Friday’s 6-pack
Last six World Series champs:
2017— Houston Astros
2018— Boston Red Sox
2019— Washington Nationals
2020— Los Angeles Dodgers
2021— Atlanta Braves
2022— Houston Astros
Quote of the Day
“So listen. I can talk for hours on it and I can talk for a minute; the minute’s probably easier. He doesn’t like me and I don’t like him, that’s how it is.”
Phoenix Suns’ owner Mat Ishbia, talking about Cavaliers’ owner Dan Gilbert
Friday’s quiz
How many NBA championship rings has Steve Kerr won, both as a player and coach?
Thursday’s quiz
Max Scherzer has been in the major leagues for 16 years; he broke into the major leagues with Arizona, in 2008.
Wednesday’s quiz
In the movie Oceans Eleven, Julia Roberts plays George Clooney’s ex-wife.
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Friday’s Den: Random stuff with the weekend here…….
— What have you done for me lately?
Mike Budenholzer went 310-146 in five years as coach of the Milwaukee Bucks, winning the NBA title two years ago. 310-146 is a really good record.
Milwaukee fired him Thursday; the team was recently sold, with the Haslam family that also owns the Cleveland Browns now running things. Bucks were the #1-seed in the East this year, but they got upset by Miami in the playoffs. I guess the new owners weren’t happy about it.
I’m figuring Budenholzer won’t be out of work long; he also went 230-219 in five years with the Atlanta Hawks. Winning coaches are hard to find.
— ESPN has four people on their NBA pregame show; only one of them played in the NBA, which is disappointing. Why they insist on putting Stephen A Smith on camera is baffling, but that’s why they’re ESPN, and why less people watch them now.
— Warriors 127, Lakers 100
Golden State outscored Lakers 84-47 in 2nd/3rd quarters.
Warriors were 21-42 on the arc; Klay Thompson was 8-11.
Series is now tied, 1-1.
— Basketball star Hunter Dickinson bolts from Michigan to Kansas; he averaged 18.5 ppg, 9.0 rebounds in 32.7 minutes/game last year.
— Weird baseball schedule Thursday; there were 10 games, only one twilight game, and that was over by 9:10. Luckily on YouTube TV, you can watch replays of games played earlier in the day, but why no night games at all?
— Back in 2012, Harvard-Westlake HS in Los Angeles had these three guys on their baseball team: Max Fried, Lucas Giolito, Jack Flaherty.
Imagine coaching a high school team with three future major leaguers on it? The coach was a guy named Ethan Katz, who later on was pitching coach for the White Sox.
— Rays 3, Pirates 2— Tampa Bay sweeps the Pirates; they’re 26-6, 17-2 at home.
Rays are fifth team since 1947 to start a season 25-6 or better; the other four teams all won the World Series that season:
1955 Dodgers
1958 Bronx
2016 Cubs
1984 Tigers
— Tampa Bay P Zach Eflin was told by umpires in this game that if he didn’t take his wedding ring off, he’d be ejected. Apparently most umpire crews let Eflin wear the ring, but this crew did not, so he took it off.
— Nationals 4, Cubs 3— Last two weeks, Cubs are 0-7 in games where winning run scored from 7th inning on. Getting swept by the Nationals es no bueno.
Time of this game was 1:55; vendors couldn’t have been happy with that.
— Baltimore 13, Kansas City 10— Orioles are 21-10, leading the AL Wild Card race; they’re 10-3 in games where the winning scored from 7th inning on.
Kansas City, on the other hand, is 2-14 at home, with the equally-lowly A’s coming to town this weekend.
— Colorado 9, Milwaukee 6— Brewers led 6-0 after six innings, but were outscored 9-0 in the last three innings. Coming into this game, Colorado had been outscored 49-27 from 7th inning on this season.
— Detroit 2, Mets 0— Justin Verlander gave up two homers in the first inning of his first start for New York, then settled down, but Eduardo Rodriguez blanked the Mets for eight innings, as the Tigers sweep the 3-game series in Motown.
— QB Lamar Jackson is banking a $72.5M signing bonus from the Baltimore Ravens; hopefully he plays in December this year. Jackson missed the Ravens’ last six games last year, their last four games the year before. They say the best ability is dependability.
