HOCKEY SEASON HAS ARRIVED IN SOUTH FLORIDA

Yup, Monday will be the day that Miamians wait for.  A championship game seven for a local team. Your Florida Panthers have blown a 3-1 lead in the Stanley Cup playoffs and on Monday will host game seven for the championship. Now is the time for South Florida fans to pay that 5K for a ticket, show up in their Amazon bought Panther jerseys and loudly announce that they have been to every game this year. And since we are doing this Miami-Style, go out to dinner at Prime 112 first before making the third period of the game (which is the final period for all you front running phonies). 

Here's what you need to know. The star of these playoffs is Connor McDavid. And just how good has he been? Historically good.  The bad news for you front running phony Panther fans is that Connor McDavid plays for the other team- which if you're just hopping on the Panthers' bandwagon you need to know is the Edmonton Oilers. 

McDavid has 42 points so far in these playoffs. The only players with more: Wayne Gretzky with 47 in 1985, Mario Lemieux with 44 in 1991 and Gretzky again with 43 in 1988.

McDavid has 34 assists- breaking Gretzky's record of 31 in 1988. 

McDavid became the first player in Stanley Cup history to score four points (not four goals) in back-to-back games. He did it in games 4 and 5 this year against your Panthers. 

So here is your chance front running Miami phony fans. A real game seven on the line. Grab those Black Amex cards and get your seats and show up and pretend you live and die with the Panthers.  This will be your only opportunity for a while. The Heat stink and the Fins are good, but probably not super bowl good- although for a while last year we thought they were. 

 

HOLMES IN BOSTON OUT

 Theranos executive Elizabeth Holmes reported to federal prison on Tuesday to serve an eleven-year sentence. A few thoughts. 

Does anyone think that if she got five years, she would leave prison and return to defrauding people? 

Does anyone think people who are contemplating committing crimes really consider the sentence someone else got? In other words, is there any evidence to support the belief that prison sentences deter others? 

The problem is the public perception that prison is easy and fun and that people like Holmes who get a three or four year sentence laugh at the criminal justice system and get to keep all their stolen money. Spend a day in prison. Spend a mind-numbing week in prison and then tell us that prison is easy and joke and that prisoners laugh at it.

We of course are not trying to influence DeSantis appointed Judges (DJs). You guys just keep calling balls and strikes and keeping sending poor people of color to prison for as long as possible. Nobody expects anything else of you. 

Your Miami Heat won a game seven in Boston, becoming the second Florida team to win a game seven in Boston this year. Earlier in the playoffs the Florida Panthers won a game seven in Boston. 

Both the Panthers and the Heat are eighth seeded entries into the playoffs in their respective leagues and both of the teams are now in the finals. 

Predictions for your Florida teams? We want to hear from all of you loyal Heat and Panthers fans who supported the teams all year long and didn't just jump on the bandwagon during the playoffs. 

All five of you.