Sports this 'n' that

Congratulations to the Boston Red Sox on winning their 4th World Series in 15 years, as they closed out the Los Angeles Dodgers in 5 games last night. While the end-of-the-year awards have already been decided before the playoffs, many will feel that Boston manager Alex Cora, who was a bench coach with Houston last year, and won his second straight ring, will have locked up American League Manager of The Year.

Now, however, Boston is in the same position Houston was in a year ago, thinking about how to repeat next season. Job 1 is keeping all the key personnel intact, and that won't be easy.
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Funeral services might as well be held for the NY Giants after letting another game slip away yesterday in a loss to Washington. Big Blue is 1-7 headed into the bye week, and if I'm owner John Mara, I think about trying to convince Eli Manning that it's best for business to let rookie Kyle Lauletta get some playing time, while at the same time getting the offensive line to finally gel.

One online wag is trying to suggest trading wide receiver and shampoo salesman Odell Beckham, Jr., but I don't think too many teams want to take on that contract he signed in the offseason.
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Meanwhile, New England TE Rob Gronkowski has landed an endorsement deal with Procter & Gamble to pitch their Tide detergent pods. Comes off like the party boy he is in the commercial. He's also got his face plastered on boxes of Honey Nut Cheerios.

Then again, that's more than we can say for his diva teammate, Tom Brady......
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The Section 2 football championships will be decided November 2-3. The lineup:

Class AA: Shaker vs. Saratoga @ Bob Ford Field (UAlbany), Friday.
Class A: Queensbury vs. Burnt Hills (Shen), Saturday.
Class B: Glens Falls vs. Cobleskill.
Class C. Chatham vs. Cambridge-Salem.
Class D: Warrensburg vs. Hoosic Valley.

We are assured of new champions in all but Classes A & B, as Burnt Hills & Glens Falls are seeking to repeat. Cambridge, before merging with Salem, won the last two Class D titles, then moved up in class. Saratoga & Shaker were bridesmaids vs. Troy the last two years in Class AA. Chatham ended Holy Trinity's run on Sunday.
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WWE's Evolution event is in the books. England's Toni Storm won the 2nd annual Mae Young Classic, defeating Japan's Io Shirai. It wasn't a good night for Japan, as Kairi Sane lost the NXT Women's title back to former MMA competitor Shayna Baszler after two months. Meanwhile, Baszler's friend, Raw women's champ Ronda Rousey, needed to overcome both Bella Twins to retain as Brie couldn't help herself, and interfered on behalf of sister Nikki, for whatever it was worth. Smackdown women's champion Becky Lynch survived a Last Woman Standing match with Charlotte Flair to retain.

If they're smart, they'll release this on DVD.
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Back to the World Series. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts was being second guessed from long distance by President Trump over the weekend. As if Roberts didn't have enough to worry about with his team getting run over by the Red Sox. Trump, who can't go a day without posting something stupid on Twitter, had to get his two cents in. To be honest, I don't think Trump really knows what he's talking about when it comes to sports, but that's just me.