June 2, 2025
The Dodgers may have lost to the Yankees last night at the Ravine, but they still took 2 out of 3 against the Bronx Bombers over the weekend. Let’s start with the good. Max Muncy is back! Whatever company gave his those new glasses clearly has its new spokesman. The haters that wanted him DFA’d a few weeks ago are in shambles. The offense is clearly fine, and they did all that without Mookie Betts over the weekend. However, after Freddie got hurt in the shower earlier, and Mookie got hurt from a nightstand, should we next worry about Shohei getting injured cutting sashimi in the kitchen? At this point, this season is playing out a lot like the last one. The Dodgers are contending like we expected them to, and their pitching staff has all kinds of injuries like we expected. Losing Evan Phillips for the season really hurts because he was one of their best high leverage relievers. The bottom line is that come the deadline, this team will need some kind of pitching reinforcements. Stop the Paul Skenes pipe dream, because you have a better chance of winning the Power Ball than that happening. However, they need a Jack Flaherty type that can eat innings, and ideally another high leverage bullpen piece. By July we will know if Sasaki, Snell, and Glasnow have a realistic chance of returning. I have a feeling at least one of them wont. The pitching won’t be easy to get, but Andrew Friedman has proven to be resourceful when he needs to be.
The Angels went on this great run we were talking about last week, then they remembered they were the Angels. They’ve lost 7 of their last 10, and are now 6 games below .500. The offense has been brutal. Chris Taylor showed up, and looked like the same Chris Taylor the Dodgers have seen the last few years. At least Mike Trout is slowly looking better, but hopefully he can manage to stay healthy. Meanwhile, the Halos do have the #2 pick in the upcoming baseball amateur draft, and they’ve been scouting Seth Hernandez. He’s thought by most scouts to be an ace pitcher, and that’s exactly what they need. However, Angels fans should be concerned that the organizations lack of players development will wreck this guys career. It doesn’t matter how many promising young players they bring in. If they can’t fix the development program with their franchise, they will never be successful.
To the NBA, where Lebron is rumored to be opting into his contract for this coming season at $52 million. I don’t know why any of you are busy wasting time speculating that he could leave the Lakers because he won’t. However, what I don’t understand is why everyone is so adamant that Lebron needs to take a pay cut? He made 2nd team All-NBA last season as a 40 year old. So why would he earn less? Also, he brings the NBA so much money and the Lakers, so $52 million is completely justified. For those of you saying “well if he wants to win he will take a pay cut”, he isn’t going to take a pay cut so the Lakers can bring in Clint Capela. However, if they traded for say, Giannis, and then they needed to fill out the rest of their roster, then maybe he would consider taking a cut.
As for the Clippers, now that SGA and the Thunder are in the NBA Finals, everyone is roasting the Clips over their trade with Thunder back in 2019 that got them Paul George. I have to say though, at the time, nobody was thinking this was a bad trade for the Clips. You all sat here for a year and jerked off Steve Ballmer, Kawhi, PG, and the entire organization, and told me how elite their team was. Now that it didn’t work out the way you thought it would and led to a championship, you’re criticizing. Honestly, you can’t blame the Clips for what they did. They had a great team on paper, but they came up short in 2020, and Kawhi was never reliable health wise. Sometimes you take your shot and it works out, and sometimes it doesn’t. However, credit to them for at least taking their shot.
Speaking of the NBA, the league owners say they wanted parity. That sounds great until you get an OKC vs Indiana in the finals, and your ratings are a disaster. Real NBA fans know this will be an entertaining series, even though I’ve got OKC winning in 5 games. However, the league does want casuals to tune in for ratings. Casuals don’t like small markets. They like big markets like LA, New York, Chicago, and they like super stars. SGA is a really great player, but don’t try to name him a super star. Same goes for Tyrese Haliburton. Whether you haters like it or not, the NBA needs the big markets, and their big stars in the finals.
I don’t know about you but I am going to be driving the bandwagon for the Florida Panthers to win the Stanley Cup again for the 2nd year in a row over the Edmonton Oilers. The Oilers have the greatest player in the world in Connor McDavid, but I don’t just want the Panthers to win because the Oilers knocked out the Kings for the last 4 years in the 1st round. If the Oilers win the Stanley Cup it will make the Kings organization shrug their shoulders like that Elmo gif, and just say “oh well we tried”, rather than look themselves in the mirror and understand what’s fundamentally wrong with their playoff approach. That’s exactly why you should want the Florida Panthers to win this series.
I am completely distraught over the mere suggestion that USC may be looking to end their agreement with Notre Dame to play annually. Lincoln Riley should be fired if he decided to end this agreement. I fail to see what the issue is. USC is worried about it’s pathway to the College Football Playoff. However, you know that Notre Dame is going to be a preseason top 10-12 team in most years, so that can only help your chances if they win. USC says it’s worried about travel. You moved to the Big Ten! You knew travel was going to be an issue. What’s one more trip against a team that can help your strength of schedule? Also, for those of you who think USC doesn’t need Notre Dame, you’re actually completely delusional.
Finally, why hasn’t Aaron Rodgers signed with the Steelers yet? What a joke. This dude knows he wants to play football this year, but he is acting like a complete primadonaa, and like he’s still the Aaron Rodgers of 10 years ago. Look bro, if you want to take walks in the woods, snort weed off tree branches, and all that nonsense, go right ahead. However, football is serious business, and it looks like you’re much closer to being a content creator than an NFL Quarterback these days. Can you imagine him walking into that locker room after dragging his feet all these months, then acting like he’s going to be the leader of that team? This dude is pure drama.