Monday, May 4, 2020

Day 54 -- yes, there was no post yesterday...

  • ESPN will be telecasting Korean baseball to fill the programming for a while.  The games begin tonight with the NC Dinos vs. the Samsung Lions.
  • For the next eight days, Dallas-based video-game group The Speed Gamers are doing round-the-clock video-game streams from their homes around the country to support St. Jude.
  • For the "Good Lord!" file:  After breaking the world deadlift record on Saturday, Halfthor Bjornsson challenged former record-holder Eddie "The Beast" Hall to a boxing match.  Hall has accepted -- preliminary thought is to make it September in Las Vegas. There's no way the Nevada State Athletic Commission is going to allow that shit.  They'd pop for so many steroids...  Are you fuckers serious???    
  • Couple of things on the e-sports front:  The good news:  Villanova University's last two national championship teams will play on a modified NBA2K build to "settle the score" -- and raise money for a Philadelphia kids hunger-relief charity.  Should start at 4 on both YouTube and Twitch.
  • The bad news:  Five men, four of them 20 years old, have been arrested in Australia for attempting to fix e-sports matches.  Hmmm...
  • Chris Jericho with Fozzy on his Saturday Night Special last Saturday night: 

  • Blake Snell of the Tampa Bay Rays won the MLB: The Show Players League championship three games to none over the White Sox' Lucas Giolito (5-1, 3-2, 6-0)  Snell won $25,000 for the Tampa Bay Boys and Girls Club. 
  • Staying in baseball, over the last two to two and a half weeks, MLB Network has had the Dream Bracket series, in which all 30 teams put together their best all-time roster.  The other two spots were left to an all-time roster of the Negro Leagues, and a current roster of the best of the best players 25 and under.  7-game series, single elimination.  All games simulated on Out of the Park 2020.
  • The final two teams?  Yankees (4-3 over the Red Sox) vs. Reds (4-2 over the Dodgers).  The Grand Final series is 2-2, the rest will air tomorrow.
  • After they finish this, it's on to the 64 best single-season teams in a similar tournament.
  • Olbermann: 

  • Rory McIlroy, Ricky Fowler, and Dustin Johnson will one-up Tiger, Phil, Peyton, and Tom.  May 17, they and Matthew Wolff will play a 2 on 2 skins game for COVID-19 relief charities, $3,000,000 on the line, live on NBC and streamed for free.
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