The Basement View

 The Super Bowl is set, Bengals-Rams, just like all the “experts” thought it would be in training camp! Mahomes wasn’t the same highlight-making, incredible throws, and the usual jaw-dropping signal caller that we’ve come to think is just a given, Cincinnati’s defense proved otherwise. The play that is getting the most amount of criticism is Kansas City’s decision to try and go up 28-3 instead of 24-3 by getting greedy right before halftime. I disagree, while I do think that play is important, we’ll get to that later, it is not the biggest play of the game. To me, the biggest play is a combo of two plays, the second and third in goal on Kansas City’s final drive of regulation. Mahomes losing 22 yards on back-to-back plays is bigger than the non-score right before halftime. If Mahomes doesn’t run backwards for 20+ yards forcing Butker to make a harder field goal, having the ball on the nine yard-line for two plays gives the Chiefs a chance to score a touchdown and win the game at ...

 It is that time of year again, the time where I sometimes argue with myself, now mainly my dad about who belongs (and who doesn’t) in the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. With the future of baseball in limbo, this year seems even more difficult to sit down and ponder this incredibly difficult question. But with the spirit of spring coming soon—hopefully with Spring Training not too far behind the finches and swallows. As much as I still feel the same way as I felt a year ago, I feel differently for one reason: I’ve reached the age where I can remember watching every member of the ballot at one point in my life. I guess I’m officially old… Here goes nothing! 1.      Barry Bonds- We’ve reached the last year of the most controversial HOF candidate to date, I’m not counting Curt Schilling or Omar Vizquel. Bonds deserves to be in whether there is a huge asterisk across his face on the plaque or not. One of the higher-level questions I ask myself when puttin...