Anyway, congrats on being ridiculously, ridiculously good looking, Jake. Also, yeah, on that World Series win.

Dexter Fowler made the right choice (can we still resent him?).
We have no animosity toward Jake Arrieta. He got traded and he excelled with his new team. Good for him. It’s what baseball is all about. Dexter Fowler, on the other hand, goes into the dread John Elway category of “Guys Who Out and Out Rejected Baltimore.” Just to jog your memory, in the off-season, the Os were poised to sign Fowler—the speedy center fielder and lead-off man—to a three-year contract. Os fans were, understandably, stoked. Then, without explanation or warning, Fowler reversed course and re-signed with his old team, the Cubs. Obviously, that worked out well for him, but left us in the lurch, with a shaky lead-off-hitter-by-committee lineup. It could be argued that the Os never fully recovered from that snub. Never forget!

Steelers Ravens play meaningful football on Sunday.
It’s a down year for the AFC North and that’s a good thing for the Ravens. To wit: Even with the Ravens recent Period of Suck, they still have a chance to be tied with the Steelers for the top slot in the AFC North! Sure, tied at an inauspicious 4-4, but we’ll take it. We love playing our rival Steelers. We love it even more when first place is on the line.

Jake Layman goes off.
It’s a good week for guys with Maryland ties named Jake. Former Terps forward Jake Layman, who I once called the “Terps Player Most Likely to Date Taylor Swift” absolutely went off in his NBA debut, scoring 17 points in eight minutes for the Portland Trail Blazers, while drilling 5 three pointers. In the process, he scored the second most points by a Trailblazer (after All-Star Damian Lillard) in his rookie debut and tied an NBA record (!) for most three-pointers in a rookie debut. Mind you, all in 8 minutes. Okay, so the points came in garbage time and the Blazers lost the game, but something tells us Jake is about to be seeing a lot more playing time.

No, your eyes are not deceiving you.
In an exhibition game, the Lady Terps beat Bluefield State 146-17, with the Terps holding the “Big Blue” scoreless in the second half (72-0). If you’re shaky on your math, that’s a 129 point blow-out. So weigh in, folks: Should the Terps have laid back, stopped competing, and let the score be more respectable (especially since it was just an exhibition game)? Or is it actually more disrespectful to stop competing hard? Hmmm.

With spring training under way, we’re so looking forward to the start of pre-season, not mention, ditching work for the first game at Camden Yards. As Adam Jones said yesterday after the news that broke that Fowler was returning to Chicago: “We’re moving on. We’ve moved on, he’s moved on.”

Poly wins first City D-1 championship.
Making their first appearance in the Baltimore City Division I championship game, No. 2 Poly made program history by beating No. 9 Dunbar 64-43 on Wednesday night at Coppin State. “It’s a culmination of a lot of hard work and preparation,” head coach Sam Brand told The Sun. “We knew it would be tough and it was at first. But I think our guys knew it was our night. We knew that this year and this time was ours and I’m proud of the way we responded to the moment.”