OHTANI NEEDS TO DITCH HIS ACCOUNTANT, GOLF MORE INTERESTING WITH TIGER & CAN’T DEBATE CAITLIN’S IMPACT …
After Shohei Ohtani fired his interpreter, his next move should have been firing his accountant. Unless his accountant thought the missing $16 million was just pocket change to his guy.
• The Masters says goodbye this weekend to the great Verne Lundquist, who isn’t merely one of the best golf broadcasters of all time, he’s one of the great sports broadcasters of all time.
And one of the finest gents I have ever been fortunate enough to know in this business.
• There are so many things about which to root for with the Jets.
The owner isn’t one of them. And will never be one of them.
The Jets were better off when he bought himself that gig being Ambassador to the Court of St. James.
• Everything that once made Tiger Woods a champion was on display on Friday when he had to play 23 holes, at Augusta National on a day when it turned into a wind tunnel. He is 48 now.
As well as he can still hit a golf ball, he is a mile away from the kind of golf he played even five years ago to win his fifth green jacket, before that automobile accident in southern California that could easily have killed him.
But no matter where he hit it on Friday, he somehow managed to hang around near par, and keep getting up-and -down for pars.
And reminded you all over again why the sport is still so much more interesting when he’s the one hanging around.
• You only wear those hats the LIV guys are wearing at The Masters if you lost a bet.
• Jordan Spieth looked as if he was going to be the new king of professional golf once.
Now he’s the king of great big numbers, like that 9 he made on No. 15 on Friday.
• Steph and the Dubs have gotten really fun again lately.
• It is worth repeating something David Cone told me about the Yankees’ starting rotation back in 1998, for the best Yankee team of them all.
It was him, Andy Pettitte, Boomer Wells, El Duque Hernandez, even old friend Hideki Irabu (13-9 that year).
“None of us spent any time on the injured list,” David said. “Think about that in terms of what’s happening right now in the modern game.”
By the way?
People who think the pitch clock has something to do with all these elbow injuries have rocks in their heads.
To paraphrase the old James Carville line about the economy:
It’s the spin rate, stupid. And the velocity. Anything else really is just stupid spin.
• You can continue to debate whether or not Caitlin Clark is the best player in the history of women’s college basketball.
What is not in debate now, nor will it ever be, is that she is the single best thing that has ever happened to women’s basketball.
College or pro.
The NBA wishes it could get television ratings like hers.
• You hear all the time that you shouldn’t define people by the worst moment of their life. With O.J.?
Go right ahead.