Good morning afternoon!
After many, many requests to bring this back, the BDB is making its return and will be earlier from now on ... it's a bit of a creaky wheel getting it back going for the first time since mid-March. On with the weekend recap and some thoughts on the current state of sports, for members-only now ...
• My No. 1 takeaway from the weekend? It's got to be the Bruins. I always love the Stanley Cup playoffs and there's nothing better than a long run, but everyone has to have their doubts about this group at this point.
• Yes, it's hard to get up for games that aren't do or die, and this is a veteran group that could potentially turn it on and off, but the games so far across the league have looked like a young man's game and the Bruins have looked really old in the restart. Better find that fountain of youth, or else it's going to be a quick exit against the Hurricanes.
• Bruins will likely face a path to the Cup Finals that is Carolina, the juggernaut Flyers, and Tampa or Washington. Yes, Tuukka, the seeding games do matter.
• It's great that Gordon Hayward played really well last night — how about Jayson Tatum in the final minute of regulation, huh? — but I've seen this movie before. How many times have we heard GORDON HAYWARD IS BACK the past two years, only to see him fizzle out? Slow your roll. Let's see some consistency.
• Where would the Red Sox be without Xander Bogaerts and Mitch Moreland? Enjoyed listening to the walk-off bomb on the radio yesterday.
• Good to see Rafael Devers finally got a clue at the plate and went deep. Hopefully it wasn't an accident. JD Martinez and Andrew Benintendi are next up.
• I've seen a lot of veteran players land with the Patriots, but not sure I've ever heard one so relaxed and confident as Cam Newton. That means something.
• The PGA had a ton of promise but it really fizzled at the end. Bummer.
• Good to be back in this spot ... I will tell you, it takes a lot of work and I haven't had the bandwidth until now.
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Collin Morikawa finally made a mistake... pic.twitter.com/rqFi2EHAiD
— Will Brinson (@WillBrinson) August 10, 2020
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