Sports: Random Thoughts

Have not done on of these types of blogs for a while. I just kind of free base thoughts on various topics of the sports world. This will probably take place over a few days as I think of things.

Pro football to me had a very strange end to its season. The last 3 games the wrong team won each game. The Ravens should have beaten the Chiefs in the AFC Championship game. The Lions should have won the NFC Championship game. The 49ers outplayed the Chiefs in the Super Bowl but managed to lose. A very unusual ending to the season to have 3 such games in a row. It makes you wonder is one game really the way to decide a champion. Having said that I don’t know if football has any other options.

I have not watched one shot on the LIV tour. When the tour started the PGA tour players had nothing good to say about the tour and the players that defected. No question thanks to the LIV tour, the players of the PGA tour are going to make a lot more money than they would have in 2024 and beyond. All of a sudden, the LIV tour and their players are not such bad guys after all, with the PGA tour players taking back and softening a lot of the things they said in 2023. This is the perfect example of money talks and bullshit walks, and in this case walking back.

The Spring Training games have started, and it is shocking to me that neither Blake Snell nor Cody Bellinger have not been signed by any team. Snell even more so because this guy is a two-time Cy Young winner. Even though both are represented by Scott Boras it is a big surprise that neither has gotten a deal yet. In my view these are a couple of imperfect free agents and maybe teams are just gun shy at putting out the super bucks for two players that have some obvious flaws. Since starting this, Bellinger resigned with the Cubs but certainly not for the long-term deal that many thought he would get. Maybe next year Cody.

March Madness is coming soon, and I will have to say my interest in the tournament has waned over the years. There are so many teams, and it just seems like the regular college basketball season is just a waste of time. I don’t know how important seeding is anyway and that is about all the regular season does. I think the tournament needs a tweak in the format. The top 8 teams selected by the committee would automatically be in the sweet 16. Then the next 64 teams are in the tournament making a total of 72 teams. These teams will battle for the other 8 spots in the sweet 16. This will put new emphasis on the regular season. If you have that good of a season you deserve to be in the final 16 of the tournament. It should make for a much better tournament.

Even though we are not in their season, college football has to cut down the bowl games. They will have a 12-team playoff system next season which is great. Let’s stick with that nice round number of 12 and have 12 more bowl games. There will be 11 playoff games and 12 bowl games for a total of 23 post season games involving 46 college football teams and that is more than enough.