Horror: Designated Hitter May Be Coming To The National League

By William Teach June 19, 2020 – 10:30 am

If you are a National League fan, like me (I’ve rooted for the Dodgers since my t-ball days), you will either love or loathe this

(Dodgers Nation) Baseball purists, you’re going to want to look away. Fans of keeping the designated hitter out of the National League are going to be very disappointed in the MLB. (snip)

Reports then surfaced that MLB and the player’s union were closing in on a deal to get things moving, which was later refuted. The league has sent over a proposal to the union, but that has yet to officially be agreed on or denied at this point. In that agreement though, there was one interesting change to play.

The designated hitter has long been held strictly to the American League and AL home games. That might be changing, as the new agreement would make the DH universal for 2020 and 2021. If that’s the case, it’s likely that the DH will be universal in the next collective bargaining agreement as well.

Not good

Will a pitcher ever hit for himself again in Major League Baseball?

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The shortened 2020 MLB season is paving the way for the universal designated hitter, equalizing the American and National Leagues for the first time since 1973.

According to the proposed agreement for this year and next, the universal DH will be instituted beginning this season. The deal also calls for the DH next year.

Couple that with the belief the DH was going to become universal in the next collective bargaining agreement (2021), and could it mean we’ve seen a pitcher bat for himself for the final time in Major League Baseball history?

That’s not to say a pitcher will never bat again. Some may be utilized as a pinch-hitter. But a NL manager will never be forced to write in his starting pitcher’s name into the lineup card. Relievers no longer carry the burden (as long as they face three batters!) of leaving the game when their spot in the order is due up.

While seeing a big slugger, usually someone who has been kicked out of playing a position as they get older, maybe the knees are not so good anymore, come up and destroy a ball is exciting. But, having pitchers bat and then getting all sorts of substitutes later in the game makes it a chess match in the NL. Do you keep the pitcher in and let them bat, or have a substitute hitter, meaning you need a new pitcher and you’re down 1 on the bench? What happens if the game goes extra innings? Do you have enough pitchers? Will they run out of gas? I’m not a big fan of the DH. We’ll see if the Player’s Association accepts this proposal.

What do you think?

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IEA Chief Warns We Only Have Six Months To Avoid Climate Doom Or Something

By William Teach June 19, 2020 – 8:42 am

Set your alarm, see if doom starts in 6 months. Meh, we all know what happens: the people publishing this drek never follow up when the prognostications fail to materialize, and Warmists will just make new ones

World has six months to avert climate crisis, says energy expert

The world has only six months in which to change the course of the climate crisis and prevent a post-lockdown rebound in greenhouse gas emissions that would overwhelm efforts to stave off climate catastrophe, one of the world’s foremost energy experts has warned.

“This year is the last time we have, if we are not to see a carbon rebound,” said Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency.

Governments are planning to spend $9tn (£7.2tn) globally in the next few months on rescuing their economies from the coronavirus crisis, the IEA has calculated. The stimulus packages created this year will determine the shape of the global economy for the next three years, according to Birol, and within that time emissions must start to fall sharply and permanently, or climate targets will be out of reach.

“The next three years will determine the course of the next 30 years and beyond,” Birol told the Guardian. “If we do not [take action] we will surely see a rebound in emissions. If emissions rebound, it is very difficult to see how they will be brought down in future. This is why we are urging governments to have sustainable recovery packages.”

It’s so strange that climate cultists want to change and control economies around the world, isn’t it? It’s almost like they’re making an excuse of a doomy climate to institute their beliefs, eh?

Creating jobs must be the priority for countries where millions have been thrown into unemployment by the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdowns. The IEA’s analysis shows that targeting green jobs – such as retrofitting buildings to make them more energy efficient, putting up solar panels and constructing wind farms – is more effective than pouring money into the high-carbon economy.

So, they want to turn everyone into a low skill worker doing basic jobs.

Sam Fankhauser, executive director of the Grantham Research Institute on climate change at the London School of Economics, who was not involved in the report, said: “Building efficiency ticks all the recovery boxes – shovel-ready, employment intensive, a high economic multiplier, and is absolutely key for zero carbon [as it is] a hard-to-treat sector, and has big social benefits, in the form of lower fuel bills.”

