"Lavar Ball & Big Baller Brand"

Oh man... Where do I begin?

Well, for starters, I love that a parent is so involved in his children's lives and that the parent influences success in their children, but Lavar Ball is going a little far in my opinion.

On one hand it's pretty brilliant to bank on the success of an athlete, I mean, Nike, Reebok, etc. have been doing that for decades, but on the other hand, riding the coattails of your children's success is an arrogant move to me.

The Williams' sisters in tennis, as well as many other athletes' parents, have caused more problems than anything else for their kids while attempting to turn a buck off of their children's hard work.

Remember how that situation worked out?

It's a great thing to support your children but to try to earn money off of them is absurd to me. It's a lot like pimping in my view, and that's ridiculous.

Lavar Ball started Big Baller Brand to piggyback off of the potential success of his sons. In many ways he has definitely made an ass of himself in the process. Not to mention that he has written checks that his boys have to work even harder to cash.

They have done nothing other than earn scholarships to college for playing basketball. The oldest of the three is currently in the NBA but he is not shining as bright as ESPN and Lavar Ball himself are claiming he is.

You have to achieve first and earn second, that's called business.

Yeah, he's been entertaining in many ways at times, but overall he has done more damage to the brand than anything else.

In closing, because there's really not much to say about it that bares anything positive to reflect on, I can't find any way to respect the actions of Lavar Ball in his antics to promote his sons because he has promoted himself more than the kids he claims it's all about.

"Cheapest World Series Champions Ever!"

First, allow me to congratulate the Houston Astros for winning the Major League Baseball World Series, well done gentlemen.

Of all the teams that made it to the MLB playoffs the Astros have the lowest payroll, over $100,000,000 less than the Dodgers, Yankees, and Red Sox, the three teams they beat on their way to winning it all.

1-Los Angeles Dodgers
2-New York Yankees
3-Boston Red Sox
6-Chicago Cubs
10-Washington Nationals
17-Colorado Rockies
18-Minnesota Twins
21-Cleveland Indians
22-Arizona Diamondbacks
24-Houston Astros

The Astros traded away the farm years ago in an effort to build the team of the future, and they certainly have succeeded in doing so.

They had three(3) consecutive seasons with the #1 overall draft pick and those players were on display in this season's playoffs. They are a very young team and will have to spend a ton of money to keep the team together because most players are still on rookie contracts but will have high market value now.

The lowest payroll of the teams in the playoffs and they won it all. That's an amazing accomplishment in the game of baseball where individual talent usually wins out because some teams pay for the best available players. But those young players are gonna be expensive in the near future, so we'll see if Houston's ownership will be willing to pay to keep them in a market where the Dodgers, Yankees, Red Sox, Cubs, and a few others can afford to outbid pretty much everybody.

I have nothing negative to say about the Houston Astros, they have carried themselves with class the entire way to winning the franchise's first World Series title.

Once again, congratulations Houston Astros, you are the World Series Champions.