Morning Cup Of Joe
July 21st, 2025
Welcome to your Morning Cup of Joe, an eye-opener to help Joe’s readers ease into their busy workday with a few football links, wacky news and a pleasant distraction.
Micah Parsons should sit out training camp. [PFT]
Biggest offseason move impacts. Don’t worry. List Season is almost over. [CBS]
Miser Mike Brown thinks he will get the Trey Hendrickson dean wrapped up soon. [Yahoo!]
Why the eff would the Steelers (or the Packers) ever wear throwbacks? Their uniforms are the standard for all football uniforms should be. [NFL]
This man was simply an artist with the bat. Joe is convinced he wouldn’t make it in today’s major leagues as the statgeeks who run/ruin baseball prefer strikeouts to base hits. And people wonder why Joe has become disenchanted with the game he once loved for decades. [TikTok]
Looks like it’s about time to play taps for NFL Network. Just a friggin’ crying shame what the NFL did to such a wonderful vehicle to promote its Shield. Joe hates to say it, but as badly as that network has been run down, it may just get a boost from the four-letter (sort of in the same way a younger hooker would boost a frustrated family man). [Front Office Sports]
Can Dave Portnoy save “Big Noon Kickoff?” Joe thinks so but FOX can’t stop at Portnoy. That “Big Noon Kickoff” is dreadfully boring with its main analyst a very dislikable figure. Replace Urban Meyer with Chucky, and get rid of everyone but Brady Quinn, Bear Fallica and Bruce Feldman and start from scratch. Let Portnoy hire the rest. Brandon Walker said he will be part of the mix and promises to bring fire (he hates the B1G). Big Cat will be a big help, too. Joe just thinks this is a brilliant move by FOX Sports, so long as they don’t stop with just hiring Portnoy. It has to be a housecleaning. Having half-a-dozen ex-players who have 10 seconds to spit empty clichés does not work. Matt Leinart and Mark Ingram (who is a complete buffoon) add nothing. [Awful Announcing]
Smug Colin Cowherd doesn’t know college football from his anus. [Outkick]
The robots that are taking over food delivery. Will this squeeze the drivers out of DoorDash and GrubHub and Uber Eats and lower the costs of these things? [Wall Street Journal]
Why did Boris Badenov look up to Fingers Scarnose? [TikTok]
I sure hope the guys over at @953WDAE are having a good day, even the ones who used to ruin mine! This is a fantastic box! Thank you all for the support over the years, I think… pic.twitter.com/2hxocj78jb
— Jon Gruden (@BarstoolGruden) July 19, 2025
THIS WAS A DUDE
Ep.2 Cardinals WR Rob Moore pic.twitter.com/XvrMQAIsd1
— Kyle Brandt (@KyleBrandt) July 18, 2025
July 22nd, 2025 at 3:45 am
In regards to the automation of food delivery, I’m a newer Dasher (1500 lifetime deliveries) but I can tell you all it will be completely market dependent. Maybe the bigger cities will get automation, just because of volume. Humans will slowly get phased out, but for Door Dash, the app is super buggy, so I can’t imagine much better for their automation. As far as pricing going down? I can see it going up, since you no longer have to tip, they’ll just have those costs go to upkeep, maintenance, repairs, replacements etc. I’m also reminded of the friendly hitchhiking robot that stepped foot in Philadelphia for a day and was found destroyed. Unless these things are flying, and even then, they will be messed with, destroyed and still have food stolen. So it’s just a new set of problems everyone has to deal with.
July 22nd, 2025 at 6:29 am
Add Rod Carew and Wade Boggs to the list with Tony Gwynn.
July 22nd, 2025 at 7:03 am
Artist with the bat you say? Rod Carew.
July 22nd, 2025 at 8:14 am
I can’t leave the Tony Gwinn post without a mention of number 14 – Charley Hustle!
He’s why there’s a Hall of Good but not a Hall of Fame! Pete Rose R.I.P.!
July 22nd, 2025 at 8:25 am
I used to love baseball also. I remember back in the 80’s you could have a legit conversation about Gwynn or Boggs being able to hit .400 in a season. Gwynn almost did it. Now you are lucky if maybe a hand full of guys in the entire league manage to hit .300. And forget about somebody actually getting 200 hits in a season now or a pitcher going over 200 innings. And don’t get me started on complete games… They are at the point where they are giving out Cy Young’s to guys who barely have any wins. Since 2021 of the 8 Cy Young winners only 2 guys pitched more than 200 innings. Only 4 of those had 15 or more wins.
July 22nd, 2025 at 8:31 am
Capeceiskaput:
You speak the truth. Love the handle!
Joe was fond of Rod Carew. Sadly Joe grew up in a National League area and never got to see him but once or twice a year (maybe) on “Game of the Week.”
Gwynn was ridiculous for rarely striking out. Now? Joe actually gets in arguments with states who actually believe strikeouts are not that evil!
We have lost our way as a nation. ☹️
July 22nd, 2025 at 9:37 am
Gwynn, Carew and Boggs were awful good with the bat but remember George Brett hitting.390 and leading the league in slugging percentage? Not many could pull that off.
July 22nd, 2025 at 9:56 am
Sorry Joe’s but regarding Disney buying the NFL network, your comparison of a young hooker and a frustrated married man is way off. The proper comparison would be to a 55 year old street walker.
July 22nd, 2025 at 10:17 am
Larry dead wrong on Pete the deadbeat, He accepted the lifetime ban. And don’t say” he only bet for them to win, well what does that say about games he didn’t bet on them” did he plan on losing and tipping off other bettors.
July 22nd, 2025 at 10:24 am
How many pitchers did Rose possibly overuse (and perhaps screw up arms for good) knowing he had $50 grand on the game?
To a lesser extent, maybe dudes in the field needed a rest or a day off but Rose kept them in because he had money down on the game.
The lame “he just bet on the Reds to win” is the baseball/gambling equivalent to “Gruden won with Dungy’s players.”
July 22nd, 2025 at 10:26 am
Just watched Bucky & Mike Alstott and this offseason might be the Bucs’ media departments best year in terms of putting out team related content. It’s been awesome from the history of the team to these “Born A Buccaneer” segments. Hats off to everybody involved in making all this happen.
July 22nd, 2025 at 11:10 am
Odd, but I played Little League ball with Wade Boggs, and we all were more amazed with his fielding than his batting prowess. We called him the vacuum cleaner. I remember watching Rose foul off three or four pitches on a three and two count… on purpose. Waiting for the pitch he wanted. He finally hit the perfect Texas Leaguer just over the second baseman. To this day I have yet to see anyone else do that. Carew and Gwynn were the only two who compared. Baseball has changed alot.
Go Bucs!
July 24th, 2025 at 11:23 pm
NFL media + BSPN: corporate consolidations and mergers that take away choices and power from the consumer in the American way. Less competition = worse products at higher prices. Hooray.
DoorDash robots: zero chance anything gets less expensive from automation, except the expenses on these company’s books.