Former FBI director James Comey testified in front of the Senate on Thursday and, well, I've almost exceeded my personally imposed limitation on straying outside sports so I'm gonna send you over to CBSNews.com for more coverage on that. We bring this up here because there was a baseball reference!
Senator John McCain was some combination of questioned, mocked and/or criticized for his line of questioning to Comey, and he felt the need to release a statement afterward:
McCain issues a statement on his hearing questions, suggests he shouldn't "stay up late watching Diamondbacks night games" pic.twitter.com/09sSpT0Vcn — Jeremy Herb (@jeremyherb) June 8, 2017
The main part we care about: "Maybe going forward I shouldn't stay up late watching the Diamondbacks night games."
The Diamondbacks played the Padres on Wednesday night. With McCain in D.C., that game would have started at 9:40 p.m. for the senator and it ended at around 1:30 a.m.
The Arizona Diamondbacks are one of the best stories in baseball this season. They have a very good offense behind superstar Paul Goldschmidt, including smooth lefty-swinging Jake Lamb (and hopefully A.J. Pollock returns soon). The rotation has star Zack Greinke at the top, but how about Robbie Ray? He's won each of his last four starts while allowing only one run in 30 1/3 innings with 36 strikeouts and five walks. He's overall been one of the more exciting pitchers in the NL.
Wait, what were we doing again? Oh yeah, talking about Senator McCain saying he shouldn't watch the D-Backs games late. See how caught up I got? They're exciting.
Good news, Mr. McCain: Starting next Tuesday, the D-Backs have an eight-game road trip where the latest start time is 8:40 p.m. ET. You should be in bed no later than midnight and that's probably good enough, right?
Definitely remember to fight about politics on the comments section on a sports website. You can even hurl accusations about my political bias. It's cool. We'll still be friends.
anastus on June 8th, 2017 at 23:02 UTC »
McCain meant that he stayed up all night conversing with a family of illusory rattlesnakes.
spaceborat on June 8th, 2017 at 20:42 UTC »
"I came to the commie hearing but I haven't heard a word "soviets" even once!"
C9High on June 8th, 2017 at 20:35 UTC »
He made no sense at all in that hearing. That was genuinely bizarre and uncomfortable to watch.