Frank McNally

Golf Product Reviews, Wake Forest Sports, Pirates Sadness. Some Government Contracting Stuff. But Mostly 🎩+⛳️ + 🏴‍☠️ #godeacs

[Frank McNally @NecessitysChild]

Last year, my favorite golf partner died. 

I’m talking of course about my og Ping Hoofer, which broke after three decades of steadfast service. 

So how does one replace a legend? By diving into the wide world of golf bags.

Spoiler alert, there’s a lot out there.

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[Ben Pershing @benpershing]

Truth Social will sell Wall Street firms quicker access to market-moving posts from President Donald Trump, the company said on Thursday.

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[Troy @hundredand1]

Most runs scored in baseball belongs to the team in Pittsburgh. Could make a grown man cry🥲

[OptaSTATS @OptaSTATS]

The @Pirates' Esmerlyn Valdez today:

4 go-ahead hits
3 go-ahead homers
1 go-ahead grand slam

No one else in MLB history has done all of that on the same day.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

DOGE deletes itself on July 4th. It will be remembered as a hugely destructive failure.

Musk promised $2 trillion in savings.

What we got, by DOGE’s own unverified math, was $215 billion. Even that number was never proven.

The costs were atrocious. Nearly 140,000 federal workers pushed out. Veterans waiting longer for care. USAID dismantled while people died overseas as a direct result. 20-year-olds with Red Bulls and no college degrees rummaging through Americans’ most sensitive data.

Musk, the world’s richest man, a federal contractor with billions in government business, auditing the government that pays him, accountable to no voter anywhere. 

Even Musk now says he wouldn’t do it again. The guy who ran it calls it a mistake.

Government reform was there for the taking. Both parties know federal technology is outdated. Both parties know waste exists. Fixing it required serious people working with career civil servants who know where the problems actually are. Instead we got a chainsaw, a photo op, and years of lost expertise we now have to rebuild.

Now Trump’s budget director says there will be no final accounting or receipts. They promised transparency and they’re closing up shop in the dark.
They’re counting on us all to forget.
https://t.co/LhgbGUY2Ca

[Frank McNally @NecessitysChild]

That’s Panic, man!

[Blockhead @BlockheadNYC]

I shit on AI a lot but this close up of the AI image trump posted of people at the 250th anniversary fair is HIGH ART.

[Frank McNally @NecessitysChild]

@holdmycocoon @Heythrsourgrpez I think the P-Funk name changes had more to do with record label disputes than band composition, though it did evolve. Can’t claim to know enough Pixies. Nirvana rocks but unfortunately not for long enough to merit a spot. Would rather see Pearl Jam there.

[Frank McNally @NecessitysChild]

@Heythrsourgrpez Keep putting in the work and you’ll get to a full month in no time.

[Frank McNally @NecessitysChild]

@flieldy Your point about Zappa as band leader is spot on, and somewhat applies to Fagan and Becker, given their extensive rotation of studio musicians.

However, they composed and produced it all themselves, and their entire catalogue is absolutely brilliant. They’re in my top 5.

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

It's actually mind-boggling that @JDVance would say Watergate would be a "10 hour story" today.
Just to review, Nixon's aides authorized a break-in of the DNC HQ to install bugging equipment--in a caper foiled by a night watchman, who called police. They then enlisted the CIA to mislead the FBI that the break-in was related to a probe of malign foreign actors.
The entire operation was paid for by a slush fund controlled by the WH.
The WH also enlisted the IRS to probe hundreds of Nixon's political enemies.
The AG, the WH COS and several other top aides all were convicted and served time for their involvement in the crimes and coverup.
Nixon was caught on his own secret tape system conspiring with them but was pardoned a month after he resigned by his successor, Gerald Ford.
That Vance thinks this would be a "10 hour story" today speaks volumes about the moral and ethical degradation of the Trump era.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Happy Fathers Day to the best and most involved generation of dads in recorded history

[Walter Masterson @waltermasterson]

Name a better take than this on the Iran war, I’ll wait.

[Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson]

Not everyone can do the noble profession of podcasting about betting lines.

