The New York Yankees have won the American League Pennant 40 times. This season was not one of them. In fact, none of the last 14 seasons has been one of them.
Some observations about Game 7 of the American League Championship Series, in which the Texas Rangers pounded their cross-State rivals, the Houston Astros, 11-4 at Minute Maid Park in Houston:
Glad to see the Chicken Fried Cheats get their keisters handed to them at home.
Anybody who calls the new Yankee Stadium "a little league ballpark" had better watch a game at Minute Maid Park, where, as John Sterling once put it, "the balls are juiced." (Charley Steiner responded, "That's pulp fiction.")
I didn't recognize Aroldis Chapman with a beard. But he's about to pitch in the World Series for a 2nd different team -- neither of which has been the Yankees.
The Yankees had Nathan Eovaldi and Jordan Montgomery, and Cashman let both of them go, and they're both helping the Rangers win the Pennant. Then again, the Mets had Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander, and let both of them go, and each was on one of the teams in this series.
Finally, the point was made by the Fox Sports announcers that 2024 will be the last year of Jose Altuve's contract with the Astros. Can you imagine Hal Steinbrenner opening the vault, telling Cashman, "Here's the money, give him whatever he wants?" How would Yankee Fans react to seeing that cheater in Pinstripes? And would all the people now excusing his cheating rip him for it -- even though he hadn't done any for the Yankees (yet)?
At any rate, the Rangers have Pennant 3, while the Arizona Diamondbacks have Pennant 2. As for the Yankees, Pennant 41 still has to wait.
Signing Altuve would definitely be awkward, even more than the Wade Boggs signing. Only positive I would say is that it's better than signing Correa which we thankfully avoided and the Mets dodged that bullet as well.
ReplyDeleteThere will be tons of mixed feeling, one thing is for certain. Moreso if the Yankees wins #28 with him.