Day: September 2, 2020

Mike Pence isn’t an extremely good liar

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You’d think that would be the #1 qualification to work with Trump

“I don’t recall being on standby.” Yeah, that’s an easy thing to forget, when somebody tells you to be ready to accept the nuclear football at any moment. That has probably happened to me many times, and I just plumb forgot!

To me the weirdest thing about this boring story is that Trump denied having a series of mini-strokes that nobody ever claimed he had. That’s sort of like going up to a stranger at a party and saying, “You know, I absolutely did not bury a drifter in the desert.” Trump then went ballistic on internet compiler Matt Drudge, who merely headlined the simple truth – that Trump denied having mini-strokes.

By the way, Drudge was one of my favorite Dick Tracy villains:

My theory: In high school he got a role in the chorus of Guys and Dolls and it was the highlight of his life, so he kept the costume.

Revisiting Rose McGowan’s famous non-dress

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“According to TooFab last week, back in 1998 when McGowan went mostly naked to the VMA it was ‘to blow your brain up’ in some form of female empowerment. Anyone else would have called it egotistical, slunty, and self-promotion, but for reasons that exist only in McGowan’s head she was sending a cerebral signal to a superficial public.”

Whatever. The key fact is that the article includes a gallery of the pics.

Well, Alex Dickerson had a decent night

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Batters love Coors Field in general. The Giants loved it more than usual tonight, amassing 27 hits. Alex Dickerson blasted three homers and two doubles in their 23-5 rout of the Rockies.

  • That ties the all-time record for most extra base hits in a game.
  • That ties Willie Mays’ team record for most total bases in a game.
  • Dickerson’s first homer traveled 480 feet.
  • His double in the ninth inning traveled 414 feet, and could easily have been his fourth homer if it had landed in just about any other spot in the ballpark.
  • Dickerson, Donovan Solano and Brandon Crawford are the first trio of teammates EVER to have 6+ RBI in the same game. (Since 1920, when RBI became an official stat).

It was kind of a crazy offensive night for road teams in general. In addition to the Giants’ record output in Colorado:

  • The Cardinals collected 23 hits of their own in a 16-2 shellacking of the Reds in Cincinnati.
  • The Braves had 10 runs on 14 hits against the Bosox at Fenway.
  • The Tigers had 12 runs on 14 hits in Milwaukee.
  • The Indians had 10 runs on 17 hits in KC.

It was a bad night to root, root, root for the home team.