Early Morning Royals Links: Heat On Hillman, Duffy Update, Etc.

 "Trey Hillman is a man," McBroom said, "who if you were a father, you’d want your son to be."

That is a terrible sentence, and I’m not even talking about the content.

were a strongly unlikely pair of collaborators from the get-go. And yet it might have worked out well were it not for the political circumstance in Germany at the time.
R. Strauss managed to baffle a lot of people at the time as to where his sympathies actually were as the Nazis came to power. He had already ridden out the Great War and borne a certain level of temporary ostracizing from western Europe (and particularly the US) over that, and he probably (I’d guess) expected the second war to be of similarly temporary impact. Whether he was simply blind to just how egregiously horrific the Nazis were already showing themselves to be, or trying to hold on to his prestige regardless, I can’t say. Zweig (for obvious reasons) found that unbearable, whatever the motivation.

I’d bet dollars to donuts it’s just naturally occurring, like some of the cool geologic formations we have Earthside. But if it’s not one of those, we should probably leave it alone. I don’t want to turn into a giant baby floating in space.

Since the Royals’ magical, mystical 18-11 start last season, they have now played 164 games – a full season plus two more games. They’re 58-106 in that span. That’s astonishing. In 2005, the year before Moore was hired, the Royals reached the absolute nadir of their existence by going 56-106. Five years later, despite… a payroll more than 50% higher, despite millions being invested in the farm system, the Royals are exactly as bad now as they were then.

That’s…oh my god.