Sunday's List of 13: Wrapping up a sports Saturday

Sunday's List of 13: Wrapping up a sports Saturday

13) NFL regular season needs to start soon, just to stop the tidal wave of fantasy football notes and opinions that swamp social media/cable TV every summer.

Here’s a hint about what will happen in Week 1 of the NFL:

NO ONE KNOWS!!!! Not me, not you, not the nitwits selling tout services, not the players/coaches themselves.

No one knows, and that is why it is so interesting.

12) Another reason college/NFL games have to start; ESPN2 televised freakin’ high school football games Friday. Right now, Dutch Fork leads Mallard Creek 7-0 as I type this, and I don’t know which state either school is in, though one is North Carolina, the other South Carolina.

11) Tennessee Titans’ LT Taylor Lewan has been suspended four games for violating NFL policy on performance-enhancing substances. Titans open the season in Cleveland.

10) Singer Rod Stewart once said that the next time he was thinking about getting married, instead he was going to go out, find a woman he hates, then buy her a house. I think he was joking.

Stewart has eight children by five different women.

9) I didn’t know that Sacramento Kings’ coach Luke Walton was named after Maurice Lucas, who was Bill Walton’s teammate on that great Portland team that won the 1977 NBA title.

Bill Walton mentioned that when he was on the White Sox-Angels game last week.

8) Mike Yastrzemski hit 17 homers in his first 75 games for the Giants, just like Willie Mays did.

7) Uniforms for Players’ Weekend aren’t good; the normal uniforms are just fine. Creating another set of merchandise to put in your next catalog in order to suck some more money out of consumers isn’t a great idea.

— What is the point of having names/numbers on back of an all-white uniform?
— Pitcher for the team wearing the white uniform cannot wear an all-white hat, so they had to make equally terrible looking black hats.
— Best part is that players can wear whatever shoes they like, so there are lot of weird colored shoes being worn.

6) Strange story of the day: NASA is examining a claim that an astronaut improperly accessed the bank account of her estranged spouse from the International Space Station.

She allegedly committed this crime while in outer space; who do you have on the jury for this trial, Mr Spock and Captain Kirk?

5) Orioles GM Mike Elias fired 11 members of the team’s scouting department and front office as part of an effort to turn around a team in the early stages of a major rebuild.

4) Baseball stuff:
— Milwaukee DFA’d P Jhoulys Chacin, their Opening Day starter
— Atlanta signed C Francisco Cervelli, who had been dumped by Pittsburgh
— Miami OF Brian Anderson broke his hand, is out for the year.

3) Team USA was -$500 to win the FIBA World Cup before they lost that exhibition game in Australia Saturday; they’ve been bet down to -$150 since then.

2) Never heard of Seth Moulton until he announced he was running for President; his attempt didn’t go too well, and he dropped out of the race this week. But Seth Moulton deserves to be recognized for what he’s done for this country:

Seth Moulton is a United States Marine who chose military service after graduating from Harvard. He was a platoon leader during his four tours in Iraq, during which he earned the Bronze Star and the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal for Valor.

This a guy who is worthy of all of our respect. Thank you for your service, Mr Moulton.

1) Washington Nationals have led in the 8th inning or later in each of their last 18 games, going 14-4 in those games.

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