Because sometimes things just need to be said….
Sports rants, observations, comments
Major League Baseball is on pace for about 0.5 errors a game this season. That would break the record of roughly 0.52 a game set just two years ago, and five of the lowest error-rate seasons in the sport’s 150-year history have all landed since 2021. Nobody got better at catching a baseball. Scorers did. …
I sat through a full month of NFL preseason football. None of it counted. Most of it was ugly. I’d do it again. That’s not sarcasm, either. Preseason has a well-earned reputation for being close to unwatchable, third-string quarterbacks throwing to receivers who won’t have a job by Labor Day, offensive lines that look like …
Nine teams got hit with a luxury tax penalty after both the 2024 and 2025 seasons, the most in the sport’s history, a level of tax-dodging math that would embarrass anyone else’s business plan. The Dodgers alone paid $169.4 million of it last year. They still won. That’s the whole argument for a salary cap, …
A base is fifteen inches square. That’s plenty of room for a runner’s hand to lose contact with it for exactly one video frame — and somehow, that’s apparently enough for a stadium full of people who just watched a guy get to the bag safely to be told, actually, no, he didn’t. That’s not …
Gary Woodland is playing East Lake this week, and I want you to sit with that sentence for a second before I tell you why it matters. Three years ago, Woodland had brain surgery to remove a tumor. That’s the kind of sentence that usually ends a career, not launches a comeback. It didn’t end …
Eight straight wins, capped off by an 11-7 sweep-clincher over Detroit this weekend. For a few days, Kauffman Stadium felt like 2024 again, back before this team apparently forgot how to win a baseball game for four straight months. Here’s the number that doesn’t make the highlight package: 58-74. That’s the record after the streak, …
Bunting is having a real moment in Major League Baseball this year, and I hate that I have to admit some of it is actually working. As a lifelong Royals fan, I’ve spent years watching a perfectly good rally get strangled because someone in the dugout decided a free out was a good trade. So …
The US Open kicked off this week, and buried in the schedule is a number that stopped me mid-scroll: the singles champion walks away with $5.5 million. Not for a season. Not for a career. For two weeks of tennis. The total prize pool this year is $108 million, up 20% from last year and …
Somebody buys a sports team, and within a few years the city is somehow paying for their stadium. That’s not a conspiracy theory, it’s just how the math works out almost every time. A guy worth a few billion dollars buys an NFL or NBA franchise, then turns around and tells the local government that …
Spoiler alert: NO. Okay, maybe they aren’t terrible, but they aren’t good. There is some talent there, we do see flashes of promises but can this organization, this leadership get the most of it? Again, spoiler alert NO. Get my full rant (maybe more like scattered thoughts) in the video below….. And because the end …
The Kansas City Chiefs traded Tyreek Hill to the Miami Dolphins in March of 2022. I’ll get right to the point. I love this trade. As a fan of the past, sure it hurts my heart but as a fan of the future this was a fantastic deal. Find out why I think so in …
If you’ve seen my other videos on the Chiefs 2022 NFL Draft this post will be no big surprise to you, I loved this draft for the Chiefs. Depth, talent and hit all key needs – especially the secondary. All of this with guys that are very cap friendly for 4-5 years. Without further delay, …