The Buscher

Punting to the Patriots down two scores with six minutes to go. Pat Shurmur fucking sucks.

Well, Cole did Cole things. Dude’s gonna get paaaaaaaaid this winter.

It’s very windy on the field. I don’t really see how the Giants offense puts up a single point.

Lio was on bad terms with WWE around the time this roster was going to be finalized. A lot of people thought he’d be released. The Ascension and The Colons are technically still employed but have disappeared, as did Sanity for a while though it’s odd that Eric Young was spared.

Jaxson Ryker is in the game but not Steve Cutler or Wesley Blake

Nice of them to finally do this after they'd already revealed a pretty substantial chunk of the roster including a bunch of first timers. In any event the questions mostly seem to be with NXT UK. All of the UK talent they've announced can be explained. Dunne and Bate were always going to be back in, Seven was a snub last year and appearing regularly on NXT last year, Toni won the Mae Young Classic, Rhea was the inaugural UK Women's champion, and Mark Andrews was making appearances on 205 Live. Wouldn't surprise me if that's it, though if there are more I could maybe see Drake and Gibson sneaking in as the inaugural UK Tag champs. If not I could see them in a UK DLC with WALTER and some others.

The second biggest loser today is Bryce Harper.

Playoff Kershaw strikes again. Dude should have his October failures engraved in his HOF plaque summary at this point.

Brian McCann retired immediately after the game

Imagine pitching Mike Foltynewicz twice in a five game series instead of Mike Soroka.

Matt Riddle and Mia Yim are in. Color me shocked that they didn’t make Riddle DLC.

Irrational mark out for a player from my alma mater.

So there's a chance that the Giants will be without Barkley, Wayne Gallman, Sterling Shepard, AND Evan Engram tomorrow in New England. Good lord. I knew it'd be ugly but now it has all the makings of a four-score blowout. I'm almost at the point where they should just consider this a glorified preseason game/bye week and put Eli in to get sacrificed.

It's not really surprising. It's six years into 2k taking over and barely anything has changed. They've been using the Yukes engine this entire time and they fell into the same mindset EA do with their yearly sports releases - there's no real incentive to change much if people keep buying the game every year. Although this game is technically the first one fully under Visual Concepts, the split with Yukes wasn't announced until August and they're still supporting with the engine for this game. I'd love to think that Visual Concepts are now working on a new engine for 2k21 out of necessity and it will actually look and feel like a brand new game next year. But even with Yukes gone I can see them just trying to recycle the same game as long as possible.

In one game anything can happen, especially when a team is playing with house money like the Rays are. Everybody had a Yankees/Astros ALCS penciled in for months. Houston really didn't need to panic and pitch Verlander on short rest. They could've had him and Cole both completely fresh and ready to go for a possible Game 5 if they totally needed it. Now they have to hope Cole doesn't have a rare off night like Verlander did or they're looking at a choke job for the ages.

Wow, the Astros might actually blow this series.

I mean I just figured every team was gonna draft a QB first anyway so may as well let them pick their own. Then again maybe the teams all ranked their top 8 QBs or whatever and the league will find a way to divvy it up.

Wait...so the league is assigning everyone’s starting quarterback?

Most MLB owners have money coming out the ass. They need to stop being cheap and re-invest into the team.

That series was the biggest formality in recent postseason history. 41 of the Twins’ 101 wins came against the Tigers, Royals, and White Sox. I know you can only play who is in front of you but they had a losing record against teams over .500. They stood no realistic chance against the Yankees. None.

Baker Mayfield: 8 completions, 13.4 QBR.