NEW YORK, NY – Friends, we’ve officially hit that part of winter where seemingly ordinary individuals start having friendly chit-chats with long-dead bartenders in the ballroom of The Overlook Hotel. My 14-win playoff football team is (predictably) one and done, my basketball team is as old and full of holes as Short Matt’s underpants, my hockey team is waiting for the playoffs to start so they can collapse, and my baseball team (as a meme made me aware the other day) has the same number of playoff appearances in its history as it’s had players who ruptured their testicles… 5. C’mon baby let the good times roll. Ah, to hell with it. Let’s take a look at some stuff that’s going on in this crazy old world.
Dallas Dumps McCarthy. You can say a lot of truly awful things about Jerry Jones—and I strongly encourage you to—but you can’t say he’s not occasionally (maybe unintentionally) funny. Dallas wouldn’t let the Bears talk to Mike McCarthy and then fired his a$$ anyway. If he gets to be head coach next year somewhere, that will also be funny. Mike McCarthy is like the perfect straight man to the many doofuses you find in NFL front offices. Why Dallas decided to play McCarthy hardball with the Bears is a mystery, one that no one cares to solve. Let’s hope Dallas hires Deion Sanders though, because that would also be funny.
AJ Brown, Publishing Influencer. Perhaps a tad lost in Philadelphia’s boring win over the Green Bay Packers last Sunday was the fact that wide receiver AJ Brown was reading a book on the sidelines while Philly’s defense was on the field. The book in question was a self-help offering titled Inner Excellence. And, whether you believe Brown when he says he’s a voracious consumer of the written word or think that he was basically making a point about Philly’s passing game being totally sucky, you can’t deny the guy can flat-out sell books. Inner Excellence went from being ranked something like 523,000 on Amazon to #1 in a matter of hours. Ya gotta love a story like this. I think AJ needs a new nickname: Bestseller Brown.
Whither Pete Alonso?It seems like the longer Pete Alonso remains unsigned, the less chance there is he’ll be returning to the Mets. I know some people are absolutely fine with this, but I think there’s gotta be a way to bring him back for a reasonable number of years and dollars. Anyone out there with any insight on this situation? I’m far too lazy to follow it on a daily or even weekly or really even monthly basis.
That’s all for me for today. Time to lean into hibernation mode. Come back tomorrow for Diaz, Buddy Diaz.
