The Schloss-Blog is watching sports change before our very eyes. We've also got our eyes on Daniel Snyder's $6 billion windfall, Karol G (do we ever!) and how to get your friends to define your life.
And remembering glory days as a Shea Stadium hot dog vendor.
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Sports is changing, but is it for the good?
Baseball has a time clock that is supposed to lift it out of the home run-or-strike out era it which it is stuck. Because that's all it is - a home run or a strike out.
Now, though. the game moves along so much more quickly that fans in line for a hot dog and a beer are likely missing something - like another home run - or more likely, a strike out. But instead of leaving Dodger Stadium after the 7th inning to beat the traffic, they're leaving after the eighth inning.
In response, the stadium is serving beer until after the 8th inning instead of until after the seventh because the game is moving along so quickly that Budweiser was losing prospective revenue.
Sorry, but I don't feel sorry for 'em.
Basketball, meanwhile, has become a game of 3-pointers and slam dunks. That's all you see on the ESPN Top Ten on Sports Center. Anyone remember layups, picks and mid-range jumpers?
Finally, speaking of the ESPN Top Ten, can't they do better than nightly slam dunks, home runs and strikeouts?
I actually turn off Sports Center when they go to the Top Ten. Been there, seen that.
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On another note, if you've had an armed IRS agent come to your door to collect taxes, as Republicans said you would, please raise your hand.
And call Marjorie Taylor Greene and tell her.
To shove it up her ass.
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If you watch Morning Joe, maybe you see John Della Volpe, Harvard's director of its Institute of Politics, report that Gen Z'ers (born between 1997-2013) and youths in general are not comfortable in America today and are particularly distraught about their physical safety.
They fear for their safety in school. They fear for their safety at the mall. They fear for their safety at houses of worship. And they fear for their safety at movie theaters as well because of the rash of scary, devastating mass shootings going on in this country.
They will make a difference in the next presidential election, as they lean toward the positions that Democratic politicians back on gun safety, like deep background checks and red-flag laws.
More importantly, they are the future of this country and if politicians don't respond to their preferences on safety and abortion, they will not reward them with their votes.
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Dan Snyder is getting a $6 billion reward for building a toxic workplace at the Washington Commanders', nee Football Team's nee Redskins' headquarters.
Josh Harris, a partner in the NHL's New Jersey Devils and NBA's Philadelphia 76ers, is paying that amount to take the team off of Snyder's hands.
Snyder is still facing investigations into alleged sexual harassment and "financial improprieties."
And I hope they nail his ass,
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Iowa, where a law is pending that would ban abortions outright, has 12 counties on disaster status because of pending Mississippi River flooding.
Y'know who's gonna' come to their rescue with emergency-disaster aid?
The federal government.
Y'know who's running the disaster-aid delivery?
Yeah, the liberals to whom Iowa legislators would deny abortion rights.
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'Microstress' moments, as Fast Company calls them, add up and eventually spill over into ineffectiveness for so many managers.
Or do they?
If you're a manager, would you rather have a series of 'micro-stress moments' or just one big one (like getting canned, which is what a lot of little micro-stress moments could add up to).
Or could they? Or can you manage your way through them?
I don't know either. So ask Tucker Carlson. Most significantly, even more than what his messaging said about Trump, Sidney Powell, et. al., ask what he said about his bosses at Fox. He thought it all added up to his being bigger than the network.
Sure added up, huh? About 787.5 million micro-stress times.
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Back to sports, and I'm qualified to comment on this being a former hot dog vendor at Shea Stadium when the Jets won the Super Bowl, so, IMHO, the Jets made a pretty good trade to get Aaron Rodgers.
Gave up their No. 13 pick, a second-rounder and sixth-rounder this year, plus a conditional second-rounder next year if Rodgers participates in 65 percent of plays this year.
They also got Green Bay's No. 15 pick this year along with their fifth-rounder.
For a 39-year-old QB. The last five years, the Jets' starting quarterbacks were Zach Wilson twice and Sam Darnold three times.
Yeah, good trade for the 39-year-old guy.
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My beloved Knicks (well, mine and Spike's), finally won a playoff series this week behind Jalen Brunson, who was signed when they couldn't acquire the outstanding Donovan Mitchell.
Who they just beat, along with his Cavalier mates.
That in mind, memo to Knicks owner James Dolan: when you get out of your GM's way, he can build the team the right way, regardless of Steven A's diatribes about not being able to acquire Mitchell.
As a bonus, the Knicks now get Miami, which upset Milwaukee.
Fun times - and Coach Thibs gets to go against Jimmy Buckets, for whom he traded in Minnesota.
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Want to know how you're doing? Ask you friends:
- ...when did they see at your happiest
- ...what do you come to them for;
- ...and where do you stand versus your peers.
Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Karol G.
More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show.
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