COMMENTARY
Mookie Betts, as reigning (at least for a little bit more) MVPs do, definitively answered the question of why we still watch on Monday night.
“I didn’t know I could do that,” Betts told reporters. “It’s fun to kind of do stuff you didn’t know you could do.”
Of course, you didn’t have to be watching Dave O’Brien and Jarrod Saltalamacchia on Monday to see that 305-foot bit of magic from the Tropicana Field warning track. The highlight show still exists to enough of a degree, the playoff races quiet enough on a night with only five games, that it’ll be plastered everywhere in the moments not dedicated to what was a pretty pedestrian football game in Landover, Md.