- Texas Rangers won Saturday and Sunday over the Oakland A's, putting the A's record to 9-33.
- Saturday: 5-0. 8,230 are purported to have bought tickets.
- Sunday: 11-3. 7,793.
- And the real fun begins Monday, the D-Backs are in town.
- Three more ejections in the Phillies/Rockies game yesterday. Bryce Harper enhanced a bench-clearer the Rockies pitcher started by trying to go after the Rockies bench.
- I get the point, but... Ladies and gentlemen, one of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition cover models for 2023 is... EIGHTY-ONE YEAR OLD MARTHA STEWART???
- If you want to see how much is invested in manipulating the NFL, etc.: The Saturday Night "Super Wild Card Weekend" game is, at least for the 2023-24 iteration, going to be exclusively streaming to Peacock (and on the local-market NBC stations). Cost for ONE GAME, ONE YEAR of this experiment: $110,000,000!
- On December 23, a regular-season game between the Bills and Chargers is also exclusive to the streaming service -- that is part of the new rights deal going into effect this year.
- This now makes TEN (eleven?) different outlets for NFL games this year.
- All four major networks
- ESPN outside ABC, including + (not counting 2 at this point, so we might as well make that 11)
- Amazon
- NFL Network
- Peacock's two games (above)
- And the Sunday Ticket Package for 300 or so on YouTube
- I've estimated it might well take a thousand dollars to properly watch the NFL this year, between streaming and cable.
- Ejection total, as of Sunday (we think Close Call Sports is finally done with Sunday): Sixty-one. At least FIVE on Sunday.
- Eight will contest The Preakness Stakes on Saturday at Pimlico. Kentucky Derby winner Mage from post position 3 is the early 8-5 favorite.
- Not among them is Forte.
The truth is not what actually happened. It's what you can ENFORCE happened. It's ALL enforcement.
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