It’s been a busy few weeks at my real job so Top 10 Tuesday has taken a bit of hiatus but 5 for Friday lives on. Let’s get to this week in sports.

NBA Play in Tournament:

Did you know this was a thing? I’ll be honest, I didn’t understand how this worked until Tuesday this week. I was like why would you have the 7 seed play the 8? Then I realized that the loser of that game plays the winner of the 9 vs 10 game. I am guessing there are others of you reading this that didn’t know how this worked either. This is the dumbest, most pointless playoff addition in all of sports. The Hawks were the 8th best team but are now the 7 seed because they beat the Heat. Now the Heat, who were the 7th best team in the East have to beat the Bulls who beat the Raptors on Wednesday. If the Heat wins then they become the 8 seed. If they lose they don’t make the playoffs at all. What sense does that make? Also, so many teams already make the playoffs that this is highly unnecessary. Also, do we really think that any of the following teams, Hawks, Heat, Bulls, Raptors, are going to beat the Bucks or Celtics in a playoff series? This Play in tournament is so bad, I had to google it to see how it works. The 7 or 8 seed rarely win a series and I am sure the 9 or 10 seed has even less of a chance. Just eliminate this stupid thing already. Also, aren’t the NBA playoffs long enough? It is mid April and this thing still doesn’t end until sometime in June.

Washington gets a new owner:

First they changed their name and now they are changing their owner. Dan Snyder has to be one of the worst owners in sports of all time. Besides all the controversies, which were many, he also managed to run a once proud and successful organization into the ground. Growing up in the 80’s and early 90’s the then Redskins were one of the top teams in the league. They won 3 super bowls. But since Snyder got there, they slowly got worse and worse. And then you add in all the non football issues. It’s a complete mess. But this is the power of the NFL. It is a mess worth 6 Billion dollars. If any one took over a highly successful business and ran it into the ground and along the way did a bunch of shady things, the value of that business would crash and burn. But in the NFL, the value greatly increases despite Dan’s best efforts. How bad is Dan? Normally when a team gets sold, no ones outside of that fanbase cares. Dan is so bad, literally the whole country is celebrating this sale. So if you are ever feeling sorry for yourself because you feel like you aren’t well liked or popular, you can think of Dan and feel better about yourself.

OBJ gets paid to catch passes from Tyler Huntley:

The same team that doesn’t want to pay Lamar is willing to flop down 18 million for a receiver coming off an ACL injury who didn’t even play last year. The Ravens who have basically done nothing at receiver while Lamar has been at QB, all of the sudden decide to go all in now that Lamar is probably not going to play. And OBJ who said he wasn’t asking for 20 million but just didn’t want 4. Well, he is a lot closer to 20 than 4. I know there were some Chiefs fans out there that were hoping we would get OBJ but 18 for 1 year for a guy who hasn’t played a complete season in like 5 years is insane. But OBJ should have a good chance at staying healthy because the Ravens only throw the ball like 20% of the time.

Speaking of Chiefs receivers…:

Many seem to be worried about what the Chiefs are doing at receiver. They have made some news recently by signing Richie James from the Giants and today resigned Justin Watson. I know these aren’t the most exciting moves in the world, but we don’t actually need great receivers. We have Reid, Mahomes and Kelce, that is all we need. Not to mention, we have 4 tight ends we can use and we use our running backs a lot. I would like us to resign McKinnon but I am not worried about it. My brother is confident we are going to end up with Hopkins. I think this is unlikely but you never know. If we got him, I think you can go ahead and pencil us into the AFC championship game again. But even with the dudes we have now, even if we don’t draft anyone I am fine with who we have. Toney, Moore, MVS, Watson, James and one of the guys who’s last name is Ross is fine with me. That is how confident I am in Reid and Mahomes. I literally don’t think it matters who we have.

Teaching my son the ways of watching golf:

Easter Sunday was also the conclusion of the Masters. I don’t watch a lot of golf, but there is something about the Masters that draws me in. So I flipped it on. Walker was like, why are watching golf. Because it is the Masters. We watched a few holes and Walker said I am getting sleepy watching this. I said that is the beauty of golf. Don’t fight it, hit the pillow and lay on the couch and slowly drift away while Jim Nantz describes a putt. This is the other reason I watch golf. If I am stressed or tired, turn on golf, you will fall fast asleep and wake up with all of your worries gone. Walker was still not feeling it or so he said. But he stretched out on the couch anyway. I had to get up to help out with food preparations for a while. About 15 minutes later I hear Walker yell, “Dad, Rahm is up 2 on Koepka now.” That a boy, Walker, that a boy.