CMC last of the ‘dynamic’
THE TERM “dynamic player” has been so overused, its meaning has eroded. But all-purpose Panthers running back Christian McCaffrey restores its meaning. When he left Thursday night’s game against the Texans with a hamstring injury, the game was deflated and remained flat.
➤ As slick and as hip as Weekday Boomer Esiason and Gregg Giannotti portray themselves, they provide on-air promotion and friendship to one of the most notorious scamdicappers, Stu Feiner.
➤ Not that anyone should be surprised, but Friday’s first-matches coverage of the Ryder Cup on NBC’s Golf Channel began with promos encouraging viewers to watch the Ryder Cup. Fine. When is it on?
➤ The White Sox clinched the AL Central on Thursday, in thoroughly modern, Rob Manfred MLB fashion. They beat Cleveland despite 10 strikeouts — in a seven-inning game.
➤ Has anyone grown tired of Kyrie Irving? What about our load management?
➤ It’s well worth noting that as Black Lives Matter continues to reveal itself as a con in the hands of highly selective social vandals, fringe lunatics and factsbe-damned activists and arsonists, Roger Goodell’s NFL remains all in.
➤ These are whacky times. The Padres’ Manny Machado, who admitted running to first base “is not my cup of tea,” recently bashed teammate Fernando Tatis Jr. for being selfish, for thinking, “It’s all about you.”
➤ Reader Steven Arendash asks a good question. With the automatic runners on second in extra innings, why don’t managers, with none or one out, walk the batter to set up the double play? Especially when tied in the bottom of an inning.
➤ It takes a village to make an idiot: To hear hundreds of U.S. team Ryder Cup spectators cheer bad shots and missed putts by the European team has been more sickening than surprising. And the pandering silence about it from NBC’s voices has been equally sickening and unsurprising. Our “sports culture” continues to dissolve.
➤ Sunday’s games: Falcons-Giants, Fox, 1 p.m., Kenny Albert, strong nuts and bolts pro, and Jonathan Vilma, speechmaker. Jets-Broncos, CBS, 4:05. Spero Dedes, cliché parrot, and Jay Feely, short-story-long guy.
➤ A grasshopper walks into a bar, orders a drink. Bartender says, “Say, we have a drink named after you.” The grasshopper says, “You have a drink named Larry?”