Seems ESPN/Fox baseball analyst Alex Rodriguez and his honey, singer-actress Jennifer Lopez, are serious about buying the Mets. Mike Repole, better known for owning thoroughbred race horses, as joined Team A-Lo in a bid to acquire the Mets from the Wilpon family. We'll see how far this goes. By throwing his hat in the ring, Repole will likely attract some attention if/when he shows up at Saratoga later this summer.
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NASCAR has just one African-American driver, Bubba Wallace, who races for the legendary Richard Petty. On Sunday, before a scheduled race at Talladega, Alabama was postponed to today due to rain, someone placed a noose in Wallace's garage.
Consider the timing. NASCAR officials have been expressing support for, among other things, the Black Lives Matter movement and calls for the Confederate flag to be, well, retired, because of perceptions of what it represents. Wallace has, of course, gotten support from fellow African-American athletes such as NBA superstar-television producer LeBron James, but the question is who would have the lack of brains to pull a stunt like that in 2020?
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Major League Soccer is looking to restart their season as early as July 5, which would give NASCAR and the PGA tour some company on television, since it's looking like Major League Baseball won't be ready, if at all, before the latter part of July due to the ongoing squabbles over how many games will be played and how much the players will be paid.
Speaking of MLB, teams will be training in their home cities for any possible start to the season. For example, the Mets & Yankees will train at home (Citi Field and Yankee Stadium II, respectively), and the four California teams (Angels, Dodgers, Padres, Giants) would likewise use their home parks. This is despite the fact that California is one of the states experiencing an uptick in COVID-19 cases in recent days, along with Arizona, Oklahoma, Texas, and Florida. Some folks think there might not be a season. Stay tuned.
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If the final chapter of the WWE Network miniseries, The Last Ride, is to be believed, the Undertaker may be hanging up his trenchcoat and boots for good.
Undertaker (real name: Mark Calaway) debuted in the then-World Wrestling Federation in November 1990 at Survivor Series, and almost certainly will be enshrined in the WWE Hall of Fame as early as next year. Calaway broke into the wrestling business in the mid-80's, working for Jerry Jarrett in Memphis and for World Class Championship Wrestling under various gimmicks before moving to World Championship Wrestling as Mean Mark Callous in 1989-90. After stints under the management of Teddy Long and Paul E. Dangerously (Paul Heyman), Calaway took the Atlanta-to-New York shuttle, and the rest, as they say, is history.
I'm going to make a prediction:
ReplyDeleteBubba (or a member of his crew) put that noose in the garage (assuming it really was there at all). I've seen plenty of faked "hate crimes" in which the purported victim turned out to have done the deed themselves for attention/sympathy/awareness.
There is that possibility, since a lot of folks assume it was an inside job.
ReplyDeleteI have been vindicated!
ReplyDeleteThe FBI just released their results of the investigation: the "noose" was a handle to close the garage door.
Bubba is a loser - in every sense of the word. He couldn't win a race, and he can't stand on his own two feet without playing the victim card.
The handle'd been there since another crew had used the garage last fall, and was largely forgotten until the other day.
ReplyDeleteHowever, NASCAR has since released a photo of an actual noose.........