Pretzel logic from Red Sox Chief Baseball Officer Craig Breslow

Pretzel logic from Red Sox Chief Baseball Officer Craig Breslow

ByJosh Bernoff

Red Sox Nation is disappointed once again. Major League Baseball’s 2025 trade deadline has passed, and the promising Sox came away with nothing more than a marginal starting pitcher and a redundant relief pitcher. But what we did get was perhaps one of the best examples of pretzel logic ever uttered in sports — which,…

On the Supreme Court, Mitch McConnell’s pretzel logic

On the Supreme Court, Mitch McConnell’s pretzel logic

ByJosh Bernoff

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says there’s a reason why it’s okay to push through confirming a Supreme Court Justice now, just before the election, and it wasn’t when Barack Obama nominated a Justice in his last year as president. Let’s examine his justification and see if there’s any way it makes logical sense. The…