But, how much of this really needs to be done? Most homes have insulation, as do business buildings. Remember how Obama, the Democrats, and even other countries tried this in the wake of the 2008 worldwide economic meltdown, wasted lots of money, and saw little return? Remember Obama laughing about the shovel ready jobs being not so ready? Most of these same type “green economy” jobs failed to materialize. There were a whole lot less than they said, and most disappeared because they were temporary jobs. The push for electric vehicles failed, as well.

But, this is not about anything but control. And we’ll get the same prognostication of climate doom in 6 months.

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Cancel Culture Gator Comes For “Gator Bait” Cheer

By William Teach June 19, 2020 – 8:24 am

A reminder: there’s an old saying about feeding the alligator hoping it will get you last. The Cancel Culture alligator is always coming for people and entities who have committed Wrongthink, and someone is always trying to feed it. It matters not if someone is an ally

Univ. of Florida ends ‘gator bait’ cheer, cites racism

The University of Florida is ending its “gator bait” cheer at football games and other sports events because of its racial connotations, the school’s president announced Thursday in a letter making several other similar changes on campus.

Florida president Kent Fuchs said in a letter to the university’s faculty, students, and staff that the cheer has a “horrific historic racist imagery” involving African American people, especially children, being used as bait for alligators.

“Accordingly, university athletics and the Gator Band will discontinue the use of the cheer,” Fuchs wrote.

The link to racism is borne out by news articles in years past. For example, in 1923, Time Magazine published a story about how “colored babies were being used for alligator bait” in Chipley, Florida.

“The infants are allowed to play in the shallow water while expert riflemen watch from concealment nearby,” the article said. “When a saurian (alligator) approaches this prey, he is shot by the riflemen.” The Chipley Chamber of Commerce responded to the Time article by calling it a “silly lie, false and absurd.”

That seems to be the only example that the Associated Press article can find, an anecdotal one which is disputed. Anyhow, how will this work? The band won’t be allowed to play the tune which gets folks to do the gator bait cheer. What happens when the people in the stands start doing it themselves? Will security be called to remove people? Will future games be cancelled? And why is Fuchs so concerned about racism when the U of F is stocked full of leftist administrators and teachers, along with students? Students who had zero to do with this mythical “gator baiting?

Among other things, Fuchs said the university will require students, faculty, and staff to be trained on “racism, inclusion and bias” and will also bring a new focus on the African American experience in the upcoming academic year.

Why would so many Democrats need this training?

In his letter, Fuchs said the school will look into a number of other race-related topics. These include one task force to document the university’s history regarding race and ethnicity, and a second task force to examine the reasons behind honorary namings on campus.

So, expect the Cancel Culture Gator to eat more things at the U of F.

Fuchs said that he is ending the university’s practice of using prison and jail inmates as farm labor in some of its agricultural programs. He also said the university will redouble its efforts to recruit and retain African American students, faculty, and staff.

So, those inmates will lose valuable time outside earning some money. What do they do then? Seems to be giving a second punishment to inmates. And just wait till Fuchs realizes that the gator mascots only represent two genders!

Cancel Culture Gator

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Culture Climate Friendly Fire: Now They’re Coming For The UK Guardian

By William Teach June 18, 2020 – 3:19 pm

In case you haven’t noticed, the UK Guardian is a vastly left leaning news out, and they aren’t afraid to show it. They consistently take a hard left line on everything. They are also one of the leading Cult of Climastrology papers in the world. They are one of the few who consistently have articles about ‘climate change’. Well, incoming!

Thousands Sign Petition to Shut Down Guardian over Links to Slavery, Anti-Lincoln Propaganda

Cancel Culture Friendly FireThe British left’s flagship newspaper is facing the call to eat its own tail, after more than 12,000 people have signed a petition calling for the liberal, pro-Black Lives Matter Guardian to be shut down over its historical links to slavery and for siding with the Confederate states during the American Civil War.

The Change.org petition to the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) already has more than 12,000 signatures with the number growing hourly, spurred on by accusations against the newspaper of hypocrisy for backing the far-left BLM while having a history connected to slavery.

