May 18, 2026

Here we are, the NBA off-season for the Lakers. Get ready to hear six weeks a complete bs from the media, and from Rich Paul and Klutch Sports. I’m here to tell you to ignore it. I’m also here to tell Rich Paul to shut the hell up with your crap. At the end of the day we know that the free agent class this year is complete garbage, so the Lakers might as well spend money on Lebron. We also know that Lebron is 41 years old, and nobody is going to move heaven and earth to put him on their team, or offer him anything more than a mid-level exception. The Lakers and Lebron will settle for each other because in their own minds, their is nothing better out there for them. I would love to tell you that the Lakers could end up with Walker Kessler and Peyton Watson, but that’s just not happening. You would have to overpay so much to get those guys, and you would have no cap space left to re-sign Austin Reaves. Even with their cap space, the Lakers are going to have to get creative to improve the roster enough to compete with San Antonio and OKC.

To baseball, where the Dodgers crushed the Angels over the weekend, sweeping them in a 3-game set and outscoring them 31-3 over the 3-games. I’m not sure a series against the lowly Angels is a good way to determine if your offense is truly out of its slump. Shohei Ohtani definitely broke out of over the weekend, but I would still rather see Shohei the full time elite DH than the pitcher. Yes, he is a Cy Young candidate right now, but do you want to see that, or a 3-peat? Throwing 150 or 200 innings for Shohei doesn’t seem wise. He’s great, but he is human. I’d rather have Shohei as an elite bat for 162 games and the playoffs, rather than just 30 games as a pitcher. I say this even knowing that Blake Snell is going to be out for a while with his elbow injury. The Dodgers still have enough pitching to get them through the regular season. You need Snell, Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and Tyler Glasnow for the playoffs. Keep them healthy and tune them up for October. Good thing Tanner Scott has been outstanding this year because Edwin Diaz may be going to the slammer for cock fighting. These closer free agent signings never seem to work out in the first year of the deal for the Dodgers.

As for the Angels, there’s not much to say other than this is a horrible team. They are the worst team, with the worst owner, and the worst farm system. Their stadium is being infiltrated by rats and possums, and they simply can’t do anything right. The especially disappointing thing is that their young promising players like Nolan Schanuel, Logan O’Hoppe, Zach Neto, and Reid Detmers just haven’t taken the next step in their development, and you can blame that on the Halos lack of player development within their organization. Jose Soriano is the only promising aspect of the Angels season right now, and he got lit up over the weekend by the Dodgers. Not sure why Mike Trout wants to continue to be part of this clown show, but when you’re making $35 million a year and living in Orange County, working 7 months a year, it’s a pretty comfortable gig.

Speaking of the Angels, Arte Moreno deserves to have someone take a crap in his Christmas stocking this year after they fired Patrick O’Neal from their broadcasts. Oh sorry, he actually decided to speak his mind and call out the franchise for being a hot pile of garbage? What are they worried we might suddenly start thinking that the franchise is completely incompetent? Like we didn’t think that already. Patrick O’Neal is a fantastic broadcaster, very passionate about Southern California sports teams, and whoever ends up hiring him will be very fortunate.

In College Football, it feels like it’s only a matter of time before we end up with a 24-team playoff. I have to say though, 24 teams is too many. 16 teams I can go for, but 24 teams creates too many teams that just won’t be competitive enough against the elite programs. I love the idea of abolishing these extremely outdated conference championship games, but the SEC and all those southerners are going to throw a fit if they lose their precious championship game. Sorry Greg Sanke, but the SEC has quickly succeeded power and relevance to the Big Ten in the NIL era. The conference is just as top heavy as it always was. This whole thing is funny because I’ve been told for years that Notre Dame needs to join a conference so they can have a shot at their conference championship game. It turns out they don’t, because their University is practically re-writing the rules of the sport.

I’m excited to see the World Cup coming to the US and SOFI stadium in the next few weeks! However, I’m floored by the ticket prices to see the USA play. The secondary market is asking for Super Bowl ticket prices just to see a mediocre USA team get smoked on their home turf. I have a much greater interest in watching teams like Iran and Belgium play each other at SOFI Stadium, or countries that are actually good at soccer, and ironically, are much more reasonably priced.