NFL Week 5/MLB Playoff Open Thread

Happy potential Yankee Elimination Day! Enjoy:

• A decade after the midges, without which it would have been logically impossible for him to have given up a run, the greatest pitcher athlete in MLB known human history has officially decided to hang it up. 
• A review of today’s worst matchups. I’m definitely rooting for the Jets to get more wins than the Giants, and if that requires me to root for the Chargers for a week, sometimes American politics requires ugly compromises.
• Remember when ESPN tried to pass off Rush Limbaugh as the voice of the common man or something? 
• Larry Wilmore speaks with Michael Bennett.
• Man who was once in charge of Peyton Manning’s chicken parm orders Adam Gase says that Jay Cutler was supposed to look like he didn’t give a shit when he reached into the Tony Sparano playbook. Fair enough!
• The Yankees let the Indians acquire Jay Bruce for essentially nothing because they weren’t willing to pick up all two months of his remaining salary. Through two games, Bruce is slugging 1.111.
• Barnwell’s podcast is always good, but especially enjoyed this week’s with Lindsay Jones. 
• More on the attempted extortion of the city of Calgary by the Flames I discussed earlier this week. I assume the next demand will be a case of beluga caviar, Louis XIII cognac and ivory backscratchers for every owner. In related news, when you look up “lickspittle” in the dictionary there’s a picture of Eric Francis. HE WILL NO LONGER PLAY ALONG WITH THE FACADE OF CALGARY’S TAXPAYERS!