In The Mailbox: 01.16.26 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | January 17, 2026 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.16.26 (Evening Edition)

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
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Personally, I can’t help thinking Bobby Lee would have had these theater kids shot out of hand.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Why Most Countries Ban Mail-In Ballots
EBL: 4-hour marine spectacle, Grilling Golden Tilefish, Insurrectiony Democrat Mayor Jacob Frey, Bobby Hull, and Cubera Snapper
Twitchy: Seattle Jury Frees Illegal Alien After He Rams ICE Vehicle Head On, Michael Knowles Makes Kyle Kulinski Look Like A Frothing Moron, and DOJ Probing Walz & Frey For Shielding Illegals & Threatening ICE
Louder With Crowder: Minneapolis city hall gets employees “therapy goats” to deal with the stress of ICE enforcing immigration law, “You’re a left-wing hack”, Scott Jennings is fed up with everything CNN gets wrong about Minneapolis and ICE, Alleged “doctor” can’t tell GOP senator whether or not men can get pregnant, and Are you part of the white, middle class? Mamdani’s advisor calls YOU a problem for their agenda
Vox Popoli: Historic Rigor, The H1B Disaster, The Land of the Free, The Intellectual Razor, and Ted Cruz and the Stink of Sulfur
According To Hoyt: Front Seat For the Ghost Dance, Time Travelers, Narrative Lock-In: When Belief Becomes Bulletproof, What do you know? and It’s January 16 Do You Know Where Your Year is?
Cedar Sanderson: Tomato Wyrm Part 4
Ammo.com: California Homicide Rate
Postcards From Barsoom: Amelia Sans Merci

