2020 MLB World Series – Play Ball! 

The 2020 MLB World Series got underway and boy oh boy is it getting good.

The first game started off well and as expected. The Dodgers won 8-3. Kevin Kiermaier is again a candidate for the underrated player of the year and the playoffs (an award created by me), as he is over and over and over with Jose Ramirez, on the Indians, in that category. Let me clarify that, Kiermaier is talked about because he is a role player on a team with only role players, and is one of the most well-known there, whereas Ramirez is never talked about, except maybe for his 2018 30-30-30 (30 dingers, 30 doubles and 30 stolen bases) season. That’s briefly mentioned by SportsCenter and never talked about again until the end of the season.

Ramirez is in the shadows because of Frankie Lindor, and Shane Bieber (totally not Justin’s cousin) and Carlos Santana, but I don’t really get why, because he’s a .200 hitter, but maybe because he has 25 homers per year and definitely because of his mammoth biceps.

Now, after you were lost in my opinions, I was talking about Kevin Kiermaier because he had the most RBIs for the Rays that night, at two. This should be easy pickings for the Dodgers because of their many superstars, like the Bucks, Lakers, 76ers, Celtics and 2016 Warriors collaborated and created a superteam. Mookie Betts, Corey Seager, Max Muncy, Justin Turner, Will Smith (dynamic young toddler*), Cody Bellinger, Chris Taylor, Joc Pederson, Clayton Kershaw, and Joe Kelly (the GOAT, for making a fool of Carlos Correa) are all amazing.

WILL SMITH – Doesn’t he look 8?

Now, dear readers, little do you know that I just read their Game 1 lineup, starter, and closer, fooled you there, young padawan, you have much to learn, my little grasshopper. In the second game, the Rays took over with their two best players, Joey Wendle and Brandon Lowe (both great players, just give them time, like you, my little grasshoppers). Both had three RBIs, both had a homer apiece. The Hollywood Red Carpet, filled with stars, much like the Dodgers lineup, only collected four runs on five hits, then again, it is the 2019 Cy Young winner on the mound. The Rays and their four fans celebrate!

Cue the clown calliope music, Kenley Jansen. Get dressed up in the big goofy shoes, Chris Taylor. Make sure the handshake-buzzer is buzzing, Will Smith. Put the whole suit on, and don’t forget the nose, Dodgers. Those last seven innings were a comedy of errors and errant pitching/defense. 40% of the game’s runs were scored in those last seven innings, ok for two non-playoff teams playing each other, but two teams with the honor to go to the World Series, no. Is the flower squirting? Almost every inning, the Dodgers would inch out, oh nope, the Rays tie it, inch, tie, inch tie, finally we get back to the last inning. We are in the tie stage if you are wondering. With two outs, everyone is thinking, ok, inch state coming right up, nope, Jansen fumbles the bag. Don’t trip in those ridiculously large shoes. Give me a handshake, why don’t ya? BzZZzzZZzZZzzzZZZZZZZ. Brett Philips is up, and he drives a single into right-center, ohhhh great, and a tie game. Ah hah ha, not a tie game, as Randy Arozarena dives home to win the game. Squeak, squeak. The Dodgers won the most recent game and will play the perhaps deciding game tomorrow.

In Fantasy Football, last week, I went 1-3, not great, but it’s what I come to expect. My best team, the one with Kyler Murray, Devin Singletary, Kenyan Drake, Amari Cooper, and Terry Mclaurin, is now 5-2, best in my division, tied for best in the league. My strategy is to trade Amari Cooper and hopefully Devin Singletary for a haul, but the people in my league are fit to be NFL GMs, protecting their players with their life, so I’m getting stonewalled in that league, but I’m inching my way forward. Now I am very angry with the Green Bay Packers, they sat Aaron Jones, because it was a game-time decision and by the time he was ruled out, my players were locked in, meaning you can’t change their position in your lineup. This is the league where I’m 4-3, second in the division, and I have Saquon Barkley, Courtland Sutton and Dak Prescott, not luckily for me, they’re all out for the season. The one thing that I hate about fantasy is that almost all people are inactive, so while the active teams are putting up 150 points, the score is 150 to 54, which is just not fun at all.

Fortunately, I have two leagues where I am in contact with people, and two without, but even in the contacting ones, some are still inactive. What’s going to work for me, and for everyone, is finding diamonds in the rough, that helps so much, right now, when half of teams are injured, take the good backups, and swoop down on them before other quick thinkers do, and horde them on your team, next week, you’re the one that’s going to put up 160. In my final league, I have Deshaun Watson, Aaron Jones, Tyreek Hill, Amari Cooper, and Kenny Golladay, and I’m last. Huh?????? And my opponents don’t have that much IQ with their teams.

Rough stretches for Cowboys fans, huh? Dak goes out, Andy Dalton gets a cheap shot to the head and now some guy named Ben DiNucci has to step up, yikes. Ezekiel Elliot is also not turning heads with his play and half the defense is injured. Be nice to Cowboys fans that you know, please? Haha.

Probably on Thursday, I will post a football update, but no promises, I am really overflowing with work for high school entrance and homework.