Trade of the season, Road to Stupidville & Popp’s voice of reason. . .
has not just established himself as one of the great October pitchers of all time.
He turned out to be one of the great in-season acquisitions of all time.
This is the ace they’re all looking for, even in August, the one who changes teams and doesn’t lose. There is a place called Stupidville in sports, and the population there sometimes seems to be growing by the day.
This isn’t about the intelligence of the people living there.
This is just about the way they act, and are so often enabled by the people covering that mythical place.
And the mayor of Stupidville right now is even as he has brilliantly figured out the way that the game is played in the modern sports culture. Every time and kneeling during the National Anthem becomes another referendum on patriotism, you want to ask a question:
What’s less patriotic, taking a knee as some football players have done, or a qualified person can’t get a job because of his political beliefs?
The shame of the Giants’ 0-5 start is how wide-open the NFC now looks because has broken his right collarbone. And by the way? Explain to me the logic of passing rules to protect quarterbacks in the pocket, and not when they’re outside it? The ball was gone by the time
of the Vikings put Rodgers down the way he did last Sunday.
He had a clear shot at Rodgers and took it it and if that wasn’t a dirty play, it sure wasn’t a clean one, either.
When the Falcons lose a game like they did to the Dolphins, they remind you all over again why no team that has lost a Super Bowl has made it back the next year since the old Buffalo Bills. When you watch
sit until the last four minutes of the Knicks’ opener against the Oklahoma City Carmelos, you once again ask yourself what kind of coaching star search was at the end of for That was a terrible call against the Jets last Sunday at MetLife, without question.
And the explanation about it afterward made the people in charge sound like fifth-graders trying to explain quantum theory.
But the Jets weren’t going to beat the Patriots in that game from the time they got greedy at the end of the first half, got intercepted, watched the Patriots go down and make it 14-14. The Jets played hard again. In their own club fighter way, it has been fun watching them get to 3-3, in a year when we weren’t sure they would even get to three wins.
But when the Patriots were asked to play last Sunday, they did. They aren’t what they were. They don’t have much of a defense right now.
The win wasn’t all that pretty for them even after they did get the lead.
But when they still have and out there together, you can still see them going back to the big game.
I know the season.
I know what the rest of the current Giants receiving corps looks like. But don’t and
sometimes coach like they’re is gone for afraid of said the other day that the national anthem is “an important part of our game.” Well, yeah, now it is. You know who keeps being heard on the state of his country?
If you are looking for proof that a basketball player can come all the way back from the kind of injury
of the Celtics suffered just five minutes into his Celtics career, all you have to do is look at the way is still playing ball.
I thought his career might be over the night he crumpled to the floor near a basket support while playing for Team USA.
And now he has once again reclaimed his place and his status as one of the best players in his sport.
talking from the White House podium about Gen. Kelly the other day:
“I think that — if you want to get into a debate with a four-star Marine general, I think that that’s something highly inappropriate.”
On Saturday the Washington Post’s reminded everybody of this tweet from Huckabee Sanders’ boss about
last September: “I was never a fan of Colin Powell after his weak understanding of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq = disaster. We can do much better!” And so it goes. What looked like the worst thing that could possibly have happened to the Dodgers – inexplicably losing 16 of 17 at one point, including 11 in a row – might have been the beset thing that could have happened to them.
Because in a season when they had made everything look so easy, they had to overcome something. Now here they are. Yup, Jets fans sure were lucky that their team passed on
with the sixth pick in the first round of the last NFL draft.
The Yanks’ Baby Bombers probably have to be reminded sometimes how important A-Rod’s mentoring program was.
If laughter from the guys on the Fox studio show for baseball was part of a drinking game, and you had to take a shot every time they cracked each other up, everybody would be schnockered by the third inning.