Beast of Sport aka The Boss

 As you may know, I recently uploaded a FIFA 17 video about Alex Hunter. For those of you who don’t know who Alex Hunter is, he is the main character on the FIFA 17 mode The Journey. What The Journey does is it takes the player through Alex Hunter’s life on his quest to become a professional footballer. The Alex Hunter story line is based off of Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford. Marcus Rashford debuted for Man United and England at the age of 18 and scored for both club and country in his debut!

From now on, in addition to written blogs about sports, I am also going to be uploading gameplay starting with FIFA 17 on Xbox so you can follow Alex Hunter on The Journey and watch me building my Ultimate Team. I will also be adding video-blogs such as football/sports challenges with the Deputy Beast Of Sport and some other friends including captaintiger009 and Fuzzy Bearitto.
I have had this idea since last June and finally got the equipment and figured out how to do it. I was inspired by the Youtube group, the Sidemen, including Miniminter and KSI.
Despite all of this I will continue to do real sports like Football, Basketball, Kung fu and Swimming and will continue reporting on interesting sport developments, sometimes in video format.
Here is the link to the Beast of Sport Youtube channel:

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCzufPqD6xD-nfDX_8mVONrA

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Peace,

Beast of Sport
From the DBOS

Hey Sportspeople,
I am also going to be expanding my part on the Beast of Sport blog. I will be showing you fun, yummy healthy snacks to have before you go to any training from ballet and pointe to football and American football. I will also show you some other yummy recipes.  
Watch out for me in the Beast of Sport video challenges and some sports tutorials.

Happy Holidays,

DBOS

As you know the Cleveland Indians and the Chicago Cubs are both in the World Series and are both trying to end long long World Series droughts. The Chicago Cubs who are down 2-1 in the best of 7 series have transitioned from being the best regular season team to a team that struggles to score runs. They have Kris Bryant who is an MVP candidate and former rookie of the year and Anthony Rizzo who batted in 109 runs and is a former MVP. However it has been the rookie Javier Baez who has been carrying the the Cubs offensively. Baez who hit .274 during the regular season is has 17 postseason hits which is unbelievable. Baez was the joint MVP winner in the NLCS or National League Championship Series and has 3 hits in the World Series in 3 games. The Cubs have pitched well throughout the postseason although it isn’t turning into wins because of their lack of offence. On the flip side of things you have the Indians, a team that won only 94 games during the regular season and have a very average team aside from the most dominant reliever in the game in Andrew Miller. There is no logic to point out how the Indians even made the playoffs let alone have a 2-1 lead over the best team in baseball. If you look up and down the Indians roster you don’t see anything amazing. So it is a must win for the Cubs and Baez and it would be great if the Indians win as that gives them a 3-1 lead meaning that the Cubs would have to win 3 games in a row against a team who didn’t lose 3 games in a row the whole season.

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Before the All Star break, 4 teams led their division by more than two games. Since then only one has remained in that category. The Giants are now 0.5 gameback from  the Dodgers and the Orioles are 1.5 gamesbehind the Blue Jays. Since the All Star break both the Giants and the O’s have had woes offensively with the Giants having the worst record after the All Star break in the major leagues. The Orioles have also been playing under .500 type baseball of late and both teams will be looking to turn their fortunes around. The New York Mets who were a mere 2.0 games back in their division are now 4.5 games back of the WILD CARD spot and now have a shameful record of 60 wins and 61 losses. Their team is in need of a leader badly and I just don’t know where it will come from. The Mets are hopeful that the return of Yoenis Cespedes will bolster their team back into contention.

