The US sports thread

[Jim]

How fickle the finger of fate can be to one sporting city.

Houston wins the World Series of baseball (yes I agree it’s a stupid title for what is an AMERICAN league) one night and the next they lose their incredibly impressive rookie QB DeSean Watson to a torn ACL in practice. Another none contact injury.

I was totally enjoying watching him play this season, never been a more impressive rookie season and that includes Peyton Manning. What he was doing was record breaking.

[Ethiaa]

Annoying if you'd just got him on a waiver

[Ethiaa]

Awesome scraped win there on my NE bye week. It's all downhill from here!

[Jim]

So, so, SO gutted about that. I was literally going to switch out Golden Tate for Marvin Jones after the Sunday games but didn’t pull the trigger. Then again a few more rushing yards or reception yards would have done it also. So close.

[Ethiaa]

Shit happens. If I'd glanced at things I'd have known about Fournette getting himself in trouble and got someone else in for the game. Bottom line: I win

[theadore]

Bottom line.. we need to sort this out... I don't want to live in a world where Etihiaa goes 16-0

[Gibbon]

You got yourselves into this mess by choosing to like another sport with ‘football’ in the name.

[mrblackbat]

Its quite obvious I'm going to have little impact in stopping the whitewash....

[Jim]

Two weeks in a row I’ve benched a player whose then had a career day. First T. Y. Hilton and now Mark Ingram. If I lose this matchup I’ve only got myself to blame. Jesus

[theadore]

There is a possibility that Carolina massacre Miami tonight... but I think you're pretty safe.

My running backs are absolutely woeful.

[mrblackbat]

Me putting a running back in is clearly the kiss of death for their game.

[theadore]

Newton puts up mega numbers and the panthers d who I was actually hoping for do the square root of naff all

Eth scrapes by again...

[mrblackbat]

Yeah, but his bench probably beat my team on it's own. Even if I'd made the right subs if he had, he'd have won.

[Ethiaa]

I was on holiday stomping up hills around Keswick. W00t for my dudes!

[Jim]

Wow, I don’t think I’ve ever had a FF performance like that!

Never had so many points from a defense or a kicker. Remarkable!