Just Shut Up!

Welcome to a new feature of The Grandstander.  I like to call it.....

 Aaron Rodgers.

We're all tired of hearing you moan and groan about how mistreated you feel over how the Green Bay Packers are treating you.  This also goes for the media members (I'm looking at you, Tony Kornheiser) who have been slurping you and promoting the idea of how dissed you have to feel ever since the Packers drafted Jordan Love with there first round pick in 2020. How conveniently everyone forgets the last time the team dissed a Hall of Fame QB in Brett Favre when they had the temerity to use a first round pick to draft, oh who was it?  Oh, right, it was YOU!

So, either have your agent negotiate in a business-like manner to get you traded or released, go to work for State Farm full time, take the Jeopardy gig, or just show up and collect your $25 mil from the Packers, but otherwise, Just Shut Up!

LeBron James and Luka Doncic. 

Both of these very terrific NBA players have been sounding off of late about the new NBA "Play-In" element of the NBA Playoffs.

(In case you are unaware....In an effort to avoid "tanking" and keeping interest up late in the season, instead of the top eight teams in each conference making the Playoffs, the teams that finish 7-8-9-10 will play a play-in format.  Seven will play Eight, Nine will play Ten.  The winner of the 7-8 game gets the seventh seed for the conference.  The loser of the 7-8 game, will play the winner of the 9-10 game; the winner of that game gets the eighth seed.  Sounds like fun!)

Both James and Doncic, whose teams are in danger of finishing in seventh or eighth and facing the play-in-within-the-playoffs are now crying unfair.  First off, these extra games will generate additional monies from television, approximately 51% of this money will go to, by CBA, the PLAYERS.  Two, if it so unfair, then play better during the season and don't finish in seventh or eighth place!!! 

Otherwise, Just Shut Up!  

(Full disclosure.  I happen to like Rodgers, James, and Doncic, but that doesn't make them above criticism when warranted.)

Rudy Giuliani, Just Shut Up! 

Neither explanation nor photo necessary.

Final Note....Just Shut Up! may or may not become a regular feature of The Grandstander.  Depends on how the Loyal Readers receive it.  I will accept nominations from any of you out there who feels that someone needs to be told to Just Shut Up!