RBP (10-22-2017)
Astros and the Dodgers in the World Series.
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Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it.
way to go houston
So, is the fix in then? Does Houston win the World Series because of the hurricane? On paper, there's no way they should beat LA.
On paper, there's a lot of underdogs that should've lost instead of winning. Does that mean a fix was in?
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Maybe
How about the last time the Red Sox won the World Series, right after the Boston Marathon bombing?
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Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it.
Possibly
I think the desire of wanting to give something back to the community that's suffered a great deal is a big driver for some of these guys.
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dodgers take game 1 of the world series over the astros, 3-1
RBP (10-25-2017)
Series tied at 1 each. The Astros take a wild game 2 in extra innings.
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that was an amazing game... i am bummed out there isn't another game on tonight!
RBP (10-27-2017)
By Ken Davidoff - The New York Post
HOUSTON — Of all the major professional sports in the U.S., baseball presents the greatest melting pot, a captivating blend of cultures and backgrounds that, at its best, brings people together for a common good.
At its worst, you get the incident that hijacked Game 3 of the World Series on Friday night.
The Astros topped the Dodgers 5-3 at Minute Maid Park, and Houston now owns a 2-1 advantage in this Fall Classic with the chance to take a commanding lead in Saturday night’s Game 4. A balanced offensive attack from the majors’ best-hitting team saw eight Astros combine for 12 hits, and five players each drove home one run.
First baseman Yuli Gurriel, however, delivered the most offensive moment of the night. The one folks here discussed the most afterward.
After he crushed a Yu Darvish fastball for a home run to left field, producing the game’s first run in the second inning, the Cuban native Gurriel was caught on camera in the home dugout making a “slant-eyed” gesture — historically derogatory toward people of Asian descent — and saying the word “Chinito,” which means “little Chinese boy” and can be used in either an endearing or defamatory way, according to the popular website Urban Dictionary. Darvish is not Chinese. His mother is Japanese, and his father Iranian.
Through an interpreter, Darvish called Gurriel’s action “disrespectful” and added: “He made a mistake and you have to learn from it. We are all human beings. We have to learn from it.”
Gurriel, through an interpreter, expressed remorse over what transpired, although his answers — and the Astros’ silly decision to cut off questions rather than let the interview session to play out — left it unclear whether he actually appreciated why he created such a storm.
“I didn’t mean to offend anybody in Japan,” Gurriel said. “I have a lot of respect. I played in Japan [in 2014].”
He used the term “Chinito,” he said, because “in Cuba, we call everybody who’s from Asia ‘Chino.’ We don’t call them Japanese. We call them Chino.’ ”
That’s not great, obviously, and you really hope he stops doing this. Yet at least he provided some context.
As for the gesture, Gurriel said: “I was commenting to my [teammates] that I hadn’t had any good luck against Japanese pitchers here in the United States.”
He entered the at-bat 1-for-7 lifetime against Darvish and 2-for-6 against the Yankees’ Masahiro Tanaka with a double.
While you could surmise Gurriel grew up believing such a gesture was acceptable, we don’t know for sure because the Astros shut down the interview session at his locker just as that line of questioning was set to begin. The Astros also turned down Major League Baseball’s request to bring Gurriel into the designated interview room, which would have given him and his team a more comfortable platform to express accountability and perspective.
Instead, Gurriel dug himself out of most of the hole he had created but not all of it, as it isn’t clear whether he fully appreciates the cause of the controversy. That would be on his employers, rather than him.
Gurriel, who said he learned of the social-media fire he had started during the game, also said he gladly would meet up with Darvish to discuss what transpired.
“I will talk to him because I don’t have anything against him,” he said. “I think he’s one of the best pitchers in Japan, and I never had success against him. That’s what I said. Japan opened my doors to baseball. I didn’t mean to do anything offensive.”
In his first full season in the big leagues, Gurriel slashed .299/.332/.486 with 18 homers in 139 games, and after homering and doubling in Game 3, he owns an even better .346/.393/.558 slash line for the postseason. Like many of his Astros teammates, he has been a dynamic player.
The dynamism went the wrong way on this night. MLB had best make sure Gurriel comprehends why it went wrong so the next time he goes deep, we’re talking about the homer’s impact on the game’s score instead of his gesture’s impact on the game’s culture.