A little of this and a little of that

 As Major League Baseball begins preseason play this week, they're adopting new ideas on a temporary basis that might confuse some folks.

For the first week of games, which began Sunday, games will be a bit shorter, somewhere between 5 and 7 innings, based on an agreement between managers up to 24 hours prior to the game. That, in truth, is detrimental to minor leaguers hoping to impress the major league managers and coaches to the point of making a major league roster. It will be a point of discussion for broadcasters all this week, but, fortunately, things will get back to normal in time for the start of the regular season in four weeks.

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While Orlando is home to the "Magic Kingdom" (Disney World), a small portion of the city hosted the Temple of Trump the last four days.

The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), like the Republican National Convention in August, was more about catering to the bruised ego of former President Donald Trump.

In a 90 minute speech Sunday, Citizen Pampers claimed he wasn't going to form a 3rd party, but instead claimed he wanted to unify the Republican Party. However, he's still claiming the election four months ago was "stolen" (it wasn't), and he took issue with the GOP Senators & Congressmen that voted to impeach him last month for inciting the January 6 attack on the Capitol.

"I won the election! I really did! WAAAAAHHHHHH!"

No, you didn't. Get over yourself. It's been four months, and you still can't accept defeat publicly? 

So you had embattled Texas Senator Ted "Sea" Cruz attempt to be a stand-up comic when he should've been welcoming President Biden to Texas, leaving that to Governor Greg Abbott. He tried insulting Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, which probably won't end well once Cruz returns to Washington. You'd think Cruz'd have learned by now, you don't mess with Alex From The Block!

Of course, Dumb Donald II and his tag-along, Screaming Kimi, and the CEO of Goya Foods, spewed the usual garbage. Goya sales will be dropping further as long as the company continues to support the oldest man-child in the world.

Meanwhile, back in New York, Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance, Jr. has finally gotten what he wanted, and that was a phat, nine year collection of Trump's tax records (2011-19). The public might never find out what's in those records, unless someone in Vance's office is willing to share with the press.

Bottom line? Trump, Dumb Donald II, and Stupid-E's asses likely are in slings by the end of the year, if not in jail.

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Governor Andrew Cuomo manned up, and apologized for what has been perceived as sexual harassment of a former assistant. As we speculated over the weekend, Cuomo, in attempting to be a mentor, had asked some personal questions that were perceived to be uncomfortable. He's also willing to have AG Letitia James hire an independent party to act as a deputy AG to conduct a review of Cuomo's conduct. Cuomo was himself an AG under former governors Eliot Spitzer & David Paterson more than a decade ago.

The public perception here is that with Trump out of the picture presently, Cuomo has been stripped of his heroic white knight armor, and now is another governor on the hot seat, just like Spitzer. Father Mario never had to deal with that sort of thing back in the day.