NEW YORK, NY – Greetings MTMers, it’s the last Wednesday in October and day before Halloween. Usually I’d be pulling out something like offbeat sports-themed Halloween costumes (Raiders’ owner Mark Davis’s barber? LSU coach Kim Mulkey’s stylist?) or some random pre-Thanksgiving rant about all of those things I am NOT thankful for (the internet, people who use the escalator as a ride rather than a moving staircase…) but I’m not feeling any of that. Instead, I thought I’d just throw out some random thoughts and other stuff that’s recently crossed my radar. Let’s get it going.
Fox’s World Series Broadcast Sucks. I don’t really have much to add to this, I just don’t like the team Fox has trotted out to do these games. Maybe not Tom Brady bad, but far from good. I also find in-game interviews with managers kind of annoying and never really enlightening. Same as with football. It’s useless. Get it out of here.
NBA Two-Pointer. Wow, Joel Embiid and the Sixers seem to be ticking off an awful lot of NBA fans with his early-season load management and declaration that he will not be playing back-to-back games. Not surprisingly, Charles Barkley (among others) thinks this is extremely weak. I think he said something like: “He just signed for three years $193 millon, to play basketball. We’re not steel workers, we’re not nurses, people with real jobs. We’re playing basketball, at most, 4 times a week, most of the time 3 days a week.” Fair. In other news, i just found out that one of Kyrie Irving’s nicknames is: World B. Flat. That is absolute genius. Bravo to whoever came up with that one. I wish I had.
NF-Hell. My Vikes have dropped two consecutive winnable games but, considering I thought they could have started the year 0-7, things could be much worse. I could be a Jets fan, for instance. I caught a few of those mouth-breathers watching the end of the game this past Sunday at a cozy bar and grill up in Westchester. Hearing them scream “get him, get him, get him!!!” as Jacoby Brissett beat them in the final seconds was highly entertaining. Not a good week for the Diggs brothers. Trevon beefing with some Dallas beat reporter about a social media post is just sad, but Stefon tearing his ACL and missing the rest of the season is worse. Finally, another guy who should be looking for a job soon is Ravens Offensive Coordinator Todd Monken. I don’t see how anyone can have a guy like Derrick Henry and give him the ball only 11 times. This is how you lose to a pathetic team like the Cleveland Browns. 11 carries for 73 yards. What, you didn’t like the way that was going, Todd? Embiid has less load management.
World Series Game 4. I wrote this well before the Yankees and Dodgers played Game 4 of the 2024 World Series, but would kinda been surprised if the Yankees didn’t win at least one, especially with LA trotting out some mystery meat to pitch. SPOILER ALERT: The Bombers won. They avoided a sweep, which would have had the same feel as 1976, when the Reds just came and matter-of-factly beat them senseless.
OK, I’m done for today. Come back tomorrow for Buddy Diaz and what will hopefully be a stirring tribute to the late, great Teri Garr.
