Oh Ho

What with the Red Sox peddling Mookie Betts, beer selling for $12 and box seats priced at $140 we may see somewhat less than full houses at Fenway this year. Ron Roenicke looks as though he’ll be named Sox manager. ‘Bout time they came up with someone with just a few days away from spring training. Any investigations of Alex Cora’s cheating while Boston manager would seem to reason that his bench coach, Roenicke, would have knowledge of and be a part of that situation. Then why would he be tabbed with the new managerial responsibilities? Beats me.

Seven Democratic candidates took part in this week’s debate. The one who was not present is the one I still believe has the best chance to beat Trump in the general election, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.  Perhaps the reason some of Friday night’s debaters negated his candidacy was reasoning he’s using his wealth to buy the presidency. Don’t we already have a person in office who did. By the way, the New York Daily News has a new moniker for Donald Trump, The GOPfather.

As you may have noticed, I’ve expressed a certain distain for the Oscars show in the past. However, Bev and I will be watching this time around for two very good reasons, namely Renee Zelwegger and “Judy”.  She, as Judy Garland, is absolutely marvelous and despite other worthy performers in the category of Best Actress our votes enthusiastically go to Renee.  From beginning to end, she is captivating as “Judy”.

 Adding to the tragedy of Kobe Bryant, his daughter and all others killed in the recent helicopter crash the fact that the chopper was but 12 seconds from clear skies.

The awarding of The Medal of Freedom during Trump’s State Of The Union address was misplaced.  Sorry, Rush Limbaugh is no way in the same league as former winners such as Rosa Parks, George Balanchine, Frank Sinatra and Tennessee Williams.