How are Reagan and Trump different?
Ronaldus Maximus once broadcast for the Chicago Cubs and had to be somewhat creative*
in fashioning a next-best-to-the-real-thing play by play of actual Cub games off the telegraph
wires.
Donaldus Minimus once threatened the current owners of the Cubs---for no crime worse
than contributing to groups and PACs opposed to him---and was about as creative as a
nursery school student about it.
(*Would Trump have manned up in Reagan's position, when the telegraph wires
failed during one game and---after having the incumbent Cub hitter, Billy Jurges,
fouling off pitch after pitch after pitch after pitch after etc., including missing a
home run by just a few feet---he'd had to admit that Jurges popped out on the
first pitch after the wire service was restored.
I hope that even in his Alzheimer's addled condition Reagan got to see
an actual Los Angeles Dodger do
against the Cubs what he only imagined
Billy Jurges doing, a month before Reagan finally died. 12 May 2004: Alex Cora,
Dodger infielder,
fouled off fourteen straight pitches from Matt Clement before
hitting the eighteenth pitch of the entire at-bat--the count was 2-2--- into the right field
bullpen for a two-run homer. Knowing Reagan, he'd have loved that one . . . )
