What is this man on about?
I don't care about filibuster reform—it's a crock, a distraction from the fact that Democrats are either too impotent to do anything with a 59-seat majority or are (more likely) just hoping no one notices that filibusters conveniently keep them from doing things they don't actually want to do—but I do care about baseball, and I'd like cadaverous senate majority leader Harry Reid to stop lying about the sport's record:
For now, the process seems to be proceeding from the premise that Senate Democrats are fed up with the filibuster. "In baseball," Reid said in a clipped tone, "they used to have the spitball. It originally was used with discretion. But then the ball got wetter and wetter and wetter. So soon, they outlawed the spitball." The same, he said, had happened to the four-corner offense in basketball. "And just the way the spitball was abused in baseball and the four-corner offense was abused in basketball," Reid said, "Republicans have abused the filibuster."
Of course that's so far from what really happened that I'm not even sure where he's trying to go with this, but you can't expect a former boxer from Nevada to know anything about the sport. Anyway someone ought to clue him in because it would make a much better talking point to say, "In baseball, they used to have the spitball. It originally was used with discretion. But then a dude died! And similarly, the filibuster is murderous."
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What's weird is that Reid is old enough to have had stories about the spitball passed down to him by Pappy Reid. Guess they weren't a baseball family.