Soccer, Sports and Politics - Part Deux

So happy for my dad. He’s a big Arsenal fan and was kinda let down by the men’s side this year.

 

Derbies back in the Premier League and Championship next year:

Newcastle-Sunderland
Southampton vs Portsmouth
Ipswich vs Norwich
Charlton vs Millwall
Sheffield United vs Wednesday

Is football healing?

 

Tarik Skubal is the best pitcher in baseball right now. Dude did a complete game under 100 pitches. Final pitch was 103 MPH.

 

Galatasaray trolls Mourinho

🎬 İncelikle kurgulanmış Gala Park Sezon Finali ile karşınızdayız. pic.twitter.com/cXQGPsNLCp

— Galatasaray SK (@GalatasaraySK) May 18, 2025

 

University of National Champions strikes again

https://www.espn.com/womens-college-lacrosse/scoreboard

 

Feeeeeeeeellllllsssss goooooood

 

That American aura 🇺🇸 #MensWorlds pic.twitter.com/CkG8KXY5Py

— USA Hockey (@usahockey) May 26, 2025

Live it up, boys. You just made history 🇺🇸 #MensWorlds pic.twitter.com/bY0hiSuXGz

— USA Hockey (@usahockey) May 25, 2025

 

Michael Cooper is in the basketball Hall of Fame?!?!!! Holy smokes.

Ca. 1970, someone on the Veterans’ Committee for the baseball Hall who had played for the Giants in the 1920s decided all of his teammates belonged. He got a bunch of them in before cooler heads prevailed.

 

Bill Madden has covered the Yankees for the Daily News for decades. Heard him on the radio the other day just telling old stories from his new book. A few good ones:

When Ted Williams was still alive Madden was up in Cooperstown at a hotel where writers and old players were staying for the HOF ceremony. He heard two people arguing on the porch and it turned out it was Ted Williams going at it with Tommy Lasorda about whether or not Shoeless Joe Jackson should be in the HOF. Ted was for it and Lasorda against it. Ted had an assistant who would carry around the Baseball Encyclopedia so Ted could whip out stats when he needed to argue. It was just announced that Shoeles Joe is now eligible for the HOF.

After Reggie left the Yankees he came back to the stadium and hit a HR off of Ron Guidry. Not sure how he knew but Steinbrenner suspected Reggie was using a corked bat. So he had a security lackey go down after the game to "retrieve" the bat from the lockerroom. Turned out it was corked. George wanted to make a big stink out of it because of his love/hate relationship with Reggie. But someone talked him down & they just destroyed it.

He drove up to Cooperstown one time with DiMaggio and one of DiMaggio's friends. Never talked about Marilyn Monroe but said he did this time. Also mentioned that Lou Gehrig hooked up with Mae West.

He was covering Yankees spring training and staying at an expensive hotel. He met Yogi and said "Yogi - i just paid $38 for a simple breakfast" Yogi replied "it musta been the English muffins. They have to import those"

 

I’ve stayed at that hotel. The Otesaga. Here’s the porch.


Luckily, it was for an academic conference, so it was affordable with the conference rates. It was during the 2002 World Cup. Rather than arguing baseball with Tommy Lasorda, I debated soccer tactics with Cornell literary critic Jonathan Culler and University of Pittsburgh rhetorician David Bartholmae.

 

Our state org has had several conferences there.I think it's gotten too pricey lately.

 

Total Football for the win, right?

 

Car plows into crowd of Liverpool fans at victory parade. Political extremism and violence is becoming more and more normal.

 

Yeah, you may not believe this, but the American voting public has become so inured to it that we elected a pro-political violence president.

 

She in a few months time made a huge impression and on her way to turn into the Dutch female Slot incarnation.

 

Trump was heard saying "up the Toon!"

 

So a car plows into a crowd and someone from across the ocean already has an opinion before the facts are known.
Sounds familiar MO for trvmpians to state things without knowing what they talk about.