The TEN
(“The TEN” is not a top ten but ten items worth being included in “The TEN”)
1—Christmas Day Schedule:
NBA— Spurs @ Knicks, Heat @ Celtics & 76ers @ Lakers.
NFL—Packers @ Bears, Bills @ Broncos & Rams @ Seahawks.
2—“Humility is only a day away in this league.”—Los Angeles Rams HC Sean McVay
3—On this day in 1929 Babe Ruth becomes the first to hit 500 home runs.
4—In her first game since the incident with Sophie Cunningham, Chicago Sky guard DiJonai Carrington scores 26 and grabs six boards in a 97-88 loss to the Seattle Storm on Monday night.
5—“Right now the Angels need to win 18 more games before the season ends to keep that they are the only franchise not to lose 100 games intact.”—MVS commenter, “Someone Who Knows.”
6—The Tampa Bay Rays used an eight run eighth inning to defeat the (Las Vegas) Athletics, 10-6, on Monday night. The Rays have won seven in a row. They now lead the American League East by six games.
7—“Happy to see NFL football again. I feel like a drowning man being rescued in a sea of garbage sports offerings.”—MVS commenter, “Pleased as Punch.”
8—Former Raiders QB Derek Carr joins UCLA staff as a “special adviser” to head coach Bob Chesney, working with quarterbacks and helping with game-planning.
9—The Los Angeles Chargers open their 2026 preseason this Thursday, August 13, against the Texans in Houston.
10—“I only had one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.”—Babe Ruth
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How do the Rays that get 5ooo people per game keep winning year after year? And the Angels that draw 35,000 on a bad day just suck.
From Joe T.: That’s the whole argument against the salary cap…And the Rays are kind of like the old Oakland A’s…they keep losing personnel on the field and the front office and they just keep chugging…I find it fun to watch teams like this…like the Dodgers…like the Rams…teams that are just well-run is something I never thought about until my old age.