It’s interesting because you know Ohtani is playing the Jackie Chan role to these fools:

Thank you! Been saying DeMaurice Smith is the most feckless union leader in sports for years. Another clown who assumed the NFL was negotiating in good-faith when it involved the reallocation of resources to veteran players as a result of instituting a rookie salary cap. Nope: veteran players are increasingly…

Here’s the money quote:

A few days ago I said the Jets led the league in organizational dysfunction. The Browns are really trying to regain that mantle. Having said that..

They don’t deserve him. Most importantly, Bill O’Brien doesn’t deserve him. Deshaun’s in a Catch-22. Ball out in order to receive the inevitable $120 million+ guaranteed contract coming his way next year and remain stuck to O’Brien or suck and miss out of said pay but get rid of O’Brien in the process.

In what world would anyone think it would be a good idea to have the football medical staff to oversee injured basketball players? I never understood why (well yes I do, Old Man Benson was cheap and delusional) any professional basketball front-office would even permit this (WTH does Mickey Loomis know about…

Here’s the thing. Not only did Chicago pass up a generational talent in Mahomes but they also passed up another potential one who played in the exact same conference and won the national championship in the only year your current quarterback played in college. What makes it bad is both of them is completely wrecking…

This. Oh so this. That $69 billion is not liquid. It’s paper propped up by a crazed market that will come crashing down sooner rather than later.  

Oh Lord. Anyone who remotely think it’s a good idea to allow the Facebooks and Googles of the world unregulated access to issue cryptocurrency is begging for an authoritarian technocracy. If anything, cryptocurrency should be regulated much more harshly than traditional lending. I’ve reviewed countless plans of…

Ah good ol’ Toradol. The drug that never dies (in the NFL). 

Wow. Just wow. I mean it’s like people in power (namely white men) refuse to acknowledge when they are at fault. The entire front office should be fired now. They attempted to smear, intimidate and flat-out discredit a person who simply did her job. This is the epitome of privilege.

This is utter bullshit. The Astros wasn’t going to do a damn thing about this until Stephanie spoke up (kudos to her) and MLB pulled their card. They should be raked over the coals for this.

“They’re going to have to keep overpaying free agents, because nobody in their right mind would sign on to play for this management for anything less.”

Yes they do. As a former employee of a federal agency, it was pretty much SOP to over-spend past the budget to ensure you get more the following year. That’s why right before the fiscal year ends in September the govt spends excessively.

You have to love the NFL. It’s the only sport in which what ails the athlete is called by the body part instead of the actual injury. I believe Al Michaels started this with the “he’s out with a knee”. Thing is as sports fans we know exactly what that means. 

Boy did he ever downgrade from that goddess.

Altuve is the one that makes the Astros special. He’s the driving force. Not Springer. Not Bergman. Not Correa. Jose is. Houston was destroyed last year when he wasn’t healthy. He’s healthy now and changes everything for them.

He ain’t lying.  You know the place I thought was similar for a black man like myself but was pleasantly surprised: Salt Lake City. When I landed at SLC Int’l Airport, I was expecting the absolute worst. Boy was I wrong. 

Bingo. The NFLPA is a terrible union led by a feckless Executive Director. The NFL owners actually have an award in mocking how easy it is to take advantage of him. 

Try watching the 4th season of The Wire if you want to see how devastating the system can be on kids.