Rant #2,459: The Loco-Motion

Yes, these are crazy days and crazy times for our country and our world.

As we spoke about yesterday, the Miami Marlines have been infected by the coronavirus, and their season might be in jeopardy.

The last I looked, there were now 17 positive tests, and one positive test of a Philadelphia Phillie employee, for a total of 18 positive tests revolving around the team from Florida.

Their season as been suspended until next week, and the Phillies have also had their own season suspended for a few days, although reports are that no other personnel from the team has tested positive.

This also involves other teams. While the Phillies' season was put on temporary hold, the New York Yankees were supposed to face them in a home-and-home four-game series, and that has also been postponed. The Yankees will now face the Baltimore Orioles on the road, and then finally come home to face the Boston Red Sox in their home opener on Friday.

How did the Marlins catch this bug, and why are they the only team that has been hit hard by the virus? Although we may never know for sure, you can bet that the team's management darn well knows how this happened, and who committed the breach, but they won't ever say, and maybe that's a good thing.

But it really cannot happen again, to the Marlins or to any other team in the league operating during the pandemic.

Baseball is obviously being looked at by the NBA and NHL, who are using "bubble" situations to continue their seasons, where all teams participating play in a specific place--or in the NHL's case, two places--and their movement is restricted. We know that there have been a few breaches of this protocol, but they were quickly addressed and didn't lead to much of anything.

The NFL is another matter. Like MLB, they do not believe that they need to play in a bubble, so there will be movement. But you just know that they are studying what has happened to the Marlins very seriously, and they will try to prevent that from happening in their league as much as possible.

But like with the other leagues, there will be breaches, and they must be addressed quickly, with the hope that like what has happened in the NBA, it doesn't lead to a domino effect like evidently happened with the Marlins.

And on another subject--

I have been getting messages and posts on Facebook trying to convince me that as a Jew, I must support the Black Lives Matter movement.

And what is even more disturbing is that I am receiving these messages from my fellow Jews ... or at least people who I thought were Jewish, but because of their stance, I really and truly have to wonder.

These are coming me all of a sudden as if a command has been deemed by some group or organization that NOW is the time to unleash this salvo, trying to get Jews into the BLM fray.

Well, it might work for some people, but it ain't working for me.

BLM would probably be the last group I would support right now, because I believe any support of this group gives a thumb's up to anarchy and a total dismantling of our country.

And as a Jew, I can never, ever support a group that is so heinous in reference to Judaism and Israel, a group that supports anti-Semites like Louis Farrakhan and Ilhan Omar and Linda Sarsour, a group that supports the annihilation of the Jewish state.

I don't know why I am getting these messages all of a sudden, but I can sure figure it out.

The presidential election is just a few months away, and the "other side" is trying to line up as many supporters as possible.

It is the old "strength in numbers" ploy, but in this case, the purveyors of this dreck are trying to get people like me to basically say, "Well, I don't agree on all of their points, but I will support them, because I do agree on some of their points."

Nope. It won't happen with me, since I agree on none of their points: anti-white, anti-police, money laundering for the Democrats, the use of intimidation tactics, the lack of respect, pro-anarchy ... on top of all the issues they have with Jews and Israel.

Sorry, you have the wrong guy to be trying to sell your snake oil to, because I don't waste my time on utter nonsense created not to unite us, but to divide us further.

But these people persist, trying to show me the "error" of my ways.

Look in the mirror. If there is any error, please ask yourself why you are supporting a terrorist group and helping to make their supposed stand mainstream.

We truly have an ignorant culture right now, a culture that has been programmed to jump on bandwagons and let others think for them, even if it is so obviously wrong.

I have never jumped on any bandwagons, and at 63 years of age, I am certainly not going to change my stance at this point in time.

So to those who want me to join the BLM bandwagon: stop, stop, stop trying to get me on your carousel. BLM has about as much to do with "black lives matter" as the KKK does, and I wouldn't join up with them, so I am certainly not going to join up with you.

Enough already.