4/11/2025

• If Freddie Freeman wins another WS title with the Dodgers, he's going into the Hall of Fame as a Dodger

4/12/2025

• https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/44642537/sources-tennessee-moving-starting-qb-nico-iamaleava
• Crazy.. not sure what happened but pretty bad look. Greed is starting to root itself in college sports now. Something not sure these college athletes thought about; I think they feel they can get paid and still live the traditional college life. That's crazy.. now that college athletes started "earning" money via NIL deals, they lose the ability to say they're just college students. Gamblers that bet on college sports ain't trying to hear anything about they're only 18 years old and they shouldn't be treated like professionals; by taking money now, they should be treated like adults that make millions (obviously not ALL college athletes). There's no more excuses for college athletes, i.e. they're expected to take this seriously at all times. Instead of college athletes taking salaries or money, I don't get why they didn't take the free college education and improve the facilities so they can be better professionals? Where they'll make larger sums of money and salaries. I'm telling you, GREED. Greed is at the root of everything that sucks about sports now.. and will get worse. Sports never used money to determine success; it was about competition and who's better. Money has made athletes soft, there's less of earning your money vs well, this is what I'm getting paid and this is what I think my effort is worth. Why would an athlete care about results if they get the same amount regardless? 
• Worst home loss in Dodgers history, 16-0, vs Cubbies

4/25/2025

• Lakers, Kings lost playoff games; went to Dodgers game.. and of course they lost too😀

4/26/2025

• Anyone that drafts Shedeur Sanders after the 3rd is getting crazy value relative to what everyone thought before the draft (seems to be dropping due to poor pre-draft interviews)
• I think today is when I start boycotting ESPN content; they clearly don't care about people's time. All these ads and commercial breaks since Disney took over is aggravating; they're holding the sports content hostage. ESPN hosts amping up other ESPN hosts as experts and someone to listen to is getting out of hand; sometimes they don't even care about the sports content. They only care about being entertaining, whether or not it's sports related
• Jacksonville drafted Jack Kiser from Notre Dame in the 4th; 1st time Jacksonville has drafted a player named Jack 😀 (credit Rich Eisen from NFL Network)

4/27/2025

• Brutal playoff losses by both the Kings and Lakers, blowing 3rd period and 4th quarter leads.. but at least the Dodgers won.. and we get Panda for $6.59 with tax via the panda app.. code: DODGERSWIN.. 2 item plate with 1 side

4/30/2025

• Doc Rivers cannot be a top 5 coach all time.. sorry, he's probably a good person but he's not top 5 coach all time 

5/16/2025

• Just read about Caleb Williams and his father trying to dictate their way into the NFL: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45161794/caleb-williams-sought-way-going-chicago-bears. If this is true, this is one of the most stupidest things I've heard. Dude, just serve your 5 years on your rookie contract; then you can dictate whatever you want. Rookies trying to dictate their way to a team or how they come into the NFL, like Shadeur tried to do too, is an insanely bad look for the NFL. You're telling me these 20 somethings know better than everyone else? C'mon man.. "well, this is their life/choice.. they can do whatever they want.." Dude, no it's not.. NFL is a team sport.. who's gonna want to be teammates with someone like this.. that thinks they know more than everyone else? That will bail on the team if things don't work out the way they thought it would/should? Why would any team build their team around a guy like this? "His dad is just trying to look out for him.." Parents need to stay out of this.. they need to be in the background and let him work this out himself.. Fathers wanting to look out for their sons AND Caleb wanting to go to a good situation ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS!!!"

6/12/2025

• Watching First Take on ESPN; just heard Stephen A Smith on national TV say Tyrese Haliburton is not a superstar but that he wanted the Knicks draft him (he's a Knicks fan). This is an example of these "experts" playing the middle; they never pick a side, so they can look good whatever happens. You never hear them talk when they make a bad prediction, right? But when they get something right,  we NEVER hear the end of it, especially Stephen A Smith. Also tired of all this small talk and comments about what outfit they got on, etc.. just trying to waste time on th
• e show so they can try to tease the next topic.. 

8/31/2025

• Last night's LSU/CLEM game was such a dud; I get that it's only the 1st game of the season but these 2 QBs can't be 1st round locks right? Klubnik seems like he let the hype get to his head; played horrible last night, he keft rolling outside the pocket but into the pressure. Surprisingly, Dabo didn't seem to have a backup plan or plan B. This is one reason why I don't understand why these college kids insist on getting paid and/or doing NIL deals. Once you start getting paid or taking money, you take away excuses about you being too young or not prepared. You're treated like an adult with way more experience. Then when/If they can't handle it, they can just hop into the transfer portal. Leave the wreckage to someone else instead of sticking around and fixing it or getting better. Or auction themselves off to highest bidder. Hopefully they can curb this somehow. 

