What a massive week-end of sports!
Toronto gives away the World Series with some of the worst base running I’ve ever witnessed. Literally…the Blue Jays had basic base running gaffes dealing with their third base coach in games 3, 6, and 7. The Jays would have been better served with a dead corpse coaching third base in this historically good World Series.
But give Dave Roberts and the Dodgers credit for gutting it up in the final two games in Toronto and pulling off their repeat. Yamamoto did end up winning the official MVP, while my pick Will Smith was second. Both were deserving.
Toronto fans must feel sick this Monday. They had the Series in their grasp, but pissed it away with sloppy base running and some unfortunate luck, the ball sticking in the bottom of the wall play… and Kiki Hernandez’s incredibly smart ‘on the ball play’ to pull off the double play to end Game 6. Toronto needs to get a new third base coach and evidently spend more time on basic baserunning fundamentals beyond just trotting around the bases on homers and gestures with their hands.
My Packers sucked offensively yesterday at home and lost to the suddenly very respectable Carolina Panthers. My Broncos won their fifth straight by winning at Houston over CJ Stroud and the Texans. Leading MVP candidate Baker Mayfield was idle…hopefully next week he’ll have both Mike Evans and Chris Godwin back in his receiving arsenal.
Everyone loves Baker accept Jim Traber and surly O State fans who’ve never come to terms with their overall record in Bedlam. Other than Patrick Mahomes…is there another NFL player doing more ads than Baker?
Right now I have Baker with a slight MVP lead over Josh Allen.
My Sooners?
Great win at Knoxville.. A great win to put the Sooners in a position to travel to Alabama in two weeks and see what they can do defensively against Tide QB… Ty Simpson, who is my leading Heisman candidate. MJ never wants players to get injured, but if Ty Simpson were to get concussed this coming Saturday in their game versus the universally hated LSU Tigers…grief would not overcome MJ.
Owen Heineke…as I wrote yesterday was impactful in the first half Saturday in Knoxville. His play, plus that of Taylor Wein and Kip Lewis were almost as impactful. SEC Play of the Week had to be Owen’s massive hit on the the Vol QB who fumbled the ball right into the massive hands of R Mason Thomas.
That play was a FOURTEEN POINT SWING…ON THE ROAD when the Sooners were about to be knocked out with a second round TKO.
Massive play for my Sooners. Just massive. With massive being being the key adjective of the Sooners’ inspirational comeback win.
Off week for the Sooners this week-end… and much needed for Kobie, R Mason, and offensive tackle Derek Simmons, who in my mind is the Sooners’ best offensive tackle.
MJ had a rousing workout this morning and is now headed to Norman to watch both Jenni B and Porter’s basketball teams kick off their basketball campaigns. I think both teams will be good. Porter did some significant work with the roster this off season.
The Thunder improved to 7-0 with an easy win over the horrifically bad New Orleans Pleicans on Sunday night. MJ doesn’t cover games on his uniquely high quality content blog. I only cover games were both teams put reasonable teams on the floor or field of play.
Off to Norman for a great evening college basketball.
MJ