Sponsor adds to the pot
HOW IS Rob Manfred, team owners and the MLBPA going to handle players busted for marijuana when MLB has signed a three-year contract extension with Scott’s lawn products — while Scott’s is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in marijuana cultivation and development of pot-growing equipment and pot-specific fertilizer?
Might be a good question, too, for Cal Ripken, Jr. — who, when not analyzing MLB postseason games for TBS from near a munchies stand, is the paid promotions man for the MLB-Scott’s partnership.
Another week of bad guesses spoken as fact by “Let’s Be Honest” Mike Francesa. The best/worst from the self-anointed NFL insider who claims to miss nothing, was that he missed the impossible to miss:
Monday night in Arizona and nationally televised on ESPN, on occasion the Jets used defensive end Sheldon Richardson as an inside linebacker on run blitzes designed to stop Arizona runner David Johnson. Francesa pompously told a caller (peon) that it never happened.
And not that he ever would bring it up, but since Francesa declared the Bills dead and buried at 0-2, they’ve won four straight.
Oh, and Francesa knocked Odell Beckham Jr. as far too self-centered. That’s right, this town isn’t big enough for two!
Follow the money: What a pity that MSG Network forces a decent man such as Sam Rosen into shilling for bad-bets DraftKings. Jimmy Dolan’s Garden has a large stake in the rotten-odds gambling operation.
NBC, at halftime of Stanford-Notre Dame two Saturdays ago, showed a sudden interest in a college marching band, even leaving its studio to show one. It was Notre Dame’s, and it had formed the NBC peacock, a salute to Notre Dame’s $15 million per deal with NBC to televise Notre Dame home games.
Even if Clayton Kershaw hadn’t pitched a beauty that shouldn’t have been missed — especially by kids — there was no good reason other than TV’s purchased authority for Game 2 of DodgersCubs to have started at 8:10 p.m. EDT, instead of 7:05, last Sunday.
Rob Manfred, stop servicing team owners’ bottom lines and start taking care of our game!