WS IGT The MFDs vs The Astros

[stevejrogers]

Holy Moley vs Grandy Man, and Turner, but more importantly miserable fucks like Utley!

[MFS62]

I always root for the National League team to win the World Series.
I will this year, too, even though they play in the American League.
Go Astros!
Later

[Ceetar]

Other than Utley, I have no dislike for any of these players/teams, but rooting for Beltran/Astros.

[Frayed Knot]

This matchup, no matter who wins, guarantees that MLB will have their 12th* different champion in the last 20 years and also makes it 21 different finalists in that same time as the Dodgers jump onto
that list (Houston, 2005, already was on). The 1997 WS winner and loser who'll fall off that list -- Miami & Cleveland -- as that year no longer qualifies as the most recent 20, have both won and made
the World Series respectively since then so their status doesn't change.
Just three organizations have failed to at least reach an LCS in that time period [Washington, Milwaukee, Cincinnati]

The NFL, meanwhile, has had 11 different champs over that same time and 19 different SB participants, plus have had nine franchises who have failed to reach a conference title game.
Can't wait to be told again about how the salary cap is necessary to ensure parity.




* CHC, KCR, PHI, CHW, MIA, LAA, ARZ, SFG x3, BOS x3, NYY x4, StL x2 + LAD/HOU

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

Dodgers
Pros: Granderson, Dodger Stadium, classic uniforms, I kind of like Puig's nuttiness
Cons: Betrayed Brooklyn, fans are too blase, massive payroll, already have 6 championships & 22 pennants, 1988, Utley, Scully is retired

Astros
Pros: Beat the Yankees, Verlander, Beltran, Altuve, Never won a WS, something to cheer people up after Hurricane Harvey, won 101 games with 18th place payroll
Cons: still weird that they're in the AL, no longer wear the rainbow uniforms

I think this clearly favors the Astros for my rooting interest.

[Benjamin Grimm]

no longer wear the rainbow uniforms

I'd put that in the "pro" column.

I guess there's more reasons to root for Houston than for the Dodgers, but I don't feel a strong preference either way. I'd be okay with the Dodgers winning.

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: no longer wear the rainbow uniforms I'd put that in the "pro" column. I guess there's more reasons to root for Houston than for the Dodgers, but I don't feel a strong preference either way. I'd be okay with the Dodgers winning.

I like weird things and those uniforms were weird and set the Astros apart. Now they look like any other team.

[Edgy MD]

It's not so much weird things with me. I like things that make teams distinct from each other, philosophically, aesthetically, and sartorially. The uniforms made the Astros the Astros. That number splashed across J.R. Richard's muscular thigh was like the most poetically illicit thing since Jimi Hendrix. They were great.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I remember disliking the uniform number on the pants even more than I did the rainbow stripes, which is saying quite a lot.

I think, however, a uniform I hated even more than that was the more recent Rockies vests with the flared shoulders. They're not still wearing those, are they?

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

Edgy MD wrote: It's not so much weird things with me. I like things that make teams distinct from each other, philosophically, aesthetically, and sartorially. The uniforms made the Astros the Astros. That number splashed across J.R. Richard's muscular thigh was like the most poetically illicit thing since Jimi Hendrix. They were great.

Seems like their newer stadium, the steam train, and the uniforms have more in common with the Old West west theme of the Colt .45s than the futurism of the Astros. Not that I'd endorse returning to the Colt .45s name.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I kind of wish they had changed the team's name with the move to the American League. There was talk that they were considering it. (Someone here on this forum brilliantly suggested the "Tralfazzes".) I think it wouldn't be so strange to see the "Houston Mosquitoes" as an American League team as it is seeing the Astros in the other league.

This thing with the Astros is even stranger than the earlier move by the Brewers, because at least Milwaukee has a past history as a National League city.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I don't know what went wrong with this archive page, but it was G-Fafif who suggested the Houston Tralfazes back in 2012: Houston Bees?

