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[Posted Sunday PM…prior to late football and Cleveland-Tampa Bay….]
Brief Add-on up top Tues. AM.
1982 Milwaukee Brewers Quiz (this being the last Brewers team to make the World Series): 1) Name all eight position players, each having played at least 130 games. 2) Name the five starting pitchers with at least 20 starts. Answers below.
MLB Postseason
—The Brewers swept the Dodgers in convincing fashion, completing the task on Wednesday 6-4 at Dodger Stadium.
It’s real simple. Milwaukee beat L.A.’s vaunted starting rotation; 2-time Cy Young Award winners Tarik Skubal and Blake Snell, the best postseason pitcher of his era, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and terrific No. 4 starter (when healthy) Tyler Glasnow…2-1, 7-4, 6-2 and 6-4.
The Dodgers starters posted a 6.50 ERA, while the lineup, which featured nine players with at least one All-Star selection to their name – was 4-for-27 with runners in scoring position; a lineup with three probable Hall of Famers (Betts, Freeman, Ohtani).
And Shohei hurt his image. He was clearly damaged goods since mid-August and manager Dave Roberts let Shohei call the tune. I get it…superstars rule the game, but the Yankees, much to the protestations of Aaron Judge, didn’t put him on the playoff roster, twice, though no doubt Judge could have gone out there, and sure acted like he wasn’t happy with the decision not to roster him. New York, to their credit, said ‘no.’ [But then they spit the bit against the Rays in the ALDS.]
Milwaukee is now awaiting the winner of Rays/Guardians in the ALCS.
Cleveland took a 2-1 series lead heading into Friday’s Game 4, which was a rainout, forcing the two teams to play four days in a row if the series goes 7 (much to Milwaukee’s delight).
And Saturday night in frigid Cleveland, the Rays prevailed 7-3, Yandy Diaz putting the game away with a 2-run homer in the top of the ninth, evening things up at 2-2.
The Rays got 5 1/3 of one-run ball from starter Nick Martinez, who pitched at Fordham…very cool. He had his best season this year for Tampa Bay at the age of 36, 15-6, 3.10, making the All-Star team for the first time.
Game 5 Sunday night.
Regardless of the outcome of Cleveland-Tampa Bay, we are assured of having two clubs in the bottom half of big-league payrolls in the World Series for the first time since 1991. The Dodgers, Mets, and Yankees, with the three biggest payrolls, are watching from home.
The low-budget World Series showdown will start just six weeks before a likely management lockout, a work stoppage threatening the 2027 season as owners and players battle over the sport’s lack of a salary cap.
Milwaukee has MLB’s 19th-highest payroll as of Aug. 31, while Tampa Bay was 25th and Cleveland 30th.
In terms of market size, Milwaukee ranks as MLB’s 30th and smallest Designated Market Area, defined by Nielsen as non-overlapping geographic regions that group counties based on television viewing areas. Cleveland is 22nd and Tampa Bay 15th.
Needless to say, this is a nightmare for the networks, namely Fox.
–The Phillies opted to keep Don Mattingly as manager, removing his interim tag and giving him a two-year deal even after a late-season collapse nearly cost the team a playoff spot.
Mattingly led the team to a 79-55 record and a spot in the postseason after he replaced the fired Rob Thomson in late April.
‘Donnie Baseball’ was the clear second choice, but the Phils and president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski had been rebuffed by former Red Sox manager Alex Cora twice.
–The Astros, after their miserable 81-81 season, despite making the playoffs, fired manager Joe Espada after three seasons (256-229). I’m guessing the 51-year-old could get another shot. He had a bunch of jerks on this last team, bitching about lack of crowd support, that kind of thing.
College Football Review
What a week, so let’s get right to it.
For the second straight week, No. 1 went down, this time Auburn (4-2) stunningly beat 1 Georgia (6-1) at home in Athens, 27-24, as Georgia’s star quarterback Gunner Stockton had a critical late fumble, and then the Bulldogs were called for a costly personal foul and just like that, the Tigers won it on an Alex McPherson 34-yard field goal.
And then 2 Notre Dame (6-1) fell at 8 BYU (6-0), 28-24, in the biggest game Provo has seen in decades…the first top-10 matchup ever played at LaVell Edwards Stadium.
