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TRUMP BLOWS HIMSELF UP AGAIN
Making Sense by Michael Reagan
Donald Trump didn’t listen.
Last week I said the only thing that could save his campaign was for him to literally shut up for at least a month.
My modest proposal was for his campaign people to lock him in a soundproof booth until November 9th.
But forget that. I’ve got a better idea to put the Trump circus train on the right track.
Trump’s support in the polls is stuck at about 42 percent.
To win, we know he has to get the votes of disaffected Republicans, terrified independents and people who don’t already believe Obama was born in a grass hut in Kenya.
But to get their support by Election Day he has to do two things.
He has to stop saying stupid things in public and he has to give a hundred more speeches like the great one he delivered in Detroit on Monday.
Unfortunately, there’s just one way to prevent Trump from saying stupid things and it’s probably against federal election laws.
His campaign people need to make him wear a shock collar —- just like the ones you put on your family dog for those invisible backyard fences.
That way, every time Donald strays from the teleprompter, Paul Manafort can just hit the button and give him a big jolt upside the neck.
“Although the Second Amendment people, maybe ….†—- ZAAAPPPPP.
This week was a total disaster, but it began with a really good speech in Detroit. Of course someone else wrote it. Of course Trump read it.
But with a few exceptions his conservative economic ideas sounded like they came from the Wall Street Journal editorial page.
Trump said he’d cut income tax rates, increase individual exemptions, reduce the number of tax brackets from seven to three and slash the corporate tax rate to 15 percent.
He’d also end the death tax and the alternative minimum tax.
What Trump said in Detroit —- especially the part about how the city has been wrecked by half a century of local Democratic rule and liberal federal social policies —- should become his standard stump speech.
He could read it almost word for word in city after city. All he’d have to do is change Detroit to Chicago, Toledo, St. Louis, etc.
A speech like that is what it takes to win a general election, not another speech calling Hillary a liar or charging the Clinton family with pioneering the globalization of graft.
Trump got great media coverage for his Detroit speech but it didn’t even last a day.
On Tuesday every liberal in the media was parsing his comments about “Second Amendment people†to prove he was encouraging the assassination of Hillary or joking about it.
I’m surprised no one on CNN’s panel of liberals went to a blackboard and started to diagram Trump’s sentences.
But the media don’t really care what he actually says or meant to say. They’ll spin it whichever way they can so that Trump appears to be in favor of killing babies.
Trump blew himself up again, thanks to his own stupidity and lack of self-control.
Instead of getting a week of praise for a hard-hitting economic speech, he spent four days watching the print and electronic media gang up on him like he was America’s Vladimir Putin.
Instead of enjoying Hillary Clinton stumbling over answers to questions about her emails, or explaining why the Taliban-loving father of the Orlando mass murderer was her biggest supporter, Trump hogged the airtime.
He proved my point last week —- just shut up, Donald.
It’s a shame. If any of the other 16 candidates had won the Republican primary this election would be over.
All Trump and his daily fumbles are doing now is opening the door wider and wider for the libertarian twins, ex-Republican governors Gary Johnson and Bill Weld.
At the end of the day, they may be the only adults in the room.
OTTERS TIE SERIES WITH VAIL’S PITCHING
 The Evansville Otters took down the Southern Illinois Miners nine to three in game two of the series. The Otters had outstanding pitching from Tyler Vail and the Otters offense had a fantastic hitting night with 12 on the night.
Vail pitched for six innings, allowing six hits, two runs and had nine strikeouts on the night. With the win, Vail moves to six and three on the season. For the Miners Dyllon Nuernberg started on the mound and received the loss. On the night, Nuernberg allowed five hits, six runs, and had four walks in four innings. Nuernberg will move to six and four on the season with the loss.
The Otters would build a two to zero lead in the first, when Rolando Gomez and Josh Allen both scored. In the third, the Otters would score two more when Chris Breen blasted a two-run homer to score Christopher Riopedre. The Miners would put up one run in the fourth to make it four to one with Brandon Cummins RBI-single. The Otters would answer the Miners with Julio Rodriguez’s RBI-double to bring in Breen.
The Otters would go on the attack in the fifth to put two more runs on the board. Nik Balog would score Allen with an RBI- single, and John Schultz had an RBI-single to score Riopedre. In the sixth, Josh Allen continued the scoring with a triple off the right field wall to score Gomez to extend the lead eight to one.
The Miners would finally make their way back on the score board in the seventh with a two run homer over right field wall from Shane Kennedy. Rodriguez would find his second RBI of the game when he brought in Breen with a single to extend the lead to nine to three.
The Otters (42-32) take on the Miners (51-26) in game three of the series Sunday, August 14. First pitch takes place at 5:05pm at Bosse Field. Tickets available at www.evansvilleotters.com or by phone at 812-435-8686 ext. 21.
EVANSVILLE, IN, August 13, 2016 – The Evansville Otters took down the Southern Illinois Miners nine to three in game two of the series. The Otters had outstanding pitching from Tyler Vail and the Otters offense had a fantastic hitting night with 12 on the night.
Vail pitched for six innings, allowing six hits, two runs and had nine strikeouts on the night. With the win, Vail moves to six and three on the season. For the Miners Dyllon Nuernberg started on the mound and received the loss. On the night, Nuernberg allowed five hits, six runs, and had four walks in four innings. Nuernberg will move to six and four on the season with the loss.
