After the Wildcats' defense allowed four touchdowns against Houston on Saturday, defensive coordinator Pepper Johnson, the former Giants star linebacker who later played & coached for the Jets, was fired on Monday. Defensive captain Anthony Johnson declared himself a free agent as well, dissatisfied with head coach Winston Moss.
Moss, who played in the NFL as well, was in his first game as a pro head coach. Growing pains, y'all.
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You'll recall that Toronto Raptors owner Masai Ujiri got into an altercation with an Oakland sheriff's deputy after the Raptors won the NBA title last June. Now, the deputy, Alan Strickland, is suing Ujiri for damages worth up to $75.000. A mere bag of shells compared to most frivolous lawsuits.
While this may actually have a chance of being heard in court, I disagree with the timing of Strickland's suit, 8 months after the fact.
On the night of the incident, Strickland wrongfully assumed Ujiri didn't have the proper credentials, but videos show that he did. Any major contact, and Strickland has cause to arrest Ujiri for assaulting an officer. If that was the case, this should've been settled already.
"Duhhhh, he hasn't been back at work, has he?"
That's just it, Dimwit. He's claiming chest injuries, which by now should've been healed. He just got bad advice from the looks of things, but that's chump change compared to our next case.
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In June 2017, the Houston Astros lit up Toronto reliever Mike Bolsinger for four runs., in the thick of the sign-stealing scandal that has since tainted their World Series title.
Bolsinger was sent to AAA Buffalo by the Blue Jays after the game, and he spent 2018 playing in Japan. Now, he's butt-hurt, and suing the Astros, demanding, among other things, that they forfeit their winnings from the Series, totaling some $31 million, and donating it to kids' charities in the Los Angeles area.
"Hasn't that money been used already?"
Probably. Bolsinger has retained a Los Angeles area attorney looking for his 15 minutes of infamy, and said ambulance chaser is enabling the suit, which has zero chance of succeeding, unlike the Ujiri case, which may actually see the light of day in a Northern California courtroom, in this writer's opinion. Bolsinger gets the Dunce Cap because his is a little more frivolous and ridiculous.
Hmm, that sounds like something Walt Frazier might've said.
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Speaking of the Astros, former pitcher Charlie Morton, now with Tampa Bay, says he regrets not doing anything to stop the scheme. Former manager AJ Hinch has basically said the same thing.
So what stopped them? Fear of destroying clubhouse morale, in this writer's opinion. The 2017 postseason would've had a different scenario had the Astros' scheme been stopped in house.
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