I’m so old, I remember when NPR did legitimate science reporting.
Category Archives: Sports
Interesting Bike Handlebar Grips
These are available on Amazon.Hmmm.
O Canada!
This is what happens when you let the wokies win.
Quote of the Day
There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.
—Casey Stengel
Quote of the Day
They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.
—Willie Mays
Quote of the Day
An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame—Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
Quote of the Day
I was the Elvis of boxing.
—Muhammad Ali
Quote of the Day
My ambition is to hit .400 and talk 1.000.
—Yogi Berra
I’m Not Making This Up, You Know
The Daily Caller reports that LA County will hand out KN95 masks to Super Bowl fans. The county’s Covid policies require people at “outdoor mega events,” must wear masks at all times. That’s at any event with 5,000 or more people., and a mask must be worn regardless of a person’s vaccination status.
For the Record
It is my opinion that a second-string male athlete who pretends to be a girl so that he can win by competing with smaller, weaker competitors is a bully.
Quote of the Day
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
—P. G. Wodehouse
Get Woke, Get Whiter
MLB has moved the All Star Game from Atlanta (39 % White/54 % Black) to Denver (69 % White/10 % Black) because Georgia will begin requiring voters to show ID just as they must in Colorado.
I suppose that makes sense because Colorado’s raaaaacist election laws affect a smaller proportion of its population than Georgia’s.
Major League Political Bias
Major League Baseball games are played in these American cities—If they go woke and move the All Star Game out of Atlanta, they will likely find that a significant percentage in their fan base resides outside of those cities in flyover country. Local politics may not be good for a national pastime.
It All Depends On What You Mean By “Equality”
The House has passed a legislative nightmare called the “Equality Act.” If it passes the Senate and becomes law, it would amend federal statutes to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, and it explicitly will destroy religious freedom protections related to sexual and gender identity. The bill explicitly states: “The Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (42 U.S.C. 2000bb et seq.) shall not provide a claim concerning, or a defense to a claim under, a covered title, or provide a basis for challenging the application or enforcement of a covered title.”
Stephen Kruiser has suggested that the Equality Act is proof that the Democrats are clinically insane. OTOH, The Party may need the words “equal” and “equality” to have different meanings. Sometimes two plus two equals four. But not always.
Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.
Quote of the Day
I just catch ’em.
—Willie Mays
One of the Reasons I Like the NHL
What’s in a Name?
I’m seeing some interesting suggestions for a new name for the DC NFL franchise, among them—
The Washington Special Interests
The Washington GS-13s
The Washington Anonymous Sources
My suggestion—given that all the players are male, the Washington Taxmen. However, if that is too “gendered,” the Washington Revenuers.
Hubble’s Anniversary Images
Video Credit: ESA
Quote of the Day
Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
—Samuel Johnson
Minute 16 of Her 15 Minutes of Fame
It looks as if Megan Rapinoe has had her flash of fame. Her captaincy of a metric football team gave her a platform to engage in narcissistic anti-Americanism, but she lacked the necessary poise to be a sports heroine. While she’ll probably be given a spot among the D-list celebrities for her service to The Narrative, she’ll never really be famous.
UPDATE—Typo fixed. I hate autocorrupt.
US Beats England
The US team won its match with the English team 2-1 in the Women’s World Cup series.
The Brits have been having trouble with us during the month of July for the past 243 years.
The Dysphoric Truth
I’m 5′-8″. That puts me within one standard deviation of average height for an adult American male but definitely on the low side of average. That fact causes certain limitations on me. For instance, no NBA team would consider me for a position on their roster. Indeed, even if I claimed to be transgendered, I’m still too short to make the cut on a good women’s team. OTOH, there are women’s sports where a man my size could dominate, and we’re beginning to see such men (who probably couldn’t be top-level competitors on a fair playing field) push women out of the winner’s circle. A man just won the NCAA women’s track championship.
Meanwhile, the LGBT activists are up in arms because the Trump Administration has released an updated version of an HHS regulation that recognizes the term “sex” as having a biologically defined meaning. The previous version of the regulation had been changed during the Obama administration to include “gender identity” within the mean of “sex.” This required health insurance companies to pay for transgender-specific services that had previously been considered elective or cosmetic. According to an HHS spokesman, the regulation was revised back to the old wording because “the regulation’s coverage of gender identity and termination of pregnancy was contrary to law and exceeded statutory authority, and that the rule’s harm was felt by health care providers in states across the country.”
The LGBT media is trying to spin that change as allowing hospitals to deny emergency room care and other normal medical services to transgender people. That’s nonsense. In fact, unidentified gender dysphoria can put patients at risk. According to the AP, a hospital’s treatment of a person who presented in the emergency room as an obese male as if “he” were a man resulted in a death. The “man” was pregnant, and the stomach pains were labor pains. Because proper intervention was delayed, the baby died.
People are entitled to live their lives as they wish so long as they don’t adversely impact others. If I wanted to self-identify as a 6′-3″ female basketball center, the world should let me so long as my rejection of Reality doesn’t cause a problem for someone else. But world should not be compelled to humor my fantasy. And the taxpayers certainly shouldn’t subsidize it.
LBGT people should be treated fairly and with the personal dignity all humans deserve. However, the mutual tolerance we should have for one another doesn’t change the stubborn facts of biology. I have a Y-chromosome. I’m male, and barring genetic abnormalities, so is everyone else with a Y-chromosome.
I’m Not Making This Up, You Know
A NBC News report on transgender athletes contains this statement—
“There’s no simple or even complex biological test you can apply that tells you who’s a man and who’s a woman,” Roger Pielke Jr., director of the Sports Governance Center at the University of Colorado, said.
Cowards or Bullies
The Washington Times reports that Terry Miller of Bloomfield High has set a Connecticut girls’ state indoor record of 6.95 seconds in the 55 m sprint. Second place in the event was taken by Andraya Yearwood. Both Miller and Yearwood have Y-chromosomes. Third place in the event was taken by a girl.
I wonder if athletes such as Miller and Yearwood are afraid to compete on a level playing field or if they want to take advantage of weaker competitors or if I should embrace the Power Of And in such cases.
I’m So Old, …
… I remember watching a Boston Braves game on TV, but that shouldn’t be surprising because today is my 71st birthday.