Money Mondays

Good Morning!

I really wanted today to be about ONE BIG THING. But we have like 3 big things… I think.

I at least I have a big question.

Is it too late to get good at baseball in your 30s? I mean. JUAN SOTO MIGHT BE SIGNING A DEAL WITH THE NEW YORK METS WORTH $765 MILLION OF 15 YEARS.

What shocks you more

The amount of money of the length of the contract??????

Seriously, though, there are roughly 25 million recreational golfers in America, and I’d be willing to bet at least half a million of them think that if you gave them two years of doing nothing but working on golf, they could make the PGA Tour.

There has to be someone thinking the same about baseball. I still feel young….

Sometimes.

Could I just train for 2 years and make the MLB by the time I’m 35? Do they just direct deposit my massive contract? Maybe I’ll get that deposit bonus from Santander Bank.

In all seriousness, this is an insane amount of money for Juan Soto. Good for him. I just hope the Mets aren’t getting themselves into a situation where they get four good years out of Soto and then a rough decade when he enters his 30s.

On the bright side for the Mets, they’ll be done paying Bobby Bonilla in 2035 when his deferred comp ends and Juan Soto will only have 4 years left on his contract at that point.

p.s. I am fully kidding about trying to become an MLB player by the age of 35, but how tight are those fairways on the PGA Tour?

You Mad Bro?

Okay, so the playoffs didn’t check out exactly as I thought they would. No biggie.

Here’s the bracket.

NOW GUESS WHO’S MAD THEY DIDN’T GET IN.. ALABAMA, of course!

Look. The 12-team playoff seemed like a great idea back when there was a Pac-12. Now, the conferences are realigned and the conference schedule can be A CAKEWALK for some teams with the randomness of the schedule.

Yes, Texas, Indiana, Penn State, and SMU all had an easy schedule.

Yes, Alabama has some nice wins against some SEC teams like Georgia, and South Carolina.

BUT DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE 4 TEAMS I LISTED ABOVE HAVE IN COMMON? THEY DIDN’T GET EMBARRASSED BY TEAMS THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO BEAT!

Texas put up points on everyone except Georgia. Indiana, Penn State, and even SMU put up points in their first season with the ACC.

Do you know who lost to Vanderbilt and a bad Oklahoma team? It wasn’t the first four teams I listed.

Alabama’s AD can complain all he wants and talk about how they had some really great wins, especially as they beat the SEC Champs, Georgia. That’s great for Bama, truly. But unfortunately, it can’t always just be about who you beat when you finish the season with three losses.

Get over it!

Playoff Berth Clinched ✅ 

A clinched playoff berth. Maybe the caffeine hasn’t hit yet on this warmer-than-normal northeastern Monday, but I can’t get how weird the word clinch is out of my head. Come to think of it, playoff berth is also starting to sound very weird.

Anyways, 4 teams have clinched playoffs already. It’s no surprise who they are.

Lions, Eagles, Buffalo, and Kansas City. The latter 2 have clinched the

r division.

If some scenarios play out, there are still some long shots to make the playoffs. 6 teams already have their destiny decided, aka they won’t be making the postseason. That would include the New York Jets and Giants, New England Patriots, Cleveland Browns, Jacksonville Jaguars, Tennessee Titans, and the Las Vegas Raiders.

It’s almost like making a major organizational-destroying decision that will impact your team for years to come and make getting into the playoffs very hard.

QB signings, firing head coaches, fully guaranteeing a $230 million QB contract, never drafting a decent QB, firing Mike Vrabel. You get the idea.

This felt like a big rant today. AND IT FELT GOOD.

HAVE A GREAT FREAKING WEEK!

-The DB