It’s been a busy week lets get into my top 5 reactions for the week.
Lakers Fans are the worst:
There is one insufferable fan base in every major sport. You have the Yankees in baseball, the Cowboys in football, and the Lakers in basketball. Now, don’t get me wrong, us Chiefs fans can be pretty insufferable of late because of all the winning. But that is all because of the pent up angst of 50 years of not winning it all. Now we are winning a lot and we are super annoying about it. But these fan bases are annoying whether they are winning or losing. I am in several sports groups on Facebook and it never fails that these are the loudest jackasses in the groups. Take this week, the Lakers win a close game by 5 against the Warriors. They are all over the place talking about how great they are, how they are going to win everything and ridiculing everyone who doubted them. Then they turn around and lose game 2 by 30 and they are saying things like we were content with splitting the first 2 games. They weren’t interested in winning this one, etc. Annoying. I have never liked the Lakers but I dislike them more than ever. I was already cheering for the Warriors but watching the beat down last night was even sweeter than expected. Looking forward to game 3. I’m changing my prediction from Warriors in 7 to Warriors in 6.
Shut up, Deion:
I know many people love Deion and are taking an odd pride in how poorly he is treating the current/former players at CU. Look I get that they sucked and I don’t have a problem with you telling them that they should consider transferring and that he is bringing in his own players in. But everyone is acting like the CU players are a bunch of cry babies. They are just stating what happened when asked about it. The truth is he didn’t even talk to these kids. One kid he told him that he did everything right, played great throughout practice and still wasn’t going to play. This was the first time that Deion had talked to that kid. Others said he never spoke to them. Look I am not one of these everyone should get a participation trophy type of guy. But Deion is this self promoting “good, Christian, role model” guy. I am pretty sure Jesus would have at least talked to these kids. And now after the draft, Deion had this to say about players from small schools not getting drafted.
“I’m ashamed of the 31 other@nfl teams that couldn’t find draft value in ALL of the talented HBCU players & we had 3 more draft worthy players at JSU.”
Dude, you left the small college for a bigger one. You are mad at the NFL for ignoring the same level of schools that you abandoned. Sit this one out, dude.
Royally worse and worse:
I’ve seen some Cardinal fans complaining a lot about their team lately. This is why you drive us crazy, not as people…but as fans. This mostly stems from jealousy but your team always starts slow and then after the All-Star break they go on a run and make the playoffs. But, but, but…this year is different. No it isn’t. Shut up. If you want to talk about bad, lets talk about 2-14 at home bad. Lets talk about the least amount of runs in the league bad. Let’s talk about 3-7 in your last 10 and that being your best 10 game run bad. Let’s talk about a .250 winning percentage bad. Let’s talk about being 10 games back in the worst division in baseball bad. We haven’t had a winning record in 8 years. We don’t have a playoff drought, we have a winning drought. Cardinals fans goal is to win the whole thing. We talk about winning 75 games which we won’t do by the way. I have always said no matter what part of your life we are talking about, there is always somebody worse off and somebody better off. So remember that complaining Cards fans…and us Royals fans will remember the A’s.
Chiefs make some moves:
In some better news about our good team, the Chiefs finally signed McKinnon so he is back. This is good news. Pacheco is going to be the guy running the ball but McKinnon is great on 3rd down for blocking and as an outlet. You can also put them both on the field at the same time which is nice. So we are set there. We also signed Left Tackle Donovan Smith. He had sort of a rough year last year and had some injuries but prior to that when healthy, he was very good. Also, people are making a big deal about the 9 million but it is actually “up to” 9 million. My guess is he makes 9 million if he starts. So either he plays well and get to start at left tackle or he is a savvy veteran to back up the young guys. I see no losing here. And if he is good to go, then Taylor can play Right tackle where he has played his whole career. The O-Line just got better because I think Smith is better than Orlando and Taylor is way better than Wylie. Maybe our tackles won’t lead the league in pressures allowed this year.
NFL is King:
Not that there was really any doubt but with the NHL and NBA playoffs going on, the main thing I watched last weekend was the draft. I’d rather watch the 7th round of the draft than Hockey. But here is the real way you know the NFL is king. They have a schedule release program. That’s right, next Thursday night they are going to reveal everyone’s schedule on live tv. Every other league is like, here is our schedule. But the NFL makes a whole thing about it. Why? Because we are going to watch, that’s why! I am more excited about this event than any of the playoff games going on. And I am not alone. Anything Football is better than everything else. Also, my prediction is we play the Bengals in week 1. We will find out if I am right on Thursday!
Have a great weekend everyone!