Cougars quarterback Bear Bachmeier thew the go-ahead touchdown pass with 1:47 left and then then the BYU defense held on for dear life as ND QB CJ Carr rallied the team down the field, getting to the 8-yard line when his final toss as time expired was incomplete.
Notre Dame had come back from a 21-10 halftime deficit. Yes, as happens too often in big college and NFL games, there was a late pass interference non-call to BYU’s benefit.
This marked the first time since Nov. 17, 2012, that Nos. 1 and 2 went down on the same weekend. It was also the first time since 1990 that the No. 1 team had lost to an unranked opponent in back-to-back weeks.
It was almost a ‘never before’ 1 thru 3, but 3 Miami (6-0) prevailed in another terrific game, 43-35 in double overtime over hated rival Florida State (3-4), Mike Norvell’s Seminoles putting up quite a fight.
But in the end, it was too much Malachi Toney, as the Heisman contending wide receiver hauled in 11 of Darian Mensah’s passes for 154 yards and two touchdowns, plus another 31 yards on the ground.
The man I consider the Heisman favorite, receiver Jeremiah Smith of 4 Ohio State (6-1) was held in check for three quarters by 5 Indiana (6-1), but Smith and Julian Sayin hooked up on the deciding 38-yard touchdown pass that had Smith showing off his top-three NFL Draft pick skills, the Buckeyes prevailing over the Hoosiers, 19-15.
IU, however, had a shot in the end, but a Josh Hoover to receiver Nick Marsh hookup to put the Hoosiers in the lead with 1:02 was inches away from glory in front of a record crowd at Memorial Stadium.
Marsh and Hoover connected on a 19-yard touchdown pass prior to that, with the 2-point conversion, made it 19-15 after Jeremiah’s Smith’s score, but on fourth-and-4 from the Buckeyes’ 27-yard line, trying to extend their FBS-leading win streak to 23, Hoover sailed a pass to a wide-open Marsh near the left pylon in the end zone. Marsh had several feet of space and hauled in the pass, sending the crowd into a frenzy, but there was one problem…Marsh was out of bounds and he immediately knew it, putting his hands on his helmet in disbelief…incomplete pass and another undefeated season out the window.
I’ve watched the replay over and over, and while Marsh is getting major grief on social media, I’m sorry, but the guy was wide open and Hoover could have thrown it a little earlier and avoided the bang-bang sideline situation. He knew how close he was leading Marsh to the sideline.
Anyway, another terrific ending.
[Julian Sayin is out a few weeks with an arm injury, according to coach Ryan Day.]
But we weren’t finished…6 Alabama (5-2) lost at 14 Tennessee (6-1) 26-10, Bama QB Keelon Russell two interceptions, while DeSean Bishop rumbled for 159 yards and two touchdowns on 32 carries for the Vols.
Before we get to 7 Texas hosting Florida, Will Leitch / The Athletic…on how we’re supposed to treat college football players….
“(Arch) Manning had some terrific games down the stretch last season, but his play remained inconsistent and has continued so into last week, when he had one of the worst games of his career, essentially costing the Longhorns the Red River Rivalry with two brutal interceptions. These interceptions were accompanied by some brilliant throws in the first half, which, as Stewart Mandel pointed out, are just part of the Good Arch/Bad Arch experience. He is a young quarterback. He is still growing and learning.
“But, you know, he’s not that young. There is an infantilization of Manning, and any college player, that feels increasingly outdated in the current age. (Of note: At his news conference Monday, Texas coach Steve Sarkisian said, ‘If you took the name off the back of his jersey and you said here’s Joe Smith playing quarterback at the University of Texas, we’d be praising the guy.’ Are we sure this is not the exact opposite of the truth?)
“Arch Manning is 22 years old; he will turn 23 right before the NFL Draft. Twenty-two is, obviously, very young in the real world. But in sports? Well, there are, by my unscientific count, 85 players in the NBA who are younger than Arch. There are even more players in the NFL younger than Arch. Many of these player have made less money than Arch has made in his career so far. Do you constantly refer to NBA and NFL players as ‘kids?’ Why do players in college football – who are professionals in every sense of the word – get that special protection? If you cannot talk about the faults and deficiencies – and, yes, hype – of a 22-year-old man who has made seven figures in his career so far, well, then how exactly is one supposed to talk about sports at all? If he struggles in the NFL, he’s gonna hear it, on and off the field. Why is that different now?
