Wednesday, April 03, 2019

Man City, with the fifth highest payroll in European club soccer, 80-100 clubs, their league’s defending champions, a tremendous machine of excellence, beat Cardiff today to go, once again, top of their league on equal games played. City have a record of 26 wins, 4 losses and 2 draws.

Miami “Heat”, with the sixth highest payroll in the only basketball league that matters worldwide, lost again tonight, are in 18th place in their 30-team league, have a record of 38 wins and 40 losses, and are to basketball reliability approximately what the East German Trabant was to automotive reliability: both function about half the time.