1. Celtics
* Don’t be fooled by this outcome – see Old School below – at best this goes 7 games
* Lebron almost gets bored without challenge – 0-5 three pointers / 7 turnovers / MINUS 32
* Cleveland 4-26 three pointers
* Morris had three fouls in the first quarter – Stevens left him in – he ended with three fouls
* Morris needs to be Eddie Shack on Lebron (Dale Hunter for you people in your 40’s) Marchand for you millennials
* I wonder what the record of teams coming off too much rest and have to start on the road
* Korver needs to get back with Demi Moore
2. Red Sox
* Neither starter on Sunday went five innings but still threw a combined 193 pitches
* Your basic 3:42 game time – great for napping
* On pace to go 55-26 on the road
* Chris Sale on pace for 12 wins
* David Price missed a start because of video games – he makes a $1,000,000 a start – he should be forced to donate that check to the Boys Club (Did John Henry blame Tom Yawkey for this too?)
* When Jackie Bradley got his hit Sunday - he should have asked for the ball
* Every day the Sox don’t sign Mookie his average pay goes up $250,000 / he is looking at least
$25,000,000 a year
*Is Martinez the 4th greatest right handed bat acquisition in franchise history other than Jimmy Foxx, Joe Cronin and Manny?
3. In 72 games Ricky Henderson actually stole 8 bases for the Sox in ten attempts
4. Red Sox all time worst acquisitions lineup:
Starting Pitcher…….David Price……….7 years / $217,000,000
Catcher…………….AJ Pirzynski……….1 year / $7,500,000
1st Base…………….Jack Clark…………3 years / $8,700,000
2nd Base…………….Jose Offerman…….4 years / $26,000,000
3rd Base…………….Panda Sandoval……5 years / $95,000,000
SS………………….Julio Lugo…………..4 years / $36,000,000
Left Field………….Carl Crawford……….7 years / $142,000,000
Center Field………..Carl Everett….…….2 year / $12,333,666
Right Field…………JD Drew…………….5 years / $70,000,000
DH………………Jose Canseco………….2 years / $10,500,000
Closer……………BK Kim……………….1 year / $3,425,000
5. Who is better Jordan or Lebron – if you were picking teams for a match in which the loser is executed who would you take first? As Archie Bunker would say – “Case Closed!”
6. Around baseball:
* Machado’s big Free Agent year – on pace for 51 HR / 150 RBI / .350 Avg / 217 hits
* Scherzer on pace for 28-4 / 360 strike outs
* Season is 25% over and their have been 10 complete games (3 of them no hitters)
* Joey Gallo the poster boy for modern day baseball: 729 at bats / .202 hitter / 60 home runs and 57 singles / strikes out 45% of the time (think of that)
* Devers is leading all of baseball with 10 errors
* Vazquez for Sox not hitting or throwing out runners – 3 of 14 runners 21% (compared to last year 42%
* Ten teams averaging less than 20,000 fans a game -wake up baseball
7. Amazing Stat – Brad Stevens got zero votes for Coach of the Year and the coach that won it got fired
8. Old School – The first game blowout reminds me of the Memorial Day Massacre over the Lakers:
* Celtics won 148-114
* McHale was 10-16 for 26 points
* Scott Wedman 11 for 11 / 4 for 4 three pointers
* Celtics scored 38 in first quarter (36 Sunday)
* Celtics lost the next game at home 109-102 – embarrassed Kareem scored 30 whiney points
* Lakers won in 6
9. Just a Little Bit Outside – Golf is so much funner with Tiger – who else was magical that you had to watch:
* Jordan
* Mark Fidrych
* Pete Maravich
* Sugar Ray Leonard for a while
* Secretariat
* Babe Ruth had to be
* Koufax
* Fernando Venezuela
* Bobby Orr
* Flutie
* Hershel Walker
10. Randomocity
* Speaking of Jackie Bradley he had a real nerve harassing Hall of Famer Eck when he is
a .230 lifetime hitter
* Love the Herald headline Sunday – Price shows Fort-tude
* I never heard the rumor that potentially Jim Palmer was the child of John or Robert Kennedy
* The advice Rene Russo gave to Kevin Costner to go for the green on 18 in Tin Cup was Grady Little-esque
* Two weeks from June and there are still unfilled potholes and still trees down everywhere
* Surprised that John Henry allowed the Handmaids Tale to film their mass hanging scene in the outfield at Fenway