“This is the world that has been created. One of the biggest changes in college football, as I wrote a few weeks ago, is how universities, leagues and networks now treat their fans entirely as ATMs – coldly, dispassionately, even cynically. But if fans turn around and think of the schools using this calculus – and, yes, that does extend to the compensated players now – it’s somehow off limits, or crude, or churlish.
“We are applying an old college football ethos to a college football where that ethos no longer really applies. The expectation is that fans are not supposed to treat the players like professionals…but still provide the compensation that assures they’re as professional as possible….
“If you keep asking fans to give you more money because, hey, this is a huge cutthroat business now and that’s just how it works, well, you don’t get to be surprised when fans start treating it like that very thing.
“Boo. Don’t boo. You do you. But if you’re going to be treated like a dissatisfied customer, you can hardly be blamed for acting like one. We’re all grownups here.”
Sure enough, we then had Good Arch and Bad Arch, and in the end Arch lost a critical fumble and the Gators (5-2) upset the Longhorns (4-2) in Austin, 27-24.
Texas was held to just 272 yards of offense, Arch also sacked five times, and Florida picked up its first road win at a top-10 ranked opponent since 2012.
So five of the top seven teams lost on the same day for the first time in the 90-year history of the AP Poll.
9 Ole Miss (5-1) served notice it isn’t going away, 31-3 over 13 Missouri (5-2), Trinidad Chambliss with three touchdowns passing, one rushing, while Kewan Lacy (12 carries, 122 yards) and Makhi Frazier (15-101-0) led the terrific ground attack. [And goodness gracious, there was some talent in the stands…cough cough…]
10 Texas Tech (6-0) is moving up a few notches, 53-25 over Arizona State (3-3), the Red Raiders piling up a 43-10 halftime lead.
Tech outgained ASU 404-173.
11 Utah (6-0) got more than it could handle at Colorado (2-4) 27-24.
If 12 UCLA (6-0) is to continue its potential Dream Season, it will have to do it without starting quarterback Nico Iamaleava, who injured his leg last week and is out for the season.
So it’s up to backup Ty Dieffenbach, and he was good enough, the Bruins’ defense dominant in a 17-7 win over Wisconsin (4-2).
In other big games….
15 Kentucky (6-1) defeated Oklahoma (3-3) 21-13, as OU quarterback John Mateer, perhaps the biggest disappointment in college football the last two seasons, threw three interceptions.
Coming off an outstanding sophomore season at Washington State in 2024, Mateer and the offensive coordinator went to Oklahoma and Mateer was seen as a savior in Norman. He hasn’t been.
Meanwhile, the head coach of that WSU team, Jake Dickert, was tabbed for the Wake Forest job.
At the time us fans were thinking, too bad Dickert couldn’t have brought Mateer with him.
Well, sans Mateer, Dickert pieced it together at QB for the Deacs last year and they had a terrific 9-4 first season.
And this season, who knows, after 21 Wake Forest improved to 6-1, blowing out another opponent, this time the Cal Bears (3-4) on the road, 41-7. I stayed up into the third quarter (1:00 AM Eastern at that time), and this one was 34-0 at the half.
The man Dickert got to be the QB this year, Gio Lopez, was plucked out of North Carolina, reunited with his former offensive coordinator at South Alabama, and Lopez, I keep saying, is a legitimate Heisman contender, even if few others seem to recognize this. All Gio did in 2 ½ quarters was pass for 267 yards and four touchdowns, while running for another 51 yards on eight carries, with countless key first downs.
And the Deacs did this without star receiver Carlos Hernandez, held out with a non-major injury with a bye week coming up. The other receivers stepped up, including freshman tight end Dominick Barry with three touchdown receptions.
Wake was a machine last night. In building the 34-0 halftime lead, five touchdowns, these were the scoring drives….
5 plays 99 yards, 1 play 34 yards, 5 plays 75 yards, 7 plays 96 yards, 11 plays 78 yards.
16 Mississippi State (4-2) was mauled at 22 LSU (5-2), 31-0, as the Tigers’ Sam Leavitt had his best game, 31/38, 289, 4-0.
