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By Joe Torosian

Kick it!

I’m going to The Ravine tonight. 

The plan, for now, is to have a meal. Dodger Dog, peanuts, water… the problem is, I don’t have a co-signer…Anyone want to help me out?

…And what sort of pretentious joint doesn’t take cash?

I’m a Mets fan, I’d say, “Go Mets!” if I could, but it doesn’t look like my team’s going anywhere.

Where have you gone, Lucas Duda? The 7-Line turns its lonely eyes to you.

There’s talk about former Raider/Alabama wide receiver, Henry Ruggs, who killed a 23-year-old woman by ramming his car into her while drunk, coming back to the NFL if he makes parole this August.

Call me crazy, but after killing someone by driving 156 mph into the back of a car and burning the driver and her dog to death while massively over the legal limit…and getting released after serving 36 months doesn’t sound much like justice to me.

Staying in the desert, I knew Phoenix would struggle in the play-in game without Walter Davis.

Lost in WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert’s draft presser—beyond mandated grievance at being asked a question—was her unintended outing of the ‘thousands of women, diverse people, and men’ who help run the WNBA. Run a league that has never made a profit in 29 seasons and loses millions each year.
Good to know.
With that said, how do you expand and give the players more money…unless someone is printing money for you?

Dianna Russini re-signs…and doesn’t fight back…and basically confirms everything the pictures of her and Mike Vrabel implied.

If you’re innocent but accused of an ethical/moral violation, and your reputation is about to be destroyed, you fight and go scorched earth. You don’t rollover.

And, I actually liked her content. Russini presented—no pun intended—as someone who did the work.

If the NFL decides to put Sunday Night Football on Netflix, I won’t follow. The only thing Netflix has is Seinfeld…and it is incapable of doing sports.

I’ll say it again, Elon, Bezos, and a bunch of their billionaire friends with blank-you money need to start a league of their own in direct competition with the NFL.

Then again, Bezos is already in league with the NFL.

The NFL is exercising unchecked tyranny on its fans because there is nothing and no one to hold it accountable.

Looking at LaMelo Ball—after taking down Bam—I have to ask, out of curiosity, not judgment, when does ink become enough ink? Isn’t there a threshold you cross where all the individual tats meld into one blurry tat? Thus losing the intended impact of the statement.

Final Add WNBA: Overs & Unders on how many games into the season before Caitlin Clark is cheap-shotted and sidelined?

I say less than five.

The only thing missing with the Hornets last night was Kelly Tripucka, Rex Chapman, and pleated shorts. But who needs any of those guys when Coby White is going full Lamar Mundane?

#25—May the San Francisco Giants rot and lie stinking in the earth…

Something to remember about the NFL Draft…is that there are always receivers and edge rushers from one year to the next. Yes, there are outliers, but quarterback is the only position outlier you need to win a Super Bowl.

Two players worth trading up for? Jeremiyah Love and Sonny Styles…and if I didn’t have to go to far—because you can always find a receiver—Carnell Tate.

The Dude abides…

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