Good morning everyone and welcome to the YB Box Score, what we're reading while we wait for the weekend and three games of World Series baseball, endless college football, a smattering of NHL and NBA games and oh yeah, the last NFL game in London this season.
Happy birthday to Lenny Wilkens and Terelle Davis. On this date in in 1997 the NBA hired Dee Kantner and Violet Palmer to be the first two women referees in the league.
Around the league:
YB ICYMI:
"While it is unreasonable to expect to receive the type of conditions that Kluber created in Game 1, they do have to be better at not handing the Cubs so many favorable opportunities as they did in Game 2. The Cubs did well and got hits when it counted, but they also had a lot of things ushered to them by a sloppy Indians team too. Cleveland is built to build a lead over time and must have efficient pitching to win. The second half of that equation failed them on Wednesday night." - Five things we have learned thus far in the World Series
"The Vikings’ use of bounties may have not been as extensive as the Saints, but even if they were only mentioned in offensive team meetings, it’s yet another example that bounties were a prevalent part of NFL culture for a long time, a sentiment that’s been echoed by quite a few NFL players over the years." - We’re doing the Bountygate thing again
"Before the annual Hell in a Cell pay-per-view was born in 2009, there was no telling when a feud would be settled inside the Cell. The structure was an event unto itself, a bell tolling, a harbinger of chaos. Now, it’s on the calendar every year, just like Thanksgiving. This is all to ask: Does the Cell, once described by commentator Jim Ross as 'vile' and 'demonic,' among other things, still matter? Will any of the three in-Cell matches at Sunday’s pay-per-view restore some prestige to this legendary institution?" - Can Hell in a Cell still bring the heat?
PSA for this evening's World Series game, even for you Mr. Cusack:
Any rebroadcast, reproduction or other use of the pictures & accounts of this game without the express written consent of MLB is prohibited. pic.twitter.com/nI2J2CWcNc
— MLB GIFS (@MLBGIFs) October 27, 2016
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