Dan Gainor: Questions for Trump, Biden from the press are like MLB fastballs vs. extra-easy softballs

Politics is a lot like baseball. But thanks to the news media, press conferences with presidential candidates have turned into a predictable mix of hardball and wiffle ball.

It all depends on which candidate the “journalists” support.

Compare two recent press conferences. Both President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden were gearing up for their trips to riot-torn Kenosha, Wisconsin. Only Trump was the target of fastball after fastball. Every journalist pitch was designed to make him strike out — or to flat out bean him.

Reporters raised...