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: On Foreign Policy, Trump 2.0 Is Dangerously Unrestrained, also, Is Trump Winning Bigly on the World Stage?
American Greatness: Trump Warns Minneapolis Agitators: ‘If and When’ Forced to Act, Insurrection Will be Crushed ‘QUICKLY and EFFECTIVELY’, Myth, Narratives, and the Death of Renee Good, Philly DA Larry Krasner and Sheriff Rochelle Bilal Threaten to Arrest and Jail ICE Agents, Trump Mulls Insurrection Act After Leftwing Insurrectionists Loot and Destroy DHS Vehicles in Minneapolis, and Treasury Secretary on Tackling Minnesota Fraud: ‘Our Generosity Has Been Taken Advantage Of’
Animal Magnetism: Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 70 – Double Feature
Baldilocks: Twister Life
BattleSwarm: Hey Anti-ICE Morons – “Texas Is Not Minnesota”, “President Trump Has Joined The Revolution”, Illegal Aliens Cost Texas Hospitals $1 Billion In 2025, Abrams M1E3 Tank Prototype Unveiled (Sort Of), and LinkSwarm For January 16
Behind The Black: Gravity – Rocket Size Comparison as of 2024, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s high resolution camera is showing its age, Astronomers detect a bar of iron in the center of the Ring Nebula, The recent computer hack of the European Space Agency was bigger than it admitted, and China launches four satellites for another Chinese constellation
Cafe Hayek: Maybe Trump Is Indeed Shrinking U.S. Trade Deficits, Kuttner’s Clunker of a Defense of Tariffs, Full Text of Gramm and Boudreaux: “World Trade Grows Without the U.S.”, Open Letter to David Lay Williams, and Nor Can the 2025 Poor Job-Creation Number Be Explained Away By Pointing to Deportations
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: “The Law Cannot Fix a Broken Culture”, Of Minneapolis and Wildfires, Today’s Sermon: Paul of Tarsus vs. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reality Bites, and Needed: “Digital Literacy”, or Plain Old Literacy?
Da Tech Guy: The Obvious Conclusion that (Almost) Nobody Seems to Want to Say Aloud about National Democrats in General and Blue States in Particular
Don Surber: What Trump wants from Greenland
First Street Journal: Larry Krasner beclowns himself, (Purported) canon lawyer is very upset that infants can be baptized without their consent, Ilhan Omar Mynett claims the Minnesota fraud investigations are all just PR, and You in a heap o’ trouble, boy!
Gates Of Vienna: Brigitte Bardot: “I Do Not Want to Die in an Islamized France”, Islam’s Rape Gangs — As Instructed in the Mosques, Culture-Enriching Throat-Slicing in Mogliano Veneto, The Cultural Enrichment of Dortmund, and Did Somali Fraud Money Make Its Way to Al-Shabaab?
The Geller Report: FOUR ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT Filed Against Corrupt Governor Tim Walz, 81 Traitorous Republicans Vote With Democrats To Fund Anti-Trump NED Targeting MAGA and the Constitution, Democrat Rioters in Minneapolis Break into Federal Vehicle and Steal FBI Rifle and Ammunition, Israel Warns Iran: ‘If You Attack Us, We Will End You For Good’, and Trump Moves to Deport Somali Criminals, Including Ilhan Omar, After Billions In Fraud Exposed
Hollywood In Toto: Ethan Hawke Makes Blue Moon Magical, Iranian Filmmaker Calls Out Hollywood’s Silence on Protests, Hollywood Honors Renee Good, Ignores Hundreds Killed in Iran, Wake Us Up from Dreamy Sound of Falling, and Carolla Called It: Palisades Fire Anniversary Sees Little Rebuilding
Legal Insurrection: ‘Strange Bedfellows’ The Protean Alliances of the American Left, Department of Education announces probe into ‘gender identity’ policies at 18 institutions, HHS May Have had No Choice but to Restore Planned Parenthood Funding, Uh Oh: Mamdani Under Fire for Excluding Black Leaders From Top City Roles, and Colorado Congresswoman Says Democrats are Planning to Impeach Trump Again
Matt Taibbi: The Weaponization of the Weaponization of Government
Nebraska Energy Observer: Scott Adams, Tyson, Part Two, Multipolar World, The Nickel Tour, and David Starkey Laments the Coming Death of Free Speech in the UK
Outkick: Ole Miss QB Trinidad Chambliss Files Lawsuit Against NCAA Seeking Sixth Year Of Eligibility, Majority Of NFL Teams Are Busy Hiring Their Next Ex-Head Coach During This Cycle, Big Ten Has Passed SEC Thanks To Coaching Advantage, With Kyle Tucker Signing, Are The 2026 Los Angeles Dodgers The Best Team Ever? and Louisville’s New Volleyball Coach Has America’s Attention, Sofia Vergara Covered In Coffee & MLB Is Toast
Power Line: Anatomy of an insurrection, Meet Raul Gutierrez, We Are Shopping Elsewhere, What’s the matter with MN? and What is to be done?
Shark Tank: Uthmeier Announces Arrest of Illegal Aliens In Organized Retail Theft Scheme
Shot In The Dark: Ritual Groveling, Quid Pro Quo, Whither Greenland, and Mostly Peaceful Weapons Theft
The Political Hat: Gender Eunuchorn, Quick Takes – Not Dead Yet: Cash For Rebranded DEI At Harvard; Cornell’s Zombie DEI; Banned Iowa DEI Continues, and Firing Line Friday: The Uses of the United Nations
This Ain’t Hell: Defense team for Charlie Kirk’s assassin tries to disqualify the prosecution team, Greenland and National Security, Valor Friday, Sailor Sentenced Selling Secrets, and We almost lost the Unknown Soldier?
Transterrestrial Musings: A Mass Hostage Situation In Iran, Starfleet Academy, Light Posting Explanation, Scott Adams, and Certain Women
Victory Girls: Democrats Need Remedial Home Ec STAT, Kamala Harris’s turn as Marie Antoinette, and Ilhan Omar Claims Fraud And ICE Investigations Are Just PR Stunts
Watts Up With That: New York’s Ridiculous Energy Policy Way Off The Edge Of The Cliff, Update on Australian NetZero efforts, A Good Mix of Sunlight and Rain is Now “Climate Whiplash”, BBC Fact-Checking Show More or Less Gets its Climate Facts Wrong Again, and New York Nuclear Plan
The Federalist: Florida Joins Texas In Ending American Bar Association’s ‘Gatekeeper’ Grip On Law Schools, Exclusive: Child Abusers Top ICE’s Latest List Of ‘Worst Of The Worst’ Illegal Aliens, Criminal Illegal Alien Who Led Des Moines Schools Looking To Make Plea Deal, Leftists Play-Acting At Revolution Are Mad The Cops Won’t Play Along, and Parents Must Actively Opt Out Of Turning Their Kids Into Digital Age Zombies
Mark Steyn: Kathy Shaidle on the Damaged Left, The Home Front and Beyond, Butch and Swingin’, A Bumpy Night: Bette Davis, Kathy Shaidle and All About Eve, and Greenland

