IWST 2019: WSH vs HOU — Two TONs o’ Fun

[Edgy MD]

Will Harris: not my idea.



I just wanted to make that clear.

[bmfc1]

Any other manager: I have one of the best pitchers in the game available so I'll bring him in and then I have my closer to back him up.

Hinch: I'll manage this game like it's mid-June.

[Edgy MD]

Managers don't compress their staff in critical situations any more, it's true. I don't think Hinch is alone in that.



But yeah, it's maddening.

[batmagadanleadoff]

This guy, Yordan -- this is what a 44's supposed to look like.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

It's getting really Asdrubally around here

[Edgy MD]

Well, that's likely Rendon's last plate appearance as a National.



The Yankees probably already have his uniform measured.

[bmfc1]

Nice call ump on strike 3 to Correa. Nationals fans have been bitching all series but that call was brutal.

[bmfc1]

Edgy MD wrote: Well, that's likely Rendon's last plate appearance as a National. The Yankees probably already have his uniform measured.

I'm hoping that the Texas Rangers want him. He's a Texas native (as we've heard a few times) (I know that Dallas is far from Houston), the Rangers stink but they have a new ballpark so maybe they'll want him to help filling it up.

[Edgy MD]

Hey look! It's Joe Smith!



That J.J. Putz deal may yet turn out OK for the Mets. #faith

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Rip Houston

[Edgy MD]

Do you think they'll all show up at the White House for President Huntsman?

[Edgy MD]

Of course Druby makes the first out of the ninth.

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: Well, that's likely Rendon's last plate appearance as a National. The Yankees probably already have his uniform measured.

Of course last winter they already had Machado & Harper measured as well ... or so we heard.

And then they had Gio Urshela [889 to 796] and (until the very end of the season) Mike Tauchman [865 to 882] out-OPS those two high-priced guys who wound up instead on losing teams.

Edited October 30, 2019 by Guest

[Guest 41Forever]

Wow. One out away.

[Frayed Knot]

Well look at it this way: the Braves crashed and burned in the post-season.

[Guest 41Forever]

I like it when National League teams win their first-ever championship, or their first in decades and decades.

[Edgy MD]

The last championship in the city of Washington, the last four innings were thrown by Walter Johnson, who got the win out of the pen in the 12th inning.

[G-Fafif]

NL wins the decade, six World Series championships to four.

[bmfc1]

The opening Spring Training game in West Palm Beach between Washington and Houston is going to be nuts!

[ashie62]

All done. Lets hire a manager.



P.S. A big wtf To Astros fans who wear or carry Yordan Alvarez ROY messages. Player came up like your team, short

[smg58]

Bottom line: the Nats manager put the game in Corbin's hands. The Astros manager trusted the game to somebody not named Gerrit Cole. At least he'll be well rested for whichever teams signs him.

[batmagadanleadoff]

So everyone here probably already knows this by now but still -- this WS marked the first time the road team won every single game of a series that went seven games. Any seven game series. WS. Playoffs. Whatever. This never happened before in MLB. Or in the NBA. Or in the NHL.

[Edgy MD]

And congratulations to Bryce Harper, whose goal of bringing a championship to DC was realized.

[Willets Point]

=smg58 post_id=25588 time=1572527263 user_id=62]
Bottom line: the Nats manager put the game in Corbin's hands. The Astros manager trusted the game to somebody not named Gerrit Cole. At least he'll be well rested for whichever teams signs him.

[G-Fafif]

From SI, Gerrit Cole channeling Dennis Miller signing off for Weekend Update (“I am outta here!”)

Twenty-two of the men on the World Series roster are under contract for next season, but that number does not include Cole, who warmed up in the sixth inning but never entered the game. He already seems emotionally uprooted from Houston; when media relations head Gene Dias asked him to speak to the assembled press after the game, he hesitated. “I have to do it?” Cole said. “I'm not an employee of the team.” Eventually he acquiesced. “As a representative of myself …” he said. He appeared for the interview wearing not Astros gear but a cap bearing the logo of the agency that represents him, Boras Corporation.

[seawolf17]

Dude wants to get paid and doesn't care where it comes from.

[G-Fafif]

During the World Series prior to his prospective free agency kicking in, Edgardo Alfonzo made an appearance at the Mets flagship clubhouse store on 42nd St. The lines were not prohibitive, but management tried to enforce a limit on how much signing he would do of any one person's stuff. When one among us in the group of three I came with dared to return to his table for a second signature despite the rules saying it was a no-no, that person used a highly apologetic tone for daring to flout boundaries.



“I don't work for them,” Fonzie declared as he signed away. He may have been referring to the retailer, but I had the sense he was talking about his soon to be former employer.

[Frayed Knot]

Willets Point wrote: =smg58 post_id=25588 time=1572527263 user_id=62] Bottom line: the Nats manager put the game in Corbin's hands. The Astros manager trusted the game to somebody not named Gerrit Cole. At least he'll be well rested for whichever teams signs him.

I really don't understand why Cole was warming up and then not brought in when the Astros needed to stop the bleeding?

[Guest 41Forever]

From SI, Gerrit Cole channeling Dennis Miller signing off for Weekend Update (“I am outta here!”) Twenty-two of the men on the World Series roster are under contract for next season, but that number does not include Cole, who warmed up in the sixth inning but never entered the game. He already seems emotionally uprooted from Houston; when media relations head Gene Dias asked him to speak to the assembled press after the game, he hesitated. “I have to do it?” Cole said. “I'm not an employee of the team.” Eventually he acquiesced. “As a representative of myself …” he said. He appeared for the interview wearing not Astros gear but a cap bearing the logo of the agency that represents him, Boras Corporation.

Wonder if he had behaved differently had his team won.



I also wonder if a potential employer looks at such behavior and thinks, "Is this the kind of guy I want to give $100 million?"

[ashie62]

Hinch effed up



Sign Strasburg Mets!