In the words of the great Jon Rothstein, “we sleep in May”…but I missed the flush, so let’s never take this long of a break ever again. The Avs won the President’s Trophy, swept the Blues and are sitting in the cat bird’s seat to win the whole damn thing. Wagon. The Rockies stink. Relegated back to the minors… and are the Broncos getting Aaron Rodgers?!?! The Nuggets and Liverpool are BACK while golf has a new rivalry. We got some catching up to do, so let’s get into it.
NFL
Football is still king, so of course we’ll start here. It feels like forever ago we were talking about the Deshaun Watson scandal and Russell Wilson hating his offensive line. I’m convinced this Aaron Rodgers drama is to take the heat off Watson, but if he comes to the Broncos, I will do the 24, 18, 12, 6 challenge. In all actuality, the NFL pulled an absolute NBA move getting us talking about football in the spring. Remember when we all thought 3 different quarterbacks might be moving on? Yeah, none of those things happened. At least we had Stafford and Wentz early on to kinda move the needle, yeah?
NHL
Holy fuck the Islanders knocked off the Penguins in a Sidney Crosby’s renaissance year and will play the Bruins. I’m not sure they had enough talent to win it all, but who would’ve thought, before the season began, that the Pens would get bounced in the first round by the got damn Islanders?! Shoutout to the Avs, they’re a wagon and absolutely shitpumped the Blues. They’re waiting for the winner of the Vegas/Minnesota series which suddenly became interesting after the Wild looked D-E-D, DEAD, after a heartbreaking game 4. Up in Canada, Winnipeg stunned the world after sweeping Connor McDavid (105 points in a shortened regular season!!!) and the Oilers. Everyone, including McDavid, on Edmonton STUNK in this series. He deserves better, but you gotta start asking if he’s incapable of winning when it matters. Down South the Lightning look like they’re capable of repeating after knocking off the Panthers and having a relatively nice path to the finals between the Hurricanes and the winner of the Bruins/Islanders.
NBA
Look, I love giving LeBron stans their ration of shit, but I respect him as a basketball player. That being said, his antics in the Suns game and his “shooting at three baskets, aim for the middle one” is hilarious. Credit to him for making it all about LeBron, the dude knows how to market himself. In all honesty, I don’t pay much attention until later in the playoffs…sue me. Go Nugs.
MLB
I can’t wait for Arizona to get off their ass and get this sports betting thing going because this “fives” looks like a blast and I got an insider killing it. Hopefully we can start picking these soon, might have to on the twitter account for shits and gigs until I can put some of my hard earned money down. If you’re in a spot where you can bet, check out fives where you bet on the first 5 innings (basically starting pitchers) and the odds are usually moneline or +/-.5 for every game. Get on it and let me know what you think!
Premier League
NOT A BANDWAGON FAN, but Liverpool looked dead in the water 2 weeks ago (+550 odds) to make the top 4 and qualify for the Champions League and came back to finish in third. Also, MANCHESTER IS FULL OF SHIT and lost to Villarreal in the Europa League Final.
Golf
Bryson Dechambeau is a loser and needs to learn the definition of “living rent free in someone’s head”. Brooks battled his ass off on a busted knee and still finished 36 spots ahead of that dork. I love this rivalry, De-cham-blow can eat shit.
It feels good to be back, forgive me for my hiatus, love y’all.
The Morning Flush 