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Box Score: 9/30 - Dolphins, Popovich and MLB umps

Welcome to the YB Box Score and what we're reading while we try to decide if who had the worst night; the umps in Cards-Reds, Cubs-Pirates ending their game in a tie, or the Miami Dolphins, well, everything.

Happy birthday to Brentson Buckner, Jamal Anderson, Martina Hingis and Dominique Moceanu! On this date in 1927, Babe Ruth hit his 60th home run of the season giving the New York Yankees their 100th win of the year.

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"Proving a decline in interest over the viewership of a single game isn’t much help but it gets to a problem with the way football is perceived. In some ways, the NFL is helped by the scarcity of its product - teams only play 16 regular season games with single-elimination postseason games. So each game takes on immense expectation. If one prime time NFL game is a blowout, the entire narrative that night is about how watching the NFL is a bore." - NFL Kickoff Week 4: Guess what? The NFL is dying again

"D'Antoni's had uneven stops in New York and Los Angeles, and this is the roster that has a chance for him to recapture some of the Seven Seconds or Less magic that catapulted him to stardom in Phoenix. Harden is the perfect player for it, and by all accounts, there's no other coach in the league who seems as determined to make sure his superstar player surpasses expectations on the floor." - NBA winners and losers: Gregg Popovich as a voice of reason

"However, it is a tale of two different conditions in regard to how competitive the race for the award could be between the leagues. In the American League, any number of players could have a shot, ranging from season-long contributors such as Nomar Mazara and Michael Fulmer to the sudden eruption that Gary Sanchez has made in the Bronx." - The clubhouse leaders for MLB Rookies of the Year

"The best segments of Top Gear were always the ones where the hosts flew out to some beautiful country with a fleet of cars and were pretty much set loose to make their own fun. Set across a backdrop of stunning vistas, wide roads and sprawling cities, these segments are so successful because they seem so natural. The three hosts honestly look like they're just having a great time. If you want to know what it's like to play Forza Horizon 3, just watch a few episodes of Top Gear, and you'll understand soon enough." - Forza Horizon 3 review: Going Top Gear

"There have been plenty of low points for the Braves at Turner Field (with some of those coming in the past couple of rebuilding seasons), but there was a time when this was a very comfortable fortress of sorts for the team – they moved into that stadium just one season removed from winning the 1995 World Series, and were in the middle of a legendary streak of divisional titles during the first few years of Turner Field's existence." - Goodbye, Ted: 20 years of highs and lows at Turner Field

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