Lane Kiffini’s boys can still make the playoffs, but they have Alabama, Texas and Tennessee remaining on the schedule.
18 Oklahoma State (4-2) lost at 20 Houston (6-1) 35-32, the Cougars’ Connor Weigman with 5 touchdowns passes.
24 SMU (5-1) beat Virginia (4-3) 23-13.
And 25 Northwestern (5-1) barely beat Michigan State (2-5), 24-21, winning on a 34-yard field goal at 0:02 remaining, completing a nice fourth quarter comeback.
Finally, Boston College (3-3) had a good 27-21 win at home over Pitt (5-2), playing without its injured star quarterback the remainder of the season.
Bill Belichick got another solid win, 24-20 at Duke (4-2), North Carolina now 4-2.
Rutgers (2-4) beat Maryland (2-5) in College Park, 37-30, as KJ Duff had another nine receptions, 113 yards and two scores for the Scarlet Knights, including a spectacular one-hand grab.
I’m telling you, Duff is soaring up the draft board (at least he better be). I’ll say he’s a top-15 draft selection next spring. And it’s nice he’s been at RU the whole time, being a New York lad.
One more…Army is 4-2, 56-24 over FAU (4-2) as the Black Knights rushed for a staggering 479 yards, throwing the ball the entire game just twice!
—And now the new AP Poll!
1 Miami (FL) (40) 6-0…first time No. 1 AP since ’02! Staggering.
2 BYU (20) 6-0
3 Ohio State (9) 6-1
4 Notre Dame 6-1
5 Georgia 6-1
6 Indiana 6-1
7 Ole Miss 5-1
8 Texas Tech 6-0
9 UCLA 6-0
10 Utah 6-0
11 Tennessee 6-1
12 Kentucky 6-1
13 Alabama 5-2
14 Houston 6-1
15 Iowa 5-1
16 USC 6-1
17 Wake Forest 6-1…goodness gracious! One week at a time, boys….
18 LSU 5-2
19 Texas 4-2
20 Florida 5-2
21 Boise State 5-1
22 Missouri 5-2
23 SMU 5-1
24 Northwestern 5-1
25 Auburn 5-1
Next week, 7 Ole Miss at 19 (!) Texas will be kind of fascinating. Will Arch start?
14 Houston is at 10 Utah. It will be the first time yours truly has watched either.
–It looks like it’s a done deal…the expansion of the College Football Playoffs to 24 from 12 teams next season, with ESPN airing all the games.
The field would be made up of four guaranteed Power 4 spots, one guaranteed Group of 6 team and 19 at-large spots.
Under a proposed format, seeds 1-8 would earn a first-round bye and host a second-round game on campus. The chance to host a Playoff game is part of the incentive of regular-season success beyond just making the field.
The expectation is that conference championship games will be eliminated on the first weekend of December, which will become an off week for CFP teams, and the potential spot to play the Army-Navy game. First-round games would begin the second weekend of December on campuses, perhaps as early in the week as Thursday. Second-round games would be the following weekend.
Quarterfinals would continue to be played around New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day at bowl sites, and the semifinals and final would also remain in their scheduled spots at bowl and neutral sites.
Ordinarily, I’m against change of this kind, but I like it because you’re eliminating the largely meaningless conference championship games. That’s good. This can work.
NFL
–I know I’ve written countless times the last few years, but ever since I was kid, the networks, save for literally just one or two weekends a year, had the Jets and Giants games in different time slots…which only made sense, and as one who likes to watch both teams, even though I’m not a Giants fan, it was perfect.
But then the league decided to air both almost always in the 1:00 slot if they were in the eastern or central time zones…and it sucks. I like to stay focused on one game throughout.
Anyway, this year my Jets are thus far halfway ‘interesting,’ and the Giants are a surprise in what is proving to be a weak NFC East.
Today, the Jets were in New England, facing their nemesis, and despite some hard running from Braelon Allen, the Jets were down 17-3 at the half, quarterback Geno Smith under constant pressure from the Patriots, while New York put zero pressure on New England’s Drake Maye.
But opening the second half, Geno connected with Omar Cooper, Jr.* on a 48-yard scoring strike, 17-10, and us fans had new life, going to the fridge for a fresh Coors Light, or the adult beverage of your choice, or perhaps a cup of tea….
