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I can't speak for anyone by myself, but part of the problem may be sports burnout. While I followed this year's stuff, for me, I'm pretty much taking a break; I'm a month removed from the NBA finals, which concluded a nice run to that series soon after the Masters. And the Masters always follows the NCAA Tournament, which was the cumulation of an okay run of games, albeit a short one thanks to the later Super Bowl slot. Speaking of which, that concludes a decent year of football that starts up in September with College Football in the mix. So, I'm just resting up with the goal to do as much non-sports stuff as possible during the next month-and-a-half. I'm not having great success unfortunately, but at least I'm still finding a way to focus on some sports stuff (Wimbledon, The US Open from last month, The Open starting in a week, The World Cup, and the Fed Ex). That's all secondary to NBA Off Season, MLB Trade Deadline, and getting ready for the 2023 NFL season. In other words, there is really never any off-season in terms of sports. There's always something. However, I think no one is wasting a weeknight early in the week for a meaningless game. Plus, the interleague thing that debuted 26 years ago sort diminished the ASG. Furthermore, I doubt people that have championship goals care about the All-Star game. Finally, I can't get enough of those photos of those NL (and AL) stars all in their different uniforms back in the day!

Whether the Jets want to be on Hard Knocks or not, they will be featured in the 2023 edition

It took at least forever, but there you go NL!

This? Is a phenomenal idea! While the chances of such a thing carrying over to meaningful baseball would be a thing, everyone's voice being heard would be tremendous

To be honest, what did the guy have to lose by putting his foot down on this nonsense over a decade after the PSU stuff? If he was afraid of losing his program, whatever; Pat never won anything anyway & would’ve been booted much sooner in a real football school. If he was any good, he’d be smart enough in 2023 to take a stand, with one of two things taking place. Everybody respects him & doesn’t engage in that nonsense, or… He loses his team & gets fired. But if he’s good enough, he’ll end up in a program full of great culture

So there was a new record of 41 homeruns within a single round of the HR Derby. I guess I should have stood up for a standing ovation, but that's like standing up for whatever the 2007 Patriots, 2011 Packers, and 2015 Panthers did in their monster years!

Meh, I'll take that quote over the cheap quote of "PARTING WAYS"

Someone elsewhere asked if Peguero was removed from the game in the immediate aftermath of De La Cruz stealing on him twice off of one pitch LOL

I guess the league is truly all about offense! BTW, I am still looking forward to building the best front 7 in terms of defense

Yeah, ESPN made it look like he was done & retired, when he wasn't even 62 during his farewell and the 2017 layoffs that followed

While I’m okay with the new Speak (For Yourself), it does suck that they did away with Wiley & Acho on this Fox Sports product (not an ESPN show). Despite that, whether it was that lineup or the current one with Acho, Joy, and Shady, it was third place in terms of my FS1 viewing pleasure (behind The Herd and First Things First). I haven’t watched many studio shows over the past several years. Not so much a dislike of those shows, but it’s just that I don’t have the time anymore. It doesn’t help that some of the programming has been extended while others have been watered down. College Gameday is not longer a much watch program. Meanwhile, I can catch PTI and ATH via podcast or by other means. NFL Live is okay, but unless I’m earning something to watch it 24/7 it’s not something I’d watch all the time. The layoffs for the NFL hurt a ton, but Steve Young & Suzy’s exits were not surprising at all. In fact they were pretty much speculated in advance. Again, I didn’t watch the full Monday Night Countdown throughout the season, but caught it from time to time. That was a rather decent & professional pregame show. Kobler did a great job over the past decade in addition to everything else she did for a long time. Even though she & Stuart came into the ESPN family together she was in a role of filling big shoes, and succeeded there. I don’t know what the program will be like heading into the 2023 season, but I imagine ESPN will (or might) emulate what they did from 2008-2015. In other words, just have the Sunday NFL Countdown host the Monday Night Countdown as opposed to having 2 separate teams. Or, as mentioned elsewhere, have the NFL cast host it live. Barring that, the live crew would be done away with. It might be over & done with anyway

With Rickie Fowler's win at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, what was a four-year streak of winless results has come to an end. I wasn't surprised that he fell out of the Top 160, only to return to within the Top 40 not too long ago. It is surprising that he only has a half dozen wins on the PGA tour. Not a shocker for the best player without a major title, but I though he'd have more (but not much more)

They pimped the heck out of it during their NBA coverage, so at the time I didn't think I'd forget. However, time passed, the finals came & went, and I was happy a 2-month period of "anything goes" started before the NFL season took over my life. I now don't remember how I remember since I didn't write it down or prepare an alert. I might've seen a trending topic related to it or I was following the Rocket Mortgage action to where I was able to recall it. Not great golf, but super entertaining. Saw a joke about how Mahomes & Kelce usually win by letting "San Francisco" take a lead instead of winning wire-to-wire

Happy Bobby Bonilla Day! I'm not sure how the atmosphere is for Mets fans, but there is always at least one day that's worth it for someone in the community...or not!

