Another baseball update
I did forget to do the previous round of baseball thoughts, but I can do a few now
-NLCS retrospective
I realized about game 3 that I was actually rooting for the Dodgers. Emotionally I never strongly favored them, I would have been perfectly happy with the Cubs winning, but I did sort of want the Dodgers to win. And practically it quickly became obvious that they should win. They were the better team, as they have been so many times this season.
-ALCS retrospective
For a while there I wasn’t sure how this series was going to end; Houston started off so well, then the Yankees got hot, I figured Verlander could push it to a game 7 but then game 7’s are so unpredictable that I didn’t have any solid idea going in how it would go. I was always rooting for Houston, but I didn’t dislike the Yankees as much as I used to, they have a lot of players that I’ve liked in the past so I couldn’t actually be against them as much as I would have a few years ago.
However, it applies to both teams but especially the Yankees, that as a Rockies fan I get pissed off that the announcers just praise these teams for being so good at home when I know that if it were the Rockies all we would here about is how Coors field inflates their stats or whatever. Rockies players always have to have road stats that are just about as good as they are at home for people to take them seriously as hitters, never mind that they play half their road games in west coast pitcher-friendly parks.
That’s...a little off topic, but I’m glad for Houston.
-World Series thoughts
I hope the series goes the distance, as I always do since afterward there’s no baseball for several months and that makes me sad. But I kind of don’t see it taking that long, and whatever length it goes I wouldn’t bet against the Dodgers. They’ll have their pitchers lined up how they want them since they’ve had some time off; the Astros haven’t made much of a case that they can win on the road and LA has home field advantage; and the Dodger have just made everything look easy while the Astros have not. One could argue that they haven’t had to really battle anything this post season (or much of the season one could say), so if they run into a little bit of trouble we don’t know how prepared they are to fight back, but if that’s the one area I can think of where they don’t have the clear advantage, I’m still betting on the Dodgers.
-NLCS retrospective
I realized about game 3 that I was actually rooting for the Dodgers. Emotionally I never strongly favored them, I would have been perfectly happy with the Cubs winning, but I did sort of want the Dodgers to win. And practically it quickly became obvious that they should win. They were the better team, as they have been so many times this season.
-ALCS retrospective
For a while there I wasn’t sure how this series was going to end; Houston started off so well, then the Yankees got hot, I figured Verlander could push it to a game 7 but then game 7’s are so unpredictable that I didn’t have any solid idea going in how it would go. I was always rooting for Houston, but I didn’t dislike the Yankees as much as I used to, they have a lot of players that I’ve liked in the past so I couldn’t actually be against them as much as I would have a few years ago.
However, it applies to both teams but especially the Yankees, that as a Rockies fan I get pissed off that the announcers just praise these teams for being so good at home when I know that if it were the Rockies all we would here about is how Coors field inflates their stats or whatever. Rockies players always have to have road stats that are just about as good as they are at home for people to take them seriously as hitters, never mind that they play half their road games in west coast pitcher-friendly parks.
That’s...a little off topic, but I’m glad for Houston.
-World Series thoughts
I hope the series goes the distance, as I always do since afterward there’s no baseball for several months and that makes me sad. But I kind of don’t see it taking that long, and whatever length it goes I wouldn’t bet against the Dodgers. They’ll have their pitchers lined up how they want them since they’ve had some time off; the Astros haven’t made much of a case that they can win on the road and LA has home field advantage; and the Dodger have just made everything look easy while the Astros have not. One could argue that they haven’t had to really battle anything this post season (or much of the season one could say), so if they run into a little bit of trouble we don’t know how prepared they are to fight back, but if that’s the one area I can think of where they don’t have the clear advantage, I’m still betting on the Dodgers.