10.31.19

Thursday, October 31st, 2019. Happy Halloween!

• The Astros' championship hopes came up short last night in the World Series.
• A few things went wrong. The offense couldn't convert with RISP.
• Which the offense struggled with for most of the playoffs.
• AJ Hinch made some really bad pitching decisions.
• One thing I don't get about major league baseball...
• You pay these starting pitchers crazy contracts...
• Yet most managers are so antsy to pull the trigger to get to their bullpen.
• I'm all for analytics, but sometimes you have to trust your eyes.
• Greinke faltered a little bit in the 7th, but Hinch didn't let him work through it.
• He had been absolutely dealing the whole game up to that point.
• But this AJ Hinch is like a robot. "beep beep boop must put reliever in now".
• Let Greinke work through it. He was only at 80 pitches.
• Or if you absolutely must go to the bullpen... put Gerrit "cy young" Cole into the game.
• Not Will Harris. Credit to Will - he was nails this entire postseason before last night.
• Hinch admitted before the game Will was gassed.
• Yet he went to him in the 7th inning in a tight ballgame in GAME 7 of the WORLD SERIES.
• I know Cole has never pitched on short rest or in relief in his pro career.
• Imo you take the chance.
• Maybe you would've still lost. But you would've gone down with your best pitcher.
• Now Cole is going to be gone. And now you have to spend all off season with "what if's".
• Aye, yai yaiiiiii Astros!
• Credit to the Nationals. They stepped up when it counted.
• Anyways that felt therapeutic.
• The weather is really chilly today in Houston. I love it.
• Hope you're having a great Halloween.
• Playlist Friday is tomorrow.

Until then... thanks for reading.