We are often reminded – in fact, scolded – that we deserve the politicians we elect.
Sports fans face even worse punishment. We take what we are given. Ever since “Miss Rheingold, 1964” disappeared from the Mets channel. Nine telecasts, no votes.
For example, everyone now knows that the university’s famous athletics competition has nothing to do with the university and is therefore predicated on cheating. Pell grants, which provide full scholarships and cash, come with big financial inducements to recruit high school students and annual “transfer portal” travelers who put themselves up for auction in search of better deals. has been added.
Thursday night, University of Cincinnati A fundraiser featuring the Kelce brothers was held.Travis and Jason, former Bearcats football stars, legal college education unknown.
The cheapest general admission seats at the fundraiser are $100, effectively excluding non-athletes from attending many UC events, even though UC is a taxpayer-funded institution. I did.
The recipient of the philanthropic proceeds was the war chest of Cincy Raines, the NIL agent for the University of California Athletic Department.
This money will likely be used to attract high school athletes and existing college athletes from other schools to play at other schools, even if only a few months in advance.
This is a new situation for a prestigious college athletics competition. The requirement to have a college education, let alone be able to read and write, has become entirely incidental.
It is a deterioration of a sick and socially counterproductive system for winning ballgames. We all know this has corrupted once-real universities, but none of them include the need to win ballgames in their charters.
But nothing is being done to reverse the rot. In fact, it will get worse. And the demand to ignore what we see and know and instead believe what we are told – to pretend to be increasingly stupid – continues.
So far, it is believed that this season, just like last season, the MLB game has been significantly improved by artificial additives and phantom bromides. But there is little evidence.
Even though it’s early in the season, last Sunday’s game didn’t provide the offensive improvement that should have come from having a DH in both leagues, which now seems like a difference.
Going into Sunday’s game, five DHs were batting below .200, including the Padres’ lazy $300 million man Manny Machado. The other two DHs had batting averages of .208.
The next day, Twins DH Ryan Jeffers was hitting .091. The DH has been transformed into a home run-or-strikeout influence on the game created by analytics.
In the Mets’ two games so far, Brett Batty has been active in his once prominent bunt situations. In both cases, first Ron Darling and then Keith Hernandez pointed out that it was painfully obvious that Batty, like former Met Dominic Smith, had no idea how to bunt.
However, some people still remember how sluggers like Mickey Mantle and Stan Musial would bunt when the situation called for it.
Thus, incomprehension became commonplace.
The new, buy-it-all Yankees official uniforms feature a commercial sleeve patch advertising an insurance company. However, you won’t be able to purchase an official jersey with that patch unless you pay an additional $15 and have it shipped to you.
It’s hard to imagine that before MLB jumped into bed with Nike, which is affiliated with communist China, Yankees uniforms were sacrosanct and ornaments were unclaimed, needed, and undesired. But greed wins out once again.
Considering this offer, I would like to purchase the jersey with the patch, remove it, ship it, and refund my $15. How much does the “Kick Me” patch cost?
Insanity in all sports is so institutionalized that shock therapy needs to be institutionalized.
On Saturday, he and his third base coach made a “quiet” gesture after career standout Vlad Guerrero Jr. hit a home run in the seventh inning when the Blue Jays trailed by six runs to the Yankees. excited the Yankee Stadium crowd.
In Yes, Michael Kay called out Guerrero’s absurd gesture as, well, absurd.
But Kaye said that’s exactly what Rob Manfred did four seasons ago when he and MLB launched a promotional campaign celebrating the incivility associated with in-game brawls (home plate poses, bat flipping, breastplates). I should have added that’s what I had in mind. – Doubts and unscrupulous acts of thinking too much about yourself – as a surefire way to draw kids to the TV.
Manfred’s MLB Network now regularly indulges in unsportsmanlike behavior in its “Best Bat Flips” feature, almost as if Manfred encouraged such behavior in the children in his life.
I don’t remember voting for this. you?
This week, a video of Torrey Craig and Andre Drummond of the Chicago Bulls making fun of themselves as pros by trying to score hypothetical style points against the Knicks by turning an easy two-point fast break into a failure went viral. Became. Backboard slam dunk. That’s ridiculous.
Three days earlier, ESPN broadcast the McDonald High School Slam Dunk Finals, where kids attempted all kinds of off-the-backboards, over-ladders, and body slams, and after their successes, a sneaky robbery of the TV cameras was held. Obliged. I’m getting tired of the scenes and the acting.
Still, two adult TV commentators shouted their gleeful approval, as if Gus Johnson and Kevin Harlan had been freed from their shackles at the same time.
Friday night’s Mets vs. Reds was sold exclusively to Apple+ to ensure minimal viewing, not only teaching more fans to find something else to do on Friday nights, but also on TV. The broadcast was embellished with in-game, on-screen stats that would otherwise have been distracting. They were not so comically thoughtless.
Before every pitch, there were statistical detritus designed to be a distraction, purportedly proving what the batter’s “probability” was. That is, the percentage chance of a hit, a walk, a strikeout, a double, an RBI, or being haunted by anchovy-infused garlic. pizza.
Who voted for it?
And the Mets’ new manager, former Yanks bench coach Carlos Mendoza, appears to be a graduate of the Aaron Boone Analysis Academy who fixes what’s broken, replacing competent relievers and replacing bullpens full of question marks with ineffective relievers. is replaced with
So don’t forget to vote!
Women’s tip-off was on time.
There are several factors that made the South Carolina-Iowa women’s finals a record-breaking television event.
The obvious: Caitlin Clark, SC’s undefeated team, and importantly, the 3pm start gave everyone of all ages a good chance to watch the entire game. That will inevitably be lost to TV money that mandates the women’s basketball championship be held in prime time.
Ah, but on the other hand, there are some things that cannot be ignored. It was the most expensive and widely bet match in women’s sports history.
Staley lets the girls play
The South Carolina women’s team finished 38-0 despite coach Dawn Staley’s defiant coaching from Geno Auriemma. For example, throughout the tournament, including a 79-58 semifinal win against North Carolina State, she wisely rested her starters and played nine games in which Auriemma would have played as a starter for virtually the entire game. I competed against 12 girls.
Arkansas, the nation’s fifth poorest state with a poverty rate of 15.2 percent, gives John Calipari an annual base salary of $7 million, a $1 million signing bonus, and an annual “retention bonus” of $500,000. is scheduled to be paid.
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