Rant #3,027: Pop Goes the World

My wife is slightly better, but she appears to be in for at least another couple of days of being highly infected, and affected by, the COVID virus.

And the good news is that the other member of our traveling party who was sick a few days after getting off the boat tested negative for COVID, and simply has a bad cold.

My wife now believes that she got the virus from the gym, whether onboard the ship or later, when she actually went back to her regular gym.

What with the sweating, the heavier breathing or whatever due to exercise, she believes that she got it from being there.

We will never know for sure where she got it from, but even if there is the slightest notion that it could have come from the ship’s gym, if we ever go on another cruise, she will do her exercising in our stateroom, and stay away from this Petri dish of viruses.

And then—and there is no easy sequeway into this story—we have the case of Brittney Grinner, the WNBA star who finally came home as a result of a prisoner swap with Russia.

This anti-American piece of garbage, you might remember, was arrested by Russian authorities for having marijuana and vaping materials in her luggage, and was put in the clink for nine years of presumably hard labor.

Funny, jail time in Russia all of a sudden made her become very patriotic. All she wanted to do was come home and be with her wife—no, I am not going to get into that here—but the Russian authorities were very clear that this lady—no, I am not going to get into that here, either—would only be released if the prisoner swap was right.

President Biden bent over backwards--figuratively and literally—to get this human garbage released, while other more deserving American political prisoners held in Russian jails sit and wait for their turn.

And we know why he did what he did, and that is also so obvious that I am also not going to get into it here.

Let’s remember that among the other things that this sudden patriot has done to disparage the country that bailed her out of prison was that she protested the playing of the National Anthem before WNBA games.  

She did not take the floor when the anthem was played, and she announced her plans to protest all season against the National Anthem, saying, "Black people didn't have rights at that point. ... It's hard [dis]respecting a song that didn't even represent all Americans when it was first made."

(Yes, she actually said “disrespecting,” but we know what this Einstein meant.)

And she has made other negative remarks about the country that she professed love for when sitting in jail … so this is who you do a prisoner swap for?

Grinner should kiss the ground that she has a friend in Biden. She will be hailed as a hero and a martyr …

And the next time she opens her mouth against this country that bailed her out, put a sock in it, please. 

If this country is such a terrible place for you, then please go back to Russia … presumably without your drugs of choice.

And then … there is also no easy sequeway for this one either … we have Aaron Judge staying with the New York Yankees,

The American League’s reigning MVP scored a $40-million a year contract, for nine years, and while as a Yankees fan I am happy that he stayed put where he was, I have to question all the maneuvering that led up to this contract.

It was the Yankees versus the San Francisco Giants here, and then the San Diego Padres jumped in at the last minute with an offer that might have even been better than the Yankees’ offer.

Pitting one against another against another, the numbers jumped and the Yankees got their man … but with this signing, and some other over-over-priced, high-salary signings, how can anyone believe the owners when they say they are losing money each and every year?

The annual winter meetings expose the owners as frauds, as liars, and makes them as demonic as the players can be when it comes to salaries.

If you are in the game, then you are in the game, and stop trying to sell the public on your poverty.

And as for the players, how much money is enough? We peons can barely afford the tickets that are being sold to the games you play in and make your money from, and we don’t have agents bargaining for us when we look for an increase in salary at our own jobs.

The owners and players deserve each other, and the fans are left at the altar, forgotten by both factions, pretty much as collateral damage from this out-of-control spending.

I mean, who pays for the Aaron Judges of the world … we do!

Have a great weekend, and I will speak to you again on Monday.