The World Series is underway and we've already had an epic 14-inning Game 1 to start it off. MLB's finale features an interesting match-up of power pitching (Mets) against contact hitting (Royals). No team in baseball threw more pitches 95+ mph than the Mets (Royals are #2), but the Royals have been one of the historically best contact hitting teams of all-time. I'm looking forward to a tightly contested championship.
One of the Mets flamethrowers, Jacob deGrom, is slated to start tonight, and you're going to want to tune in. Not just because he's one of the best pitchers in the game, but because he has stated that he will cut his hair after the World Series is over, and this may be the last time you get to see him looking like a Spaldawg doppelgänger.
That's right, the Spaldawg of MLB is going to cut his mane and look a lot different at spring training next year, but I'm hoping he'll grow it out over each season and just get an annual haircut like our honorable commish.
The 2015 Nephews of Jody Reed season has come to a close, and it was a record-setting year by many measures. But one team got hot at the right time and took home the prize - those gorram Reavers!
The non-virtual season featured the rise of many new stars, some of the best pitching seasons of all-time, the official arrival of Bryce Harper, and some surprising new playoff contenders, all of which shaped 2015 into a fantastic year of baseball.
As always, TDZ's got your season-ending synopsis for all the storylines of the season.
After several debates, the election race for 2016 is well underway here in the U.S., but did you know that the Canadian elections have already come and gone for this year? Yep, their campaign season lasted a grueling 78 days. It's not 600 days like in the U.S., but it's pretty good for Canada.
Despite the shortened campaigning window, Canada actually rivals the U.S. in terms of having suspect politicians running for office. From candidates who visit Auschwitz and still don't know the significance of the site to candidates who are appliance repairmen and pee in coffee mugs at clients' homes.
In a shameful act of lazy journalism, I'll let John Oliver breakdown the Canadian election season.
"Oh, Canada!"? More like "Oh, Canada...." You so silly.
The result ended up being a win for the Liberal party and Justin Trudeau, who really knows how to throw himself down a flight of stairs to get the ladies. It also means a loss for conservative leader and Islamophobe-in-chief Stephen Harper.
After all the election hullaballoo, I think I can speak for all Canadians when I say it's time to kick back, relax, crack open a Molson, eat some pepperoni, and watch some hockey. And of course, enjoy the most cherished Canadian past-time of all: reminiscing about the greatest CFL player of all time: Doge Flutie.
Big news for light beer swilling football fans: Bud Light and Miller Lite are going to be unified under one uber-conglomerate. Per CNN, the deal was struck at $104 billion.
This is really irking me - one company, but both "Lite" and "Light": which one is right/rite?
In this age of craft brews, artisanal booze, and hipster bar schmooze, I categorize this merger as lose-lose. Big beer companies have been gradually losing share, at least in the U.S., to micro-breweries, and the way these companies create the appearance of growth to their shareholders is through acquisitions. Evidently SABMiller has strong profits in Africa, a location where AB Inbev was weak.
What does this mean for lazy NFL fans who want to drink light beer all day? Well, the less competition there is in an industry, the worse the product is going to get. It's hard to believe that light beer can get much lighter, but I've been wrong before. Rumor has it that AB Inbev is also mulling acquiring Coca-Cola. Finally, we can have Bud Light Dasani on store shelves soon.
The RFO is really heating up now with back-to-back wins and its best performance yet in 2015 thanks to Allen Ferns, Moby Fleener, and the Settlers of Catanzaro! Bear Down, Farts Are Funny, Wheres McKelvey, and Nickel Blitz all got beat by the reject squad.
Speaking of reject squads, I read an interesting article (via National Football Post) about how Miami Dolphins QB Ryan Tannehill treats his practice squad. Evidently he turned the ball over a couple times in practice, and then erupted at the practice squad defenders, saying "Enjoy your practice squad paycheck, enjoy your practice squad trophy." The report goes on to say that this kind of tension has been there for weeks. First off, it's pretty sad that the alleged franchise QB turns the ball over so often in practice that he can't emotionally contain himself, but that's not all. It got so bad that ex-Dolphins Head Coach Joe Philbin told the practice squad to take it easy on Tannehill and not shake his confidence further.
What a hilarious comparison.
Former WR Donte Stallworth chimed in on the story, contrasting Tannehill's behavior with Tom Brady's treatment of the Patriots practice squad, stating that Brady would actually pay practice squad players who intercepted him.
This is back-to-back weeks where other NFL teams are just completely out-classing the Miami Dolphins, one of which was the New York Jets. Who's next, the Cleveland Browns?
The third time was the charm as the RFO picked up a win last weekend. As I'm finishing this post, I'm realizing that we've got morning football thanks to the game in London. The Wembley series started in 2007 and was part of a 15-year goal to annually host games there and at the end of that period establish a team in London. It's an interesting story about the future of the league and the logistics of having a team on another continent, but I'm more interested in talking about the here and now.
The New York Jets are already dealing with their own logistical challenge with playing in London. No, I'm not talking about jet lag - I'm talking about poop. The BBC reported that the team brought 350 American-made toilet rolls with them to handle the challenges of defecation in the U.K.
Chris Ivory pensively ponders the possibility of using thin British TP.
I don't blame the Jets for taking every precaution. If NFL players represent the brawniest badasses of the USA, then you can be sure they're not going to have dainty European poops. They're going to test the structural integrity of Britain's plumbing infrastructure with massive American poops, and the last thing they need when they're on a one-way train to downtown brown town is flimsy British TP to handle the aftermath.
I just feel bad for the Dolphins, languishing with thin tissues that couldn't hope to handle turds from the likes of Ndamukong Suh, and the results speak for themselves as it looks like they'll lose in the scoreline, and in the locker room b-room.
