Middling Yankees and Mets, Kyrie’s notion & 10-year deals . . .
The Yankees, of course, started out 21-9 and showed all that early speed.
The Mets, who have been a slog from the start, started 14-16 over their first 30 games.
Through Friday night, here are the records for our two teams since: Yankees, 29-37. Mets, 31-34. I guess I feel the same way about that I do about
I just want these poor guys to be happy.
We’re supposed to believe that Irving just wants to get out of
shadow, which would make this the latest case of wannabe-the-man disease but certainly not the last.
But you have to believe he’s looking at the deals that and just got, and thinking to himself, I’ll have what they’re having.
recent slump seemed to end on Friday night at Safeco Field, when his mission was apparently to hit a baseball to Russia.
If he had, of course, there’s a chance it might have been caught by one of the few people from that country who weren’t at the meeting with
You really do look at the Red Sox and the Yankees right now and think that the only thing separating them, really, is
One of the beauties of the trade deadline is when a guy like
suddenly gets treated like the guy about to be taken with the first pick of the NFL draft, even though nobody outside Oakland can actually remember ever seeing him pitch.
Did that guy in the parole board hearing for really think that a Kansas City Chiefs tie was a solid fashion statement.
I was really late getting to this particular literary party, and I have to thank my friend of “Billions” for getting me to it, but I am spending the summer reading everything by I can get my hands on.
And I started with the last book he’s published, a wonder of a collection of short stories called “Men Without Women.”
As good as
vs. was at the last British Open, it still isn’t what
vs. was 40 years ago at Turnberry.
It was called the “Duel in the Sun,” and still might be the greatest game of one-on-one a major championship in golf has ever seen.
There hasn’t been this much excitement about the Knicks’ front office since took over. The next time any owner in baseball gets it in his head to sign a superstar to one of those 10year contracts, even after the superstar is past the age of 30, attention ought to be paid to two guys:
is one.
is the other. And someday we may be adding
to that list. With Cano, though, things get a little more complicated if you’re a Yankee fan.
Because if they’d known their team was going to throw more than $150 million at for seven years, they might have wanted their team to go all in on Cano for ten. It was kind of neat over the past few days having it treated like breaking that the Knicks would rather trade than for Kyrie.
We’re moving up on the first anniversary of retirement from the Yankees.
Or the Yankees finally getting to retire from him. Whatever. Kind of gets you right here, doesn’t it? You have to love the outgoing Ole Miss football coach,
saying that it was a wrong number when he called the escort service.
It’s the escort-service version of saying the dog ate your homework.
But since Hugh got himself fired anyway, you have to say that his bosses sort of decided in the end that dog wouldn’t hunt. It really is kind of amazing that
was the oldest player, man or woman, to win Winbledon in 108 years.
old caddie, has merely been terrific doing course commentary for NBC Sports on the British Open.
It makes all the conversations Bones had with Phil, over all the years, one of the longest audition reels in the history of broadcasting. By the way? After announced the other day that meeting Don Jr. did have with the Russians might have been borderline “illegal,” it was who pointed out that with the governor, revenge might be a dish served deep-fried.