Today We Are Forced to Swallow Astros Defeat. We Can Also Relive A Taste of 2017 Glory
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When A.J. Hinch had completed his suspension following the sign stealing penalty, the Astros should have hired him back. He is a better manager than they have had since. He demonstrated that today, the way he led the Tigers in a destruction of our beloved Astros. Hats off to A.J. Hinch. To see this, it was necessary to see footage of A.J. talking to the Tiger players during the season. A.J. is a real baseball leader. A.J. might go on to a long, Hall of Fame managing career. There is no lock that will happen. I am just saying I see it in him to do something like that. For me to appreciate A.J., I had to see the managers mowed down for 86 years trying to lead the Red Sox past the Yankees. I have a few things to say about men who have managed the Boston Red Sox over the years. I am coming back to the Astros at the end, on great note. Alex Cora, who had been 2nd in command to A.J. in 2018, did a great job with the Red Sox in 2019, leading them to a World Series championship. Yet, all that was, to me, inconsequential, after the big agony in Boston, that ran for 86 years, ending in 2004. People who cared a lot about the Red Sox were born, lived their lives, fought in wars all over the world, built the American economy, and never saw the Red Sox win when they died after long, good lives. I lived in New England from 1962-2012. The Red Sox had a lot of great managers, all putting in first class efforts to try knocking off the curse of the Bambino. This year, I read a good defense of Grady Little's move that got him fired in 2003, leaving Pedro Martinez in the game against the Yankees in the 8th inning, having thrown his limit of 100 pitches in Game 7 of the ALCS. I always considered that move undefendable, but that is not true. There were strong reasons for keeping Pedro in, but no one was giving Grady any support after that disaster. That brings me to a man who I think led the miracle of Red Sox beating the Yankees the next year, after being down 3-0, losing 19-8 in game 3. That manager was Terry Francona. I know that Terry is not held as a superstar of pro baseball, but he had a magic of the 2004 Red Sox. He pushed here and there, always made sound decisions, and more than anything, he respected those players. Those players had deep relationships with every single Red Sox fan. There has never been anything like it anywhere else.Anyone who says people in New England, overlapping their home land with 25 miliion New Yorkers, and you go 86 with the Yankees winning every time against the Red Sox following the sale of Babe Ruth by the Red Sox to the Yankees, I am here to tell you, that situation ran DEEEEEP in the people who lived there, on both sides. To kill that curse, it would have not been enough for the Red Sox to win, they had to pull off the greatest miracle, that comeback from 3 games to 0, with game 4 tied in bottom of the 9th against the unbeatble Mariano Rivera, then 12th and 14th inning walks offs by David Ortiz to win games 4 and 5. After all that, the Red Sox were still behind., 3 games to 2. That called Curt Schilling and his bloody sock to the mound, after he had sucked in game 1. One second after this picture was taken, Yuri Gurriel became immortal The spike finally went into the the Yankees' heart when Johhny Damon's smacked the grand slam in the 2nd inning. After that, neither the Yankees nor Cardinals had a chance to stop the dragon that killed the curse of the Bambino. All that was bigger than Terry Francona, but he did his part just right. Those Red Sox changed the lives of everyone in New England and everyone in New York. Ask anyone who lived through it and they will tell you. BACK TO THE ASTROS AND A.J. HINCH As awesome and monumental as that all was, for me, seeing the Astros win the World Series in 2017 was more beautiful and more fun. I have to admit to being touched in a special way, following game 5 from Connecticut, the only I have returned to New England since moving to Houston, for my mother's funeral the next day. My mother had come to Houston with my brother, my son and me i n 2012. She died in Octover 2017. The Astros situation was not as heavy the Red Sox deal. Hurricane Harvey had wrecked Houston, my mother had died, so it was pretty big to me. From what I saw, it was big to everyone in Houston. Everyone in Houston has a story as big as mine from October 2017. LET'S DEAL WITH ASTROS STEALING SIGNS Regarding the sign-stealing scandal, I have two comments. My brother put it into the best perspective: "That made me like the Astros more! Stealing signs is part of baseball." My comment is the way the world and Houston came down on that unfortunate event felt to me like the same kind of crappy attitude that has permitted dumbFuck teachers and school psychos who fill the administration of public schools to facilitate the sexual molestation and surgical dismemberment of our children under an overblown and fake pretense that it is necessary for showing respect to a miniscule fraction of our population that no one has any issue with except the crappy way their needs have been commandeered by psychopathic Marxists who are trying to destroy Western civilization. In other words, ok, the Astros stole signs. It is crappy for the teams that lost to them, and I don't like that part of Astros victory. but not as crappy as the fake election of Joe Biden or the current attempt at a fake election of Kamala Harris, or the constant lies about what is happening in Ukraine and the insanity of how the United States feeds war in Israel and Gaza. BACK TO THE GAME A little known video plays some highlights from Games 5 and 7 of that World Series against the Dodgers. Astros Winning the 2017 World Series If you have a few minutes to relive the 2017 Astros miracle, I think right now is a good time to do it, to reload some of the great feeling the Astros brought us. To me, I would not trade the 2004 Red Sox for any other sport event, except maybe the Miracle on Ice…, but na, that was big, but not as big a killing the curse of the Bambino. That said, the 2017 Astros under A.J. Hinch was more fun, more beautiful, and this video gives a taste of that, starting with Hurricane Harvey for a few minutes, to set the stage. If you watch this video and do not relive some of that 2017 greatness, you let me know. Everyone I know who has watched this puts it on the same shelf as the great videos of 2004. https://longview2500.com/topics/inspiration/astros_win_games_5_and_7/astros_win_games_5_and_7.php submitted by /u/GustusHtown |
