By Joe Torosian
Kick it!
Regarding Brendan Sorsby… I’m glad the Rams drafted Ty Simpson.
The greatest universal, international spectacle in sports plays four matches on Monday, and all four end in a tie.
What Geraldo found in Al Capone’s vaults was more interesting.
I could go to any Amway symposium and sit there for days with a big smile on my face, and people would ask, “How can you stand it?”
I’d answer, “I watched the World Cup on Monday, I can take anything!”
And they’d say, ”I know exactly what you mean. Four games, four ties, ugh!”
I believe in the standard that you take your friend’s keys if they are about to drive drunk. But I also think friends should turn off a friend’s mic when they’re about to say something equivalent to the results of gastrointestinal distress.
Colin Cowherd needs a friend to turn off his mic when he tries to talk about Magic Johnson. An otherwise talented, well-prepared sports talk personality like Cowherd demonstrates every time he speaks about Magic that he never saw or studied his play.
Probably because he was having World Cup fantasies.
The Dallas Wings crushed the Las Vegas Aces last night 96-66. People talk about A’ja Wilson, Paige Bueckers, and Azzi Fudd, but Dallas center/forward Jessica Shepard (15 points, 15 boards, 9 assists) is The Joker of the WNBA. In a league full of bad basketball, she stands out like a porterhouse in a vegan restaurant.
The NBA season ended on Saturday, and in seven days, it will hold its draft. On June 30th, free agents can start negotiating and officially sign on July 6th.
And that’s it (outside of some summer scrimmages featuring G-Leaguers) until roughly the third week of October.
By contrast, starting in February, the NFL has the Super Bowl and ends the month with the Combine.
March: Free agency & Salary Cap.
April: Draft (3 Days)
May/June: Schedule release & OTAs
July: Camps open
August: Preseason
September: And it’s on with the show, this is it!
This isn’t a knock on the NBA, but just an illustration of the NFL’s gargantuan imprint on the calendar. So much so that while owning Thanksgiving, the NFL decided to take Christmas from the NBA—just because they blanking felt like it!
…And the beat goes on.
So the MLB puts its players in a position to make a political statement, and some players decide to make a different statement.
Talk about picking a fight when you didn’t have to pick a fight.
Pride Night’s a political statement, and three San Francisco Giants pitchers decided not to be aligned with it. They signed contracts to play baseball, not to be coerced into something they don’t believe in.
How this will play out is after enough pressure is applied, the players will go full Charles Barkley and apologize, the MLB will look bad, and the Texas Rangers will gain more fans.
…And the beat goes on.
#67—May the San Francisco Giants rot and lie stinking in the earth…
The Dude abides…
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@ Proverbs 12:1
I am not one to agree with Joe’s takes, but comparing a Bible scripture to the KKK and White Nationalist symbols is a HUGE reach.
You make some valid points, but the human nature of hypocrisy is done by everyone, everyday. We as flawed human beings sometime engage in behavior that goes against our values. That does not mean we lose to ability to express ourselves.
Would you be bothered with BLM messages on a hat if there was a Law Enforcement Appreciation Day?
@Pathetic. It’s sort of like sitting through the interminable commercials, referee conferences, halftimes, and breaks between plays in American football. I’m sorry that soccer cannot feed your need for masculine fulfillment.
Regarding political statements in the MLB. What are the Memorial Day, July 4th, Jackie Robinson Day, Mother’s/Father’s Day caps/uniforms if not political statements? We get it, you hate the LGBTQ+ community and hide in your safe space to avoid the realities of human existence without any acknowledgement of the centuries’ long de fact and de jure oppression of marginalized people. I’d also like to point out the hypocrisy of these players using quotes from the bible to make their point: how many of these guys play on the sabbath? Shorn their hair? Engage in premarital sex? Eat shrimp or pork? Support amoral political
leaders that violate all sorts of Abrahamic traditions, including worshipping them as false idols? Judging the lives of others? How many actually cited scripture related to love, tolerance–you know, things that Jesus actually says. Believe it or not, most people (even Texas Rangers’ fans, despite the actions of their ownership) support LGBTQ+ rights. Further, doing this in San Francisco, a city that has great significance with the nation’s LGBTQ+ history. Gay rights are civil/human rights, and denial of that is misanthropic at best. Would you support a player putting a KKK symbol or white nationalist symbol (see Pete Hegseth’s tattoos) on their hats on Jackie Robinson Day? Or a player that does a Nazi salute during the National Anthem on Memorial Day? Would you defend that as simply a “different statement” on something that they disapprove? Just come out (ha!) and admit that you are a homophobe and stop hiding behind these “just sayin'” opinions. While you’re at it, just admit that you think that women should not play professional sports.
From Joe T.: That’s 309 words…add another 100 and you’ve got a column/blog. Thanks for the comment and the click.
I truly can’t understand fans of soccer. They sit and watch, and wait, and wait, hoping that this will be the hour when a single point will be scored. Americans don’t like that sluggishness; we want to see a change in the scoreboard at least every ten minutes. They call it the “World Cup”, but it’s not part of my world.