Okay sports fans, the exhibition match between The Powers That Be vs The Great Unwashed in The Secretary's Server game is winding down. The score at the bottom of the ninth inning with three minutes left to play is TPTB 112, TGU 1.

We had some real powerhouse participants and plays that we'll just go ahead and recap and then we will open the voting for Most Valuable Player.

The Nominees for Most Valuable Player on the side of TPTB are:

The President - limited his appearances on the field but we believe was a strong presence in the clubhouse. Faked out TGU with his assurance that he learned about the email and the server the same time as everyone else, when he had actually corresponded with said email a number of times using a fake name! Also may have greased the balls with early pronouncement of the SOS's innocence, leading many to wonder, why do we even have the game if TPTB know the score in advance?

The Secretary - already the winner of the Lillian Hellman Trophy for Outstanding Misspeaking (1)- she may make it look easy, but it takes real skill to transform literally every word coming out of your mouth into a lie including "and" and "the". There is no one to match her when it comes to delivering a False Exculpatory as pointed out by Trey Gowdy.

The Attorney General a ref who got herself thrown out of the game by hanging around tarmacs with the Secretary's husband, the guy who actually had started her career as a ref in the Minor Leagues. But, like the Prez, still a clubhouse presence. Five immunities from DOJ! No one in living memory has ever handed out five immunities to five subjects with no payoff except silence and a stifled prosecution. What, that was the goal? Not a failure, but a success? Got it. A stellar example of Inside Baseball. Kudos, AG.

The FBI Director the guy from central casting who could give lessons in Earnestness in weekend seminars. But what's this? He's not just the stolid gumshoe who worked his way up in the ranks? He's a former executive for a company that got 17 private contracts from the Secretary's DOS and that contributed to the Clinton Foundation and was part of another organization that paid Bill Clinton speaking fees? And he's on the Board of another entity that routinely partners with the Clinton Foundation? Gee, who knew?

The Nominees for the Most Valuable Player for TGU are the following:

The Public we've got to admire the grit of people who keep showing up to root for their team despite the longest string of losses in recent history, beginning with Bush v Gore. Keep turning out, people. The odds of probability alone say that someday we'll win one

The Republicans in Congress normally the proverbial Bad News Bears, but they do show some signs of improvement, especially in the showmanship category. Who doesn't love Chaffetz sending down subpoenas from the dais, or the gobsmacked look on Trey Gowdy's face as the prosecutorial Earth tilts on its axis directly below his chair? Even Darrel Issa, delivered a solid performance in contrast to his previous bufoonery, with a thundering exposure of the immunity grants containing immunity for destruction, effectively walling off any further efforts to pursue obstruction of justice charges. (Note, we did not notice any Democrats who suited up for this particular game on the side of TGU against TPTB. In fact they all went and sat in TPTB stands.)

Conservative Press Another surprise Nominee. Like the Democrats, most of the supposedly liberally biased MSM sat this one out. TGU found themselves driven to such sources as Fox News, The National Review, the NY Post, the Daily Caller because of the news blackout on the other side. There were some liberal media holdouts who did not sell their souls to the Dems and the DNC in this game, but they were few and far between. The Washington Post with its "Just a Doggone Moment, This Is Out Of Control" op-ed from its Editorial Board cemented that it is now officially In The Tank. The NYT seems to have simply evaporated into a No Compelling Reason To Read outlet.

You have the Nominees, please cast your vote.

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I have two public announcements before you leave the stands:

*The Great Unwashed can expect the exhibition games of The Clinton Foundation Investigation and the Congressional Perjury/Obstruction games to be rained out and not to be rescheduled

* Attendance is down and a lot of former fans are asking for refunds and threatening not to show up for The Big Game this November. TPTB know they have to do better and in order to buck up morale have decreed that everyone on the TGU team will receive a participation trophy, a Hope and Change tee-shirt and a kazoo.

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Footnote 1 Lillian Hellman Trophy- Why that name for the trophy? The phrase about every word including "and" and "the being a lie" was famously deployed by the writer Mary McCarthy against the writer Lillian Hellman in their bitter and notorious feud. The trophy's name is a historical reference to that event. The feud is literary "inside baseball" and old history but I thought the name for the trophy bore further explanation since it was probably a mystery to many.
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(This article has been edited to add the information in the footnote and to switch the link in the section about the FBI director to the original source Breitbart as opposed to the secondary source first used)