We have entered the best month of the year ladies and gentlemen. Not only do we get a full month of hockey, NFL and NCAA football, NBA basketball (why is the NBA calling it a “mid-season tournament if it starts 4 games into the year), and college basketball, but this is also the month of stuffing our faces with the best food in the world and hanging out with our families and friends.
It is also cold enough to pig out for a week on leftovers and hide it under a few sweaters.
Anyway, let’s get into what happened on the last day of October.
I can’t quite tell you why your car is in the front yard, or why you slept with your clothes on, but don’t worry, I’m not gone.
Every single day, the guys from Section 400 will be providing a rundown of everything that happened in the world of sports the night before.
Spooky, scary, skeletons
The NFL Trade Deadline is normally nothing more than a fart in the wind on the NFL calendar. The final day too make a trade in the NFL is not nearly as dramatic as the NBA, or even the MLB deadline normally is.
That fart in the wind turned radioactive yesterday, as the deadline saw big name after big name moved all day long.
First, surprisingly competent quarterback Josh Dobbs got moved to the Vikings. Although he won’t start this week, he seemingly lines up as Minnesota’s starter the rest of the way as they’ll try to sneak into a playoff spot.
The biggest news of the day came out of Washington, as the Commanders not only moved Montez Sweat to the Bears (I’m not even going to get into Chicago’s brain dead front office), but they also traded former No. 2 overall pick Chase Young to the San Francisco 49ers.
While Young hasn’t lived up to the hype of the top pick he once was, the move improves a 49ers defense that’s been the torched harder than Arizona Diamondbacks pitching the last few weeks. Speaking of which…
Just a jump scare.
The Arizona Diamondbacks may have slithered through their last upset. The cinderella story of the MLB postseason lost again at home last night, going down 11-7 in a game that was never close.
Texas scored once off of opener Joe Mantiply before rocking former-Met Miguel Castro for 3 runs in the second. They’d go on to score 7 more runs off of D-Backs pitching, taking a commanding 3-1 series lead with home field advantage for the final 3 games.
I had a take when Arizona took down the Phillies that I could finally enjoy a World Series now that a Mets rival was not in it, but to be honest with you this Fall Classic has been as entertaining as watching contruction works do road work on Wisconsin Avenue on my way home from work every day.
Nathan Eovaldi has the chance to close out his third series, and most important, series of the postseason tonight in Game 5 at 8:07 eastern.
Tricks and treats.
If the Diamondbacks getting blown out at home in a World Series game wasn’t enough, the Phoenix Suns decided to choke away a late double digit lead at home to the young San Antonio Spurs on Tuesday.
Kevin Durant and the Suns were outscored 33-14 in the 4th quarter, but still held a late 3-point lead before chaos ensured.
After Victor Wembanyama had a put back dunk to get the Spurs within 1 with 6 seconds to play, Keldon Jonhson and Tre Jones opted not to foul Kevin Durant, instead going for the steal.
THE PLAY THAT SEALED THE W! pic.twitter.com/pjBQXofTl3
— San Antonio Spurs (@spurs) November 1, 2023
Johnson got the steal, causing Kevin Durant’s mom to nearly have an aneurysm court-side for the lack of a foul call, and finished the bucket to seal an unbelievable win for San Antonio.
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