Gimme a break

So Florida has more deadly shark attacks than the other 49 states combined? Well, that's about a stupid statistic, considering some 30 states have no ocean shorelines. You won't see too many shark attacks in Nebraska. Gimme a break.

Don't look now, but those pesky KC Royals are only 1 1/2 games behind the Detroit Tigers again. Despite all the Motown huffing and puffing about Cy Young winners here and sluggers there, they have yet to blow down the weak AL Central Division. C'mon boys. Straighten up. God help them if they somehow manage to lose this thing and fall out of the playoffs. The media will eat them alive.

Tiger Woods once said he would walk away from the PGA tour if he couldn't compete for championships anymore. Pushing 40, with his game a mess and his seemingly ever-fragile physical health, the time might soon draw nigh to see if he was a man of his word. For all intents and purposes, having failed to make the Fed-Ex playoffs, Woods is done this year. He'll have several months to rehab and get his game together. But if his 2015 campaign looks anything like 2014, we shall see if he will gracefully bow out, or continue trying to hang on.

On a related note, Woods also once said he might come back to play with his son if his son was good enough to be out on tour. This was a few years before his son was even born. Let's not forget, his ex Elin popped out a daughter first. They named her Sam. Odd name for a girl, but Tiger said it was because his own dad, despite naming him Eldrick Tont, always called him Sam. Beats Sue, but the Woods' clans appears to be a little strange when it comes to what they call their children.

Nevertheless, as the chromosomes would have it, Elin gave birth to a son a couple years later. Charlie Axel. He's 5 years old now. So even if the boy grows up to be interested in golf, no given, and he becomes good enough to be a touring pro, and daddy Sam, oops, Tiger (and where did that name come from?) wants to play with him in a tournament -- it's likely at least 15 years away. At which time Eldrick would be in his early to mid 50s, and teeing it up on the geezer circuit, sometimes known as the Champions tour. And that's if he doesn't keep stinking it up and walk away from the game like he once promised. This could get complicated. We need a break from this whole Tigermania thing. Either he gets it back together or he doesn't but, if not soon, Father Time's not going to do his back, legs, and whatever else any favors in the future.

Watched a bit of the Detroit Lions/Cleveland Browns pre-season game. For all the hype of Detroit's supposed high octane offense and the debut of Cleveland's Johnny "Football" Manziel, talk about a yawner. That game could have put a glacier to sleep. Sure, it had to do with playing a bunch of scrubs that will be long gone before the regular season starts, but why even bother? Between the Lions and the Browns, two perennial losers, one would think their projected starters need all the game reps they can get.

Yet NFL teams across the board continue to charge regular season ticket prices for the charades they pass off as pre-season games. Gimme a break.

Thing is, the NFL has the season ticket holders between a rock and a hard place. If they want to keep their precious seats for the real games, they also have to pony up big bucks for a month's worth of shams.

And forget any giving of a break. That's just not right.....