^ gonna be intense, love it! Told my son at a very young age, you can like any team you want, you just can’t live in the house if you’re a Yankees fan (I was kind of serious).
We have different theories on what happened to S1. DH thinks he just followed his best friend from nursery school and decided he was a Red Sox fan by age 4. I think it was because he was a very logical child and Red Sox made sense to him - Yankees didn’t. After that bad outcome, DH made sure he got to S2 early enough to ensure he was a Yankee fan.
Entire family of Red Sox fans here going back to 1982 when we moved from the midwest to Massachusetts.
Entire family of Red Sox fans here too (although kids are born and raised in FL). Had to explain why grandma was crying when the snapped the curse. Very cool to witness three generations watching something happen for the first time in the modern era. I cried a lot that night too! S wrote a college essay about the experience.
Another case of Joe Madman overcoaching. How do you back yourself in a corner with a career minor league player with almost zero at bats who has only one specialty in the most important nerve-wracked game and leave him in there for 5 innings? He must have been thinking he had a 40 man roster.
At the end of the day, it’s on the coaching staff particularly the hitting coach for the offensive woes. I’ve never seen a team go away from the mean so many times in one year, from 10 runs to zero runs just like that.
@rickle1 I am another Red Sox fan living in FL. Grew up in MA and moved here when I was pregnant with D19. Raised all of my kids to be Boston fans, wasn’t too hard since DH really only watches golf and tennis. My two girls are not sports fans at all but my son is all in for all of our teams. 
@momtogkc If you met my son and / or saw his bedroom walls or dorm room, you’d be convinced this was a Boston area kid. It’s all Red Sox and Pats banners EVERYWHERE, including the life size fat head of Dustin Pedroia (actually named his cat Dustin but I used to have one named Larry Bird - all true :-* )
W-H-O-O-O-Z Y-O-U-R D-A-D-D-Y?
Red Sox and Patriot fans are insufferable. Go Yanks!
The Cubs scored 0 or 1 runs in almost 25% of their games this year. Not sure that’s the hitting coach’s fault, he doesn’t swing the bat.
They were 4th in the majors (1st in the NL) in team batting average, and 9th (4th in the NL) in runs scored, so the talent is there. The consistency is a matter of focus and determination (grit, if you will), but when you coast on your talent you can’t always turn it on when you want/need to.
And a one-game series is basically a coin-flip. They split the season series with the Rockies 3-3.
107 I think the Yanks have a solid chance. They're hot right now. Their offense is awesome. Sox pitching scares me. Not just the pen, the starters. It's Chris Sale (if he can go 100 pitches) and then no confidence.
Look at everyone’s stats - other than Baez, everyone regressed this year from the previous 2 years. That’s usually a sign that coaching is the issue. Heyward I thought improved especially during the middle of the year, but then he looked like the sorry Heyward from 2 years ago at the end. Or both. I probably am talking to myself on this but if the coaching isn’t going to be changing, then the players need to change. Get rid of the outfield and Russell. Bring in Harper and Machado. (It’s not my money!)
Hmm, maybe they are just regressing to their career averages? I feel like most teams that reach or win the WS have a significant percentage of players who are having career or near-career years, although I don’t have stats to back that up. It’s one of the things that makes repeating so difficult IMO.
The Cubs already have the highest 2019 payroll of all teams, and that’s before paying any of their arbitration-eligible players. Not sure they will be willing to can take on even one $35+mil/year contract, let alone two.
I think it’s a mistake for teams to sign players to 7-10 year contracts, they almost never work out in the long run. And that’s what it will take to sign Harper or Machado.
^^^I agree with this and I think this is “conventional wisdom.” The Cubs are simply regressing to the mean. In order to win a championship or close to it, you need to have players play above their career averages.
Wow, these Rockies are scrappy! This series may turn into a war of attrition.
In other news, GO RYU HYUN JIN!!!
JOC PEDERSON!
The celebration was a bit over the top for a first game win, no?
Max Muncy, that funky Muncy!!!
Jeffress almost gave me a heart attack. There was rage, screaming at the TV, and frothing at the mouth…
I’m a huge Dodgers fan with tons of Korea connections, so I’ve followed Ryu closely since before his MLB debut, and after that shoulder injury, I more or less wrote him off. His comeback this year is nothing short of jaw-dropping, and his performance in game 1 vs. Atlanta was the icing on the cake. What a performance!
(Of course that wouldn’t mean anything without the big flies from Pederson, Muncy, and Hernandez!)
In Chicago the talk is to get rid of Maddon and /or Theo. Theo had passionate new conference and he is not pleased. I think people are forgetting what happened before they both got here. Win 95 games and get rid of Theo and Maddon… Crazy talk.