Baseball about gloves (not rubber ones)
What’s my beef ?
⏩ I went to Sunday’s A’s-Angels game and watched two teams wearing identical baby-blue caps, socks and sleeves, yet I did not leave the park thinking, “I should get a prostate exam.”
Promoting prostate awareness is great, but not by making every Father’s Day game look like a pajama party. Instead, how about having someone give a brief talk during the seventhinning stretch about what we should know or do to prevent/ treat prostate problems?
Mike Krukow noted on KNBR that Giants players chaffed at wearing Dodgerish blue accessories at Dodger Stadium. That’s likely to continue. When MLB latches on to a bad marketing gimmick (those caps are on sale), it does not let go.
⏩ Reggie Jackson took in Game 2 of the NBA Finals at Oracle. Recovering from a knee injury, he told me, “I played 3,000 games and never got injured.” (Actually 2,897 games, counting postseason.)
Local sports legend Sam Spear notes, “Reggie forgot he pulled a hamstring scoring the winning run (for the A’s) versus Detroit in the ’72 ALCS and missed the World Series.”
Players don’t lie, but their memories do.
⏩ Golf has the power to save the world, as I learned from reading “The Legend of Bagger Vance.” So I propose, in the manner of Jerry Seinfeld’s “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee,” this show: “Trump and Someone Else Playing Golf.” Guests will include: Kim Jong Un, Vladdy Putin, Bernie Sanders, LaVar Ball, Draymond Green, Gregg Popovich, Robert Mueller.
⏩ The Sacramento Kings cleverly trolled the Warriors with a fake text-convo with the NBA champs. Responding to an invite to the parade, the Kings replied (then quickly deleted), “Will your giant bandwagon be one of the floats in the parade?”
⏩ Madison Bumgarner spits on the concept of robot umpires for balls and strikes, calling it “the stupid electronic strike zone,” but he’s helping lead the charge toward progress.
Bumgarner has upped his pique level at the umps’ calls, to the point he was tossed out of a game (he was leaving anyway).
With robo umps, MadBum could expend all his energy on pitching.