Posted tagged ‘NBA’

Below the line

May 2, 2024

The Chicago White Sox are 6-25.

Yes, a 194 winning percentage.

Now, it’s early days. But even the 1962 NY Mets (40-120_ finished above the Mendoza line.

NBA finals last year between the Denver Nuggets and Miami Heat ended up with disappointing ratings compared to the Golden State Warriors vs Boston Celtics in 2022.

Well, at least NBA won’t have to worry about a direct repeat this year

So NY Knicks won a close playoff game against the Philadelphia 76ers and NBA later said calls against the 76ers in the last two minutes were wrong.

Then last night the 76ers won a close game against the Knicks and the NBA said calls against the Knicks in the last two minutes were wrong.

Getting awfully tired of the headlines being about the officiating.

If only the league had replay review. Oh, wait, never mind.

I’m all in favor of protest. Been in a number of them especially in my younger days. But never wore a mask to a protest… maybe because I wasn’t ashamed to show my face?

A reminder, can we not just talk about how Velveeta Voldemort and GOP want to take away women’s reproductive rights…

But also. how President Biden and Democrats actively want to PROTECT women’s reproductive rights.

As Trump brags about letting the states decide about reproductive rights… Didn’t the United States fight a rather large war over the issue of people in some states having far fewer rights than in others?

Somehow GOP bought our office email list so get lots of their fundraising emails. A LOT of attacks on RFK Jr. today. Did they just figure out his anti-Biden, conspiracy theory, anti-vax message might appeal to some Trump voters?

Wonder how many student protesters these days are immigrants or on student visas? And why isn’t media making a bigger deal of the fact that Trump says if re-elected he will revoke protesters’ visas and deport all of them?


Is it as simple that Trump is complaining about being freezing in the courtroom because Donald thinks putting on a coat makes him look fatter?

Merchan fined Trump $9,000 for violating gag order & warned Donald he could face incarceration if he continued to violate the order. Actually thinking Trump would love to be thrown in jail overnight so he can fundraise off the picture.

I hate both Netanyahu and Hamas. And I think some of these protestors are spoiled brats.

Having said that. as we approach 54th anniversary of Kent State, wonder somewhat tangentially how many people know that many Americans at the time sided with National Guardsmen who gunned down the students?


Can anyone, even one of her supporters, name a single thing Marge Three Names has actually accomplished in Washington DC? Other than getting attention?

A common demand from pro-Palestinian protesters is that their universities divest from all companies doing business in Israel.

So when are the protesters giving up their iPhones?

(Apple’s Israeli R&D centers in Haifa and Hertliyza Israel currently employ 2,000 people.)

Is there a draft in here?

April 28, 2024

Good news for Detroit:

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer today announced that the NFL draft in Detroit shattered records with over 775,000 fans downtown.

Bad news for Detroit: That number was almost half of the 1,612,876 fans the Detroit Tigers drew in all over 2023.

Houston Texans WR Tank Dell, along with 9 others was shot following an altercation in a Sanford, Florida nightclub. Fortuantely, none of the victims apparently sustained life threatening injuries. The shooter is allegedly a teenager.

But since the shooting happened in the suburbs of a red-state, guessing it will disappear from the news cycle in a day. Now if it had happened in a blue state city….

Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Emblid said it was “disappointing” to hear so many Knicks fans in Philadelphia today at Wells Fargo Center during the 76ers 97-92 loss to New York.

How, many New Yorkers apparently made the trip for cheaper playoff tickets than in Madison Square Garden.

But considering how Philadelphia fans react both to Santa Claus and their home teams when they’re not happy, is Emblid sure the boos he heard came from Knicks fans?

The 2024 White House Correspondents weekend is over. How many people realize. If Trump is re-elected it’s not just that he won’t attend next year’s dinner, there’s a fair chance he outlaws the whole thing and has some number of journalists arrested?

One of President Biden’s most underrated abilities is the ability to laugh at himself.

It all makes sense if you realize they are basically Clickbait News Network.

Control of the US Senate in November election matters so much more than many Americans think.

