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Rob Manfred is watching a Rays-Brewers World Series and calling it good for baseball, but the commissioner isn't letting the moment speak for itself. He's back on the salary cap conversation, saying small-market clubs simply cannot sustain this level of competition without structural change. The argument has teeth.
And speaking of the Fall Classic, Brewers ace Jacob Misiorowski did not ease into Game One. He broke the record for the fastest pitch in World Series history on the very first pitch of the game. That's not nerves, that's a statement. Milwaukee came to play, and their starter made sure everyone in the building knew it from pitch one.
Over in the NBA, Mitchell Robinson is settling into Boston after a quiet exit from New York that he's handling with real clarity. The Knicks never made him an offer, and Robinson's response was essentially, understood, no hard feelings, moving on. He also acknowledged he's learned to treat his career as a business, noting he could be traded at any moment and has made peace with exactly that reality.
That's your play-by-play. Sports Desk, back to the booth.
