As many of the SU faithful know, SU is not a fan of Giancarlo Stanton.  He started slowly this season and even when he started to hit home runs many were with no-one on base or when the game was out of reach.  However, once Judge went down with an injury in July, we needed to see if Stanton would step up.

Clearly, he has done so.  He has hit a lot of home runs of late and with both Judge and Sanchez on the shelf, this is the guy who needs to supply the power.  While many of his home runs are solo shots, that’s not his fault as Boone has him hitting 2nd in the line up even though the bottom of the order these days features sub – .220 hitters.

Is he the “generational player?”  SU is not ready to go that far but he has earned the praise for his last 3-4 weeks of power and average.

Don’t look now but Oakland has caught Houston in the AL West.  This is not good for the Yankees.  They would much prefer to face Oakland vs. Houston in the wild card game with their stable of stud starters.  I know the goal is just get into the playoffs but with Boston awaiting in that first round Divisional Series, well, it would be better to at least have an easier Wild Card match-up.

Interesting comments from Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray about switching the major tournaments from best of 5 sets to best of 3.  Their point is that young fans don’t have the attention span to sit through 4-5 hour matches similar to what other sports are experiencing with the younger fan demographic.  Roger Federer disagrees and would prefer maintaining the best of 5 format.  SU would agree with Djoker and Murray.   Part of the problem is that the servers take so long to serve it just prolongs the matches even more.   Sports need to change with the times.  SU likes the serve clock that the US Open will be using and baseball would also benefit from that.  Speed it up!

Finally, the Ohio State investigation should be wrapping up soon.  SU says Urban Meyer will be suspended for 2 games.  No way they do the right thing and send him packing.  Thoughts?