Now, things are getting weird in Washington.
Congressman Ted Cruz, now a Stepford Republican after a failed bid for the GOP nomination four years ago, got into it via social media with actor Ron Perlman (ex-Sons of Anarchy, Beauty & The Beast, etc.), who had begun a beef with another Stepford Republican, Jim Jordan (no relation to the star of Fibber McGee & Molly, we should point out), to the point where Cruz is trying to play promoter and set up a wrestling match between Jordan & Perlman for a purse of $10,000.
Yeah, I know, it's cray-cray, but I doubt anything will come of it.
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As we've been reporting, COVID-19 cases are sparking anew in the southern states, including Texas, where Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott had recently tested positive for the virus, along with other players from the Cowboys & Houston Texans.
None of this registers with the tone-deaf President Trump, who still plans on having a rally in Tulsa on Saturday, and claims that over 1 million ticket requests have been received since the event was announced last week. We've previously noted that Trump is not afraid to trade lives for stroking his ego.
However, there is cause for concern for Trump, who turned 74 on Sunday, after he'd been seen holding a cup of water with two hands at West Point the day before. It's not the first time that's happened, but no self-respecting adult would hold a cup of water with two hands. Infants hold bottles and cups with two hands, then graduate, if you will, to doing so with one hand. Let the speculation begin about the truth regarding Trump's physical health, as well as his mental health.
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The Major League Baseball Players Association has essentially told Commissioner Rob (Not-so-Mighty) Manfred to let them know when he's ready to start the season. The impasse, of course, is all about the dolla-dolla bill, y'all, and whether or not players can be paid for a full season. They need only look to the NBA's "kid sister", the WNBA, for inspiration.
ESPN reported Monday that the WNBA will cut their schedule to just 22 games this season, down from the usual 36, but players are still getting paid for a full season. Why can't baseball do that? Because too many owners are more concerned about their personal and corporate profit margins, and can't be bothered to do the right thing for business.
For the WNBA, you're looking at a 6-7 week season before the playoffs, as opposed to 9-10, and, if the NBA does restart, the two leagues will be playing regular season games concurrently for the first time. Stay tuned.
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WWE's ratings haven't turned around as quickly as CEO/Chairman Vince McMahon would like, so he removed Raw executive director Paul Heyman from the creative team at the end of last week, and decided that Bruce Prichard, who replaced Eric Bischoff on Smackdown last fall, would oversee both main roster shows.
It's not the fault of either Heyman or Prichard that ratings are still down. Viewers don't want to watch if there's no crowds, and a micro-managed "audience" of trainees and NXT talents isn't helping matters. Prichard, however, shares the same mindset as McMahon, as they're experimenting with storylines that belong in the Attitude Era (1997-2002), such as Japanese wrestler Akira Tozawa suddenly turning heel and leading a group of motorcycle riding ninjas onto the grounds of the WWE Performance Center at Backlash on Sunday, disrupting a hastily planned tag title match between the Street Profits and former champions the Viking Raiders, which now has been postponed to whenever McMahon feels like rescheduling it.
I'm less on board with former champion Seth Rollins as a false prophet, and that's all I'll say about that.
I smell the influence of a former head writer, Vince Russo, known for some outlandish ideas, behind the scenes and not on the payroll. Stranger things have happened.
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Add MLB. Manfred said on Monday he has his doubts about a 2020 season. Try telling that to sports card hoarders, who've played panic buyers and stripped the shelves bare of baseball, basketball, & football cards at at least one Walmart. Save some cards for the rest of us!
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And because some people don't have anything better to do than be stupid, that brings us to Donald Trump, Jr., proving once again that he's just as off-center as his dad.
Dumb Donald II decided to pull up an old, old Howard Stern sketch that had Stern mocking actors Ted Danson & Whoopi Goldberg, who were a couple for about 15 minutes after Whoopi had split with Frank Langella back in the day, and post it on social media because Stern, who, unlike Dumb Donald II, has actually grown up and owned his mistakes from the past, severed his ties with the President. Petty? Yep. Vindictive? Nope. Stupid? You bet. Just because Stern disagrees with the elder Trump's policies shouldn't make him a target for Dumb Donald II and any of the Stepford Children who follow the Trumps.
Memo to Ted Cruz: Maybe you should book Dumb Donald II into a match. With the Big Show.
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