My Daily Rundown - Monday May 19th - THE PACERS TAKE CARE OF INDIANA FAN WHO WAS SAVAGELY HARASSED AND ASSAULTED BY WASTE-OF-LIFE KNICKS FANS, ALEX CORA IS NOT OVERRATED, AND SHAQ CONFIRMS DAVID STERN AND THE NBA HAS BEEN FIXING THE DRAFT FOR YEARS. YAH NO SHIT.
Here's my daily rundown for Monday May 19th.
I didn't get the chance to do these the last part of last week because I've been sick and was busy trying to get our new John Boy location ready to open, and then opened in Delray Beach. We're open now so if you're in the area come by we'd love to have you.
Here's today's rundown.
TOPIC #1 - TYRESE HALIBURTON AND THE PACERS TAKE CARE OF INDIANA FAN WHO WAS SAVAGELY HARASSED AND ASSAULTED BY WASTE-OF-LIFE KNICKS FANS
Fuck Knicks fans. Before the playoffs, if it was going to be anybody besides the Celtics winning this thing it would have been Cleveland. But after Cleveland, I would have been pulling for the Knicks. Strictly based on their team make up. They're fun to watch. They play hard as nails. Don't complain. And play as a team. Very hard not to root for. Then we saw what happened after Game 6 and their fans completely ruined everything. As usual. New Yorkers just can't have nice things. Now I cannot wait to watch Indiana bury them this series. I couldn't be rooting harder for Indiana this week!
TOPIC #2 - SHAQ CONFIRMS DAVID STERN AND THE NBA HAS BEEN FIXING THE DRAFT FOR YEARS. YAH NO SHIT.
Yah no shit. Whoever still things a multi billion-dollar corporation leaves the fate of its multi billion-dollar pieces and its hundred million-dollar stars in the hands of ping pong balls has rocks in their heads. It's the same reason another filthy fucking rich company, the NFL, won't put microchips in the football and sensors in the sidelines so we can know exactly where to mark the ball. They still need to have slight control over the product in someway. The slightest margin of error still allows the house to always win.
TOPIC #3 - DRAKE IS SELF AWARE AND THAT'S PRETTY FUNNY
Read the blog. Drake leaning into the jokes was not expected.
TOPIC #4 - 7 OF THE NEW ORLEANS ESCAPED CONVICTS ARE STILL ON THE LOOSE AND I DON'T THINK THEY'RE CATCHING THESE GUYS
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Listen I love New Orleans to death. One of the best cities in the world. Magical to the point where when you're walking around it it feels like you're in a movie. Food is off the charts. Live music everywhere you go. Frenchmen Street might be my top 3 favorite neighborhoods in the country. Blah blah blah.
They're not catching these remaining 6 or 7 guys still on the loose.
As much as I love New Orleans there is no better place to be a fugitive on the run from the law in this country than New Orleans. You can blend in with basically everybody. You know how Australia started as one big island where they threw all the prisoners? Well I'm not saying that about New Orleans but everybody there looks straight out central casting.
TOPIC #5 - I LOVE VINDOG, BUT ALEX CORA IS NOT OVERRATED. HE'S GOT A RAW DEAL SINCE MANAGING THE RED SOX AND SHOULD BE APPLAUDED FOR MAKING THE MOST OF A SHIT SITUATION
I love Vindog, and my prayers are with him, but Alex Cora has gotten an absolute raw deal managing the Boston Red Sox. You can hate him for the Astros stuff. The guy’s been handed a glorified Triple-A roster and told to compete in the AL East, a division with teams that actually spend money and try to win.
He’s managing a team that ownership keeps in this weird, half-assed purgatory. They're too “competitive” to tank, too cheap to go all-in. Every offseason, fans get the same dance. A few low-risk fliers. A couple of 35-year-old relievers.
The Mookie Betts trade? That wasn’t a baseball move, that was a business decision by billionaires who didn’t want to pay one of the best players in baseball history. Cora didn’t sign off on that. Cora also didn't sign off on Chris Sale smashing to a million pieces and Trevor Story's arm turning into a noodle. And the craziest part is they’re not a disaster. That’s the wildest part. And to Cora's credit. Cora has kept this team from completely bottoming out. He’s squeezed every ounce of juice from a dried-up roster. He’s got guys playing their asses off, competing against the Yankees and Rays with a pitching staff built like an IKEA desk.
Ownership needs to shit or get off the pot. And they needed to do it yesterday. Sell the team or divest from the racing and soccer and focus on making the Red Sox a serious contender again.