[Frayed Knot]

Selig used the occasion of the sale of the team to the current owner to pretty much strong-arm Houston into switching leagues.

My main problem with their uniforms over the years is that they keep switching them every other week; not just styles but colors and logos too.
Their Blue & Orange scheme now doesn't come close to matching the brick red they had during the Biggio/Bagwell era and the early days of this current stadium, and at some point the shooting star
gave way to the open-ended star which morphed into the current H within the star ...

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[Centerfield]

I don't know. When I hear "Astro", I think green and gray.

[Guest SwitchHitter]

My Astros wore sand, brick, and black.

In Texas state, there's one Lone Star It's on the cap and sleeve Of the greatest baseball team by far Our team and we believe! The Astros fight—they don't hold back With bat and glove and ball They proudly wear sand, brick, and black And give the game their all.

[bmfc1]

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/21125854/world-series-expert-picks-dodgers-astros-win-all
22 of 35 "experts" pick the Dodgers. I'll go with HOU in 6.

[Guest 41Forever]

Astros get points for having this guy:

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[Frayed Knot]

8:09 first pitch (or so they claim) tonight - FOX Network

Keuchel vs Kershaw, so I guess we should appropriately expect a lot of Ks

Expected Game Time temp at first pitch: 97 degrees! after peaking at around 101 a few hours earlier. Sun will still be up too on account of it being 5PM local time which probably gives the fans even
more reason than usual to show up late lest they wind up baked in their seats over the first 2-3 innings.
I knew that October* is sometimes the warmest time of the year in parts of California, but I wasn't expecting this! Wasn't sure that it ever got this hot there, not in coastal California anyway.




* a quick check shows 10 days hitting 90 or above in LA for this past July & August combined. Today & tomorrow will make it the 8th & 9th days in October alone including five days at 97 or above.

[Frayed Knot]

41Forever wrote: Astros get points for having this guy:

The wrong guy is in the costume.

[metirish]

I look forward to this WS, stress free now that the MFY are not in it. Some be some great pitching , Dodgers have the excellent bullpen. Hard not to like Altuve and their 1st baseman ...Puig could light this thing up too.

[Edgy MD]

And a hunnert degrees in the shade.

[MFS62]

Edgy MD wrote: And a hunnert degrees in the shade.

Fans who rooted for the team when they represented Brooklyn have since wished they'd end up in a warm place.
That's still too cool, by a lot.

Later

[Edgy MD]

An oral history of the genesis of the rainbow unis.

[bmfc1]

"Dodgers add Corey Seager and Brandon McCarthy to World Series roster, drop Curtis Granderson and Kyle Farmer."

There goes a reason, perhaps the only reason, to root for the Dodgers.

[Edgy MD]

They are so going to lose.

[A Boy Named Seo]

I would love to see the best pitcher of this generation be awesome 2 or 3 times and win a ring, despite turd Chase Utley going 0-17 and deciding to retire immediately after the WS ends.

[seawolf17]

bmfc1 wrote: "Dodgers add Corey Seager and Brandon McCarthy to World Series roster, drop Curtis Granderson and Kyle Farmer." There goes a reason, perhaps the only reason, to root for the Dodgers.

SERIOUSLY?!?! You fucking assholes. Screw you, Dodgers.

[Frayed Knot]

Considering that Grandy hit .161 with 33 Ks in 112 ABs following the trade (albeit with some power and walks thrown in) and then had a single single across 15 ABs during the playoffs, leaving him off
the WS roster surprises me not, especially seeing as how Andre Ethier has seemingly come off his death bed (just 58 ABs since the end of the 2015 season!!) to provide similar LH OF/PH skills.
With Seager back and Puig both hitting and behaving himself (at least by Puig standards) one of Ethier/Grandy had to go so it's not surprising that they chose the one with the 12 years of Dodger
pedigree over the one with 12 weeks.

[Edgy MD]

Andre Ethier is still on the planet? And he's still a Dodger, you say?

Will James Loney be appearing?

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'm wondering if Rick Monday will get into any of the games.