[Frank McNally @NecessitysChild]

This trend sucks. If I want 36oz of coors I’d rather crack three cans.

I never want 22oz of Diet Coke but good luck finding a 12oz can in a gas station on your next roadtrip.

Tall boys are great but shouldn’t be the only option.

[OutKick @Outkick]

Coors Light is rolling out a 'Tallerboy' for the World Cup that holds THREE beers in it

On sale tomorrow on Coors website

[Terry Moran 🇺🇸 @TerryMoran]

It’s not about arguments. It’s about facts.

I know one great fact about American elections, and I know it because the Republican Party has proved it to me:

There is no election fraud of any consequence anywhere in the United States.

The Republican Party and its allies, FOR DECADES, have been searching high and low, in every corner of our country, for evidence of election fraud.

This effort has been made with vast sums of money and other resources, and with some of the greatest powers in our nation at the party’s disposal:

A presidential commission under President Donald Trump.

The Department of Justice under President Donald Trump, armed with the resources of the FBI, and the powers of subpoena.

Committees of Congress under Republican control, also armed with the powers of subpoena and the investigative resources of the first branch of government.

State legislatures under Republican control, also with subpoena powers, have launched similar efforts to find evidence of election fraud.

Republican-controlled states have set up special commissions and task forces, some with subpoena powers, all well-funded and with access to the state’s electoral systems.

Conservative academics and think tanks have launched projects seeking out evidence of election fraud.

Fox News and the rest of MAGA media have dedicated significant resources to finding evidence of election fraud.

What is the result of this enormous Republican effort to find election fraud?

Ask The Heritage Foundation.

For nearly a decade, Heritage has maintained an “Election Fraud Database.”

The database contains “proven instances of election fraud.”

It covers elections going back nearly fifty years.

That’s billions and billions of American votes.

Right now, the total number of proven instances of election fraud that Heritage can document is:

1620.

That’s an infinitesimal number, vanishingly small, and it is solid proof of two things:

1. Some individuals commit election fraud.

2. There is no evidence at all of systemic or even widespread election fraud anywhere in the USA.

The election-fraud panic is the Big Lie of our time.

It is peddled by people who know better. Their own investigations over decades demonstrate that.

Stop trying to subvert our democracy.

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[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Let's walk through what actually happened here, in order.

DOGE cut the USAID program specifically designed to prevent screwworm from crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. DOGE cut USDA's animal disease control and prevention funding. That funding had supported more than 180 outbreak investigations in 22 countries and capacity-building in more than 160 laboratories. The screwworm monitoring and response program that watched the border for exactly this parasite - cut.

Then screwworm showed up in Texas cattle. Texas Governor Greg Abbott declared a disaster for Zavala and Uvalde counties this week.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins went on CNBC this morning and blamed the Biden administration, 17 months out of office.

Her specific words: "obviously not much had been done to push back."

The program that was supposed to push back existed. DOGE eliminated it in March 2025. Rollins has been Agriculture Secretary since February 13, 2025. The cuts happened on her watch.

Beef prices are already high. Ranchers in south Texas are now dealing with a flesh-eating parasite that was eradicated in this country in the 1960s - eradicated, specifically, using the sterile fly program her department defunded.

The flies existed. The program existed. The budget existed.

Until it didn't.

[Andrew Fillipponi @ThePoniExpress]

Skenes Night: He’s due. So here’s the deal. If Paul strikes out 9 or more. Like he did the last time he faced the Dodgers. And the Buccos win. I’ll give away 5 Paul Skenes jerseys. Just follow me. And retweet this post. And you’re good. Let’s go Bucs!

[Frank McNally @NecessitysChild]

@MichaelMHanna MLB Playoffs essentially work the same way. Only way to adapt is to celebrate more regular season honoraria. Best team in baseball is the one that wins the most games over 162 (or 60), not over the final series’s.

[Frank McNally @NecessitysChild]

@Golfingbrock With you on this, but I do find it wild that the average lifespan of an MLB baseball is 3 pitches. Once it’s marked or hit, it’s outta there. Where do they all go?!