Here is what I learned this weekend in sports:
The enigmatic Johnny Manziel is now available to play football for your team. The San Diego Fleet needs a quarterback. This sounds like a match made in heaven. Johnny Football: the college sensation that took America by storm a few years back and then hit hard times after fizzling out in the NFL. The AAF: looking to develop guys who are looking for a second chance to play pro football.
No one is saying what happened to get Johnny Football kicked out of the CFL. If it is something unseemly, the AAF and the Fleet shouldn't touch him with a ten foot pole. But if possible, the Fleet should take a look at him.
This league is built for guys like him: someone who needs more reps and coaching to get a chance to further their career. Sports fans love comebacks and long shots. If he can recapture some of the magic he had at Texas A&M, it would be great for the newly minted Fleet fans who have shown some real passion this season.
But now comes the hard part.
The hardest thing to do? Be patient after such a huge deal.
Machado will be worth the price of admission every single day that he comes to play. He has power, speed, and can create a web gem at the snap of his fingers. He has also raised the expectations of San Diegans.
Machado buzz has fed Padres fan's desire to root for a winner at Petco Park. I know. I have been listening and checking Twitter more to see what is going on during spring training. My own expectations have risen. How could they not with the energy our community is feeling?
The team is turning the corner, but getting to the playoffs has no timetable. Sometimes it gets here sooner than expected, sometimes it takes longer than expected.
I have read this book over and over again: LeBron comes in. Everyone gets excited. The drama begins.
The Lakers were a mess before he got there. The ownership has been a dumpster fire and the team was crushed under the weight of Kobe Bryant's last deal and the aftermath. Now you add a once proud, but floundering franchise trying to relive its glory, being led by Magic Johnson and see what happens.
LBJ runs through coaches and teammates the way I go through an all you can eat pizza buffet. I just devour and destroy it, and so does LeBron.
He did it in Cleveland twice and tried to do it in Miami too, but was stopped by Pat Riley. There’s no doubt LeBron wants to win as much as any superstar we have ever seen in the NBA. The challenge is how he goes about it.
In the wake of his rings, coaches and players are discarded and franchises left in shambles. Look at the Cavs and Cavs 2.0 when he left. Look at the Heat when he left.
He is getting older and wants to win more and more each day. The question now is, does his scorched Earth approach work in LA?