9/27/2025

• Stephen A Smith fits perfectly with WWE; Mike Greenberg does too. This should tell you they don't fit as well with real sports. They're fit for entertainment,  not sport commentary.. with how they hype things up or bring up topics. They're less sports people than they were 5-10 years ago but trying to use that perception now on casual, non-sports fans. 

10/5/2025

• NFL is getting shady; every year they're extending the kickoff by 1-2 mins. This year morning games are kicking off at 10:03; by year 2030, games will kick off at 10:15 b/c these non sports fan owners and media people don't give an F about sports fans and trying to maximize greed with these ads. Next thing will be ads on jerseys and floating on your screen while the game is on b/c they know that's when people are paying attention. Example: https://youtu.be/KpPE85Jogjw?si=_pS4vHP18o1utdpL. They will attempt to do this at some point, no joke. There's no limit to their greed; I'm telling you, don't believe them when they say they're improving the sport.  They only do things that benefit themselves (i.e. more money) but will only advertise anything that somehow benefits fans b/c they still need us. They equate success to more money, which is stupid. Sports was never about more money...
• WTF is the point of paying for the NFL football package if they keep taking games off games and putting on other platforms that we have to pay for? They should allow us to watch all games on the NFL football package but still offer it on other platforms. That's how they can sell individual games.. GREED! They're starting to make the NFL package less valuable.. I hope people realize this and stop buying the football package.. they're starting to make people decide to watch 5 games on NFL package or  watch the best game on local TV; I hope people stop buying the NFL package and watch on local TV.  LET WHOEVER PURCHASES NFL TICKET TO WATCH ALL THE GAMES ON THE PLATFORM YOU GREEDY MFs!!!
• MLB postseason schedule is sooooo dumb... Dodgers vs Phillies.. best postseason series so far.. 5 game series. WTF! Phillies got the bye, so playing first 2025 postseason series.. 2 days off in 5 days down 1-0.  I'd be so mad if I were them, pretty sure they'd rather play 4 in 5. Freakin MLB.. get rid of this stupid wildcard round,  it's unnecessary and pointless.. stop trying to create drama and "winner take all games" earlier.. you're risking the best teams losing early for no reason and sucky playoff games later.

10/25/2025

• https://sports.yahoo.com/article/espns-first-facing-criticism-coverage-145504849.html - this is exactly what I'm talking about with ESPN. They're so mixed up with the gambling  and NBA that there's no way they'd be objective.  What else is a bigger topic than this in sports, other than maybe the World Series? And yet they lead off with Wemby.. haha. Such a joke. Exact evidence you can't trust ESPN to be objective; just sucks the  casual sports fan won't have a clue about this...
• C'mon MLB.. What genius decided to do an cancer tribute, followed by a a mini concert between 5th and 6th innings of Game 2 of the World Series, then expect the players to pick up their intensity again? 

11/3/2025

• Stephen A Smith, SMH.. what a joke.. like seriously.  He spends all these years on air bashing the Dallas Cowboys and claiming he has never met Jerry Jones.. then hosts a podcast on SiriusFm with him as his guest,  where he announces a trade. What a setup by ESPN and Smith...to continually keep the Cowboys in the news and claim unbiased coverage (for whatever reason).. I was wondering why ESPN would continuously discuss the Cowboys when they suck and haven't won jack in ~30 years..like not even a SuperBowl appearance .  Unbiased coverage my ass.. GetUp and First Take continuously carve out time to discuss the  Cowboys doing jack shit when there are other topics to discuss in sports: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46839103/jerry-jones-hints-cowboys-made-trade-say-who

11/4/2025

• Watching NBA halftime show on ESPN.. what a freakin' joke.. they come back from a commercial break after halftime, say like 5 words, literally.. go to another break.. after 5+ minute commercial break,  they come back and show highlights to 2 games with some commentary they think should be funny.. then go to ANOTHER COMMERCIAL BREAK... then return to game. What a colossal waste of time.. hope everyone tunes away during halftime of all ESPN broadcasts, it's ridiculous. Halftime was ~20 minutes; ~15 minutes worth of commercials. One funny part of this too: they still do the media timeout breaks at the ~7 minute mark of the 1st and 3rd quarters AND the extended commercial breaks before the 2nd and 4th quarters (after the end of the quarter, they run a full commercial break that's ~5 minutes, come back and say something stupid they think is funny, then go to another commercial break for another minute!). They'll even come back to the game late b/c they try to squeeze in ads. ESPN has no respect for people's time and they try to pass this crap off as excellent coverage

11/7/2025

• The NBA is such nonsense nowadays.. instead of focusing on amazing athletes they implement nonsense like this:

