Day 134 -- Opening Day of Baseball

• ... and they're talking about expanding playoffs to 16 now.  They aren't getting there.  No chance in Hell.  I give it about three weeks.     
• Well, they're more than talking about it now -- THEY'RE DOING IT!  (Same thing I said above.)
• Antonio Brown wants the probes ended so he can play...  IN WHAT FUCKING DECADE???!!?!?     
• The Jets' owner is now in hot water for racist comments he made as Ambassador to the UK, while he was trying to get the British Open to play some year at one of Trump's UK golf courses.  Can we just fucking fold the Jets and be done with it?     
• First pre-return NBA scrimmage was last night.  Play resumes July 31.
• If you want an idea of how close we are (finally and thankfully) to the end of the NCAA and college sports as we know it:  The University of Wisconsin has announced that -- EVEN IF COLLEGE FOOTBALL IS PLAYED -- they're still going to lose $100,000,000 this year on their athletic department.  Na, na, na, na...  
• I'm seeing reports indicating the loss would be if no football, but I know I saw one report say the loss was even if football was played.
• And Dan Snyder will call the Washington football team -- "The Washington Football Team".  That's a middle finger, ladies and gentlemen.  From one of the worst owners in the history of American sports.    
• The coaching staff of the Houston Rockets will coach this season with masks on.
• In something right out of the last (actual non-"Creed" series) "Rocky" film, Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr. will fight an eight-round exhibition boxing match in September.  Oh...  my...  God...    
• Uh oh...  Olbermann has "flu-like symptoms" and a frog in his throat.  So the Thurbercasts are off for a while.  Let's HOPE it's only that...
• And Dan Rather is awesome, full-stop... 

Cue the opening shot for future documentaries about the year 2020. https://t.co/uVduoHqJwg

— Dan Rather (@DanRather) July 23, 2020

• And rain has taken over the East Coast and might put an end to the season's first MLB game. 4-1 Yankees in Washington, top 6.
• And, in a moment Republicans will guffaw at for years, Dr. Fauci threw out the first pitch of the season. Juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust a bit outside, tried for the corner and missed....
• By about 20 feet.
• The game in New York was not resumed.  Yankees 4 - Nationals 1 is the final.
• And the National League favorite also won big too -- 8-1 Dodgers over Giants in the second opening game. 
• And it sounds like ESPN was the main payout for the expanded playoffs:  Seven of the first-round series will air somewhere on ESPN networks.