Weekly Mail April 26, 2020

Hey Everybody:

I hope everyone is hanging in there. Saturday was one of those beautiful spring days that made it very hard to shelter in place. But as the numbers go down, it becomes more important to do just that. We're getting there.  We just have to hang in.

Onto the news.....



BASEBALL- JRod to buy Mets?

One of the many downsides to the Mets sale to hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen going belly up was that it allowed for the possibilities that someone with less deep pockets or less business acumen would come in and make a play for the franchise. As hard as it is to believe, there are some out there who are less qualified than even the Wilpon family to own a baseball team.

Enter Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez.

Yes both of these egomaniacs are enormously wealthy. A-Rod made his millions with a combination of his baseball talent and performance enhancing drugs. J-Lo of course is a multi talented singer, dancer and actress. Not to mention insanely hot. But do we think they can run a franchise?

This just sounds like a bad idea all around. I can't imagine this being any better than what Derek Jeter is doing down in Miami. That has been a total $h-tshow.

Maybe I'm being unfair. Maybe it's the fact that I really don't care for either one of them. Do you all remember how you couldn't open a newspaper, turn on a radio or TV without hearing something about J-Lo and Ben Affleck's wedding that never happened?  I give Jenny from the Block her props, but damn she is everywhere.

And no athlete in my life has ever hogged up the spotlight as much as Alex Rodriguez. There have been the good (his insane statistics) the bad ( his complaining about the spotlight as he does everything he can to make sure it's always on him) and the ugly (the whole steroids scandal) he's just someone I wish would just go away. Take J-Lo. take all your $$$ and go live happily ever after.

Let someone else buy the Mets.


FOOTBALL: The NFL Draft

Avid readers of this blog know about my internal battle with the NFL.

I used to really like football. But of all the major sports, I feel like the NFL is the one that takes the most advantage of it;s fans. It rewards poor behavior. Spouse/Child beaters, drug addicts, gun nuts, shit, they even let and convicted dog murderer back into the league. Not to mention that the team that has dominated the sport the last 20 years, the New England Patriots, were twice caught cheating.

So I have tried, and more often than not failed to stay away. I'll watch the Jets because they are my team, but I rarely watch the Giants, and I almost never watch Thursday, Monday or even Sunday night football. And the only reason I watched this past Super Bowl was well there were a couple of reasons 1) The Pats weren't in it. 2) I wanted to root on my sister's favorite player Pat Mahomes, and 3) my sister in law Megan made dinner for us that night.

The other thing is, once the Super Bowl is over, it means baseball is coming, which means the spring is coming. Not having football dominating the sports airwaves is a welcome respite.

But with sports shut down, there is no March Madness, no NBA/NHL Playoffs and very likely no baseball. So the only thing that was happening was NFL Free agency and the NFL Draft which took place on Thursday night.

The NFL Draft has become a huge spectacle. Last year they held it in Nashville and it pretty much shut down the whole of downtown Nashville. This year, everybody, including commissioner Roger Goodell worked from their houses. It was like everything else these past 6 weeks, weird.

I didn't watch the first round on Thursday because I was playing Oscars Trivia with DJ's@Work, but I caught some of the 2nd round. I was waiting for the Jets to make their pick, and when it got to their turn, they traded the pick to Seattle. So I shut it off.

The guy the Jets drafted in the first round is a beast. 6 foot 7 370 pounds and fast. He also failed a drug test at the combine. Who knows. He could be D'Brickashaw Ferguson, he could be Turd Ferguson.

The Giants for the second year in a row, seems like they drafted someone others thought shouldn't have been drafted that high. So far Daniel Jones has turned out ok, let's see how this OT they drafted turns out.


BASKETBALL: Bulls Documentary

I love the ESPN 30 for 30 documentaries. My favorite was the one they did about June 17, 1994, one of the most remarkable days in America, sports or otherwise (the OJ White Bronco chase, the Rangers parade, Game 5 of the NBA Finals at the Garden etc.)

They are currently doing a 10 part documentary about the Chicago Bulls 1997-98 season titled The Last Dance, and because of the lack of live sports going on right now, it's apparently the most anticipated documentary since PBS's An American Family.

I'm torn, You all know how I feel about those Jordan/Pippen/Jackson Bulls. After the 21st Century Patriots, they are my least favorite dynasty.

And yet the story itself is somewhat intriguing. Phil Jackson had already decided he wasn't coming back the following season, Michael Jordan was strongly considering hanging up his Nike's (for the second time) and the coach Bulls GM Jerry Krause wanted to bring in, Iowa State coach Tim Floyd, inspired none of the players. Hence the title of the series.

I watched a bit of the first episode, but not sure about the rest of it. I know how it turns out and 22 years later I'm still pissed about it. Isn't there enough misery with this pandemic, why should I subject myself to more of it.


Alrighty then, I'm tapped out.  Thanks for reading. Stay Safe

and Have a Great Week