{"id":3832,"date":"2022-10-21T17:06:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T13:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3832"},"modified":"2022-10-21T17:06:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T13:06:03","slug":"lcs-not-going-as-id-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3832","title":{"rendered":"LCS not going as I&#8217;d planned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On today&#8217;s episode of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/1746819\/11526496\"><em>Math and Musings<\/em><\/a> you&#8217;ll hear me discuss baseball&#8217;s LCS. It was recorded a couple days ago, that heady time in which the AL series was still nothing-nothing. Studio executives were dreaming of the Yankees being in the World Series again, no doubt bringing more eyeballs to the screen and dollars to their pockets.<\/p>\n<p>Standing in their way, though, are the Houston Astros and their pitching duo of Justin Verlander and Framber Valdez. Verlander and Valdez&#8230; that just rolls off the tongue, doesn&#8217;t it? Step aside, Spahn and Sain, Koufax and Drysdale, Johnson and Schilling&#8230; this is your new postseason pitching tandem.<\/p>\n<p>Series returns to the Bronx for Game 3, where the Yankees will start their own ace, Gerrit Cole. Cole&#8217;s a former Astro, famously leading the &#8216;stros in their 2019 loss to my hometown Nats. Cole was the winner in Game 5, the last game Houston would win in that series.<\/p>\n<p>And the last game he pitched for them before signing a $324 million deal with the Yanks.<\/p>\n<p>Lookin&#8217; for that to pay off tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today&#8217;s episode of\u00a0Math and Musings you&#8217;ll hear me discuss baseball&#8217;s LCS. It was recorded a couple days ago, that heady time in which the AL series was still nothing-nothing. Studio executives were dreaming of the Yankees being in the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3832\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3832"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3834,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3832\/revisions\/3834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}