Post by dex on May 16, 2020 18:08:58 GMT -5
Can MLB owners, players agree on a plan?
FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH: Will Major League Baseball make a comeback this summer?
That’s like farmers asking will this drought ever end.
The trick is to get the owners and the players union on the same page, which can be harder than pulling off a suicide squeeze.
I never knew I liked baseball so much, Bunky.
• Speaking of baseball, McCoy Stadium looks pretty empty and sad these days.
• Actually, most places look pretty empty and sad these days, the pandemic’s legacy.
• Did you see where Harvard has named a former Hofstra women’s basketball star as its new director of athletics? Erin McDermott is Harvard’s first female AD.
• Another first: Princeton University’s valedictorian this year is a black student from Canada — the school’s first black valedictorian in its 274-year history.
• QUIZ OF THE WEEK: Which former first lady also graduated from Princeton? (Answer near the end of the column.)
• When people ask me, do you Zoom, I say, sure, I zoom all over the place.
• You mean it’s a computer program?
• LINE OF THE WEEK is a classic from Groucho Marx: “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
• LINE OF THE WEEK II is from Bill Belichick, whose dog, Nike, sat in the Patriots head coach’s chair at one point during the NFL Draft: “He’s working on the supplemental draft in case anything comes up in July.”
• Woof, woof.
• There’s no truth to the rumor that Nike told Belichick that Brady should go.
• Whose book would you rather read in the future? Brady’s or Belichick’s?
• “Shining City,” a crime novel set in Washington, D.C., by Tom Rosenstiel, will keep you reading, Bunky.
• This from the Boston Herald: Enrollment for universities for the academic year starting in September is expected to drop 15%, amounting to a $23-billion loss in revenue.
• RIP Little Richard, a true American original.
Bill Reynolds
• There’s no truth to the rumor his epitaph will read “Tutti Frutti.”
• The number of tents and makeshift homeless shelters in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district has more than doubled in the last two months — to 391, according to a lawsuit filed this week against the city.
• Make America Great Again?
• Former Patriots defensive lineman Richard Seymour has become the 30th member of the Patriots Hall of Fame, beating out finalists Bill Parcells and Mike Vrabel, among others.
• Next time, Tuna.
• In the spare change department, Robert Kraft is auctioning one of his six Super Bowl rings to benefit a charity that is feeding frontline workers during the pandemic.
Starting bid? $75,000.
• Quiz Answer: Michelle Obama.
• Boston Herald columnist Tom Keegan wrote this past week that oddsmakers are no longer betting on the Patriots.
BetOnline.ag released its odds for every NFL game in the 2020 season.
The Patriots were favored in eight, underdogs in seven and a pick-’em at the Los Angeles Chargers.
• This from Newsday: Nets general manager Sean Marks said that whether or not Kevin Durant will return to play this season is “a $110-million question.”
• No truth to the rumor that Stid the Kid saw the size of Brady’s shoes and ran off in the other direction.
• And that Nike, the dog, ran after him.
• Bang the drum slowly for Tom Konchalski’s “High School Basketball Insider Report.” At age 73, Konchalski has announced he is ceasing publication for the invaluable guide, which evaluated college basketball prospects.
The report’s motto?
“Others tell you where they’ve been. We tell you where they’re going.”
• Over and out, I’m zooming away.
wreynolds @providencejournal.com
FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH: Will Major League Baseball make a comeback this summer?
That’s like farmers asking will this drought ever end.
The trick is to get the owners and the players union on the same page, which can be harder than pulling off a suicide squeeze.
I never knew I liked baseball so much, Bunky.
• Speaking of baseball, McCoy Stadium looks pretty empty and sad these days.
• Actually, most places look pretty empty and sad these days, the pandemic’s legacy.
• Did you see where Harvard has named a former Hofstra women’s basketball star as its new director of athletics? Erin McDermott is Harvard’s first female AD.
• Another first: Princeton University’s valedictorian this year is a black student from Canada — the school’s first black valedictorian in its 274-year history.
• QUIZ OF THE WEEK: Which former first lady also graduated from Princeton? (Answer near the end of the column.)
• When people ask me, do you Zoom, I say, sure, I zoom all over the place.
• You mean it’s a computer program?
• LINE OF THE WEEK is a classic from Groucho Marx: “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
• LINE OF THE WEEK II is from Bill Belichick, whose dog, Nike, sat in the Patriots head coach’s chair at one point during the NFL Draft: “He’s working on the supplemental draft in case anything comes up in July.”
• Woof, woof.
• There’s no truth to the rumor that Nike told Belichick that Brady should go.
• Whose book would you rather read in the future? Brady’s or Belichick’s?
• “Shining City,” a crime novel set in Washington, D.C., by Tom Rosenstiel, will keep you reading, Bunky.
• This from the Boston Herald: Enrollment for universities for the academic year starting in September is expected to drop 15%, amounting to a $23-billion loss in revenue.
• RIP Little Richard, a true American original.
Bill Reynolds
• There’s no truth to the rumor his epitaph will read “Tutti Frutti.”
• The number of tents and makeshift homeless shelters in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district has more than doubled in the last two months — to 391, according to a lawsuit filed this week against the city.
• Make America Great Again?
• Former Patriots defensive lineman Richard Seymour has become the 30th member of the Patriots Hall of Fame, beating out finalists Bill Parcells and Mike Vrabel, among others.
• Next time, Tuna.
• In the spare change department, Robert Kraft is auctioning one of his six Super Bowl rings to benefit a charity that is feeding frontline workers during the pandemic.
Starting bid? $75,000.
• Quiz Answer: Michelle Obama.
• Boston Herald columnist Tom Keegan wrote this past week that oddsmakers are no longer betting on the Patriots.
BetOnline.ag released its odds for every NFL game in the 2020 season.
The Patriots were favored in eight, underdogs in seven and a pick-’em at the Los Angeles Chargers.
• This from Newsday: Nets general manager Sean Marks said that whether or not Kevin Durant will return to play this season is “a $110-million question.”
• No truth to the rumor that Stid the Kid saw the size of Brady’s shoes and ran off in the other direction.
• And that Nike, the dog, ran after him.
• Bang the drum slowly for Tom Konchalski’s “High School Basketball Insider Report.” At age 73, Konchalski has announced he is ceasing publication for the invaluable guide, which evaluated college basketball prospects.
The report’s motto?
“Others tell you where they’ve been. We tell you where they’re going.”
• Over and out, I’m zooming away.
wreynolds @providencejournal.com