March 12, 2018
The Lakers won the battle against Lebron last night, but the question remains will they win the battle for Lebron in July. Interestingly enough, more and more Laker fans want the team to lose that battle. Look I get it, this is a young team that’s exciting, and has lots of room to grow. It’s far from the end of the world if they don’t get him. However, if you have a chance to acquire the best player in basketball, you do it. Even if Lebron isn’t the best player in basketball in 3-4 years, he’ll still be great enough to build your team around. It’s been so long since the Lakers won a championship, apparently eating all that stale Staple Center sushi has made some fans forget that the objective is to actually try and win championships. It’s not just to build some cute little team you claim “you want to be proud of”. You’ll be proud of championships and the sooner we get them the better. That’s more likely to happen sooner with Lebron, even if it means a lot more changes on the roster.
The Clippers have become yet another NBA team that has decided to put a sponsor on their team jersey. Who is the sponsor? It’s Bumble. For those of you unfamiliar with them, they are a dating app. I’m not a fan at all of these sponsorships on the actual jerseys. However, this partnership makes perfect sense. Your odds of getting a ring on Bumble are just as bad as getting a ring if you are a member of the Los Angeles Clippers.
Let’s go to the insanity of college basketball where the Bruins found a way into the NCAA Tournament. Sure the UCLA put up a nice fight against Arizona, but part of the Pac 12 Tournament should just make a Bruin fan want to pull their hair out. UCLA should have won that tournament. All year long we got to hear Steve Alford make excuses how the team has no depth because he suspended three rotation players. That was four months ago! Instead of bitching about it, he could have developed some of the other talented players on his bench, like Chris Smith. Did Alford even know Chris Smith’s name before last week? When this team wins it’s because they have some talent to get them by. There’s never been any point where I feel like they are actually being coached or developed. I fully expect that to be the case in the tournament this week.
I had no idea that the NCAA selection committee did shots of tequila before putting the brackets together. That had to be the case because there’s no explanation for the decisions they made. How the hell does USC finish 2nd in the Pac 12 and runner-up in the conference tournament and not make it? Even more baffling is the fact Oklahoma got in after sinking faster than the Titanic in the last 10 games. Trae Young isn’t even playing that well against elite competition, and of course the committee just threw them in the tournament to get some ratings. ASU finished 9th and under .500 in conference and made the cut. Syracuse and Texas are a joke too. Who sits on this committee? The same members of the IOC and FIFA? I haven’t even filled out my bracket and it’s already busted.
The Rams are going nuts. After acquiring Aqib Talib, they have the best secondary in the NFC, and one of the best in the NFL. This also means that when the Rams take on the Raiders next season, Talib will once again rip the chain necklace off of Michael Crabtree, and Marcus Peters will throw it into the stands. The Rams have suddenly become a smart organization. They realize their window to win with Jared Goff, Todd Gurley, and Aaron Donald on cheap contracts is small, and they need to take advantage of it. They badly needed to get better at both cornerback and wide receiver, and they’ve already fixed one side of the ball. It’s an arms race between the Eagles, Rams, and Vikings in the NFC. The only bad news is if you want a PSL in the new stadium and you’re an average dude, you’ll probably be financing it until the time you die.
Another episode of The Walking Dead went down last night on AMC. Spoiler alert for those of you who have yet to see it, so read no further if you plan to watch it later. The Saviors killed another doctor? We are losing doctors on this show faster than Judith is losing baby sitters. It took Negan this long to figure out this idea of putting Walker guts on weapons? Enid finding out that Carl died was more sad than Carl actually dying. My conspiracy theory is that Daryl is keeping Dwight alive as a favor to Sherry, who let him out when he was captured by the Saviors. Morgan better not leave that kid with Carol because she’s like 0-3 with kids. Eugne got himself a promotion. Homeboy seems to keep failing upwards in the zombie apocalypse. I’m sure his momma’s proud. Looking forward to the next episode.
Finally, The Bachelor finally came to an end on ABC last week. This season was horribly boring, so they had to give us a controversial ending, with Arie changing his mind and going back to Lauren and leaving Becca after proposing to her. I’ve said all along that Arie is boring and about as smart as a doorknob. However, why are people so outraged? They get to see breakups every week when they watch reality TV, so how was this any different? Besides, Arie gave Becca the greatest gift of all, which was enough sympathy from everyone to make her the next Bachelorette. That’s a lottery ticket. Arie clearly doesn’t understand what the meaning of “please leave” means. Dude’s knees must be killing him from proposing twice in six weeks. This guy has more commitment issues than Lebron James. I still can’t believe that Arie proposed to Lauren in front of everybody, after he knew the crowd was going to be hostile. I’ve seen a louder applause at the Olive Garden when they brought more breadsticks. Thank god this season is over, but we all know no matter how bad it was, we’re going to watch the next season.