— If the baseball playoffs started today (they do not):
NL: Braves-Pirates-Dodgers. Wild Cards: Brewers, Arizona, Padres
AL: Rays, Twins, Rangers. Wild Cards: Orioles, Red Sox, Tor/LAA
Last six World Series champs:
2017— Houston Astros
2018— Boston Red Sox
2019— Washington Nationals
2020— Los Angeles Dodgers
2021— Atlanta Braves
2022— Houston Astros
Quote of the Day
“So listen. I can talk for hours on it and I can talk for a minute; the minute’s probably easier. He doesn’t like me and I don’t like him, that’s how it is.”
Phoenix Suns’ owner Mat Ishbia, talking about Cavaliers’ owner Dan Gilbert
Friday’s quiz
How many NBA championship rings has Steve Kerr won, both as a player and coach?
Thursday’s quiz
Max Scherzer has been in the major leagues for 16 years; he broke into the major leagues with Arizona, in 2008.
Wednesday’s quiz
In the movie Oceans Eleven, Julia Roberts plays George Clooney’s ex-wife.
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Friday’s Den: Random stuff with the weekend here…….
— What have you done for me lately?
Mike Budenholzer went 310-146 in five years as coach of the Milwaukee Bucks, winning the NBA title two years ago. 310-146 is a really good record.
Milwaukee fired him Thursday; the team was recently sold, with the Haslam family that also owns the Cleveland Browns now running things. Bucks were the #1-seed in the East this year, but they got upset by Miami in the playoffs. I guess the new owners weren’t happy about it.
I’m figuring Budenholzer won’t be out of work long; he also went 230-219 in five years with the Atlanta Hawks. Winning coaches are hard to find.
— ESPN has four people on their NBA pregame show; only one of them played in the NBA, which is disappointing. Why they insist on putting Stephen A Smith on camera is baffling, but that’s why they’re ESPN, and why less people watch them now.
— Warriors 127, Lakers 100
Golden State outscored Lakers 84-47 in 2nd/3rd quarters.
Warriors were 21-42 on the arc; Klay Thompson was 8-11.
Series is now tied, 1-1.
— Basketball star Hunter Dickinson bolts from Michigan to Kansas; he averaged 18.5 ppg, 9.0 rebounds in 32.7 minutes/game last year.
— Weird baseball schedule Thursday; there were 10 games, only one twilight game, and that was over by 9:10. Luckily on YouTube TV, you can watch replays of games played earlier in the day, but why no night games at all?
— Back in 2012, Harvard-Westlake HS in Los Angeles had these three guys on their baseball team: Max Fried, Lucas Giolito, Jack Flaherty.
Imagine coaching a high school team with three future major leaguers on it? The coach was a guy named Ethan Katz, who later on was pitching coach for the White Sox.
— Rays 3, Pirates 2— Tampa Bay sweeps the Pirates; they’re 26-6, 17-2 at home.
Rays are fifth team since 1947 to start a season 25-6 or better; the other four teams all won the World Series that season:
1955 Dodgers
1958 Bronx
2016 Cubs
1984 Tigers
— Tampa Bay P Zach Eflin was told by umpires in this game that if he didn’t take his wedding ring off, he’d be ejected. Apparently most umpire crews let Eflin wear the ring, but this crew did not, so he took it off.
— Nationals 4, Cubs 3— Last two weeks, Cubs are 0-7 in games where winning run scored from 7th inning on. Getting swept by the Nationals es no bueno.
Time of this game was 1:55; vendors couldn’t have been happy with that.
— Baltimore 13, Kansas City 10— Orioles are 21-10, leading the AL Wild Card race; they’re 10-3 in games where the winning scored from 7th inning on.
Kansas City, on the other hand, is 2-14 at home, with the equally-lowly A’s coming to town this weekend.
— Colorado 9, Milwaukee 6— Brewers led 6-0 after six innings, but were outscored 9-0 in the last three innings. Coming into this game, Colorado had been outscored 49-27 from 7th inning on this season.
— Detroit 2, Mets 0— Justin Verlander gave up two homers in the first inning of his first start for New York, then settled down, but Eduardo Rodriguez blanked the Mets for eight innings, as the Tigers sweep the 3-game series in Motown.
— QB Lamar Jackson is banking a $72.5M signing bonus from the Baltimore Ravens; hopefully he plays in December this year. Jackson missed the Ravens’ last six games last year, their last four games the year before. They say the best ability is dependability.
— If the baseball playoffs started today (they do not):
NL: Braves-Pirates-Dodgers. Wild Cards: Brewers, Arizona, Padres
AL: Rays, Twins, Rangers. Wild Cards: Orioles, Red Sox, Tor/LAA