The Otters would build a two to zero lead in the first, when Rolando Gomez and Josh Allen both scored. In the third, the Otters would score two more when Chris Breen blasted a two-run homer to score Christopher Riopedre. The Miners would put up one run in the fourth to make it four to one with Brandon Cummins RBI-single. The Otters would answer the Miners with Julio Rodriguez’s RBI-double to bring in Breen.
The Otters would go on the attack in the fifth to put two more runs on the board. Nik Balog would score Allen with an RBI- single, and John Schultz had an RBI-single to score Riopedre. In the sixth, Josh Allen continued the scoring with a triple off the right field wall to score Gomez to extend the lead eight to one.
The Miners would finally make their way back on the score board in the seventh with a two run homer over right field wall from Shane Kennedy. Rodriguez would find his second RBI of the game when he brought in Breen with a single to extend the lead to nine to three.
The Otters (42-32) take on the Miners (51-26) in game three of the series Sunday, August 14. First pitch takes place at 5:05pm at Bosse Field. Tickets available at www.evansvilleotters.com or by phone at 812-435-8686 ext. 21.
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 Evansville’s Lilly King and Team USA bring home the gold in the 4×100 Medley Relay with a time of 3:53.13.
The Reitz alum concludes her participation in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics with two gold medals. She won the 100m Breaststroke and set an Olympic record Monday.
Team USA Swim coach Ray Looze called King’s second leg in the event “crucial†in an interview with 44Sports Thursday, which is why King sat out of the event’s qualifying heat Friday.
King will spend the remainder of the Olympics, which concludes August 21, with family and watching other events.
She’s going to stay through closing ceremonies because she had to not go to opening ceremonies,†Looze said. “She’s going to have a really full slate. I know she wants to see track and field and stuff like that so hopefully she will have some time with her parents to go see other sports.â€
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Mena, Torres Win Three Races Apiece
Shadow Rock Takes overnight Handicap;
Jet Away Sue Could Be Rising Star
Jockey Miguel Mena won three races on Saturday’s Ellis Park card, including taking the featured $42,000 The Coup overnight handicap on Shadow Rock by a head over Ohio shipper Woodland Walk, with Mongol Bull another head back in third.
Also pulling off a hat trick was Francisco Torres, who last Sunday had been in a scary mishap when his mount flipped and sent him to the hospital.
Mena won the second race on the Lynn Whiting-trained Jamaica Bet and the fourth on Sayler’s Creek for trainer Wes Hawley. Torres captured the first race on Burstall (trainer Angel Montano), the fifth on Warcraft (Bernie Flint) and the seventh on the promising 2-year-old filly Jet Away Sue for trainer Randy Morse.
Shadow Rock was a $62,500 claim two races earlier at Churchill Downs by trainer Mike Maker for owner Michael Hui. Well-traveled, the son of Distorted Humor shipped from Kentucky to Gulfstream Park, finishing second in a stakes July 2, then up to Saratoga and back to Kentucky for this race. The 6-year-old gelding now is 9-4-2 in 37 starts and has two wins and two seconds in four starts over the Ellis turf.
“It was a nice day. We had a bunch of live mounts today, starting with Lynn Whiting and Wes Hawley,†Mena said after Shadow Rock covered 5 1/2 furlongs on grass in 1:02.31, paying $7.80 as the second choice. “And this horse, Shadow Rock, he’s been here before and won. He likes the track and they said he was doing well. And he was rolling for home.Â
“The race was full of speed. He had a good trip. Just in the gate, the 7 and 10 came over on him, a little sandwich with us and we had to check a little bit. After that, it was just sweet. We split horses, didn’t have to go wide. The hole opened up and he was just running hard. He was the best horse today.â€
Tom Durant’s favored Jet Away Sue, racing in blinkers for the first time, led all the way for a 2 1/4-length victory over Dynamic Union. Jet Away Sue, a daughter of Quality Road who cost $320,000 at the OBS March auction this year, ran 6 1/2 furlongs in 1:17.30 and paid $4.60 to win in the field of 11 two-year-old fillies.
“I was working her before she ever ran, and told Randy she probably was the best mare he’s had in a while,†Torres said. “She’s going to improve as she goes longer. She’s got that speed, that long steady pace. She’s one to keep an eye on. She’s going to go places.â€
Jet Away Sue had raced once before, coming in second by 5 3/4 lengths June 17 at Churchill Downs. Though Morse hadn’t necessarily assumed she’d win that day at 4 1/2 furlongs, he said he expected her to finish better. The next day she had a 103 temperature, he said.
“She’s shown a lot of talent,†Morse said. “We paid a lot of money for her, she’s supposed to. I think she’s sure a quality filly. She always acted to me like she wants to go two turns. Hopefully she’ll go on and do big things.â€
Of the blinkers, he said, “She’s one of those who kind of looks (around). It was more to keep her focused.â€
Morse said that Jet Away Sue could race next in Churchill Downs’ $150,000 Pocahontas Stakes Sept. 17.
Torres returning for Saturday morning fan experience
There will be two more sessions of “Making of a Racehorse,†the Saturday morning fan experience staged by Ellis Park in conjunction with the Kentucky division of the Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association. Torres will make a return appearance (he was the featured jockey the day before he got hurt). The free event is open to all ages and starts at 7:30 a.m. Central by the starting gate positioned in the mornings near the south end of Ellis’ parking lot by the Ohio River levee. The informal program, which lasts about 1 1/2 hours, includes a barn visit with trainer John Hancock, who this Saturday delighted kids in attendance by giving them a spin around the barn on a racetrack pony.