a grumpy old guy like me.

Tomorrow is the National League wild card game and I would like the Mets to win that one only because, well, they're the Mets. I like the Mets.

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Before this goes away (and trust me, it will go away), I want to post this direct quote from a story on NBC News:

"The current system works fine if you're eligible for Medicaid, if you're a lower income working person. If you're already on Medicare or if you get enough subsidies on a modest income that you can afford your healthcare."

"But the people that are getting killed in this deal is small business people and individuals who make just a little too much to get any of these subsidies ... So you've got this crazy system where all of a sudden 25 million more people have healthcare and then the people are out there busting it sometimes 60 hours a week wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half."

Just to be sure this is clear to everyone, let me repeat the meat of the quote:

So you've got this crazy system where all of a sudden 25 million more people have healthcare and then the people are out there busting it sometimes 60 hours a week wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half.

For the record, the person who spoke that is named William Jefferson "Bubba" Clinton and he said it at a campaign stop for his wife.

You know his wife. She's the former member of the administration that foisted this fiasco known as The Affordable Care Act, aka ObamaCare, on us.

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You can visit these links is you are so inclined:

• Oh Canada.



• Only in Florida. (Love the mugshot.)



• Key line in this story: "It seems someone changed the sign as part of the celebrations."



• Now Al Walton Jr., a bicyclist, understands how we all feel when we see him on a busy road.



• Maybe she should buy a vacuum.



• Only in Australia.