1.  They're not counting the last second heaves at the basket at the end of quarters/halves, to encourage players to shoot more.. they don't count against the player's stats... WTF has this all come down to? If a player doesn't want to help their team vs worried about their shooting percentage, they should get called out on it.. this is one of the stupidest things I've ever heard of
2. The NBA is promoting the heck out of this NBA Cup, like it's the next big thing. They're claiming it's so exciting, motivates teams to play harder during the regular season.. until they decided that the stats for the championship game don't count for shit! How are you gonna promote load management and all this stuff about player safety and then turn around and host a game where the stats dont count!! The win/loss doesn't count for/against the teams and the stats don't count for the players! Then ask the fans to care about this.. SMH 
3. ESPN/NBA is 100% attempting to not publicize the gambling issues it has right now because they're more worried about their money and how much they're making off it vs reporting what's really going on in the world of sports. ESPN claims to be "Serving Sports Fans..".. what a load of BS this is.. they only spotlight the sports they're involved in (i.e. the broadcasting rights they purchased) and make it seem like that's all that's going on in sports (College sports, NFL, NHL, WNBA, NBA) on SportsCenter.  I miss the days of SportsCenter without Disney involved; they think everybody wants a Good Morning America type of show, which is not the case
4. The NBA usually has multiple games going on during the usual time windows.. 4:00-5:00 PM, 6:30-7:30 PM (Pacific) daily. Why wouldn't the NBA start flexing the games on national TV when star players aren't playing because they had too much weaksauce (i.e. load management, [insert stupid reason here], etc) instead of forcing us to watch basically garbage time with players at the end of the bench playing major minutes AND having announers overhype everything these players do? They have enough games going on at the same time where healthy rosters are playing so why not broadcast those games.. you know b/c they should be looking out for the fans AND putting a better product on for fans to watch? "They have broadcasting rules they need to follow maybe?" That is BS nowadays; all these media companies have backdoor/side deals in place to get around this so that cannot be the reason. Here's another reason to not broadcast those games.. these DO NOT help gamblers! Gamblers don't care about guys at the end of the bench b/c they won't be playing come playoff time or in the regular substitution rotation anyway! Gamblers don't care that Nathan Smith had a career high 17 pts in a spot start b/c Steph Curry had to sit b/c he ran 30 miles during the game before. "Why should they care about the gamblers?" They're making a shitload of money off of them, that's why.. There are so many things the NBA/ESPN can do to make it better for the fans but they refuse to.. Douchebag-ish behavior from a large corporation/business that clearly thinks we have no say or can't do anything about it..

11/17/2025

• Pretty embarrassed to be a Raiders fan right now.. it's one thing to lose a game but to be non-ccompetitive,  that's embarrassing.. Got dudes on the other side, DAL, just laughing and joking around, then put on their helmets and go play football, score a TD or get a stop

11/20/2025

• Steve Kerr.. man of reason; I don't agree that they should reduce the schedule. I believe that they can spread out the games better to help with practice and injuries if they get rid of the stupid ass NBA Cup but I agree with almost everything else: 

        But Kerr voiced skepticism that the league would seriously look at reducing the         schedule due to the financial implications.

"The tricky part is all the constituents would have to agree to take less revenue," Kerr said. "In 2025 in America, good luck in any industry. Imagine some big company saying, 'You know what, we're not as concerned about our stock price. We're actually concerned with employing people and giving people a stable job and making our product better.' That's not happening. You know that."

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/47015001/kerr-concerned-nba-increased-pace-leading-injuries

• Man I'm tired of ESPN self promoting themselves on every show!! Just show us the highlights, I don't care about what Greg McElroy thinks what's going to happen when USC plays Oregon or why Orlovsky thinks PHI will beat DAL. They don't care when they're wrong.. so why should I care?hahah.. all this nonsense about Mike Greenberg was surprised to be called out on his pick of DAL over PHI is a joke.. to be clear, I think it was staged.. to be pulled into First Take "surprisingly "... c'mon man.. ESPN stop with the nonsense and stupid click bait... stick to sports,  to what got you here!

11/22/2025

• Was looking to tune in and catch some of TENN/FL CFB game that was scheduled for 4:30 PM Pacific.. it's 4:50 PM and they barely started.. Sports is in such bad shape now with all these media companies dictating how sports is shown.. horrible fan experience. First commercial break: 4:57 PM real time, ~12:00 minute mark in game.. Next commercial break: 5:04 PM real time, ~9:00 minute mark in game.. Next commercial break: 5:12 PM real time, ~5:33 mark in game.. what a freakin' joke.. they've spent more time showing commercials than the actual game.. each commercial break is ~5+ minutes long. In a 14-0 game.. I hope everyone tunes away from this nonsense..

