NESN does a good job

The Red Sox / Nationals game was shown on NESN today but it was the Nationals booth that called the game. I'm just going to say that after watching a game called by the Nationals guys, the guys at NESN do a great job.

The Nationals guys spent almost the entire game talking to players & coaches and the conversations ranged from, "So, how's your golf game?" to "Is [insert name here] still a sarcastic, fun-loving jokester?"

I could not listen to those guys for more than one or two innings. They are so annoying I muted my TV and put on WEEI to listen to Castiglione & Merloni.

The Red Sox lost today's game 4-3 but it was mostly because this was an away game and they didn't bring their veterans. As a matter of fact, I've never heard of at least half of these guys.

This was their lineup after the sixth inning:

Hamilton, D
- Rosier
Rafaela
- McDonough
Abreu, W
- Decker
Dalbec
- Binelas
Reyes, P
- Meidroth
Westbrook
- Pierre
Gonzalez, R
- Sogard
Contreras
- Yorke
Kolozsvary

The Tigers are in Fort Meyers tomorrow and I'll be listening to the game on WEEI.

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Mitch McConnell announced that he is stepping down as republican leader in the senate.

Speaking as an old guy who is sick and tired of looking at all the old people in my government, this is a good thing.

This is a guy who, while in the midst of a prepared speech, would all of a sudden would stop talking, stare off into space like he just had a frontal lobotomy and have to be escorted off by his aides.

Now if we can get rid of Biden, Trump, Pelosi, Neal, Schumer, etc... and get some people in there who can at least tie their own shoes without the help of a aide, we might actually find a way to become decent people again.

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I'm calling it quits. I looked for links to give you but the news is all "Trump did this thing" and "Biden said that thing" and "Putin killed this one" and "Israel bombed those guys" and "the Houthis (whoever they are) blew up that thing".

Gotta be honest with you, I'm kinda sick of the news.

Here are a few links:

• The big problem with being soft on crime is that criminals love it.



• Well this sucks.



• Only in Florida.



• Normally I don't agree with the French but in this case, I'll make an exception.



• Turns out that a huge amount of "news and opinion" flowing through social media is generated by automated robots. What's even weired is that most of the responses to those posts are from automated robots. Basically, the world of social media is nothing more than robots talking to robots.