I might be out of the loop, and that may be a good thing. To be more specific, I haven't paid attention to much of the ESPN stuff. I'm more of an FS1 fan, as well as NFLN & PFT. Typically Dan Patrick and Rich Eisen precede anything done from ESPN, but Get Up / First Take is/are okay, as well as NFL Live, ATH, and PTI. Anyway, I haven't caught much of ESPN post-Super Bowl but IIRC, Irvin was removed from both the NFLN and FT during the Super Bowl week. I haven't seen or heard from him so it appears that Michael made the decision to boot someone that much easier than it would've been had he survived to this current point

I almost forgot myself. Didn't think I would given all the times it was promoted, but when the NBA Finals started, I didn't remember. Fortunately I recalled given the fact that there was nothing on TV Thursday night other than that golf game

I wouldn't be sorry to see his exit occur either, but do not bet on it. That's not to say that a return for his 8th season in the booth is super probable. It's still North of 50% since the deal was worth a ton. In "deal" I mean Tony's contract. I believe it opened at 10 years & in the 8-9 digit figure in 2017. Somehow things ended up with not much heading in 2020, before a solid 3-year deal through 2022. Here's an article where you can find content & a tweet from Adam Schefter about the details going forward. So to be brief, looks like Romo is going to be around until 2029, I believe. There was a 7-year extension that was dependent on CBS's deal amid the new TV deal that's from 2023-2033. Finally, CBS wasn't happy with his efforts. So they can find a way out of this or promote someone from within, possibly Coach or Nate

You know, I'm not a big fan of the so-called "The MATCH" on TNT. However, this [KC vs The Dubs] might be the best one that they've done since Day One

JJ Watt Joining CBS Looks like he'll be part of the top studio crew. BTW, no one's going anywhere. At least for this 2023 season in which CBS ends the NFL year with coverage of the 58th annual Super Bowl. Despite what happened in 2006, CBS and other networks typically don't make big changes right before a network Super Bowl year. Which is why I feel the FOX studio crew still has 2 final years together before something big happens. FWIW, the current NFL Today crew is the best they've had since the one from a decade ago. That previous statement excludes the NFC era of the NFL Today; just this era being the best in a quarter century. Early speculation has me thinking one of the studio members will get promoted to where they're calling games with Jim Nantz by the time NFL Season 105 starts. Of course there's still Matt Ryan who was added as in analyst prior to JJ Watt, but the plan is to have him calling games & not with Nantz

In 1973? Probably. In 2023? Probably not.

Basically like Steve Harvey. While I'm long come to the conclusion that FF is stale, Steve's era was the best thing that's happened to the (third version of the) show. Vanna is in her mid-to-late 60s. It probably made more sense to go with someone younger & established. Ryan will be around the same age Ken Jennings was when he became the host, and pretty much the same age Barker & Carey were when they first hosted TPIR 100%. I'm probably not betting on him leaving his successful network show that's done well for about a decade and a half for WOF. If it were Jeopardy? It's possible, but not for Wheel of Fortune

Meh. I'm okay with it. Pretty easy decision & good choice. I mentioned elsewhere about Ryan being the successor while saying it was way too soon. Of course, I wasn't the early one & did feel like it was something in the works for a long time. It's good since he's already in house. His ABC work with Idol & NYRE, plus his stuff in the 1990s, specifically Click (a Merv Griffin product) makes this the most logical choice. I know some people aren't happy about it, but I think it's better than dragging this out prior to what I felt like was the definitive choice (or a definitive choice)

Larry Bird in 2023 would be playing in Europe according to Dennis Rodman

I have to see how Buffalo does this season to validate my skepticism, and the reason is simple. The Bills lost Daboll to New York; that does not get mentioned enough

The saying is injuries are a part of the game, but when you're supposed to win, as a fan, you have every right to be more upset than someone else that's not expected to win.