The call comes after far-left activists have demanded the removal of statues of prominent figures in British history who may have profited from slavery, supported colonialism, or even have been wrongly accused of extremism.

The Guardian had published pieces in the past admitting not only did it print anti-Lincoln propaganda, but said Manchester’s working-class mill workers who refused to touch plantation cotton — in solidarity with black American slaves — should be effectively subjected to slavery themselves and forced back to work.

The then-named Manchester Guardian was founded in 1821 by John Edward Taylor, who profited from cotton plantation slavery, according to political website Guido Fawkes. After he died in 1844, the newspaper continued its relationship with the slave trade, making money from the slave-backing cotton mill owners of Manchester who paid for advertising.

During Black History Month in 2008, The Guardian published a letter revealing that the newspaper had printed confederate propaganda against Abraham Lincoln in October 1862, writing that “it was an evil day both for America and the world when he was chosen President of the United States”.

See, it doesn’t matter that this was well over 150 years: Cancel Culture never forgets, and past transgressions must be the cause of current day destruction. It doesn’t matter if the transgressor is an A+ ally: they must be destroyed. If something came out about CNN, Media Matters, Daily Kos, and so forth, the SJWs would go hard at them.

Even though I think this is nuts, and the Guardian shouldn’t be punished for things so long ago, hey, they’ve asked for this with their hardcore Modern Socialism. They refuse to allow counter-voices to be hear, especially in the climate section. They advocate for other outlets in the UK and around the world to shut down climate skeptics, and anyone else who doesn’t toe the line. So, this is rather ironic, and they’re getting a taste of what they give.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 18, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is an area turned to desert from carbon pollution heat, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Daley Gator, with a post on Cancel Culturing Aunt Jemima.

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Cancel Culture: Washington Post Goes After Woman In Blackface From Two Years Ago

By William Teach June 18, 2020 – 9:14 am

The best part of this is that it’s double friendly fire: the woman is a friend of Washington Post employee Tom Toles and an uber-leftist

Really

Every year, Tom Toles’s Halloween party draws an eclectic mix — journalists and political types from Washington’s power elite, but also artists and musicians, everyone from retirees to college kids, jammed into small rooms and sprawled across the backyard, dancing and gossiping, checking out the crowd to see who has the most inventive and outrageous costumes.

At the 2018 party at the home of The Washington Post’s editorial cartoonist, in addition to several Ruth Bader Ginsburgs, someone dressed as the “Mueller Witch Hunt” and Post columnist Dana Milbank came as just-confirmed Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, complete with a beer-dispensing device on his head. A guest named Lexie Gruber wore a scary “Beetlejuice” get-up and called herself “dead.”

A middle-aged white woman named Sue Schafer wore a conservative business suit and a name tag that said, “Hello, My Name is Megyn Kelly.” Her face was almost entirely blackened with makeup. Kelly, then an NBC morning show host, had just that week caused a stir by defending the use of blackface by white people: “When I was a kid, that was okay, as long as you were dressing up as, like, a character.”

So just before heading over to the party, Schafer, a graphic designer and friend of Toles, decided to dress as Kelly in blackface to mock her, she said.

Got that? She was mocking her. Sorry, not allowed

Nearly two years later, the incident, which has bothered some people ever since but which many guests remember only barely or not at all, has resurfaced in the nationwide reckoning over race after George Floyd, an unarmed African American man, was killed when a white police officer in Minneapolis knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes. Many protesters have called on white Americans to reassess their own actions or inactions when confronting violent and everyday racism alike.

Gruber felt compelled to revive the 2018 incident. Last week, she emailed Toles, whom she has never met. (snip)

Gruber, a 27-year-old management consultant, told Toles that the incident had “weighed heavily on my heart — it was abhorrent and egregious.” She asked him to help her identify the woman.

If you’re letting a minor incident from two years ago bother you to this extent, you should seek professional mental health help. And so the Washington Post wrote this article, and it is long. Really long

On her Facebook page, Schafer posts often about her opposition to President Trump and her support of immigrants, gun control, gay rights and anti-racism causes, including photos she took at marches and demonstrations she attended.

