Aaron Judge met and exceeded the seemingly insurmountable hype in the MLB Home Run Derby last night. Key tidbit:
Teixeira, by the way, was another star of the night, clearly showing he deserves more exposure in his rookie season as a broadcaster. He was fun and funny, and early on, he asked Judge the perfect question:
"Can you get over 500 [feet]?"
"I'm going to try for it," Judge said.
And he did. No one else did, but Judge did it four times, going 501, 504, 507 and 513 feet. He hit one off the roof and another one over Marlins Park's home run sculpture in left-center field. He went to left field and to right field. He hit line drives and spectacular towering shots.
He'll be appearing tonight in the All Star Game along with a bunch of other guys no one seems to care about.
I should add that Judge's media training has taken hold.
I can only assume that Brooks' editors at the Failing NYT despise him as much as the rest of us do, and enjoy watching him humiliate himself.
There's no other explanation for columns as mind-blowingly as today's getting published.
Posted by: James D. | July 11, 2017 at 12:11 PM
Does NYT still have editors? I thought they were laying them all off.
Posted by: henry | July 11, 2017 at 12:13 PM
ol yolk but worth the effort--- Fastest way to get hold of an NYT editor? "WAITER!"
Posted by: Account Deleted | July 11, 2017 at 12:16 PM
Some of these stories seem a little fanciful, if you ask me.
Maybe Buzzfeed found them in a dossier.
Regarding The Omen, I'm going to hold off on any snarky comments because of the genetic lottery she was forced to play as long as she stays off Twitter.
Posted by: Captain Hate | July 11, 2017 at 12:19 PM
From the "youth achievements in summer" file---
College ManKid spent Monday attending a daylong training seminar on "Fundamentals of EXCEL".
Got him a nice sertiffykit and everthang. Plus a professional manual for continued skill upgrades.
All courtesy of his summer employer, Kingsford Capital of Point Richmond, CA.
This young man is en fuego.
Posted by: Account Deleted | July 11, 2017 at 12:19 PM
Point Richmond actually is a nice little town, and NOT to be confused with Richmond. The latter is a dump.
Posted by: DrJ | July 11, 2017 at 12:21 PM
CH----> I've unleashed my Snark IV howitzers on the mutt Chelsea since I found out she'd worshipped in the Temple of Affordable Beauty.
Just sayin.
Kev
PS: Is it football season yet?
Posted by: Account Deleted | July 11, 2017 at 12:25 PM
"The Loin of the Senate" like you mean the stinky, fungus infested crotch of the Senate?
David
Posted by: David, Internet Deplorable | July 11, 2017 at 12:27 PM
David---- affirmative. the power of the intentional typo. -Kev
Posted by: Account Deleted | July 11, 2017 at 12:28 PM
as long as she stays off Twitter.
But she won't. Just like the woman who spawned her, she will never, ever, ever, ever shut up. She will never stop telling everyone else how to live their lives.
So she deserves all the snark and ridicule and ugliness that comes her way, and more.
Posted by: James D. | July 11, 2017 at 12:28 PM
I wonder at times what Chelsea's net cash burn rate is? And how is that crime family sustaining their "lifestyle?"
Posted by: Account Deleted | July 11, 2017 at 12:29 PM
College ManKid spent Monday attending a daylong training seminar on "Fundamentals of EXCEL"
Tell him there used to be this software called Lotus 1-2-3 that replaced VisiCalc from the Trash 80s, until one day the Sooper jeanyuses replaced it with a clunky space hog called Symphony and BOOM went the dynamite.
Posted by: Captain Hate | July 11, 2017 at 12:30 PM
Kev,
They save money on clothing expenses.
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | July 11, 2017 at 12:31 PM
MM---> tax deductions on used underwear? -Kev
Posted by: Account Deleted | July 11, 2017 at 12:32 PM
Also possible. It's obvious they are not SPENDING money on clothing.
Plus, seersucker knickers? Who even MAKES those? Not seersucker shorts. They are knickers, gathered at the knee. Horrendous!
Also, do they mostly stay in the Bat Cave? Whiter than a porcelain sink.
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | July 11, 2017 at 12:36 PM
KK,
Speaking of football, I think I'll venture down to Ahia's biggest small town for this:
http://theramswire.usatoday.com/2017/06/30/los-angeles-rams-kurt-warner-chooses-wife-for-presenter-hall-of-fame/
Posted by: Captain Hate | July 11, 2017 at 12:36 PM
Not really, CH. Symphony was a collection of apps like MS Office (only it came out several years earlier) that included a spreadsheet tool. 1-2-3 continued as a stand-alone product. I worked on 1-2-3 in the late 80s/early 90s.
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | July 11, 2017 at 12:41 PM
Back in the day, I used Supercalc. It had wonderful keyboard shortcuts that irritatingly are not in Excel. Of course it had no graphics, since it ran on a terminal (80x25 -- yuck!).
Posted by: DrJ | July 11, 2017 at 12:43 PM
New threadsky.
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | July 11, 2017 at 12:44 PM
Dave, I never used Symphony but some yinzer did and I just remembered it taking up multiple floppy discs to store very little data.
Posted by: Captain Hate | July 11, 2017 at 12:50 PM
That was basically the way things worked in the old days, Cap. I can remember doing an OS update that took all afternoon and something like 25 floppies.
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | July 11, 2017 at 12:58 PM
Chelsea's employed by the Clinton foundation
Posted by: Clarice Feldman | July 11, 2017 at 01:09 PM
CH---> back in 1981 at the start of my grad school capers, the crabs in the grad room were scrambling to impress with their Lotus and Symphony projects... i used a whiz bang package "Stat Pac" and got my study done in 12 months.
The purpose of nets is to catch feesh.
Kev
Posted by: Account Deleted | July 11, 2017 at 01:28 PM
Thanks for that, Clarice.
Paging Bob Muler.
Posted by: Account Deleted | July 11, 2017 at 01:43 PM