"Billy / Impeachment Updates"

Tomorrow, Christmas Day, will be 30 years since 5 time Yankee manager BILLY MARTIN was killed in a drunken car crash.  It seems hard to believe that that much time has passed. Tomorrow is also TEN years since my DAD died.  I've said all I need to say about Dad in my Dec. 18th blog last week but I just want to add this: As far as selfish, self-destructive tendencies went, the two were very, very much alike. Both Billy and my Dad were heavy drinkers.

Yes, Billy Martin was a PLAYER for the Yankees (and other teams) and a MANAGER for the Yankees (and other teams), but the Yanks were his FAVORITE team.  And as I said, he was hired 5 separate times as Yankee manager and would have been rehired AGAIN, if not for his death.  The reason he was fired so many times was his DRINKING.  But the reason he was RE-hired so many times is that, when sober, Billy was a managerial GENIUS.

He was a genius regarding BASEBALL, but sadly, he couldn't see what was happening to him OFF the field. Only a few weeks before he got killed, Billy was in a bar and someone's gun went off.  Reports say that the bullet narrowly missed his head, but he was spared. THAT should have been a warning to him, it WAS a warning, from God (I believe), to knock off the drinking and GET HELP.  But Billy didn't listen, KEPT drinking and it literally killed him.

This spring I read a great book by Bill Pennington, "Billy Martin, Baseball's Flawed Genius." I loved Billy Martin for his managerial strategies and desire to WIN, but instead of being lauded and applauded for THAT he should be held forth as an example of how DRUNKENNESS CAN KILL YOU, SLOWLY OR QUICKLY.

DON'T DRINK AND DRIVE THIS HOLIDAY SEASON, PLEASE!!

Now...more about the "Impotent Impeachment" (Things I've posted recently on Facebook)...

Posted on Facebook on the 21st, my five recent blogs about this bogus "Impeachment"...

1.) 12 / 12---Why the Senate will never remove Trump
http://chetitorial.blogspot.com/…/the-impeachment-fiasco-an…

2.) 12 / 13---Why some Dem Senators should recuse themselves if it goes to Trial
http://chetitorial.blogspot.com/…/does-fairness-matter-any-…

3.) 12 / 15---Democrat Senator Switches to Republican because of Impeachment Fiasco
http://chetitorial.blogspot.com/…/democrat-deserting-sinkin…

4.) 12 / 20---The “Impotent Impeachment” HAPPENS but now Pelosi refuses to make it official…
http://chetitorial.blogspot.com/…/the-impeachment-fiasco-pa…

5.) 12 / 21---Nancy runs away and REFUSES to make this bogus Impeachment official!! It DOESN'T COUNT UNTIL SHE PRESENTS THE ARTICLES TO THE SENATE....
http://chetitorial.blogspot.com/…/pelosi-and-galli-guilty-o…

From Facebook, Dec. 22nd....Alan Dershowitz's new book "GUILT BY ACCUSATION" is sheer brilliance!! It's about bogus sexual harassment claims in the age of MeToo but Nancy Pelosi is employing the same tactic with this bogus Impeachment Fiasco. She wants Trump to be found guilty SIMPLY because he's been accused, and she wants to avert a Senate trial because the EVIDENCE will find him INNOCENT.

From Facebook, Dec. 23rd (yesterday)....I like to keep it simple. The way I see it, anyone who was too scared or blind or prejudiced to see where OBAMA should have been impeached has no right to be on TRUMP'S case. You may have credibility with me in OTHER areas, but in that matter of Trump's "Impotent Impeachment"?? If I didn't hear you speak out about OBAMA I am not interested in what you say NOW.

You can TRY, but it won't FLY......not in MY sky.

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