Reflections of Me

     Well, here we go again, folk.  After months of distractions, inane and insane twitter posts, a partial government shutdown lasting over a month, and a seemingly paralyzed GOP-led Senate, President Trump finally admitted he was not going to get his border wall money from Congress.  Rather than admit defeat, however, he accepted Congress's latest offer to keep the government operating and declared the border a National Emergency.  Which of course it isn't, but, he has never let facts get in the way of trying to get what he wants.  If he is successful, and of course he brags he and his staff are willing to take it all the way the the Supreme Court, he can take government funds allocated for other programs and use it to pay for constructing new border fencing.      That this comes at a time when the results of his and the GOP's tax law changes are coming into focus ( as most of America knew it would ) makes it even more interesting....

     As I have written in previous musings, baseball has been a major part of my life since I was a very young child.  Today, nearly 70 years later, it remains as one thing I still look forward to every Spring.  It isn't as large a focus now as it was lo those many years ago, but I still follow the teams and players as well as I can.  Some I follow reluctantly, because they appear in what I do follow more than I'd like, but, like politics, it's something that is difficult to ignore.      As my formative years featured players who were active during the 40;s, 50's, and 60's, I consider myself somewhat 'old school' in how I view the game, in what I feel is right or not right as changes occur.  Which they do, more frequently since the 70's than in the decades prior.  Major League Baseball moves at a slower pace, which suits me just fine ; both the game, and the rules, really should not be heavily messed with.   ...