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In The Mailbox: 01.16.26 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | January 16, 2026 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.16.26 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Amelia is coming, Starmer.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Emergent AI Weapons Systems, A Day At The Garfield Assassination (1881), The Uniparty Unmasked,
357 Magnum: The Left Is Out of Touch with Reality, also Russia Threatens War
EBL: Eva Vlaardingerbroek banned from Britain after criticizing Kier Starmer, Melted Time : Salvador Dali : The Persistence of Memory, Rare Fish, Bionic Woman, and MAGA: Make Iran Great Again
Twitchy: Lefty’s “Name A Female Athlete” Transphobe-Gotcha urns Into Hilarious Self-Own, CNN Forced To Report Trump’s Big Economic Win, and Eunuch Mayor Of Minneapolis Says Violence & Chaos In Minnesota Will Stop If Feds Stop Enforcing The Law
Louder With Crowder: Chicago Mayor makes bizarre claim it was “normal” for him to see kids fall out of windows as a teacher, Renee Good’s father-in-law shocks CNN when he refuses to blame Donald Trump, Oprah tells “The View” that obesity is not your fault, tells you to take drugs instead of a healthy diet, Donald Trump flips off auto worker, tells him to go f*ck himself (to be fair, the guy was asking for it), and Explosive New Documents Prove Fauci Knew The Truth About Natural Immunity All Along, But Ignored it
Vox Popoli: Immigration and IQ Matter, The Academic Asteroid, Scott Adams RIP, Another Regime Change Attempt, and Scientist Wanted
Cedar Sanderson: A Song Against Songs, A Book A Day,
Defending The Wood Perilous: Tiny Joys,
Weird Catholic: The Great Mother of Austria & Her Spectacular Wardrobe
Stoic Observations: How To Survive Outside The Box,
Jim McCoy: This Didn’t Have To Happen
Mazelit Airaksinen: The Victims Of Political Islamism – On The 19th Day Of Revolts

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: The Chinese War On The Planet Goes To Sea, also, Diversity Thursday
Dana Loesch: It Was Only a Bruise
Don Surber: Five little girls may have ended trans madness, also, Venezuela raid leaker jailed – WaPo worried
Matt Taibbi: If NATO Dies, Do We Really Have To Mourn? also, Why Not To Mourn NATO Part II
STUMP: RIP Scott Adams – On Advanced Prostate Cancer Incidence Rates,

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Please Stop Slandering Jefferson Davis

Posted on | January 16, 2026 | Comments Off on Please Stop Slandering Jefferson Davis

U.S. Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, 1853

In recent days, various of my conservative friends have thought it amusing to compare Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to Jefferson Davis. The intent is to compare Walz’s opposition to federal immigration enforcement to the Confederate president’s defense of Southern independence. They mean this as a joke, see? “States’ Rights, LOL!”

There is, however, only so much of this jocularity I can tolerate without objection. Far be it from me to rekindle the flames of sectional animosity, and I do not wish to be perceived as thin-skinned, the stereotypical Southern hothead, prone to quarrel over the merest unintentional slight. But to my friends, I must say it’s time to knock it off.

