Remember this: It’s science until the science interferes with the science that proves one, greater victim group is oppressing another another, lesser victim group. Especially if the greater victim group is Black and the lesser victim group is white. Got it? Neither do a couple of attorneys in Connecticut.

We may be able to watch some live sports on television soon. But, of course, money is getting in the way.

And what is the media going to do when Trump is gone?

 

Apples and Oranges…Unless it’s Not Politically Correct

Three high school girls in Connecticut are embroiled in a legal dispute over the state’s decision to allow males who identify as “transgender” to compete on girls’ sports teams. Two boys in particular, Andraya Yearwood and Terry Miller, have been dominating the female circuit for a couple of years. Although they would be middling athletes if they competed against other boys, against the girls they have raked in the wins, together taking the first and second place trophies in some races. The lawsuit filed by Selina Soule, Alanna Smith, and Chelsea Mitchell — real girls, all — seeks to put a stop to this abject madness. But just as the track races are rigged against them, so, it seems, is the courtroom.

District Judge Robert Chatigny said:

“What I’m saying is you must refer to them as “transgender females” rather than as “males.” Again, that’s the more accurate terminology, and I think that it fully protects your client’s legitimate interests. Referring to these individuals as “transgender females” is consistent with science, common practice and perhaps human decency. To refer to them as “males,” period, is not accurate, certainly not as accurate, and I think it’s needlessly provocative. I don’t think that you surrender any legitimate interest or position if you refer to them as transgender females. That is what the case is about. This isn’t a case involving males who have decided that they want to run in girls’ events. This is a case about girls who say that transgender girls should not be allowed to run in girls’ events. So going forward, we will not refer to the proposed intervenors as “males”; understood?”

The lawyers are now calling for Chatigny to recuse himself, correctly pointing out that the judge had “destroyed the appearance of impartiality in this proceeding.”

This just shows how partisan this judge is. How can the plaintiffs argue that these boys, who still have male genitalia, have the unfair advantage of being male if the plaintiffs can’t claim they’re male?

What science is this judge talking about?

And what does common decency have to do with this? Isn’t it the decent thing to do is not compete against people that have an obvious physical disadvantage?

This insanity has to stop.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-three-girls-are-suing-to-keep-boys-out-of-girls-sports-the-judge-just-rigged-the-case-against-them

 

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

Major League Baseball has drafted a plan to restart the season in July as long as the teams can sell it to the players’ union on Tuesday.

Team owners are proposing to hold a truncated 82-game season.

Games will be played in team stadiums without fans, unless local rules prevent teams from using their home arenas, in which case teams will be allowed to move games to their practice and spring training facilities, instead.

Travel will be limited and teams will play within their geographic area.

Some rules will be changed, such as the National League’s prohibition against a designated hitter, to create a more uniform system of play since teams will largely be playing within their own divisions. Before every game, players and staff will be tested for the coronavirus, and team rosters will be expanded to 50 players with about 30 players active for each game.

The proposal would link player’s salaries for the 2020 season to the amount of revenue generated this year. In March, the union agreed to cut player salaries on a prorated game-by-game basis, but says the direct tie to league revenues is effectively the salary cap system that union officials have fought against for years.

“We lose money on every single game (without fans),” one league official told The Athletic. “We have to propose that they take something less than they already negotiated. We thought the most persuasive way to make that proposal was to explain: here’s what we’re going to make in revenue and we’ll split it with you and here’s how it turns into player salaries.”

Players’ union executive director Tony Clark said:

“A system that restricts player pay based on revenues is a salary cap, period. This is not the first salary cap proposal our union has received. It probably won’t be the last. None of this is beneficial to the process of finding a way for us to safely get back on the field and resume the 2020 season — which continues to be our sole focus.”

Leave it to the player’s union to worry about money. Maybe they should realize they are in a unique position and go with the flow a little.

I have already said that the first profession league that opens up is going to be the league that makes the most money. Maybe not with fans showing up to the stadiums but with television and advertising. I know I will be watching baseball because I’m tired of watching re-runs of football games.

Looks like the NFL and the UFC have the lead now.

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/mlb-teams-reach-consensus-on-july-season-opener-but-face-major-hurdle-with-players-union

 

Enough is Enough!

According to Vox:

After Trump prematurely declared victory over the coronavirus, lied about US testing capacity, and misled people about how America’s response stacks up to other countries in the world, Monday’s news conference ended with a bang.

His meltdown began when Weijia Jiang of CBS asked him to explain why he seems to be fixated on competing with other countries while 2,000 or so Americans continue to lose their lives each day from the coronavirus. Trump fired back by telling her to “ask China.”

“Don’t ask me — ask China that question,” Trump said.

Jiang, who is Asian American and who previously said that a White House official referred to the coronavirus as the “Kung-Flu” to her face, followed up by asking Trump, “Sir, why are you saying that to me, specifically?”

“I’m telling you,” Trump said, “I’m not saying it specifically to anybody. I’m saying it to anybody who would ask a nasty question like that.”

Trump followed that seconds later up by throwing a tantrum when Kaitlan Collins of CNN tried to ask him a question, then storming away.

In sum, Trump’s performance featured a baseless conspiracy about America’s first black president, incendiary comments toward an Asian American journalist, and then a press conference-ending fit. This shtick may have served him well at times, but in the context of the pandemic, one can see why his advisers reportedly concluded weeks ago that these press conferences are doing him no favors.

 

Yeah… no. Here’s the actual confrontation.

So here’s what happened:

• Weijia Jiang asked a nasty question. Probably because Trump was right about the U.S. response and wanted to throw him off. His answer was appropriate. The U.S. didn’t start this and it wasn’t Trump’s fault that the virus is here. It’s the Chinese Virus that killed Americans, not Trump’s response.
• It takes Jiang a couple of seconds to come up with a race thing and she starts giving him crap. Trump ignores her and calls Kaitlan Collins of CNN, who doesn’t say anything and lets Jiang chirp away.
• Trump calls on another reporter and Collins starts chirping that she was being passed over. Trump rightly says she had a chance to ask a question and didn’t respond. Trump continues to point at another reporter and Collins keeps bitching.
• Trump says thank you twice and walks away.

 

It didn’t look like Trump threw any type of fit. He just got tired of getting yelled at and walked away. As he should do in every press conference. Nice guys finish last and there’s nothing he can do to win with these people. He could cure cancer and solve world hunger in the same day and they would still accuse him of something.

But what gets me is the nastiness of the article.

 

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/05/trump-storms-out-of-press-conference.html
https://www.vox.com/2020/5/11/21255214/trump-obamagate-philip-rucker-coronavirus-press-conference

 

Little More Little Richard

Tutti Fruiti by Little Richard (1956).