Even if/when we re-elect President Biden, if Mitch McConnell’s GOP successor becomes Majority Leader you KNOW he will block ANY SCOTUS nominee Joe chooses.

Just saw this on Twitter. Powerful and heartbreaking.

But Biden’s talking about his son Beau Biden got almost no national news coverage. Whereas if Joe stumbles over a word or tells one tongue-in-check Irish tall tale…it’s headline news for days.

Always something to cheer about

April 14, 2024

SF Giants are off to a lousy start in 2024, and have to wonder if they’re cursed for basically firing the wonderful Renel Brooks-Moon. OTOH, at least baseball fans in the SF Bay Area can enjoy the LA Dodgers losing two of three to the San Diego Padres. #smallmercies

The Los Angeles Clippers give all fans a free Chick-Fil-A sandwich if an opposing player misses two consecutive free throws in the 4th quarter. When Houston Rocket’s Boban Marjanović, with his team well ahead, figured that out he deliberately missed a second free throw.

Massive cheers from the fans and the announcers. Hope he didn’t affect the betting spread.

Two of NBA’s biggest stars – LeBron James and Steph Curry will be both be playing in the Western Conference NBA play-in round. And if Sacramento Kings and New Orleans Pelicans play well they could both be gone before the real playoffs start.

Not that James and Curry aren’t capable of leading their teams to victories. But will be very interesting to see how those games are officiated.

As GOP tries using the Comstock Act to stop mifepristone from being sent through the mail, trying to imagine if Democrats found a judge willing to put the same restrictions on Viagra.

Michael Che on SNL Weekend Update “Speaker Mike Johnson traveled to Mar-A-Lago to meet with Donald Trump. “And boy is his jaw tired…”

In California, Google has started blocking some local news as a threat to the legislature which is considering a Journalism Preservation Act, similar to a bipartisan national bill from Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar and Republican Senator John Kennedy.


As Klobuchar said, “Local newspapers are going out of business while Big Tech makes record profits off news content.” Yep, Google revenue in 2023 was a record over $300 BILLION.

Gordon Gecko would be proud.

What’s wrong with US media. Minnesota Senator Tina Smith, former Planned Parenthood executive, on ABC’s This Week talked about abortion rights, including mifepristone & praised Joe Biden’s efforts for women.

Crickets from most of media. Marge Three Names opens her mouth & it’s a headline.

Kari Lake, a proponent of a national abortion ban in 2022 when she ran for Governor, has now done a 180 and claims she’s for a more moderate policy.

Of course, if she somehow got elected to the US Senate she’d do another 180 and vote for a ban.

Chris Sununu makes Susan Collins look good.

(ICYMI, Sununu was for Nikki Haley, almost a “never trumper” but he’s now genuflecting before Orange Jesus.)

WTAF? Marco Rubio – “I for one am prepared to help Ukraine, but want to see us deal w/ southern border. That was the negotiation, the talk, the agreement. It was going to happen & it didn’t happen.”

It didn’t happen because TRUMP torpedoed GOP Senator Lankford’s bipartisan bill. #NoShame

NBA All-Star Weekend

February 15, 2009

It’s a great weekend to be in Washington. The stimulus bill is set, which means most congressmen and women have left town. And for the first weekend since the NBA Season started, fans can feel confident the Wizards will not lose a game.


Switching sports and coasts….

Headline on Golf.com – “Stanford denies Wie first LPGA title.”

What, did they make her go to class or something?

(actually, it was Angela Stanford, who beat her by three strokes.)


Stanford’s men’s basketball team lost to Cal Saturday after blowing a 22 point lead. Normally when Stanford blows a lead like that, the football team is involved.


Just a thought after the whole stimulus bill battle about John McCain and his talk about working across the aisle during the election. Guess that meant working with anyone who he could get over to HIS side of the aisle.

Hugh Jackman says that he will host a more “intimate” Oscar ceremony than usual. By intimate does he mean that so few people have seen most of the best picture nominees, no one will tune in to watch?


Some pundits are already writing the Obama presidency off. Are these the same guys who every year watch spring training and say it’s the Cubs’ year?