Jefferson Davis graduated from West Point in the class of 1828, and began his army service on the frontier at Fort Crawford in present-day Wisconsin under the command of Zachary Taylor, whose daughter subsequently became Davis’s first wife (she died during a malaria outbreak in 1835). After leaving the army, Davis became involved in Mississippi politics, and was elected to Congress in 1845. After the outbreak of war with Mexico, Davis resigned from Congress and led a regiment of volunteers, the famed “Mississippi Rifles,” serving under Taylor’s command and winning distinction at the battles of Monterrey and Buena Vista. Thereafter being elected to the Senate, Davis became the leading advocate of Southern interests — the de facto political heir of John C. Calhoun — and was appointed Secretary of War in the administration of Franklin Pierce. Afterwards, Davis returned to the Senate, which seat he resigned in 1861 after Mississippi voted to secede from the Union. Davis was then unanimously elected president of the Confederacy by the delegates meeting at Montgomery, Alabama.

In making satirical comparisons of Tim Walz to Jefferson Davis, what is the implication about Davis? Was he a ridiculous fool like Walz? No, sir, he was not, and none of his contemporaries thought him so. Nor did Davis, in championing the interests of his state, ever adopt any position as absurd and plainly unconstitutional as that which Walz has advocated in opposing immigration enforcement in Minnesota.

During a commencement ceremony speech at the U of M, Gov. Tim Walz described federal ICE agents as "Trump's modern-day Gestapo.” pic.twitter.com/D6mFIyH9Pm

— Alpha News (@AlphaNews) May 18, 2025

Let’s leave the bad historical analogies to Democrats, OK?

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Crazy People Are Dangerous: Minnesota Lesbian Suicide-by-Cop Edition

Posted on | January 15, 2026 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous: Minnesota Lesbian Suicide-by-Cop Edition

Last week when I wrote about the death of Renee Good, almost nothing was known about the background of the woman who got shot to death while trying to run over an ICE agent in Minneapolis.

Now we have several important facts, although still not the kind of coherent biography we need to fully understand her suicidal behavior. Most importantly, however, we do have more video of the incident — including from the ICE agent’s own cell phone — that demonstrates that Good and her lesbian “wife” were not innocent civilians:

Renee Nicole Good’s wife was antagonizing ICE agents and even urged her to “drive baby, drive” just moments before the fatal shooting in Minneapolis, according to shocking new video taken on the agent’s own cell phone.
The video — filmed by agent Jonathan Ross on Wednesday and obtained by Alpha News — shows the heated interaction between the Goods in the lead-up to the shooting.
Renee can be seen behind the driver’s seat of the plum-colored Honda Pilot, while her wife, Rebecca, stands in the street next to the car. A dog is also sitting in the back seat, peering out an open window.
As Ross records the interaction, Renee says to him, “That’s fine dude, I’m not mad at you” before her spouse starts jawing at the federal officer as whistles and sirens can be heard in the background.
“You wanna come at us? I say go get yourself some lunch, big boy. Go ahead,” Rebecca sneers at Ross while filming on her own phone outside the car.
Rebecca then tries to get back into the passenger side, as an agent orders, “Get out of the f–king car” and Renee backs up.
As the car is in motion, Rebecca, who is still out of the car, can be heard shouting, “drive, baby, drive, drive” before Renee peels off and clips Ross, prompting him to open fire. . . .
A video taken in the aftermath of the shooting Wednesday showed Rebecca sobbing as she cried, “It’s my fault.”
“I made her come down here; it’s my fault,” she said, her face covered in blood after having attempted to help Renee. “They just shot my wife.”

Did Rebecca tell you the last thing she said to Renee?

