Refined sports activities city, my tush. Hasn’t been that means because the early Nineteen Seventies Knicks.
We’re no higher than all these faculty cities that ignore every part about their corrupt colleges to yearly recruit “student-athletes” who spend extra time in courtroom than class.
We’re no higher than yahoos in Lincoln, Neb.; Norman, Okla.; Lansing, Mich., or all through the SEC the place police automobiles carry the most recent staff yearbooks to establish perps.
In latest days, Jets’ yahoos, particularly should-know-better media, to not point out Jets’ possession and administration, have shared a rush of blood to the top to signal now-on-sale departed Vikes’ semi-star RB Dalvin Prepare dinner.
Signal him!
Prepare dinner has confirmed that he’s not a fellow discriminate, subtle New York followers can endure, not to mention indulge.
Throughout his “student-athlete” days at Florida State, certainly one of a number of Sunshine State universities that yearly recruit, exploit [and now employ] then discard rotten-risk soccer gamers within the worsening netherworld of schools serving as fronts for soccer and basketball groups, Prepare dinner was a constant reprobate.
Even in his freshman yr, Prepare dinner was hassle, from firing a BB gun to bust automotive home windows, to his being an “affiliate” in an aggravated assault case during which a firearm was allegedly geared toward a neighbor in Prepare dinner’s residence [one of the accusers said he didn’t think the weapon was Cook’s], to the abuse of his three pit bull puppies.
The canine, ages two months to eight months, had been unsheltered and so closely chained they had been unable to maneuver. Two of the pups had been discovered choking.
What a man!
The subsequent yr Prepare dinner was charged — later acquitted — with punching a lady outdoors a Tallahassee bar.
Naturally, none of this prevented Prepare dinner from changing into a second-round decide within the 2017 draft.
And as of November 2021, he stands accused in a lawsuit of brutalizing his ex-girlfriend, beating her head bloody and swollen, as seen in photographs distributed to the general public.
At first, Prepare dinner’s lawyer claimed the alleged sufferer is only a gold digger, that Prepare dinner is harmless. In fact he did.
Because the Jets pursued Prepare dinner, courtroom paperwork confirmed that Prepare dinner first provided her $800,000 to drop the swimsuit, then $1 million. She rejected each offers. That’s quite a lot of wooden for an harmless man to supply a lady who fabricated the declare as an alternative of defending himself in courtroom for lots much less cash.
And it’s quite a lot of dough for a liar to show down.
However that hasn’t prevented many Jets’ followers, administration and media from banging their drums in help of signing Prepare dinner.
Jets’ coach Robert Saleh: “He’s an amazing younger man, great mindset to him and every part he stated … turned me right into a believer with the phrases that got here out of his mouth.”
And so we sophisticates proceed. We even boo visiting-team pitchers for throwing to first to maintain the runner shut, as if we simply can’t determine that out.
Dalvin Prepare dinner’s obtainable? Signal him! He confirmed up at coaching camp and was cheered by Jets’ followers in attendance? Signal him!
Who cares in the event you wouldn’t let him stroll your canine?
MLB requirements proceed their fast plummet
MLB 2023, continued:
The Royals, Tuesday towards the Mets, carried out an compulsory Gatorade dump celebration on M.J. Melendez after he scored the game-ending run. Melendez’s heroics? He touched house plate following a balk.
Reader Pat Esposito hoped the YES crew — Michael Kay and Jeff Nelson — would offer the reply to his query, “The place was Stanton going?” However none adopted.
Monday, one-trick canine Giancarlo Stanton, among the many most fundamentals-bereft and circumstances-unaware “superstars” in an age of plummeting requirements, hit a excessive infield fly then did his common uninterested trot towards first.
As Rays’ first baseman Yandy Diaz made the catch, Stanton was casually rounding first. Why? The place was he headed? If Diaz dropped it, Stanton could be a simple out at second, tagged out attempting to return to first or caught in a rundown, though the “run” half would probably have led to a fast give up.
Why didn’t he merely stand on first?
However what did the Yanks count on for $218 million?
Wednesday on SNY, though fill-in play-by-player Steve Gelbs informed us he “hustled” towards second, Royals’ catcher Salvador Perez posed a double off the wall into being thrown out at second — one thing Keith Hernandez shortly famous.
Although the decision was overturned on a missed tag, such “he thought” [he hit a homer] scenes stay an untreated, unfixed and worsening MLB normal.
And Gelbs, in restricted appearances, continues to report doubtful “info.” Tuesday he described Pete Alonso’s homer to left-center as “monstrous” — even when it landed within the first row.
Then there’s Mets’ GM Billy Eppler, speaker of 2023 real GM gibberish. He stated that if the Mets need “to get to the sustainability we all the time speak about we’re going to have to try this organically.”
Effectively, that goes with out saying.
As faculty and professional athletes are being suspended, jettisoned and even indicted for taking the prevailing industrial bait to gamble on sports activities to complement the leagues, conferences, groups and TV-saturated bookmakers serving maximized TV rankings to maintain rights charges excessive, the get-rich-quick prompts develop.
Thus, casinos will quickly add NFL-licensed slot machines that includes staff logos.
Provided that 4 Lions are among the many 10 NFLers suspended for playing on sports activities the final two years, Detroit needs to be relegated to penny slots.
“The disclosing of the primary NFL-themed slot machines represents a chance to deliver the league nearer to our followers in a brand new space,” stated Joe Ruggiero, senior vp of shopper merchandise on the NFL, presumably with a straight face.
The identical could possibly be stated for NFL-themed pawn outlets. However as Roger “PSLs Are Good Investments” Goodell says, “It’s all about our followers.”
It’s TV roulette for Yanks
Whereas MLB staff house owners have prolonged Rob Manfred by 2029, reader Andy Woodhead notes that beneath Manfred, Yankees’ president Randy Levine and staff proprietor Hal Steinbrenner, this week one should play excessive hide-and-seek — and pay an increasing number of — to observe Yankee video games. If they’ll watch.
Sunday evening’s first-inning blowout loss to the O’s was on ESPN, which once more baited-and-switched the viewers as the sport was used as a prop to indicate, inform and promote every part and the rest, as per ESPN’s exploitation of unique sports activities occasions.
Wednesday’s Rays-Yanks solely appeared on the Amazon Prime streaming operation. Hiya? Anyone house?
Thursday evening’s Astros-Yanks was scheduled for Fox, the place baseball telecasts are confused with all-talk radio.
Friday evening’s Astros-Yanks is to be proven solely on Apple streaming TV, so for a lot of, it’s John Sterling or nothing.
Tomorrow’s Astros-Yanks will probably be on YES. Bear in mind YES? It’s the Yanks’ main pay community.
Sunday’s Astros-Yanks is scheduled for Amazon Prime.
As a result of it has been deemed a gorgeous, two huge TV-markets collection, Astros-Yanks has been cherry-picked to seem — or disappear — for TV cash, even when that cash tremendously reduces the variety of followers who see the video games.
And even when such greed-based enterprise additional reduces the inhabitants of those that give a hoot about MLB, Manfred and the Yanks are completely happy to do their half.
