The TEN: 5/17/2023

mvs on May 17, 2023 — 2 Comments

(“The TEN” is not a top ten but ten items worth being included in “The TEN”)

  1. Lakers fell to the Denver Nuggets 132-126 Tuesday night in Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals.
  2. The Philadelphia 76ers fired head coach Doc Rivers after three years. The 76ers were eliminated in the Eastern Conference Semi-Finals in all three years under Rivers. 
  3. The San Antonio Spurs won the 2023 NBA draft lottery and will have the number one overall pick. 
  4. Quarterback Matt Ryan, who played last year with the Indianapolis Colts and 14 years with the Atlanta Falcons, has joined CBS Sports as an NFL analyst. However he said he is not officially retiring from the NFL. 
  5. The Rumble at the Ranch is scheduled for Saturday June 10 at El Rancho High School.  
  6. Dodgers pitcher Walker Buehler is hoping to return by September 1. 
  7. The Oakland A’s have reached an agreement with Bally’s Corp. to build a potential stadium on the Tropicana hotel site along the Las Vegas strip.  
  8. The Dodgers, at 27-15, had the best record in the National League going into Tuesday night’s action. 
  9. On this date in 1979 the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Chicago Cubs 23-22 at Wrigley Field in Chicago. There were 50 hits and 11 home runs overall in the game. 
  10. Former champion boxer /1976 Olympic gold medalist Sugar Ray Leonard turns 67 today. 

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  1. Ron Vrooman, AHS stat man's Gravatar Ron Vrooman, AHS stat man
    May 23, 2023 - 7:05 pm | Permalink

    @ RAMS FAN: No one has been able to do Moneyball the way General Manager Billy Bean did for Oakland in the late ’90’s and early 2000’s. Bean made that wonderful combination of data analytical skill and limited financial resources work for the A’s. (He had a lot of help from Paul DiPodesta, who was a bust with the Dodgers, but DiPodesta had the misfortune of working with the inept and ethically-challenged McCourt family when he was in L.A.)
    Theo Epstein (Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs) and Andrew Friedman (Tampa Bay Rays and L.A. Dodgers) are also highly-skilled purveyors of the analytical craft, but they’ve been given much bigger bankrolls. That’s sort of like cheating.

  2. RAMS FAN's Gravatar RAMS FAN
    May 17, 2023 - 6:34 am | Permalink

    7. Better start putting a team that can win some games on the field or it’ll be a waste of a billion dollars. What ever happened to money ball?

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