Goodbye to Mays

I know, I know we are just about through the month of June now, but I wanted to give a shout out the passing of a legend the other day. Willie Mays passed away on Tuesday this week at the age of 93. I've heard the name of course, but when I was younger I didn't watch a ton of sports, so just how great of a player this guy was seems to have passed me by.

Many people would probably consider Mays the greatest baseball player who ever lived. His stats were nothing short of impressive, he also was a leader on his team and unlike many players continued to show his utility well into his later years.

Miguel Caberra probably knows more about hitting in his pinky that most of us ever will. I feel a bit sad that his later years were squandered chasing his previous glory versus imparting some of that knowledge on other players.

I'm not going to impress you with all of Mays stats. If you want to read about those, you can check out this really good article. My main reason for starting this post the way I did was to say, if you've heard of Willie Mays, it's definitely a sad week for baseball. If you don't know about him, fix that. It's worth it!

Meanwhile, in the WNBA, The Indiana Fever finally seems to be on a bit of a role. Caitlin Clark and her team have won five of their last seven games after starting the season 1-8. Apparently Clark has also been finding her way in this new landscape and putting up some of the stats we have become familiar with from her.

As expected, the Men's College World series has come down to the two teams who were undefeated through the first phase of the bracket. If you go back in my post the other day I predicted that it would probably be Tennessee vs. Texas A&M in the best of three championship series. Interesting to note that they are both SEC teams.

As the Olympic games are just around the corner, we are starting to see qualifying events take place all over the world. In what can only be described as a freak accident, a French swimmer who had just qualified for the Oympics, dislocated his shoulder as he was celebrating. I have never dislocated anything as far as I know, but it sounds painful.

Thankfully, I think it is a pretty easy fix. They might want to have a medic on hand in case Fente-Damers happens to medal though!

Finally, The US fell to South Africa in the T20 yesterday. Apparently there was a late game surge from the young American team, but it wasn't enough to push them past SA. The final score was 194/4 to 176/6 (whatever that means). Seems like a crazy number of runs to me, but I don't really understand the sport!

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