I’m doing MLB Bullets because Al is making me. But who cares? It’s game seven tonight and the Cubs are playing! OK, just so you’ll read, I’ll include some stories on game seven.
- Dieter Kurtenbach writes that all the pressure is all on the Indians tonight.
- Bill Reiter thinks a Cubs victory tonight might be the greatest sports story of all time. And an Indians win would be a pretty good story too.
- Will Leitch has ten questions, five for each team, heading into game 7 tonight.
- Michael Baumann thinks that the Cubs use of Aroldis Chapman in game 6 might cost them game 7.
- Mike Axisa thinks game 6 was really bad for the Indians, but he found some positives for the Tribe heading into game 7.
- Barry M. Bloom has a piece on how dominating relievers have been this postseason.
- Mike McCormick says that with his six RBI in game 6, Addison Russell stands with others who have a claim to the title “Mr. November.”
- Eric Enders looks at some great game sevens from years past.
- Eddie Robinson, the last surviving member of the 1948 Indians, was at the game last night and he remembers that championship season.
- The Indians didn’t let Charlie Sheen throw out a first pitch at the World Series. Did Sheen then curse the Indians?
- Mike Oz looks at the men behind the Twitter World Series between the Cubs and Indians Twitter accounts.
- Here’s another shot by the Cubs in the Twitter war.
- Former Indians player Nick Swisher thinks it would be “good for baseball” for the Cubs to win.
- I know they’ve gotten a lot of abuse around here and elsewhere, but Ted Berg notes that umpiring a World Series is a very hard job and the umpires are generally pretty good at it.
- Ben Reiter thinks the breakout star of this postseason has been Alex Rodriguez as an TV analyst. Also, Pete Rose is a pig.
- Mets closer Jeurys Familia was arrested on a domestic violence charge. The irony of this is that Familia was just featured in a Mets anti-domestic violence ad. Which I notice the Mets have removed from YouTube.
- Baseball’s new Collective Bargaining Agreement is close to being finalized, and the Athletics may end up being the loser.
- The 50-man preliminary roster for next year’s World Baseball Classic is up and neither Bryce Harper or Mike Trout is on it. Kris Bryant and Jake Arrieta are on the list.
- The Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters won the Japan Series in six games. Now the question is will Fighters star Shohei Otani be posted?
- The Rangers may try to deal Derek Holland this winter.
- Glenn Sattell looks at the trade value of some Miami Marlins.
- Pitchers Dylan Covey, Frankie Montas and Drew Steckenrider combined to throw a no-hitter for the Mesa Solar Sox in the Arizona Fall League yesterday. Their catcher was the Cubs own Victor Caratini.
- A lot of people are upset about the new name and logo for the White Sox ballpark: “Guaranteed Rate Field” with a downward arrow.
- The Marlins Double-A affiliate, the Jacksonville Suns, are changing their nickname to the “Jumbo Shrimp.” So I’ve got to come up with a bunch of new puns. I’ll take suggestions.
- Some looks at the Cubs celebrating Halloween. Not mentioned here is Dexter Fowler and all the kids in Cubs uniforms Trick-or-Treating at his door and not recognizing him.
- Here’s a look at some of the best MLB Halloween costumes this year.
- And finally, the Astros mascot Orbit decided to play some Halloween tricks on Astros employees.
And tomorrow will be a better day than today, Buster. Let’s hope we’ll be planning a parade.