May 27, 2025
The Dodgers are still hanging on to 1st place in the NL West, but are still working through their issues. They left a series win on the table over the weekend against the Mets, largely because of two problems: Tanner Scott and Michael Conforto. Scott blew a 3-run lead on Friday, and continues to have problems locating his pitches when he runs up counts. The Dodgers think he can make an adjustment to fix this, but does it have to be during closing time? The Dodgers have enough dudes that can handle this for the time being until he fixes things. He’s a $75 million reliever, so hopefully he can turn it around soon. Then there’s Conforto, who is a $17 million bust right now, who couldn’t hit water if a fell out of a boat. How much longer are the Dodgers going to give this guy at bats when they are well aware they have a stud on the bench in Hyesong Kim? This team feels rather unserious about repeating as champions until they make that move.
As for the Angels, it briefly looked like they had turned things around, climbing back to .500, then they lost 2 of 3 to the lowly Marlins, and last night to the Yankees. They also signed former Dodger Chris Taylor over the weekend, who is suddenly getting starts for them. That’s right, a guy hitting .185 who suddenly may be better than their other sub .200 hitters. I think more than anything, the last week is a reminder that the Angels might in fact have some decent young players like Zach Neto, Nolan Schanuel, and Logan O’Hoppe, but if they don’t add quality pieces to supplement them, they will continue to be a bad team.
We many times take the greatness of certain players for granted. I think we can say that about Lebron James, who earned second team all NBA last week. He now has 21 All-NBA appearances, in 22 season. Do you realize how crazy that is? This man has been no worse than a Top 15 player in the league for two decades, and you can argue that he is the GOAT. Honestly, if the team had been a little more consistent early on, he might have been been 1st team All-NBA. You’ve also gotta give credit to James Harden of the Clippers, who got 3rd team all-NBA, especially when we were all about to write him off as just a fat strip club guy. He’s still a strip club guy, but he can also still ball.
It’s going to happen. The NBA Finals are going to end up being OKC vs Indiana. You’re all going to say “oh great the NBA has parity and small markets can compete now!” Ok that’s all great until you see the dumpster fire that will be the ratings. At that point the league will be begging for it’s large markets back. With that being said, if you like basketball, you will like those team teams, and it could be a very interesting and entertaining matchup. The Knicks did a great job coming back from down 20 against yesterday against the Pacers, but I don’t think the way they play is sustainable. I also don’t know what the deal is with Anthony Edwards. In 2 of the 4 games against Oklahoma City, it’s like he can’t even get a shot off. I know he’s trying to make the right basketball play, but at some point he’s got to take matters into his own hands, because he can probably be that good.
Finally, The Last of Us on HBO is a phenomenal show, but really left us on quite a cliff hanger in the season finale. Spoiler alert for those of you who have yet to see, so read no further if you plan on watching it later. Bottom line is this: Abby fired at somebody, and we don’t know if Elle died, somebody else, or nobody at all. We do know that Jessie died. Wow though. We have to wait until 2027 to find out? Ugh. After all that, I don’t think it’s Elle that’s going to die in this scenario. In fact, without entirely knowing what happened in the game, it makes perfect sense not to kill her and to kill both Tommy and Jessie. The point here is that Elle is becoming a very unlikable character who is very selfish. She showed that she can’t even do anything self-less like save that baby in the pregnant woman who was dying. Losing Tommy and Jessie would be punishment enough for her, and I think Abby knows that.