“DRIVE BABY! DRIVE! DRIVE!” pic.twitter.com/V6boDEAcLP

— Trump’s Army (@watermore788) January 10, 2026

In the immediate aftermath of last Wednesday’s shooting, it had not yet even been clearly confirmed that Good was part of an anti-ICE protest, and some were still claiming that she was just a random Minneapolis mom who had coincidentally encountered this ICE raid in her neighborhood. But the truth has now been established:

Renee Nicole Good, the mom who was killed by a federal agent after veering her car toward him, was an anti-ICE “warrior” and was part of a group of activists who worked to “document and resist” the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota, The Post can reveal.
Good, who moved to the city last year, linked up with the anti-ICE activists through her 6-year-old son’s woke charter school, which boasts that it puts “social justice first” and prioritizes “involving kids in political and social activism,” multiple local sources said.
“She was a warrior. She died doing what was right,” a mother named Leesa, whose child attends the same school, told The Post at a growing vigil where Good was killed Wednesday. . . .
Good and her wife, Rebecca, 40, were raising the boy together in the mostly working-class, activist-heavy neighborhood of south Minneapolis, which features tree-lined streets and a large number of homes with windows decked out in LGBTQ+ flags or signs depicting George Floyd.
Just as many others did in the lefty enclave, Good sent her son to Southside Family Charter School, a K-5 academy opened in 1972 that from its inception has been “unabashedly dedicated to social justice education,” according to co-founder Susie Oppenheim.
It was through her involvement in the school community that Good became involved in “ICE Watch” — a loose coalition of activists dedicated to disrupting ICE raids in the sanctuary city.

Rebecca Brown (left) and her lesbian “wife” Renee Good (right)

Via online accounts (that are not yet confirmed, I hasten to add) we are being told that Good faced criminal charges in 2022, and was subsequently charged with violating probation in October 2024. It is also being alleged that Good’s “wife” (no records documenting a legal marriage) Rebecca Brown was accused of abusing Good’s children, but that also is unconfirmed and, in fact, we do not even know if Rebecca’s surname was actually “Brown,” which may be an alias. What we do know is that the couple were living in Kansas City, Missouri, after the 2023 death of Renee’s second husband, and that Renee’s partner filed to have her named changed to Rebecca Brown Good. That was in late 2023, and sometime after Trump was elected in 2024, the couple reportedly moved to Canada, but in recent months had relocated to Minneapolis.

There are still many gaps in this narrative. How did Renee Good meet her lesbian “wife”? Renee was from Colorado Springs, and at least used to be a Christian. So her ending up in a relationship with a lesbian seems kind of weird, and I have yet to see a single news article explaining this bizarre trajectory. All I know is Crazy People Are Dangerous.

We’re seeing the results today.

Closing mental institutions truly was a catastrophic move for America. pic.twitter.com/F3rd8hHoS9

— C3 (@C_3C_3) January 10, 2026

Category: Crime, Gays, Immigration, Minnesota

In The Mailbox: 01.14.26 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | January 14, 2026 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.14.26 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Military Moves In The China Seas
357 Magnum: The Register Brings Us the Worst Tech from CES, also RIP Scott Adams
EBL: Scott Adams, RIP, Charleston and Savannah, Galileo, Battlestar Gallactica, and Anchovy Lemon Spaghetti with Chili and Parsley
Twitchy: Try To Spot The Difference – How CNN & NYT Reported Inflation Under Biden vs. Trump, Secret Service Suspends Agent Who Revealed Sensitive Information To James O’Keefe, and Mike Johnson Makes Massive Prediction For GOP Midterm Chances
Louder With Crowder: Tom Homan torches woke Philly sheriff who threatened ICE, “Join the Tribe”: Steven Crowder makes the definitive case FOR tribalism, Secret Service Agent Leaks Private JD Vance Security Information To Undercover Journalist, Joy Reid Admits Good Was Part Of Network That Trained White People To Impede ICE, and MAGA bro takes on four MN leftists all at once, proves the left can’t meme OR fight
Vox Popoli: The Drift Deathmarch, I Stand Corrected, Once Lethal, Always Lethal, Rejection, and Germany Econo-Suicide Continues
Cedar Sanderson: Tomato Wyrm Part 3
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Ah, the state of American education
Stoic Observations: Superficial – The Game
Jim McCoy: Bowl of Red

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Iran, Persia, And All That Jazz
Don Surber: Rubio for president of Cuba