11/27/2025

• Happy T day.. but if NFL keeps insisting on moving more games off the NFL package and onto other streaming platforms.. what's the point of buying the Sunday ticket anymore? I paid $450 for the whole season, got less games than last year b/c they moved a few games to other streaming platforms, they  started staging international games, started doing Monday Night Football doubleheaders, and have some weeks where the afternoon window only had 2 games while they showed 2 other games nationally on Fox and CBS.. here's an idea: why not allow me to watch ALL the games on the Sunday ticket, wherever you decide to broadcast it... b/c I already paid! WTF! HOW ABOUT LOOKING OUT FOR THE FANS!?!?

12/7/2025

• NFL Sunday, morning window 10:02 AM Pacific:

              Games nationally:

              - CIN vs BUF

              - PITT vs BAL

              Games on Sunday ticket:

              - TENN vs CLE

              - IND vs JAX

              - WAS vs MINN

              - SEA vs ATL

              - NO vs TB

              - MIA vs NYJ

• NFL Sunday, afternoon window 1:05 PM/1:25 PM Pacific:

               Game(s) nationally:
              - LAR vs AZ
                 Games on Sunday ticket:
              - CHI vs GB
              - DEN vs LV

Can someone explain why the Sunday ticket is worth it for weeks like this? So stupid... let us watch ALL the games on Sunday ticket!?!? We already paid, wtf! This is why I'm considering not paying for Sunday ticket next season.. only 1 game has any playoff value in the morning and afternoon windows

• Total game mismanagement by BUF to end the 1st half.. they went for it on 4th and 4, between the 50-40 on CIN side of the field.. instead of playing field position and punting in the freakin snow with 3 timeouts and ~1:50 left on the clock,  they went for it and didn't convert.. giving CIN the ball at near midfield. CIN didn't end up converting for any points but they chewed up all the clock and BUF got the ball back and kneeled to end the half and wasted their 3 timeouts. If they would've done the same thing and used their 3 timeouts after punting instead of going for it on 4th, they could've made CIN punt the ball in the snow from near the end zone and gotten the ball near midfield with a chance to get points, with ~1:30 left on the clock and Josh Allen. Huge swing.. BUF gets the ball coming out of the half too and could've had a chance to double dip for points; no one will talk about this since BUF ended up winning but pretty bad game, clock management by BUF 

• 1st quarter, Sunday night game, HOU/KC.. they reversed the replay assist (when has that ever happened!?!?), causing 4th down vs 1st and goal.. they wiped off a TD earlier in the drive off a ticky tack illegal shift, they then called offensive offside on HOU, #79 lined up in the neutal zone on 4th down, causing FG attempt vs TD.  Craziness for the gambling nation!!

12/8/2025

• You know how they do player intros for Sunday night football and each player announces what school they're from?  I wonder if there's a school that tells the player, "you know what? Don't mention us.." haha
• Notre Dame rejecting bowl bids is a joke.. why is this even allowed? They're crying or protesting b/c they didn't make the CFP and now going after Miami and the ACC? All this NIL, players making their own money is ruining thr enjoyment of sports now.. everyone worried about their rights, not making enough money, rejecting opportunities to play in bowl games they think is beneath them,  etc.. c'mon man, this is crazy... for those players thinking that, try getting a real job.. like for real instead of getting the opportunity to play sports for a living.. 

12/14/2025

• NFL needs to legislate this one play out of the game: when the offense throws it deep, hoping for pass interference vs trying to actually catch the ball. A lot of teams are throwing it deep, sometimes it's a bad throw with no chance of the wide receivers catching it but since the throw was so bad, the defense doesn't have much choice but to react. These calls are usually worth 25+ yards of field position.. that's huge and swings games. Think of bad back shoulder throws or a QB that's not accurate; this just sucks for the defense.  It's the bad throw that makes it look like pass interference,  not that there was actually pass interference. Think of QBs like Jalen Hurts, Lamar Jackson, JJ McCarthy, etc. We can't give them the same leeway as other more accurate QBs, like Drake Maye, Burrow, Purdy, Dak, etc. Mahomes is usually pretty accurate too but this season, he's complaining more for calls this season. This is one thing that drives gamblers nuts.. when a QB gets this call late in the game, that keeps drives alive, leads to backdoor covers.. usually when this happens late in games, when PI is called on a questionable play, the team that gets the call will end up scoring on the drive.. which leads to a backdoor cover or maybe refs are evening out the penalty calls for each team so it doesn't seem obvious on the stat sheet

1/4/2026

• If you bet on the 49ers like I did and the OVER, games like last night against the Seahawks make no sense.. how you can't score a TD at home with dudes like Kittle and CMC on your team, SMH