So, she’s a Leftist

On Wednesday, after Schafer informed her employer, a government contractor, about the blackface incident and The Post’s forthcoming article, she was fired, she said.

And now fired. Welcome to Cancel Culture, Schafer. These are your Comrades, people who are beyond intolerant, will not accept apologies, and will ruin your life.

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Who’s Up For Knee And Hip Operations With Local Anesthetic To Save Us From ‘Climate Change’?

By William Teach June 18, 2020 – 8:34 am

You can do your part to stop the climate crisis (scam). What’s a little pain and massive discomfort during long operations (both typically take about 2 hours), listening to all the scary noises of bones, all the blood

Hip and knee operations ‘should be done under local anesthetic to help cut carbon emissions’

Using local instead of general anaesthetic for hip, knee and other operations could help cut greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new study.

Drugs used for general anaesthetics contain greenhouse gases such as nitrous oxide, which can stay in the atmosphere for up to 114 years and contribute to global warming.

Switching the one million annual hip and knee replacement operations in the United States to local anaesthetic would save the equivalent of 7.3 million miles driven in a car, according to the study, which was based on a one-year experiment at a hospital in New York and published in the journal Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine.

Surgeons at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York carried out 96 per cent of their hip and knee replacements using local anaesthesia in 2019, and estimated they saved the equivalent of 60,500 car miles.

That compared to an average of 75 per cent normally done under general anesthesia.

One has to wonder how many fewer hip and knee surgeries that hospital is now doing. I’m damned sure not interested in staying awake for that. I’ve had surgery on ankle (2 screws and a plate, later removed) and leg (stainless steel rod, kneecap moved to do it, still in), general for both. How about you, do you have interest in staying awake for these to stop the climate scam?

Perhaps we should force everyone who claims to believe that the current warm period is mostly/solely caused by the actions of mankind to get locals for every operation where feasible.

It came as the government was warned that the NHS is not doing enough to cut its environmental impact. The health service has the biggest carbon footprint in the public sector, contributing 6.3 per cent of the country’s total greenhouse gas emissions, and using the same amount of water as the entire country of Estonia.

The parliamentary environmental audit committee called on the NHS and Public Health England to eliminate coal and oil powered heating, to tackle fluorinated gases such as those used in asthma inhalers and to speed up a switch to electric vehicles.

It’s hard enough for old people to get knee and hip replacement surgeries in England under their Single Payer system

The biggest single source of emissions within the health service is pharmaceutical production; one year of kidney dialysis emits greenhouse gases equivalent to seven return flights between London and New York.

Aw, hell, let’s just let them die instead, and kill off those who need the knee and hip surgeries. They’re usually old anyhow, right? No longer a need for their carbon pollution. They could be saving the next generation!!!!!

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Atlanta DA Charges Officer With Murder, Ruins Chances Of Conviction Two Weeks Prior

By William Teach June 18, 2020 – 8:19 am

Atlanta’s district attorney made things very difficult for himself by referring charges just days after the shooting, without bothering to wait for, you know, the investigation. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation tweeted that they were not made away of DA Paul Howard’s press conference, on the charges, and will continue to work to complete the full investigation. There’s zero possibility Howard has the full details, he’s responding to the mob

Officer charged with murder for shooting Rayshard Brooks

Prosecutors brought murder charges Wednesday against the white Atlanta police officer who shot Rayshard Brooks in the back, saying that Brooks was not a deadly threat and that the officer kicked the wounded black man and offered no medical treatment for over two minutes as he lay dying on the ground.

Brooks, 27, was holding a stun gun he had snatched from officers, and he fired it at them during the clash, but he was running away at the time and was 18 feet, 3 inches from Officer Garrett Rolfe when Rolfe started shooting, District Attorney Paul Howard said in announcing the charges. Stun guns have a range of around 15 feet.

The felony murder charge against Rolfe, 27, carries life in prison or the death penalty, if prosecutors decide to seek it. He was also charged with 10 other offenses punishable by decades behind bars.

A second officer, Devin Brosnan, 26, stood on Brooks’ shoulder as he struggled for his life, Howard said. Brosnan was charged with aggravated assault and violating his oath.