*Cooper, the first-round rookie out of Indiana, had a 30-yard reception in the opener for his first NFL reception and was immediately injured…out until today.
And then Jets first-round rookie David Bailey, off to a terrific, potential Defensive ROY start, created a fumble, which the Jets converted into a field goal, 17-13.
But with New England up 23-13, and the Jets with the ball early in the fourth, Geno threw a desperation pass, under pressure, that was picked off, his first interception on the season, after leading the NFL in this category last year. A killer.
However, the Jets get it back on a turnover created by terrific linebacker Jamien Sherwood, which New York converts into a field goal, 23-16 with 7:20 to play.
In the end, though, as usual, Jets lose 26-19.
As Tony Soprano would have said from his headquarters in the Bada Bing, the strippers moving to the pulsating music in Trump-like fashion, ‘Whaddya gonna do….’
The Giants hosted the Saints, New Orleans a 1.5-point favorite despite a 1-4 record, which seemed a bit quizzical against the 3-1-1 Giants.
But the oddsmakers know something we don’t, and after New York pleased their fans with a 10-0 start, the Giants imploded, and New Orleans rolled, 34 unanswered, 34-10, 11:31 left in the fourth.
But wait, there’s more! …New York comes back and it’s 34-27 late, J.J. McCarthy, replacing Jameis Winston after two interceptions, playing the best ball of his career, having been acquired from the Vikings after the Jaxson Dart injury.
However, it ends up 34-27…yes, lots of questions over time management, etc. But J.J. is no doubt the new starter for the Giants.
–Trader George’s Browns are 4-2, 13-10 over the Ravens (4-2), who are still without Lamar Jackson, Derrick Henry not dominating as in the past.
–The Panthers (3-2) beat the Eagles (2-4) 25-14, as Philadelphia’s Tanner McKee, in place of Jalen Hurts, on IL with a blood clot in his leg, did little.
—Caleb Williams returned for the Bears, Caleb a sweet 30/36, 305, 1-0, 111.2 PR, and Chicago beat Atlanta (2-4) 31-23, the Bears moving to 4-2.
–And the Steelers, kind of out of nowhere, are 4-2, 26-19 in OT over the Bucs (1-5) down in Tampa…Aaron Rodgers doing enough to get it done, despite not having a pass completion of even 20 yards.
–Earlier Sunday at Wembley Stadium in London, the Texans (2-4) won their second straight, reviving their postseason hopes, 34-31 over the Jags (4-2), Ka’imi Fairbairn with a 49-yard field goal as time expired.
–Thursday, talk about unwatchable…the Seattle (3-3) lost to the Broncos (4-2) in Denver, despite the fact the Broncos had all of 168 yards on offense. For the Seahawks, Sam Darnold threw another two picks and has 7 INTs his last 4 games…not a formula for winning football.
–It’s now out in the open…Troy Aikman is not happy he wasn’t granted a contract extension at ESPN like broadcast partner Joe Buck was, and we learned the two got into a pre-game argument last Monday night in Los Angeles.
Aikman then went on a sports talk show Thursday and said, “I don’t know if it’s hard to figure out what happened. I’ll broadcast through this season and I’ll be a free agent at the end of the year and kind of see what happens. I’m looking forward to whatever the rest of this season does hold and the Super Bowl and all that and where my next landing spot may be.”
Buck signed a new six-year, roughly $108 million contract, per The Athletic, while Aikman’s deal will expire after ESPN’s first Super Bowl broadcast in February.
The Athletic has reported ESPN was planning to wait to address Aikman’s contract situation after the Super Bowl. But it’s unclear why they wanted to wait on Aikman and not Buck, unless ESPN simply wants to move on from the three-time Super Bowl champion.
Buck and Aikman are the longest-tenured broadcast team at 25 years, and most football fans love the pairing.
Golf Balls
–After playing in Japan last weekend, the PGA Tour’s Fall Season took a break this week before teeing it up next weekend in Bermuda, the first of the final five events that determine the Top 100 to retain a Tour card, and Nos. 51-60 for berths in the first two Signature Events of next year…a huge incentive.
Premier League
Saturday, Chelsea beat Everton 2-0; Liverpool defeated Brentford 2-1; Fulham edged Hull City 1-0; and Man City got by Ipswich 3-2.
