By Grand Rapids Anonymous
Thursday, October 31, 2019 at 2:25:00 A.M. EDT
Some thoughts:
1) The fun fact was that NO team, in the history of the World Series, had ever won 4 road games before;
2) There are too many Latino players. I don't care what their level of play is (superstar or benchwarmer)—this is American baseball, not Dominican Republic, Cuban or Mexican baseball. I get no kick out of seeing imports play for teams I root for;
Look at tonight’s box score:
T. Turner SS
A. Eaton RF
A. Rendon 3B
J. Soto LF *
H. Kendricks DH
A. Cabrera 2B*
R. Zimmerman 1B
Y. Gomes C*
V. Robles CF*
G. Springer CF
M. Brantley LF
A. Bregman 3B
Y. Gurriel 1B *
Y. Alvarez DH*
C. Correa SS *
R. Chirinos C*
J. Reddick RF
J.Marisnick PH
*Indicates Latino, Cuban, D.R, Mexican, etc. Other clubs have even more—including the White Sox (my favorite team growing up).
3) Adam Eaton, who was rumored to have been dumped by the White Sox, because he didn't “appreciate” the large roster of Latin player’s attitude and lack of hustle on the team—got traded in December 2016—and was a big contributor to Washington’s championship. Eaton was a Pete Rose-type hustler in Chicago and wanted the Latinos to play hard (like Eaton did 100 % of the time) i.e., there were “disagreements.” The White Sox sided with the Latin players and sent Eaton to Washington. Meanwhile, Abreu, Garcia (Leury, Avasail, and Willy), Moncada, Sanchez, Narvaez, Soto—the players who feuded with Eaton in 2016, most likely were eating tacos and watching the Series on TV the past week—not winning it; and
4) If it wasn’t Scherzer starting tonight, former Tiger and Marlin Anibal Sanchez (Venezuelan) would have had to step in for game 7—a much inferior pitcher. However, the way Washington got on a roll the last half of the season and into the playoffs, it may not have mattered in the least. They were going to win—Scherzer or not.
---GRA
N.S.: Sometimes, a club gets to feeling like it’s a team of destiny. Playing at home, the Nats momentarily lost that feeling, but somehow recaptured it on the road. As the late Joe Garagiola said, Baseball is a funny game.
I read somewhere that it was strange that in a game supposedly America's National Pastime, many of the players are not American.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if,whoever wrote that comment,was a writer--and if he still has a job after passing along that kind of observation(must not be anti-globalist,pro-American now,should we?)
ReplyDelete--GRA