Day 217 (including the Successful End of the Botball Season)

• Melvin Gordon, busted for DUI as leading rusher of the Broncos.  One MAY have to start wondering if the NFL Boycott may actually release many of the cops to actually do their jobs on a lot of these players -- with "interesting" results...    
• A member of the US Men's National Soccer Team and a member of the Atlanta Falcons have both tested positive for the coronavirus -- so the last opponents of the Falcons are now in enhanced protocols.
• And now Florida-LSU has been moved to December 12 because of the University of Florida outbreak.
• And the Pro Bowl will be "reimagined" this year.  No game will be played, but the teams will still be selected and a virtual exercise will replace it, honoring those players.

Week 5 ratings numbers for the NFL:

• 15 million saw Buccaneers-Bears Thursday night on CBS -- THREE TIMES the amount of the NFL Network game the week before.
• CBS Regional:  14 million viewers, 8.0 rating
• CBS National (Cowboys-Giants):  23 million viewers and a 12 rating.
• FOX Single:  12.5 million viewers.
• SNF:  15.08 million viewers, 5.4 rating.
• Comparatives not provided in this Pro Football Network article.

More stuff, including another big SEC probable cancellation:

• Nick Saban and the athletic director of Alabama:  Positive for the coronavirus.  DO YOU COCKSUCKERS WANT TO BELIEVE US...  NOW???????????????    
• And after an immense amount of work and over 2300 hours of Twitch content, the Botball channel and all of the announcers, GM's, etc. have successfully completed an entire 162 game season and playoffs -- the Minnesota Twins, the best team in Botball with 112 regular seasons, finished the job and won the Botball World Series four games to one over the Dodgers with a 3-1 win.

And the MLBotball Award winners, done previously in a 30-second clip video, starting with the National League...

1. NL Cy Young:  Clayton Kershaw, LA Dodgers
2. NL MVP:  Jorge Soler, LA Dodgers
3. NL Batting Title:  David Peralta, Arizona Diamondbacks, .328
4. Trevor Hoffman Award (Best NL Reliever):  Dan Winkler, Chicago Cubs
5. Hank Aaron Award:  Jorge Soler, LA Dodgers/Kansas City Royals, 68 home runs
6. NL Rookie of the Year:  Gavin Lux, LA Dodgers

 National League Gold Gloves:

1. Pitcher:  Mike Soroka, Cobb County
2. Catcher:  Kurt Suzuki, Washington Nationals
3. First Base:  Freddie Freeman, Cobb County
4. Second Base:  Ozzie Albes, Cobb County
5. Third Base:  Scott Kingery, Philadelphia (he of what Botball announcers called the "Kingery Dingery")
6. Shortstop:  Didi Gregorius, Philadelphia
7. Left Field:  Kyle Schwarber, Chicago Cubs
   
8. Center Field:  Harrison Bader, St. Louis
   
9. Right Field:  Brian Anderson, Miami Marlins

They also did Silver Slugger (best batting, combined metrics in the game) by position:

1. Pitcher:  Soroka
   
2. Catcher:  Will Smith, LA Dodgers
3. First Base:  Freeman
4. Second Base:  Ketel Marte:  Arizona Diamondbacks
5. Third Base:  Eugenio Suarez, Cincinnati Reds
6. Shortstop:  Javier Baez, Chicago Cubs
7. Left Field:  Christian Yelich of the Milwaukee Brewers
8. Center Field:  Ronald Acuna Jr., Cobb County
   
9. Right Field:  Soler

American League:

1. AL MVP:  Yordan Alvarez, Houston Astros
2. AL Cy Young:  Kenta Maeda and his 1.80 ERA.
3. AL Batting Title:  Alvarez, .340.
4. Mariano Rivera Award (Best AL Reliever):  Brad Hand, Cleveland Indians
5. AL Rookie of the Year:  Yoshitomo Tsutsugo, Tampa Bay Rays
6. Hank Aaron Award:  Alvarez, 62 home runs 

AL Gold Gloves:

1. Pitcher:  Zack Greinke, Houston Astros
2. Catcher:  Yasmani Grandal, Chicago White Sox
3. First Base:  Mitch Moreland, Boston Red Sox
4. Second Base:  DJ Lemahieu, New York Yankees
5. Third Base:  Rio Ruiz, Baltimore Orioles
6. Shortstop:  Jose Iglesias, Baltimore Orioles
7. Left Field:  Anthony Santander, Baltimore Orioles
   
8. Center Field:  Brett Gardner, New York Yankees
   
9. Right Field: Aaron Judge, New York Yankees

Silver Sluggers:

1. DH:  Alvarez.
2. Catcher:  Mitch Garver, Minnesota Twins
   
3. First Base:  Carlos Santana:  Cleveland Indians 
4. Second Base:  Lemahieu
5. Third Base:  Alex Bregman, Houston Astros
6. Shortstop:  Gleyber Torres, New York Yankees
   
7. Left Field:  Eddie Rosario, Minnesota Twins
   
8. Center Field:  Mike Trout, Los Angeles Angels
9. Right Field:  Max Kepler, Minnesota Twins
   

• Olbermann goes off again, as well he should....