 5 days ago the trade deadline for trades in Major League Baseball came to a close. Some teams proved that they were planning on rebuilding, and others showed that they were ready to make a playoff push. Most notably the Texas Rangers, The Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants. The Cleveland Indians and Chicago Cubs are also on that list though they made their trades days earlier. The Rangers acquired Jonathan Lucroy from the Milwaukee Brewers (Catcher), Carlos Beltran from the Yankees (Outfielder/DH) and Jeremy Jeffress (Reliever) also from the Brewers. Both the Yankees and Brewers are rebuilding teams and in return they got some quality prospects for their future. The Dodgers and Giants are the only contenders for the pennant in their division with the Padres and Diamondbacks struggling this year. The Giants only hold a two game lead over the Dodgers so both teams had to improve their rosters to make the pennant race interesting. The Giants acquired Eduardo Nunez from the Minnesota Twins for Alberto Mejia, (a minor league pitching prospect), Will Smith from the Brewers for Phil Bickford (another minor League pitching prospect) and Matt Moore from the Rays for Matt Duffy and Lucius Fox (minor league outfielder). Nunez is having an All star year batting .300 with 12 home runs and 57 runs batted in. Will Smith was probably the best left handed reliever left on the market on the last day. Finally Matt Moore was the best starting pitcher on the market and was an All star in 2013.

About a week ago the 2016 draft came to an end with all teams signing most of their picks. The San Francisco Giants lost their first round draft pick to the Chicago White Sox in the trade for Jeff Samarjzia. So when they walked away from draft night 1 withBryan Reynolds they must have felt pretty good about themselves. Reynolds hit .330 with 32 extra base hits and 57 RBI’s in only 62 games with Vanderbilt University. Many people rated Reynolds as a first round pick and when he didn’t go in the first round many people were shocked. The Giants have said publicly that they are surprised that Reynolds didn’t go in the first round and are very pleased with acquisition of Reynolds. He has power from both sides of the plate and is a premium defender. He has shown

patience at the plate and led his team in multiple offensive categories as a FRESHMAN!!! So the Giants are very pleased with this draft pick.

Aroldis Chapman has been traded to the Chicago Cubs! The Cubs, who have been front runners for Chapman for a while finally land the flame throwing lefty. They got Chapman in a deal for 4 minor league prospects. This trade was always likely as the Cubs are looking to make a playoff push this year. Chapman is essentially a rental as he is a free agent at the start of next season. There is a slight risk in trading Minor league prospects for a rental because minor leaguers can help your franchise long term whereas a rental can only help you for a few months. Chapman was a great trade piece because he can hit 106 mph on the radar gun. The Cubs now have a complete roster of young great players and they look like they can be long term competitor for the National League Pennant. 

The Los Angeles Dodgers are second in the NL West behind only the San Francisco Giants. The Dodgers called up Yasiel Puig in 2013 and he hit .319 with 19 homers on the season. In 2014 he hit .296 and that was with a massive slump in the second half of the season. Then came 2015 were he only hit .255 and struggled all year round, and this year hasn’t been any different and has been emotionally rattled throughout the season. Most people think that all Puig needs in a change of scenery. I personally think that Puig needs to be sent down to the minors to learn how to play properly again.

Pep Guardiola is already making changes at Man City and Joe Hart is in danger of being another one. After his nightmare Euro 2016 there has been a lot of conversation if Joe Hart will be City’s starting Keeper next year, And by the look of things that now looks unlikely. Guardiola is intent on making City champions again and if Joe Hart won’t let him do that than he is not afraid to drop him. He is interested in other keepers and this will continue until he finds the perfect fit. Hart who is also facing some competition for England number one can’t be feeling to good about himself right now.

The San Francisco Giants opened up the second half of their season with a 4-1 loss to the San Diego Padres. Bumgarner who got the ball for the Giants threw the ball well but gave up 4 runs in 6 innings of work. Andrew Cashner who has struggled this year pitching 7 innings of one run ball. The Giants had their chances to get back into the game despite the 3 run deficit. Brandon Belt and Bruce Bochy (both from the Giants) were both ejected from the game in the 9th. Tomorrow Jeff Samardzia will take the ball for San Francisco while Luis Perdomo gets the ball from the Padres. The Giants have a 5.5 game lead over the Dodgers and will be looking to extend that lead tonight.