WOODY IS STILL THE WORST, GIANTS SHOULD BE INTERESTED IN RUSS & METS NEED DIAZ TO BE GREAT …
Woody Johnson never wins real titles, of course. But give him credit for now owning this one:
Worst sports owner in New York right now.
l Tiger Woods and LeBron James share a birthday. And share this:
How much their respective sports still need them.
The difference is that Tiger is 48 years old and has trouble making it around the course and LeBron, when his ankle isn’t barking at him, can still get up and down a basketball court like he’s still the kid coming out of Akron.
But when LeBron is in the gym, you watch.
On the rare occasions when Tiger is on the course, people still watch in big numbers.
And it may be a golf fever dream, but wait and see what happens if his legs are strong enough for the up-and-down of Augusta National and he shoots a 69 on Thursday in the Masters.
l Sen. Britt seemed so occasionally distraught giving her State of the Union response the other night, I was worried about what sharp objects she might have in her kitchen drawers.
l I keep having this nightmare about college basketball players actually entering the transfer portal while we’re watching Selection Sunday.
l Maybe the Cavs aren’t going to be softer than soft ice cream in the playoffs this time.
l Somebody needs to give Red Sox fans one good reason not to think their owner has thrown in the towel.
You know why John Henry brought Theo Epstein back into the fold?
For cover.
While he seems a lot more interested in Premier League football and professional golf and his Fenway Sports Group than he is in what’s happening at Fenway Park.
l The A’s shouldn’t move to Vegas.
They should move to Salt Lake City.
l Is Jimmy Dolan still doing his bad facial recognition thing at the Garden?
l Chris Drury sure isn’t hanging back with the Rangers, is he?
l Listen, if I’m the Giants, I’m interested in Russell Wilson, too.
It’s not that Russell Wilson can’t play football anymore.
It’s that he couldn’t play for Nathaniel Hackett or Sean Payton.
In a season after which Payton (he invented pro football, remember) gave up on him, Wilson managed to throw 26 touchdown passes, which is a couple more than Daniel Jones ever threw in a single season.
I can’t tell you for sure how much Wilson has left.
But he might come play for the Giants and do for them what Fran Tarkenton did a long time ago.
l Now I’m starting to think that I may have to go on some kind of fast until Scottie Boras’ big pitching clients, Blake Snell and Jordan Montgomery, can find work.
l The really sad thing about Ben Simmons’ star-crossed career is how much fun it once was to watch him play ball.
l JJ Redick doesn’t just have a chance to be good working with Mike Breen.
He has a chance to be great. l Other than Corey Seager, you look around baseball and tell me a shortstop who has more game than Francisco Lindor.
l If the Mets are going to be any good, Edwin Diaz still needs to be great.
l The Yankees are still so often covered like the company in a company town.
l If you don’t think golf people are in this weird bubble, look at how they’re treating this reunion between Anthony Kim and the LIV Member-Guest Tour like it’s the Beatles reunion we never got.
l I’m sorry, but when did we start treating dumb hockey fights like they’re cool again?
l Really, the same people who think Joe Biden is too old and too forgetful are the same people who can’t find their television remote, or where they put the car keys.
And start looking around for their phone before they realize it’s in their hand.
l The next time I’m having a lousy front nine in golf, I’m going to ask Rick Pitino to show up and tell me how much I stink.
Because if he does, look out for me down the stretch.