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In The Mailbox: 01.13.26

Posted on | January 13, 2026 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.13.26

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: A Day Capturing Maduro (2026), What Are The CEW Used To Capture Maduro? and A Day With The 5th U.S. Colored Troops (1864),
357 Magnum: Billionaires Flee California Ahead of Tax Insanity
EBL: Iranian Women Lighting Cigarettes, Mediterranean Cod, BUGONIA, The worst of the worst captured in Minneapolis, and What would Vince Lombardi say?
Twitchy: Epstein Files Must Be Damning For The Clintons To Ditch Subpoena, Apartment Manager Busted For Voting Multiple Times For Former Tenants, and Jessica Tarlov Jumps In The Renee Good Debate Because She Can’t Let Other Libs Out-Stupid Her
Louder With Crowder: Gay Minneapolis “pastor” doubles down on unbelievable story ICE held him at gunpoint, Landlord Jailed After Fraudulently Casting Former Tenants’ Mail Ballots, Ilhan Omar claims fraud isn’t the problem, you discriminating against Somalians for committing fraud is the problem, Taylor Sheridan’s “Landman” makes a mockery of woke college students with a they/them from – wait for it – Minneapolis, and Philadelphia Sheriff Issues Vile Threat Against ICE Agents
Vox Popoli: A First Challenge, The Bullies of IU, A Beautiful Catch, Greenland: the 51st State, and Reddit Doesn’t Disappoint
Stoic Observations: A Trustless Society, Soul In Horns, and State Machines For The Judiciary
Cedar Sanderson: Forensics For Writers Part 5, Tomato Wyrm Part 2, and Chatting About Fountain Pens
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Brave, also, Vulgus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur
Based Book Sale: 2025 In Review & Appreciation
Ammo.com: Florida Murder Rates

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Palantir’s Mike Gallagher & Matt Babin On AI & Shipbuilding,
Don Surber: Beat The Press
Matt Taibbi: Escalation Weekend – Three Days of Confrontations Between Minnesota Protesters & ICE,

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Rule 5 Sunday: Hello, Nurse!

Posted on | January 12, 2026 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Hello, Nurse!

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Maybe she’s a nurse. Maybe she’s a doctor. Maybe she’s just a model in scrubs. Who cares?
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Anais Foulquier, Song Sung Blue, MAGA Maduro vs. Machado, Let’s Make Pizza, Chalet Girl, The First U.S. Governor Of The Territory Of Greenland, Pretenders, “Let It Go”, The Odyssey, “Punk Rock Girl”, Passenger, Americana, and Venezuelans Celebrate Maduro’s Arrest

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Julia Lescova, Fish Pic Friday – Sydnie Wells, Hurricane, The Wednesday Wetness, Gone Fishin’, Tattoo Tuesday, A Bottle Bill for Maryland?, Trump and the ‘Donroe’ Doctrine, The Monday Morning Stimulus, and Palm Sunday

BACON TIME: Rule Five – A Trip To Hooterville

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FMJRA 2.0: Still Stuck In The Ruts

Posted on | January 11, 2026 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Still Stuck In The Ruts

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It was another .500 week for the home team – we lost two of three to the Cardinals, and it would have been a sweep except for a six-run rally in the sixth against Orlando Pena, which gave Jim Kaat his first win in relief. The shoe was on the other foot when the Tribe came to town, though – Pat Dobson lost Game 1 3-4, but in Game 2 the boys rallied for two in the bottom of the 10th to win it for Roger Nelson, who’d come in to relieve Kaat; in Game 3 Bucky Dent, Jim Hargrove and Dave Winfield combined for two runs in the bottom of the ninth to give Charlie Hough his fifth win. So we finish the week 3-3, 31-41 overall – three games behind the third-place Brewers and 6.5 behind the division-leading Twins. Next week we’re facing the Expos (41-28) on Tuesday and the Pirates (26-46) on Friday, so unless things go badly wrong we’ll have another .500 week, or maybe a 4-2 week if we can sweep the Bucs.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.