Final Thoughts on Baseball 2020 and a Few about Football

The Dodgers have done it. Both Los Angeles teams have won their respective championships (except the Rams, but LA fans, don’t get your hopes up). After a game where the Rays practically could’ve handed it to them, practically no offense generated.

A lot of things changed before and after this game. But let me clarify. I guarantee that Randy Arozarena will not be good on Opening Day 2021, I guarantee it. One-hit wonder like Pete Alonso is shaping up to be, sadly, hitting .378 throughout the whole postseason, which is more than anyone could imagine, anyone, and it was all for nothing. But here, the scrappy underdogs (the Cinderella Story, the one who everyone falls in love with, the comeback kids, the down-9-in-the-ninth-rally-to-come-back-and-win-in-extra-innings kids) couldn’t win, sadly.

Also, BREAKING NEWS, it is now universally accepted that you must take out your pitchers when they give up three hits, and the third one being a single. That’s exactly what Kevin “Brains Behind the Operation” Cash did exactly that, taking out Cy Young award winner Blake Snell in the sixth inning, who only gave up two hits, and only one earned run. That blew the game out, fumbled the bag, anything that means choking up and dying right there on the mound.

Blake Snell was obviously infuriated, using some choice words, and walking off the mound in disgust. We’re going to be seeing Snell in another uniform come July 2021 (trade deadline). I’ll be surprised if he even trudges along to July of 2021.

The Dodgers really do have it all, great pitching (though that’s their weak spot), the hitting is star-studded, apart from the catcher, and this poses the question – do the Dodgers really have it in them to even make the DS next year, with such an old team?

Think about it, and I’ll give you my answer on Sunday.

Football - The Titans kicker, Stephen Gostkowski, kicked the Titans out of a 6-0 start to the season, literally. But, the Steelers, who are a decent team, but definitely not 6-0 quality, got the dub and will move on to face the Ravens, who are more like the Tinkerbells this season. I put Chase Claypool in my starting lineup and boy did I make a mistake, he got -0.8 points, haha. Justin Herbert and Ben R. (on the Steelers) are fantasy sleepers and should pick them up immediately, a catfish good player is James Connor, but the Steelers don’t use the run game, they pass. Everyone in the Steelers passing corps is amazing, just to keep that in mind. Ben R. had an off game, 268 yards, two touchdowns, and three interceptions, but he’s still up there in my eyes. Juju Smith Schuster, Diontae Johnson, and Eric Ebron all had great games, but I would hold off on taking them, as they had a pretty bad whole season, only had a great game just recently. Ryan Tannehill continued his Tannehillian prowess, playing almost like Patrick Mahomes minus the strength, speed, and overall greatness of his wide receivers (the Titans have Walmart baggers). Derrick Henry had 75 yards and a touchdown (but I’m still hounding the poor guys who have him in all my leagues for him, my guess is they’ll finally give him). But, AJ Brown is amazing, 153 yards and a touchdown? Wow, plus Corey Davis added 35 yards and a touchdown. The Titans, get to the AFC Championship and lose, sounds very Titanian.