Sports. Wow, what a weekend for sports fans, right? Something everywhere, even with the NFL intrigue of cut day.
The 5-at-10 III. I’ve likely called my namesake 5-at-10 Jr. around these parts before, but actually, that’s me. My son is a III. And as of today, he’s a teenager. Had a shindig Sunday – good times. He got some great stuff. He’s actually in the yard flying a new drone as we type. Man, where do the years go? Side note: Want to know what he was excited about as anything? Being able to ride in the front seat now. Side question about the side note? Man, waiting until being a teenager to ride shotgun may be the sneaky, biggest societal change this side of 8-track, VCRs and smoking being acceptable everywhere, from airplanes to movie theaters. When I was really young, I can remember riding in the very back in the pop-up seat in the Ford LTD wood-paneled wagon. Heck, I can remember riding to the ballpark in the back of Pop’s truck, sitting in a lawn chair, Granny Clampett style. Side note, part II: He joined his first fantasy football league over the weekend – he Zoomed it in Weston Wamp’s league on ESPN 105.1 the Zone Saturday morning – and he drafted quite well.
Dustin Johnson. Yes, there’s one more round to complete, but dude is flushing his driver and when that happens, he’s going to have wedges into 475-yard par 4s and mid-irons into par-5s. And if he’s grooving it off the tee this today, his 5 shot lead may as well be 15.
Tennessee Titans. Well, how about that 11th hour addition, huh? A Titans defense that was very good last year and has great promise but was craving an edge presence adds Jadeveon Clowney for a discount price. The AFC South is very getable, too, considering the Jags are the worst team in the league and the Colts with a new QB and the Texans filled with questions.
Freddie Freeman. How’s this for a Friday-Saturday-Sunday at work over a holiday weekend? Freeman was 3-for-10 with three walks, four runs and eight RBIs because of the first two grand slams of his MLB career. If he played the 60-game abbreviated schedule at that pace he’d finish the shortened season with a .300/.500/1.000 slash line with 40 homers and 160 RBIs. Yeah, those are MVP numbers for sure.