While the link is WRAL, it is an Associated Press article. It was not a stun gun. It was a taser. A police issue one. Something you cannot buy off the shelf.

Ahead of the district attorney’s announcement, Rolfe’s lawyers issued a statement saying the officer feared for his safety and that of others around him and was justified in shooting Brooks. Rolfe opened fire after hearing a sound “like a gunshot and saw a flash in front of him,” apparently from the stun gun.

“Mr. Brooks violently attacked two officers and disarmed one of them. When Mr. Brooks turned and pointed an object at Officer Rolfe, any officer would have reasonably believed that he intended to disarm, disable or seriously injure him,” the lawyers said.

But the district attorney said the stun gun that Brooks held had already been fired twice and was thus empty and no longer a threat.

That is an important point. Did the officers know that it was empty? Because

So, if a taser is considered a deadly weapon, than Rolfe was allowed to use deadly force. So, there’s a good chance a jury finds him not guilty.

He’s also charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, will probably get off on that one. Aggravated assault for kicking Brooks when down, which the defense will argue was done under Atlanta police guidelines, checking on the perp and attempting to keep distance. Four counts of violation of oath, three aggravated assault charges for his 3rd shot striking a civilian vehicle with 3 people in it, and one count of criminal property damage in the first for hitting the car with the bullet. Many, many lawyers are calling this a huge prosecutorial over-reach.

Howard is probably trying to make a splash before election time, because he is under investigation for illegally funneling money to his own paycheck. Neither officer would see a trial for years, long after the election.

Meanwhile, as the morale of Atlanta police officers hits bottom, lots and lots have resigned. And lots and lots walked out in a Blue Flu yesterday, especially at night after the DA’s announcement.

https://twitter.com/toddstarnes/status/1273420360432656386

I’m not sure why all the cop haters and those who want to defund the cops were complaining. This is what they wanted, right? No cops.

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The Media Isn’t Ready To Cover Climate Apartheid Or Something

By William Teach June 17, 2020 – 2:45 pm

Most people tune out when the media yammers on about ‘climate change’, think they care about the climate change movement hijacking a term like apartheid?

The Media Isn’t Ready to Cover Climate Apartheid

Deaths from the coronavirus pandemic foreshadow another global disaster, one that will not be eased by a vaccine or masks: the climate crisis. And like Covid-19, the calamities of climate change will not be experienced equally. The wealthy will escape the brunt of environmental destruction, while much of the world’s poor will be forced to migrate, fall ill, or die. The United Nations warned last year that the world is rushing toward “climate apartheid.”

Climate change will kill 250,000 people every year between 2030 and 2050 by malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea, and heat stress alone, and by 2050, it will displace 140 million people, according to predictions from a 2019 UN report.

In a climate apartheid world, said Philip Alston, the former UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, “the wealthy pay to escape overheating, hunger, and conflict, while the rest of the world is left to suffer.” A similar dynamic appeared in the early days of the pandemic, when many rich New Yorkers decamped to second homes and the sheltering-in-place middle class in the city paid others, mostly black, Asian, and Latino men, to deliver their meals.

So……elite leftist will leave everyone else to suffer? Huh.

The question for those of us left in the news business is: Are we prepared to cover a collective threat with such disproportionate impacts? If the coronavirus is a test for gauging the media’s readiness, the results are discouraging.

Go for it. I suggest the media, as much as The Nation is media, tell all their climate Comrades to give up their own use of fossil fuels, give up their big carbon footprints, and give all their money to Other People.

This may explain why the US media fixates on political infighting over the Green New Deal, but pays scant attention to the basics of global warming. This point of view assigns news value—and awards prizes—to narratives of misery in the wake of climate disasters, but neglects the systems of oppression that drive the devastation. It deems as newsworthy debates about whether almond or oat milk causes more environmental damage, but not the thousands of people living in a tent city in Puerto Rico following an earthquake.

Earthquakes are not caused by the climate crisis (scam). We’re done here. Nutjob cultists.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 17, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is an ocean that will soon swamp the land, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Sultan Knish, with a post on the heroes whose monuments have been attacked.

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