Sunday, Manchester United and Leeds tied 1-1; Brighton was all over Crystal Palace, 5-0; and Arsenal beat Nottingham on the road, 1-0.
The Table after 7 of 38….
1 Man City…21 points [7-0-0, W-D-L]
2 Arsenal…18 [6-0-1]
3 Brighton…16
4 Chelsea…13
5 Liverpool…12
6 Brentford…10
7 Leeds…10
8 Everton…10
17 Fulham…5
18 Nottingham…5
19 Sunderland…4
20 Tottenham…3
Tottenham is the only team not to win a match this season…0-3-3, playing its 7th game against Coventry City Monday.
A stunning start for a squad that spent tons of money in the offseason to improve the team. They have the best stadium in the league, witness all the NFL games played there. But the collapse over the past few seasons is beyond depressing for us Spurs fans.
We miss Harry Kane!!!
Stuff
The World Cup Alpine season opens with women’s and men’s giant slaloms in Solden, Austria, Oct. 24-25. Mikaela Shiffrin, with literally nothing to prove anymore, but still having the competitive fire, has said she will focus on Giant Slalom and Super-G events this season, with less focus on slalom races.
But her fiancé, Norwegian standout Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, has ruptured his Achilles tendon during a fall in preseason downhill training in Chile, the Norwegian Ski Association announced Thursday.
Kilde was still working himself back from a severe fall in January 2024. He underwent surgery for a severe cut and nerve damage in his right calf and two torn ligaments in his shoulder, after crashing in sight of the finish at the classic Lauberhorn downhill in Wengen, Switzerland.
Kilde won the silver medal in combined and bronze in super-G at the 2022 Beijing Games.
He was also the overall World Cup champion in 2020.
—A 71-year-old Florida man was killed by an alligator while fishing in a park in central Florida, police said Friday.
The man was fishing near Lake Apopka in the town of Winter Garden when the 12-foot alligator came up the shoreline and attacked him, and then dragged the victim into the water.
“Lake Apopka has tons of alligators in it, so that’s not uncommon to see alligators in this part of town at all,” Police Chief Michael Mason said.
The attack is the second alligator death in Florida this year, the other victim killed while swimming near Orlando.
There are an estimated 1.3 million gators across the state, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
There is lots of video out there as to the size of the gator…just immense. Very scary.
Top 3 songs for the week 10/19/74: #1 “Nothing From Nothing” (Billy Preston…solid tune…) #2 “Then Came You” (Dionne Warwicke & Spinners…great tune…#1 the following week) #3 “You Haven’t Done Nothin” (Stevie Wonder)…and…#4 “I Honestly Love You” (Olivia Newton-John) #5 “Jazzman” (Carole King) #6 “The Bitch Is Back” (Elton John) #7 “Never My Love” (Blue Swede) #8 “Can’t Get Enough” (Bad Company) #9 “Steppin’ Out (Gonna Boogie Tonight)” (Tony Orlando & Dawn) #10 “Love Me For A Reason” (The Osmonds…B+ week…)
1982 Milwaukee Brewers Quiz Answers: 1) Eight position players….
C – Ted Simmons…23 HR – 97 RBI, .269 BA
1B – Cecil Cooper…32-121, .313
2B – Jim Gantner… .295 BA
SS – Robin Yount…29-114, .331
3B – Paul Molitor…19-71, .302
LF – Ben Ogilvie…34-102
CF – Gorman Thomas…39-112
RF – Charlie Moore
The DHs were Roy Howell and Don Money.
That’s a helluva lineup.
2) Five main starting pitchers….
Mike Caldwell…17-13, 3.91 ERA
Pete Vukovich…18-6, 3.34
Moose Haas…11-8, 4.47
Bob McClure…12-7, 4.22
Randy Lerch…8-7, 4.97
Jim Slaton was the sixth starter, 10-6, 3.29
But…late season, the Brewers picked up veterans Doc Medich and Don Sutton, the former purchased from Texas, the latter in a trade with Houston. Medich went 5-4, 5.00 in 10 starts, Sutton was 4-1, 3.29 and then started three games in the playoffs.
Rollie Fingers was the closer.
And Harvey Kuenn was the manager, having taken over for Buck Rodgers early in the year.
Brief Add-on up top Tues. AM.
