MLB's juggernauts on the brink, plus the Jets' latest mess

10/09/2024 06:33 AM

The Pulse Newsletter 📣 | This is The Athletic's daily sports newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox. Good morning! Don't curse out an umpire today. Among the intelligentsia, there is a popular debate about the concept of momentum in sports. It’s natural to believe a team that makes a successful play becomes more likely to make another, but momentum is a fictional rendering about where a game is headed. It doesn’t have any bearing on what happens at the plate, under center or at the free-throw line. The eye test tells us it's very real,...