by John Walters
Starting Five
“Laura Rutledge, come on down! You’re the next contestant on ‘The Sideline is Right’ “
1. When the Britt Hits the Fan
As I tweeted earlier, it’s kind of ironic that Britt McHenry was interviewing hockey players, many of who never attended college and are missing their front teeth, this week.
So I’m going to assume that McHenry won’t be putting this on her demo reel?
Some folks tweeted that she in no way deserves to be fired, that you can’t can someone just because they say awful things. Maybe not, but she’s not Ken from Accounting. McHenry is a television personality. Part of her job is having the audience like her. And now the audience has seen that behind that pretty face was an ugly person. At least in that moment.
A one-week suspension isn’t long enough. It would be better for her if they suspended her for a month. Hell, Ballghazi went away. Why not this?
2. A Reminder…
Granted, it’s a long season and if Anthony Davis misses this shot, who knows what unfolds afterward in a different fashion for both teams? Still, the Pelicans beat the Thunder out for the 8th spot in the West despite having the same record (45-37), meaning they won the tiebreaker. So what happens if Davis doesn’t hit this crazy buzzer-beater?
And, yes, the score was tied at the time. So they’d have gone to overtime. Davis on the night: 41 points, 10 boards.*
*Read comment below by our friend Okerland for a great Paul Harvey nugget on this….
3. Cub Scouts…
…love rookie Kris Bryant. In fact, all scouts do. Today the Cubbies called up the rookie phenom slugger from Las Vegas.
Last season in the minors, Bryant his .325 with 43 home runs. This spring in the Cactus League, the six-foot-five, 23 year-old batted .425 with nine home runs. The Cubbies kept him in minor league ball the minimum 12 days, which means they’ll get to have hime an extra season before he may file for free agency. Don’t think Scott Boras will forget that.
Still, the drought is at 107 years. Money aside (if that’s possible), what player wouldn’t want to be a part of the history of bringing the North Side a World Series title?
4. The Ultimate Walk-Off
Model Giselle Bundchen, the Olivia Munn of the AFC, makes her last strut up and down the catwalk yesterday at the Sao Paolo Fashion Show. Bundchen, 34, is a mother of two. Bundchen, who is Brazilian except that she’s really German, has been walking runways at fashion shows since age 14.
5. Shame On Us
This is the world’s last male northern white rhino, now under 24 hour guard. Notice the one soldier stroking it as if to caress. There are a few female white rhinos. Let’s pray for a comeback.
Asshole poachers kill the rhino for its horn so that asshole people can use it for supposed medicinal value. Guess where rhinos live? Africa. Guess where terrorist organizations thrive? Africa? Guess what terrorist organizations want/need/crave? Funding, by any means possible.
If I had the money, I’d build ranches for endangered animals. All things wise and wonderful/All creatures great and small/All things bright and beautiful/The Lord God made them all.*
*Even if you’re an atheist, you get the gist.
Music 101
Happy Together
Me and you/And you and me/No matter how they toss the dice/It had to be
The Turtles, a No. 1 Billboard hit, 1967. This song knocked the Beatles’ Penny Lane from No. 1, spent three weeks there, then got bumped by Frank and Nancy Sinatra. Those were the days, kids.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvu3xiFmfDU
Remote Patrol
Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!
Spurs at Clippers, Game 1
10:30 p.m. TNT
Kawhi: I guess I’ll just have to DVR Veep
So Adam Silver puts the first game of the most intriguing first-round playoff series directly up against Mad Men and Veep/Last Week Tonight? This is NOT cool. Not cool. Gonna be quite a testy series.
Also the only 3 Davis hit all year.
I totally disagree with you about McHenry. 1st, she never ranted, didn’t even raise her voice in fact & what you CAN’T hear well on the tape is the nasty things the towing employee is saying to her. Sure, she’s a member of the media, & she was not polite to the woman & this reflects badly on herself & her employer (even though she was NOT acting on the behalf of that employer nor at a company event at the time) but it is SO far from the worst things people at ESPN & ALL MEDIA say on a weekly/hourly/minute basis that this is almost laughable. I barely even knew who this woman was until today so I have no reason to rush to her defense. And lastly, it is a known scam in the DC area that many tow companies are scavengers that often ILLEGALLY tow cars every day. There have been countless local news exposes on them over the past few years. Just a couple months ago, one TV station taped a certain public parking area & the same tow truck spent the entire day swooping in & towing cars the second they parked in the spots. There were NO signs stating the parking was not allowed. When the TV news guys showed up to interview the tow company owners they were cursed at, threatened, etc. And we’re supposed to FEEL sorry for THEM? (Please, save the “she’s just doing her job” spiel).
If McHenry’s car was towed by one of those bottom-feeding companies, I have only a little problem with what she said, it’s just too bad her snarks weren’t more in the Olberman-jdubs vein…
Speaking for anyone whose day/night/week has been made worse by these parasitic vulture companies, I say FIGHT THE POWER, BRITT!
Would have loved it even more if you’d led with the rhino. Good stuff.
The great white’s horn was shaved off, to make him ‘less desirable’ to poachers.
What a travesty.