Of Brandon Weeden, Forbes, the Eddie Murray’s . . . and Deion.

A run-on. ’Letz Ko.

It’s a momentous day historically and politically and collegiately, so it should come as little surprise to any of you that I was thinking this afternoon about baseball for a bit and how the Cowboys and the Dodgers are both on the Forbes Most Valuable Sports Teams list, one checking in at No. 1 and the other in a tie for No. 24, and surely the one ranked at the very top has a more aggressive front office than the tied-for-24th bunch, or at least just as much of one, especially in the areas of its sport in which there are no hard caps on spending, and I’m just as sure that the No. 1 team must win a whole lot (at least at the winning part that should matter most, not the Forbes part) and that the No. 1 team, since it has all that value, not only wins a ton but isn’t satisfied with winning a ton and keeps spending to make sure it keeps winning a ton, and if only one of those franchises has what must be the most popular owners in sports among fellow owners — because that owner reliably makes all those other owners lots and lots of money, which Forbes considers really cool, but at the same time is barely ever a competitive threat in the non-Forbes part — surely it’s the No. 24 one and not the No. 1 one, and I kept thinking about the Dodgers and the Cowboys and wondered if anyone had ever played for both organizations, but Donald Harris didn’t and Drew Henson didn’t and Chad Hutchinson didn’t and Brian Jordan didn’t (though he played for the Dodgers and Rangers), and while both teams had a Steve Wilson and a Bill Hill and a Nate Jones and a Johnny Mitchell and a Leon Williams and an Eddie Murray whose career lasted 21 years, and I guess you can say they both had a Jon (Johnnie) Baker if we’re going to drill down to Dusty’s real first name, and a Pat (Patsy) Donovan and a Jackie (Jack Smith) — speaking of Jackie, man, that Mark Andrews drop with 93 seconds left in last night’s Ravens-Bills game, damn, ok, sorry for the tangent because I would never resort to writing in tangents — and the Cowboys had Joey Galloway while the Dodgers had Joey Gallo, and the Cowboys had Antonio Ramiro Romo while the Dodgers had Sergio Francisco Romo, and the Cowboys had David Buehler while the Dodgers had Walker Buehler but, dude, they don’t even pronounce their names the same (their last names, that is) (well, also their first names), and maybe Cowboys defensive back Beasley Reece was called “Pee Wee” sometimes (but spelled his last name differently) and maybe Herschel Walker was called “Mysterious” sometimes and maybe David Price was called “Peerless” sometimes, and how was it that the only Jeff Zimmerman who played for one of them was the football guy, and dang it, there has to be someone who played for both, but — bingo — Brandon Weeden did, for two seasons each, backing up the football Romo but not the baseball Romo, and he also backed up the Cowboys’ Kyle Orton, and he always looked like Dave Grohl to me (Orton, that is; not Weeden), and Weeden never played for the Rangers even though he played once for the High Desert Mavericks, which was not (yet) a Rangers affiliate (nor was it ever a Mavericks affiliate), but he did play with Joaquin Arias and Erold Andrus and Juan Senreiso and Alejandro’s uncle Antonio Osuna, and the Dodgers’ assistant pitching coach is Connor McGuiness, who is neither former Cowboys offensive lineman Connor McGovern nor former Cowboys offensive lineman Connor Williams, and for a minute I couldn’t swear Deion Sanders didn’t have a swim through the Dodgers system at the end of his career, but no, it was the Blue Jays he played only in the minors for, and anyway Deion never seemed like the type who was going to be willing to compete at anything but the highest level, though as far as coaching football goes, I hope he is comfortable competing at something other than the highest level, or at least that any pro team harbors that belief, because surely the No. 1 Forbes team wouldn’t put a former left-handed outfielder at the top of its coaching staff like the tied-for-No. 24 Forbes team does, but if I cared a whole lot about how the No. 1 Forbes team operated anymore, at least while the current steward is still the steward, I’m not sure whether that would sit any worse with me than settling on someone who it appears was last considered for a head coaching job 16 years ago, and neither the Cowboys nor the Dodgers ever had a player named Forbes, and Kai Forbath doesn’t count even if that might have been his nickname, not that I have any idea whether it was, and what a(nother) brutal basketball game that was that just ended for the No. 42 Forbes team, and the Cowboys have a Matt Waletzko but the Dodgers don’t, still, as long as I’m thinking about baseball, the Rangers still need a closer, so, well, let’s go.

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